Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at 9 a steady drop in coronavirus cases across the state has cleared the way in 9 counties for the wider reopening of businesses and that includes most of the bay area good evening, everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis alameda. San mateo and solano counties received the green light to move forward with reopening. Those counties were added to the red or second tier of the states colorcoded for tier ranking system. This category means that there were 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 residents or a 5 to 8 Positivity Rate with the addition of these counties every bay area county is now in the red tier except for contra costa and sonoma counties but contra costas Health Director says they are on track to enter the red tier next week. And as more businesses reopen a Northern California private School System run by the diocese of sacramento has applied for a waiver to allow in Person Instruction in Solano County as
Oakmont and into annadale early this morning. But there was a vealiant firefight here on the east side of santa rosa to save as many homes as they could. And the statement i heard is they have saved far more than they lost. Six shelters are set up across the counties, and officials are working to set up a seventh. One of the most famous resorts in the bay area has sustained heavy fire damage. Lets go to reporter kate larson at the meadowwood resort in st. Helena tonight. Kate . Reporter hey, ive been here for the better part of an hour now, watching this building here. This is a fivestar resort and club in napa valley. This is a hotel room, a lodging room that has just been burning to the ground. I saw it in flames about 5 00, and weve just watched disintegrate. Ive been speaking to the fire crews and theyve been here since 2 00 in the morning, fighting fires all over this property. They say a number of buildings have burned, including the building that houses a very wellknown restaura
Now at 11 00, breaking news. A state of emergency as a wildfire in the north bay threatens the entire city of calistoga to get out now. Were just exhausted. More than 100 wineries are in jeopardy tonight. The famous landmarks that have already burned. And smoky air returning. What you can expect tomorrow morning. Our weather team is tracking the worsening conditions. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im Juliette Goodrich in for elizabeth. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, breaking news. Within the past 90 minutes, Governor Newsom declared a state of emergency for napa and sonoma counties with flames threatening homes and forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate. The big area of concern right now is in napa county. The entire city of calistoga is under a mandatory evacuation order. Take a look at why. This is time lapse video from a pg e wildfire camera looking southeast toward calistoga starting about nightfall. Those flames just exploding in size. We have Team Coverag
Rolling our way. I wanted to highlight two different systems, surface cold fronts sitting offshore. Thats whats helping to disrupt the air flow. Its taking the wind, moving it from the west off to the east. Its exactly what we needed to get these changes. Its going to be slow moving, which is great news for us because its going to continue to keep the air circulating and also moving. Now, as we get you down into the fires, what youll be able to see is the smoke from these fires. The three large fires we had been following is now moving to the north and the east. If you move close, you see the faint image. Its moving north and east away from us. Thats why youre seeing air Quality Improvements with good air for parts of the north bay and San Francisco. Moderate air for most of the area and healthy air floating around the south bay. So over the next 12 hours, i think well stay moderate for most of the area, and the coastline dipping back into the good air quality. Well take a look at chan
Out ok getting away unscathed the fire 10 tearing through this area early this morning but crews remain here on the scene tonight. They are putting out some hot spots and mopping up the area roads in this area also remaining closed police making the rounds out here hillsides surrounding these communities also have been charred throughout the day today an into that into tonight. Theres been thick smoke in the air and theres also been a lot of ash that has been falling from the sky. Other communities all along highway 12 also having to deal with the flames buildings there and property there burned and destroyed. We actually spoke with one man who says that he was lucky that he did lose his home. But unfortunately his neighbor did. We got here they were you know a lot of activity this house was you know and claims are trees are on fire. The backyard with on fire the backfield behind us. Does seem like. If properties are starting to flare up. The house to my left is completely burned down.