Bay but you can look up to the sky and see these clouds are different they noon business. So far, they are dropping light amounts of rain because the air is too dry. Rohnert park, petaluma, santa rosa had a light shower moving through, and it will keep heading up to the northeast toward st. Helena but the bigger patch is moving ashore on the coast. The sonoma coast. That will head right toward our fire. Right now we have had sprinkles. We continue to have sprinkles through but you can see the north bay is where we are going to get the bulk of the rain. Right now, the air is too dry so sprinkles to showers and what to expect after that, more showers and though will slide south in the afternoon and the evening, and the best chance of all of us seeing rain outside of the south bay is in the evening commute and it will taper as it heads into the south bay with amounts ahead. Staying dry is extra challenging for residents evacuated from the valley fire and staying intense at the napa county
In middletown this morning with the very latest. Anne. Reporter people who lost pets may be here to try to care for them or see if they are around. Other ones who are going to be allowed back today they have to have an escort by a sheriffs officer and unfortunately a lot of these people are going to come home to see scenes like this. They are only allowed to come for 15 minutes at a time. Several people unaccounted for this morning that lived around this area including this man leonard neft. He last spoke to his family saturday as the fire raged near his home in anderson springs. He told his wife he didnt feel threatened. Authorities found his burned out car last night on a road that he might have tried to use as an escape route. This fire has so far burned 67,000 acres. This morning, 9,000 homes are still threatened. Almost 600 homes have burned down. Hundreds of other buildings destroyed. And this morning, 13,000 people are still under evacuation orders. Some were able to return to t
Sorry to cut you off. Pam cook. Its early, steve. No. Its late. 4 30. Almost lunchtime. We have good news. We have rain. We like that. Not just sprinkles. Its going to rain a measurable amount. Its not coming in until this afternoon, but its on the way. If youre watching oh, on the north coast, decent rain forth brag north looks good, down to San Francisco is going to get measurable out of this. Starts to fall apart as it inches southward, but today favoring. Were oh, okay in the morning, a ways to go. There is the system. Theyll be hard pressed to get above 65, but i went 70 with south wind. 50s on most temps, not much of a breeze. Southeast starts to crank up later on. Cold air with the system as well, that helps. Morning fog, sun. Increasing clouds. Picks up and rain for the north bay this afternoon. 60s and 70s, maybe the evening commute could be a little dicey, sal. I was having a very funny conversation with anyone who would well, someone in the newsroom, i should say, that peopl
Amidst the overwhelming destruction there. Good evening everyone im frank somerville. And im heather holmes. In for julie haener. The helicopters captured the remains of some of the 580 homes that were destroyed in middle town and surrounding communities. For the latest on the valley fire we go live to amber lee in middle town and amber youve seen the destruction yourself. It is going to be a long time before many of these families are truly back home. Reporter heather block after block, this is what people will be coming home to. In many cases, the home is gone and all that is left standing is a chimney. Theres an eerie desolation in the small communitys ravaged by the fire as people come to grips with their loss. Homes reduced to rubble. Neighborhoods changed forever. Very tough. I dont know how lake county is going to cope with this. Reporter you drive through this city, and theres a large portion of this town that doesnt exist anymore. So its going to be tough for people to come ba
Thank you for joining us, wednesday, is september 16th. Im pam cook. Im dave clark. Weather and traffic. Steve has already used the r word. Yes. Had to dust that off. You havent used much. Not in a long time. But rain on the way for the north bay. Points south could be iffy, but increasing clouds. In the afternoon, evening, raining in the north bay and raining in lake county. Quarter to maybe three quarters of inch. Points north far less from santa rosa south. But increasing clouds through the day. System isnt on the north coast yet so we have a ways to go. Wind will pick up as well out of the south as the system gets closer. Its not even there yet. We have a ways to go. But its holding together. A lot of 40s, kelsey. 43 this morning. 47 calastoga. Some of the cool air could get trapped with cool air, 60s on the high side. 47 santa rosa, 50s for most. Not much of a breeze yet. But as the system moves in, it picks up. Morning commute fine, evening commute could be tough. Morning fog, lo