Puddles, thats what happens around the offramps, sometimes drains are blocked, sometimes the drainage machines are off so that will be an issue. Usual suspects through san jose, flooding reports scattered around and here is 87 at 85 with recent rain. Weve got that radar around here but you take it off and youre met with green. Green means wet roads and also means green on the Speed Sensors at speed. Be careful, lower the speed. Kris sanchez talked about the basic speed law and with all of this radar activity thats the big concern, wind and rain across the bridges. Just be careful that no major crashes right now. Back to you. Thank you, mike. The commute might be inconvenient for you but one of our big concerns has been the north bay and the burn zone, so weve sent a lot of manpower and woman power up there to get that covered for you. Sharon katsuda joins us live from geyserville this morning. At least she has a smile on her face but there was a lot of concern with all the rain that ca
Ordered over the weekend because the fire grew the winds whipped up and there are about 80,000 structures in harms way right now thats why so many people are on the move james, yeah, and its incredible to think the. Just the sheer geography of the mandatory evacuation area mean thats what this map shows us right now its this entire area in purple which has grown massively in size since weve last look at this on friday when the fire first broke out it was just this upper left corner theres upper corner that was under mandatory Evacuation Order. Now course it extends all the way up to the coast and as you can see it stretches. Well south from where it was just 2 days ago now encroaching into northern portions of sonoma couy which is kind of scary. Lets zoom in here just a touch want to focus in on where the fire is burning really where has burned but where its currently burning now and thats what these callers help to illustrate the lighter the color, the older the flame and you can see
Rosa, lets zoom in here because beyond just the evacuation area. This map also shows us where the fire is burning an interest in lee shows us where the most recent burn activity has been happening thats what these colors indicate the more pale the color. The older the flames, so if you want to see where it originated you look up here you can see all those pale beige dots those ofhthe original fires that broke out the red dots are the more recent fires and you can see theyre spreading to the south and to the southwest which brings it pretty close to highway one oh one in those communities that run right alongside geyserville was evacuated. But we also have healdsburg and winds are now as part of the evacuation zone and its easy to see why look at the spot fires coming right up against the city limits on some of those towns, lets continue sliding the maps. So we can reveal santa rosa and here we have northern sections of santa rosa that include the Fountain Grove neighborhoods, and the c
Containment with it over the weekend we have been told by officials that is not a huge cause for worry firefighters right now have an important window of time in which the wind has died down dramatically. We have an update on the number of structures that have burned, how much land has burned. This has been an intense firefight. You can already feel some of the smoke affect us. Ive gotten a lot of tweets asked about the quality last time. There is a marsh fire as well and some of that smoke is coming down here as well. You can almost see in the newsroom this morning when you came in. As for the king fire it is still racing across north bay. It is expanding so fast as mentioned only five containment and has burned almost 85 square miles thus far. 94 buildings including more than 30 homes have been destroyed and almost 80,000 buildings are in danger. A News Conference will be held shortly and we will bring that update to you coming up in just a matter of minutes. So far 200,000 people ha
They saved our town. Thousands and thousands of firemen stayed here and saved our town. Theres no words. A Community Comes together in a show of appreciation. A lot of people didnt realize that we were told that with almost 100 certainty that we were going to lose our entire town. A situation more critical than many realized. The mayor says the town of windsor was in the direct path of the fire and was spared somehow. We begin tonight in the north bay where abc7 News Reporter kordel bernard is live in windsor. Neighbors there showed their appreciation in a big way today. Reporter i have to tell you, there is so much gratitude here in windsor, it is amazing. Today the town came out in a very big way to thank all of its firefighters. Its the town where firefighters have become instant superheroes. Even the mayor of windsor wanted a hug, and who could blame him. After all, how do you thank those who saved your town. Well, you do it like this. Hundreds crowded the windsor town green with b