Good evening everyone. I am frank sommerville. The fire is reporting a dramatic increase in the number of homes and businesses that have been lost in the fire still burning out of control in that napa and sonoma counties. The latest update shows 58,000 acres have burned and that is up from 51,000 this time last night and containment has improved slightly and now 5 compared to 2 yesterday but the Damage Assessment is higher. Cal fire so the number of homes and businesses destroyed has gone up to 419 and that number was 150 last night. We are tracking the weather conditions that firefighters are facing and we will hear from him in a moment but first we go to amber lee and describe the situation there. Reporter christina, we are in downtown calistoga and it is deserted and the entire city is under a mandatory Evacuation Order and the smell of smoke is strong and it has been raining ashes and in the meantime firefighters are trying to get the upper hand. Reporter in st. Helena near highway
A rally just yesterday and was with him on air force one both to and from the debate on tuesday in cleveland. This means other white house staffers and members of the president s family and inner circle may also have been exposed. Joining us now is a political reporter greg lee and with these fastmoving developments. The white House Doctors of the president will continue with his official duties at the white house. Reporter yes. We actually just learned about the president s schedule tomorrow. He is scheduled to have a 12 30 call and maybe with some seniors that could be affected by the coronavirus and he was supposed to fly in the evening to florida for a Campaign Rally and that is no longer on the schedule and understandably unpredictably so but the significance of this cant be understated and first of all you consider the fact that this is the commander in chief and the leader of the United States and free world and now this puts the west wing in a bit of a tailspin because now you
Signs of ending. Tomorrow will mark the 25th day in a row. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. It was not the dramatic orange glow we saw yesterday. Even though the sky looked better today experts said their quality was much worse. We have Team Coverage tonight with chief meteorologist bill martin looking for signs of improvement. First, word from airquality officials. An and record 24 day of that error alerts with another one issued tomorrow. Experts say the worst air was in San Francisco tonight, very few places i good enough air to be outdoors. Keys are pub in San Francisco football fans not bothered by this movie conditions for the nfl Season Opener against super bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans. The smoke is heavy and we are all trying to break through it. We are all here to watch football. Reporter the bars manager not expecting outdoor patio to fill up ahead of kickoff. Today im surprised you got this far because the weather. Repo