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Theyre obviously trying to seal off this area, in case any of these embers that kick up create a worse situation. and theyre doing things like running maintenance. we can show you another house off my right shoulder. take a look at this. this is right next door. you can seal firefighter see f family members back there. we spoke to them right before im speaking to you. this was in the family home since 1989. family members obviously devastated here on scene. firefighters combing through the wreck...

Results of that. unfortunately, a lot of people were home at the time it broke out. they had no idea this was coming. these wind events are fast. theres no warning. all it takes is a single group of embers and you have another fire sprouting up. the good thing, as you mentioned, it appears calm because the winds are calm. if i was talking to you yesterday, it would look like i was literally in a wind tunnel. id have to have my goggles on, something covering my mouth. today, the winds are a whole...

Of them all over the state. behind me, i mean it looks peaceful because everythings gone. i mean, take a look at this. this is the hillside fire. essentially, the hillside it burnt down on. you can see this is all charred out but its gone and raced all the way down overnight in a very, very, very quick time. 200 acres into this neighborhood. we can show you what happened down here. more heartbreaking, obviously. take a look here. this house, firefighters have a hose on it but its already complet...

Evacuations in sonoma county. a beautiful wine country with face masks. celebrities among the thousands forced to evacuate. the national weather service warns conditions will get even wurs today. lets get more from stephanie elam. shes in l.a. for us. >> reporter: christine and dave, they say this wind event is like no other, so much so the national weather service has said this is an extreme weather event, the first time they have ever used language like that for los angeles. theyre saying thes...

Threatening celebrity homes including lebron james and arnold schwarzenegger. the national weather service warns it could get worse today. more from stephanie elam from los angeles. >> reporter: christine and dave, theyre saying this wind event is like no other, so much so the national weather service has now said this is an extreme weather event, the first time theyve ever used language like that for los angeles. theyre saying these winds could be as much as 80 miles an hour and in line with so...

We are still waiting for the howling winds to materialize. they havent yet. we have been told that the winds are expected to pick up between now and sunrise. so the next four hours or so will be critical for firefighters working to hold the line and make sure this fire does not get any bigger. a week after it started. the kincade fire has grown to 76,000 acres. and amid todays wind protecting homes will be the top priority today. >> what we tend to do in these fire fights during the wind event i...

>> harris: christina, just real quickly -- its harris -- im reading now the number has popped to 1.5 million people in 30 counties in the state but now dont have electricity as power companies are trying to keep the sparks down. what is that situation like where you are? >> well, right now i can tell you that in southern california, you have southern california edison, theyve shut off power to at least 14,000 customers. they were going to consider doing so for at least 300,000 customers sometime...

Practice my faith, never let my religious beliefs. rob: the priest denied communion to biden over his support for abortion. carley: the getty fire was sparked by a tree branch following on a power line. the area now under its first-ever extreme red flag warning. rob: that was the moment the getty fire started in the winds are intensifying, the diablo, santa ana wednesday night. power outages in the north. >> that is where we find claudia cowan in santa rosa. anything getting better? >> reporter:...

Firefighters working to make sure the kincaid fire does not get any bigger. it has grown to 76,000 acres. to give you a better idea how big that is, take a look at the fires footprint overlaid on a map of new york city. here is how it looks over a map of washington dc and this fire has taken out 186 structures, 86 of them homes. thousands of others to reflect and protecting them will be the main objective today. >> what we do in these firefights during a wind event is literally go house to house...

Make sure that smoldering flame does not morph back to life, the moment that fire began early monday morning when high windss blue a branch into a power line, sparking a brush that quickly exploded. the fire has burned 650 acres. electricity still out for 1 million people and frustration is growing, since saturday, searching for places to charge their phones, even to take a shower. pg and the hopes to get everyone back online after this next wind event dies down hopefully later today. and the hi...