Please give them a look. I mentioned to some of the other day, i was reading the words in preparation for tonight and thats the new faulkner biography. You have the faux fur part right. The best way i could describe this book is equal parts. Military history social commentary and literary criticism. I think all appear equally to fans many of those subjects. What the book really did for me, was forced me to get some serious thought to his fans where at the time we are asking ourselves difficult questions about our countrys history on issues of race. Was he a pioneer it was another white wire that was profiting off of the characters of black americans. Is a professor englishman literature at Smith College in massachusetts sits which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. Is essays have come up in the New York Times book review. Thank you for joining us tonight. Thank you very much for having me. I want to thank the library for hosting and my friends that live right for putting us togethe
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.
In less than 24 hours the flames have scorched 2500 acres and containment stands at 0 . The blaze, call the glass fire because of how close they start to Glass Mountain road. The flames are dangerously close to structures, threatening 2200 buildings. The wildfires are adding a lot of smoke to the already hazy air. Chopper 5 was over the massive plume of smoke in napa county. Spare the air alert has been extended through the day. Is get over to mary lee on an update on the dangerous weather conditions. This is a big concern, michelle, were watching the winds pick up through the overnight hours and this morning. I want to give an update on Current Conditions for the glass fire and what firefighters are up against. Definitely low relative humidity values, down to 14 . The northerly wind winds gusting 18 Miles Per Hour currently. Where the glass fire is burning, i think a as high as 31 Miles Per Hour for this area. And it is warm, temperatures in the low 80s right now. A red flag warning r
Evacuate via deer park road. This is the latest evacuations and warnings in place in napa county this morning. In Sonoma County this map shows the order in place in orange and under evacuation morning within the yellow zone. The orders extend east of calistoga road, north of road and north of highway 12. There is an Evacuation Center open at Crosswalk Community church on first street in napa. We have Team Coverage on the wildfires burning in the north bay. We begin with emily turner, who is in santa rosa. Reporter since i last spoke to you have an hour ago, the good news here is that firefighters have been able to save the barn over the ridge behind me. Flames were pretty much bearing down on us, down this hill. They have been put out so that is some good news. Unfortunately there is not much when it comes to good news out here. This fire continues to grow. It is being blown by winds that are up and over the ridge line. Is eerily similar to 2017. This fire started on the napa sonoma li
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