Cars destroyed. What some may not know about their crae. To new york city when flames shoot from the engine. The Emergency Landing. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night, and we begin with that monster hurricane gaining strength in the atlantic and tracking toward florida tonight. The strongest hurricane since wilma in more than a decade in the atlantic. At this hour, irma is already approaching the caribbean islands before heading toward the u. S. Mainland. Right now, a powerful category 5 storm. Winds 185 miles an hour. The storm you can see right there, the eye perfectly formed nearly every model tonight showing it headed toward florida and several states to the north. This evening, florida is already in a state of emergency. Families preparing for a potentially catastrophic storm. Way. And so first up tonight, chief meteorologist, ginger zee, with the newest track out, and ginger, where is irma now . Reporter this is just a buzz saw of a storm head
Calistoga. The entire city remains evacuated. From the air, a scene of destruction in santa rosa, block after block of homes. Left in ash and rubble. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. The death toll from the many fires affecting Northern California has gone up once again. The Sonoma County sheriff said 17 people have died there. That makes 31 victims in Northern California. More than 1,000 people have reported loved ones missing. The sheriff said 745 people have been located safely. More than 25,000 people remain evacuated but some orders are slowly being lifted. The director of cal fire said every fire burning in the state received an influx of new resources today. Allowing many firefighters to get muchneeded rest. While last nights expected dry winds did not materialize, firefighters are still dealing with very active fire behavior, and theyre worried about it. These are the latest acreage numbers from cal fire. The nuns norbaum fire. Containment has not improved
Ghost towns. Its erie. The whole town is empty. Thick smoke bank ets the whole bay area. It burns my throat and nose and makes my eyes water. 8,000 firefighters are on the front lines, facing down the raiming wild fires with continue to threaten thousands of homes. Thank you for joining us tonight. I am pam moore. Heres the outlook, the death toll is at 31, 17 of the deaths from Sonoma County alone. 2800 homes destroyed in the city of santa rosa 400 people are missing in Sonoma County. Tonight we are learning the names of some of those killed in the wild fire, we are live in santa rosa with the latest. Reporter the majority of those missing have been found safely but unfortunately the death toll has gone up and its expected to climb. Tonight we learned the names of 10 people that lost their lives to this fire, the majority of them were from the santa rosa area. On that list is, Carol Collins swasey, Lynne Anderson powell of santa rosa, arthur tasman grant of santa rosa, suiko grant, do
For it to cool down, we spoke with a sheriff. We have been up and down the highway, we went to a devastated area of coffey park, that was an eye opener, i have never seen fires moving through an area that fast being that devastating. The thing that sticks out was how many burned cars there were. More than i have seen, thats an indication that people were surprised and had to get out fast to protect their lives. Reporter unfortunately some people did not make it out alive. We have learned the names of tep of the 17 People Killed, we will share those with you now. The first of them is carol collinsswasey of santa rosa, Lynne Anderson powell, arthur tasman grant, suiko grant, donna mae halbur, leroy peter halbur, valerie lynn evans, carmen caldentey berriz, Michael John Dornbach of calistoga and Veronica Elizabeth mccombs of santa rosa, we are told that most of the victims were found in their homes, one was found by their car, at this point a sheriff said that its hard to say if there are
Santa rosa. Evans of santa rosa, and Veronica Elizabeth mccombs of santa rosa. The sheriff said identify something of these victims was very challenging, because in some cases, there wasnt much left of their remains. Lets take a lesson. Some of these remains are actually intact bodies, much easier to identify and get things from. Some of them are merely ashes and bones, and we may never get truly confirmative identification on ashes. Cremated, you cant get i. D. We were able to get identification in some of those cases by medical devices. A hip implant, for example, has serial number on it. So we actually did in that this case. Two of the identifications were done by medical devices or implants. Two were done through dental records. One was done through difficultinging tattoos. Others were by fingerprints, so they were combined with information from family members. Most of the victims were found in their homes. One was found by the car. The youngest person on the list was 57. Most of t