Conference to begin any minute now. Fire officials will give an update on the shady fire, which is burning in Sonoma County and has already torn through the santa rosa community. Right now i want to take you out to nbc bay areas sky ranger. Take a look at all the smoke out there. There is so much going on. And right now the main blaze that they are fighting is called the glass fire. Its burned at least 11,000 acres across two counties with zero containment so far. Fire crews from throughout the bay area are responding for mutual aid for these. More than 8,500 structures are threatened. Theres another fire called the shady fire. It started as a separate fire west of st. Helena burning into the oakmont area. And then theres also the boysen fire wh bob redell. Hes live for us in santa rosa off of highway 12. I know youve seen fires sprout up all over the place. So talk about whats going on where you are now. Reporter well, marcus, firefighters were afraid that the shady fire would come do
Businesses there in the north bay. In what is being called the glass fire, 11,000 acres have already been burned. Thats about 17 square miles since it first started sunday morning. Its just so disheartening when you take a look at the scenes. The gross fire is freding room itly. Causing destruction r fires hav with the glass fire, possibly spot fires from the original plays, forcing more evacuations there on the outskirts of santa rosa along highway 12. We have Live Team Coverage for you this afternoon. Greg lee covering the napa side of this fire. Tom vacar taking a look at some of the damage done if Sonoma County already. We want to start with meteorologist mark tomaio, tracking the latest on the weather conditions in the fire zone. Thankfully today were starting to see those winds pull back. Thats right, alex. We have had two big wind events, and we are past those two events. Here is a look around santa rosa, mount st. Helena. Those winds gusting to 55 miles per hour. We take a look
Us this monday afternoon from napa and sonoma counties as a wildfire burns out of control in the north bay fastmoving flames from the growing glass fire has now forced thousands of folks to evacuate to safety. This is new video from overnight and as you can see a wall of fire surrounding buildings. This is near the sky Hawk Community on los alamos road near fawn drive in scotland drive in Sonoma County. The fire sparking early yesterday morning in napa county and quickly spreading throughout the day triggering 2 other fires. Thats the shady fire in the boys and fire all 3 merged and now make up the glass fire incident. So far the fires have burned more than 11,000 acres and is now threatening more than 2000 structures. Thanks so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 oclock this monday. Im Jonathan Mccall we do want to show you a map where that fire is burning right now it is burning east of saint helena in calistoga in napa county just east of santa rosa in Sonoma County. The re
Winery. Those grapes have been made to smokey. They will not be able to use the grapes. If you look up the hill, there is fire up the hill, there is a big column of smoke but its been obliterated. Calistoga is famous for its hot springs. It sit on top of the in crest of earth atop molten rock. The big threat is the mountains above in the form of wildfires. It became painfully obvious before the dawns early light, to evacuate 5000 calistoga onions this afternoon. This time, as opposed to the fire of 2017, its a double threat to calistoga. Is surrounding us from the south end and it encompassing on the northeastern as well. Reporter if you look up here, you can see there is enough wind to make this fire very aggressive. What this fire now wants to do is march down the hill and get onto highway 29. Thats unlikely, but trees could easily fall into the path of cars. Local businessman thinks firefighters could and should be more aggressive. Fire like this easy to take care of and stop. The f
A short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima. It destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. With this bomb, we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction. It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. On august 6th, 1945, the United States detonated the First Nuclear weapon in history over the city of hiroshima, japan. Followed by a second detonation august 9th over the city of nagasaki. Six days later, japan surrendered, bringing in and to the second world war. I have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government by the secretary of on august 11th. I did this reply a full acceptance of the declaration. It specifies the Unconditional Surrender. Through the work of cspan city store, we will share stories of the people that contributed to this world altering event. We begin