Complex in the east bay, and the czu august complex in san mateo, santa clara, and santa cruz counties. We have new aerial images of the czu august lightning complex fire. That fire has burned more than 40,000 acres or about 62 square miles in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Cal fire says it is still 0 contained. Cal fire has now ordered a mandatory evacuation for the entire town of felton and the mountains a few miles north of santa cruz. Everyone in feltons population of about 4000 is being told to leave. Lets get right to kpix 5s kiet do who joins us live from felton this afternoon. Reporter cal fire issued the Evacuation Order at 8 30 this morning. Since then, we have seen a steady stream of cars, everyone pulling their jet skis, lawn equipment, rvs. It is interesting to see what people take with them in these situations. Now it is looking more like a ghost town. Make no bones about it, the fire is coming. We were warned to be on the lookout for extreme fire behavior and it did
Waters edge have been ordered out. Including baresa knockingsville road and all the baresa estates subdivision. Joining us now by for the benefit phone is janet upton with the county of napa. Thank you for joining us. Can you hear me . Yes, i can, good afternoon. The evacuation orders and warnings have been evolving rapidly what do people need to know right now . People in the fire area need to stay vigilant and follow orders of emergency personnel. We just effected another round of evacuations in the area you were describing. Were up to 1900 homes in the area evacuated from a series of fires that burned over 12,000 acre. We expect the number of acres to go up tonight due to the activity that we saw today. Absolutely, this is allen martin now, with fires in e ththe esarea, irem evacuees have a specific place to go. Where is it . The Community Crosswalk church in the town of napa on the west side of highway 29 off first street. Theyre equipped to handle folks. And we have other continge
Take a look behind me. Weve been watching this fire grow in size and intensity all afternoon long out here. You can see the plumes of oke c the ground. The dark smoke typically indicative of homes going up. Theres a lot to be concerned about out here this afternoon. A sense of deja vu all over smoke are building hundreds of feet in the air as fires that had been calm take off in the scorching afternoon heat. We spotted flames ripping through heavy under brush. The people who call were taking no chances as guided evacuation by cal fire emissions expanded in size through the dry winding hills. Chopper 5 saw this man hosing off his roof trying to buy his home a chance at survival. Neighbors still scared from the 2017 fire storm are worried as conditions dryer, and windier,. We know people who live on Hennessey Ridge anfire is reall assist at least the main plume at moment. Were extremely concerned. Its deja vu, and this is day two of it. And you were in the same area yesterday. Are the co
Evacuated. The estimated number more than doubled according to cal fire officials from 28,000, to they are going place to place trying to save homes. More than 1000 fireednd i graed 64,000 today. Based on my observations over stt erl the last three days we have e it w st seen fewer, and fewer people and that is because you see the destruction and residents here have seen homes burned down. Chances are they will take off and evacuate as soon as they see that. That is what we have seen so far here in ben loman and in the areas nearby. Enny rerting live thank you. North bay killed four people and is now the 10th largest fire in state history. Mandatory evacuations expanded north covering forced ville and around lake sonoma. We do have evacuation orders that are being lifted along with that this is interesting we are also in the process of adding more evacuations. That is something we normally do not do. We are spread out on still large geographical area, that we have different fire behavi
Be in the white house. So joining us today to kick off the democrats week and talk about whats making headlines is democratic congressman ted lu. Good to have you here. Thank you, kristen. Youre a second term congressman representing part of l. A. County. Lately, youve gotten a lot of National Attention though due to your tweets calling out haters, internet trolls and even President Trump. When President Trump said in an interview, if i pluz the election, youll have to learn to speak chinese and you, representative lu, tweeted, dear real donald trump, i speak chinese and serve on active duty military, something you were too afraid to do, to defend your right to say stupid stuff. That stuff, we blocked out. Fair to say theres quite a bit of edge there . Trying to tell the truth i want people to pay attention. This is not only not normal but what hes doing is destroying our republic. Also, in that tweet, i sense theres some personal experience that was driving the anger there. Is that ri