People closure in the area. Reporter now search teams have also been using drones to take video of the burn out areas. Theyre doing that to gather evidence and also to possibly find victims. Now i just got off the telephone with sheriff Gregory Ahern from the Alameda County sheriffs department. He has been out here all day today. He tells me that teams are now at a location where they may have just discovered the remains of five more people and waiting to get some confirmation. In fact he is calling me now ill pick it up and get that back to you in a minute reporting live in santa rosa, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Okay that would be a considerable development. Unfortunate as it stands. Thank you jodi. Well the death toll continues to rise each hour. Were at a point where the numbers are turning into names. Tonight a local high school is honors one alum who died in the fire. The family of Kristina Hanson is expected to expect the cal high homecoming game in san ramon, 27 years ol and killed in flames swept threw her santa rosa home. Confined to a wheelchair and lived in an apartment behind the home of her father. Her father who tried to save her was found lying in the street with severe burns. The family tells us that he in a medically sedated situation in a hospital. Also a harrowing story involving a Southern California couple. Carmen and armed o were enjoying a vacation and rent add home near the santa rosa the fountaingrove neighborhood they were forced to jump into a mool po scale. They remained in the pool in the water for six hours but sadly carmen died in her husbands arms. We spoke with the family today. They say armed o is back at home in Southern California recovering. The couple married more than 50 years. The tubbs fire claiming the lives of arthur and his wife grant. Who navy veteran who flew for pan am pictured here with their daughter. Its going to be a long and challenging process adding up all the damage as well. We captured the video of a firefighter going door to door recording damage with the help of an ipad. This is in the hard hit coffey park neighborhood of santa rosa. Perhaps the center piece of the tragedy is that neighborhood there. Our sky ranger overhead this afternoon. Hundreds of homes destroyed. This neighborhood right off 101 represents about 5 of santa rosa housing. All gone in a matter of hours. But there are stories of heroism and faith within the community. Nbc bay area Garvin Thomas in the neighborhood this hard to find a Silver Lining but you did. What do you have . Reporter well, raj, the Silver Lining no matter how big the fire is it has to stoop somewhere here on randen way this is where it stopped. The house at 1704 completely gone. But the rest of the block, well it still stands. Now, it wasnt a change in wind or weather that stopped it. It was wayne. Wayne sims has lived in his coffey park home 29 years he was determine to make it to 30. Armed first with just a garden hose then later one given to him by firefighters. Wayne spent the worse of the fire running up and down the street hosing down the neighbor homes. Something nntds him told him he wasnt going to die as if he had been training for the moment his whole life. His neighbors are convinced their homes wouldnt be here without wayne. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Theyd be gone. Wed be in the same boat as the other however many 3,000 houses gone. Absolutely. He riflkd his life. How much its an amazing thing. Am i proud of that . Absolutely. You know, do i recommend it to people to do that . No. You know, i would i do it again . Yes. You know, i would absolutely do it again. But thats me. As wayne fought the fire he actually wore a helmet his brother a retired new york city firefighter had given him. Coming up at 6 00 tonight we will share more on wayneser to, including something he toll us he was doing while fighting the fire that was surprising, and pretty fascinating. Well have that for you tonight at 6 00. Reporting live in santa rosa. Garvin thomas. Its nice to hear the stories out of sanity rosa. We mentioned a few minutes ago the red flag warning issued. High winds blowing it making the fire fight more dangerous. Lets bring in jeff ranieri. Jeff it just seems like it keeps coming. What are you seeing now. It looks like this would be the only major wind event over the next seven days. Firefighters are keenly focused on this. Extremely nervous. We want it put it all into perspective for you on why everyone is on edge here. The atlas fire one of our largest fires stretching at least 48,000 acres is some 22 miles long. Up near lake berry he issa stretching towards green valley. Check out all the communities off toward the west. Oakville, yountville and also napa. Now with the new wind event coming in wind out of the north could push the embers into all of the highly populated areas. And thats why everybody is certainly needs to stay on alert. So as we look right now, wind not astronomy i gusty only 3 to 10mileperhour. With you, again its going to pick up. Brand new red flag wrooir fire warning in neck for marin napa Sonoma County also the hills of east and south bay. On average wind of 20 to 40mileperhour when the wind events are going. The current wind not bad. As we mentioned by 11 00 p. M. Tonight still only about 11mileperhour. But things will start to ramp up once we hit 4 00 tomorrow morning. 20 to 40mileperhour wind gusts from santa rosa to napa. Possibly higher in the hills. This is the best as we know it right now. So in terms of the winds a it looks like a likely continues to 1 00 for tomorrow. Weal have more details on this and who should look out the most. Coming up at 5 25 tonight. Okay thank you, jeff. Speaking of the atlas fire which jeff mentioned firefighters taking a cautious but aggressive approach as flames steadily move to small communities. Robert handa life in oakville today you got a birdseye view. Thats right from here you can see why the fire above napa and south of oakville has so many people worried. We have been watching this grow all day. And now as we look over dry creek road and the mountain you can see the cloud of vick smoke enedevelop opening everything. That could be big trouble with the wind picking up. The area once known as the nuns fire has too much fuel and steep terrain tor cal fire to go at it directly. And too much smoke for an allout air attack. Fire crews and removing trees and veg tagtation whie flag up bulldozer lines and trying to make anything such as homes a little less susceptible to burning. We wet down structure that is could be affected. Anything that has open eves right there can be a potential for fire. So like this shed if it crosses that shed is probably going to go. It was relatively easy to see why it was hard for crews to keep up with the fires. We kept running into patches quarter where the flames jumped out ahead of the firefighters pch very difficult for them to keep up. Drives the fire quickly down slope and we have long raining spotting where the they try to start fierts ahead of the fire. On dry creek road what is using the sthangs. What will you use as the marker when you should leave. You can see how dark its getting. You know its burning fast up there. Its close. Reporter and cal fire says right now it cant even use the lowflying helicopters bauts of the smoke so ground crews and bulldozers are working around the clock to try to surround it. Life in napa county, robert handa. Everyone on high alert there thank you. Also an aggressive battle further north in Mendocino County the Redwood Valley fire has claimed nine lives. Well show you how thats going coming up in 5 minutes. Whats happening with all of the smoke across the bay area . Most sporting events are cancelled for the youth leagues. These are live pictures from san francisco, oakland you can see the coliseum and also san jose. Haze, hovering over all three cities all points of the bay area. One Study Reveals a years worth of pollution is now in our air. However some batting nationally televised events are going on as scheduled. That can yous the cal Football Game ton. The golden bears hosting washington state. Kickoff in berkeley in two hours from now at 7 30. The University Says its monitoring the wigs. But at this point janelle, the game is going forward. I dont see it being cancelled. Still to come, waiting in line in order to get into their homes. If only for a few minutes. We are there as some find out for the first time there is nothing left. And a notable glass house is gone. We stopped by hours before the wildfires reached it. Update on the fire burning in Mendocino County right now. We also want to give you an update on the fire burning in Mendocino County roupt. 60 miles north of santa rosa. Right here not far from clearlake. Right near highway 20 and 101 west of the Mendocino National forrest. As of a few hours ago 34,000 acres burn up there. Similar to other fires containment is low. Only 10 . Cal fire says the weather today helped firefighters gain some ground on those flames. But many communities are still threatened. So far 9 people have died in this Mendocino County fire. This afternoon empeople were allowed back to homes as evacuation orders were lifted around five hours ago. Tonight there is also a Community Meeting at Ukiah High School starting at 6 30 p. M. This is where the heart break is right at home for many people in santa rosa they were able to access their properties today. Properties that were destroyed or severely damage. Lets bring in nbc bay area bigad shaban who talked to the people. Joining the parker Hill Community of santa rosa. Bigad. Reporter raj, we are standing on what was the front steps of a home. Now twisted metal and rubble in its place. And this goes on for blocks. And thats part of the problem. Its hard to tell where one home begins and the other ends because this is what it all look like. Its just a giant pile of rubble and ash. Just about 10 minutes from here we had the chance to speak to one resident, jan, her first time back to her home since she evacuated early monday morning. By the time i pulled up, the flames were eating the side of the garage. It was like an oven. So i had heres and on the side of me. I had to go that way obviously to to get out of the enabled. Were you worried you wouldnt even make it out . I was questioning it because of the heat. It was like an oven. You cant explain and you cant even tell somebody what it is like to go through this. Yeah, you have to really experience it to feel the full impact of what it does. Reporter jan isnt sure what she will do next. For now she is staying with her father living nearby. And one of the reasons she was hoping to go back to her home today is that still missing her cat. She left food out for her earlier today guys. I hope they are reunited thank you bigad. A bay area Data Scientist has create add critical new tools that help people figure out if their home was destroyed in the fire storm. Look. The interactive map combines the satellite image. The gray areas are burned structures. Robin kraft got the idea after wanting to help family and friends find out if their homes or workplaces were standing. The map went virile almost immediately. Its hard to get relevantable information. I was in the same boat wonder bag my dad and sister. And so i just thought it was such a relief to be able to see exactly what is devastated and whats not. Even though its hashl just knowing is a huge relief. He says his family was relieved to find out what they were looking for did not burn. He says he will continue to update the map in the days ahead as new data becomes available. If you want to check it out the interactive map for yourself we have it on the website, nbcbayarea. Com. We post to do right on the front page. Back to the chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Talking about the winds coming in. Also new areas in the burn zone that are in jeopardiy. What are you seeing, jeff. Well the red flag fire warning is in effect. We could see wind gusts on average 20 to 40mileperhour primarily for tomorrow morning. It might go a little bit higher for some of the peaks. But thats the general bottom line on what we are looking a at. Overall five active fires burning right now. Highest containment is the atlas fire. At 27 . This is as one of the largest at over 48,000 acres. So when we get a closer look at the fires tonight, i want to show you which areas again could be impacted the most by these gusty winds. But before we get to that i want to show you how gusty things could actually get. 11 00 p. M. Tonight its not really looking bad. Anywhere from to 11mileperhour. But we see the wind direction change to more of a dryer northeastly direction. Its this same direction of the wind that we had when the fires started way back on sunday night and also into monday morning. Spo lets advance this into saturday morning. This is when the winds should pick up anywhere from 20 to 40mileperhour gusts. Again at 4 00 in the morning. Winds coming primarily from the north and east. Blowing off towards the south. And slightly to the west. Well likely stay under the gusty wind event into about 1 00 in the afternoon about, 20 to 25mileperhour. So, again, 5 00 a. M. To 1 00 p. M. On saturday. Thats when the wind arrives. Lets go ahead and put more perspective on this. The fires are massive. As Everybody Knows in the north bay, tubbs fire at least 43,000 acres stretches some 14 miles long. And downwind of this yet again with this new wind event will be santa rosa. Thats why there are still evacuations and you have to stay on high alert. Second large fire that were track something the adobe nuns and norobaum fire kpind together. That stretches 23 miles. In danger of possibly embers moving in fire would be sonoma, right downwind of it. You also have to stay on high alert here. Then the third fire we showed you earlier is the atlas burn zone. Stretching some 22 miles where some of the embers could push into yountville, also down to napa. Those three zones are under the highest risk. Its a large majority of the north bay. Thats why firefighters are so nervous tonight. Air quality is going to tint continue to be a problem the next couple days. We likely wont see improvement until tuesday, wednesday and thursday of next we can. Temperatures waurmg up a little bit with the dryer wind. 84 in antioch. 82 napa. 84 in santa rosa. The sevenday forecast in here once we get over the wind on saturday less wind for sunday and monday. And again improved air quality once we hit tuesday, wednesday and thursday. And still the chance of some rainfall as we head to next thursday and fridays forecast and cooler 60s coming our way in terms of that rainfall next thursday and friday. Looks like we could see trace amounts to maybe a quarter of an inch. Well definitely know more as we get closer. But the focus right now is the wind on tomorrow morning. Again, 5 00 a. M. To 1 00 p. M. You guys. Were just going on 24 hour chunks here thank you jeff. Coming up still at 5 00. Banding together, the many ways people are showing that they are north bay strong. And nbc bay area responds to evacuation shelters. Our chris chumara on the move. Today in nap county handing ou masks. We will check in a bit later. Stay with us. Calfire says the wildfires have destroyed more than 5700 structures acros happening now hon the website, cal fire says the wildfires have destroyed more than 5,700 structures across several counties if you need a place to stay we made a list of Evacuation Centers and shelters on website be. We continue to 2003 the latest evacuation orders from the counties. The latest evacuation orders between chalk hill and guyser road. Back in a moment. Coverage in just a monment. But we wann update you on our other headlines. The u. S. Iran nucle d well get back to fire coverage in just a moment. We want to update on some of the other headlines. The u. S. Iron nuclear deal is in jeopardiy. President trump threatening to end american participation if congress and u. S. Allies dont make changes. He announced the new strategy to address what he referred to as the full raining of irans destructive actions. The Iranian Regime continues to feel conflict terror and turmoil throughout the middle east and beyond. Importantly, iran is not livingston up to the spirit of the deal. There are a lot of layers to this now. The strategy includes slowing down irans Missile Program pl trying to block irans support of terror groups and imposing new actions. Some World Leaders are urging mr. Trump not to scrap the deal. While others say he doesnt have the authority to back out. The agreement is largely seen as a guarantee that Irans NuclearProgram Remains for civilian purposes only. Okay back to breaking tu when the emergency started many members of the military answered the call to serve. But one solar who lost everything in the tubbs fire found himself in the unique position of receiving help. Eric lives in the frount ungrof neighborhood of santa rosais why and four daughters escaped just of before the glams devoured the home. The family is stay wg relatives in the east bay. While shopping at a safeway today in dublin a volunteer with a group called operation care and comfort handed him a stack of gift cards and took his family to breakfast. Incredible for the operation care and comfort to think of us at this time. The thing is that we are literally get going in. This is what we do are buying gift card handing them to them well be there to support them as long as they need us. Nice to see him and one of his daughters. He served two tours of duty overseas. The atlas fire ravaged the Solano County famed glass house. We want to show you what it looked before. The 13,000 square foot home sit on top of twin sisters road. Firefighters did their best to saver it process. Owner tells you plans to rebuild. Jodi hernandez visited the glass house before the fire reached it. She was the first reporter to see the house after the fires. She tweeted both videos and we are constantly updating the twitter feed with the videos and photos of the fire. The handle is nbc bay area. We are on the move helping as many as