And some breaking news. We speak were just hearing that First Responders have rushed to geyser phil. Right now we do not know the circumstances but kron fours michelle kingston joins us now live from geyser bill michelle. Wt do you see. Hi guys money for kind of he pictured here tell you. They are an weiner erupting. A huge role our place that weve been showing quite bit were a number of homes destroyed. Weve been here a couple hours now its a lot different here today than was yesterday we have that the pope thinking really hard to it. Its not a lot winds. And we kind of just not been able to see anything for the past couple of hours because it just your blanket of smoke, but i would say about a half hour ago 45 minutes ago thought to cooler room. Number of firefighters. Were coming down there. Heading for that limit moke. Were not really sure what exactly going on over their life. A very red on the top. It seems to be growing in size. The wind seems to have much more clear you are not
Crews were patrolling the fire that is still large. For now stationary. Im really worried and so is the neighbors. If it jumps this road and goes over to this easter side there is no stopping it for a while. Reporter it would be a massive undertaking on any day. The added pressure of a ticking clock. In the eye of a firestorm between one fire that has hit us and anticipating a crazy wind event. Historic and i are coming up saturday. Reporter the governor any host of emergency officials gave a briefing that covered the state multiple fires and the impending power outage. They are preparing for saturday night. They are preparing for sunday. They are working with meteorologist. They are working with the data that is state of the art. Reporter all of this together presents new challenges on a grand scale. And they were quite frankly anyone near the fires of the power shutdowns should be making every possible preparation. This is unprecedented place that we are in. As a state. As the govern
This area are dealing with because they have to evacuate. This is video that came into our newsroom of the kinkaide fire. You can see flames burning on both sides of the road. The smoke is so dense you cant see too far ahead of you. All of this is happening near guyserville. Evacuations are underway this morning. We have multiple crews in Sonoma County this morning to bring you the latest on where this is burning. Were going to start with lisa argen. She is watching the winds. What are we up to . We have winds over 40 miles an hour up in the upper elevations here and some of these winds are certainly drying out. All the winds are drying out the atmosphere. We have the red flag warning. As we look at the relative humidity, 12 and 11 . Elsewhere, not as bad. We continue to see the gusty winds as we go through the afternoon. Notice the colors, the reds, the yellows. Im going to stop this at 7 00. Were still up to 40mileanhour winds in cloverdale. As we go through the afternoon, the good n
Anything positive to help. The winter decrease later on. The strongest gusts are in the Sonoma County area. More coming up later. Here is sal. All rights. Right now we do look at the commute that is going to be busy if you were driving on 80 westbound. I want to show you that the traffic is beginning to wrap up a little bit heading out to the macarthur maze. 22 minute drive. Right now the bay bridge is a typical commute. If youre driving on interstate 880, this traffic is beginning to ramp up. We are getting into the ramp up stage of the morning commute on all the freeways in the bay area including the east bay although you have an opportunity to jump ahead of the crowd, especially for the Silicon Valley commute. You can see 87 has a problem northbound but the rest of that is easy. Use 101 or 85 to 17. Lets go back to dave. Complete coverage of this outofcontrol wired fire. Cristina rendon is near the front lines of the kincade fire. Give us the latest from where you are. Reporter good
Like i said weve on red wine or erode for at hours i just covering some of the destruction here and about an hour around half ago. Thats when noticed a lot of fire trucks and driving very fast down red winery road and heading toward that plume of smoke we also saw an ambulance and that was the first one that weve seen sense covering this fire. Yesterday in today and the same ambulance. Also just came back down heading towards unclear if theres any injuries at this point. I understand there will be a press conference that looks like at 6. 30 so hopefully well get some of our questions answered them, but for now were just kind of concerned looking at this big plume of smoke i i also drove down red winery road to try to get to the plume smoke and i got as far as pine flat road. And cal fire a stop there. They are not letting us in. Reporters stopped right there just to checking out that plume of smoke that first time i believe that weve been tonight. Covering this kinkaid fire. Fire truck