Thats why the Evacuation Order. James, yeah, and just to see the size of the mandatory evacuation. Order now really does explain why were seeing such high numbers in terms of the total number of people evacuated which is approaching 200,000 and all those 10s of thousands of homes that are in jeopardy, right now the purple area is the mandatory evacuation zone and it stretches from the hills to the west of guys are with the fire initially started all the way out to the coast. And it also extends from geyserville all the way down to northern santa rosa i want zoom in and show you some of the fire areas because thats what each one of these dots represent and the color correlates with how long the fires been burning so the original fires broke out in the lighter cor here as you can see in that section of the hillside but the newer fires all these red dots these of the ones broke out over the weekend you can definitely see the fire has been moving aggressively in the southern and southwest
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
Breaking news tonight, victims of the gilroc garlic festival about to sue. What they claim led to the shooting. And in Hong Kong Police use Water Cannons on protesters, schools and universities shut down. Plus seattle has done it. A state stadium full of broken hearts. The 49ers perfect season ends in ot. But the fans made a little history. And in project home, hundreds of thousands of homeowners using insurance year after year. Why people in the fire zone keep getting burned. Good evening, im veronica de la cruz. And im ken bastida. First that breaking news. Were just getting word that a new lawsuit is about to be filed on behalf of 5 victims in the gilroy garlic festival shooting. It alleges negligent security measures led to the deaths on july 28th. 4 people were killed, 17 others injured. The law goes after the garlic festival association. Investigators say the shooter got inside Festival Grounds by cutting through a fence to avoid metal detectors. The lawsuit is expected to be ann
Or cars. As the winds calm down firefighters started making progress. As massive air tankers laid down lines of bright red retardant. And dozers moved into cut firebreaks. We want to make as much progress as we can while conditions are optimal. Things are not going to be in our favor this weekend. Reporter from where we are we are seeing two of these water dropping helicopters making roundtrips to a pond right behind this house. This is part of an effort to get those containment numbers up. As of right now the official number is this fire is 0 contained. Cal fire is expected to give us an update around 7 pm tonight. We are hoping those numbers will be up by then. We know that 2000 people have evacuated. Where are they being evacuated to . Reporter there are a number of different Evacuation Centers that have been set up in the hills. Santa rosa areas. The Sonoma County Sheriff Department has done a great job on their social media pages and websites. Of being able to get that information
Check, more than 66 those acres burned, equivalent to 100 swear miles. Firefighters have just 5 contained right now and today they are hoping to make progress. As the wind calms down the smoky air is settling. Here is a live look outside. Mitch of the bad air youre seeing and smells is coming from a large fire burning on griz by island. Looking at the east bay from San Francisco, this shows the skies getting more and more hazy as the hours go by. The air, so bad there, the Unified School District is letting students go home early. Here you can see the dark skies over the city. Meteorologist mary saying you can see and smell the smoke. Dealing with the smoke from two wildfires, one from the kincade and grizzly fire. You can see on our camera lacking north, the smoky skies this afternoon. That will continue as we go through the day. Checking current air quality conditions, up in windsor, closer to the kincade fire, hazardous dangerous air quality with a value of 619. Very unhealthy air i