Thats why the Evacuation Order. James, yeah, and just to see the size of the mandatory evacuation. Order now really does explain why were seeing such high numbers in terms of the total number of people evacuated which is approaching 200,000 and all those 10s of thousands of homes that are in jeopardy, right now the purple area is the mandatory evacuation zone and it stretches from the hills to the west of guys are with the fire initially started all the way out to the coast. And it also extends from geyserville all the way down to northern santa rosa i want zoom in and show you some of the fire areas because thats what each one of these dots represent and the color correlates with how long the fires been burning so the original fires broke out in the lighter cor here as you can see in that section of the hillside but the newer fires all these red dots these of the ones broke out over the weekend you can definitely see the fire has been moving aggressively in the southern and southwest
Activity, from burn scape, now smolder scape, and considering all the property some how saved, the eventually they get home if more red flags dont keep them away. That will take a while in the entire country. Should anybody have to go through all of this. No, sir, this is insanity. Reporter for context, we checked in on Joel Chandler and his wife tina where hundreds of homes burned two years ago. They moved back just recently. Only to be evacuated again. Its all too much tina told us. Everything about this. Especially the smell of smoke. Yes, the smell of smoke, makes me nauseous. Reporter thats a mental thing. Its mental. Its posttraumatic stress. So many of our neighbors and friend have it. Its a real thing. It just feels like its out of control, you know. Its like its the same thing keeps happening over and over again. You know, its like, i know everybodys tried to make improvements but obviously its not working. Reporter as we come back to 101 north live again, that was Joel Chandl
Announcer news to build a better bay area. This is abc 7 mornings. Good morning, its sunday, september 22nd. Im liz kreutz aaron. Heres lisa argen with the weather. You can see doppler 7 from marine county through san mateo and extra cloud cover as we widen the perspective. Theres a system to the north. Its not going to bring us rain but it does bring us that onshore flow. The marine layer isnt tall or deep. The influence will be felt at the coast. 66 in san jose, oakland 65. A few high clouds drifting in not only now but throughout the afternoon. Were looking at 70s by the delta. Is morningt was 48 in fairfield, now its 72. Thats with that dry air. How quickly we warm. So we are cooler this morning by seven degrees on the coast. Here is the warmup, not as pronounced today, liz. Sounds good, thanks, lisa. New this morning, two people are in the hospital after a fire broke out at a care home on massachusetts drive in san jose. The fire started just after 4 00 a. M. On the back porch, sp
Authorities that they are to try to reach the areas devastated by the storm. Hurricane dorian pounded the northern bahamas for more than 24 hours as a category five storm. At least seven people are confirmed dead, but officials fear that number will rise, as search crews make their way into those submerged neighborhoods. We are in the stage where we are beginning to get on the ground, get our people in the right places, and begin to focus on the needs and concerns of those in distress. New video today showed some of the damage left behind at the airport on the island of grand bahamas, and you can see just about every building at the airport was affected, and wrecked planes are now scattered there on the runway. This afternoon the storm is moving north, a relatively safe distance from florida, but still with dangerous 105 mile perhour winds. Right now dorian is about 150 miles south of charleston south carolina. And the storm is expected to scrape the carolinas tomorrow and friday. As d
Hospital. One driver refused treatment, the fourth driver died. Fire erupted causing quite a scene. We spoke to one person who drove up on the accident shortly after it happened. Seen anything like this before . No ive never witnessed anything like this. These things are on fire theyre burning. So the road youre looking at right now where you see those headlights in the distance. Thats monterey road. That is your best bet if youre heading northbound from san jose up towards the peninsula. Hopefully that will help you get around this terrible accident. This is supposed to be back open around 7 15 or 8 15 i find that hard to believe because its such a mess out here. Thats what chp said at 5 15 but you have a better look out there. It most likely will take longer especially because of the investigation unfortunately because this is a fatal accident. Taking a look at our live map, you saw what jackie was showing you as far as the work is concerned around monterey road. At this point its pr