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So call now. For the first time were hearing from the man who survived backtoback aviation crashes in florida. First jeff wrights gyrocopter went down in deep mud near tampa. Then the sheriffs helicopter that came to rescue him also went down. Wright posted a video of himself covered in mud after the second crash. He said he didnt want to go in another helicopter. Also sending his appreciation to friends and family. Thank you for the messages. I cant thank you enough. Its been really, really overwhelming. I think youre really great. You see wright there laying down, recovering at home. On the day of the crashes he was flown to safety in a coast guard helicopter despite saying he didnt want to go in one. Hope hell be back on his feet soon. A Washington State mom had just sat down to feed her newborn when she heard a loud bang and her lap was filled with leaves and twigs. It turned out a tree toppled over and crashed onto her house. Amazingly it missed hitting them by just a few feet. Then i just hear like this loud crash to the side and i just see like the roof, like this huge hole just pop into the roof. If i had just been a couple feet over like i would have been hit by debris from the house, and you know, my daughter could have been hit. So i just feel like god was watching over us today. They are both okay, but the house is not. Its been red tagged and its considered too dangerous to enter. Coming up, the teenage boy whos making thousands of dollars a month with sexy whispers. Hes part of a growing phenomenon called the asmr boyfriend. Time can never mend the time can never mend the careless whispers of a good friend this morning were hearing about a movement that takes those careless whispers to a whole new level. All right, its called asmr. Well tell you what exactly that means in just a minute. But there are countless videos on youtube using intimate sounds to trigger a physical response. Take a listen. [ whispering ] i hope i can give you lots of tingles today. [ crunching ] oh my god, i hear this every morning from janai. So you get the idea. This morning were meeting a teenager whos part of the growing number of asmr boyfriends. They are young men, in this case underaged, talking sexy into the mic, with a goal they say of helping women get a better nights sleep. Some critics say its nothing to do with sleep. Heres abcs kalie har kung. [ whispering ] welcome back. Im certainly glad you could join me today. Reporter 17yearold Owen Dennis Riley looks like the perfect boyfriend who says all the right things. [ whispering ] is anything else bothering you . Reporter owen isnt anyones boyfriend, he just plays one on youtube. [ whispering ] anyways, im glad if i was able to help you. Reporter his channel, which has over 500,000 subscribers, is dennis asmr, part of a growing trend of videos known as asmr boyfriend role play. Owen is using the autonomous sensory meridian response, asmr, where certain audiovisuals cause some people to experience a tingling, staticlike sensation on the skin. Those people say the experience is relaxing, sleepinducing. Then adding soothing words from a virtual partner, like owen, in this video called boyfriend sings you to sleep. I felt it from the first embrace i shared with you a lot of people find it difficult to get to sleep sometimes. My videos work as a sound machine for the people that struggle with sleeping. Reporter the videos are made in this makeshift studio under owens bunk bed. With the blessing of his parents. Were always going through the comments looking to see, because it is scary for us. Our kid is out there, and who knows in the world that we live in. I go through the comments and im looking. For the most part they seem to be a great community. We always want him to have integrity wi what he does. Reporter but some experts warn, this type of role playing can be problematic. Theres no data to suggest that what hes doing is effective in any way and or conducive to sleep. He does hit on the whispering, he does integrate brushes and other sounds throughout his videos. But he also has a lot of distracting content that would potentially counterbalance what were going for with asmr, which is to soothe the senses, calm you down. Not be excitatory. Not be stimulating in any way. Reporter especially when the role play can be intense, like this video called jealous boyfriend role play. Hes really again perpetuating this message that you need someone to take care of you in order to selfsoothe. And thats not accurate. In fact, its very problematic. Especially if youre reaching i think a younger audience who maybe doesnt have realistic expectations for relationships or just happen to have them. My videos arent saying every relationship is perfect, and im not trying to be unrealistic with it. Im trying to take the positive elements from that and put it up there. [ whispering ] and ill stay here until you sleep. Our thanks to kaylee. I dont understand, why do you want a boy when you can have a man . Turn off the lights, as teddy says [ whispering ] and light a candle im just going to sit here and eat. Oh, please dont breathe like that. [ whispering ] oh, yeah is this what the story is about . It seems a little creepy, doesnt it . Very much so. [ whispering ] you think so . [ crunching ] eww [ whispering ] this is weird, dont you think . Its weird any chance i get to eat on tv. [ whispering ] i mean, janai, what do you think about this . About the Colonial Penn program. Here to tell you if youre age 50 to 85, and looking to buy Life Insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. What are the three ps . The three ps of Life Insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. A price you can afford, a price that cant increase, and a price that fits your budget. 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It was a celebration of his being officially named the anchor of world news now, america this morning, after months of being d. C. Based. Now im new yorkbased. Guys, it was quite a show, so humbling. All the congratulatory tweets. I felt the love. Im still feeling the love. You guys really sounded off on the flashback, the throwback of my career, on the fun moments we have here on the show. There was one video in particular, you guys just broke records on social media. I think this is the most tweeted about video in world news now history, which i just made up. The majority of you also thought i already had the job, so a surprise there. This reveal, this was the Biggest Surprise here. This was a good one. We were talking about it at my house. Queen bey, i know she was happy. Im sure she was proud. I didnt get a tweet or email or Instagram Post from her, but i could feel also, the star of this was the security guard. Who people said they loved that. They also loved the little sashay. Uhhuh. And the body roll. Your moves were everything. The body roll here on set. Matt, thats matt there. He did incredible. People said they called it all levels of extra. Uhhuh. One person said it was the beyist announcement ever. Accurate. A lot of yall noticed again the body roll, then the security guard. On twitter alison said, best thing i saw all day, all week, all month, do you. Chris said, im frickin hollering, grade a content. Kelly cook said, dear beyonce, im not saying you should hire Kenneth Moton but hes got the steps. Thanks to the new job hes available on weekends but he does have to be in bed like by 6 00 p. M. , please consider. In the meantime, check out his audition tape. There you go. A lot more beyonce. What about kendis giving you a shoutout . Do we name him . We do name him, because he said some nice things. Except not in the video. But he gave the stamp of approval for the video, for the beyonce video. He was there in london showing off, blah, blah, blah. So sweet. That should have been the last time we saw Kendis Gibson on the air no, i dont think so. Since hes on a completely Different Network we wont name. Kendis wished you well in beating his record, he said he cant wait to see what three years on the show, all the fun youll have. And i said i would never want to do that to him, i said he should be the record holder for that. He will hold the record. Thats for sure. Barry mitchell. Our dear barry mitchell. Our polka. He sent me this and i laughed. Moton, putting folks to sleep. This morning on world news now, the military assault now under way. Turkey launches its battle against u. S. Allies, the kurds, after President Trump pulled u. S. Troops from a depart of syria. Republicans and World Leaders slamming the decision. Some concerned it could lead to a resurgence of isis. Also this morning the impeachment standoff. President trump saying he could take his fight to the Supreme Court as his potenti we are followng breaking news right now in the east bay. Theres a vegetation fire burning out of control and right now its forcing evacuations. We want to show you where the fire is burning right now. Its just south of st. Marys college on meryl circle north. This fire was reported around 1 00 or just before then. At last check its burned at least 50 acres. Its zero percent contained. Evacuations for the Sanders Ranch neighborhood. Theres also an Evacuation Center thats been set up at st. Monicas church at 1001 ka mee know pablo. Residents are asked to lock their windows and doors and keep pets on leashes and only get their house. Ems when leaving this tweet is from cal fire. They sent out this tweet saying where this Evacuation Center is. Merill drive. Theyre giving us a sense of how much man power theyre dedicating to the fire. Theyre saying approximately 150 firefighters are committed to fighting this fire. So this is the last update were getting from cal fire. We do know that pg e has shut down power in moraga including in st. Marys college. They say pg e has shut down power in the moraga area including our campus. They said oliver hall will be operational as it will have generation power. Students are asked to take precautions because of the darkness. They gave a link for students to get more information. So we have crews who are headed to that fire to the Evacuation Center at st. Monicas church right now. We wanted to let you know whats going on. There is a vegetation fire that right now is burning out of control. Its forcing evacuations in moraga. We want to check in with mike nicco. He has a current look at what the winds are doing. Hi. I just drove through that area on highway 24 about 15 minutes ago. You couldnt see it from the highway. You couldnt see the orange glow of the fire. Couldnt see the smoke, but that would make sense because it is a very hilly area and also the winds are blowing from north to south which would push all the smoke south of 24 and push it away from 24 and push it away from morinda and lafayette. Moraga is at about 500 feet elevation. I was looking at reporting stations. In the lower elevations the wind fairly quiet. Oakland hills at about 20. I just looked to the southeast of moraga up at about 17 00 feet. The winds are gusting up to 32 Miles Per Hour. So we definitely have some wind rolling through that area. I also noticed when i drove through there, it was a lot darker than normal. I can confirm they are without power. Lets look at the humidity levels. Theyre running extremely low. Around 12 in the oakland hills. Lo lostropis around 16 . The air is bone dry. Theres a red flag warning out for the same area until 5 00 tonight. What were going to continue to see are the winds. We talked about this yesterday at around 3 00 was going to be the height of the critical fire conditions, and thats what were dealing with right now in all these areas in red and also we added the santa cruz mountains. The wind advisory is going to hang around until 3 00. A long way to go until conditions become conducive and easier for the firefighters. What they have working for them this morning is the fact that its so cool out there up in the east bay hills, its mid 50s right now. So the heat is not an issue. Its going to be a very windy and winddriven fire thats going to continue to be the issue. All right. Thank you, mike. If youre just joining us, we are following breaking news in the east bay. A vegetation fire right now is burning out of control. There have been Evacuations Ordered in morago. We want to show you where the fire is burning south of st. Marys college on merrill circle north. The fire was reported just before 1 00 this morning. When we last checked, the fire has burned anywhere between 50 to 60 acres. Its zero percent contained. There have been Evacuations Ordered for People Living in the Sanders Ranch neighborhood. Weve learned theres an Evacuation Center set up at st. Monicas church in morraga. 1001 ka mee know pablo. Residents are asked to lock their windows and doors and keep pets on leashes and only get what is essential when they get ready to leave their homes. Were looking at the response to this. This is a tweet we saw from cal fire. Theyre calling it the merrill fire. In contra costa county, about 50 acres. They have committed about 150 firefighters to try to get this fire under control. This gives us a sense of the man power theyre putting behind the fire to try to make sure it doesnt spread in the residential area. Pg e shut down power in the area. The college says pentagon has shut down power in the moraga area but they said oliver hall will be operational because they have generational power, and they asked student to be cautious because darkness. They gave a link for students to visit if they had more questions or wanted more information. As far as we know the college doesnt appear to be threatened at this time. So were going to keep looking at that just to make sure that everyone there is safe. We have crews headed to the fire and also to that Evacuation Center at st. Monicas church. This is this has always been the concern when we talk about these high winds that weve been having with the red flag warnings. I know drew and mike, you both have been watching this just to see what was going to happen and make sure that Something Like this was on our radar and didnt happen. You cant prevent it, but we always knew this was a risk. Definitely. We knew the heightened fire conditions were going to come in during the overnight hours and catch people off guard. A lot of people are sleeping or a lot of people in moroga are being woken up rudely by the events in the evacuations that are occurring. Im putting the map together to show you where our two closest stations are, and the winds that are blowing in the particular areas. The one to the right of your screen or to the right of moraga, about three miles away the winds are faster at about 1700 feet, but then youve got grizzly pe grizzly peak above the east bay hills running about 15 to 23. The winds are out there. Theyre going to keep feeding this fire with fresh oxygen. Theyre going to keep pushing this fire to the south on its own. But also we know that in canyons that fires will climb the canyon. Its called the chimney effect. And as the hot air rises, it dries the vegetation thats around it up on top of the hills and that creates an even faster ignition for those fuels, if you will, do ignite, and as the wind blows, it acts as an exhaust on your car and vents out the fire and the flame and the i should say the smoke, and just keeps feeding the system. So the system wont choke itself by any means. It would normally be the case in the hills where the air is usually calm during the overnight hours. If you live in a Higher Elevation near the fire or if you live downwind to the south of it, thats where the area that is most susceptible to spot fires developing as the embers are picked up by the winds blowing from northeast to southwest. Thankfully thats not a very densely populated area. But it is not a very easily accessible area also to get to, because theres just not a lot of roads out there in that area. So heres a look at whats going on as far as the winds, and you can see theyre fastest in the Central Valley and across the north way. Thats the way its going to continue to be for the next couple hours. We are in the peak area and the peak time from now through about 8 00 this morning. Maybe 9 00 for the east bay hills. So weve got about five hours of critical fire conditions at just about the height of what they can be this time of year. Thankfully we dont have anything about the 50 Miles Per Hour winds in the north way or with the fires around chico and redding. We have winds that are still very dangerous for what were dealing with in moraga. Thank you for that. Our photographer henry is headed to that area. We have him on the phone. I know youre trying to set up a live shot. Can you tell me what youre seeing right now . Reporter yeah. Im on camino pablo across from the Evacuation Center. All i see right now is a lot of cars that are getting out of here as quickly as they can, and over the church up a hill, you can see a lot of fire vehicles, a lot of cal fire vehicles going up that hill, and theres a glow that you can see. I cant see flames but i can see a glow up on the hill behind it. Its a little bit up the ways. Its not like its hundreds of feet. Its more than that. But its definitely a concern because a lot of cars are trying to get out of here as fast as they can. I can imagine. Describe that area for people who not be familiar. Is it a residential area . A lot of homes . Reporter its residential. Theres a lot of cars getting out of here. They came from homes. Its very twisty, windy to get up here. Its up in a very wooded area from off the 24. Takes a good 10, 15 minutes to get up here. Theyre trying to get out of here as fast as they can. It looks like the church is completely without power. It the church is completely dark. We were thinking act that because we know pg e shut off power in that area as a precaution. Is there anybody at the church . Oh, yeah. Do you see people leaving . Reporter theres people at the church. Theres police here. Theres people that are coming here. Im assuming because theyre cob fused as confused as to whether theyre getting help. I think theyre telling them just get out of here. Well let you work to get the live shot set up. We want to see the pictures of what youre seeing. Thank you for talking to us and sharing what youre seeing. Reporter no problem. We also have another we have another phone call right now with craig. Are you on the line yet, craig . All right. I think we just lost him. Definitely gives you perspective on whats going on out there at the church. Thats the Evacuation Center. That is where officials are telling people to go who have had to leave their homes to be evacuated this morning. What we know is that residents along Sanders Ranch road, meryl drive have been asked to evacuation and go to that church just to be safer, because this fire is zero percent contained. Officials want people to be out of that area to be as safe as they can. Its a vegetation fire forcing evacuations in moraga. We got off the phone with henry. His live shot is up. We want to show you what hes seeing and describing the emergency vehicles going up and down the road there. And you can see for the most part moraga is in the dark. We see a lot of emergency vehicles there. We see cars as he was describing. People are just trying to get out of that area as safely as possible, because fire officials have told them they need to evacuate because this fire is burning out of control. As we told you, this fire is burning just south of st. Marys college. Its on meryl circle north. The fire was reported just before 1 00 this morning. And at last check it was at least 50 to 60 acres that had burned with zero percent containment. This is why were seeing this Police Activity and the firefighters here just trying to make sure that people are safe. They asked people who are living in this residential neighborhood to evacuate as soon as possible. We want to bring mike back in. I know youve been looking at the winds. What are we seeing right now . Winds are increasing in speed throughout the morning. I noticed in my drive in a lot of debris on the roads rolling in. Mainly in the form of twigs and a lot of leaves. No big branches as the winds havent really hit the 45 to 55 Miles Per Hour speeds, at least not in the east bay hills which is what were looking at right here. You can see not a lot of debris on these roads. I did notice how dark it was and how erie it was. You cannot see the fire from 24. Dont try to look that way. You cannot see the smoke, and you probably wont be able to as it blows away. As we look at the live shot, any timeou want to take a look at the graphics, let me know. I have something to show you the critical fire conditions the next couple hours for moraga. Youre going to be dealing with a very hard area to get to. Twolane roads winding through the hills. Speed limits 35 Miles Per Hour max. Been there many times. Been to moraga and know that area is difficult to get through. Here it is on the map. It just has a moderate fire danger, but it doesnt matter. Does it . And lets see how long this fire danger. If you look in the upper right hand corner of your Television Screen or if youre watching us on something else, its in the upper right hand corner. You can see from 3 00 this morning, it keeps going. Were in a moderate to even high fire danger all the way through about 4 00 this afternoon. Weve got about a 12hour window where were going to continue to stay in these critical fire conditions because of the winds that are outside right now and the fact that the humidity level is so low. So dont forget, if you live near this area or this could be a reminder for the rest of us that were still under a red flag warning. A lot of people yesterday are like where is it . What are we doing . Theres no wind out here. We kept pointing to this time is when its most critical and to be prepared. It looks like a lot of those people were as theyre evacuating getting woke up in the middle of the night saying lets go. It probably helps they had everything they needed kind of packed up if they needed any spplies. They knew if not or had them in a central location. Another thing. They had been practicing for an emergency just like this. They had an evacuation drill back in december at the moraga country club. They knew this might be a possibility and they knew kind of what to do in case Something Like this happens. Thats the key. Preparation. When preparation meets action, you know . It always helps. You have that bag by the front door. Have it by the garage door or in your car. Know where your keys are, your phone is, know where your i. D. Is. Know where your important papers are going to be. Have them in that bag or at least in the fireproof safe. Having all that stuff together we talked about makes those critical seconds that you need to get away from this fire more accessible than youre not fumbling around in the dark or trying to find those things right now. Craig is in that area and on the phone with us. Craig, good morning. Reporter good morning. So where exactly are you and what are you seeing . Reporter im on sanders road about the 070 block. Im seeing them going house to house knocking down fires. Theres a fire on the house up the street for about a block or two and a little bit earlier they were calling people to be a little bit earlier what, now . I couldnt hear you. The last part. Here we go. I had a drop. The cell service here is very light. I may drop out. Theyre going house to house telling people to evacuate. The sheriff is going around in their cars with the sirens going. The fire is looking pretty good. Theyre getting a pretty good knock on it but thats just my opinion. I dont see any flames except up the street. Its not as orange and growing as fast as it was earlier. I dont know if youve been able to see this. When theyre going door to door, do you get a sense most people are out already or are some people being woken up for the first time by the officers . Reporter i was spliurprised see nobody was coming out. Theres just a couple that were already out. The other ones either arent hearing or their phones are out. Theres no power in the neighborhood at all. Its totally black. Theyre not getting the message, the reverse calls or theyre not hearing it. I dont think all these people evacuated before i got here. When i arrived fairly quick, there were no cars coming out. Some people may not be heeding the message to get out. Thats just my opinion. Theres still cars in the driveways. So some people are staying. Describe that neighborhood. Are there a lot of homes there, or reporter yeah. Theyre very nice homes. Theyre probably upwards of Million Dollar houses. Its in a very nice club type neighborhood. Gated community. And just a very nice affluent neighborhood. Basically your bedroom community. Very nice place. A lot of vegetation. Thats the problem right there, the vegetation is pretty high and dry. Lots of vegetation there. Were seeing a live shot. We can see a lot of people here kind of just waking up in the middle of the Early Morning trying to figure out what to do. It seems like based on what youre saying thats really the case for a lot of people. Weve also been able to see smoke. Have you seen any flames or are you seeing mostly smoke where you are . Reporter a lot of smoke, but not too many flames anymore. Its not orange behind the houses like it was. Just up the street theres a little bit of orange. Its being knocked down very very low. The fire does a really good job keeping it out of peoples backyards and houses. Ive watched them go house to house in the backyards before they get there. Whats the wind like now . Is it pretty strong there . Has it died down . Reporter its probably 3 to 5 Miles Per Hour. Maybe 10 to 15 miles at times. But im at the bottom of the hill. Fire and police officials, have they said anything to you or have you been getting out of their way, letting them do their jobs . Reporter i interviewed a Public Information officer, he stated to me the fire was between 35 and 40 acres and possibly 20 contained per the air attack overhead or somebody from cdf said that. Thats the preliminary right now, and by the looks of it from what im seeing i have to go with that because the fire burning is not burning crazily like it was earlier. Thats improvement from the last update. They told you 35 to 40 acres and 20 contained . Reporter thats what he said. Thats improvement. 60 acres and zero percent containment. Good to see theyre making improvements on this. Are you close to the evak centers . Reporter i want seen any Evacuation Centers. I know people were directed to go out Sanders Ranch road or the joining road. I didnt overhear where they were telling them to go at this point. We appreciate you being there on the fire lines. We hope youre safe. Well check in with you in a little bit to see if there are anymore updates on how things look. Reporter sounds good. Thank you so much. Mike, i want to check in with you. This is a slight improvement from earlier in the morning. 20 contained. Any percent is an improvement. Were happy about that, and hearing craig talk about the winds there, how he feels like theyre kind of dying down. How does that in the valleys. In the valleys things are quieter than on the hill. Thats the concern. Because the fire is going to climb up the hill and once it climbs up the hill, what happens when it hits the extra oxygen and the faster winds that are blowing at that Higher Elevation which could make it spread even faster. As long as its down deeper in the valley, theres a fighting chance to get to it because thats not the easiest area to get to, and to get it contained before it climbs up the hills. Thats an area that receives a lot of rain come can paired to a lot of other areas in the bay area. You do have a lot of trees. But under the trees you have a lot of dead vegetation right now. A lot of fuel, if you will. So whats going to happen is thats what catches on fire. Eventually that heats up the tree. The tree dries out. The tree catches on fire, and then the wind catches the trees and takes the embers from the trees and moves it downwind and thats how you get more fires started or spot fires. So it is a very unfortunately in this case lush vegetation that is fuel for the fire. So heres a look at the wind forecast. And well use oakland for an for example. 23, and weve seen gusts around 20 to even 35 at the Higher Elevations. Moraga is about 2500 feet. Since they dont have power, were not getting information from the weather station. We have to take weather stations elsewhere. The closest one is grizzly peak. Thats about 18 00 feet near the berkeley campus. And just to the west of danville and san ramon at 1700 feet is where the winds are gusting up to 35 Miles Per Hour. As you see as we head through time, were going to stay pretty quick the next couple hours. Then we quiet down a little bit in the hills and then we pick up again once the sun rises and the atmosphere overturns and the faster winds in the middle parts out atmosphere are dragged down as air rises. You have to replace the rising air. Its the cooler heavy air with the faster winds that are up around 5,000 feet that come down. So right now through about 5 00 we have our worst conditions. Well have a couple hours where the winds will let up just a little bit. And you can see by 9 00, theyll pick up again. And theyll be pretty quick around 20, 25 Miles Per Hour through the afternoon hours and then as we head toward the late afternoon, evening, the winds are going to calm down. Thankfully where the fire is going to spread if it follows the wind pattern is south. And once you get out of morag to the south, theres nothing, its forest. That means more stuff could burn but at least people wont be threatened if this does move south. Got you. Thanks, mike. We were talking about preparation. And we want to tell you the people here, theyve practiced for ts exact emergency. We want to show you video. This is an evacuation drill they had in december of last year at the moraga country club. You can see the drivers leaving the city on highway 24. They used st. Andrews drive as the Evacuation Route. Moraga was the first city to do a drill after the campfire in 2018. You cant help b tnk this helped peoplenhaveo wake up at 1 00 in the morning and figure out how to get out safely, how to protect their homes. A drill like this extremely helpful in this situation where its dark. Theres no power, and you have to figure out how to get to safety and get your family to safety as soon as possible. This evacuation drill playing a part in helping people in this area as they have to evacuate right now this morning. So we want to give you an update. We spoke with craig who was on the scene there at the fire line. And hes told us hes gotten an update from fire officials there that now 35 to 40 acres are burning here in moraga and its 20 contained. Thats an update from what we had originally learned this morning when it was zero percent contained. Were happy to hear that. He said there are it seems like the winds are lower, but in his area, and the concern is that as we go higher the winds might increase, so mike has been tracking that to let us know what impact that might have on fire officials as they try to get the fire under control and protect peoples homes. We are live here. We want to show you this video. This is of police in that area. Craig also told us that police and fire officials were going door to door knocking on peoples doors, trying to let them know that they needed to get out. That they needed to evacuate because of the this fire. He kind of told us some people had no idea. Pg e did these preemptive fire shutoffs so a lot of people are in the dark. We dont know what the situation might be with their phones or them being able to get alerts or the calling systems. So they were really dependent upon officials to knock on their doors and tell them you need to get out of your house right now. Grab your things and go. He said there was still some cars in the driveway. Some people were we saw earlier just in their pajamas trying to figure things out. So this is really this is really tough for a lot of people because of these the Power Outages that are going on. And also because of the time. You know, its 1 00 in the morning. You can see this guy here talking to police trying to figure out probably exactly what to do, where to go next. We do know that people who have been asked to evacuate do have somewhere to go. They have set up a site for people to go. Its an Evacuation Center at st. Monicas church. The address is 1001 camino pablo. This is for residents along Sanders Ranch road. Also along meryl drive and harrington froroad. Those people are being asked to evacuate immediately. This woman right here is walking with her dog in the area. We have other people here who are talking to fire and police officials. Craig telling us this is a residential neighborhood. Nice homes here where people are trying to just get their things together and get to safety as soon as possible, really. Again the only way out is to go north. Really . Yeah. You cant go south. In looking at it yrvegs thats good. Because the fire will possibly move to the south. The smoke will move south while everybody else is running away to the north trying to get to highway 24 and trying to get out that way. I think thats the only way to get out of moraga is to head north. Im glad they did that drill because they know where to go especially in the early morn right now. You kind of have to be a little bit of sense of this is my plan. This is the Evacuation Route. This is what i need to do, and look agent this live video, it looks like people are mobilizing. Theyre in their vehicles. Police and fire officials navigating this, letting people know where to go. And hopefully that evacuation is drill they did in december of last year is really helping people and having a better sense ofhat to do. Its nice to see them moving. Thats been the problem with our other fires. So any people cloghe roads or they left too late or they all tried to leave at the same time. There was only one way to get out. They were stuck and not moving. You could see the cars were moving. Moraga is about 16,000. It has a couple different arteries to get out to the north toward highway 24. The problem is you saw there, its just so dark. And its already dark in moraga. Its up in the hills. Theres lafayette around. A lot of that light from those moraga because the mountains or hills block it. Now they dont have power. Its even darker than it normally would be. So trying to get around in the rk and not knowing what youre doing and youre half asleep would be much worse than the fact that they had 16,000 people and they did that drill. Very surprised to hear that, but very happy to hear that that did happen, and it looks like its working. Yeah. I know we had a tweet up. Maybe we can bring it back up, that picture. Its really interesting. This woman was tweeting out about how she was able to get out. She said the meryl fire, im happy to be safe. I left meryl circle with the doggies im sitting for. She said she left around 1 10. That lets you know how quickly she got it together and got out of there. Were getting reports about this fire that was reported just before 1 00. 12 54 is apparently the first reports of the fire. She said she left around 1 10. 15 minutes, out of the house. Because a neighbor knocked on her door. And i think thats so important, because it shows you its really about Community Coming together and hey, letting people know this is whats going on. You have to get out of here. And so you have neighbors knocking on doors so people can get evacuated and go somewhere safely like she did. And then craig telling us that you have police going door to door knocking on peoples doors and letting them know that they have to get out. As we mentioned, pg e proactively shut off power in that area. People are in the dark. Im not sure that everyone has the phone alerts and systems they would normally in place in a situation like this. People are really dependent on people coming and telling them whats going on like this woman on their neighborhood. This video is from december of 2018. And this is an evacuation drill. Okay. That people did back then. So basically what they did is they held an Evacuation Route headed to highway 24. They used st. Andrews drive, and it just gave people an idea of what to do in case they needed to evacuate. This is so important, because right now its dark. Its in the middle of the morning. People are probably half asleep, and so having an idea of what a to do is so helpful. We want to toss it to jabina who just got to the scene at the Evacuation Center. Good morning. What are you seeing right now . Reporter hi. Good morning. I just arrived here and it took a very long time to get down canyon road and coming up pablo where the Evacuation Center is. Its dark. There are lights flashing. Some intersections there arent any lights at all or blockages as well. You can see the Police Officers in the front escorting people, explain where they need to go. There are crowds all through the parking lot. People arriving. Im seeing dogs. Im seeing people in their pajamas. As i pulled up here. If we take a look around here, walk a little further into the parking lot, you can see how packed it is. There are dozens of cars here. I do have some information that we received from the fire department. They are asking specifically for people that live on Sanders Ranch road to leave the area at this point. We have not gotten much word on if there are other streets that need to be evacuated as well. At 2 44 this morning there were currently 30 acres burning in the area. Again, now that were getting closer in the parking lot here, you can see that people are arriving. Sanding outside in their jackets. There are people sitting in their cars as well. Its a bit unclear what is going to happen from here. It also doesnt look like at this point that anyone is inside the building at this address where i am. People at this point are collecting in the parking lot. I just arrived here about a minute ago. So that is about what ive gathered at this point. So youre at st. Monicas. Right . Reporter yes. Yes. Yes. Gotcha. Earlier when we checked in with henry he said it looked like the church was still out of power. Is that what youre seeing. Everything is still in the dark there . Do theyave a generator . Are you able to tell . Reporter i believe what im hearing from you is that the church does not have power and the answer is yes, you can see the dark building over there as well. The power is completely out here. As soon as i entered moraga you couldnt see anything. Its dark on the roadways. People evacuating from their homes, it is quite difficult to make your way through the streets here. There are a lot of people that are just a bit confused right now and arent clear on whats going on. Im going to see if we might be able to see neighbors to talk to us in a moment. Good morning. Good morning. Reporter did you all evacuate your homes this morning . We did. Just about 20 minutes ago. Reporter can you tell me what happened when you left your house this morning . Somebody was pounding on the door, and asked us to leave. And we said how much time do we have . They said you have time. So we just take our time and pack everything we think is important. And then they asked us to park over here. But now its good news. Now they say that the fire is contained. We saw the firefighters. Its surrounded by the firefighters. Thats what i heard. Reporter thats great news. About how far away do you live from here . About one mile. Yeah. We are just behind a School Across from Sanders Ranch. Reporter do you have power at your home . No power right now. Reporter how long has the power been out at your home . Not very long. Since 11 00 p. M. A few hours. Reporter was this something you all feared when you learned pg e was going to be cutting the power . Was there any thought there could potentially be a fire . Very mostly. You know, i thought, you know, maybe the Weather Forecast was wrong. Thats what i thought. We didnt see any wind in moraga. But this fire came out of nowhere. I dont know. Were still wonders right now. Im trying to find somebody to talk to right now. Reporter did you see anything . Did you see smoke, flames, any glow . No. Did you see any fires . Yeah, i did. You saw fires . Reporter sir, would you like to tell us what you saw this morning . What did you see . Im at the end of sanders drive up here, and when they got me out of the house since i was leaving, i saw smoke and i saw the sky was red toward st. Marys. And red from the flames. And i didnt really stop to see anything else after that. I came down here, and they just told us that they have firefighters all around the fire, but its not yet contained. Okay. I have my fingers crossed. My house is the last one at the end of sanders drive. Reporter wow. Thats the main street that theyre saying needs to leave the area. Yeah. Reporter okay. Now, when you evacuated your home this morning, did you leave on your own or did someone come and wake you up . They woke me up. Thats a good question. Our neighbors car is still parked there. I need to ask the police whether i should wake them up. I see they have two young kids. Yeah. They were going door to door and pounding on every door until they got some response from people inside. Reporter was it difficult to get out because of the outage . Were people able to see . I had a hard time getting here because of how dark it was. I know the area. So it wasnt too hard. We dont have very many street lights in the area, but it wasnt difficult to get down here. Mainly because i know the back streets. Reporter and your power went out last night as well . Yeah. Mine went out at about 11 00. When i looked up it was 11 03 when everything shut down. And theyre saying that the fire started at 1 00. So that was two hours after the power went out. So theres not much of a relationship except it makes life difficult for people evacuatiing and people who want to fight the fire. Reporter let me ask you this. You mentioned that about the power being turned off and there was still a fire. I know a lot of people are very frustrated about pg e cutting the power. We see that there was still a fire anyway. Do you have any feelings towards that . No. Except it at least so far it doesnt seem to connect to anything that pg e is doing. I kind of like to know how a fire starts two hours after all the power in the area goes out. Somebody having some fun or smoking a cigarette or Something Like that . Im not sure. But as far as pg e and the power outage, pg e is not one of my Favorite Companies these days. My neighbor works for pg e. Reporter oh, no. I think there are many californians that feel similarly. Im more upset at the executives than i am at the people who work for the company. The people who work for the company do a good job, but the executives as far as i can see, were more interested in paying dividends to shareholders and increasing executive salaries than they were about spending money on safety. Reporter what have officers and firefighters told you since youve been at the Evacuation Center . The power is out. I know no one can go inside. The only thing theyve told us is that well, they already said about it being contained and we cant go back in. Reporter so no eta on when youll be able to reenter your homes . Nope. Until further notice. Yeah. Any Health Issues . It seems like youre taking oxygen . I have oxygen, and i got sleep apnea, and so i was sleeping in a chair, so i didnt have to lay flat which is when i have problems breathing with my apn apnea, and it was kind of funny, because all of a sudden youre woken up and theres this some nut is pounding on the door, and i got there. I saw the red lights, and thats when they told me. And i got myself some oxygen, and so i would have supplies and then came down here. I think that was the first car in the parking lot down here. Reporter how long have you been here . 20 minutes. Half an hour or so. Reporter half hour. Okay. Im glad youll youre all safe. I just have some in my bag. Thats all i need. Reporter thank you for talking with us. Im glad youre okay and hopefully everyones homes are i left the house about 2 00. Reporter 2 00 this morning . Yeah. Reporter and its probably 3 45. Time goes fast when youre having fun. Reporter your version of fun, maybe. Im glad you all are so all right this morning. Thank you both. Thank you for talking with us. Thank you. Reporter you get an idea of what people are going through out here in the parking lot. It looks like a lot of people have retrieved into their cars. I will send it back to you and well see if we can get more information. Thank you so much. Glad to see that people are trying to make the best of the situation. A really tough situation trying to evacuate their homes in the middle of the morning. And so glad to see that so many people are okay. We also want to go live to amy on Sanders Ranch road. People had to evacuate there. What are you seeing . Reporter we have an update for you on the fire. Joining me live right now is dennis rains with the fire department. Dennis, what can you tell us about this fire and the emergency right now . It sounds like you guys have knocked it down pretty good . Firefighters are doing a great job. The fire was reported before 1 00 a. M. There are about 150 people on the line right now. The fire is about 60 acres. The homes were evacuated. So far that we know of theres been no structure damage and no injuries. Were going to keep working this until the sun comes up and see where we are. Right now its about 60 contained. Is it forward progressing, raging or is it pretty much tamped down . Well, optimistically im going to say its looking really good out here. The fire is knocked down. I think we have pretty much firefighters and hose around the fire, but with the winds and the extreme fire weather conditions that we have, were going to watch this until the sun comes up and keep working the line. Reporter would you mind expanding on that . The area doesnt have power because of the fire conditions. What is the weather like for you right now . Pg e did a precautionary power shut off. None of the homes here have power. The street lights are out. Were working hard with our head lamps and engine lights to continue to put water on this fire. Reporter talk to us about the people. About how many people did you evacuate . The active evacuations have stopped. Were asking people to stay out of the area until we can kind of get some things more secure, and make sure that its safe for them to come back. One thing ill say is that the residents that wre here when they were asked to evacuate, did heed the order and that was a great help to our fire crews to be able to get in unimpeded and do their job working for the fire line. Reporter and for someone who is possibly in the area watching this, can you give us an idea on what streets . Its primarily meryl circle and Sanders Ranch drive and i believe there were evacuations on the top of ulta mesa. They we reporter anything else you wanted to get anymore information you wanted to get out there . Underscore the importance of doing Vegetation Management around homes. This fire did have the potential for spotting. Luckily that didnt happen, but as weo through the rest of the season, its important that everybody manages the vegetatio. Can you give us an idea of where this is burning . Is it a big park . A big football field . Someones backyard . Help us understand whats burning. Sanders ranch was part of an old kalgt ranch. The area behind it is currently being grazed. This is grazed grassland with some canyons with brush in it. Not very much. Primarily gasland is burning. Reporter is it private property . Yes. Someones private property, but big open space. How close is it to a home roughly . The fire burned down the hill to really peoples backyards here in moraga. Reporter thats scary. Yeah. But firefighters were waiting in the backyards with charged hose lines. It was a lot safe tore stay and let the fire back down to them than to lay hose up the hill. In some cases we came down from the top. And theres a bulldozer working too. Reporter did the power outage impact your evacuation at all . Not that i know of. That was handled by the Police Department and what i heard is people were very cooperative. Reporter was it easy to get them up . Were they stumbling around . No lights. I helped one elderly couple get in the car at the last minute the lady said oh, i forgot my wallet. She had to go in the house. It was a little confusing, but i think people get the idea that when theyre asked to evacuate, its important they do so. Reporter theyre doing it with flashlights this time, adding another element. They are. Emergency preparedness is what its all about these days. Reporter okay. Thank you so much for that great briefing and for all the hard work. It sounds like this one is we arent in panic mode. I think when the sun comes up things will be looking good. Reporter love to hear that. We appreciate you. It sounds like this situation is calming down a bit. Everyone is still on alert. Still want to stay informed. We will stay here on the scene and bring you updates as we have them. Back to you. All right. Thank you for that update. We want to show you some new video that weve gotten of the flames. Can you imagine this is really scary to look at. Just hearing from that fire official he said the flames burned down to peoples backyards. So thats why firefighters he said were in place to make sure that these flames did not spread. Its amazing to look at this fire video now and then to hear him say he feels like things are going to be okay once the sun comes up and theyre 60 contained. Were so happy to hear this. You can only imagine if youre in the neighborhood and seeing the flames, you know, behind your home and thats where people in moraga dealt with, the fire official telling us this is a fire that is mostly grazed grassland that was burning as you can see here. Its on private property. And it burned all the way down to peoples backyards. And so thats why they were going door to door around 1 00 this morning. You can see neighbors honking trying to make sure people get up and get out. Because there is fire and flames coming to peoples backyard. This is video from earlier this morning showing you how close the flames got to peoples homes. So so happy that amy was able to speak with the fire chief here to let us know that he feels like when the sun comes up things will be so much better and now this fire is 50 to 60 contained. And drew is over here in our weather center. Youve been looking at the winds. What do you make of just kind of what youre seeing in the progress . Yes. We are watching the winds. The winds in the area are pretty light. Thats good, mike . Definitely at the lower elevations its light. When i drove through there gusts were moving from north to south across, and you can feel them tug at the car a little bit. This was about an hour and a half ago when i was driving through this, about 2 00. Almost two hours ago. But yeah, when you get down in the valleys, its much quieter. This has been a very ridge top drifing wind event. And its no surprise that this fire developed on the south side of a hill that separates that subdivision from st. Marys college. And that the winds since it was blowing north to south helped push the fire down the hill to the south towards that particular subdivision, and it was nice to hear those guys were lined up there and ready and waiting for it coming at them. Usually the fire will move the other way, up the mountains. This one had a different twist to it. Because it was coming down thanks to the winds pushing it. It sounds like none of the embers jumped over to the ther a hill on the other side of that subdivision. It sounds like none of the embers jumped over there because the winds are a little bit calmer down in the valley than in the ridge top. If this thing had gone up the mountain, we could have had a more dangerous situation. Because thats where the faster 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour winds are. Moraga is a town of about 16,000. Because it does not have power, we cannot get specific weather data from that. But from around the areas 17 00 to 1800 feet the winds are gusting up to 25 Miles Per Hour. The winds are out there, but thankfully this fire was deep into the canyon and it didnt get to touch the winds. And they didnt exacerbate the problem which they could have had the fire claimed up the mountains. For sure. Grateful to hear the fire chief talking about the progress theyve been able to make, especially when you see the video of what the fire looked like when it started around 1 00 this morning. Pretty tough to imagine waking up and looking out of the back door and seeing flames so close to peoples backyards, but the fire chief says thats what they were dealing with. Thats why police and firemen were going door to door, new yorking on peoples doors, letting them know they had to evacuate and they were telling people they needed to go to an Evacuation Center set up at st. Monicas church at 1 001 camino pablo. Were live there. We were talking with people earlier this morning. You have someone else here who had to evacuate. Right . Reporter yes. Good morning. Im Still Standing in the parking lot of the st. Monica church with lynn that i just met a moment ago. Lynn, tell me what you heard. What happened this morning . First of all i got the phone call. I walked out my front door. And said i dont smell smoke. I dont see any flames. Then i walked a little part down the driveway and the whole ridge was on fire. So that was time to go back in, get my 92yearold mother, get in the car, get the cat, and get out. What i felt was is this really happening to me again . Im sorry. Not again. Is it really happening to me. And that was about it. But it does the first sound i heard was a sound like the freight train. It does. The fire is gathering so much air, i guess, and the weed, the weeds, crispy. So reporter wow. How is your mother . You said your 92yearold mother you had to help get out of the house. How is she . Where is she right now . Shes in the car. We have our walker with us. I didnt dress her. She has her shoes, and shes fine. I have found another lady from the neighborhood who is sitting in the car talking to her. That worked very well. Reporter you said you got the call. Who called you this morning . I honestly dont know. It was a recorded voice, and it just said fire evacuate now. Reporter what street do you live on . Were up on Sanders Ridge road right at the top. Reporter and you didnt have power this morning either . Thawas the worst part. I kept flipping on lights trying to get things. The other thing i have learned and i learned this yesterday because i didnt know how many battery operated radios and phones and et cetera that i have. And im going to get those all together now to make sure i have them. The flashlights were no problem. Talking to people here about things that they grabbed, many grabbed photographs, hard drives, very interesting one lady grabbed a log of all the flights shes taken in her life because she flies a lot, and she gets the captain to sign every time. It was kind of a log of her life. Reporter wow. I thought it was interesting. Reporter you all gathered your things this morning as though you were not going to come back or could potentially lose everything . We did. Everybody up there did. Reporter let me ask you this. Weve been talking a lot with people in the parking lot about pg e cutting the power. A fire has started anyway. Do you sense that theres any relationship . What are your feelings about pg e doing this . Do you think there is any sort of residual impact in some kind of way . I cant say that i think of pg e as the villian right now. Simply because it seems to me that somebody long ago made the decision to not cut off the power because of the chaos that it is creating. And knowing that they could be that they could go bankrupt, could be sued. And so i thought that was a pretty good thought on their part. As far as im concerned, theyre doing everything they can and theyre learning as we are, and theyre taking care of business. Reporter lynn, have the firefighters or Police Officer given you information as to when you can get back to your home . They have not. Only i think i heard the policeman say large drive residents can go back on large, but Sanders Ranch is still full of fire trucks and hoses, and well just get in the way. Reporter im glad youre all right this morning and your mother as well. Thats a difficult thing to do by yourself. And especially in the dark. Yeah. Reporter i cant imagine, lynn. Thank you so much. Thank you. Reporter its cold out here, too. I see you. It is. Well have good attitudes despite everything. Were going to keep Walking Around the parking lot and bringing you more residents in the area. Thank you. She is live at the Evacuation Center at st. Monicas a place where people who have been asked to evacuate can go. Police and fire officials are telling them to go there. Right now we want to check in with our weather team. Right now you can see how many counties at this point are under these red flag warnings. There is a high fire danger, and really, the concern is about the wind. Yeah. Thats right. You can see how many people are under this red flag warning. And we are in this through the evening. This will continue until 5 00 later on today. Were still seeing that threat of winds out of the north, northwest. I do want to show you what is happening in our hills right now. The latest, this is about above 1000 feet. The winds are racing out of the north. Knoxville creek close to 40. Oakland hills weve seen winds coming out of the north at about 24 Miles Per Hour. The same thing right now along the coastline. The winds are very active. And it is bringing in some dryer air. You look at the humidity across the region, and it is really low right now. And that the threat we have. We have the really dry winds out of the north bringing in the dry air. Humidity is down to the teens right now in many of our Higher Elevations. Weve been watching there through the overnight hours. Thats the biggest threat. Were afraid the winds will continue to drag in the dry air. I think theres a false sense of security because the winds arent as fast in the valleys. Most of us live in the valleys. We dont live on the mountain tops. Weve shown thats where the fires are going to start. Even if they start on the top of a mountain, they could descend into the valleys where everybody lives. I think because not in my neighborhood kind of mentally, its not windy. You live in the valley. Right now winds are faster in the Higher Elevations. Dont let that lull you into a false sense of security that im safe. Because the winds are calm where i am. But the winds can be very much faster if you go up 1,000 feet. We have huge elevation changes in that area. Moraga is at about 500 feet in the valley. The mountains and hills around it are 1500 to nearly 2000 feet are the winds are pushing 25 to 30 and even 40 Miles Per Hour. Thats why you need to be prepared and have everything ready to go in case anything like this happens and youre woke up in the middle of the night and told to go. It seems like the folks in moraga knew this was a heightened fire danger. They know they have to be active and get out when they can. Thats not too many ways to get in and out. The ways are not easy. Theyre windy streets. The speed limits are 35 Miles Per Hour. Youre not going to evacuate quickly. As long as you you cant move quickly on the roads as far as you being quickly and your actions to get i know you will be watching those winds. Reggie is joining us now. Were following breaking news in the east bay. This is a vegetation fires that been burning, threatening homes in moraga. People have been forced to evacuate. We spoke with the fire chief, he thinks its mostly contained, anywhere from 50 to 60 contained at this point. He thinks once the sun comes up everything will be okay. Its scary to see those flames and people having to evacuate early in the morning when they dont have the power because of the shutoffs pg e has been performing. These are the winds that pg e has been warning us about. There is danger regardlesarning. There is danger regardless whether the power is on or off. We have a couple of reporters at the scene about a mile away from each other including at the Evacuation Center and we have our Amy Hollyfield who has been talking to some peeld wople who forced out of their homes earlier. Good morning. We just asked the fire officials if they would take us