Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 600PM 20171018 : comparemela.c

Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 600PM 20171018

The atlas fire up to 77 contained. 11,000 firefighters on the front lines battling these places. This afternoon in napa county, firefighters said 245,000 acres in total burned statewide in the last nine days. The head of fema in the north bay as the disaster transitions into recovery phase. Californias a special state, beautiful place. We have to be working diligently for many years today. Seeing the urban nature of a wild fire and what it can do to hundreds of homes in an area, you dont see that very often and its pretty disturbing. Well be meeting with Governor Brown tomorrow. We are getting a broader view tonight of the sheer devastation caused by the wildfires. Abc reporter wayne freedmon took an aerial tour and joins us live in fountaingrove that area of california. Wayne. Reporter less than an hour ago crews from the counties was doing a house to house search looking for anyone left behind. We believe this area is clear. You might see here a macro view. At ground level were beginning to run outside of words. Up close this is fountaingrove. And now, a broader view from a higher plane. Hearing about it i didnt think it was that big, in the residential areas at least. Now seeing it was unbelievable. Reporter that was u. S. Air force reserve Staff Sergeant brad, from auburn after he escorted us into a helicopter that took us on a sobering aerial tour of the fire zones. Its a landscape that looks familiar until suddenly you fly over a burned area and then its waste land. This is what remains of cotton park. T looks flat end from above. And thats the first fly over of many. Now above an active fire air, white smoke sending a not so subtle signal that here in the Rough Country flames continue to have their way. Up front, kim compared this to what hes seen in afghanistan and iraq. Those places were tough he told us, but this is home. Its not his first taste of american tragedy this year. A few weeks ago we were in florida working hurricane recovery. So, you know in either scenario you start thinking about what it would be like to be that person with that loss. Its remarkable, its god to be a tough stop to be in. Reporter more like tough spots in california on day nine. Big, black billowing ones. Above the fire zone with the national guard, wayne freedmon, abc 7 news. The danger still remains, sky 7 shows you an area of devastation. Among the ruins a lot of toxic debris. Katy leave with a look at the ruin there. Reporter fema flew over today much like wayne did to tour the destruction. Theres not a lot the people can do on the ground. Much of the other neighborhoods are in the same boat. Officials are trying to figure out what to do with all of it. What administrator did urge people to do was register with fema at a local civic center. Hundreds of survivors line up for help. I need to get a passport and i need to sign up with fema. Reporter volunteers hand out food, water, even stuffed animals. These reporter Amber Mccarthy and son ed city stopped in to Research Relief options. Little people that need to get back to life, huh . Yeah. Reporter they escaped the area of cotton park. Houses of full of all kinds of different chemicals when they burn, it leaves a lot of residue. Thats the First Priority is removing that material and getting it disposed properly. Reporter going to be here through the Fire Suppression feeds but also well continue to support californians through their recovery. Getting people back on their property shortterm in terms of care and shelter. Reporter he says hes never seen a fire like this. This is a tremendous event for an urban area which is scary. We got a lot to do. Reporter in santa rosa. Actions 7 news. Abc 7 weather anchor Christian Spencer has a look. Its going to help lot more in the weekend as we have rain coming our way. Current conditions in dublin, 76 degrees. It is quite dry. The wind is light. Over near the bear fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains, winds also light there. North bay, we have six major fires burning, but in each location the wind surface is under 10 miles per hour. Thats all good news. Ill show you the rain coming our way later. Now on to an only on 7 upstate for you. Another family come forward questioning weather very rayna Senior Living has an evacuation plan in place. Abc 7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow first broke the story on thursday and reported on friday. The department of social services opened investigations into the facility. Only on 7 tonight, she spoke with one Family Member who helped rescue six families from the retirement home. Reporter mark described wheeling his Mother Health lone from the retirement home. When i looked at those people, visions of the titanic going down. These arent people who can walk out on their own and get in a car and leave, they need help. Reporter people in wheelchairs, some with zplen sha. Cathy says there were three people there at the facility when they arrived around 2 00 a. M. We asked them if they had a evacuation plan because we wanted to help out. They said no. I wasnt taught it if they do. Thankfully we did a wonderful job because you got to realize for all the residence there were just four of us. Reporter andrey and cathy says there was no back up generator running. They had to rescue people in the dark. A statement delivered from abc 7 news says quote, with you of our community has back up plans. We have backup generators on site. Reporter oakmont sister Senior Living told us were unable to retrieve every one of our vehicles due to fire damage. And the fire alarm was quited at 12 30 a. M. When the the fire wasnt posing any danger. I wasnt really paying attention what was burning how it was burning, i was focused on how to get the hell out of there. As was cathy who along with other familys returned used a trailer hitch to break the class into capris after their looked outside for rescues the residence. Reporter all residence are accounted for and safe. And wild fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains forced people from their home today. Abc 7 was near Boulder Creek as flames were hit from the air. 150 structures are threatened, four have been destroyed. The evacuation zone threatened people southwest of highway 35. People in the area say they grabbed what they could and got out fast. The packing up is a frantic time. Grabbing pass ports, phones, forgot the chargers. Were here with our kids and dogs thats all that matters. And the panic of getting out of house is over. So far the fire has burned 200 acres and is 5 contained. Abc 7 was in marine county when a fire broke out. It started about a mile north of Robert Williams tunnel. Some nearby residence did evacuate for a short time but back in their homes. Drivers faced a range on highway 101. Right now a sacred religious text is making an International Journey home. A send off from the bay area that this group of faithful say is unprecedented. It feels great to be able too support someone whose lost everything. A group of student learn a lesson about loss and the power of kindness. Look at all this generosity and this is just the water in one location. Wow nice outfit. When i grow up, im going to mars. Were working on that. Some people know how far they want to go. A personalized Financial Strategy can help you get them there. See how access to j. P. Morgan investment expertise can help you. Chase. Make more of whats yours. To j. P. Morgan investment expertise can help you. By living off the grid. Completely. Or. Set the washing machine to cold. Do your thing. Energy upgrade california. A synagogue on a peninsula that destroyed a 200yearold torah is returning it to its home. Abc 7 vick lee with a story youll only see on abc 7. The torah was allowed through after a personal screening. The sacred hebrew bible is receiving the vip treatment from the United Airlines to the checked repub. The 200 year torah has been a village or jews were plurded by the nazis during world war ii. The original artifacts destroyed. But the torah survived after the war and made its way to the westminster synagogue in london from there to europe. The Jewish Community has rebuilt itself. Well help restore this stroll to kosher status and help bring it home. These are the Ten Commandments right here. Reporter all of this is an incredible incidents. His family fled. This was their synagogue torah. I read from it myself for 20 something years never knowing that. If you look closely you can see some of the letters are fadesed and cracked at the top. The torah still need restoring, something dont in its new home during a ceremony in sunday. In the meantime its journey will be a comfortable one. And its own boarding pass. Vick lee, abc 7 news. A con zero of trucks and trailers filled with supplies is part of the support for wildfire victims. Lesley brinkley is live with us right now with a look at how student in the valley are helping. You got some friends with you lesley . Reporter i sure do. This is basically a sanctuary here with over 700 animals being cared for 24 7 by ffa students, thats future farmers of america. Those goats and llama were all trapped in areas of fire zone, they were all rescued and now have no home to go home too. A flock of chickens, goats galore, no one knows their names. They were rescued off of fire zones from atlas fire. Some came from california near calistoga. All these animals, if we wouldnt have got up and had this facility all these animals wouldnt be here. Reporter but they need to eat. And Central Valley ffa students trucked in three truck loads of supplies like hay and feed today. Special dplielivery. When youre driving up here on the highway you see vineyards burned all the way to the ground. Its great to support someone whos just loss everything. Someone like tray hen nas. Seeing the trailers roll up and kids jumped out to help its s amazing. Reporter trays family lost their home it burned to the ground. But theres more to cope with, santa rosa high schools farm burned down. We lost the house, we lost its a 62acre facility, we lost all of the pasture land. We lost the two barns that had all our kids supplies. Itll be replaced eventually with the help of fellow ffa students. They all had compassion and this was just compassion put to work. Here at the Vintage High School farm in napa valley. These animals are being cared for but there are also injured animals, those that suffered burn injuries in the fire, theyre being cared for by the students here. Along with uc davis, that student. Reporting live in napa, im lesley brinkley, abc 7 news. Today in santa rosa, michael fenny with 7 on your side is at the fairgrounds to help people affected by the wild fire. Michael is live tonight. Michael lot of important resources out there. Reporter its unbelievable how generous everyone has been with their time, money and their familys wrongings. The guy whos in charge of dealing with this is trevor rig begin. Im looking around, it seems overwhelming its a parking lot full of stuff. Its overwhelming generosity. When you look at what the community is there to do, as flames are raising cross the Community People are raising their hands to volunteer. Theyre showing up with supplies. We opened the doors early on monday as the flames were racing across santa rosa and vrtsz were showing up to help us do it. Weve had 13,000 people sign up. 13,000 since this started . 13,000. Reporter that is amazing. You had a group of volunteers and a bunch of stuff until you put together boxes that are going out. Whats going on . We grabbed a few families who were volunteering and said help box for a family. Another idea from another volunteer and they worked on this last several days. Weve been boxing these up on pal lets, putting them on our Emergency Response united stas sending them out. Reporter so, these boxes are going out to the neighborhoods . Thats right. Everyone else is staying with friends and family, you talk to anyone in santa rosa or many of the communities rights now, that i have got a lot of friend in their home. Reporter im being told of that. So, were going to open up one of these boxes and do it on facebook right now. Im going to leave channel 7, go over to facebook. Reporting live from santa rosa im michael fenny, 7 on your side. Relief coming in the form of rain, at least thats the hope. Which is really good news. Spencer christian tracking the forecast. It may be a modest surge of relief but its relief nonetheless. The rainfall totals were expecting with the approaching system coming in late thursday into friday morning. For santa rosa by about 11 00 p. M. , thursday were expecting up to. 05 inch of rain. Thatll be helpful in the Fire Fighting effort. Heres a look at live doppler 7. You can see right now we dont have cloud cover over the bay area. We have small clouds forming over the coast right now. This is the view, postsunset sky from our emoryville camera, stunning view. Its still poor in the north bay, inland and South Central bay. Its moderate in the central bay. Heres a view from our rooftop camera here, looking at partly cloudy skies. 60 degrees in San Francisco. Oakland 63. 69 in mountain view, and san jose. Gilmore 77. Check out this again from emoryville. Nevada 63, 75 fairfield. 82 concord and 86 liver more. Another view from our camera San Francisco looking at lolts of blue skies. Showers will arrive late thursday. Cooler more humid thursday through friday. Turning warmer over the weekend once the front passes through. Over night look for hazy conditions with fog near the coast, traveling locally out on the bay. Low temperatures upper 40s to low 50s. Tomorrow under hazy skies by bright skies. Low 60s at the coast, low 7 os at the bay and upper 70 inland. The storm ranks 1 on impact scale. Light showers will fall over the most of the bay area. Some areas we can see a little bit of rain and hopefully a lot more. The rain at that point will be confined to the north bay and points long the coastline. It will spread eastward and south ward. Over the area it will be cold enough to support a little snowfall. For the entire region under a tenth of an inch. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast, the weekend warm up a little. Inland moving into the mid to upper 80s in late october. You got my attention with the snow word. Are you ready for the return of the warriors . Were taking a live look at oracle hard exhalation honey . Can we do this tomorrow . grunts of effort can we do this tomorrow . If you have Heart Failure symptoms, your risk of hospitalization could increase, making tomorrow uncertain. But entresto is a medicine that was proven, in the largest Heart Failure study ever, to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading Heart Failure medicine. Women who are pregnant must not take entresto. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. If youve had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, dont take entresto. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high potassium in your blood. Tomorrow, tomorrow. When can we do this again, grandpa . Well, how about tomorrow . Ask your doctor about entresto and help make tomorrow possible. At last the time has come, the Golden State Warriors back in action tonight. Larry beal live where fans are amped up. Larry. Reporter theres a game of rockets for the Season Opener but theres also a Service Coming up at 7 15. Weve been squeezing all the staffers trying to get some idea on what the new rings look like. Nobody has seen them. The rings given out in 2015 they were enormous. Six carats, amazing. Ive never wore my rings. I worth them one time i wen to a halloween party. I had five at the time before i game a coach. All five, i was eminem for halloween. The only time ive ever worn them. Ive worn them three times. Its way too big to wear. Its a cool idea but actually executing is not very good. Reporter im sure the new rings will be equally impressive. The warriors are encouraging people to try to get here early because the ring ceremony will be 45 minutes from now about 7 15. Lots more coming up from sports, kevin durant excited to get his ring. And there was an injury that took place in the game earlier in the season. More about that in sports. Abc 7, sports. Im larry beal. The effort is on to save the harvest in the scorched areas of the wine country. Still ahead a look at the grit and determination of wine employees to save the grapes. Detecting whats left in the fire zone. Deputies say some wouldbe looters try to fake their way into areas. Sad thing to more evacuation orders have been lifted in the north bay tonight as containment grow, major fires still threatening homes. The tubbs fire is up to 2 con tame. The atlas fire is 77 contained. At 5 00 tonight residence of partridge road in napa were allowed back home. The residential part of green grove were lifted but others remain. Now an effort to save the grapes. After the wine fire is underway country right now and theres more than bottles of wine at stake. David luey with a look at lively hoods on the line. Reporter it has been a tough time for wineries, they need to maintain tanks for temperatures and formation. Imagery Estate Winery had 2 million of Wine Production when the the fire raced through the area. Its very very critical to the quality of what were doing. Reporter it was burning and located three high capacity generators which he set up. One crisis was solved but another quickly emerged. Road blocks and road closures have prevented truckers from bringing in the remainder of the harvested g

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