Smoke rising from the glass fire as we look over the napa valley. So far it has a burned about 11,000 acres. It really exploded overnight, and unfortunately there is zero percent containment. More than a thousand firefighters are on the fire lines battling the flames. We have Live Team Coverage tonight, Christien Kafton has the latest on where all of the evacuees gorge, and greg lee with the destruction to wines and homes. Tom vacar with details on the homes destroyed near santa rosa, put we begin with Cristina Rendon on the specifics of the glass fire. Cristina . Well, frank, the big unknown right now is how this fire started. We know they are planning a brief update is any moment now with Sonoma County officials. At this hour, nearly 60,000 people remain under Evacuation Orders in napa and sonoma counties. The glass fire exploded overnight, burning from wine country in napa county to eastern Sonoma County. The winds pushing flames towards communities there was tremendous loss between
Firefighters, this is a fullon firefight at all levels we are working in just miserable conditions. Thank you for joining us everyone, i am Catherine Heenan im Jonathan Mccall that breaking news this monday night comes from the north bay is fast moving wildfires are destroying homes and threatening thousands more this began early sunday morning with the glass fire in napa county now grown to 11,000 acres that wildfire sparked 2 other fires, the shady and the boy some fires spreading to Sonoma County. Kron dan kerman he is alive in the sky hawk neighborhood of santa rosa. An area that has seen a lot of damage from the glass fire. And whats the very latest on what youre seeing tonight. Well a lot of smoke in the air right now one positive thing is that the winds have really come down and that is making residents who have stayed behind feel a little bit better if their house is already survive theyre hoping that if the winds continue in this way that there but they might survive another n
Hours after voting down an agreement that would have opened the door to classroom learning during the pandemic. Teachers were asked to be both online teachers and in prison teachers. And in many cases, at the same time. Reporter this mom of second graders has her own doubts about hybrid learning. Three different schedules because they will be remote one day and be expected to learn completely independently with no teacher supervision two days a week. Reporter various schools are planning and some moving ahead with a mixed model. Staggering arrivals and rotating sessions creating cohorts that swap campus and home to limit risk. But nevadas 400 teachers they cant get find the hybrid model. They just dont believe its the best path forward. Reporter the teachers unions is any return to classroom should bes slow and small with hundreds, not thousands of students to start. And preferably after the first of the year. We would have to be zooming with a mask on to the students at home. We canno
Sky hawk neighborhood now almost unrecognizable. Keit . Reporter we are here along Mountain Hawk drive. The there are horrible smelling chemicals and smoke is thick in the air. By our continue more than a dozen homes were lost in this subdivision, alone. In the sky hawk neighborhood of santa rosa last night we are getting a much better look at the fires with daybreak. Most of the burnt homes were directly next to there field. Just as crew were dousing hot spots. This neighbor came racing in to tell them about another flairup around the corner. Here, and then right about four houses down. Reporter a very neighborly thing for you to do today . Well, yes, i care about this neighborhood and community. Reporter her son, logan, was already there with a garden hose and a trickle of water. I just want to put out this fire, save this house from burning. Reporter if he looks familiar, back in the 2017 tubs fire he found goldfish that had survived and reunited them with their owners. And here he
Hour but ill give you the good news first and that is our bridges look really good so heading into San Francisco this morning, no delays for you at the bay bridge toll plaza it is picking up more folks are rolling in, but no big problems so were still at an easy 7 minutes off to the fremont street exit were off to 92 and its much busier and our busiest bridge right now we have a crowd, lets itself on the flat section but that is the norm, so youre averaging a very quick 12 minutes to the peninsula. Heres the trouble spot left over from the 4 oclock hour injury crash 80 north at to kowtow so coming out of fremont into union city weve gone from having all lanes blocked to just the right lane. It was a multi vehicle accident and car fire. The right lane is still closed your backup tore thornton but thats really not too bad as i zoom out you can see that as soon as you pass the crash the rest of the trip continuing north will be fine on through union city and hayward well check out some mo