still are trouble spots, this is called the oak mont fire. you can see the fire burning up in the canyon. so far firefighters are basically leaving this fire alone because it s not threatening any populated areas. but yesterday was a different story, ana. it was really windy and the town of sonoma, many had to evacuate, a lot of structures went up. s in a different story today. winds have essentially died down, no longer under a red flag warning here and that is really helped out firefighters the tubbs fire that caused so much devastation in santa rosa and majority of people who died, died as a result of the tubbs fire, containment up to 60% there. firefighters feel like they are making progress. about 75,000 people had to ee vak wait their homes and towns. when will they be able to go back home? any idea at this point? reporter: yeah, ana., i lost
andrew it s not cutting across. in so many hurricanes you have the option of going in a few different directions. if you re on the peninsula in florida at the moment, it doesn t look like you have a lot of options except to go north where the storm may also hit. gabe, we ll stay close to you important. it s so important for people in miami area to watch the governor s press conferences to continue to monitor the news. look at the skies behind gabe, blue, blue skies and white puffy clouds but guess what, that storm is a coming. stay safe. we ll stay in close touch with you over the course of the next few days. let s bring in the mayor of miami beach, phillip lavigne. you are calling irma a nuclear hurricane, we just showed live pictures in miami beach of people headed north, the roads clogged with people heading north. tell me what s on your mind right now. the most important thing our message gets out. this is about ee vak was, not about eradication.
it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started. first, it s a super soaker. tropical storm hammering florida with extreme weather. the slow-moving snow sith off the coast of alabama and the florida panhandle. the outer bands whipping up dangerous surf and triggering this huge water spout off juneau beach. also spawn ag deadly tornado in florida as it drenches the coast. officials say a woman was found dead in a home in venus located in the middle of the state between port st. lucie and sarasota. a child in one of the damaged homes was also injured and taken by the hospital. people say they were blind-sided by the twisters. i got my wife and my dog put them in a hallway there and said it s coming. about that time it started blowing real hard. it happened real fast, in a matter of 30 seconds. we saw a bunch of wind pick up. shoved into the bathroom. scared half to death. it was pretty traumatic. meteorologist alexandra steele is tracking the storm for us. slow and fierce.
50-mile ee vak was were ordered we would have to go back to the drawing board and work day and night with multiple agencieses and jurisdictions. let s go now to president obama speaking at the u.p.s. plant in landover maryland. there they are over there. we re here today for a simple reason. ray wasn t home when they trieded to deliver a package yesterday so we thought we would just grab it and be on our way. i ve been working them too hard. in addition to steve and ray, we also have the attorney general of maryland, doug gansler is here. [ applause ] and we ve got one of the finest senators in the united states senate from maryland, ben