Richard engle in Northern Syria with details of the raid. Richmond, good morning. How convinced are we that we have al baghdadi . Reporter well, u. S. Officials are pretty convinced. They are not giving the 100 confirmation. We might hear that soon from President Trump but they are very confident the overnight raid which began around 11 00 local time did, in fact, kill abu bakr al baghdadi, the leader of isis, the worlds most wanted terrorist. It happened on a village on the border of syria and turk and we have been to a half dozen times. A wellknown smuggling village so were going to continue to listen in and well monitor this. Obviously weve investigate a lot going on in the bay area. Sonoma county, the biggest evacuation ever in the history of Sonoma County. We have 940,000 people 0,000 evacuated. Thats right. We have so many people from windsor to healdsburg. We just got word they must evacuate. Theyve evacuated several people out of the city. The police didnt actually went door to
Under mandatory evacuation orders right now people are being told to head south and towards the Healdsburg Community center or north towards family and friends. But you cannot stay in geyser ville anymore i want to zoom in just a little bit closer to the actual fire line itself let slide the map so want to reveal. This is geyser peak and as a National Weather Service Camera pointed in the direction of the fire. I just checked actually change the angle of the camera its actually looking off in the northeast direction and i want to show you what its seeing were going to switch over to that camera now and youll see the ridge line is on fire and as i step out of the way not too long ago we saw a large flames coming up on the side of the screen so it looks as though the fire is beginning to burn closer towards that camera location on geyser peak, but certainly off in the distance, we got wide sections of that whole mountainside that whole ridge line just to the east of guys or fail on fire
Road under mandatory evacuations that this is a fast moving fire. There are Evacuation Centers that have been set up for those wildfire victims have been evacuated with winds are high sehool located at 8695 windsor road. And Healdsburg Community Center Located at 1557 healdsburg road as well those that are zones are being told to go there and that is where theyll find the services they need to whether this wind and fire storm right now this ravaging the north bay. And we have kron 4 Sarah Stinson live out there right now sara whats the latest from where you are. Here in geyser ville you can see im wearing this mask and as because theres so much smoke. To turn off the lights we can zoom into the ridge. Were here live. And you can see into the distance up on the ridge that is where this fire is burning this. 1000 acres this is burned significantly just in the last hour. It jumped from 7,000 acres to 10,000 acres. We do know that this fire started last night at 9. 10 and theyre calling th
Thank you for joining us. What can you tell us about the weather conditions. We do know that fire pretty much doubled in size over night. Good morning. Yes. As of 355 this morning it grew to 10,000 acres. It still pretty windy. Earlier the wind speed was approximately 50 Miles Per Hour. The fire is moving in a northern direction toward cloverdale. So, they are keeping an eye on the fire and the weather conditions. Im assuming more evacuations will be needed later on this morning. How close is it to homes and schools and businesses in the area . Its out in the county. There are a lot of vineyards and ranches out there. So, north of River Rock Casino you will have Geyserville High School and then after that its a lot of vineyards and agriculture land. Sergeant, talk briefly about the evacuations. Were the easy or difficult . Are people leaving like they should . Yes. What we did with the Sheriffs Office, we send out a notice of mandatory evacuation notice. We work closely with our depart
This is down 680. That is where the accident happened. The accident has the latest completely shut down. As we look a little closer, we can see a lot of delays as we approach the scene. They are diverting traffic off of the scene. Hopefully things will get wrapped up before the morning commute really starts heating up. Can also help interstate 880. Again 680 northbound has always shut down. With that rainfall, the slick was outside. The all has just accumulated. We have not seen widespread rainfall since about may. There was a live look with our doppler. We have not she did this in quite some time. Me show you the northbay. We zoom in and light to moderate rain. L3 healdsburg. As well as spotty showers. As we go the rest of our morning, there is the culprit that is going to push across our region later this morning as we look ahead to the afternoon. It is really that morning commute that we are expecting that wet weather. Mid to upper 60s to lower 70s. Inland, mid to upper 70s with aft