A lot of that was taken care of sunday night. Picking up embers and moving them south, more spotty fires could develop and coinciding with that is a red flag warning, high fire danger starts at 5 00 this afternoon through 5 00 tomorrow afternoon in the north bay. 11 00 this evening through 5 00 tomorrow afternoon. East bay hills into the diablo range. A lot of road closures continue here in the north bay as you would expect with all of these fires. Well get to a few of the major ones here anywhere you see purple on our traffic maps you can assume all lanes are blocked in the area. State route 128 between chalk hill road and sonoma and napa line is fully blocked. New evacuations north of calistoga with the fire spreading. Quick check of mass transit. A major b. A. R. T. Problem on the peninsula. At least 30minute delays. That is all due to a switching problem on the tracks. Alexis, thank you. The death toll is expected to rise in the six north bay fires. Officials say at least 17 People
Well talk more about that in your day planner up next. Alexis . I want to take you back to the morgan hill area where we did have the sixcar collision. It sounds like five out of six of the vehicles pushed off to the shoulder. That is certainly some good news. Some lanes are getting by now. We have some delays about four miles at the moment. A quick check outside, a live look at the toll plaza. An earlier incident around Treasure Island long gone and residual delays are, too. We have some lingering b. A. R. T. Delays and road closures in the north bay. Well check on those next. The death toll is expected to rise in the six north bay fires. Officials say at least 17 People Killed statewide. 11 of the victims from Sonoma County. Three from mendocino county. Two from napa and one from yuba county. Officials say if you live in these areas in red you need to get out now. That includes Moon Mountain road, mission way, london way, martin road, cavedale road and adobe way. Between Agua Calient
To 28,000 acres and the partrick fire doubled in size. We do have Live Team Coverage for you this morning. Abc 7 ne 00 News Reporters Amy Hollyfield. First we start with Jessica Castro live in santa rosa. We just got this update from Sonoma County officials. Reporter reggie and the update is jaw dropping. It is a Staggering Number of people that are currently missing right now. The Sonoma County Sheriffs Department says they have reports of 670 people they have been able to locate 110 of those. They are hoping that bad Cell Phone Service here in this area is to blame. There are 73 cell phone towers down in the state of california. They have assembled a 30member missing persons team. The Sheriffs Department says that this is still a lifesaving operation and they are telling everyone living in Sonoma County if you do not have to be here, go now. They say the best route is to drive south through marin county. Yeah, i cant stress this enough. If youre in an evacuation zone, you cannot come
The atlas fire burning in napa and sonoma counties scorched 42,000 acres, nearly double what it was last night. We have reporters all over the region. Lets start with nbc bay area pete suratos live in napa valley college. Now an evacuation shelter. Pete, we just got an update from firefighters. Reporter yeah, thats right, marcus and kris. Napa valley college, youre see a lot of people come here. Its one of the Evacuation Centers as were trying to get away from these areas because of these fires. I want to show you guys the crowds that are here right now, i went inside and talked to someone said hear at napa valley college, were talking about a few hundred evacuees as a result of a mandatory evacuation or the voluntary evacuation. As you mentioned, marcus, i did get a chance to speak with cal fire, they said the winds that are coming in, the low humidity, the red flag warning could lead to more evacuations. Our fuels are very low. Some are at historic low values, which means they readil
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