Nearly 340,000 acres. And is 10 contained 5 structures have been destroyed 20,000 others are threatened to First Responders and 2 civilians have been injured. Kron fours dan thorn live for us in Santa Clara County tonight where the su lightning complex continues to spread. In the area around Mount Hamilton, so dan what have you learned tonight. And in this fire is primarily burning right now in the deep rural areas near Mount Hamilton as you head up the lick observatory. Still very smoky and very dangerous for people that are in those areas and thats fire crews out here been asking people to evacuate and not be allowed to head back into these areas if you look at some of the video that we have from earlier today this is a grant ranch park where you can see charred hillsides there. Along with that you can see some flame retardant that was dropped off to prevent this fire from spreading over the last couple of days, nearby homes have been threatened as you can see a lot of dry brush out
Acres tonight we also know that President Trump has approved californias request for a president ial major disaster declaration. This afternoon governor gavin newsom tweeted his gratitude for the president s help writing that, although these are unprecedented times california is resilient. And well get through this. We have Team Coverage on these fires tonight kron fours noelle bellow gayle lot gayle ong and dan thorn on live with the latest on the fires and the damage and our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is in our Weather Center tracking the conditions, lets first go to know well with the very latest on the firefighting efforts in Sonoma County know well whats going on. And sorry just about 5 minutes ago, i watched as several fire trucks just came to zooming down this road, im on west side road in a Dry Creek Valley that is just west of healdsburg and most folks if you live on this road you were ordered to evacuate here west of highway one oh one and now as i mentioned several
Him at any nearby hospital. Is an absolute joke. They come in with their hazmat suits on and goggles and masks to tell me that oh, by the way youre positive. You have to get out of here, but we have no place to put you. Its been two hours. Reporter jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. A shocking attempted sex assault at a 24how much fitness in the east bay. This man, a transient, attacked a woman while she was working out at the gem on monday. He walked into the 24hour fitness in fremont, approached the woman inside a workout class when he pushed her to the ground and tried to sexually assault her in front of others. A Good Samaritan stepped in to save her. Anderson was arrested. We are less than an hour away from the most pivotal debate so far in the president ial race. This is a look inside the pairi hotel on the vegas strip. It will be exclusively right here on nbc. For the first time, billionaire Mike Bloomberg will be on stage. The former new york city mayor has flooded national air
Breaking news. San francisco put on notice. Our original series. I feel like we were sucker punched. Watching my the ones grow up, it is more of an inconvenience. Now that i have to move. We have the president s unusual threat against the city of San Francisco. Reporter the president said he would sick the Environmental Protection agency against San Francisco. The president wrapped up his California Tour today taking a shot at San Francisco. If you look at San Francisco, it is a total disaster. They will ruin their cities. We will get involve soon on a federal basis. Reporter tonight as he was leaving he made more remarks on air force one regarding San Franciscos harmless crisis. The president claimed, quote from the president , we will give San Francisco a notice very soon. Epa will be putting out a notice. They are in serious violation. It sounds completely ridiculous to me. I dont know why we believe a word that comes out of his mouth at this point. Reporter this San Francisco super
Our original series. I feel like we were sucker punched. Watching my the ones grow up, it is more of an inconvenience. Now that i have to move. We have the president s unusual threat against the city of San Francisco. Reporter the president said he would sick the Environmental Protection agency against San Francisco. The president wrapped up his California Tour today taking a shot at San Francisco. If you look at San Francisco, it is a total disaster. They will ruin their cities. We will get involve soon on a federal basis. Reporter tonight as he was leaving he made more remarks on air force one regarding San Franciscos harmless crisis. The president claimed, pollution was flowing into the ocean because of waste and storm sewers citing specifically used needles. The quote from the president , we will give San Francisco a notice very soon. Epa will be putting out a notice. They are in serious violation. It sounds completely ridiculous to me. I dont know why we believe a word that comes