Progress. Good evening. One week now to the hour when it blew up in the worse wildfire in california history. The pocket fire is now 30 contained. The tubs fire that started in calistoga and tore through santa rosa 60 contained. The nuns fire is at 40 containment. And yet it still burns tonight. Chopper 5 in santa rosa this afternoon. You could see flair ups near Hood Mountain regional park. Now called the oakmont fire and it is cal fires top priority tonight. Burning north of highway 12 and that is where we find kpix 5s katie nielson. Reporter if you look behind me you cant see much of anything now. It is easterliy quiet and dark on highway 12 but today this was cal fires top priority. They had oakmont fire burning to the north and the nuns fire burning to the south above kenwood. They worry tonight those fires could merge. Reporter flames from the nuns fire continue their march across the ridge line. Snaking north along the hilltops towards santa rosa. The flames really kicked up aro
Did not, 88 people are still listed as missing in Sonoma County, and it is expected that some of those people were killed when the fire swept in over the week ago. Tens of thousands of evacuees are headed home bow throughout the fire zone. The number of people who are out of their homes is at 40,000 which is down from 100,000 over the weekend. Almost 11,000 firefighters remain on the fire line. Authorities say they are making Good Progress on the pocket fire at the top left corner of your screen. They are focusing on the northern section of that fire. Officials say they are attacking a section of the tubs fire after it jumped an containment line. That is in the middle of your screen. The tubs fire is now 70 contained. The nuns fire is holding a 50 and the atlas fire is that 68 contained. The Redwood Valley fire is that 50 and the pocket fire is that what contained. We have live team covered from the fires in north bay, the latest on the weather condition, and the story of a roommate wh
Night in these steep canyons, we have an access issues and as you can see behind me theres steep and rugged terrain. Reporter about 125 acres have burned and they say about 150 residences have been evacuated. The santa cruz Sheriffs Department is going door to door trying to get people out. They say there are about 150 of those homes that they are trying to get to to get out of the area those are mandatory evacuations this he also you say if anybody is in the peripheral area of this fire, las couple brass area is part of the place that has been evacuated as well. If you are not in the evacuation area but if you feel unsafe and then theyre saying go ahead and leave the area. There are road blocks out here on highway 9 and also on bear creek road. You can get out on highway 9, they stopped that construction so people can leave but if you do leave they are not letting people up into the area. They want to make sure they dont have to do evacuations again. You can see that the fire is sitti
Homes are currently threatened. We know that one building has already burned down and about 150 people are being evacuated. Were told that the police are going door to door making sure that the people who need to are getting out immediately. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller is in the area right now, he has been monitoring the situation for us on the ground. Situation for us on the ground. Matt, what [ no audio ] okay. We are going to try to get to matt keller in just a moment. Reporter hello . Are you there, matt . Reporter i am. Im here. Sorry. Yes, we are in the mountains to obviously cellphone connection is an issue. Winding road getting to the command post and getting to this fire. We just ran into several people who have been evacuated out of the area, one person who was not at home at the time was trying to get through a road block but they would not let him back in. People are being evacuated out, not being allowed back in. Ive been told that these are mandatory evacuations theyr
To gain the right to vote. To achieve the sacred birth right of equality here. Thats big stuff, thats big stuff. Those are very big phrases, very big words. Here we memorialize the brave men and women who struggle to sacrifice and sacrifice so much so that others might live in freedom. All right, i want to bring in athena jones now. Shes at the museum. So how was the president s messages received today . Hi, fred. Well, there was certainly applause after those remarks. And during those remarks, especially when he recognized the widow of medger evers, who was there inside the museum during the tour. He came, he toured the museum, he saw several exhibit, including freedom writers, who helped desegregate buses in the 60s. He mentioned james meredith, who was the first black student to attend the segregated university of mississippi in 1962. He spent a good deal of time talking about medgar evers himself who was assassinated here in jackson in 1963. Yak sons airport is named after him. Its