30 -percent. where it was at this time yesterday evening. some 200 homes have been evacuated. kron 4 s j-r stone is live near the fire line with the latest details tonight. j.r.? reporter: the good news right now is that the wind has died down. especially in comparison to what it was earlier this afternoon reporter:new video into the kron-4 newsroom tonight.shows a wall of flames.eating away at a north bay hillside. reporter: the heat and low reporter: since it is hard to see at times because of all of the smoke officer to see that it was straight up and down. firefighters have of stability with the notion tried to climb it begins to get very dangerous. reporter: residences have burned to the ground. firefighters have been fighting on the ground and in the air. droping water hunter is have they evacuate many as 10 had been living in the subdivision. not understand there s only one way and and one way out. reporter: for now the focus is for putting the fire o
i do not care about any of the key six in my house i just want to see my docks. dogs catherine: the last man is a hiker who had to walk out of the fire area on foot. he says he was very nervous and got uncomfortably close to smoke and flames. as he says - he at least managed to get word to family and friends. catherine: tonight a lot of people are still waiting to hear news on whether their homes are okay. and it continues to be a tense time. and there are a lot of charred hillsides, scorched power lines and smoldering trees in the wake of the fire. reporter: the biggest concern for the next two hours is that there is a breeze that we are dealing with. something that they did not have to worry about yesterday but there is a strong breeze of that is picking up within 200 yds of the home you can see flames at the hillside in on the other side large clouds that are into the sky. you talking about 1000 firefighters in this area all over the place and the area around.
percent. and some 2-hundred homes have been evacuated. kron-4 s j-r stone explains why this fire has been so challenging for crews on the front line. flames shooting into the air in northern napa county and parts of lake county. firefighters have now been fighting these flames for more than 24 hours and they are still dealing with challenges. the heat, the low humidity, the fuel bed is so dry. temperatures wednesday reached into the upper 90 s. as i drove along butts canyon road in napa county it was hard to see at times because of all the smoke. really the topography. if you go you can see that it is straight up and downheavy rocks so it s the firefighters having the instability platforms to work fromyou have the dozers trying to climb that rock. it gets to be very dangerous. so far no one has been hurt but 9 structures including 2 residences have burned to the ground. those with cal fire aren t sure if anyone had been living in those homes. firefighters have been figh
reno by corrupt forces in nevada. as for the gypsy hill murders he says he doesn t quote know anything about them except what people are telling him. i ll have more on this exclusive communication tonight at 6:00. in the newsroom, andria borba, kpix 5. halbower will be arraigned on monday. coming up at 6:00, where he says he was during the time of the murders. new at 5:00 he was convicted in one of san francisco s most bizarre crimes. now the same man is under arrest. tied to at least one recent arson case in the castro. kpix 5 s da lin on the arrest and the suspect s lurid past. da? reporter: david diaz was arrested in the castro here in the castro last night. they believe he set a fire behind a second-story salon on saturday. investigators say his current boyfriend actually owns a bar on the first floor right below that salon. so far, diaz is not connected to other recent arsons in the castro and noe valley. san francisco police say diaz does not match the suspect des
it s friday, january 30th. i m tori campbell. good morning. i m dave clark. let s check your weather and traffic. steve, how is it looking out there? very foggy. not for all. but for many, there s coast fog, bay fog, from santa rosa to vallejo, all the way to san jose. even on the coast we have fog in there. there s pretty good rain in southern california, lighting up by kingman, arizona, las vegas, phoenix. today looks like rain in arizona, tomorrow decreases and sunday it shut calm down. it will be sunny, cool to warm, the fog will retreat by the coast and inland fog will start to head back to the valley. don t usually see this in january to get the radiation and the invection fog. that s what we have. there is a lot more today than yesterday. 30s, 40s, 50 is on the temps. 38 napa and santa rosa. some of that fog is thick 50 los gatos. 40s for morgan hill and gilroy. really foggy towards morgan hill. we have a lot of cloud cover in the four corners of southern califor