Valley. The camera is moving around quite a bit. Take our word for it. In the area on the 405 in san fernando valley, you can see how traffic is. These are aerial shots, live. The smokes, the flames, if you know the area near the getty center, right in the heart of the san fernando valley, extremely densely populated sherman oaks, brentwood, mullholland drive, it is in the area of the wildfire that is spreading. I was talking i dont know if you can see. They have a Fire Fighting helicopter up. That is good to see. They need that. And Steve Paulson has been talking about the air quality, the winds in the area as well. It is a very, very fluid situation down there in los angeles. And certainly with this situation, steve can chime in here, winds are the story. Very, very low humidity is a factor. 8 for some. 8 by the getty. The winds are not as bad but im seeing 54 Miles Per Hour east of ventura. Really . It is not as bad for some. But there will still be off and on wind gusts around 50 i
Recognize jerusalem as israels capital. More World Leaders condemning the move. Those stories plus the massive new lawsuit facing Harvey Weinstein. Why we are flooding this house on purpose. And shoplifting suspects speed away from a mall, dragging a Security Guard with them. The race is on to find them today. Thursday, december 7th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. So nice to have you with us on a thursday morning. We want to get right to the breaking news. The raging wildfires in Southern California. Fastmoving story. Fastmoving fires. Four major blazes burning out of control right now. The largest is the thomas fire. It has destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings in and around ventura, north of los an then theres also a creek fire in northern los angeles. Another one sweeping through bel air. Then the rye fire near santa clarita. Theyve prompted the evacuation of 200,000 people and of
Recognize jerusalem as israels. More World Leaders condemning the move. Those stories plus the massive new lawsuit ey why we are flooding and speed away from a mall, dragging a Security Guard with them. The race is on to find them today. Thursday, december 7th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, a. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. So nice to have you with us on a thursday morning. We want to get righo the breaking news. The raging wildfires in Southern California. Fastmoving story. Fastmoving fires. Four major blazes bnirol right. The largest is the thomas fire. It hasestroyed hundreds of homes and buildings in and en theres a a creek fire os in northern los angeles. Another one sweeping through bel then the rye fire near santa clarita. Theyve prompted the evacuation of eople and officials expect more will be ordered. The potentially wis that briefly died down wednesday returned overnight, and they are fanning the flames. They are. More than 100,000 acres have burned so far, and
Day of rage. Fresh turmoil over President Trumps decision to officially recognize jerusalem as israels capital. More World Leaders condemning the move. Those stories plus the massive new lawsuit facing Harvey Weinstein. Why we are flooding this house on purpose. And shoplifting suspects speed away from a mall dragging cu wildfires on the today show the race is on to find them today, thursday, december 7, 2017. We want to get right to the breaking news, the raging wildfires in Southern California. Four major blazes burning out of control right now. The largest is the thomas fire. It has destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings around ventura around los angeles. Then theres the creek fire in northern los angeles, another sweeping through belair and then the rye fire near santa clarita. Theyve prompted the evacuation of more than 200,000 people. Officials expect more will be ordered . Thats because these potentially catastrophic winds that briefly died down on wednesday returned overnigh
Lets start with chief meteorologist Brittney Shipp. She has details on where the storm is right now. This storm really packed a punch. Was almost a foot of rainfall in parts of our regions in the north bay. Lets take a look at rainfall totals. Preimpressive. Close to 12 inches of rain. Saratoga come almost 9 inches. Close to 8 inches in pacifica. San francisco, 2 inches. If youre closer to oakland, 2 inches. San jose, an inch and a half but it really depends on where you are and the bullseye was mainly over the santa cruz mountains. In our Higher Elevations and our northbay zone, i want to back up the radar. There is a 12 hour loop just to show you how much heavy rain we dealt with over our Early Morning hours this morning all through today into thes evening. Right now, you can see a lot of the rainfall is mainly situated near tracy, where we ares dull seeing rainfall amounts around a halfinch an hour. Slide down to boulder creek, we are still seeing a good amount of rainfall and were