Cleaner air hopefully to get to as well look outside from berkeley is showing Crystal Clear skies overhead we do have a high wind watches that are effect right now but will be in effect later in the week and ill get to what that means here in just a second as for today we are actually seeing winds having really calm down this is good news. Of course for the blaze up in northern Sonoma County compared to yesterday communities like asti in cloverdale which were seeing gusts into the 40 mile per hour range are only looking at calm winds as we all are across the bay area this morning fire such as the one on mount tam and now having been contained and extinguished that is certainly get a good news. Calmer winds helped out with that calm winds across the east bay 2 blackhawk a scene around really unremarkable as far as wind speeds go this morning now as far as fire weather goes. It is diminished of noticeably from yesterday temperatures are still just as warm know right now were in the 50s 6
On the structures destroyed at least 49. Structures have been burned and and about half are holmes baby 21. They think our residential buildings, nobo b hurt though the entire town of guys are ville is still under that mandatory Evacuation Order and thats because they say it is not safe to return back to that community there worry about the risk of more fires breaking out from the embers now luckily today, the winds will be pretty calm. So theyll be able to get a better handle on it today but then were supposed to have more winds whipping up tomorrow james yeah in fact lets take a look at the map keep you updated on the situation with both the evacuations and also the fired words burning right now what we have here is an overlay of 2 bits of information the area thats in red here that is the evacuation zone and as we showed you yesterday comes right up against one oh one. Which travels this corridor here and guys are ville is located right there and weve got again that entire city shut
Reports of anybody being missing. No fatalities connected to this. But as we said yesterday here all morning the entire town of guys are ville is event waited because of this fire and today, firefighters are going to try to get the upper hand because theyre getting a little break in the wind before picks up again tomorrow. And here weve got another look at that map this morning that shows us t ly the evacuation area. But now also where theyre picking up the most heat from this fire, lets zoom in take a closer look will break down what were seeing here. So the area in pale orange thats the evacuation zone. But look at all these hot spots these are the areas where the heat from this fire is particularly intense and thats what this indicated here on the map and you can see it certainly is fairly intense towards the center towards the north edge of the evacuation zone, but thats not to say that other areas are out of danger because we had reports yesterday as a matter of fact of embers fal
Looks like guys are bills been spared. Yeah which is the fortunate news now there are still embers blowing around out there. Despite the fact the winds of calm so the threat is still in existence. And so kaiser feel still cordoned off nobody allowed back in i want to illustrate once again. The evacuation area and also the intensity of the fire were getting a better handle on that as well and thats what this map shows us on both those levels but will begin with evacuations as we zoom in here on the map and give you a closer and look as i mentioned the town of guys are bill still under mandatory Evacuation Orders there it is along highway one oh one. The majority of the evacuated area, however, as you can see our into the hills east of one oh one but for guys fill and a certain stretch north and south about 5 miles or so youre not allowed there until they get a better handle on the actual fire and thats what these red dots illustrate each one represents a hot spot that theyre currently b
All of us here. Reporter yeah, its certainly going to effect you if you are traveling. You can take a look here you can see the cancellations, lots of cancelled already up on the departures board. Going to new york city. Weve had a tough time finding people who are affected by that here this morning because it seems like word is out shgts people knew about the , people knew about the storm coming. People knew about it yesterday. We do have some video of the airport yesterday. 44 flights were cancelled. Visitors to and from all three new york city airports. From newark, boston, flechl all affected by those delays. Those flying out said they didnt think theyd have to be worried about the airport. Its so empty, its so quiet. Its unusual for sfo. Its one of the major airports of the United States and theres nobody here. And that certainly seems to be at least at this point the scene as well. It does seam anecdotedly a little slow here. You can see flights from new york, newark cancelled a