143 homes have been destroyed more than 26,000 structures are still threatened calfire post same this video on twitter today and you can see smoke filling the napa county sky near the Robert Louis Stevenson state park flames from the glass fire have devoured swaths of brush and trees as we mentioned a red flag warning has been issued as the weather is expected to take a turn for the worse. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here to begin our coverage tonight, yeah guys a little bit of a break the last couple of days we see more of a westerly wind that has been carrying with it. Some of that moisture right off the ocean to bring up the humidity slow down the fire, but also pushed the fire different directions. These some of the winds around the fire now you can see fairly light. For the better part of the day now beginning to pick up a little bit the very conditions you can see some of those winds now 11 miles an hour saying lena 10 miles an hour outlets peak 10 miles an hour in
California air operations fixed wing aircraft air attack one 40 worked up until nightfall today supporting ground crews in the angwin in deer park communities in napa county and as communities get ready for bed. The mayor of calistoga says he is worried about tomorrow projected wins coming from the north and east. Direction puts it behind the fire moving in this direction toward downtown. Thank you for joining us on this wednesday night, im ken wayne and im pam moore, cal fire officials tell us tonight the glass fire burning in sonoma and napa counties has now exploded to more than 51,000 acres and is only 2 contained at this hour. The fire has now destroyed more than 107 homes in napa county and 36 homes in Sonoma County more than 26,000 structures are still threatened tonight. We have Team Coverage on the glass fire. We begin with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow tracking the increasing fire risk to the glass fire area. Yeah guys this a very dangerous situation already setting
Fourlegged friend along side him for the flight, he packed plenty of time before taking off for charleston. Hopefully she will be asleep. Otherwise she will be good. She was good on the last flight. Officials estimate sunday is the busiest travel day of the thanksgiving season so we talk to folks today who are avoiding that day. Coming back on saturday or waiting until the work week next week. Meanwhile we know amtrak at Union Station has many holiday expect delays along if northeast regional corridor after a train struck an individual on the track near wilmington, delaware. Reporting live, brianne carter, check on the roads with Richard Reeve. Richard well, brianne carter, its a weird commute. Off the exit from the inner loop. Stopped on the inner loop. We are not moving at all. We stopped completely. Some of this is the holiday traffic. 44 Million People in the cars across the country. Just an impressive number. Lack behind us. Wow minutes ago we were closer to virginia and the outer
We came extra early. Im just happy our daughter is sitting here patiently and excited to be travelling today. [ laughter ] oh, not excited now. See . That was bound to happen. [ laughter ] shell calm down. Peak times midmorning or afternoon. And as hectic as today is, sunday and monday are expected to be busier. Download the free wusa app. Live traffic updates on the go, traffic jams in our area and comhrp in we anywhere in the country. We have a flighttracker so you can check your loved ones planes. Hundreds of commuters and holiday travellers trapped underground. A metro train broke down on a busy stretch of the red line in the middle of the morning rush. Not so fun there. Transportation reporter pete munty live at the station to tell us what happened things smoothed out after 25 days of track work on the red line. Instead they got a big bus and big delays. Reporter cars near brooklyn pulled above ground by another train. Crowds of passengers offloading gear at rhode island avenue. J
Shawn and tony are we talking about thanksgiving already. It got here so fast and all of awe riffing in d. C. For thanksgiving holiday welcome back. Weve got pretty decent weather for you, too, we take a look at radar. We had a little while ago light sprinkles come through at the typed r time of the evening rush hour and sox you said it was mixed with sleet which was quite surprising as we watched that moving on through. The air is dry. Surprised a lot of that got to the ground. Those showers pushed away. You can see as we look to ohio and part of far western, west virginia, kentucky, this a band of showers approaching. A few of those will be round tomorrow morning. So, well call for a few thanksgiving showers and but mainly i think if we see them at all it will number the morning. A lot of you will be doing turkey trotting. Good news tomorrow morning wonting as cold as this morning when dull dropped to off in the mid 50s. Well start with clouds. You can kind of plan your day tomorrow.