Much tougher for them so you can see theres a canister in his hand right there theyve been setting fires along this hillside and heres what theyre doing its genius they actually started at the top of the hill and started walking down the hill closer to the home meanwhile they were just doing it keeping a close eye in case it erupted they have their hoses on the ground ready to go. Let me show you give you an education on firefighting because he was giving me an education yulia sevens and i look at how the fire burned itself out you can see the smoke right there, theyre saying thats because the humidity level is high so they set it on fire. They watch it and then it burns itself out, but he had they done at noon it would not have burned itself out and therefore could have gotten closer. So the home, so thats why they do a lot of heavy lifting with the humidity level is up and the overnight hours. You can see just how smoky the conditions are embers flying everywhere. Trees are falling d
Damage. More than 8,000 structures still threatened as we wake up this morning. Yeah, when you saw metal would go down just big recognizable places like big wineries and then peoples homes, this is the circle of where the fire is burning east of saint and Calistoga Napa county and east of santa rosa. In Sonoma County. They dont know the cause they just know that this fire spread rapidly with the heavy winds and were still under a warning for that so theres 0 containment were continuing to follow the latest 60,000 people have been evacuated, including the entire town of calistoga kron fours will tran has been live for us there in napa county. Bringing us up to speed on the latest firefighting efforts and will they were working to save a home this morning looks like they were successful for now. For now they are actually having their breakfast because theyve been working nonstop for pretty much 48 hours so those heroes are next and a fire truck in front of the house just finally getting
Is where the storm is coming in atlanta. First a check to david of the weather. We have been watching irma to continue to fall apart over the last couple of hours its still packing winds about 60 to 65 miles per hour, but it is continuing to pass out of the region and starting to weaken through the next couple of days. I want to talk about what weve been seeing with irma here were going to start off by talking about what the damage currently looks like you can see what the pictures looked like earlier, where we had strong winds as this came ashore into portions of florida with some very strong winds. Right now it is down to Tropical Storm force. It is expected to stay a Tropical Storm force level for at least the next couple of hours and then as we head through the next couple days, well continue to weaken into a tropical depression. One of the concerns weve had is whats happening in jacksonville easterly and southwesterly wind, so its packing the water up the st. Johns river and leadi
Clouds and fog inverness. Yes. The on shore kicking in. It is continuing to drop to the south before it swings in. The question, will it switching in here or to the south of us. More indications of the central sierra than tahoe and truckee. Very windy conditions expected tomorrow night and friday morning. Winter storm warning out in the mountains. We have been focusing on the north bay. If this dives south,mont enter a could take the brunt of it. A little bit of rain on the north coast. Emphasis on little. 40s and 50s. Clouds drifting across most of the day. This wont do much but will give us drizzle and light rain tomorrow morning. That is the developing system on the way for thursday any and friday. Then 60s and 70s today. Well, monday and tuesday were quiet. Unfortunately today is pretty active for sal. It is active. Some commutes are having kind of a spring break. Others are definitely not. This commute, the one that is the worse right now is the commute on the nimitz freeway heade
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Warnings are in place today for millions of americans living in areas at risk of severe flooding. Missouris governor is calling for help from the national guard. Residents of one suburb are being ordered to evacuate, and rivers are expected to crest at record levels in the coming days. Al jazeeras andy roesgen reports. Reporter just west of st. Louis, were now seeing what is happening all over this area, sandbagging. You can see the business back there, here along the river. The Convenience Store throwing down sandbags. All of this water is rushing in from west of us, the river has now reached its crest at 35 feet. Thats 20 feet above flood stage, so all of this water is now heading eastward towards us. This river now stands at about six to seven feet off of the ground that we see here. With another three to four coming in overnight. You can see all of the debris in the water. There are floating barrels, floating oran