Merging now into one, 44,000 acres, crews have it only 5 contained at this time. We are looking live now in santa rosa. As we mentioned we are awaiting the briefing from the sheriff. We will break into coverage when i begins to talk. He has yet to address the podium we he steps ford we will cut in. Lets begin with rabbit handa near oakville with the latest. Robert clarify. You are in napa county which we thought it was primarily just the atlas fire. It is the nuns fire approaching where you are. Reporter thats right. We are at what cuesed to be called the nuns fire now the Central District fire because of the merging of the fires. From this area you can see this fire is spreading fast. In fact cal fire told us we will have to leave this scene soon, the next few hours. You can see which. The fire above napa is now a valuey of thick smoke and flames endevelop. Ing everything in the path. We will come back with the update as soon as we can. We foe you have a press conference you need to t
Many of these shops, but certainly nobody home here. It appears most people have heeded the Evacuation Order. But we did find some who decided to stay. Dana lamb and her family decided to stand their ground in downtown oroville. So no thoughts of evacuating . No. We have family that lives outside of town, so if anything hand, we would just go that direction. Reporter are you satisfied with the way its been handled . I feel like the priority is being taken care of. Reporter both work at a local grocery store. It was chaos down there. All of us as employees, we have to stay calm and think probably nothing is going to happen. It seemed like everything was okay. Reporter in the meantime, in the older part of town, a lowlying section of downtown, the streets are empty. And tens of thousands of evacuees are doing their best to ride out the emergency. Whats going on at the dam . Its pretty crazy. Al the traffic we saw. Some came better equipped than others. We have our cats right now. We have
Its been a little more than 24 hours since an emergency Evacuation Order went out, saying the homes of nearly 250,000 people were at risk because a spillway at the oroville dam was expected to fail. This map shows all the cities that are affected. Some far from the dam itself. Like oroville is 70 miles north of sacramento and 160 miles from San Francisco. Right now water is gushing out to bring the water level down. Saturday, water overflowed on the emergency spillway for the first time ever. And sunday, engineers noticed damage along the wall. If the wall failed, a wave of water 30 feet high could have overrun everything down river. Newsom toured the operations vin center earlier today. He warns the shasta dam has similar problems. Close to 200,000 people have been evacuated. Laura anthony met some of them today. And she joins us live with their stories. Reporter were in downtown oroville, the lights are on and many of these shops, but certainly nobody home here. It appears most peopl
Saratoga. Cupertino is close at 56. There is a howling delta breeze in west concord. Everybody has the sea breeze in place. This is the low on its way, and this will produce other things thunderstorm activity in this year this weekend. Dont write in and say you didnt tell me about this. Yes i did. Cooler inland, when what her for some. Whiter for some. Today just a little better, starting off with these short freeway and you can tell by the drive time taking 18 minutes. This is a little bit late for it to be that light. Were not complaining. Looks good heading out to the macarthur. When you get out to the bay bridge toll plaza, there is a delay getting into San Francisco. San francisco itself is looking okay as you pass southbound 101 and head down to the peninsula. Also, looking at the rest of the community, i can tell by road temperatures we dont have a lot going on. 60 and highway 4 looking light. Hopefully it stays this way. Maybe people are just a little bit late, but im thinking
Inland which translates into 50s, 60s and low 70s. When you clean the term a mix of sun and clouds, i really like that because that describes it perfectly. Anytime. Right now we dont have much going on in the traffic rolled at the bay bridge toll plaza. We want our friday to be light, a little bit better than its been for the first four days of the work week. We will see what happens. Traffic moving along the san mateo bridge from hayward of a over to foster city. Northbound moving along pretty well giving up getting up to highway 17. New from overnight a multicar crash on interstate 80 at hercules is under investigation by the chp. It was first reported last night about 10 30 just west of via for. Of i4. One person was rushed to the hospital and we dont know yet if anyone else was hurt. Many Law Enforcement officers were at the scene for several hours, but they have not confirmed reports that the cause was a freeway shooting. We will have more updates on this story. Also new from over