The flames. At one point powerful winds pushed smoke into contracosta county. It took views about two hours to get control of the area. Winds were Strong Enough to take someones backyard trampoline over the fence. Fremont Police Tweeted this picture as a reminder to secure things in your yard. Pg es website shows all the places where the power is out now. And recently released updates from the Utility Company indicate it could stay out longer than originally expected. The purple triangles on this map youre looking at indicate a Public Safety power shutoff. San francisco is the only bay area county not affected. The north bay is bearing the brun of all this. About 25,000 customers are without power in Sonoma County alone. Along with nearly 14,000 in marin county, 11,000 in napa and about 1,500 in Solano County. In the east bay there are roughly 16,000 customers without power in both alameda and contracosta counties. Santa clara county and san mateo counties also have a number of custome
Day two of the federal Government Shutdown, the blame game was still going strong. Laying the blame for this Government Shutdown right at the feet of the Senate Democrats and their filibuster. Reporter a short term spending bill to fund the government that the democrats have rejected. It all stems from the president , who is an ability to clinch a deal has created the trump shutdown. Reporter democrats won a deal to protect socalled dreamers, and say that President Trump backed away from their tentative immigration compromise. All along, the president said that i would do daca, dreamers in return for the wall, he has got it. He cant take yes for an answer. Reporter some republican lawmakers have expressed frustration with President Trump and the white house. I think hes got a good understanding of what will work, but every time we have a proposal, it is yanked back by staff members. Reporter more than 20 colleagues huddled sunday to come together for the compromise. Making progress. Re
I do want to go to some of the video because i was up on that hill earlier this evening and if it werent for the cell signal, wed be going live up there right now. You can see those flames and just how close they were to some of the homes earlier this afternoon, at one point between 30 to 50 feet from those homes on woodley place, but they have since dissipated at this point and even gone in the other direction a bit and the good news this evening is the fact the wind is not nearly as strong as it was earlier this afternoon in this area. Most of the people have been evacuated from here. I mean it was a mandatory evacuation. I did talk with a couple people who chose not to leave despite that mandatory evacuation. They advised us get out now and i said we will be ready to go if we think were in jeopardy and they were insistent and we said, you know, bear with us. We want to stay as long as we can. Its really sad. Its so sad. We love oakmont. Weve been here for almost 20 years. We really
There are a total of 13 fires burning in napa and sonoma firefighters struggling to get containment. Here is a closer look at the that is the buyer that is threatening the oakmont area. It is only 1 contained. ÷nt fires is north of glenallen, about 10 miles east of santa rosa. Also, the Sugarloaf Ridge state park and the crane creek also, the sugarloaf ridg6 state 571 structures have been destroyed just in that fire and 16,000 o nare still threatened. Here is a quick look at the atlas fire, everything inside the red line is whereuhb;u kit spread. It is stretching as far north as robertson ski vineyardshae, al the way down to skyline wilderness park. So far it has destroyed 125 buildings. That fire just 3 contained. Pxoionthen there is the partrid fire. The v5eievlatest informat shows it has burned at least 6000 acres so far. It is also spilling down into it is only 1 contained with 5000 buildings still threatened. There are new mandatory evacuations or parts of Sonoma County 7clodthi