the neighborhoods of fountain grove and coffee park, which were devastated during the 2017 north bay fires. 90,000-plus under mandatory evacuation orders. buildings have been threatened along highway 128. an elementary school in harm s way. some of the rhinerys, one has gone up in flames already, wineries, one has gone up in flames already. he s cal fire. we were here on highway 128 observing fire behavior. the fire behavior was subdued and had not, the winds had not picked up very much yet. we monitored and observed as the winds shifted and became very gusty and strong sustained winds. and we observed increased fire behavior and there was containment lines installed in firing operations that were leave taken by the fire; overtaken by the fire. the fire behavior continues to increase. the strong gusty winds were forecast updated from 3:00 until 10:00. we re currently in that time period and the fire behavior is increasing. take a look at some of the video from overnight.
let s bring rosemary into talk about the winds in that area right now. of course, we know that the red flag warning and the wind advisory are pretty much bay area why when it comes to north bay, east bay but our focus of being on the north bank because those winds were hitting near 90 miles per hour early this morning but in this area, the winds are gusting between 25 and 50 but take a look at what can occur with that type of wind and right now, the closest reading i can find is in and around martinez, a north breeze at about 22 and you get over closer to the diablo range and the winds are closer to 40 miles per hour. probably somewhere within that. and these winds are going to sustain for a while? they are going to continue as we get into sutil tomorrow. this is video of a friend of mine that sent it in, dr. bill hemmer, a college buddy of mine has been watching our coverage and he said you might want to take a look here in vallejo and sure enough, this was right w
anything positive to help. the winter decrease later on. the strongest gusts are in the sonoma county area. more coming up later. here is sal. all rights. right now we do look at the commute that is going to be busy if you were driving on 80 westbound. i want to show you that the traffic is beginning to wrap up a little bit heading out to the macarthur maze. 22 minute drive. right now the bay bridge is a typical commute. if you re driving on interstate 880, this traffic is beginning to ramp up. we are getting into the ramp up stage of the morning commute on all the freeways in the bay area including the east bay although you have an opportunity to jump ahead of the crowd, especially for the silicon valley commute. you can see 87 has a problem northbound but the rest of that is easy. use 101 or 85 to 17. let s go back to dave. complete coverage of this out-of-control wired fire.cristina rendon is near the front lines of the kincade fire. give us the latest from where you are
power to parts of 35 counties 34 counties to reduce the risk of wildfires in windy conditions. according cal fire, the majority of the states destructive while wildfires have happened in october. joining me no are anthony sehgal and jonathan cox welcomef to botyou, jonathan i want to begin with you give us a season is a shapup compared to last year with the camp fire and now we are approaching november, which was whenthe camp fire broke out, in early november. that s right. in comparison to the last few years we experienced under 200,000 acres ofland burned california. this time last year, we were over 1 million acres of land burned, a relatively mild co season in arison to the last few. maybe the biggest reason for that is because we have some more sten s that we hahad in the last two years that s due to the rain and much we haven t had earlier into the year. however we are nointo the timeframe that we tend to get large instructive fires in california. as we have seen ov
bay. henry lee is in the east bay. parts of both of those areas are set to lose power tonight. tracking the critical fire weather conditions. we want to start with tom vacar joining us live from sonoma, where parts of that city have been without power since early this morning. how are those folks coping? reporter: pretty much all the city is out right now. very few things have power. but that s what this story is really about. the expected winds that we ve been expecting have yet to show up. sonoma business folks are making very, very sure that local folks here who don t have power are served, and served well. sonoma, a wine country tourist town of 11,000 finds itself without power, even though there was scarcely a breeze today. that does not go down well with a lot of people here. right now, it s so calm here. for us, it s like, could it have waited until the winds come up? reporter: pg and e, says although it may not be windy, winds are expected to be high. eye ray