More than 70,000 people under evacuation orders. Fire officials are giving an update on the glass fire in santa rosa. Once that press Conference Begins we will bring that to you live during our newscast. I want to talk about the entire town of calistoga. It is still under that mandatory evacuation order. More than 5,000 people are out of their homes. Reporter good morning. Its a situation that folks here in calistoga are all too familiar with. Just driving through town, you can see the roads are more empty than they typically would be and many of those businesses have shut their doors. Its because of that mandatory evacuation because of whats happening just over my shoulder, weve been here since about 4 00 this morning. And this particular hill has been calmed and reignited and calmed and reignited. And now its a huge plume of smoke that weve seen the last 45 minutes. This is just one example of the impeding danger folks here in calistoga are under. Weve had crews here since last night
We are also on standby for a coronavirus update from the state health and Human Services secretary. Well bring that to you when it begins. First we go live to kpix 5s end of act in st. Helena and napa county with an update on the last Fire Evacuation orders, anne . Revenue evacuations just ordered about an hour ago for some communities that thought they mightve dodged a bullet. Were talking about anglin and pope valley here in the napa county. I want to show you those new evacuation orders. They are west chiles pope valley road told to get out immediately. The fire has reared up in that area, and we are looking at new video this morning from outside of calistoga. That is where firefighters, we saw protecting this pg e substation as the fire was cming right up to it, as you can see there in the background. There are still active pockets of fire in areas that have already burned, and we just heard from cal fire on its plan of attack. Currently, we have multiple priorities on this inciden
Streaming on cbsn bay area, more local news, dramatic video of fire crews battled to stop flames as they roar over a santa rosa neighborhood. Getting word of major layoffs with American Airlines, how the government could step in. Some neighbors in san jose are alarmed about fires at homeless encampments, stunning new numbers. I am elizabeth cook. I am ken bastida, lets go to len ramirez, in san jose, the Fire Department says it is responding to an average of three homeless encampment fires every single day. Reporter thats right, every single day, the numbers are pretty shocking when you see them in black and white, but they reinforce what firefighters and neighbors havent seen the past couple of years, a surge of homeless campfires, many are worried that the fires could spread to them. Reporter the smoke from an outofcontrol homeless campfire billowing up under the to 80 overpass in downtown san jose, a neighbor cell phone camera was rolling when firefighters arrived second later. Firs
New infections is just over 3000. This afternoon, the president abruptly called off talks to another Coronavirus Relief package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted the decision saying the president is putting himself in front of the rest of the country. The nasdaq was down 177 and the s p was down 47 in washington the joint chiefs of staff and the top u. S. Military leaders have now gone into quarantine after coast guard admiral charles ray tested positive for covid19. All of those military leaders have since tested negative for the virus. They attended meetings with admiral ray last week. It is not clear how ray contracted the virus, but it is not believed to be related to the white house outbreak. Also today President Trump this dr. Gave a statement on the president s condition as he recovers now at the white house. Democrats want clear answers to what led the president and many in his circle to be infected by the virus. Reporter President Trump gave an update a day after being disch
Governor brown everybody ready . Good afternoon. Im here to give another update and egons fire situation, im joined on the phone by the forestry, rtment of ire chief degrass, oregons fire state fire marshal. Of emergency anagement director andrew fell ps and Environmental Public Health section manager. Im joined in person by chris struckler, director of the Oregon Department of transportation. I just want to start by saying storm teams tell me a event coming in today will bring moisture. Both along the coast and along both the west and east slopes of cascades. This is a good sign. With are always challenges a storm like this, such as winds and lightning strikes. Firefighting teams tell me that we are very grateful for the rain. My teams also tell me that were making significant progress on fires ing some of these and fire chief doug grass will peak more to that in just a moment. Since my last briefing, ive seen up and close what these done to our communities, to our land, to our oregon