I want to go through the cameras to give you a sense of what we are seeing across the bay area. Here is the camera. You can see the haziness over the bay bridge, causing low visibility this morning all across the waters there. This is ssl. It is gray. This is not clouds and not fog. It is smoke throughout the area. Places like san jose are looking pretty nasty this morning. South of San Francisco, you can smell it. Heres a look at the Golden Gate Bridge where you normally see the fog coming through but we are seeing smoke all across the area. Of course, it is because of the fires across to the north. The smoke and the fire is burning. You can see the line where you can see the glow. That is where the fires are burning. It is sending the thick smoke billowing. The High Definition doppler is showing a good view of the smoke, spreading further south and highway 29 is dealing with it it is one thread but we can pick it up on the satellite radar. That is where the smoke is coming in on the
Kenwood and rutherford in the northbay. Evacuations were lifted from the city of napa and calistoga. Authorities say the death toll remains at 40. The acres burned is at 200,000 across the northbay. The winds have died down. Things are good in our gut is firefighters, so if we get the weather to cooperate, the red flayed flag warnings to stay awake, i feel confident with the folks doing an outstanding job we will get this knocked down. Heres a look at the cal fire map showing where the fires are. It shows the largest fire, the ellis fire is burning in napa county, and to the west nuns county the nuns fire. Evacuation orders were lifted for the city of calistoga. That happened around 2 pm. Residents are heading home and urged to be on alert since there are still active fire on mount st. Helena. Today the Corners Office identified four more people who died in the fire. We have live team coverage. Firefighters are gaining ground. The possibility of rain in the forecast. First we want to g
The devastated north bay fires broke out. More than a dozen fires still burning tonight. There is optimism that the worst is now behind us. Firecrews say they turned a corner in the last 24 hours as they fight to contain the deadly fires. Today Evacuation Orders were lifted for napa and calastoga. They estimate damage in Sonoma County will reach 3 billion. Officials say the fires destroyed an estimated 5700 homes and the death toll did not change. It remains at 40. Today, the coroner identified four more of the people who died in the fire. 79yearold sharon ray robinson, 71yearold Daniel Martin sutherd and 82yearold mcreynolds all from santa rosa, also killed 72 lee roger from felony allen. Cal fires map shows where the fires are right now. The largest fire, atlas fire and the tubbs fire. 50 contained. The nuns fire is 40 contained. We have Live Team Coverage on north bay wildfires. First we go live to santa rosa with more on the e vac weeks allowed to return home to assess the damage.
Weather today and whats coming. Its very warm, but the winds are tailing off. Thats good news. The worst one was sunday, monday. The one over the weekend brought some gusts up. Air quality is getting better. Last week it was in levels not seen before up in the north bay. Still unhealthy for some, moderate for others. Nothing compared to what we saw last week; thats for sure. A few high clouds. It will be warmer today. High pressure, winds out today, and most of tomorrow. Could be a few, though,s near 90 degrees. Rain looks like it returns late thursday. Give me time to update this. There will be okay amounts to the north. Santa rosa, calustoga, lake county into mendocino county. Not a lot, but quarter to half an inch. Far more up in humbold county. Thats going be the main focus. Wont be until about 4 days. Winds are out of the north. Not that strong, but still offshore. Same could be said for atlas peak, 18 . Other locations have humidity in 50, 60 . It is a bit of a northerly breeze.
Is now 60 contained. Now up to 40 fire deaths, 22 were in sonoma county. Forty more victims were identified yesterday. They were 82 canyearold colleen reynolds, share roadway robinson, 72yearold Lee Chadwick Roger and Daniel Martin sather. Lee roger was from glenn ellen. The others lived in santa rosa. We want to show you the cal fire map. You can get a sense how close some of these major fires are to each other. Crews say each of the fires present their own conditions. Of the 3 largest fires, the nuns fire has the lowest containment. It is at 40 . It is still moving north. It is driven by steep slopes and very dry brush. Our time is 6 01. Steve is here to talk about how hot it is going to get today. Alex savage out in sonoma, he has about 87. For the First Time Since hes been covering, he didnt see any orange glow. And hes not wearing the mask. Hes not wearing the mask either. Temperatures will be very warm. Theres no red flag, theres no wind advisory. Well focus on the positives. Sti