Ellen. Keep in mind its zero containment with all the fires. No one in the clear. All the homes and areas damaged, flames might be coming back in the surrounding areas. We have a team of reporters throughout the fire zones in the three local counties. Lets begin with Jessica Aguirre in Sonoma County. Jessica. Reporter raj and janelle im in the Paradise Ridge winery, in Sonoma County above fountaingrove in santa rosa louisiana area heavily damaged. You can see the winery is completely des mated. Out of danger here now. But the focus is on that area in glen he will opinion i want to take you out to sky ranger, show you the live pictures of whats happening there. Its smoke forever wherever the eye can see. You can see a house on fire right now. This is an area the little tiny enclaf of glen ellen that yesterday was heavily damaged and not spared today. Back with more fire, more flames where more heavy smoke in the little tiny ruler area. We have a lot of important and significant wineries
I do want to go to some of the video because i was up on that hill earlier this evening and if it werent for the cell signal, wed be going live up there right now. You can see those flames and just how close they were to some of the homes earlier this afternoon, at one point between 30 to 50 feet from those homes on woodley place, but they have since dissipated at this point and even gone in the other direction a bit and the good news this evening is the fact the wind is not nearly as strong as it was earlier this afternoon in this area. Most of the people have been evacuated from here. I mean it was a mandatory evacuation. I did talk with a couple people who chose not to leave despite that mandatory evacuation. They advised us get out now and i said we will be ready to go if we think were in jeopardy and they were insistent and we said, you know, bear with us. We want to stay as long as we can. Its really sad. Its so sad. We love oakmont. Weve been here for almost 20 years. We really
Santa rosa. Right now there are 400 people missing in Sonoma County alone. And more than 191thousand acres have burned state wide. And that number could rise. james good morning and thanks for joining us. Im james fletcher. robin and im robin winston. And we are continuing our coverage of the deadly firestorm in the north bay. Another big story from the fires, the smoke. And winds are pushing the fire smoke all over the bay area causing bad air quality and forcing hundreds of schools to close. james the state schools chief says nearly 600 schools with about 260 thousand students are affected. Heres the list of school closures. Lets go ahead and begin cycling through them. adlib over full screens of school robin robin robin fire officials have began the process of identifying the bodies of loved ones who were reported missing. The search itself has been incredibly challenging because the fire is still raging. Homes are too hot to search. Even when they know there is likely someone in th
Ellipse side of the white house. That bombing is why all the streets closed around the white house to begin with. Sam ford is live near the executive mansion to explain why for us. Sam . Sam the secret service says it is after a review of the new security measures following a number of jumpers and attempted jumpers at the white house. As you can see, the secret Service Agent is there. People are no longer able to go up against is that fence. They are all over here. Trying to see from the area they can see taking pictures because of the new restrictions. Secret Service Posted signs restricting access. No more walking along the fence behind the white house. Officers directed the visitors past two roadways to another sidewalk on the ellipse. So far we havent seen anything. We sides a fence, that is part of the white house. That is it. Secret Service Police temporarily restricted the Pedestrian Access to pennsylvania avenue in front of the white house to lafayette park. We tried, we were o
The victims family fighting back and speaking out this morning. Hot pursuit on a highwire. A chimp on the loose for hours after escaping from the zoo. The chase unfolding on live tv. How chacha broke free and zookeepers finally brought him down back safely. Dont worry. Chacha is fine. Amy was concerned. So was that construction worker. Hes okay, too. Thats right. Good morning, america, and, yes, the picture of the morning, the chimp escaping out of a zoo, lara. Unbelievable. Look at him. Its like curious george. Kind of a big curious george. Yeah, he is, okay. There was, as we said, a happy ending to that boy, not a lot of happiness on stage at the democratic debate last night. They were angry. Crucial New York Primary just four days away. Polls show a healthy lead in new york for hillary. Nationally though a dead heat. Because a new National Poll shows her just two points ahead of Bernie Sanders after holding a 13point lead last month. Abcs cecilia vega is here with more on that and t