Road. The wind in these areas may be driving the flames. The Sheriffs Office urges you to evacuate immediately. Roughly 400 households are affected by these new evacuations. Abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard is live at one of the areas being evacuated right now. Cornell, we see the flames behind you. Reporter yeah, chris, a major firefight is now on here in the heart of the Sonoma Valley. Take a look at this heartbreaking shot we have here. This is a home that is now engulfed in this, in flames. We have major winds blowing through here. In fact the winds of this fire now creating a small firestorm in and of itself. It has now moved to the property to the right of it. We are in the northeast section of the Sonoma Valley. Just to give you a lay of the land, were about two miles from the sonoma town square. I have to tell you, an army of firefighters are here this morning trying to keep this fire from spreading any farther. But at this point the winds seem to be having the upper hand in
Breaking news from Sonoma County, huge flames, gusty winds and mandatory evacuations. Right now part of a north Bay Community has been told to waste no time and to get out as soon as possible. Good morning and thanks so much for being with us, im chris nguyen. Breaking news involving the north bay wildfires where there are several new mandatory evacuations. The latest in lake county. Officials are urging everyone living in the Spring Valley and new long valley areas to leave immediately. Also new mandatory evacuations in eastern santa rosa, the Sonoma County Sheriffs Office says you must leave immediately if you live in the following areas highway 12 between adobe canyon road in kenwood and calistoga road in santa rosa. This includes both sides of highway 12, skyhawk,wk,wk,wk,wk, hawk and much of rincon county. Also 7th street east from east napa street to denmark street. Also the north side of denmark street from 7th street east to napa road. New mandatory evacuations also include 8th
Tender is about ten feet off the road up here. This is a major scene. The chp is doing their investigation. While helicopters are dropping water on the nearby nuns fire. The fires in the north bay have been relentlessly destroying homes, businesses and lives. This morning, at about 6 45, firefighters were called to aid one of the helpers working the nuns fire. Cal fire says a private water tender driver was heading down oakville grade road, about two miles west of highway 29 in napa county, when the vehicle slid off the side of the embankment and flipped over on to its top. This morning, we tragically lost a member of our Fire Fighting community. Reporter cal fire says they dont know why the driver went off the road, but they will look into the possibility fatigue was a factor. Theres been no break for these firefighters since the fires erupted last sunday evening. And so, yes, people are getting tired and that is a factor that we are aware of. Reporter the nuns fire where the water te
Money. They are bringing in, um,folks from other countries and not paying the workers, you know, us, who live in the community not paying us a sustaining wage to be on the project. Reporter the eb5 visa is almost 30 years old. It was designed to spur Foreign Investment in rural depressed or high unemployment regions and it does offer Foreign Investors u. S. Residency for them and their families. The congresswoman zoe lofgren says the program has been abused. The way the investment for disadvantaged localities has been administered is outrageous. Reporter the program got headlines recently when the sister of President Trumps son inlaw and adviser Jared Kushner used eb5 to attract chinese investors to a high rise in new jersey with views of manhattan. Its been a flaw that needs to be stopped. Reporter lofgren says previous reform bills have gone nowhere. He is not aware of the silvery towerss use the ew fire to lure investors but e b5 to lure investors but she said san jose would probabl
Temperatures. A little band of high clouds later in the afternoon and yesterday took the edge off the temperatures a little but that will not be the case today. High pressure kicking in. Phoenix looks good today. Tucson with maybe some cloud cover and scattered showers but no big deal. 30s and 40s on the temperatures. Some temperatures continue to cool down. It will be sunny mostly statewide. 12 up in truckie. 16 tahoe and 36 blue canyon. Then everyone enjoys sunshine and warmer temperatures. A little cold now. Plenty of 30s and 40s to go around but 60s to near 70. Almost there, more likely tomorrow but today well get close for a few. Traffic starting to pick up. Especially in the south bay. I want to go to the maps now if we can. Show that you south bay commute. We are not off to a good start especially on 101, 680 area. Crews are still working on that accident on story road involving what is being reported as a most motorcycle accident. But as you can see there are three accident ico