Now setting its sights on the gulf coast. Our dave kinchen is following all the dramatic pictures and videos that have been pouring into our newsroom tonight. Dave . Reporter dawn, we can tell you we have now learned that the city of new orleans has issued a mandatory curfew for saturday requiring people to stay off of the streets if possible and to shelter in place. We have also learned that the governor of the state has activated the Louisiana National guard mobilizing 650 military personnel to look out for possible wind and flooding damage. Need bread. Reporter a drill thats become all too common for the gulf coast except this is no drill at all. Packing up the needed supplies for another round of wicked weather. On deck Tropical Storm nate charging into town this weekend. Going to get some water. A couple cases of that. Frozen food and some bananas and some beer. Reporter they prepare knowing what nate already left behind in central america. 22 people dead and at least 11 killed in
Good day, everyone, im Bill Anderson, and Scott Williams lauren is getting a nice resting vacation, she deserves it. It is saturday. October 7. Were happy to be here and start the day. It is going to be a beautiful weather day here in philadelphia. Scott will tell us all about that. Before we get to that, you should know there are major road closures going on, lot going on. Kelly drive, from Strawberry Mansion bridge to fought green drive for the annual International Dragon boat festival. Mid town is hosting the fall festival from noon to 8 00 p. M. Began 6 00. The better part of 13th street will be closed until midnight. Scott, so we got all of that going on. We got concerns about weather, all over the place, Hurricane Nate. Right now, looks likes things will be pretty good here but a lot to look for across the country. Were looking at a pretty active hurricane season, in fact, right now, nate is a hurricane. Churning towards the gulf coast as early as this evening, take a look at hap
Been destroyed. Tom baker is like now in hard it santa rosa. Tom, you have been in the copy park neighborhood, and it is really incredible the amount of destruction that the fire had on that. Reporter completely and utterly destroyed. It is basically gone. If you look over my shoulder what you see is as the sun is setting over the homes, you will see they are incinerated. Copy park is a wide homeland just east of santa rosa. One residents told me there was 500 up to 1000 homes that got blow torched by the fires last night. Residents were awakened by the police that were ordering them to be evacuating immediately. Minutes later, copy park was a sea of fire. For one woman, it was all too much for a residence to see. It is unbelievable. It is honestly like one of those things you think would never happen. This was my childhood home. I know all of these people very well who lost their homes. This is the stuff you have nightmares about, your home burning down and stuff like that. It is unbe
I want to know how many people have died. How many people have been injured. Reporter the mayor admits he needs to know more. How many structures have been lost. It is frustrating. Reporter numbers must wait is the fire still burns and First Responders are helping to evacuate people. With no containment on the tubs fire that roared through santa rosa in the middle of the night. We will come back from this. Right now, we need to grief. Because the loss is significant. We have seven confirmed deaths related to this fire. Reporter the sheriff does not know details of fatalities. Where they were found and how they were trapped. He expects the number to rise as teams are able to get into the worst areas. There is no searching yet. There is a lot of burned homes and a lot of burned areas. It is just logical we will find more people. Only two houses on the street. Reporter for victims that is gradual there is gratitude and surviving the grief at losing so much. Trinity oaks neighborhood, home
We have a different pattern compared to yesterday at this time when we had offshore wind. Things have calmed down considerably for many. It will be a quieter and cooler day. Highs in the 70s and 80s. Soon coming even that red flag warning around the north bay hills will be expiring. A lot quieter today, thank goodness coming and we will see higher humidity as well which will help the firefighters. Good morning. Right now we are looking at the area of the fires. We see that traffic from santa rosa to petaluma and novato is doing well. Highway 37 is open. We do have fire closures in the areas of where the actual fire is. It looks like highway 101 has reopened. There are closures on highway 128 and areas of napa or the Silverado Country Club. For the most part, the major freeways are doing okay. If you were on the mountain altamont pass, 580 and 205 are off to a decent start. This is a look at highway 101 in san rafael. It looks good driving two 580. No major problems on the east shore fr