businesses there in the north bay. in what is being called the glass fire, 11,000 acres have already been burned. that s about 17 square miles since it first started sunday morning. it s just so disheartening when you take a look at the scenes. the gross fire is freding room itly. causing destruction r fires hav with the glass fire, possibly spot fires from the original plays, forcing more evacuations there on the outskirts of santa rosa along highway 12. we have live team coverage for you this afternoon. greg lee covering the napa side of this fire. tom vacar taking a look at some of the damage done if sonoma county already. we want to start with meteorologist mark tomaio, tracking the latest on the weather conditions in the fire zone. thankfully today we re starting to see those winds pull back. that s right,, alex. we have had two big wind events, and we are past those two events. here is a look around santa rosa, mount st. helena. those winds gusting to 55 miles p
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the temperatures over 110. today it s slightly sweltering. that extreme heat warning stays in effect up there tonight. as we go the overnight hours, though, we have this added concern, as we mentioned in the top there, that we have fire danger. a red flag warning will go into effect overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. it s mainly in the north and east bay hills, santa cruz mountains, as well. most folks probably won t notice much wind, but if the hills, they will. so this is always a dangerous pattern, especially after these low humidities. low fuel moistures. high temperatures, after numerous days of it. so here is the model. look at the arrows. those are onshore, aren t they? and we re going to see fog back at the coast tonight. the model, i m going to post the model forward. there is monday morning, or this morning, pardon me. and you see where we are now. in the blues, you see the contrast. but now i want you to notice up in the right-hand corner of your screen, out
mike, how is it looking right now for what s happening around the bay? kari, overall things are improving. the tri-valley had a couple issues coming into the area. starting in the south bay north 101. capital expressway there s a crash involving a couple vehicles one in the middle of 101, some slowing for the sensors right there holding folks up from 680 up to oakland road where we typically see the slowing starting to clear about now. we ll track that and also clearing south of 80 through sunol out of pleasanton, that crash cleared a while ago. back to you. thank you, mike. we re going to continue to monitor all of the fires across the bay area. the latest this hour for you. the lnu fires in the north bay have burned more than 356,000 acres. and right now it s 27% contained. five people have died and nearly 1,000 south bay the scu fires are still the biggest in terms of acreage. it has burned nearly 366,000 acres and is 20% contained. three first responders have been hur
of the road man to dev moving a burning quickly. we have had a photographer on the scene overnight gathering that video and getting the stories and spoke with folks burned trying to escape the fire and heard people gathering the belongings, taking photographs of the inside and outside and belongings to document what they have in case there is any damage from this fire. it is important to note that this all stems from the lightning that we had a couple days ago, that lightning struck some very dry brush creating this fire and that s where we are right now. take a listen to someone working to escape this fire here in i ve never evacuated before. but why this time? because it was it was coming hard and fast and winds probably 45 miles per hour. reporter: and i can tell you the smoke out here very, very heavy. you can t see the flames. they look like fire flies in the distance but that fire still burning out here smoke very thick. there are cars covered with ash and loo