Tell us what is the latest . Did the fire grow overnight . How are things going on . The fire did grow. In the Higher Elevations and terrain, so we do have fire actively burning in kind of a rugged areaand those numbers will likely go up this morning on all sides, and obviously we are preparing for this weekends wind and look at the direction where the fire may burn. How do you do that . This is not a situation where its like the fire is started, we are deep in these woods. What are you expecting as far as the impact of the kincade fire in terms of how its going to move . Yes, so we have contingencies around for potential worstcase scenarios, National Weather Service Brings in fire behavior analysts, and they come up with a plan for whats the potential of what this fire can do the next 24 to 48 hours. We have to start to roll out that plan and, you know, were obviously concerned the winds that are forecasted have a potential to have a big impact on this incident. What areas are you wor
Intense sections of flames sending plumes of smoke rising up. Cal fire still has flames and choppers getting in water drops before it gets to dr. Flight. Another big concern for firefighters tonight is the winds that are changing direction. They are picking up speed. The fire has now burned 118 square miles. Take a look at this map. It shows how big it is compared to San Francisco. Check out the size overlaid on lake tahoe. The fires promoter feels the lake basin. More than 75 eight thousand 35,000 acres has been. As the winds switch to offshore, forecasts show gusts up to 70 Miles Per Hour on the highest peaks. We have coverage across napa, lake and sonoma counties. We will begin with kpix5s juliet goodrich. Reporter we are in the middle of highway 128. It is shut down to all the public. Emergency crews are obviously allowed in here. Here is why. At least into windsor, one of the areas that is of concern tonight because of the winds. This is a spot that burned late this afternoon. It
Of those, 40 are homes, three are commercial buildings. 80,000 structures are still threatened. Containment still only at 5 . Dozens of schools are closed because of the smoke and Power Outages. Sharon katsuda is live for us in santa rosa. She spoke with some of the people about the tactics being used to fight the flames. Sharon . Reporter marcus, in the News Conference this morning the leaders of this battle against the kincade fire were clear they are working together to try and get evacuees back into homes. But right now there are still structures threatened, theyre saying especially in the windsor area and the mt. Saint helena area they are concerned and that is where we were live all morning long along spot road and pleasant avenue. Overnight the most fire activity that we saw was just south of the town of windsor along the shiloh ridge area. Firefighters made an aggressive stand in that area and brought in a significant number of resources as it was impacting a relatively populat
Perimeter of this neighborhood, just incredible, but in the last hour i can tell you there are some important developments with all the fires raging in Northern California, especially two burning now. Lets look at the biggest fire which they call the tubbs fire that spans actually two counties, both napa and sonoma, crosses the county line, the red part on the map, the active fire. The yellow is the burn zone. At last check it has burned 27,000 acres. Now tonight there is a new Evacuation Order for people in Sonoma County. Let me tell you the areas it includes. The eye da clayton area ida clayton area from highway 128 to the county line as well as the neighborhoods that are in the Bennett Valley golf course. Now this fire, like many of them burning up here, is certainly not dying out and in the past 30 minutes we have watched it ruin more and more homes. One place firefighters are concerned about is the oakmont area of santa rosa where the nuns fire is still threatening home. Again, th
Systems all the details coming up next. Right behind him close as lane southbound but you cant mahlmann north on heading this from sausalito of three lucas valley road slow going. And take a look at video from the saturn and high water line rate is heavy with apply rain coming down and other cars around you sent and to note and then the creek water. About 4 ft. He thirds and half feet flood stage. Its raining pretty hard. And out 38 to 40 ft. Last week. The immediate danger but very rainy and white here in the north bay expecting some pretty strong winds saturday and now this might happen again. sandbag the neighbor. Fair modern train down trade in this area of the hollister 23 4 in. Between now and friday. And residents here are very worried about a break in the levee along the creek. If it breaks once again a week ago today. Reporter only thing that might offer some protection from repeat disaster sandbags matt is confirmed underneath their home on lovers lane. And from of palms and