Tonight 6300 homes are in harms way. Cornell bernard is live in lower lake. A lot of worried people out there tonight. Reporter folks are so worried tonight. Many are trying to remain calm, but take a look at this. Scenes like this are certainly not helping with that at all. This is just incredible. He rocky fire has crossed this ridge in the last ten minutes, moving to the northwest, and an intense air assault is underway. With tankers dropping water and fire retardant on this fastmoving blaze. Far from here the fire continues to march north with a vengeance. 2,000 firefighters from across the state trying to prevent this intense blaze from jumping highway 20. So far that battleline has not been crossed. Backfires have been set to prevent the spread. Hundreds of worried results needed more information and went to a Community Meeting at Lower Lake High School to get updates from calfire on this blaze. So far there is no word when evacuate residents can return home, and others are wonde
Dozen homes and forced people to evacuate. Shifting winds are not helping matters. Nbc has the latest now from clear lake. Slide it from the side and bring it to me. Fighting fire with fire. Early this morning firefighters taking advantage in the change in the winds to burn a stretch along a california highway on their own terms. This is highway 20 right here. Can you see the fires tc burning. And that dry brush is a major concern. And the concern is that embers from the dry brush will fly across and hit all of the dry brush here. This whole area is a tinder box. For hours, back burning continued all it create a fire break. It is very important to create a buffer where fire cannot get in. If we create a large buffer between this road and the fire front then we accomplished our goal. With you this massive fire remains unpredictable. Last night enormous frames the rocky fire doubling in size since ye9 ning more than 6,000 structures. Sarah workman is one of the 12,000 people forced to ev
Images of herself on big game hunts taunting her critics. Well talk to her. And end of the road. The little robot on a Cross Country journey to San Francisco. Strangers supposed to get him all the way. But then this happened. How the happy little life of the robot came to a sad end today, monday, august 3rd, 2015. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast on monday. Im Savannah Guthrie. Our big story is out west. Scary scene in california. Over 20 individual fires but a couple of them very, very alarming. Its our top story this morning. Thousands of homes now being threatened by this california wildfire. And overnight, emergency officials stepped up evacuation orders. Nbcs joe fryar is live in lake port, north of San Francisco this morning. Good morning to you, joe. Good morning, savannah. We have just learned this fire is now 60,000 acres burned,
Commute. You get to the bay bridge toll plaza you will see that traffic is is light. There is not a big delay right here. Looking at the south bay. There is a report of a crash southbound 17 near the summit. Now at 5 00 lets go back to the the desk. Sal, thank you. Were following developing news in oakland. There is a live News Conference about to take place at the Oakland Police department. There has been an officer involved shooting. A Police Officer was shot and injured. A suspect was killed early this morning. You can see on our camera right there, somewhere Police Spokeswoman watson getting ready to speak to our cameras. Alex savidge is out there right now waiting for her to begin. This happened on Martin Luther king boulevard. There was a shooting out there. Again she is getting ready to begin to talk. Lets listen in. We are going to go ahead and get started. My apologies i understand you are live. What we can share with you this morning, the Oakland Police department did have an
The clouds of smoke are staggering. And i would agree with that. The wind is mainly out of the west. That is the direction the wind is coming from. West, southwest county line. Look at temps though. 50s and 60s humidity. 80 . That is really good. Last week it was in the teens or the 20s. That is a big, big difference. But of course the fire has its own weather habits. We do get the low clouds and there is a lot to go around here. Most of the tropical clouds are clearing out. There might be some toward Santa Claire Ram valley. 60s on most of the temps. Water temps are very warm. Mid 60s for some. Saw gusts to 45 out of the Altamont Pass. With this big fog bank in the past. Still quiet on a monday or something happened . We dont have a lot of crashes out there which is good. Lets take a look at these commutes. You can see crashes on the east shore freeway. There is a backup once you get to the toll plaza. As we look at the east bay 580 through livermore a little bit of slowing. We are fo