State. We have Team Coverage across the bay area. Fires are flaring and evacuations are underway as we speak. One of the most destructionive fireses is in sonoma county. 50 structures there have been damaged so far. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony live in vacaville with more on the situation. Laura . Reporter well, hi. I can tell you from what weve seen, that number will go much higher. This house behind me in the English Hills area, a very recent casualty. This home started burning right about 2 00. A beautiful twostory home on top of a hill. We can see it go up. The roof was on fire. And within less than two hours, really, this is all thats left of it. This is a harrowing night for the folks who live in this neighborhood. Were in northwest vacaville. Im told by the neighbors around 3 30 in the morning, they started to get the calls via loud speaker. The warning that there was an imminent threat to their lives. We had a go list dug up last night, fortunately. We grabbed everything an
Neighbor, there were long lines going out of the neighbor because of the mandatory evacuations. I want to go off into the distance. First you can see the homes right here. Then we look at the hillsides. We are at the western portion of i80. You go see the hill sides that are charred black from the flames that have torn through this area. They are under a mandatory evacuation. Some of them are still here. I want to pan back out. There are other things i want to show you. It is pretty quiet here. When we go on to above that roof and on to that hill top, you can see where some of those air tankers dropped that fire retardant. I want to throw it right now to some of the sound we have from some of the folks living in this area on what it has been like in the last 24 hours. At some point, if we feel its not safe, we will definitely depart. But like i am, we havell. Weve been saying all day, if the winds are on our side, we have a chance. With all the emotional tension, it was definitely chal
Luckily we have an rv. Im concerned about the house right now, but we have everything that we could. Reporter so many people across santa cruz and san mateo counties are concerned about their property, their homes, their belongings, their pets that they might have at their homes as well. The concern of the firefighters though is due to the other fires burning all across Northern California right now, they have limited resources, also limited visibility. The smoke is hampering the air fight operations. Some 8500 buildings are threatened this morning. And again, 0 contained, we expect to get an update at 6 00 a. M. And well carry that live here. Julian glover, abc 7 news. A tmages showeallyas neighbo Rancho Solano neighborhood within forced to evacuate after the complex fires jumped across enter 125interstate 880. People were trying to get out and found themselves stuck in evacuation traffic. Amy hollyfield is live in Solano County with the evacuations and unfortunately the homes lost to
Nothing to be scared about. They are coming down the coast from north to south making the right hand turn into some of our coastal valleys and across the goate ord pusodd thats closn wi coast. Were up to ten degrees cooler this morning, how about mid50s to mid60s in most neighborhoods. Our extremes, 52 in novato to 75 in brentwood. Here is a look from sutro tower and you can see some of the smoke hanging out there. Today will be hot, but it wont be excessively hot from the 80s and 90s to even 60s and recei70 along the coast. Back to you. And in San Francisco, that is the only county not touched by fire right now in the bay area. Cal fire has grouped a dozen fires into regions. So to the north, we have the lnu lightning kocomplex. In the east bay, it is the scu lightning complex. And to the south, the czu lightning complex. Across the state, cal fire says that lightning strikes started more than 60 fires this week. Now lets go to the north bay and zero in on the lnu complex that is made
Attention to mario draghi. Investors should be paying more attention to draghi, not yellen. Walking on eggshells. Everything to gain is so dependent. Obviously if the euro zone was to show any signs of rolling over, inflation drifts back down it may be very difficult for them to announce anything at all but certainly the market is looking for some clarity. The central bankers want to be very gradual, very careful in both signaling and implementing the withdrawal of this extraordinary accommodation they put in place the last few years. How do you exit in a careful way where you dont signal too much youre exiting and still give time for the economies to do well and still give time for the inflation to come up and i think he will at jack hole go carefully forward. The economy there is more fragile than the u. S. From a structural perspective so i think the draghi comments will have much more information content at this stage. The e. C. Wants to always say, were always going to say nothing