Two agendas. This election will decide whether we save the American Dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny. The president tonight condemning democrats and painting a bleak picture of a biting presidency, saying that no one would be safe and joe biden would quote, demolish the suburbs and take away guns. The president s speech hit all his familiar themes. He said he is ready to write the next chapter of the Great American story, pledging to create 10 million jobs in 10 months and restore the nations prominence as the worlds greatest superpower. Ktvu political reporter quickly is here and both parties have had their conventions and we are 67 days away now from the election. Reporter good evening, President Trump and other speakers tonight created an image of any phonetic restaurants. While its clear both these parties dont agree and a lot both nominees stressed how important the selection is. On the south lawn of the white house resident donald tru
Evacuations and progress hopefully in the firefight. Joining us on the phone right now for the latest update is Christine Mcmorrow with Calfire Christine can you give us an update or are you starting to gain the upper hand on any of these fires. Hi there yeah, you know we are we did see today with and increased containment on the lnu complex fire that good news, however, you know we did also see increased we are getting more personnel under these fires as fires in other parts of the state week at a better handle on those were moving personnel into these larger in in the north bay and in east areas so that we can and continue to increase those containment lines. What do you attribute the increase in containment the lnu complex that north bay. Fire complex, the containment doubled in about 24 hours which obviously we hadnt seen that sort of. Leap in progress made thus far was it mostly the weather. Well the the weather didnt help us out today and we had a little bit higher relative humid
One of the biggest fires is in the north bay. It spans napa, sonoma, and solano counties. Lets get to nbc bay areas cierra johnson. This is where the Evacuation Orders have just been issued. And i know youve been with us since early this morning. How have things changed . Reporter yes. Good morning. Since the suns come up, weve really been able to get a better feel for just how dangerous this fire was. At last check it was 46,000 acres that this fire caused by lightning a couple days ago has burned through earlier this morning before the Evacuation Order was even put into place, folks were leaving because of just how bad things were. This is a cattle ranch im on. And you can see bales of hay just going up in flames. Entire homes were destroyed. 50 structures in all is the latest count that were burned. Right now families were working to get their animals out. 100 acres and they were looking to make entire houses burned to the ground. We have video from English Hills road and canalo roa
Prosecute you to the full extent of the law. Thank you for joining us, three massive wildfires are burning across the bay area. They have scorched over 1100 square miles nearly 7 times the size of san jose. Flames are forcing new evacuation orders this evening. Right now firefighters are bracing for dry lightning and gusty winds that could ignite new fires. The biggest fire is the l and you lightning complex burning in the north bay. More than 500 square miles have been scorched, and containment is at 17 . Katie nielsen is in the Dry Creek Valley area and what are ns l this is actually the calm before the storm, literally and figuratively. The winds have not really picked up yet, we are not seeing any of those thunderheads but we are seeing a lot of these helicopters, this is the national guard, a blackhawk helicopter with what they call a bambi bucket. A 600 60 gallon bucket pulling water out of this pond in the dry creek area then taking off, headed back into the fire lines on the ot
Have been downgraded to warnings and while calm conditions helped firefighters make some progress overnight a red flag warning is in effect, bay area wide through tomorrow afternoon. We want to get to darren peck. The thunderstorm complex sitting off the coast right now, take a look at the High Definition doppler, its a complicated picture. You see a big mass of a thunderstorm of the coast of san mateo county, that is not actually there. The Weather Service has set this radar to its most sensitive so we can pick up the leading edge of the storms. That is clutter, not rain. But here is a Lightning Strike and it is moving, all of this stuff is stationary. The stuff that is moving is the wave of scattered thunderstorms that will get here later tonight. Over the next few hours, look down here. We have a few more coming up the coast so unfortunately we are still on schedule, the forecast is not changed a whole lot. Tonight through tomorrow morning is our highest concern, a 40 chance for iso