Evacuations here. At last check the fire is 50 contained. Evacuees are encouraged to meet at st. Monicas church on camino pablo. Is another gathering area at the safeway on moraga way and people are advised to take essential items. Lock your windows and doors when you leave as well. This fire comes as pg e shut off power earlier in the night but this time we cannot confirm how the fire started. The Emergency Management coordinator for the Fire District joins us on the phone. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Tell us what you can pick we understand its a burning away from st. Marys. The town as well at this point. Reporter good morning. The fire is not near st. Marys college. Its actually burning behind homes adjacent to sanders drive and merrill ct. We have 100 150 contains. Making good progress. We have a dozer on the scene. We have units from all around contra costa. And our partners some cal fire are here in force. We are making good progress. When the sun comes up containm
Reporter good morning. There is no power at this church where evacuees have been told to go. You can see people are gathered around candles and have flashlights. The red cross is here providing blankets, food and coffee. With me i have one of the evacuees, eric, you said your family was asleep and he woke up you live in this neighborhood that had to be evacuated. What happened . We were fast asleep. We went to sleep early because of the blackout. There was really nothing much to do besides go to sleep. My mom who lives next door came banging on the door and she has a key so she came in and said wake up. Weve got to go. There is a fire. We have to evacuate. So we got dressed in a little bit of a panic. We werent sure what to take and in the end we just left. Reporter did you see the fire or smell the smoke . Smell the smoke when we went outside. Could not smell it from inside. Could not see the fire. It was on the other side of the neighborhood. Reporter described her was the neighborho
Its 70 contained. Before we show you the fire and give you the updates i want to point out that behind us is st. Monicas church. This is were some of the evacuees were told to go to get updates. A short time ago they got the word that half of the people who were told to evacuate ca w return home. We are seeing a little bit of traffic. People who just got the notice are leaving this Evacuation Center and heading up the hill. Up the hill from us in the distance you can see some of the fire trucks and vehicles on standby, watching this fire. Merrill fire broke out around 1 00 last night. It spread to 40 acres but is now 70 contained. At one point it was threatening 140 homes in the Sanders Ranch neighborhood, one mile south from st. Marys college. The university was not threatened. Firefighters say they have a good handle on the fire and will start to switch to mop up mode, and watching things. The spokesperson want to thank the residents were evacuating so quickly. When police came to th
Of that mountain that looked like it was acting as a fire break which helped slow the progress of this fire compared to 45 minutes ago. This is good news because they are homes closer to the daly city side of the mountain. Despite that, voluntary evacuations have been ordered. Acreage, 15 or 20 acres. No official word yet. Wind has been a huge story in the bay area this week. The red flag warning is up and running for tomorrow. Meteorologist mark tamayo joins us now. Some people were seeing wind. There is a dry winton place and its it defined wind direction coming out of the east and northeast. Im sure the fire crews are seeing that on the map. As a result this a good strategy to contain this in the short term. There is the mapping system. You can see wind coming in out of the easiest off of the bay. Typically a normal summer day we will talk about a wind coming in from this direction but as you know this has been a fire weather pattern with offshore wind setting up. Here is an idea of
Moving news from all around the world. Joining us from riyadh is yousef gamal eldin. Ivan levinsohn joins us from tel aviv. Oliver cook sorrow oliver is in munich. Buts start with study ready with saudi arabia. Finance with the saudi minister and asked if the recent attack had an impact on saudis numbers. Heres what he had to say. It will be a couple of days before we are back online. Alix yousef joins me now. Tell me about what you learned, and what we can expect Going Forward. The idea being that a lot of the output is being recovered is one thing, but youve got the political developments, which are what investors are going to be zeroing in on in riyadh and far beyond saudis border. The Saudi Crown Prince has been speaking with the french president , the south korean president , and deliberations are underway between the u. S. Secretary of state and the saudi authorities, as well as the united arab emirates. That thereng here is has to be a response what happened with the saudi aramc