santa rosa, that s where jr is live, the flames have creeped closer where are they now? reporter: the good news is that there are firefighters in that area where we are. at one point, the flames were within the neighborhood of 30 to 40 feet. i was able to go back behind that house to see how close they got. but those firefighters showed up and really helped out in that scenario, we will get to that in a moment but i wanted to show you what it looks like in oakmont. that s the fire line up in the hills over here. i want to pan out to get you a better shot of the fire line in the distance, you get a real perspective in the evening hours of what is looks like, you can see where things are burning when the sun goes down. that being said i wanted to go to that video that i talked about. this is from woodly off oakmont drive. you can see how bad the flames are in the one section, i was down there for two hours and we did not see any houses catch fierks the firefighters got there
i do want to go to some of the video because i was up on that hill earlier this evening and if it weren t for the cell signal, we d be going live up there right now. you can see those flames and just how close they were to some of the homes earlier this afternoon, at one point between 30 to 50 feet from those homes on woodley place, but they have since dissipated at this point and even gone in the other direction a bit and the good news this evening is the fact the wind is not nearly as strong as it was earlier this afternoon in this area. most of the people have been evacuated from here. i mean it was a mandatory evacuation. i did talk with a couple people who chose not to leave despite that mandatory evacuation. they advised us get out now and i said we will be ready to go if we think we re in jeopardy and they were insistent and we said, you know, bear with us. we want to stay as long as we can. it s really sad. it s so sad. we love oakmont. we ve been here for almost
let s start with a live look outside. the morning rush about to start with traffic hitting the road as we look at the bay bridge on the left. there you go the interchange in dublin on the right we have all that traffic. happy monday. what is going on out the there. we will have clear skies smelling less smoky today. visibility should be fine with the smoke and haze because we have calm conditions. the wind is very calm across the fire zone and they will stay like that and then we are welcoming the onshore breeze getting wind from the coast tuesday and wednesday and then look at this chance of rain reaching us wednesday night through thursday. here is a look at the fire burned areas. calm conditions across the board which looks good across the monitors. a little increase in gusts at 10 miles per hour but the expected rain totals will be a welcomed sight. i will explain when we should see the rain, but up to 1/4 inch expected for those areas that are burning. we have to wai
they have directly linked rahami to state s explosions in both new york city and new jersey. and connected him to five more bombs found sunday night near a new jersey train stayed. they are looking into whether he had any ties to terror groups. a senior law enforcement official tells cbs news rahami traveled to his native afghanistan at least three times in the last two years. he also visited pakistan. as the investigation continues, people who live along the street where the bomb went off are returning to their homes. and businesses are back open again. all we can do is be vij land and clean up the miss. it is very strange that it happened here. reporter: officials say there is no indication of an extremist cell operating in the area and believe rahami acted alone. hena daniels, cbs news. rahami was captured three hours after a cell phone alert to millions of people in new york and new jersey with his name and picture. today federal regulators are announcing a whol
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