News at 6. Im afraid that at that. The whole time is going to burn down that starts thats like a disaster looks like a disaster happening. Now its 6 o on alert and on edge north bay residents. So anxious as the winds pick up again escalating the wildfire threat in sonoma and napa counties, thank you for joining us at 6 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the bay area is under a red flag warning. Tonight through saturday morning that has cal fire closely tracking the weather is the last fire just keeps on burning. The wildfire. So far has scorched more than 56,000 acres in 5 days the to 5 containment a long way to go has destroyed a 143 homes so far over 26,000 structures remain threatened tonight. As we mentioned the bay area is now under a red flag warning set to expire saturday morning at 6 oclock. Of course this could spell big trouble for firefighters over the next couple of days chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now with what were looking at the avera
That video the president left Walter Reed Hospital to salute cheering supporters from his motorcade very is wearing a mask. The president was driven by secret Service Agents who also wore protective gear. But now may have been potentially exposed to this disease that has swept through the white house in recent days that brief motorcade right now raising big concerns at the white house and from a number of top medical leaders alexander le mon has the latest now from washington. President trumps decision to leave Walter Reed Medical Center to drive around and think his supporters came as a surprise because the white house had called a lid on the president stay meaning that no additional activities were expected in fact no activities at all were expected because the president is being treated for covid19. In a surprise move President Donald Trump left Walter Reed Medical Center to waive that supporters gathered outside the president announcing the drive by just minutes before on twitter i
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now, on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look south down the peninsula. It is tuesday, september 29th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. The glass fire continues to burn out of control. Governor newsom has now declared a state of emergency for napa and sonoma counties. This as flames of written homes and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate. The entire city of calistoga is under a mandatory evacuation order. The glass fire has exploded in size and it was just 25 Hundred Acres and is now more than 3600 acres and is still 0 contained and 113 structures have been destroyed in nearly 1500 fire personnel are battling the flames. We have coverage all morning long and we are tracking the dangerous weather conditions and of course, we are tracking all closures. We have the battle to save calistoga. The glass fire continues to ripped through
Destroyed or actually homes on Mountain Hawk drive thats in santa rosa kron fours dan kerman went to the sky hawk neighborhood to show us the damage. Were in the sky hawk neighborhood of santa rosa and as you can see behind me burned down homes, however this is not like 2017, yes. There are numerous homes that have burned but numerous homes are Still Standing its not like entire neighborhoods have burned down. Fire Officials Say thats because this fire is completely different than the one in 2017. This was not one solid wall of fire that moved in the city limits, its spotted in the city and sometimes some areas a mile ahead of itself. So a lot of areas with a lot of work that needs to be done. And we understand that the evacuations of affected 10s of thousands of in santa rosa as well as in Sonoma County. We definitely want to be able to get people back home but its going to potentially be several days in order to do that neighborhoods that have been evacuated include rincon valley. As
James you talked about a 1000 homes threaten about a 1001 because you can see this home right behind me were off a 29 between saint helene and calistoga and you can see the flames on the hillside and standing right in front of the flames is that how so cal fire. They have a couple of crews there trying to say that home one on top of the hill, one of the bottom of the hill. Embers are everywhere and i got to tell you boots on the ground here. It is smoky here today breathing is more difficult than it was yesterday. So it is getting a lot worse. Let me show you some video and pictures of this entire area you talked about the acreage so many homes up in flames others like you said or threaten i can tell you that at this particular time there are a lot of crews patrolling the area and they see huge flames they were pounce on it. Many structures either destroyed or damaged the flames continue to rip through this area that has seen fire for the past couple of years, how horrible the situatio