The air and from the freeway you can see the flames. We are at cherry glen and Pleasant Valley road and chp blocking that intersection only letting law enforcement, First Responders in to try to prohibit that traffic to do their job. For hours folks have been working to evacuate, preparing to evacuate from this fire. Earlier you heard from one of our own discussing how stressful it is. He said he could see the flames from his home and began taking photos of the belongings, photos of the home in case to document the damage. Good advice in this vacaville area. May be best to prepare or get a plan together to leave. When we were here we were actually parked next to a car of a gentleman and his dog. They left their home seeking higher ground. Take a listen to what some of these folks are going through as they prepare to leave this area. Been through fires before. Ive never evacuated before but why this time . Because it was it was coming hard and coming fast and winds were probably about 45 miles per hour. Reporter and i can tell you out here now it is extremely smoky and there is a lot of ash. Several cars covered completely by ash but behind me that fire moving quite quickly. Well provide updates for you. Cierra johnson for today in the bay. All right. Thank you for the update. Heres a look at the fires from the pg e wild fire cameras. This is time lapse from mount vaca overnight. It nearly looks at one point that the camera damaged by the flames. You will see it come up here as that fire just rages over the mountain. This is that connect solano and napa counties there. Just how intense the fire is. One of the hundreds of people under Evacuation Orders is our own here. We spoke with photographer Robbie Beasom after Highway Patrol told him it was a good idea to evacuate and feels fortunate with the time to prepare but what he saw on the fire loons last night some were not so lucky. Probably filmed like unfortunately like four or five homes going up in flames. Wow. People just scrambling to get out, loading horses, wildlife running everywhere. It was just the firefighters are doing the best they can but its just everywhere. You heard him there talking about the firefighters. Kari hall is monitoring the conditions out there. Kari, it is the intense heat from the fire and the temperatures to face in the area are really hot out there today. Yeah. It has been so hot across the bay area. And so, we have we are just watching that video of that camera overtaken by the flames in mount vaca. This is very close to where that camera is currently so itut bot vaca and this is a live view right now of a picture just captured. If you are in those areas where you need to leave or youre being told to leave or you can see the flames make sure youre ready to leave. Grab that emergency kit that you should already have gathered, have the important papers, a change of clothes and maybe food, water and medication and of course all of the people in the house as well as your pets and enough of the pet food for next several days. The air quality is just horrible because of the smoke coming in, seeing ash falling across the bay area from San Francisco down to the south bay. And so as we go through today make sure youre wearing your mask throughout the day, whatever mask you have been wearing is better than nothing when the air quality is that bad. Mike, hows it looking for the morning drive . Kari, as far as the morning drive goes, it is great but portions because of the fires that you cant go. 128 up in the north bay behind me, marked red on the map. That section over toward atlas and then 121 parts. If you oar not in the area obviously get out. Stay out of the area. If you have been evacuated stay away. Over in vacaville, chp noting the fire very close to i80 and concerned about to close parts of that highway or 505. Laura, we have much more fire activity. Back to you. There are so many fires, 30 in fact, right now akrosds tcro area. The Santa Cruz Mountains, a fire there exploded last night an enthats where we find today in the bay kris sanchez just arrived at an Evacuation Center. What can you tell us so far . Reporter hi there, laura. On my way from san jose here to scotts valley, two more warnings on my phenomenon of evacuations in this area. This is the incident command base camp where cal fire will update the fire fight and the Evacuation Orders. At 6 00 this morning and we know what they have been dealing with all night. Nearly 400 firefighters are battling the blaze, ripping through the ridges between santa cruz and san mateo counties, fires sparked by lightning a few days ago, the czu august lightning complex fire for your reference. About 4 45 this morning the new Evacuations Ordered for south skyline boulevard, middleton track area, and the Evacuation Center is at Pescadero High School. This is on top of the folks force out of the home overnight some of whom did not know that the fire was so close because theyre in communities with limited cell service and very big trees. We are so deep in the redwoods you cant see the smoke that much. You can see up but not across. Reporter hopefully the folks ordered to evacuate around 10 00 lak night know that. Thats the big basin Fire Protection district. The air is heavy with smoke here. We know that its a difficult fire fight because of the high heat and because of the rocky ridges here and will continue this morning. Well talk with cal fire just over there coming up at 6 00. Hopefully they will have good news but theres no wind which is something that we really dread to see in situations like this one. Well bring you an update. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. All right. Certainly check back with you. Thank you so much. Meantime a viewer sent us this video from austin creek where firefighters say two fires have burned more than 500 acres. These are fires believed to be part of the larger complex of fires in sonoma county. Heres a map of that location to give you a better understanding. West of gurnesville. Now despite the threat of rolling power outages, the bay area was spared but its bringing attention to wind and solar power. They say its not without the draw backs and in Southern California it didnt help when the demand is at its peak. Heres a uc berkeley professor. The fact is renewables are great. Wind and solar. They are super cheap these days. They are very green. But they are not controllable. Entirely. On monday Governor Newsom signed an executive order to free up additional Power Capacity following the last weeks rolling blackouts and calling for an investigation as to certain customers not given adequate warning. Get weather alerts to the phone with the nbc bay area app. You can also get the latest on the fires and evacuations under way. It is free to download. Now to decision 2020. It is official. Democrats have nominated joe biden as their candidate for the president at the Democratic National convention. And tonight were going to hear from his running mate california u. S. Senator kamala harris. Former president obama and House Speaker nancy pelosi are also set to speak. Today in the bays tracie potts reports on what to expect. Vice President Joe Biden has been nominated. Thank you very, very much from the bottom of my heart reporter joe biden accepting the partys nomination backed by the number one supporter. I have always understood why he did it. He does it for you. Reporter another republican endorsement. He will restore American Leadership and the moral authority. Reporter biden saluted by the party faithful. Joe biden must be our next president. Reporter and its rising stars. This isnt just about defeeting donald trump. We are in this to win for america. Reporter this Virtual Convention outlining the fight. Racial injustice, colonization, misogyny and home phobia. If you want a president that defines the job as watching tv hours a day and zapping people on social media hes your man. When this president goes overseas it isnt a Goodwill Mission but a blooper reel. Donald trump has quit on you. We need a president with dignity, integrity. Reporter President Trump campaigning in arizona. Bidens campaign has turned into a cult for open border and other zealots. Reporter the president claiming hes vindicated by a Senate Report that found no evidence the campaign conspired with russia. Tracie potts, nbc news. Back to the breaking news right now, this is a live look at napa county wildfires in vacaville this morning. The evacuations are on Pleasant Valley road. This is near that fire is right now, several of the homes have burned. Evacuees suffered injuries because of the fire and keep monitoring that. Now kari hall with the forecast throughout the bay area and certainly the air quality is not good right now. Not good. When you combine that with the heat we know all of this air is trapped near the surface and makes that air quality worse and then see the temperatures reaching into the 80s today for highs over 100 degrees in the inland east bay and not seeing as many highs over 100 degrees for the north bay but its still hot so that excessive heat warning continues for the inland areas. Well talk about slightly cooler weather in the forecast coming up, laura. Travelers beware. Still ahead, what you need to know now if youre still considering an upcoming getaway to hawaii. It seems like were living in the craziest of days, doesnt it . Somehow the stock market continues to make new records. You are watching today in the bay. Experience the ultimate sports hub. Where you can find games, news and highlights. 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Not only will the s p 500 open this morning at a new record, so, too, will the nasdaq. Lets take a look at the numbers. The stock market is not the economy, the economy is not the stock market. Broader economy nod doing well at all in a recession but those numbers are undeniable. It would be easy for us to throw up the hands and say that this makes no sense but when you dive into the numbers you do see that some things do make sense. Airline stocks are way down and home friendly services, things like amazon and target and lowes and netflix, those stocks are way up. To that you can add the fed which is making money very easy to get and a lot of it. In fact, working on the way it changes, it deals with inflation to make sure theres lots of cash flow. We get the minutes from the latest fed meeting today. This afternoon. I know this sounds boring but to economists and investors its super interesting because its the fed that is keeping our economic lights on. The Senate Intelligence committee released its fifth and final volume of the report on the Trump Campaign and russia. Well talk more about it with politics but detailed how russia interfered. Nbcs Andrea Mitchell asked facebooks Cheryl Sandburg about the responsiblies in the face of the disinformation campaign. What we missed in 2016 we completely missed it. Thats on us. The fbi missed it. Homeland security missed it. Was a new form of state interference. Not hacking in but writing fake stuff to try to influence the electorate. We didnt know what that was in 2016 but now we do. You can watch that on msnbc. A reminder that today may be the last day that you can take a uber or a lyft. As of tomorrow the Companies Say they may suspend service because of californias a. B. 5. Oh well. Thats okay. Im not going anywhere but staying home and watching netflix these days. Listen to this. What do you think about this, guys . Why not take a chance and test a new shuffle button . It is located on the profile screen for netflix. Click it and then hope it plays something you like. Netflix says that the feature takes into account shows you watched before and those saved to the list. It is like when somebody else has the remote control, though, right . Yeah. Controls the radio in the car. Yeah. I dont know how i like that one. Watch out if the kids are with you and you dont know what will show up so be careful. Maybe go to the kids profile. Yeah. There you go. You know, i wish we could shuffle this forecast we have been having and the temperatures, oh, they have been up there, kari. It comes down but not as much as wed like but as we look at whens happening across the bay area with the fires burning we have the really intense flames. It was picked up on radar over the Santa Cruz Mountains. We loop it. The past few hours. The ash picked up in the radar and being brought over to the south bay and waking up this morning to a koecoating of cash the cars and in San Francisco. We can see the smoke in the air before the sun rises this morning. Very unhealthy air quality. Make sure you wear a mask all day and starting to feel a little sick you may need it inside the building even at home as we are going to see unhealthy air quality throughout today, numbers that have been really very high as the smoke continues to drift through so that matter in the air combined with the heat will make a lot of people not feel very well looking at the temperatures throughout today. It is going to be another hot one and the excessive heat warning continues inland. Already at noon the low 90s and the south bay and mid90s east bay going into the middle of the day well see the temperatures reaching into the triple digits for spots like antioch and concord and still looking at the very warm weather and not much of a cool down as we go into tonight and expect more smoke today as well as tomorrow and our temperatures that will go from 100 degrees to the low 90s. We do have some more heat in the forecast into next week and San Francisco will drop back to the low 70s which will be a relief, at least a very light ocean breeze picking up. Heading to you, mike, watching the commute, hows it looking right now . The commute itself is fine, kari. The note is because of the fires we have of access cut off. Look at green sensors with the speeds all around the bay but notice the bottom left side, highway 1, not as extensive as it looks on the map but it is an issue because there is limited access there. Highway 9 as well because between highway 9 where it says Boulder Creek and highway 1 is fire in the area. Czu fire. The complex that kris sanchez was reporting. No closures for freeways over in mor dan territory and Contra Costa County but north bay with vacaville is hazard sign. 128, 121. We have that fire going on there. Be careful. No problems toward the bay bridge. The toll plaza there is just fine. Back to you. All right. Good to hear something is fine out there. Thank you so much. Following a lot of breaking news for you. We have a live look from vacaville this morning. Some people there injured as thac they have been trying to evacuate. Homes have been burned and heading back to the scene for a live report at 5 30. Plus, nbc bay area responds. Phd call student has a Health Emergency of his on and learns how frustrating hospital billing can be. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. Nbc bay area responds to him next. Motorcycle riders love the open road. 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He told us i aspire to become a compassionate and caring hospitalist physician and im disappointed in how the Health Care System is treating me as a consumer. The hospital took a look and then steven got a check for 550. If youre canned to pay a depositive it for a procedure, cruise a credit card. Make sure you get a printed receipt that states you are due a refund after your insurance pays. Keep it and keep tabs. Then if the hospital doesnt keep its word you can dispute the charge with your credit card company. That step will probably get the attention of the Hospital Finance Department and hopefully trigger a refund. Have a great wednesday. It is official. No sandy tours. Out of state visitors without enduring the mandatory 14day quarantine test. Tourists would have been required to show a nega