Calistoga. Its now 34,000 acres and 10 contained. Abc 7 News Reporter is live in calistoga with the latest. Laura. Reporter hi, kristen, we are at the base of mount st. Helen a. This is the tubbs fire. Behind me you can see where the fire came through overnight. While residents of calistoga wait anxiously. I can tell you the fire crews on the front lines are working tirelessly for the most part this is not about turning water on flames, but more about wind, humidity, and a lot of hard work on the ground. Despite some better than expected wind conditions, the tubbs fire above calistoga has done what firefighters hoped it wouldnt. That is, jump highway 2 2 2 least in one spot. This morning as the wind switched to the northwest, that started to cause problems with ash fall and the fire progressing towards the highway on its terms versus our terms. Reporter several miles away from the fire fight, the small town of calistoga remains under a mandatory evacuation order. One mayor chris cunnin
And snow in the sierra. In san jose relatively dry right now but the rain will be falling there too. Drew joins us now with the time line to the storm. True. Reporter we are getting a brief brake in much of the wet weather this evening but now the second lean of showers getting the act together. Live doppler 7hd right now is first setting up in the north bay. Santa rosa lean of heavy showers. Pops of yellow and red indicated on live doppler 7hd. Headed into calistoga. That is some heavy rain associated with our next round of showers. In 6 minutes its in calistoga and about 23 minutes from now the heavy lean of showers will be in pope valley. Take you to the south right around mill valley even San Francisco, oakland, berkeley a peppering of light showers right now. Pull out show you the wider view on live doppler 7hd and heres the cold front that is going to swing through first through the north bay then through the south bay that will happen probably closer to the midnight hour. But it