This is Straight Talk from the disease doctor. What hes saying is that this virus does not respect borders. It doesnt respect state or city borders and he pointed to the rising rates in places like atlanta, baltimore, kansas city. He says we need to work to keep the numbers down. Unless everybody pulls together and gets the level way down of a baseline, were going to continue to see these kind of increases that dr. Birx was talking about in several of those cities. Thats what i mean by smoldering. You have got to get that baseline down and everybody on this group, everybody on the team of american citizens need to pull together. Lets because were all in this together. Dr. Fauci then went on to talk about what a diverse country we are so that its harder he spoke with me at the very, very beginning. Back in january, he said, elizabeth, this is a bit country, its a diverse country, Different Things are going to happen in different places. Smaller countries have been a easier time having t
President s page because it was spreading dangerous misinformation about coronavirus. Joining us now, dr. Anthony fauci, director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases. Dr. Fauci, thanks so much for getting up this morning and being with us. Its always a pleasure to speak with you. Great to have you back on new day. We reported this new warning from dr. Deborah birx, about nine cities and the Central Valley of california. What do you see there that is raising concern . Yes, what dr. Birx was talking about is that when you look at the number of percentage of the tests that you do are positive, its referred to as percent positive, its a clear indication that you are getting an uptick in cases, which inevitably, as weve seen in the other than states, leads to surges and then you get hospitalizations and then you get deaths. So its a pretty good predictor, usually before people become aware of it, its that indicator that maybe a fraction or two or a single percentage
Order thousands of people to leave their homes or risk their lives if they stay. Watch these courageous sheriffs deputies going door to door as they try to get people to safety. Where you at . Right here. Come on. Screw your shoe. Come on. Shes disabled. Let me get her feet. Your husbands right behind you. Sheriff were doing a carry out. Ready . Hold up. Hold up. The biggest fire is in napa and solona county. The heart of californias wine country. Thats where 50,000 acres have burned so far. 17 separate fires are burning. 36 people are dead. More than 200 unaccounted for. 220,000 acres are destroyed. California emergency officials expanded the red flag warning to impact about 20 million people. Thats the highest alert issue meaning conditions are dry and windy that the slightest spark could trigger a major fire. Lets get out to Sonoma County right now. Are people following the ordser . Reporter they are. Were in that area. They extend some of the orders to the city of sonoma. I want to
Throughout history, the one meal when we come together, break bread, share our day and connect as a family. [ bloop, clicking ] and connect, as a family. Just, uh one second voice guy. [ bloop ] huh . Hey . I paused it. Bam, family time. So how is everyone . Find your awesome with xfinity xfi and change the way you wifi. Good evening. We begin tonight with breaking news on the wildfires in the wine country and all across the state. At one point the fast moving flames were consuming the ekwif equivalent of a football field every three seconds. Cnns ryan young is on the fire. He joins us now. What have you been seeing around you on the ground . Reporter anderson, its just amazing. Whether you watch that video you get sort of an idea of what it was like. When you stand here it blows your mind. This was an entire neighborhood. In fact were standing right in front of a home. This garage is just whats left. We saw a file cabinet back there. Its the only thing we can make of the home. Its wei
There. Its the only thing we can make of the home. Its weird, the only thing that survived in the neighborhood are the trees. You look at this car, its stuck in the middle of the road. The tires have disintegrated at this point. We were looking at the damage walking through, the idea of 15 people died. 183 people still missing. Weve been told by officials they dont believe all 183 people are dead. There have been some miscommunication people around this area because the fires were so intense they hit a tower. This scene sort of repeats itself over and over again as we have been driving through the area. This looks like someone dropped a bomb in certain areas, anderson, as its been so powerful. As we look back at this direction, even as were talking right now, there is smouldering still going on. The firefighters told us this is an active fire theyre still fighting right now. As i understand it the police are saying the area you are still not safe right . Reporter absolutely. As we walk