And all the forest floor burped almost as if they were dead fuel. Because of the threat, more than 150 homes in a fourmile a diagram ter were evacuated. One of two evacuation centers. The packing up is a frantic time. Grabbing passports and phones and chargers and tooth brushes. A comforter here and pair of boots there. At least four structures have been destroyed and the weather has been favorable, but the steep terrain has been challenging. Cat fire Officials Say of the 600 personnel on the ground, five firefighters have suffered minor injuries. When the material break apart and starts rolling down the hill and it rolls below to where they put the fire lines in. Those who live nearby are grateful for the prompt response. We have ourselves and kids and dogs. We will work it out. A community unsure of when they will be able to return home. You can see the helicopters making the rounds. A water drop right there. Those residents will be out of their homes until tomorrow at the latest. The fire is just 5 contained. We are live in the santa cruz mountains, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. Wildfire burned about 40 acres of grass in dublin near fallon road this afternoon. Crews are still on the scene. Alameda firefighters said no buildings are threatened by the fire. In marin county when fire broke out around the shoulder. The fire started about a mile south of the Robin Williams tunnels. Sky 7 flue above the 16 when cal fire flue aircraft. They did evacuate for a short time and faced delays on southbound 101. The fires combined to burn about two acres. More evacuations lifted in sonoma, but many still return home. They are combing through burn zones looking for victims. There are many outstanding missing persons reports and one of the biggest priorities is getting people back into the neighborhood to see their homes or see if there is anything left. Our next phase that we are being looking to as we start to wrap up the phase of this and Fire Suppression repair is transitioning this incident to recovery. And looking to any way we can support logistically and through wa we have in place. That phase. Were learned that 121 county employees lost their homes. 11 shelters remain open for evacue evacuees. Thousands are still evacuated across the bay area. Look at the map that google created. You can find a list of evacuation zones and maps and centers at abc 7 news. Com and our app. Sutter santa rosa Regional Hospital reopened this morning. This video shows how quickly the flame approached the hospital. Amy got stories of heroism and bravery from that terrifying night. In this video from the hospital surveillance, you can see the building was surrounded by fire. Staff members suddenly found themselves trying to put out the fire. Within 10 to 20 feet of our oxygen tanks and our diesel tanks. The Security Guard and other employees protected the tanks using fire extinguishers to be called up to the roof which was starting to catch fire. I just inhaled a lot of smoke so i felt switchy and charl horsing in my legs and i vomited on the way up. Patients needed evacuating including babies. We had to wait for ambulances. They were not all available yet. It was starting to be more smokey in here. Two needed incubators. One took one of the babies and had to wait for more to arrive. We had one more show up and we loaded it with as many of the stable babies we could. They were side by side in bassinets on the floor of the ambulance. The stories are harrowing and as a team reached another big moment. Sutter Regional Hospital in santa rosa is open for business. They had to scrub the walls and floors and restock all supplies because of smoke damage, but today they are ready to serve the people of santa rosa. At least here we are bouncing back. To give you an idea of how badly this Community Needs the hospital, it opened at 7 00 this morning and the first patient was here waiting at the er at 6 59. Abc seven news. Cal fire reports crews are making significant progress on other nearby fires. The Redwood Valley fire in mendocino is about 60 contained. It blackened 36,000 acres and blamed for eight deaths. The sheriff said all mandatory evacuation orders have been lifted and even so, Potter Valley remains under evacuation warning. Crews are close to containing the sulfur fire. Cat fire reports it is 92 contained and burned 2200 acres. Warnings remain in place. The fires in lake and mendocino destroyed a total of 436 homes. Its warm out there again today, but what about the wind . Certainly something everybody is asking about. Spencer christian has the forecast. A close look at conditions near the bear fire. And generally thats considered favorable for fire containment and same conditions up in the north bay prevail where they are under 10 Miles Per Hour. Thats good news as well. Better news. Some cooler air and wet weather is coming our way. Not that batch of moisture off the central coast. This system will be down from the gulf of alaska that will bring our next bout of rainfall. A 60 chance of rain on thursday. 30 on friday. This is mainly a north bay event. The storm impact and the only race one on the scale of light intensity. Continuing into early friday and north bay locations plagued by the fires may see up to a quarter of an inch of rain or more. We will see more later. Spencer, thank you. Pa. Everyone knows President Trump loves to tweet, but with the wildfires many have been silent and many want to know why. Carolyn tyler has that story. Those 120 characters have gotten the president into quite a bit of hot water in the past, but the fact that he is silent while Northern California burns is raising questions among democrats and republicans. They call the wine country fires one of the greatest tragedies the state has faced. President trump signed an emergency federal disaster declaratio declaration. A lot of people are helping government in california. On twitter, his favorite method of communication,municat, californians are taking notice. With 41 people dead and 34,000 evacuated and billions of dollars of damage including to californias wine industry, President Trump this week has been tweeting about the nfl and the stock market. He has not mentioned california on twitter. Republican strategist shawn walsh worked with the reagan and bush administrations and said in politics there is an expression. Show the love and show the money. He believes President Trump has shown the money through the emergency declaration. What really matters to californians, getting back in their houses and getting recovered and getting reimbursed for firefighters and First Responders. He has done that. Has he done everything he should to make people feel good . Probably not. John burton, the recently retired calls the wildfires a human catastrophe. Tweeting about it or somehow expressing empathy. As long as you tweet about everything in the world, we are just doing and in showing, i think the empathy and compassion. California as you know is a silently blue state and President Trumps poll numbers are not good. The democrat and republican strategists that we talked to both do not believe politics are at play in his lack of tweeting about the fires. In the newsroom, abc 7 news. Okay, carolyn, thank you. A judge in hawaii blocked the latest version of trumps travel ban hours before it was set to take effect. They granted hawaiis request to temporarily block the federal government from enforcing the policy. The most recent restrictions affect citizens of chad, iran, libya, north korea, somalia, syria and yemen and some venezuelan government officials and families as well. 7 on your side is lending a hand to the victims of the north bay fires. Today we are at the Sonoma County fairgrounds with the entire 7 on your side crew. We have a pop uptaking your questions and listening to your concerns. Great. Thank you. Plus as new fires start, more bad air around the bay area. What you need to know about that. Plus the climb continues. Yet another record breaking day on wall street. Live at oracle arena where the Golden State Warriors will set bright. It is ring night and diamond the the warriors are ready to g. Larry biel is live in oracle arena where the Season Opener gets under way in just a few hours. We can feel the excitement. Yes, its going to be fun. The dance team is warming up. Last time we were here at oracle, jerry west was standing a few feet away. We had e 40 and snoop dogg and the confetti was coming down for the championship. Jerry is in l. A. Working for the clipper and that will be replaced by diamonds. Lots and lots of diamonds. Its ring night. The ceremony will be held and a couple of years ago, they received these massive rings. A lot of places are too big to wear. Those rings contain six carats of diamonds and sapphires. Own own mike shumann took a picture with his old super bowl ring with bob meyerss ring. This bling is not for everyday use. I never wore my rings. I wore them once to a halloween party. I had five at the time before i became a coach. I wore all five. I was eminem for halloween. The only time i have ever worn them. Three times. The day after i got it, the parade months ago. I wore a suit somewhere. I cant remember where. It was totally ridiculous. I took it off because its way too big to wear. Its a cool idea, but executing it is not very good. Im not going to say. You should tweet that and make the 35 bigger or the warriors should have been smaller. I dont care. Its a Championship Ring and i appreciate for them to do that. Its special. The siring sinring sinring rg there early. They have an elaborate ceremony planned. The sneak peek and reveal will be spectacular. By the way, there is a game. I have to get ready for the rockets with chris paul. It should be a fun night here at oracle arena. Later in the newscast. For now, reporting live at oracle, abc 7 sports. Great stuff. See you in a bit. Thou to breaking news out of dublin over the scene of a fire that we mentioned near fallon road. It started before 2 00 this afternoon. You can see the flame are mostly extinguished, but in that black swath of grass that has been burned. It did spread quickly for a time. Its giving folks in the north bay valuable information and you can see it here in this area. When activated the sky map locates nearby streets, highways and landmarks. This fire burned a couple of acres in the east bay. We will keep tabs on it. Help is on the way for the north bay for fire victims who are trying to figure out how to move forward. 7 on your side is live in santa rosa at the fairgrounds helping people. Hi, michael. Reporter we have been busy today. A lot of people coming through. Only about 50 evacuees still locationed here. The number is dropping every day. We are trying to figure out how they will rebuild their lives. We are here with our pop up with the 7 on your side crew taking questions and concerns. They are the ones you expect how i deal with my experience company and how do i find a place to live and how are we going to rebuild. A large part of that is money. Where is the money coming from . This guy will help us with part of that. Mike heads up the united way of the wine country and you are working with the united way of the bay area, correct . Yes, we are. An unprecedented relationship. What are you doing . We created the Northern California wildfire reand recovery fund. Its a joint partner between united way bay area and wine country. Where will the money go . That gives you so many different groups and deals with so Many Community issues. How do you fold us into that . The people that need the money the most and quickly. We are focused in two areas. Shortterm rewhere we give it to the families and midterm where we are able to look at the gaps that are not being filled. We can help the people get on the road to recovery. Do you have a web page . Uwba. Com. 40403 and type in wildfire. We will make sure we post that on our website. Thank you very much for your time. We are going to be here for the rest of the evening and tomorrow we are going to be at various locations around napa. If you want to catch up with us, if you have a concern and want to talk tos, go online to our website and we will keep telling you where we are located. Reporting live from santa rosa at the fairgrounds, 7 on your side. Thanks so much. Great work there. A spare the air alert has been issued because of the ongoing wildfires in the north bay. Did you know how bad the air was . Heres a look at the hazy air in San Francisco. Its so bad, the dmv in San Francisco canceled driving tests after receiving complaints. About 30 tests were canceled and all expected to resume tomorrow. A lot of disappointed 16yearolds. The big day. Or older folks who need a new license. Its funny because a lot of times we think its fog, but this time not the case. I havent had much good news to report. The lingering smoke and the dry and windy conditions, but there is good weather news coming our way. Heres a look at live doppler 7. The smoke and haze looks like smog. You can call it that. We have low clouds offshore. The two will mix. Right now we are looking at a live view from the emeryville camera. The air quality is poor to unhealthy just about everywhere except in the value where its moderate. It looks like tomorrow will be a spare the air day. Heres the view looking northward. You can see that layer of haze there. The lower part of the picture. Right on the central part of the picture. Temperatures in the low to mid 70s in San Francisco. 77 in san jose and 80 at gilroy and 57 at half moon bay. West from emeryville, temperatures are 79 at napa. We have low 80 no, sir santa rosa. One more live view at the golden gate where its a bit smokey and hazy. These are the forecast pictures. Cooler pattern through the remainder of the week and breezy conditions with showers late thursday and early friday. It will be warmer again over the weekend. Overnight, we will see the haze lingering and low clouds pushing locally from the coast over the bay. Inland a little bit. A few high clouds as well. Low temperatures will be in the upper 40s to low 50s. Tomorrow look for a mainly sunny hazy day away from the coast, but low clouds linger and we will see highs in the 60s near the coast and low to mid 70s around the bay and low 70s and upper 60s near the bay. Highs mainly in the mid to upper 70s. Lets look at the wind gusts starting at 6 00 tomorrow. We will see wind increasing a little bit near the coast. Gustier than right now. Going into thursday that gold front gets closer. Ahead of the front, an increase up to about 25 Miles Per Hour over much of the north bay and near the coast. As the rain gets closer, the wind will diminish late thursday into early friday. Lets talk about the rain. The approaching system ranks one. Light intensity moving in late thursday and continuing through early friday. It will produce light showers across the overall region, but in the north bay up to a quarter inch or more. Heres the forecast animation. By late thursday night, light rain covering most of the north bay and moving down along the coast into the golden gate. Into friday morning, pushing further inland and southward. That will break up by midmorning and maybe snow in the central sierra. Lets not overlook that. Heres the rainfall potential. Up in the north bay, around ukiah, up to a quarter of an inch. Under a tenth of an inch and oakland slightly over a tenth. The cooler pattern coming our way. Thursday and friday and once the rain ends and the skies get brighter, conditions warm up on sunday, monday, and tuesday. Thank you. The controversial movement that started here with colin kaepernick, now nfl ownerships look to find a solution for the fans and the players. More the dow crossed the 23,000 mark today. Theory explain the driving forces behind the stock market these days. The dow has been on a roll recently at just past 8 00 this morning, it crossed the 23,000 threshold for a few minutes. The index reached the milestone only 76 days after topping 22,000. Historically speaking, thats fast. Analysts point to several factors. Tons of wealth in india and china and people are putting their money in the u. S. Stock market. The expectation that the Trump Administration will deregulate and lower the Corporate Tax rate. Companies like nes 96 and facebook and systems contributing to the optimism driving a greater performance of the dow. Trump was quick to tweet about the dow passing 23,000. He put out this graph since election day. I want to show you the index did not stay above that threshold. After hitting the 23,000 mark a couple times earlier today, the dow ended a few points shy of that. Still you know its a 26 jump in one year. Thanks very much. Our coverage of the fires continues. Just ahead, we are waiting for a News Conference from fema officials and we will take you there live to napa as soon as it gets under way. Stay with us. Back in a moment. Good afternoon. As fire crews continue to battle several fires issue the resources have been diverted to the south and the santa cruz mountains. The bear fire broke out in Boulder Creek and burned 200 acres and is 5 contained. Homes have been evacuated. Containment increased on the fires and the tubs fire between calistoga and santa rosa is up to 82 . The atlas fire is 77 contained. As fire crews made progress on the fires, residents are starting to return home to assess the damage. Dana has the very latest. As more evacuations are lifted, thousands are going back to find nothing. I just want to go home. Its starting to look like it. Then there are those. For burned all the way up to our house. The homes were passed over by those that wiped out 5700 homes and buildings. Total destruction is 50 feet away. Tom and katherine wonder why they are the lucky ones. Its heart breaking. Im trying not to have survivors guilt. Fire crews are gaining the upper hand on the wildfires burning for more than a week. That progress is now overshadowed by the first firefighter death. Everyone is getting tired. There has been no break for these firefighters since the fires erupted last sunday. Fatigue may have played a role in the crash