Now seeing multiple places burning. Fires in napa and Sonoma County continue to rage out of control as they damage or destroy homes and force tens of thousands of people to evacuate. Cal fire now says the shady and poison fires have merged and the classifier is close to merging with the others. The state Firefighting Agency is now classifying all three fires as the glass fire with a total current acreage we have Team Coverage on the continuing fire danger, the evacuations, and the wildfire fight. First, emily turner is live in santa rosa with the latest on ch see the soundtrack and the timeline of the morning. Broken pains like this one have been rupturing all morning, making for a very loud explosion across the entire valley. Over there, you can see a pump dipped into a pool, a last ditch effort for these homeowners trying to save their home and the hillside. Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful. This fire started just before 7 00 this morning. This, apparently is how long it takes to lose everything youve got. The flames, the smoke, the flying embers, these scenes are all too familiar for folks in Sonoma County, especially people like tom sander. I did not want to go through it again. I did it in 2017. I am done. Reporter he lost his fountain grope him to the tubbs fire. It was tough. Reporter he bought this one to put his life back together. Almost 3 years later, flames came for his house again in an eerily familiar scenario. He stayed to save it. We stomped all the fire here before it hit the barn. The barn would have gone and we would have eryt all. T. Waeepless inside nta ro city limits more than 13,000 homes and 707 commercial structures are threatened. Firefighters say conditions will get worse before they get better. The wind, the humidity, the temperatures, that with the conditions we have out here has led to a lot of significant fire behavior. Reporter those conditions have merged the three northbay fires into one, all now called the glass fire, totaling more than 11,000 acres. Red flag conditions continue into tonight, burning even more evacuations as flames move into even more populous parts of the valley. There is a lot of houses in the back. They are not there anymore. Ge, are gone. D tosethat arthe s calming down . Reporter thankfully, they are. It has died down in the last several hours pretty much the thing they are the most grateful for. There are still embers burning. New small fires are popping up but without the wind, it gives firefighters the time they need to get in there and put it out. Another piece of good news is that speaking with santa rosa firefighters, they say unlike the 2017 fires, all of the Emergency Alert systems, the evacuation zones that they have put into place went off in a way that will preempt or prevent any mass loss of like unlike what we saw in 2017. Thank you, emily. A view from chopper 5 shows large plumes of smoke near oakmont on the eastern edge of santa rosa. A Retirement Community with 4500 residents called oakmont gardens has now been evacuated. Mandatory evacuations are also in effect for an area south of highway 12 and north of oakmont drive, plus the entire stonebridge area. Here are some of the other latest evacuation orders in calistoga. Everyone south lincavenue is being told to leave. In santa rosa, new orders now ring lake. Kpix 5s anne makovec is live at an Evacuation Center in napa. Reporter here at the Crossroads Community church, some of the people behind me have not gotten any sleep. They have been lined up in the hot sun. Luckily there are tents up for them. They are hoping for a voucher for a hotel. They have no idea when they might be allowed to return home. Giving you a look at the evacuation map again. 11,000 properties spanning napa and sonoma counties are now evacuated. A lot of those evacuations happened very early this morning. Oakmont, where there is a big Retirement Community, i want to show you some of the damage we found in the area where this fireman originally started. Th was inth deerpark. We found a lot of buildings burning, unfortunately. Dozens of homes, there was damage to a school, a hospital, even wineries on fire. Again, the homes are the concern fole this church today. We just heard from some of them. We decided to stay a little bit and hope for the best but this morning, they were out there honking on the horn, telling us to leave. A lot of exploding flames everywhere. Reporter at this point, these people dont know when they will be able to go back and more importantly, what they will be able to go back to. The fire is 0 contained. A lot of tension here and a lot of waiting it out. Live in napa, anne makovec, kpix 5. Animal shelters are open at several northbay locations. They include the napa valley horsemans association on foster road in napa as well as Napa County Animal Services in napa and the sonoma corse park on lakeville highway in petaluma. Taking a live look outside, wildfire smoke think its the sky and a spare the air alert is extended through friday. Meteorologist mary lee has a look at the extreme heat and fire danger across the bay area. We have dangerous heat. We have very high fire danger. Emily was talking about the wind starting to ease. I am watching the wind starting to relax where the fires are burning right now in the northbay. Temperatures are in the mid80s to low 90s. Firefighters are up against low relativeit to. Northeasterly winds at 15 with gusts up to 17 miles per hour. Earlier this morning, gusts were higher than 30 miles per hour. We will continue to watch these winds ease through the day but still, looking at roel relative humidity values as we go through the day. That is the reason why the red flag warning remains in effect until 9 00 p. M. For the entire northbay and valley, because of these dangerous fire weather conditions. Now lets go to goveorvin newsom with more. We are monitoring and putting a tremendous amount of resources and investment in. That is the glass fire in napa county. The glass fire grew substantially overnight, roughly 800 acres, to 11,000 acres. A substantial number of structures have been damaged. Wineries and other structures in and around the area. There are evacuation orders. The challenge right now has been made more acute because of overnight winds. The winds will maintain themselves. They will begin to dissipate later in the afternoon and stabilize overnight, which ould take advantage of those conditions and to advance our containment efforts. Nonetheless, an active wildfire generating a lot of attention, appropriately so. A lot of consternation in and around that region that has been hit over and over and over again over the course of the last number of years. Is on fire in Shasta County also familiar territory. Not just figuratively. 7000 acres so far have burned. In the carr fire, this is in and around those areas. This fire may make its way into the august complex. I will update you in a moment. The august complex remains the largest wildfire in terms of total acreage burned in californias history but the glass fire remains top of mind. For us, we battle complexes all around the state of california. I will remind you, a slide that has become very familiar, 2019, less than 5500 fires. 157,000 acres burned so far this year. 3. 75 million acres burned. Over 8136 fires again so far this year, 2020. Still remain vigilant with over 18,000 firefighters actively working. 27 complexes in total are currently being suppressed, actively engaged. Some 7100 structures destroyed. Those are the structures we have been able to identify, recognizing the number. It is likely to increase significantly. 26 fatalities, tragically. This is a historic wildfire season. This season has included these active wildfires, august being the largest in california history. The last update was 34 contained, some 846,000 acres had been burned. The total amount of acreage burned has grown to 870,000 acres, now 45 contained. They are making progress on the august fire with these winds beginning to subside and seof t afternoon. That will help advance some of our efforts. The northern complex is an area of the state, 64 contained. Now, 78 contained. You can see the total number acreage has ed destly the creek firethat fi, impacted by 100 million dead trees in the area, it is a federal fire. Incident command has joined with cal fire and the u. S. Forest service. 270,000 acres have burned, 20 contained. Last week, we made Real Progress, 39 containment. You can see the total acreage burned beginning to subside, meaning we are seeing a plateauing of the growth of that fire. Again, still a stubborn fire, substantially impacted because of that fiveyear historic drought, the number of trees that are burned. That territory is being impacted and is very difficult terrain for our firefighters to work. Progress, nonetheless, in that area around fresno and madera. Finally, for the purpose of this update, i want to update some Real Progress on containment in l. A. County in the bobcat fire. Just last week, 15 contained, 100,000 acres. Today, 62 contained. Cal fire has done a wonderful job on that fire with the mutual aid system. That was a stubborn, stubborn fire for a week plus but that containment now has gone up over the weekend, over the course of this last week. That is the update on our wildfires. They continue to be top of mind as we are moving into the peak of the wildfire season. This is the time of year you start to experience the santa ana winds down in Southern California, which we will see some activity later this afternoon. We are monitoring that and a lot of prepositioned assets, a lot of vigilance related to the dry, athaled nds. Veliarto clvigilaanthat remains a top area of focus in the state. The winds are beginning to die down as the rest of the day moves on. Very hot temperatures, very dry conditions. That means we have a chance at least to get some more aircraft and d. C. Tends, 747. 117 aircrafts now working these fires all throughout the state of california. Mutual aid system where we have now requested more Additional Resources above and beyond the resources we had from six different states. We are again fully operationalized in terms of the well resourced and very abundant mutual aid system that many of you have become very, very familiar with. I want to just think administration, fema, for securing in the zogg fire and the new fire in napa county, the glass fire. We are pleased to have received those overnight. We have additional mercy declarations into the white house, more broadly, as it relates to addressing the needs of individuals and businesses and counties and communities torn apart because of some of these other active wildfires in the state. As it relates to putting out fires, figurative terms, we are trying to do what we can to maintain the progress as it relates to the spread and transmission of covid19. Here in the state, you see the latest numbers. 2955 individuals as of september 27 testing positive for covid19. That is lower than the seven average of 3366. We are seeing Real Progress in total number of tests beginning to go back up. I want to navigate some of the challenges associated with the heat wave and some of these other fire complexes impacting our daily average of total number of tests. You see that number coming back up north of 116,000 over the weekend. It was north of 150,000 both on saturday and sunday. The good news is the Positivity Rate continues to trend downward. 2. 8 Positivity Rate over a 14 day period. Take a look at where we were 14 years ago, 3. 8 positivity. Now down to 2. 8 . The sevenday is slightly higher than the 14 day. I will get to that in a moment. Nonetheless, we are seeing a continuation of a decline that occurs. You are seeing the hospitalization numbers here in the state, a 20 decrease over the course of the last 14 days. Icu admissions, tracking similarly at 21 . Say all of this with a point of consideration and caution. That caution was brought to bear some progress with these county here reports. Tomorrow, youll get an update from dr. Galli on our tier status. I could preview that we anticipate a number of counties moving and progressing into new tears which is a very encouraging sign. You have seen in the last few weeks, we have 38 counties in purple, nine counties in red. You can see today, 25 counties in purple, less good news, more in red, inorange. We anticipate some more counties tomorrow moving into yellow tier status. As we move away from red into orange, then yellow, more and more opportunity to modify our conditions as it relates to Business Activity but as i said, e are me coat thesmber i want while it is true, we have seen a threefold decrease in the total number of cases since our peak mid july, we are seeing early signs that the decreases are beginning to slow down. They are beginning to plateau as it relates to total number of cases. What concerns us more is not just the plateauing of cases, there are some regions that are beginning to see an upward trend in what we refer to and what is commonly referred to for our Health Representatives and that is the r effective. Lets take a look lets take a different areas of the state where we are seeing some increases not necessarily in cases but in terms of the r effective. Here, at. 95 , you will see in the bay area among many counties, you can see that trend line. The last few weeks, the r effective is beginning to march back up. That Straight Line is the r effective of one. Anything more of that we will start seeing an increase in cases. We want to see that r effective below one. Currently in the bay area, it has now snuck back up to. 95 . You can see on the lower part of Southern California around imperial, orange, riverside counties, you can see similar trends. This is. 97 reffective in these counof counties. This inc diego county as well. Still below 1 but nonetheless, some concerning trend lines in the last 7 to 10 days as it relates to the increased r effective. Let me underscore that trend concern. This is what we refer to lately as the upper Southern California area. More difficult to quantify when you see an ensemble of counties we have included. The central coast, a little bit of the central valley. This is the northern part of l. A. This reffective is represented on the slide at 1. 02 kern county, l. A. County, san luis obispo, santa barbara, Ventura County when you pull them all together. Again, some concern and some points of optimism all mixed into one issimply a reminder of what many had projected and predict did and that is we have just come through difficulty of a first wave but the anticipation of a second wave of this pandemic into the fall season, i believe this morning, there were 26 states that have seen an increase in their total number of cases. This is what was addicted if we go back to our original form, if we are not cautious, vigilant, if we dont wear our masks, if we are not practicing social distancing or physical distancing, handwashing, hygiene. These numbers can start to take back up and that will put pressure on our tiered plan and put pressure on our ability to reopen not just businesses but to get our schools open again. I cannot impress upon people more the importance of remaining vigilant, the importance of continuing to do the things all of you have done over the course of the last month and a half where we have once again tanked the growth of transmission rate in the state of california. Never over a 14 day period did we present north of eight percent Positivity Rate. Substantially better than the vast majority of the states in the southern part of the United States be it texas, arizona, obviously places that have a highlighted case rate growth like florida. We did experience that increase. We were able to bring those numbers down below 3 but this reffective rate is a point of caution and consideration as it relates to the work that each and every one of us must do to continue to see a decrease, not just a plateauing of transmission rates. Speaking of seeing a decrease, not just a plateauing of rate growth, we have to address this issue of homelessness. I continue to maintain a vigilance, a focus, a commitmen more and do bettthspace. Orgive the fr from the crisis of covid but i would argue that the homeless crisis in this state deserves similar attention and resolve and approach and that is why the last few weeks we have been updating you on our 600 million home key investment. Again, shelters and Supportive Services of homelessness. This is a plan around housing in support of services. This is a frame toward transitioning people into some sense of optimism and permanence in terms of moving people off the streets, transitioning them and getting them back into a mindset of selfsufficiency with the support. We have now announced, or we are announcing our third round of awards. We already have awarded 450 million of over 3300 new units that will come up in very short order. This is not necessarily new construction. This is about innovation, adaptation. I will give you some examples here in a moment where this new round, 137 million of awards will go to 19 different projects, 15 jurisdictions. Here is a li of those jusdictions and time to project completion new strategies, more important than anything else is moving as this crisis demands with resolve and not waiting two or three years, as is often the case between a proposal and a project completely completed. You can see here in lake county some interim housing. Tulare county, mariposa, focused on seniors and individuals. You are seeing innovatseeing in you are seeing support in parts of the state that have not received support from the state of california in the past to invest and partner with local counties and local jurisdictions of all strides be it cities, not just counties. Just in l. A. , as you can see, five projects that we are investing, 269 units just in l. A. Proper. Long beach, 100 units. Santa barbara, an office convergence project with wraparound services. That is an area of focus, an area of innovation, including partnerships that we are advancing. A multi Family Residential property acquisition. This is the Second Partnership with our tribal nations. We want to see more of that as well. Stockton, i want to thank mayor tubbs. He has been very innovative in his approach to addressing homelessness in his city. He has a Motel Conversion and was waiting for this announcement today, including efforts we are making similarly in other parts of the state. We are in similar Motel Conversions. We have 200 million this is very exciting, at least from my purse back and vantage point. We have found unallocated money , meaning covid related money, 200 million additional money that we now want to invest in our home key funding. This, we believe will clear the waitlist, or get close to clearing the waitlist for projects that were submitted. This unprecedented number of project were submitted. You have been watching an update from governor newsom. Our coverage continues on a cbsn bay area, streaming on www. Kpix. Com. The governor addressing covid 19 in the bay area and across california as more counties are mo ithe anorange tearich is a good sign the his wildfire season. We are seeing the glass fire here in the bay area. That has grown to 11,000 acres. The governor says more than 18,000 firefighters are working across the state on 27 major complexes. We will continue to follow this and you can always go online for the very latest. That is it for kpix 5 news ridge good morning. Steffy dad. I thought you left. Ridge that didnt seem like a good idea after what happened at brookes yesterday. I didnt want to leave you alone. How are you feeling . Steffy you know how i feel. Hope and liam stole my baby. Liam hey. Kids still up at the main house . Hope yeah. Donnas still watching them. Liam you know, when this all settles, we should really do something nice for donna