meteorologist mike nicco is in the weather there but, first, amy hollyfield is near clayton where homes are threatened. >> here is why it is growing. check out this patch of fire and how remote the area is in a rugged terrain. firefighters can not get to it or it is not worth risking their safety because there are no homes. that is why the fire is growing, because they are letting it burn and why all the smoke is being created. the fire burning on mt. diablo nearly doubled overnight growing to 1,500 acres. firefighters expect it to get bigger before they get control. >> i feel confident that we will be able to get a control on this, probably not today, certainly not today, it will be probably a good couple of days before we can get our arms wrapped around this. >> jack wilson feels confident enough that he decided not to evacuate. he was up all night. >> very intense. i am watching it. >> cal fire had a crew and helped me to get things organized. >> the smoke coming off the fire looks daunting. the response looks intend with 500 firefighters on the line and 70 engines. jack wilson is feeling the heat. his kids and grandkids are calling from across the country but he wants to stay with this new home he built himself. >> kim had a sleepless but safe night and this morning decided to show her gratitude. >> they have been phenomenal. you could not ask for a better response. >> 100 homes are threatened by the fire but firefighters and residents have a calm about them today. they are feeling good about the calm weather. there is no wind this morning. >> if the wind blows this way it could be trouble. >> he has to check the win outside because the internet is gone because a communications tower did burn in this fire. one firefighter has been hurt during the fight but is expected to be okay and an outbuilding has been destroyed and he doesn't have any internet access. homes and residents are safe. firefighters tell me they feel like they have a good plan in place to surround this fire, put a box around it, but they say it will take some time and a lot of hard work. outside of clayton for abc7 news. >> evacuation situation extended to cover many states in clayton easting upper and lower trail road and east trail road. 100 homes in clayton are threatened. the red cross has a center for evacuees at the clayton library and those with horses can go do walnut creek or the contra costa county horseman association in concord. with more on the impact on new developments we will continue our coverage with abc7 news reporter matt keller in dublin. >> this is base catch with 14 strike teams arriving. they are needed. people in the area were evacuated as they wait to find out if they have a home to return to. >> letting sleeping dogs lie was easier said than don for arthur armstrong. he and his wife came to the red cross shelter at clayton community library after evacuated if their home. they were the only ones there overnight but decided to sleep if their cars with their 60's dogs because animals were not allowed inside. >> things happen and we had to do this. >> your dogs were happy you slept with them? >> well...as happy as they commodity. >> 100 homes are in the line of fire. animals were also in danger so a call for help went out. >> friend put something out on facebook and said if you have a trailer, come help. >> they did, 30 horses from the rehab ranch and other animals were picked up and evacuation centers have been set up. another concern for both the animals and people is the smoke the on the other side of mt. diablo in blackhawk, no serious concerns about the flames but the smoke is lingering. >> can you smell it? >> i can smell it, not so much, i walked out this morning at 7:00 and i could smell it. it is bad. >> that smoke is visible here in dublin/pleasanton and firefighters making the home for the foreseeable future working 24 hours on, 24 hours off until the fire is out. >> thank you. the temperatures are not helping the fire-fighting efforts on the mt. diablo fire. meteorologist mike nicco joins us. >> there a smoke advisory for contra costa, alameda and part of santa clara county and the wind will shift from moving from northwest to southeast to north to south along the diabolo range so we will see the smoke moving on down and take care of the parts of the areas in the form of poor air quality. here is live doppler 7 hd, notice the radar return, what we are seeing is the smoke from the fire headed northwest to southeast. and if you come down this is mt. diablo thrust fault right here separating the fire right now from blackhawk in the eastern section of danville. last night the winds were coming from the northwest and notice how they move around both sides and they swirled and that spread the fire and not only is it burning on the east but the south where i could see it from my house. this morning i saw the fire on way to work. >> the fire can be seen from all around and here is a picture from our camera in the oakland hills area. you can see the smoke is being pushed. the fire is sending up a giant plume of smoke and leader is the view of it from walnut creek and from our camera. in san francisco, across the bay from the fire, you can see the smoke from the tower on mount sutro quite an imposing and frightening sight. >> the fire now has closed parts of mt. diablo state park. these are images from 7:00 this morning from sky 7. fire crews have been working to keep flames from the lookout tower at the summit of mt. diablo and they are trying to protect all of the communications equipment that senators television station and radio and cell phones and electric am lines. >> viewers have been sending us dramatic photos of the fire on mt. diablo and we will show you. this was sent to us and you can see the fire burning in several different areas with smoke filling the sky. another viewer snapped this photo from the bypass in brentwood, the orange glow of the flames and another picture shows the fire from skyline boulevard on the peninsula so, again, across the bay you can uphold your photos at abc7news.com. this is not the first time a major wildfire has hit. august 2, 1977 two lightning bolts sparked a fire and 6,000 acres burned in a matter of days. the entire north side of the mountain was blackened. 700 firefighters battled that fire. stay with abc7 news throughout the newscast and throughout the day for the latest update on the mt. diablo fire, or the morgan fire. it is on our website, too, with breaking alerts on twitter@abcnewsbayarea. seven people including two firefighters and police officers have been hurt in a house fire in fremont that broke out at 4:30 this morning near interstate 880. three people were trapped in the home. firefighters got them out with the help of police. all these residents were taken to the hospital. the house was gutted. two firefighters suffered moderate bones and smoke inhalation. >> a veteran diver lost his life searching for an oakland man believed drowned while swimming. he is identified at kevin smith yesterday while trying to free an underwater remote-operated vehicle being used in the seven. the san francisco police department sent the vehicle to help in the search for an 18-year-old seen on friday morning when he juneed in the lake to help another friend struggling in the water. >> new this morning, police have identified a man who fell and died at candelstick park yesterday just before the 49ers game. the victim was 32-year-old kevin hayes who fell from a foot bridge on the south side of the stadium at jamestown avenue. it happened at 1:30 right around kickoff time. witnesses say hayes appeared to have been intoxicated. the game between the 49ers and, paers was the final season opener at candelstick before they move to the new stadium built in santa clara. >> there is a warning from syria's president assad and what he says may happen in the united states attacks syria. president obama's hatest push if military action. >> this was a confession that rocked the internet and what is happening today to a driver who admitted to killing a man while drinking and >> and now back to the perts of the fire on the east side of mt. diablo, our camera this clayton is recording the pictures of the smoke rising from the flames. the fire has burned 1,500 acres since yesterday at 1:30 and now is only 10 percent contained. there is a smoke advisory now issued. we will have the latest on twitter. >> the russian government is now stepping into the heated debate over a possible united states military strike against syria after it attacked its own people with poison gas. russia is urging syria to put chemical weapons under international control. syria says it will consider it. president obama continues his push for pressure against syria. >> president obama is pulling out all the stops to make the case for a military strike against syria. over 48 hours he will reach tout lawmakers, sit down for interviews with network anchors and deliver an address to the nation. with six in ten members and the majority of the house of representatives opposed to a strike, did this come to late? syrian president bashar al-assad is defiant sitting down with cbs charlie rose over the weekend. >> will it be attacks against american faces in the middle east? >> expect anything. expect everything. >> he said the united states has not made the case that his regime use the chemical weapons again its own people. >> do you have evidence to the public? nothing has been presented so far. >> today in london secretary of state john kerry insisted he is confident the administration's case but assad has no credibility. >> what does he offer? words that are contradicted by facts. >> secretary john kerry suggested the way to avoid the military strike. >> he can turn over every bit of the chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. turn it over. all of it. without delay. >> but the state department quickly said he meant that as a rhetorical argument because assad would never do it. >> the debate is a rare example of president obama facing significant resistance from democrats. the white house is counting on his personal appeal to win support for a strike of the. >> the 22-year-old ohio man who confessed in a youtube video to killing a man was indicted this morning by a grand jury for aggravated vehicular homicide. >> when i get charged i will plead guilty and take full responsibility. i'm begging you, please don't drink and drive. >> inbound, right? well, matthew cordle said he is to blame for a wrong-way car crash that killed 61-year-old father and navy veteran two months ago. defense attorneys say the individual joe a testament to his character. but critics argue he is trying to manipulate the prosecution and the public f convicted he faces up to eight years in prison. he is due to be arraigned tomorrow. >> meteorologist mike nicco ahead with the forecast. >> we will look at 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[ male announcer ] helping you -- now that's what's important to us. >> this is the wildfire burning on mt. diablo from the east bay hills camera. the air quality management agency has issues a smoke advisory for the bay area residents in contra costa, alameda and santa clara county spreading all over the place. the meteorologist mike nicco will be along in a moment with the full forecast. >> mike, does it look like the south is going south? >> right, more southwest than south but some of this is filtering to the south so places like danville and san ramon and dublin all the way as it funnels to the sunol grade could come out and head to santa clara so that is what we are thinking and the winds shifted overnight they were in the northeast which would push it to the southwest but those did move a little bit and most of the smoke has been along mt. diablo range with a lot of windmills out there and it has been pushing across the altamont pass and toward address and it is filtering down long with the rim fire smoke toward fresno and bakersfield. now, done -- shows the clouds along the coast are going to be not so stubborn as yesterday but we do not have radar returns and no flight arrival delays. we will head back to mt. diablo at 72 degrees which is down, about 78 overnight, and humidity has come up and the air is turning over at 25 percent and winds are the big push gusting up to 24. this afternoon, winds continuing to gust from the northwest at 25 miles per hour, and high temperature in the lower elevations we will be near 90 degrees and humidity will start to drop this afternoon in that 10 to 10 to 20 degree range. not a lot of smoke and here is the rim fire smoke and here are the low clouds along the coast you request see a lot of things we are looking at on our visible satellite. temperatures in the mid-80's to the north of mt. diablo and you can see walnut creek is near 90 and danville near 86 to the firefighters are going to be dealing with the warm conditions in the lower level where the fire came down mt. diablo and headed toward the valley early this morning. right now, 72 in hayward and 72 in mountain view and 75 in san jose and san francisco is at 64 and low-to-mid 70's throughout the north bay. as we look at the smoke, the interesting thing this morning is the smoke was above the boundary layer the area of cool and stable air. if the smoke was trapped in there it would have flooded the valleys. notice how we getting more smoke down near the ground and that is the case as we head through the morning hours and that smoke that is trapped, it will stay there overnight so hot inland is the big story. cooler air tonight and back to average on wednesday. the seven-day forecast shows 80's inland until you get to the east bay where we will have the 90's to near 100 today and mid-70's to low 80's around the bay and mid-60's along the coast to upper 60's in san francisco. tuesday we drop one degree at the beaches to six degrees inland and again on wednesday, and back to average on wednesday and they will hold steady this thursday, friday, saturday and sunday. it is up around 3,000' and there is no rain in the forecast. >> thank you, mike. >> still ahead we will get an update on the wildfire, it looks huge like it is going for days. >> later today, the second season of "katie" kickoff with a rapper lil' wayne and a surprise legend today at 3:00 right here >> coming up at 4:00, today is the three-year anniversary of the explosion and fire in san bruno and we will go to the neighborhood and how the rebuilding is going. at 5:00, the important decision that has to be made in the case of a san francisco woman hit and killed at a city park. >> an update on wildfire burning at mt. diablo, pictures of the fire that has doubled in size and burned 1,500 acres. smoke and ash are a problem and mike is getting updates that ash is falling and firefighters have it 10 percent contained and there are evacuations in place. we will keep it posted and updated for you at abc7news.com. clear ♪ [cheers and applause] >> yo! 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