A massive fire explodes just east of napa valley, forcing mandatory evacuations. Cal fire is putting everything into it, including that huge dc10. Im dion lim. The glass fire broke out early this morning and in the hills of north of st. Helena and to the east the glass fire is at 1,500 acres. It is 0 contained. 600 homes are under mandatory evacuation orders. An statement 1,500 people were included in that order. Another 1,400 homes are under evacuation warnings with 1,400 people being told to get ready to go. Lets begin with meteorologist drew tuma. Drew, these look like pretty dangerous conditions for firefighters here. Were tracking the gusty offshore winds. Were not even halfway through our red flag warning. We have a bust of winds coming in overnight tonight. Current conditions in the glass fire, hot and dry. We were advertising this would happen today with this weather pattern. Winds out of the north gusting right now around 13 Miles Per Hour in the vicinity of the glass fire. Bu
vo good feeds our connections. Good feeds us all. Hormel Natural Choice lunch meats. Now, from abc 7, live, breaking news. Flames intensity. Fires now multiplying in sonoma and napa counties the relief residents hoping for not enough as winds pick up overnight. Thank you for joining us, im dion lim. Im eric thomas. Two new fires burning not far from the glass fire. You can see them here on this live alert wildfire camera. On the left side of the screen and to the east of highway 128 is the glass fire. On the right, you newly named fire. On the far right is the shady fire. Both west of highway 128. And this is the way it looks on a map. These new fires already forced evacuations in sonoma county. The glass fire already forced lot of evacuations today. We do have crews fanned out across the north bay but as winds could pick up overnight, lets begin now with abc 7 meteorologist drew tuma. Drew. Yeah, we are seeing those winds pick up as we speak, especially in the north bay hills right no
Potential nominees. He says and hell do that this week for Washington Bureau reporter Raquel Martin talk with leaders on both sides of the aisle about whats to come next. Every week is got to be tense is probably heightens. Blood pressure a little bit in the Justice Ruth Bader ginsburgs death on friday these are a republican senator ripley blunt expects a battle to fill her now vacant seat we will get to it. Before this Congress Ends as President Trump has a constitutional duty to nominate ginsburgs replacement and unlike in 2016, he sees no reason for delay, the senate and the white house are now under the control of the same party it would it would be almost political and governmental malpractice if republicans decide were going to unilaterally disarm here so far only 2 republicans say the winner of the next election should pick the next Supreme Court justice but democrats will need to ward to block the nomination. The hope is that cooler heads will prevail democrats like congressman
Streaming on cbsn bay area , we are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look at east low lying fog. Good morning, it is thursday, september 17th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Good to have you with us. And lets get your forecast. The fog is out there, mary, but our air quality is a okay today. It is so nice, len and michelle are looking at that refreshing ocean breeze kicking in once again, so looking at that better air quality. Here look e t air quality. They are good to moderate as you start off the day. That is great to see. We have that sea breeze pumping in that fresh air once again, helping to mix out all of the smoke. Into it. Another day to get out there and hopefully take advantage of this beautiful weather with those clear skies. As we go through the afternoon, those daytime highs are looking at high temperatures that are going to be at least a seasonal if not a little bit below average. As we go through our afternoon, daytime highs are in th
Long is this going to last . A couple more days. Lets start off with right now, the numbers over my shoulder are the daytime highs and only one broke the record. Santa rosa, record for today would have been 101, you got up to 104. As impressive as those numbers look, this was the easy day. Let me show you how things will play out tomorrow. So for a bunch of representative spots that blanket the bay area, livermore is 109, San Francisco at 91. Here is where we break the records. Livermore, concord, santa rosa and san jose. Conquered by as much as 4 degrees. 103 in san jose tomorrow. And even though 94 in oakland is not breaking a record, still 1 degree shy of it and it will still be a very hot day. Lets get as many other numbers as we can with a quick overview on the screen. Fremont at 101, Mountain View goes to 99 and yes there are heat warnings and advisories all over this map. I check back with the complete forecast i will break down the differences between an advisory and an excessi