School in Boulder Creek. Thats where evacuees are already heading, we are told there are 150 so far, that fire they have knocked on some doors, theyre trying to get people out and get them to that school. The wind is a concern this morning. If there are any out there, lets check in with mike nicco on the forecast. Jessica, reggie, that was a good if there are any winds out there, that was a good statement there, jessica. Hi, everybody, let me start off by saying this is not and will not be a repeat of what we dealt with in the north bay. We just do not have the environmental weather or wind conditions to do it. Right now there are no wind, but the temperature up at about 1600 to 1800 feet its 69 degrees, a little warm, humidity is about 23 so it is bone dry out there. What youre seeing right now is this is a chimney kind of fire. It is climbing up the valley walls due to the chimney effect because the hot air rises and as the hot air rises it dries out the registration above it and that makes the ignition a lot easier. Here is whats going to happen this afternoon, we will get a breeze, it will come out of the northwest and blow at 9, so like lexington hills, the summit, 17 we will probably get a little smoky this afternoon. Temperature will be 84, going to be warmer and humidity will be 22 . Im not saying this isnt a big fire, it is impressive enough that its showing up on our Doppler Radar there on mt. Umunhum, that is the radar picking up the smoke and the embers from the fire, but without any wind those embers arent ridge jumping, they arent leaving the parent fire. They get cold or they get cooler than the Environmental Air and then they fall right back down into the that valley. So that valley will be on fire, but the likelihood of it spreading just not really that great. So one last thing i want to talk about, the air quality. Now, its going to be very bad right in that area and when the winds start to blow out of the northwest it will push it more towards gilroy, morgan hill, san martin, watsonville in that area during the afternoon hours. Our poorest air quality right now in the north bay, the rest of us are moderate, whether its the coast and central bay, inland east bay, South Central bay or the Santa Clara Valley but the southern Santa Clara Valley probably will have less in the way of good air quality because of that smoke that will start moving from northwest to southeast later on. I cant emphasize enough, it has its challenges because of the roads, because of the lack of population, but this will not be a repeat of the north bay. That certainly is good news, mike. We want to talk a little bit about road closures with this as well. I will take you in on our traffic maps and show you where this is. Weve been talking to matt keller who is getting really close to the scene here, he has been calling in on the phone. This is really not a hugely densely residential area, but there are a lot of folks who live here, but these are really some mountainous roads between the Boulder Creek area and the summit. Between state route 9 and state route 17. He mentioned a little earlier this morning there is a lot of construction of course we just had all of those slides last winter with the rainy season. I actually do have a little bit of new information from chp, they started getting calls about a house fire around 10 30 last night and that is what spread to the vegetation and that is what were dealing with right now. They have shut down the construction on state route 9. So caltrans picked that up at alba, they have that roadway back open. For folks trying to evacuate that is not going to be a concern for you on state route 9, you should be able to get through there freely, those crews picked up early in morning. We do have Additional Closures in the area as well. Bear creek which is sort of a main road through this stretch is closed at state route 9 and again at hawk ridge. I dont have any full closures of highway 17 if youre going to head over that way, we are seeing a little bit of red and yellow there on our traffic flows and that is due to overnight construction. For sure if youre going to be on Bear Creek Canyon road, deer creek road, rons road, dons road, lost valley road, favre ridge or oak ridge those are the areas you want to use caution and get out of there. You shouldnt have major problems evacuating, we do have a lot of onelane roads and again very mountainous roads but if you live in the area you obviously know that. Caltrans and chp trying to make it easier for you, too, picking up that construction ahead of schedule. Back to you. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller has been giving us a lot of new information about what is happening there. He is on the phone with us. Matt, last we talked to you you were able to confirm that there is some damage already to a structure. Reporter yes, thats what were hearing, that there is at least one home that was damaged or a structure that has been damaged in this fire. Were also getting word that we are going door to door now and knocking on doors, trying to get everybody out in that area. There are homes obviously in that area and there are people who live in the area, its mountain living so its not like, you know, the traditional neighborhood you think of in the city, but there are people who obviously live up in this area. This is in the los cumbras area. Theyre evacuating people down to Boulder CreekElement School so Boulder Creek is safe for now. Theyre trying to get people who are deeper into the Santa Cruz Mountains out of that area. The roads are the big issue. Its good to hear that theyve stopped the construction on highway 9 because a lot of the roads back here when youre driving in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the middle of the night there is so much construction going on from all the damage from the winter storms. People are having to deal with deciding whether or not they will take one road that has been blocked off. I know that, what was it [ inaudible ] what road was that . Upper bear creek road had some issues because of the winter storm, so sometimes when you are up here in the mountains you normally have two ways to get out and because of all the construction and all the damage from the storms, some people only have one way to get out. So sometimes its much more important to listen to those evacuation orders because if you have a chance to get out of a road you never know when thats going to be blocked off. Matt, you mentioned there were a couple agencies assisting with evacuations right now and i know youre very familiar with the area, so can you paint us a picture as to what that might look like, especially as those homes are pretty far away from each other and also what those buildings do look like in the area. Well, youve got the Santa Cruz CountySheriffs Office, you have the Santa Clara CountySheriffs Office and also the chp. So all three of those agencies are familiar with the Santa Cruz Mountains, they all have jurisdiction up here in one way or another. So they are familiar with the area up here. Getting the homes up here can be difficult, even getting up driveways. If you are off the road going up a driveway can be difficult to get up to because it can be a long ways away from the main road. So as theyre driving up bear creek road or any of these other roads, even though they have a home the homes on the left and on the right of them, its going to take a lot more time than going you know, walking in a neighborhood. They are going to have to drive up to there, knock on the door and obviously its very dark up here, theres not lights and things sort of for people to see so this might be kind of scary for some people getting knocks in the door in the mountains at 4 30 in the mountain. So thats obviously something people should be aware of that thats happening right now. Matt keller on the phone for us live, feeding us new information about this fire that continues to burn in the Santa Cruz Mountains. We will be checking in with you throughout the morning. We will turn to the containment figures from the north bay wildfires this morning. Progress in mendocino and lake count crease, the red wood fire now 55 contained and the sulfur fire is 90 contained. The atlas fire 70 containment, the tubbs fire at 75 and the nuns fire 53 containment, finally the pocket fire at 45 . Some con between River Rock Casino and chalk hill road, east shiloh road, west of Fourth Street east and grecky road and all the city of sonoma and county areas north of east napa and west napa street are now open. Cal fire and Sonoma CountyOfficials Say they are confident in the progress firefighters are making there, but if your house is in an area that is still evacuated it could be a few weeks before you can go home. We do have areas out there that are still evacuated and as soon as we can mitigate the threats of that by putting good control line on these fires and making sure that we are not putting people back into their homes and having to pull them back out the next day is eliminated. We will get those repopulated as well. In Sonoma County the death toll remains at 23. There are still about 80 people listed as missing. The sheriff warns the death toll could increase as searches of burned neighborhoods continue. Also in Sonoma County four of seven post offices that were closed temporarily will reopen today. The offices in vine burring and boyce hot spring both open at 8 30 and the ver know post office opens at 9 30 chblngts the sun in sonoma opens at noon today. Several schools in the fire zone are still closed, napa valley unified schools are set to reopen tomorrow. Sonoma county schools will begin reopening between monday and thursday of next week. Sonoma state resumes classes tomorrow. Santa Rosa Junior College will open on monday, Napa Valley College shelters will close today and the school will resume classes on monday. Now your accuweather forecast with mike nicco. Lets take a look at whats going to happen for the rest of us then we will get back to the fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Our winds pretty calm this morning. Any smoke out of the north bay you can see the winds are just a breath but theyre blowing from north to south and the greatest amount of smoke right now is hanging around the napa valley and over towards solano county. We have poor air quality for you while the rest are moderate. If you look at the visibility its not too bad, just about everywhere except for maybe right around novato. A little more smoke right there, than maybe anywhere else. Lets move on and lets talk about what to expect today as we look at the Ferry Building this morning, notice the winds, not all that great right now. And they are not going to be for the better part of today. Temperaturewise were going to be around 51 to 57. A little warmer this morning than it was this time yesterday morning. We have high clouds and once that sun comes up at 7 20 the high clouds and sunshine will mix for 65 at the coast at noon, 73 to 78 around the bay and inn hand and those temperatures pretty close to average. We still have several hours of warming to go so we will hit 62 at the coast as localized sea breeze will kick in. 77 around the bay to 84 inland. As were seeing the sunset, 56 at the coast, 67 around the bay, 71 inland at 7 00. Thats your 12hour day planner. Lets take a look at whats going on with our fire. We still have pretty much the same conditions, no wind, tremendous, a little warm, especially up in the elevations above 1500 feet, 69 and humidity is kind of dry. During the afternoon hours 84 degrees, humidity remains dry, the winds start blowing northwest to southeast at about 9 miles per hour. That may help spread the fire a little bit, but right now its just a valley fire that is going to stay in that valley because there is no wind. You can see it on radar and our air quality once again poorest up in the north bay right now, the rest of us moderate. We will keep an eye on the Santa Clara Valley because the smoke from this fire will be moving your way as we head into the afternoon hours. We have rain on the way, we will talk about that coming up next. A live look at the bay bridge toll plaza so you can see a little bit of that haze out there this morning, maybe a little bit of a stack up this those cash lanes as well, but we should have 40 minutes to go before we get those metering lights flipped on. We also briefly had a big problem on 880 southbound lanes just north of state route 84 that has cleared but i do want to touch on the fire once again and that is to the east of Boulder Creek to the west of the summit, a couple more closures just in from chp. They are saying now that bear creek is closed at dear creek canyon and that is a hard closure so it looks like you will not be able to get through there. Were also hearing about full closure bear creek at state certainly get out of the area if you can, if you dont feel like youre safe, and then i did pass this note along a few minutes ago but caltrans did pick up some construction they had overnight on state route 9. So that is no longer an issue, either. We will take a look at drive times coming up in a few minutes. Okay. Alexis, thank you. We will have more on that fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains, also have more on the north bay also have more on the north bay fire zone and the accident hmm. [cell phone beeps] hey [police whistle blows] [horns honking] woman hey [bicycle bell rings] turn here. There. Excuse me. Uh. Uh. [indistinct announcement on p. A. System] so, same time next week . Well, of course. Announcer put away a few bucks. Feel like a million bucks. For free tips to help you save, go to feed the pig and i take my job seriously. While im busy watching the game, i need your help keeping an eye on the stands. 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In fact, they are going door to door, evacuating about 150 residents right now. An Evacuation Center has been opened at Boulder Creek elementary this morning in Boulder Creek. We will continue to follow that fire but we want to turn our attention back to the north bay where those fires are still raging and the death of a private contractor a water tender driver marking its first fatality among the crews that were working in the front lines of the north bay fires. The driver of the truck died yesterday morning after his rig overturned on its way down the oakville grade at the nuns fire. The cab landed upside down on the side of a hill just below the roadway, the empty water tank became detached. The drivers id has not been released. Based on the log information on the cab this rig traveled from red bluff to help with the napa valley firefighting. When our neighbors in need abc 7 shows up. 7 on your sides michael finny will be at north bay Evacuation Centers today to help people affected by wildfires. You can come see him at the Sonoma County fairgrounds in santa rosa at 10 00 this morning. For a list of all locations go to abc7news. Com 7 on your side. Yesterday we were telling you about that farm day that be would be a little bit of an aberration. Good morning. Hi, everybody. Lets look into the future and that rain weve talked about, first were watching a blob of clouds down to our south, even a little cluster of thunderstorms there. We dont see the thunderstorms but we will see increasing clouds day and that may shave a degree or two off from yesterdays highs but temperatures today will still be a little bit above average. Theres two air masses or at least two cloud decks i want to talk about. First one is that one thats long and thinly stretched thats a cold front thats going to stay to the north and lose most of its energy to the north, but what it does is it opens the door for our next storm and this storm is the one thats going to come in thursday into friday, its still slowing just a little bit, and bring us our chance of rain and our return to autumn temperatures. Lets jump right on in here and you can see that thursday at 7 00 in the evening we are going to see some of that rain moving into lake and mendocino counties. Its light rain, just shades of green, and then as it slides into the north bay it starts to move into part of the heart part of the bay, at least the heart of the bay by midnight, its still very light rain. As we head towards the morning commute we could wake up to slick streets and drizzle to light rain continuing, but notice how it quickly falls apart by 9 00, at least our part of it. If youre h