Breaking news we are hours away from another planned power shut off. How long will you be left in the dark this time . Firefighters in Sonoma County racing the wins. What they are doing to get ahead of those claims. Thousands evacuated Sonoma County. Why one san jose professor was heading for the kincaid fire. A couple says i do in the middle of a disaster zone. The story behind this viral photo. Project home. Tenants take on San Francisco biggest landlord. And they win. How are investigation led to a victory. We begin with that breaking news. Pg e planning and of the power shut off getting tomorrow morning because of severe wind. Before this month. Versions of counties could be impacted. Alameda marin napa san Mateo Santa Clara and sonoma. Power could go off in the north bay as early as 7 am. A number of homes and businesses affected will be somewhere between 240 and 605,000. Pg e expects the outage to last until wednesday morning. In the bay area the north bay will be hit the hardest
Firefighters in Sonoma County racing the wins. What they are doing to get ahead of those claims. Thousands evacuated Sonoma County. Why one san jose professor was heading for the kincaid fire. A couple says i do in the middle of a disaster zone. The story behind this viral photo. Project home. Tenants take on San Francisco biggest landlord. And they win. How are investigation led to a victory. We begin with that breaking news. Pg e planning and of the power shut off getting tomorrow morning because of severe wind. Before this month. Versions of counties could be impacted. Alameda marin napa san Mateo Santa Clara and sonoma. Power could go off in the north bay as early as 7 am. A number of homes and businesses affected will be somewhere between 240 and 605,000. Pg e expects the outage to last until wednesday morning. In the bay area the north bay will be hit the hardest. Pg e explained why. We have 2 very important critical to 30 kb transmission lines that are in the north bay area. The
Effort to keep these flames from crossing the road. Thats the Alexander Valley below us. This is affecting everybody who lives in sonoma. When they tell you the fire is bearing down and you have to leave your home, its too close. They were handing out protection masks like halloween candy, and were still in the north gnat zone. A few miles east, no questions about what might have been. New hot spots lit up in the distance. These are backfires near the River Rock Casino where flames burned. Heres chief matt epstein who knows too much about fires around here to dismiss more trouble. While the weathers in our favor and the winds are blowing the right way we want to, were preparing for the wind to shift again. Reporter that wind shift hes talking about seems to have begun. If you look at that smoke, its now blowing in our direction. Earlier when we did that interview, it was heading in the opposite direction. This skirmish here has been going on for about an hour. We saw multiple helicopte
Along the front line foss more than 24 hours now, saving what they can and making little headway. After a full day, a full force battle, zero containment in the thomas fire. Worse, we learned the flames have jumped 101 at solimar beach. The fire has charged 50,000 acres. You see the flames and all the cars leaving the danger spots. Southern california is dealing with three primary fire, much like what we dealt with two months ago, all fueled by windy and dry conditions. The thomas fire, creek fire, and rye fire. More than 30,000 people have been evacuated. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez joins us in Ventura County. Jodi, these first 48 hours are critical. What are you seeing around you now . Raj, what were seeing are a ton of flames. Take a look for yourself. Were in a Community Called casita springs right off of highway 33. As you can see, the hillsides all over this area are ablaze tonight, and firefighters are doing all they can to make sure the flames dont consume even more homes. The
Fire crews on the ground. This trying to increase containment, the fire is burning in three counties, napa, solano and yolo i want to bring in captain jerry fernandez. Can you compare day one today two with regard to the fire. Day one, pretty wicked for the crews, winds were pretty fast last night and we have to give a lot of credit to the firefight fighting efforts. All of the space by the residents really a contributing factor to minimal loss or damage of structures. Captain, speaking of that. That is certainly good fews. We have learned at least one outbuilding has burned. Do we foe about any other damage . There was one trailer that was damaged from the fire. We dont have that information to give you further on that, but there was one structure that has some damage to it. We have been pretty fortunate with the way the weather was moving hoping the weather cooperates with us this evening. How crucial is the air attack . We are talking about the steep terrain. You have four, 4 1 2 ho