Abc 7 News Reporter stephanie sierra is live with some battleground on each of those doctors. And stephanie what they bring to the table. Reporter yes, dan, its a big deal to see not one but three highly respected doctors from ucsf represented on this board. All of them bring a wide range of expertise to this team, highlighting the bay areas success responding to the pandemic. The Biden Administration making a strong first step to building a National Strategy to fight the pandemic. Appointing a 13member covid19 Advisory Board comprised of Public Health experts across the country. Theres so much good work happening at state and local levels across the country, governors, mayors, theyre stepping up. The Advisory Board will listen and learn lessons from their experience. Reporter the experience coming from the bay area, includes ucsf david kessler, dr. Robert rodriguez and eric goosby. Bob wachter has worked with each of them personally. The three people that have been chosen bring very d
Reporting their first containment just 2 cal fire says that 80 homes have been destroyed so far 28 in Sonoma County 52 in napa county and more than 22,000 structures remain threatened tonight, this is the 4th major fire in just 3 years in the napa and Sonoma County areas kron 4 aqi. Continues our Team Coverage from santa rosa residents. Taylor unfortunately are all too used to these situations. Thats right ken the family spoke with theyve been through many fire evacuations before but of course this time unfortunately it was different this time they wont have a home to return to and you can see some of this area over here still smoldering right now im standing in what used to be the garage inside they had a gym you can see this barbell in way track Still Standing they also had a. Really important art studio and year. And unfortunately now thats gone with Everything Else in this fire. About halfway through its run what we could and the my husband and i dot really expect the snow started
Containment 50,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to this wildfire in parts of Sonoma County napa county they are under Evacuation Orders tonight. Including what we have been told us the entire city of calistoga so certainly if you need to leave that area, the open evacuation routes include route 29 south and north along with one 28 north for more on the Evacuation Orders for sonoma and napa counties were joined by kron fours Jonathan Mccall johnson, the largest of those evacuations 68,000 ordered so far for folks in Sonoma County want to show you the map of where things stand right with those Evacuation Orders you can just in the last few hours from when we last saw you for kron 4 news at 6 oclock weve seen. Evacuation warnings now being closer to an area near santa rosa weve been talking with cal fire officials all day long and theyve been saying that those flames have been creeping closer to santa rosa. Throughout the but what we were saying earlier is that the enti
Am giving the governor support for his leadership. These communities are devastated. Reporter the governor met with President Trump in sacramento also. The governor honed in on Climate Changes role on the fires. If we put her head in the sand and think its only about management. Things will start getting cooler, you just watch. I wish science agreed with you. It will happen, i dont think science knows, actually. Ideology should not kick in, its just a fact. This is just a fact. And we have to do better as a country. Reporter senator harris focused on Climate Change. Her running mate, joe biden called this a climate arsonist. This is our nation to take seriously extreme changes in our climate. The hot is getting hotter, drier and drier and Climate Change is real. Both senator harris and President Trump had clear reasons for visiting the state. For democrats its a matter of solidifying their position. For donald trump it was more of the photo opportunity, meeting with a major state gover
Destroyed more than 36,000 acres and is still 0 contained. The fires also forced thousands of people to flee their homes good evening, im ken wayne and im Vicki Liviakis of firefighters are up against it hot and dry weather conditions out there on the front lines making it really tough. The handle on the flames. Heres what we know tonight. Cal fire says a 113 structures have been destroyed more than 8500 are threatened. Back shun orders have been issued for parts of sonoma and napa county including the entire city of calistoga. In napa county the glass fire tore through the world renowned metal wood resorts near saint kron 4 state of sec. He was there she joins us live shes been monitoring the situation throughout the night taylor. This is a devastating blow to the community. How does it look out there right now absolutely devastating can i drove through that property and a long and i saw several different spot fires which made it really hard for firefighters while they were able to sa