Are choosing to stay. Cornell bernard is in napa county tonight. Reporter a fastmoving wildfire in wine country, igniting acres of dry brush in the hills above st. Helenhelena. Sky 7 was over the hennessey fire late monday as the blaze exploded in size, burning through rugged terrain. Cal fire attacking the fire from all sides, including precise air drops of flame retardant. Hundreds of firefighters staging near Hennessey Ridge road. This fire possibly started by lightning strikes. Mondays weather certainly didnt help firefighters. When you have these hot conditions, its not favorable for fighting fire. And then with the little storm fronts we had coming in throughout the day, that brings a little wind in the front of those which gets fire pretty active. We know the fire son our property and its moving towards us. Reporter mandatory evacuations have been ordered in the area, but jeff is staying, ready to save the winery thats been in his family for 130 years. Were a little winery, but
Near hey ridge road. This fire possibly started by lightning strikes. Mondays weather certainly didnt help firefighters. When you have these hot conditions, its not favorable for fighting fire. And then with the little storm fronts we had coming in throughout the day, that brings a little wind in the front of those which gets fire pretty active. We know the fire son our property and its moving towards us. Reporter mandatory evacuations have been ordered in the area, but jeff is staying, ready to save the winery thats been in his family for 130 years. Were a little winery, but we have a big family, and there are about a half dozen of my cousins around right now, and were kind of at the ready if the fire gets a little closer. We have the hoses out and ready to make a stand. Reporter right now the fire is burning at the top of this ridge. Lots of smoke here. It is too close for comfort for the folks who live in this house. Im here to protect my house and my property. Reporter phillips is
Another man on a jet ski also helped with the rescue. Well done by them. Day one of the newlook nba playoffs is done, and all the socalled home teams came away winners in orlando. The top performance, utahs donvan mitchell, 57 points in the jazzs loss to the Denver Nuggets but thats the third best in nba playoff history. Todays schedule opens with title favorites milwaukee taking on the orlando magic. Turning to the nfl and the big announcement from the washington Football Team. The franchise is making nfl history, naming jason wright the leagues firstever black Team President. Heres abcs janai norman. Reporter as the nfl prepares to kick off its season in just a few weeks, the stakes are at an alltime high for washingtons Football Team following months of turmoil. Owner dan snyder in the hot seat facing mounting pressure to sell the team after a series of scandals shook up the franchise formerly known as the redskins. Snyder, who had once vowed to never change the controversial name,
Warns that in any future war, america will become ground zero. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following two breaking stories right now. In texas, learning more about the suspects in a terror attack near dallas. At least one linked himself to isis. Both were wearing body armor, and carrying automatic weapons. They got inside their target and wound add Security Guard before an offduty traffic officer shot and killed them. Tonight, many unanswered questions. Were also watching extremely tense situation on the streets of baltimore. Crowds gathered after police say a man dropped a handgun while being arrested, and if went off. It went off. Our correspondents are standing by. Our experts working sources to bring us the latebreaking information, and were standing by to speak with the attorney for the family of freddie gray. Lets begin with cnns brian todd hes in baltimore, and has the very latest. Brian . Reporter wolf the incident ramped up tensions because of everything
Third option this new role that would keep williams in the fold. Presumably it would keep lester holt at the news now anchor desk for the foreseeable future. Brian williams has called nbc home for over 20 years but its still quite possible two sides will not agree on this new role. Some of my sources think he is on the way out but others see a way for him to stay in. These negotiations have been going on for weeks and several times along the way its seemed there is imminent news but im at the moment told theres been no official decision about whether he will stay or whether he will go. So we have all the angles covered this morning beginning with brian, a correspondent with vanity fair who wrote an article about what happened inside nbc when all this happened in february. Thanks for being here this morning. Pleasure. Your story was a tick tock explaining how we got to this point. Do you think it makes sense for him to return in some way . I think for all parties concerned it makes perf