Big news tonight. The Bay Area School district planning to open up classrooms and welcome back students in july. And anxious to get some fresh air . Check the forecast first. Were tracking rising temperatures this memorial day weekend. Good friday evening. Thanks for joining us. Im janelle the state is making it easier for businesses in wine country to serve people this Holiday Weekend. In about an hour, Sonoma County restaurants, breweries and bars and pubs will be allowed to operate outdoors. Wine tasting rooms can also get into the action if and only if they offer food. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd says the move is welcome but caught some Business Owners off guard. Reporter chefs at cusina pair dee sew in petaluma have gotten used to making takeout orders for their loyal customers. Were not ready to open tomorrow or sunday. Reporter the California Department of Public Health deciding Sonoma County was ready to step further into phase two. That sounds like good news, but Dennis Fernande
Been used multiple times. The withstands picked up over winds picked up overnight. Ktvus alex savage is live. Reporter good morning to you. We are feeling those winds. It will be calm for a moment and then we get some real strong gusts thats starting to pick up. These are the northeast withstands. Theyre dry that are blowing into this area and its really caused this fire to pick up in intensity and its pushed it closer in here to the Sonoma Valley. Im going to step out of the way and give you a live look here. These are the hills kind of east of sonoma and for perspective, were on east napa street, just east of eighth street. For people familiar with this area, were start of the city that has been e vac voted. The evacuated. Those foot hills is close to the area of lovel valley road. There are homes come we dont know that have burned but there are homes in the Sonoma Valleys itself as this fire started to creep closer into the town of sonoma itself. I want to bring in Rockland Fire Dep
Courthouse square. We remember the days and nights, the weeks that we covered the terrible north bay wildfires. Here we are, it is a new page. On the drive up, it was hard to not think about the 40 people killed, all those injured that remain in the hospital. The 9,000 structures destroyed. Many of them homes just around the corner from us here in downtown santa rose a the tens of thousands of people that ran for their lives. Saying n i also think about the First Responders, the deputies and the police officers, the nurses, the doctors, the firefighters who helped people run for their lives on that day. I have been up here to Sonoma County a few times in the last couple of weeks. I do get a sense of a little frustration. People are still displaced. Not everybody has friends or families that they can stay with after their apartments or homes were destroyed. There is also that sliver of hope and even more determination, that individuals and businesses will rebuild and the communities not
It doesnt seem like a month ago. Reporter for families who lost everything, this is an ongoing disaster. One month later this family is still trying to figure out how to move forward. The biggest hurdle is the uncertainty. Reporter today they returned to their home on Espresso Court trying to save some of what this fire took from them. Even one month later, they missed the Little Things they had to leave behind. Jeff called those aha moments. Three or four times a day you do those. That funny jacket or my sons toy, it is fresh every time you think of Something Like that. Reporter not everything was lost in the fire. Jeff was able to save this classic petal car that belongs to his twoyearold sons. Twoyearold son. It has been passed down for generations. For now, they are staying with family nearby while they look for a place to rent. Even though it could take months just to clear the debris from the property, their plan is to both rebuild here in coffee park. We lost our house but we di
Ahead of the shooting. Authorities are also working to access kelleys cell phone. They have the phone but describe it as encrypted. At this point, police say they believe kelley acted alone, amid a domestic dispute involving his motherinlaw who attended the church and they now confirm that among the more than two dozen People Killed was a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. Records indicate multiple red flag incidents that should have blocked his access to guns. We have a loophole that needs to be closed. Reporter kelley was a suspect in a 2013 texas Sexual Assault case that while in the air force he briefly escaped from a Mental Health facility, and he was caught trying to bring guns on a military base. He was also courtmartialed for assaulting his wife and fracturing her childs skull. This is exactly the kind of individual who should have never passed a background check. Reporter a Community Wide prayer vigil just began at the local high school. Vice president pence will speak and pr