This is cbs news bay area with elizabeth cook. This one came in stronger than expected. Thunder, lightning, even some flood advisories right now. We are tracking the storm on this first alert weather day. A huge hall of stolen merchandise. Cars, cash. Bay area police led to a bigger operation. The faceoffs are coming into clearer focus in the races for president and senate. Political expert joins us live to discuss what the candidates need to do between now and november to secure those seats. Thank you so much for joining us. We have just declared a first alert weather day with thunder storms and heavy downpours and flood advisories right now. Lets get right over to meteorologist darren peck. The first thing to do is go right to the main point or the reason why we set this as a first alert day. A pretty good complex of thunderstorms having developed over the east bay. We can see some downpours which have led to some minor street flooding. We will pick out some of the areas that fall un
Santa rosa and through the sonoma and napa valleys. The latest map shows how the string of fires we had sunday and monday are beginning to merge into one fire. Team coverage tonight. Jenna is and napa. Bill martin is tracking the 1. The wind. The Bennett Valley area tonight. Reporter Bennett Ridge with sits between here and Sonoma Valley already lost dozens of homes early on. No one can promise that wont happen again. The tide doesnt seem to be turning the right way. The hills over kenwood east of santa rosa the nuns fire. Date 3. One of 22 fires burning in the region. Named for nuns canyon road where it started. This one destroyed dozens of homes in glen ellen and it is still spreading. And merging with smaller fires. What that ends up doing is make a half circle around the town of sonoma. Reporter cal fire taking no chances on the sonoma end of the fire and clearing residents from aqua kelly and take. A small town next in line. Aqua kelly and say. Moon mountain is already full of fir
Immediately. Take everything and going. Joining us on the phone is scott alonso with the Sonoma County Emergency Operations center. Scott, can you hear me . Yes, i can. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming on. I gave a quick thumbnail sketch. Up date us on whats just happened from your perspective. The winds are still flowing in pretty high tonight. Were very concerned that fire activity is still on the rise and in certain areas of the county. We have advisory evacuations that came out of northeast santa rosa a few minutes ago. Were very concerned about the fire in guyserville and in Sonoma Valley like you mentioned so were urging residents if they have received an Evacuation Order to please gather their belongings and leave if its a mandatory evacuation and if anyone has been issued a mandatory evacuation do not return home because its not safe. We need to be able to clear those areas and ensure its safe to return. One thing to point out here, scott, so many areas in and around win
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Will spend the night in a shelter after they were advised to evacuate from their homes. Abc 7 News Reporter katie utehs is live in healdsburg with more on that. Katie . This shelter is housing a lot of people from santa rosa and the surrounding areas. But tonight theyve seen an influx of locals from healdsburg as the city itself has some evacuation advisories under way. Cardinal newman is gone. Cloverleaf ranch is gone. Bells healdsburg ambulance drivers took this video as they evacuated patients sunday night and monday morning from santa rosa. Some of those emts have lost their homes, but continue to work for days, since the north bay fire started. Now the companys offices are threatened in healdsburg as part of the city here is under an evacuation warning. Meaning be ready to go at a moments notice. Fitch mountain, and the bill of fitch mountain, which is us. Well wait until we cant. Its hard to leave your job when this is what youre supposed to do. People are loading their photos an