Just hours after white house staff aide hope hicks tested positive for the virus. Since that many top level regularly in contact with the president and hope hicks have been getting tested for the virus. And diagnosis of course comes just days after the first president ial debate on tuesday. The president shared a stage with former Vice President Joe Biden Biden says that he has been tested several times today and both he and his wife are negative for the virus joining us now live from washington dc is jesse to noren jesse just a stunning turn of events just weeks now about a month away from the election. How does this shape the month that we have now before we have a president ial election. Yeah thats a good question really isnt so much is still up in the air president Trumps Campaign did say that all of the scheduled events these next few weeks. Would either go to a virtual platform or be postponed altogether and like you mentioned really a month away from the election were less than
Containment 50,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to this wildfire in parts of Sonoma County napa county they are under Evacuation Orders tonight. Including what we have been told us the entire city of calistoga so certainly if you need to leave that area, the open evacuation routes include route 29 south and north along with one 28 north for more on the Evacuation Orders for sonoma and napa counties were joined by kron fours Jonathan Mccall johnson, the largest of those evacuations 68,000 ordered so far for folks in Sonoma County want to show you the map of where things stand right with those Evacuation Orders you can just in the last few hours from when we last saw you for kron 4 news at 6 oclock weve seen. Evacuation warnings now being closer to an area near santa rosa weve been talking with cal fire officials all day long and theyve been saying that those flames have been creeping closer to santa rosa. Throughout the but what we were saying earlier is that the enti
World renowned of metal wood resort. I watched one of its lodges for him to the ground or on meadow wood lane and this is one of the cottages a part of the meadow wood resort. You can see this one is a total loss firefighters here behind me trying to hose this thing down theyve actually protected some of the properties nearby but they say that this is not the only college thats gone up in flames. Well, its club house was Still Standing several of its event spaces and venues, including a drone would said and then theres rooms nearby overlooking the golf course were reduced to rubble. According to google maps. Looks like the same area house to restaurants, including its michelin star restaurant. Firefighters say theres about 3 or 4 strike teams in the property which includes up to 80 firefighters, firefighters say theyll continue to remain on scene throughout the night in the monitor that area insane Leanna Taylor bisacky kron 4 news. Well check this out, heres a map that actually shows
Destroyed or actually homes on Mountain Hawk drive thats in santa rosa kron fours dan kerman went to the sky hawk neighborhood to show us the damage. Were in the sky hawk neighborhood of santa rosa and as you can see behind me burned down homes, however this is not like 2017, yes. There are numerous homes that have burned but numerous homes are Still Standing its not like entire neighborhoods have burned down. Fire Officials Say thats because this fire is completely different than the one in 2017. This was not one solid wall of fire that moved in the city limits, its spotted in the city and sometimes some areas a mile ahead of itself. So a lot of areas with a lot of work that needs to be done. And we understand that the evacuations of affected 10s of thousands of in santa rosa as well as in Sonoma County. We definitely want to be able to get people back home but its going to potentially be several days in order to do that neighborhoods that have been evacuated include rincon valley. As
James you talked about a 1000 homes threaten about a 1001 because you can see this home right behind me were off a 29 between saint helene and calistoga and you can see the flames on the hillside and standing right in front of the flames is that how so cal fire. They have a couple of crews there trying to say that home one on top of the hill, one of the bottom of the hill. Embers are everywhere and i got to tell you boots on the ground here. It is smoky here today breathing is more difficult than it was yesterday. So it is getting a lot worse. Let me show you some video and pictures of this entire area you talked about the acreage so many homes up in flames others like you said or threaten i can tell you that at this particular time there are a lot of crews patrolling the area and they see huge flames they were pounce on it. Many structures either destroyed or damaged the flames continue to rip through this area that has seen fire for the past couple of years, how horrible the situatio