Tonight. It was just after 5 pm when came screaming up pine flat road. Cal fire confirms there was an incident is the kincaid fire was blaring near hillsboro. Cynic up a column of smoke. Sonoma county sits under the smoky shroud of another devastating wildfire. Those most affected are on the ground helping. Like bernadette who lost her home. She is delivering meals to santa rosa restaurant. She wants to feed the firemen. I want to help. I love to help people. You help people and they are doing the best they can. That is what i wanted to do. Keep my mind busy. Reporter 20 minutes after she left 1999 geiser road on wednesday night in her pajamas her home of four years was gone. My husband and my toy poodle. Reporter there are a few things she wishes she had time to grab. My dads wedding ring. My husbands wedding ring. Reporter the good karma she is putting into the world helping others in her time of need are carrying her through. I know that god is good. Im going to find my dads ring. R
That is why they have been scrambling to try to put up these traffic signs here on El Camino Royale and get the word out to people they need to be prepared if the lights go out. Running extra phone lines, setting up extra computer stations, tech, and Emergency Operations staff are rushing to prepare for the possibility pg e will cut the power to someone hundred 95,000 people in San Mateo County. This is our first time. With all the previous shutdowns, that did affect San Mateo County, we were repeating in these calls. Reporter Officials Say they would not know exact numbers or locations of pg e communities for people to go and charge medical devices until saturday. They are urging people to prepare sct agencies staff up. We are not keeping these Additional Resources out of our county due to the potential wind event we are expected to have here this weekend. We want to make sure we have adequate resources. Reporter at a media briefing, pg e said they are expecting historic winds and dry
Breaking news now at 11 the fastmoving wildfire forcing even more people from their homes tonight. The new evacuation orders just issued the smoke some people choking for clean air across the bay area. The areas feeling the biggest impact. A blackout looming for more than 2 Million People tonight. We just got new information about the timeline. Good evening. We begin with a new evacuation order. Cal fire just sued because of the kincaid fire near geyserville. People either clayton road to the mendocino and lake county line are all being told to get out now. The fire exploded in size again. Its footprint larger than manhattan. The eastern flank is the most active. Cal fire has issued a new evacuation warning for six communities in lake county. Gifford springs whistling pines Anderson Springs adams springs. Just the warning that people might need to evacuate. The latest numbers right now. The fire has burned 24,000 acres. It is still just 5 contained. 600 structures are threatened. 49 ha
Leader of spains catalonia region says the balance. And signals from london and brussels that a brics that within reach a sticking points over the irish border remain. A high level u. S. Delegation is on its way to turkey to meet president regift 5 editha one hoping to convince him to call off an offensive a north east and syria secretary of state mike pompei o and wise president mike pence will try to broker a cease fire deal between the turks and the kurds which prompts decision to pull troops from Northern Syria has met with criticism as worries grow about the fate of the kurds and the release of isis fighters currently jailed in the region so as the operation enters its 2nd week Turkish Forces and kurdish fighters the battling in. Strategic want to talk to. Uncle it says it took control of the area days ago but its hold appears uncertain its all struck that has more from the turkish Syrian Border. Street to street fighting in the Syrian Border town of russell i mean. Hes a kurdish
Middle east most of the east except for the bay shoreline and peninsula. And we have a high wind warning into effect tonight through monday morning with the same gusts. Also we could see gusts from 60 to 80 miles an hour upper emphasises. By 3 00 tomorrow morning we are looking at the gusty winds. And well talk about how long its going to last the rest of your weather, the sevenday outlining if a few months. Two breaking stories were following for you. The kincade fire . Sonoma county now burning nearly how acres firefighters rushing to increase containment before heavy winds move in its making pg e put much of the bay area on notice. In just a few hours well find out if youll lose electricity in another planned power outage. We anticipate that in shutoff could impact 850,000 of our 5 million electric customers. This will be the strongest event of the year. And if models are right, stronger than the october 8th, 2017, fire event. Pg e will make the final decision at 8 00 this morning w