Homes. Heres a map now of where the fire is burning in the community of cobb. Its burning so fast its challenging firefighters ability to warn residents of the danger. We have some extraordinary video to share with you some morning from the community of middletown. An abc7 news photographer was allowed to stay there after the mandatory evacuations took place. House upon house is burning. Theres no sound. You just hear the crackling there of the flames. You will also notice there are no firefighters. Peoples possessions, their memories gone in an instant. With he wont know the extent of the damage in middletown until later today. But it is definitely substantial. We received word the fire destroyed a school. A school that serves kindergarten through high school. A small private school. We have this report. Katie is going to join us live now. Good morning, katie. Good morning. We are live at the Napa County Fair Grounds in calistoga where the red cross shelter is in place for the thousan
Near calistoga. Burning more than 2,000 acres per hour. Weve been watching this fire unfold minute by minute. Take a look at this video posted to instagram showing a hillside athe blaze with flame. Tough to see because lake county has been decimated by other major fires this summer. Now another dangerous night ahead to get through for residents there. This map shows the evacuating counties. In total we are talking thousands of people who have been evacuated from their homes. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith is at the twin pine casino and hotel in middletown. Reporter what started as a small fire quickly exploded. More than 25,000 acres 1 burned in a matter of hours forcing evacuations near highway 29 in lake county. As far as my place, i thought it was safe. But not. Reporter jim drake of middletown says his wife left to calistoga as a precaution to an Evacuation Center. I think it just too much fuel, i guess. All the winds. I dont know where they came from. All of a sudden they were blowi
Joining us to talk about ups and downs of the past legislative session. You may have heard about the controversy surrounding willy brown in a high profile Domestic Violence case. That involved a top exec, 1 million fee to make charges go away. We spoke with the man himself about it. We have more on another big name tied up with this, former controller and possibly democratic candidate. A nuclear deal with iran. Some say it is giving too much to a country that has terrorism. First lets take a quick check of your Weather Forecast. We have reason to use our doppler. Actually we are starting with a live look, fog in the skies, a little cloudy. It will be a little bit warmer today than we saw yesterday. There is our doppler this morning. It is sluggish. We had to dust it off. We are seeing some sprinkles if the far north bay, nothing measurable but we wanted to let you know about that. Here is a live look at the golden gate bridge. You cant see it because it is completely fogged in. Tempera