Back on march, 1620 20 the bay area was the first region in the country to issue a shelterinplace order in response to the covid19 pandemic. But this is written. A 100 years from now everybody is going to remember that day that the that the 6 perry counties plus the city of berkeley lock things down it stopped. Literally thousands of deaths, although california is trending in the right direction for slowing the spread of the coronavirus doctor George Rutherford professor of epidemiology at the university of california San Francisco says now is not the time to stop being vigilant. I mean you can catch yourself on the back a little bit. I mean we clearly did a great job in march and april and into may. Little away from us in june as you know he is referring to the pandemic surging in the wake of the memorial day weekend. He cautions the return of that behavior could prompt another surge over the next 6 months which has some major holidays. We have a very clear example of how we can mess
Its them giving my life back. My name is norbie, and yes, i do suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder, but im okay. Breaking news at 5 00, homes and cars are going up in flames in the north bay, the wind is fueling three fires in napa and sonoma counties, this is new video from the shadedy fire. Thanks for being with us. Today is monday, september 28. And here we go again on fire watch as part of the north bay burns. Well check in now with lisa noa arre argen, it will be hot for everyone. So hot we still have the heat advisory until 7 00 and 9 00 tonight. Live doppler 7, no fog out there. And as soon as light happens, well be able to see the signature of those flames from the satellite picture. The glass fire, shady fire,, boizboi boyson fire and you can see that the winds are north to northeast continuing to dry out the atmosphere. So right now temperatures are near 80 degrees, even warmer than that in spots. Relative humidity, 15 and dropping with the winds out of the north at 8.
As we look, this is out of the northeast for the shady, boyson and glass fire, and nothing really changes until about 9 00. So current winds at 43 miles per hour. Mounts diablo is at 35 miles per hour. So watching the winds and the temperatures already in the 60s and 70s ear, even 80s up in napa. And where the fires are, we are well into the 80s. 83 relative humidity at 13 . So throughout date today, tthe quickly warm and near 100 inland. And breaking news now, fires are forcing evacuations in napa and Sonoma County. This is new video showing flames burning in santa rosa overnight. And you are looking at the shady fire believed to be a spot fire from the glass fire which started in napa county early yesterday morning. Thousands have been forced to evacuate and there is a list scrolling at the bottom of your screen. The cause of the glass fire is still not known right now. And were waiting for an official update on the exact size of the fires. We already know several structures have bur
Site taylor. Well it happened at the Community Building next to the church and you can see its now boarded up but inside its looking a lot worse. I talked to neighbors earlier they told me that they heard a loud shattering noise in the middle of the night and soon after thats when this building caught fire Church Leaders believe that this is a hate crime. They say its politically motivated. Members of a San Francisco Armenian Church woke up to this destruction thursday morning, a suspected arson fire ripped through the first and second floor of its Community Building next to saint gregory the illuminator or median church make me feel that upset. If whitman them a building damage should doesnt do any good to anybody you know financial the destruction on to on chairman of the churchs board of trustees believes they were does to these some kind a hate crime involved in we had a similar situation of keys evie school. And we think this is somehow a continuation. No one was really a veteran
Try to control the spread of this fire before more winds come in and fuel the flames. The glass fire has burned more than 51,000 acres and is 2 contained. More than a 140 homes have been destroyed in napa and sonoma counties, 107 homes alone just in napa county. More than 26,000 structures continue to be threatened tonight. And we want to show you a live look at the glass fire. This is the glow of the flames you can see the smoke. This is a camera on top of mount saint alina about 4300 feet up looking toward the napa valley and you can see this fire is still raging, this is a web camera kind of see skip frames here and there but this is a live image of how the flames look right now. Boy nsa terrifying images. Well we have Team Coverage tonight from 4 state of the sec is in anguish tonight where crews prepare for more wind first we want to turn things over to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow with that red flag warning that goes into Effect Tomorrow or yeah, very pattern developing no