traumatized. i can t tell you what will happen tonight or tomorrow or the next day. reporter: the crowd is reassured what happened sunday was unique, simultaneous fires and wind. the chief paused, emotional describing the scene. a lot of people lost a lot of houses. it is difficult for the community. i polk guise. apologize. victims want to know how to start rebuilding. they wish there was a master list of destroyed homes. people are trying to go in because we want to know is it gone? gone is gone. my house is ashes. it took two seconds to realize that. i want to none my mom s home is gone. people up here have your back. i came off the line this morning after 40 hours straight. [ applause ] time after time interrupting this briefing showing support for first responders. fire victims got to their feet for an ovation. it has only been two days. support services are coming together and evacuated areas will be reopened. there is a 30-person team dedicated to fin
mcguire in santa rosa. the fires in napa and sonoma have been spreading. the death toll has gone up to 17. others are unaccounted for. 85 have been injured. 2,000 home and other structures have burned. 115,000-acres have been burned as fires hopscotch through the counties. here is a look at the fire map focusing on the north bay. you can see how the fires are hitting the heart of wine country spanning two state park there is. the fires are destroying hand and property in glen ellen and kenwood and the silverado trail in napa. tracking another red flag warning which is a problem for firefighters. we are in napa county where new evacuations are taking place. live in santa rosa where emotions ran high, deb. reporter: people are still raw, traumatized. it is all so fresh. even as they arrived at santa rosa high school looking for answer and guidance, fires are still burning. the measure of what santa rosa is up against with strike teams at work, heavy smoke plumes line
this hour. making matters worse, the high winds have returned. tonight we are tracking what you need to know. we begin with just teen waldman. an update from cal fire a bit ago. just teen? reporter: what we ve learned is that this firefight is far from over with the winds going the direction they are and being as wild as they are. let s go we know that some more help is on the way there are 8,000 firefighters trying put this fire out right now. but more help is coming in from across the country including agencies in the south and the midwest. we know that at least 3500 businesses and homes have burned. that number is likely to go up. 23 people are dead, 185 are inexpwrurpd although this fire started 3 cay days ago, this is just the beginning. we are in this fight for the long haul. it will continue to get worse before it gets better. you all know the weather conditions. we ll see the conditions continue for the next several days minimum. sheriff s office job in it i
fires burning out of control in the north bay, this is the miramonte neighborhood. we also taking a satellite tour with special technology that can get us into the burned out zones, we doing that on the morning news and also online at our website, kron4.com. we will go to a neighborhood in santa rosa in a moment but first of all. all, we have a big number of changes, the death toll has gone up to 31, 17 victims from sonoma county, many from santa rosa, we will have the names of those who have been identified coming up, we are also taking a tour of the damages, sonoma is suffering the most businesses and homes that have been burned at 2834, the names of the missing have grown to 400. officials are going out, trying to go from door to door to see if people have been able to be found or identified. so far the flames have gone through 191,000-acres and counting throughout the north bay. good morning, we have that incredible vantage point from space, the latest satellite imagery
joins us live in the control room with more on this weekend )s violence kelly erica in total at least eight people were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds this weekend. today s string of violence started in virginia beach early this morning. a rash of violent crimes this weekend in hampton roads. the first shooting today at the virginia beach oceanfront where police were called to the area of 17th and atlantic avenue for a man with a gunshot wound. he was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries according to police. as for the man who shot him police say he ran from the scene but officers found him nearby, and arrested him. super 8 hotel staff confirmed to newschannel 3 the shooting happened inside the hotel. a local business owner who did not want to appear on camera says after 39 years of business on his street he s shutting down his store. the reason his safety. then around 2 this afternoon portsmouth police were called to a dee