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KNTV Today In The Bay October 10, 2017

Acres scorched in the atlas fire near napa. Lets turn to anser hassan at Carson Newman high school, one of the buildings devastated by that fire. Reporter they say 50 of the classrooms have been destroyed. Lets show you one right here. This is the roof that collapsed on to this. If we look on this side, another portable. What you are seeing burned out, chairs and benches. Here are before and after pictures of the school, which gives you an idea of how badly and how much of the campus has been destroyed. This is a small campus. This is a private school. The schools principal estimates up to 18 of the 35 classrooms have been destroyed. That includes the library, main office and portable classrooms. The challenge over the next few days will be to determine how much of the school is usable and to figure out where the rest of the students will go for class. In a statement, they said we are learning the impact of this devastating fire in our community. I urge everyone to make safety their top priority. You can see live pictures. This is one of the classrooms that was destroyed. Looks like the roof collapsed half way on the back end of the room. Still, fully intact here on the front end. Some of the rival schools have been tweeting messages of support, encouragement for many students. Marcus, homecoming was set to come up. Looks like that will be pushed back as well. Live in santa rosa, anser hassan, today in the bay. A lot of things will change for people. Thank you. There are two major evacuation zones in sonoma. One is a big section of santa rosa, including roanoke park and the neighboring forestville. That borders Mark West Springs road to the north and includes Fountain Grove parkway in Montecito Heights area. A separate Evacuation Order east of annendale state park. Two evacuations in Sonoma County alone. According to the Emergency Management division, the majority have space available. Cloverdale citrus fair, Sonoma Valley high school, petaluma and healdsburg and the fairgrounds. We have that list at www. Nbcbayarea. Com. Pete suratos is where there are new evacuations coming up. Pete . Reporter yeah, thats right, marcus. We are here in fairfield in Solano County at the costco off green valley road. As i mentioned, essentially, you had different Law Enforcement meeting in this area before they carried out the evacuations, telling people to evacuate in this area. Now, what i want to do is pull up a map showing where those evacuations took place. They evacuated people just north of rockville road and upper and west part of green valley road. Thats the main area where they were carrying out those evacuations. They were doing that last night, going doortodoor, telling them to leave the area. The fire is on the border of napa and Solano County. That is at the ridge area. At the top of the show, we showed that orange glow from the ridge area. That is where that fire is. Thats a concern that it could go over that ridge and affect folks on this side. Right now, they are doing structure protection at valley end lane. Thats where we showed where that orange glow is, the fire on the napa county side and could jump to this side. When it comes to shelters, folks are told to go to Solano Community college. If thats an issue, go to allen whit parks an Aquatics Center where they have beds set up to take care of folks if theres issues getting into the Solano Community college in fairfield. Well keep you uptodate if there are changes as far as evacuations go and where we are going to keep an eye on the wind conditions here. That could be an issue as far as the fire jumping over the ridge. Live in fairfield, pete suratos for today in the bay. Thanks, pete. We want to tell you about the school closers. Suisun valley k8. Napa valley, santa rosa schools are state. Sonoma state university. Napa Valley College canceled class zs, however the gym is used in the evacuation. These are some of the closures. The full list is on our website, www. Nbcbayarea. Com. If you have large animals and need a place to take them, there are several options for you. Santa rosa fairgrounds, sonomamarin fairgrounds, cloverdale citrus fair and napa county fairgrounds. We have new video in to share with you this morning. A horse being evacuated in Solano County overnight, one of many. This is a parking lot where a woman took her horse while waiting for a horse trailer to pick her up and go to a different location. The horse is stressed because of all the activity, understandably, in the area. The activity, part of that was the wind we saw throughout the day yesterday. Definitely a different scene today, kari. More calm, which is helping with the fight of the fire. Right. Right now at 5 06 we are tracking those wind speeds that calmed down significantly. Right now, at 36 miles an hour and calm in many spots. As we go through the day, the winds coming out of the eastnortheast, blowing the smoke to marin county and offshore. Still an offshore breeze today. Our humidity is much higher. That also helps as the humidity levels have increased to 5060 . Even some 70 of readings there, compared to the very dry air we had yesterday, the relative humidity was in the teens. As we check out the temperature trend for today, as firefighters try to get containment on some of those fires, here is a look at the temperature trend for napa county. Starts out nice and cool, low 60s by 9 00 and warming up into the low 80s today. Once again, those winds lower and the humidity higher. That is working in our favor as we head to mike now, a new closure for santa rosa. The fire fight, the big picture showing closures for alice peak and a new portion of highway 12, sonoma high way in santa rosa. They closed highway 12 heading past. That is because of fires as well. The fires continue to shift. I know we are talking highway 12 itself, but remember, we have all these neighborhoods that continue to have Traffic Control. Avoid the area if you can at all. We need to let the emergency crews do their work. Highway 37 and highway 101 past the same area are open. Because of all the fire related activity, watch the Traffic Control flow through the area if you have to go there and watch for any signs alerting to changes. Back to you. Good advice, mike. Thank you. We will continue breaking News Coverage of the wildfires burning in the north bay after the break. Head to our website, www. Nbcbayarea. Com. Well have all the updates as well as those evacuations and closures. Well be back on air, right after the break. North bay wildfires let s show you some video of te hilton hotel in santa rosa continuing coverage of the north bay wildfires. Lets show you video of the hilton hotel in santa rosa. We have been reporting about the hotel burnings since yesterday. This is video from overnight. The hotel burned for hours when firefighters say they had to move on because there was no chance of saving it. The situation has been dire. Firefighters had to set up a command post at the kmart parking lot on the west side of highway 101. The fire, which was burning on the east side jumped six lanes of the freeway, heading straight for the command center. Here is what one firefighter told us. The kmart parking lot. The pizza parlor is on fire. Kmart is like we have to get out of here. Theres too much wind. Too much fire. The neighborhood behind the hilton hotel, also destroyed. We are following breaking news out of san leandro where an amber alert has been issued to find a young girl. Bob redell is live to explain what happened here. Bob . Reporter good morning to you, marcus and laura. This appears to be the second time this year that this mother has abducted her daughter. Just before 12 30 of just after 12 30 this morning, chp issued an amber alert on behalf of the Sheriffs Office. This amber alert to be on the look outfor Laquita Davis and on the lookout for her daugt 67yearold daughter, malayia. She believes she is in Alameda County or contra costa county. Malayia davisbooker, a 6yearold africanamerican girl, last seen wearing a long sleeved navy blue and red dress. That is the last she was wearing when she was taken. Her mother is Laquita Davis, africanamerican, 34 years old. She took her daughter in midjuly from her grandmother in berkeley. At the time, davis was homeless and did not have legal custody of her daughter. Reporting live in san leandro, bob redell, today in the bay. Thank you, bob. 5 14 right now. Back to the wildfire coverage this morning. Images into the news room from the goldengate chp. A photo from skyline park in napa county. Helicopters were transitioning from rescue mode throughout the north bay. You can see what they had to deal with. The thick smoke from the fires that continue to burn. When you see that there, one thing you can say today is there is some relief when you think about good news. Its pretty good today, kari, when we were talking about fighting those conditions. Right. The humidity has gone up. The winds have gone down. That is a definite plus as we start out this morning. It will still be very smokey today in the north bay. Dangerous air quality. So, if you are going to be out there, please limit your time outside. Even in the east bay peninsula, south bay, San Francisco is going to be healthy. Variable wind and, at times, there will be smoke drifting by. Getting outside, once again, we advise you to limit your outdoor time. Turn your airconditioning on recirculate, if you can. Wear a breathing mask if you have to go outside. If you feel nausea or coughing, seek medical attention. We have this information on www. Nbcbayarea. Com. Lets look at what we are seeing as far as the wildfire this morning. We have new video coming in and we are going to continue to monitor those situations. Looking at San Francisco this morning, we are seeing a little bit of that smoke drifting by. So, thats going to be an issue. Looks all clear as we get a view of san jose. You may be smelling little of that. We were out yesterday evening and could smell the smoke in the south bay. We start out with temperatures on the cool side for much of the bay area. In the mid to upper 50s, even upper 40s in the north bay with high temperatures this afternoon in santa rosa, to 81 degrees. Well be up to 79 degrees in napa. Oakland, 75 degrees and lower 80s from concord to livermore as well as morgan hill and san jose. San francisco, expect a high of 70 degrees. The seven day forecast for the north bay. The winds calming down today. The smoke still will be very thick in the air. Then, by tomorrow, we will have a weak cold front moving in that will increase the wind. That will need to be monitored. The winds coming in at 1020 miles an hour, then we will have the winds calming down just a bit for thursday and friday. The winds are expected to increase saturday and sunday. If we dont have major containment by then, we may have more issues with more spreading wildfires into the weekend. For San Francisco, still smokey today. Temperatures up to 70 degrees. Cooler for the end of the week, then warming up a few degrees, in time for the weekend. Inland areas, highs low 80s today and mid70s for the rest of the week. Its going to be cooler than normal, then slightly warmer weekend ahead. Well continue to monitor those wind speeds this morning. Mike is tracking mass transit. A number of agencies in the north bay because of the fire related activity. Sonoma county transit has no changes. Looking toward smart train, limited service, no charge for the trains. They go along 101. Ill show you that in a second. Great information. We have Unlimited Service for the area through santa rosa. All the fire related activity, dont plan on it being on a regular schedule. We have off ramps closed as we continue with the fire activity off the freeway. Over here, highway 37 has remained open. Thats good news. Fire activity for the sears point fire. Is not enough to keep it closed. 128 and 121, 128 as well, closures there. We know about the ongoing situations. Thats the reason for traffic disruptions in that area. As the fire starts to shift, we are watching smoke, but no closures. Thats good news, we continue to track. Over here, we have the closure for highway 101. Walker road, a closure because this redwood complex fire that gets lost in the shuffle. There is a closure for highway 101 continuing since yesterday. That is a big deal up there. Over here, a big deal, the bay bridge as well. Anywhere south of the fires we showed you are showing a nice, easy drive. Its tuesday. The build is on in the cash lanes. We havent forgotten about the regular commute. That is going on. So far, no disruptions. Back to you. Lets hope at least that cooperates. We have been following the fires. Its so hard to tell you lives were lost. Ten confirmed deaths, so far. Two in napa county. An elderly cupping were just unable to escape. This is a picture of 100yearold charles and his 98yearold wife, sarah. She was wheelchair bound. They had a caretaker, but she was barely able to get herself out in time, and not able to help the couple get out. The couples son spoke to our jodi hernandez. The caregiver called and said there was fire ever where. The guys out on the street. Before she knew it, the roof was caving in. It was very fast. Very fast. You know, she went down to get my father and all the windows started to explode. Smoke and heat and all that everywhere. Just couldnt find him. Charles is a world war ii veteran, loved his wife more than anything. His son finds peace knowing they died together. We will continue with this breaking News Coverage of the wildfires burning in the north bay after the break. Head to our website, www. Nbcbayarea. Com. There, you can find updates. We have those evacuations and closures posted. Well be right back. As we continue to follow the wildfires burning in the north bay, we want to get updated on whats going on in certain areas. We have scott alonzo on the phone with us, the spokesperson with Sonoma County. Good morning to you. Caller thanks for having me. Several Evacuation Centers are open. A few are at capacity . Caller thats right. 28 Evacuation Centers in the county, 24 are open and four are at capacity. Some are available for animals as well. Thats good for people to know. Of course they want to take those Little Family members with them as well. I would imagine you are prepared for the long haul. So many people that live outside of the area, but still here in the bay area, we want to know what we can do to help. What do you suggest . Caller yeah, thanks. A lot of folks are calling to volunteer. Register online with the american red cross. The red cross is organizing all volunteer efforts for, not only in this county, but napa and solano counties impacted by the fires. Have you all thought about, i know this is a daytoday process because things change every day, how long will you keep the Evacuation Centers open . Caller i havent heard any long term, but i imagine for a few days, absolutely. We have fires burning. Its a tough one. Caller correction. At least seven fires impacted the county. Some fires are still ongoing. Emergency personnel are up in the field responding. They are doing a great job. We are asking folks to stay put if they are in a safe place and to stay off the road to ensure our Emergency Personnel have complete access responding on the scene. If you are in a safe place, stay inside with all the smoke. There are mandatory Evacuation Orders in effect. Caller yeah, there are multiple Evacuation Orders in effect throughout santa rosa, forestville, up to cloverdale. Yes, there are multiple areas under mandatory evacuation and we are asking the public if that was issued where they live to leave immediately and not return until that order has been lifted. Has there been anything you have seen or a pattern that you want to get the word out to people to be mindful of something or to remind them of things to do . Caller yeah, i think its really to be prepared in case of any emergency. Have a togo bag, water, essential documents and medication with you. If you need to leave immediately and make sure that you let your relatives know if you cant, in advance. We are getting calls for missing person reports, asking updates where their loved ones are. A lot of times, they may not have had a chance to notify anybody if they left. What do you tell people . Is there a central call line . You keep track of people coming to shelters, right . Caller yeah. What happens is we have a public hot line, 7075653856. Anyone can file a missing person report. We are getting calls from all over the country looking for relatives. Our Sheriffs Office and deputies will investigate. Lets hope they are reunited. Theres been spotty cell service. Thank you very much. We know you are so busy. We appreciate taking the time. Caller yes, thank you. We continue breaking coverage of the wildfires in the north bay after the break. Well be right back. You could save energy by living off the grid. Completely. Or. Set the washing machine to cold. Do your thing. Energy upgrade california. I m laura garcia. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. We continue to monitor the devastating wildfires in the north bay. Here are where things stand. There are at least ten confirmed deaths related to the fires. Seven in Sonoma County, two in napa and one in mendocino county. There are 100 missing person reports. Firefighters say this is likely because of spotty cell service in the area. 150 structures are now gone. This morning, estimated 20,000 people

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