Containment tonight. Some evacuations have been ordered. We have a complete list on our website abc7news. Com. Well begin our Team Coverage tonight with abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Bernard whos in napa county. Reporter intense flames burning through dry brush in the hills above saint helena ploeks edding in size overnight. This is the hennessy fire, one of three big fires burning in napa county likely caused by lightening strikes. Were all packed out and ready to head out of here. Reporter workers were hosing down roofs at the Treatment Plant near lake hennessy. It looks like the winds have picked up which is never a good thing beingw. Thats not a good thing either. Reporter neighbors say this home was destroyed by fire. The Family Living here had evacuated. Almost 2,000 homes remain under threat. Firefighters scored a huge victory today. This historic family winery was saved. I think its a miracle. Reporter phil is thanking cal fire crews and his cousins with water hoses for saving hi
Coast. The golden gate grudge. Cooler at the coast. It will be breezy there but well have mid60s elsewhere around the bay and the winds kick up tonight. Well talk about that breezy president s day holiday coming up. Liz. Lisa, thank you. All right. Right now, hundreds of american passengers are waiting to evacuate aboard two 747 jets to bring them back home. These are people that have been quarantined two weeks on the diamond princess cruise ship. Other passengers on board have been infected by the coronavirus by the dozens. This is a live look at the ship in janice where mens will disembark to return to the u. S. They will land sometime today. Some will be quarantined 14 taste when they arrive here at Travis Air Force base in firefield. Others flown to lackland in texas. Were pushing to find exactly arrival times. We will keep you posted. Overnight the death top climbed to 1600 people. First fatality was also confirmed this week in europe. The number of worldwide infections have climb
Officials at Top Public Health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases. Well tell you what those forbidden words are and how some say this move is raising sensorring issues. Lets talk about the weather, red flag warning that we are watching. It is going to be breezy, and die out into the afternoon. This advisory goes until sunday. So the winds are likely to pick up between now and then and not steady but from time to time giving you look at Storm Tracker 2 we had a lot of cloud cover in place yesterday and it had to do with the system pushing off east, into areas of nevada and utah. We are on the back end and we now have that north wind that has set up, and if i squeeze in closer you can see how the wind bars are coming from this direction, that dry north wind is bringing with it a red flag warning as claw dean mentioned. Winds in and around navaid dough, gusting to 25. Fairfield gusting to 40. If you have an Early Morning drive or driving along i 80 for today or through fai
Karen this morning. Bone chilling out there right now. Go ahead and take a look at the sat center and you can see that there is cloud cover down to our south much the way there was yesterday and in fact, theres even a possibility of a little bit of a snow shower popping out of baltimore later this morning and possibly coming across south jersey and delaware. Not seeing any indications of that of right now. 24 degrees currently in philadelphia, little bit colder in some spots this morning than it was yesterday morning. 24 in wilmington, 21 in trenton and still in the teens in allentown and reading. 17 degrees right now in allentown. 25 degrees in millville. Arent once once again theres a little bit of a brisk breeze blowing giving you severe wind chills. Feels like its just 13 degrees in philadelphia right now. Colder than this time yesterday. Just 10 in allentown. And a 9degree wind chill in reading. 13 in trenton. 14 in wilmington and it feels like its 18 as you step outside in millvi
Over to mayor where point ridge and marlton elementary are both closed today because of heating problems. All other Prince Georges County schools are opened today on time. Dorchester county schools are closed. Queen annes county schools are on a 90 minute delay. Talbot county schools are now closed for the day. And in West Virginia grant hardy hampshire jefferson and Mineral County schools are all closed. You can see the closings and delays running o bottom of the screen and the fox5 news and weather apps. Our Team Coverage continuing this morning. Tuck joins us now with the first check on the forecast talk about the threat of freezing rain which is really what were worried about this afternoon, right, tuck. Hard to believe with temperatures as cold as they are this morning were talking about freezing rain. Upstairs several thousand feet temperatures are going to warm first then work their way down to the surface but in the meantime were looking at this period later this afternoon earl