21 fires are still burning across northern california. The biggest ones are devastating wine country and causing dangerous air quality throughout the bay area. And right now, at least 26 people confirmed dead. At least 463 more are reported missing. The fires have charred more than 156,000 acres and more than 3500 homes and businesses have already been destroyed. We have Live Team Coverage from the fire zones and on the bad air throughout the bay area. First, jackie ward is live in napa county. Jackie. Reporter michelle, for the first time in four days we heard a bit of good news, a bit of optimism, from napa county officials. Still, fire crews have a long way to go when it comes to battling this. This is the atlas fire. This is the view of skyline park from chopper 5 that it had around 6 30 a. M. Flames have spread down the hillside and into this canyon producing thick dark smoke. Cal fire says the winds didnt materialize quite like they expected and thats a good thing. They are hopin
Santa rosa. Right now there are 400 people missing in Sonoma County alone. And more than 191thousand acres have burned state wide. And that number could rise. james good morning and thanks for joining us. Im james fletcher. robin and im robin winston. And we are continuing our coverage of the deadly firestorm in the north bay. Another big story from the fires, the smoke. And winds are pushing the fire smoke all over the bay area causing bad air quality and forcing hundreds of schools to close. james the state schools chief says nearly 600 schools with about 260 thousand students are affected. Heres the list of school closures. Lets go ahead and begin cycling through them. adlib over full screens of school robin robin robin fire officials have began the process of identifying the bodies of loved ones who were reported missing. The search itself has been incredibly challenging because the fire is still raging. Homes are too hot to search. Even when they know there is likely someone in th
Enough. More than 140 women in state politics from staffers to lobbyists to elected officials have signed an open letter calling out what they say is the culture of Sexual Harassment and assault in the halls of state government. To discuss this further, im joined by sacramento lobbyist pamela lopez, who helped organize the letter campaign, california state senator Nancy Skinner of berkeley, and kqed politics and government reporter marisa lagos, who joins us from sacramento. Welcome to you all. Pamela, let me begin with you. Why did you and other women who work in the State Capitol Hill Community decide to issue this open letter. Because weve had enough in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, i and several other friends started comparing notes and talking about our experiences working in california politics and the California Political community. And started sharing some very upsetting stories about quid pro quo Sexual Harassment that weve faced from powerful men in the capitol co
More than 140 women in state politics from staffers to lobbyists to elected officials have signed an open letter calling out what they say is the culture of Sexual Harassment and assault in the halls of state government. To discuss this further, im joined by sacramento lobbyist pamela lopez, who helped organize the letter campaign, california state senator Nancy Skinner of berkeley, and kqed politics and government reporter marisa lagos, who joins us from sacramento. Welcome to you all. Pamela, let me begin with you. Why did you and other women who work in the State Capitol Hill Community decide to issue this open letter. Because weve had enough in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, i and several other friends started comparing notes and talking about our experiences working in california politics and the California Political community. And started sharing some very upsetting stories about quid pro quo Sexual Harassment that weve faced from powerful men in the capitol community,
Enough. More than 140 women in state politics from staffers to lobbyists to elected officials have signed an open letter calling out what they say is the culture of Sexual Harassment and assault in the halls of state government. To discuss this further, im joined by sacramento lobbyist pamela lopez, who helped organize the letter campaign, california state senator Nancy Skinner of berkeley, and kqed politics and government reporter marisa lagos, who joins us from sacramento. Welcome to you all. Pamela, let me begin with you. Why did you and other women who work in the State Capitol Hill Community decide to issue this open letter. Because weve had enough in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, i and several other friends started comparing notes and talking about our experiences working in california politics and the California Political community. And started sharing some very upsetting stories about quid pro quo Sexual Harassment that weve faced from powerful men in the capitol co