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More than 350,000 acres have burned. Containment is up to 27 . Nearly 1,000 homes and other structures, though, have been destroyed and tonight some of the victims are getting a firsthand look at whats left. This fire also the deadliest. Five people have died. Today we learned one of the victims was a disabled man. Jodi hernandez joins us from vacaville. Reporter james leon bone lived in the English Hills area of rural vacaville all of his life. We are told he was mentally and visually challenged. He could barely see. He didnt have a phone. He didnt drive. And sadly he did not survive. He deserved a life and he deserved he deserved to know that he was he was loved. Stephanie is beside herself thinking about her neighbor who lost his life when the lnu complex fire blew through rural vacaville. James leon bone was wellknown in the area. His neighbors say he lived in a home without Running Water or electricity and was almost completely blind. He could feel and, like, steps and certain things to get his way around because he used to walk from his house, English Hills, to town. He was probably taken by complete surprise. He was, like i say, almost totally blind. Reporter daniel bone is one of his only relatives. He says his cousin has lived on the property all his life and refused to move when his parents died. He was happy there. And thats the only place he wanted to be. He was loved and he was a good person. He was different from us, but he surely didnt deserve to die to die like that. Reporter she says she understands First Responders were stretched thin and couldnt get to everyone as neighbors scrambled to escape. She says she was one of many who used to give her neighbor rides into town and help him out. She says vacaville has lost a man who mattered. His life mattered. And thats really what it is, is that his life mattered. We can just, you know, wish him some peace. Reporter now, james leon bone has not yet been positively identified by the coroners office, but his family says that the Sheriffs Department came to their house two days ago and notified them that remains were found on his property. Everyone here says the 64yearold will be greatly miss. Missed. Reporting live in solano county, Jodi Hernandez, nbc bay area news. Thank you, jodi. Weve been doing this now for more than a week. We know where these fires are, but where are the actual hot spots as of right now today . Lets look at the lnu fire where Jodi Hernandez was reporting from. Its the biggest area. Burning in two areas. West and Sonoma County and napa county. As of this morning, the hot spots were north of guerneville. Here we are. North of guerneville and over towards healedsburg. Napa, solano, lake counties. North of calistoga and lake berryessa. The scu fire spanned several counties as well including alameda and santa clara counties. This fires burning mostly in remote areas but its destroyed at least 18 homes and other structures. Its 15 contained. Thats good news, but there are hot spots east of fremont and milpitas. San mateo and santa cruz counties, hot spots continue to threaten the communities of boulder creek, bonnie dune and ben lowman. Here is some more information on the czu complex fire. Tonight more than 77,000 people are out of their homes and under mandatory Evacuation Orders. Were expecting an update on this fire in just about one hour. This is the latest numbers that we have right now. Flames have scorched 79,000 acres. Destroyed 330 structures. The fire is 17 contained. This fire also deadly, killing one person, seven others remain missing. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro is in Scotts Valley with the fight to save lives and save homes. Marianne. Reporter he saw news reports of his neighbors house on fire but no idea what happened to his own home and still wasnt allowed back in. So today he asked if we could go check on his home for him. An inferno descending on clear creek road before the brookdale lodge. It showed a neighbors home burning and left him wondering what happened to his home. Thats the worst part of this whole thing, is not knowing what your property whats happening with your property. Reporter because were allowed to be much closer to the fire lines, he asked us to check on his home. What we found was devastation. Multiple houses gone. Including hagans hillside home. 20 years of my time that i spent building my house and property into what it was, and just remembering how beautiful it was. Reporter the fire destroyed his sons car and every inch of the 1,500 square foot home. This demonstrates the randomness of the fire. This home was destroyed, yet the one behind it just a few yards away was spared. Hagan says his family escaped with just a few items. Computers because they have pictures on them and stuff like that. Got my money and the cats and a couple of little aheirloom. Reporter hagan says he remembers the 57 steps he climbed every day and the Graduation Party he hosted for his daughter. He is grateful for what he didnt lose. The cats are out and everybodys alive. Thats the important thing. Reporter and hes relieved to finally have answers. Im fortunate right now that you were able to let us know, you know, because i bet theres thousands of people right now wondering what happened to their house. Reporter fortunately james says he has insurance and he does plan to rebuild. This is not the first time that his family has been displaced. About seven years ago a huge tree fell in their living room and they had to move out for six months. Reporting live in Scotts Valley, Marianne Favro, nbc bay area news. Marianne, thank you. I know you and a lot of our reporters are trying to listen through social media or email, trying to help as many people as possible to identify their homes to see if their homes are damaged or not. This is the woodward fire. It keeps growing in marin county. People living on silver hills road, fox drive andss park need leave immediately. County officials issued the first mandatory Evacuation Order last night for west marin. 1,600 homes and businesses have been under evacuation warnings now for several days. Right now more than 5700 acres have burned there. Its just 5 contained. Lets bring in chris chmura keeping a close eye on these Evacuation Orders and warnings across the bay area. What do you got for us . We know things have been changing and that maps been magical. Woodward, the way points, mill valley, tiburon, san quintin. Here are the evacuation warnings and orders that raj was just talking about. Let me add on the satellite thermal hot spots and fire activity. And you can see those red dots indicate the fire there. We can also map out the perimeter of the fire from cal fire. Lets zoom in. Well look at the Evacuation Order zone. This is what raj was just talking about in here. Zoom out just a little bit more so you can see the order and then the warning, the border between the two, Inverness Park right here. Just to the southwest of point reyes station. Well be watching these in real time. We have an updated list on our website, nbcbayarea. Com evacuations, raj. Thats good. We should reiterate that. I just got an alert about 90 minutes ago from the peninsula in palo alto hills about the evacuation warning being called off there. We are keeping track of all the latest orders and warnings, including those helpful maps detailing the evacuations. You can see them at nbcbayarea. Com. Okay. No relief in sight. Youre looking at our live Traffic Cameras across the bay area. You can still see it and smell it in some areas, smoke from the wildfires still impacting our air quality. A spare the air alert which is actually was supposed to expire tomorrow now extended through at least friday. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri joins us now with more. Jeff, i know you found some relief in the east bay, but other areas like the peninsula pretty much socked in with smoke today. Yeah, its just such a split picture right now because we have the fog at the coastline and that foggy breeze is helping to clear out the beaches, but it has to go somewhere, so it is getting trapped in other parts of the bay area. So really depending on where you are, its either good or extremely bad. So i wanted to give you this view right now of what were dealing with. You can see in San Francisco we have the foggy evening sea breeze starting to return. Youll be able to see on this live sky camera view that fog is rolling in pretty thick right now. Look at these improvements. Mill valley, San Francisco, oakland all with good air quality. As of the past 30 minutes. Concord now dropping to 85, which is moderate. Napa dropping to 133. Still unhealthy there. And also unhealthy for livermore and san jose as you are just so close to that large fire burning in the hills. Its hard for you to really see any relief. Weve seen a bit of a change here in palo alto now dropping to the moderate at 73. We have those three fires burning. What i can tell you overall on this right now is that temperatures will stay pretty good here for firefighters tomorrow. Plenty of 80s to low 90s and no extreme wind. Well take you down to the fire lines. Well get you a real close look at all of this coming up in about eight minutes. Okay, jeff, well see you shortly. Sometimes First Responders need rescuing today. We showed you this video of marin county firefighters being rescued during the woodward fire. Turns out the help came from a Sonoma County helicopter crew. Today we talked to the deputy who literally dropped in to save them. Reporter two lives on the line. It was one of those days where it was life and debt. Reporter Sonoma County sheriffs tactical flight officer chris haus got the call from a dispatcher. Two marin county firefighters were trapped in the woodward fire south of point reyes with fire less than a football field away. I could hear the emotion in her voice. Reporter within minutes deputy haus and pilot paul bradley were inside the departments helicopter, henry one, and facing gusting fire winds. The winds really intensifies as we were kind of descending into that area. Reporter then more problems. The location was incorrect and they spotted the wall of fire. It looked scary close. I think we estimated that it was about 75 yards away. Reporter the helicopters spotlight was also out. Meaning dropping in in near darkness. I could see the head lamps and the flashlights from the firefighters. The pilot just told me that im going to give it my best shot. I was 100 in on were going to give it a shot and were going to do our best. And thank god it worked out. All right. Guys, im going to get you out of here, okay . Once we made it to them and landed it was, like, no question. I knew we were going to get them out of there. Reporter out from behind the wall of fire. Thank you for coming. And to safety. Lili tan, nbc bay area news. Im jessica aguirre. Up next, im going to take you to napa. Vitteners are walking their properties and assessing the damage. Im going to introduce you to a man who has made his losses a gain for others in his community and how he sort of befriended and bottled fire. Thats next. When we welcome our west coast viewers, well preview first lady melania trumps address at the rnc tonight. Also is six feet enough social distancing . What Research Tells Us about protecting ourselves from coronavirus ahead on nightly news. Want to take another live look from our nbc bay area skyranger. The czu fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties. You can see the helicopter there and then down below were going to focus in on that smoke thats blanketing so much of the bay area. So far about 79,000 acres. Its the smallest of our bay area fire complexes. Containment stands at 17 , which is good news. Firefighters say the weather is helping them and the additional crews on site. There is encouraging news for the fire near the san mateo coast. The lifeblood of napa county is our vineyards. Yes, they are also being impacted, especially challenging for the small, independent vitters. This is not the first time hes seen fire in his backyard. No. Not at all, raj and janelle. You know, nestled on the east side of napa valley, on the east of atlas peak or 60 acres of bucolic land. They have horses and grapes. About 1,000 cases a year. And it is no stranger to fire. In fact, its 2018 release is called ember, and that was way before the atlas peak fire that year surrounded the property on three sides. It was spared then and out of that came the wine fire. This week, though, the lnu fire raised the stakes and proved less merciful. The fire ravaging jeffs barn with his classic car collection, flames pushing right up to his pool and, of course, right through 90 of his vineyard. So how does he make sense of this . It is a perplexing thing but i also know its not something we can control. We try to prepare as best we can for these situations. I look out, i see shortterm devastation and longterm promise. I really try to focus on what can be done and how we can turn some bad into good and look forward to the more positive and optimistic times. And so will you be able to, you know, the harvest is just around the corner. Are you going to be able to harvest this . Yeah, well, thats the big question. So imagine going to a Grocery Store and buying a bunch of grapes and holding it over your gas stove for 24 hours. Its going to be interesting to see what kind of fruit we can get, but my immediate thought was were a little different. We do four different harshests based on the number of varietals we have. We were pretty much set up for every week in september with the harvest schedule. My plan is to try to make one wine, and as long as we can make a quality wine, i want to bottle it. Yes, one quality wine that he can bottle, but then his plan is to actually donate that wine to the local restaurants with the understanding that they use 50 of the profits from what they sell that wine for themselves and then 50 of the profit would go to a victims Fire Relief Fund for local people in napa. So very nice of him. So here is the name of the wine. Are you ready . Smoke. Very fitting. Loomis wines. Well keep an eye on them. Thats a great story. Thanks, jess. Jeff, you said you could see some partial blue skies there in the east bay where you are, jeff. I know. Well take it where we can get it, right . The airs been so stagnant, smokey, debilitating, hard to be outside for more than five minutes, and thankfully for the fog right now, we are at least getting some clear air for parts of the bay area. Thats really what i wanted to start off with tonight. You can see in my San Francisco sky camera view that fog is rolling in pretty good. Even the possibility of some drizzle this evening. So were starting to see some of this air getting cleaned out. The problem weve had, though, is when the foggy breeze decides to stop. Then we start smelling the smoke a lot thicker. Back into livermore, this is where its really been the worst today in the trivalley. This has actually improved over the past two hours. Albeit it still is very, very hazy, way off here towards the distance, as were looking at a view real close to that fire. So what about the air quality tomorrow . We are still looking unhealthy for most of the bay area, but at the beaches and the immediate coastline, i wanted to segment this out for you and let you know it is expected to be at good levels. Everyone else, though, it will be touch and go. If we get higher containment on these fires of course that air quality will improve quite a bit more, but we need to see those containment numbers go up before we see all of the bay area improve. So we have three main fire zones, north bay, south bay, santa cruz mountains. So lets get you to the fire conditions and the fire perimeter. Ive highlighted some of those hot spots. Today in the north bay mainly been right there on the north side. The forecast up to 91 tomorrow. Wind gusts as high as 20 miles per hour. Lets bring it to the south bay. And you can see on this, we had some hot spots in the north and the southern flanks. Tomorrow, 88. Winds sustained at 11, gusts to 20, and for the santa cruz mountains, excellent news on this fire today. We did not see any major growth based on the current numbers that we have. Its holding right now at 78,000 acres. 17 contained. So that is a little better news for some of the folks right on that fire line right now. 82 degrees tomorrow. Wind gusts up to about 20 miles per hour. Now, for the rest of the bay area, ill see some numbers right about near average. 84 in san jose. 90, morgan hill. Upper 80s for concord, livermore, antioch. Closer to the bay you have 70s and 60s right here at your coastline. My extended forecast in San Francisco, decreasing chances of dry lightning. We still have unstable air moving through california tomorrow, but thursday a 20 chance, and 60s right through the weekend in San Francisco. For the inland valleys, were looking at 90s the next several days in the extended forecast. Id love to see tom 70s or 80s, but its just not in the cards for us right now. So i think this evening everybodys going to be able to breathe a little bit easier, but once again, like we had today, as the sea breeze kind of stops a little bit tomorrow, the smoke will kind of ramp back up and then get a little better. So its just going to be this squ ebb and flow with the smoke until we get the higher containment numbers. Thanks so much, jeff. Coming up, she knows a different side to him. One of the daughters of the Golden State Killer writes a letter to the court. What she had to say next. Everyone needs to be prepared for wildfires and we can help. With the new fire resource page on our website. That includes things like what to put in your go bag and much more. Start your fire plan now by going to nbcbayarea. Com wildfirehelp. The eldest daughter of the man known as the Golden State Killer is describing her father as kind, loving and, quote, the best parent. In a fivepage letter released by the court today, Joseph Deangelos daughter said she and her daughter were living with him up until his arrest in 2018. She said his role as a father and grandfather were always his number one priority. He has always consistently given me the best advice, knowledge and guidance, and my daughter also. He protected me and my daughter every single day all of our lives. The absence of my father today is a trauma that my daughter and i will never overcome. That was her quote. Deangelo was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on friday. He pleaded guilty to 13 murders and more than a dozen rapes in california that happened back in the 70s and 80s. Another big night of politics and a lot of energy and pinpointed attacks from the republicans. Tonight we expect to see more of the same with a different touch. Its night number two of the rnc. The Republican National conventions. Melania trump, the first lady, is the headliner. Shell speak from the white houses recently redesigned rose garden. Other speakers include two of the president s children, tiffany and eric trump, as well as secretary of state mike pompeo. Lester holt leads our coverage beginning at 7 00 p. M. Were back in a moment. Experience the ultimate sports hub. Where you can find games, news and highlights. All in one place, right on your tv. The xfinity sports zone. Use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Follow the teams you love. And, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. So youll never miss an update. With the xfinity sports zone everybody wins. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Click,ils. Ive been invorickler. For 45 years. Ive been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. For me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. And i enthusiastically recommend prevagen. It has helped me an awful lot. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. A fire team from texas showing a little ingenuity while fighting the scu fire which is burning in multiple counties including the seminole regional wilderness. The crews said water was relimited so they had to use a portable pump and pull by a nearby pool to get some water. With so many fires going on at one time, local crews are spread thin and all 99 engines from eight states have come in to help us in northern california. We appreciate the fight. Up next with lester holt, well see you back at 6 00 with a lot more updates on the fire and air. Tonight, the race tonight the race to get out as hurricane laura targets the u. S. Hundreds of thousands ordered to evacuate. Hurricane warnings up in texas and louisiana. Concerns that it could strengthen into a major category 3 hurricane. When and where it will hit. Al roker with the new track. Also the new plea from the family of jacob blake the black man shot in the back by police now said to be paralyzed below the waist. Rage boiling over. Wisconsins governor declaring a state of emergency after protesters clash with police homes and businesses in flames and tonight the new video of the shooting first lady melania

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