Nearly a million, across 35 counties. Those power shutoffs began late yesterday. And once the all clear is given, thats when pg e is able to start checking the lines again. Well start reinstating power for everyone. We want to now take you to new video we have from highway 128 near chock hill road. This is incredible. I havent seen a car driving through these flying ashes and embers since last year when we saw this happening in paradise with the camp fire. This is brandnew video just into our newsroom from highway 128 near chock hill road. Again, if youre just joining us, this is a special edition of nbc bay area news because of the breaking news. rig to today. Its expected to just get worse, and so were all preparing for the best. Sonoma county has expanded evacuations into santa rosa. Theyre reaching all the way to the pacific ocean. People are being told if youre under a mandatory evacuation, dont stay behind. Dont try to save your property. Get out now. There are Evacuation Centers
Or 75 miles an hour. Those gusts have been strong this morning james and its been astonishing to just trying ntemplate how big this fire has grown in such a short amount of time. Broke out at 9 30 last night and already 10,000 plus acres. And more likely burned because were going to update this perimeter. This is where the fires burning currently everything inside this blue area, man we have guys are built right here right on the edge of the fire line thats why that community was evacuated this morning. Story said a fivemile radius and thats the new information in the last half hour we heard directly from the Sonoma County Sheriffs Department that theyve institute a 5 mile radius around guys are ville where they have an evacuation warning right now alert for people to be ready. Theyre not mandatory yet, but they need to be ready. So that takes us all the way north to the town of asti and as daryn mentioned all the way south right to the edge of northern healdsburg so that is the area o