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KNTV NBC Bay Area News At 11 July 12, 2024

Continues to grow, containment, just 2 . And investigation focuses on the point of origin, could be on a remote vineyard owned by famous winery. Here on howell mountain, overlooking saint helena. Start with nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana in calistoga. Cake bread cellars a part of the investigation. Reporter the town is essentially empty. It has been evacuated. Glass fire just too close. In the distance that glow is where its purposing part of the evening. Right now firefighters have a window of good conditions but not going to last long. Sunset tonight, massive flames in the napa valley state park outside calistoga and saint helena. Were back at red flag warning, expecting north to northwest winds Higher Elevations above the fire area. Thats big concern right now. Reporter those gusty winds pushed this fire so fast. Time lapse of the start early sunday morning. Firefighters trying to figure out what exactly sparked the flames. Sources close to the investigation tell the nbc bay area Investigative Unit theyre focusing on electrical fencing at dancing bear ranch on howell mountain. Found an area theyre looking at. Cake bread cellars say theyre aware of the investigation and fully cooperating. Cal fire spokesman would not confirm the details. This is the glass fire from the air tonight. Grown to more than 51,000 acres, destroyed dozens of homes and popular wineries. Most people have evacuated, others staying put. Its not something you can put to words, more of a feeling, going with your gut. Its not first rodeo for us, just kind of taking it day by day, hour by hour. Reporter there is certain that if the winds shift as forecasted, could be caught up in the fire and here you can see how close it is burning. Over in Diamond Mountain is only 1 1 2 miles from calistoga. Plenty of concern continuing tonight. Reporting live, Sergio Quintana, nbc bay area. Napa county issuing new evacuation orders, get out now. Rural areas, east of highway 29 between old lawly toll road to pope valley road, ink grade road to Aetna Springs road. All recreational areasminute saint helena and highway. Smoke remains a concern. Cal fire air attack. Huge plumes of smoke in the background and its drifting across the bay area. Ptsd for many people for a few weeks ago. This is the view from the emeryville camera. Unhealthy in somany parts of th bay area. Fremont this evening. Jeff ranieri is forecasting a lot of elements in the crucial 24 hours. What are you seeing, jeff . No change in the air kaquali tomorrow, will stay unhealthy and could approach hazardous zone, all this smoke boomeranging back into the bay area. Smoke that had been pushed out coming back other direction. And wind is starting to pick up in weather monitoring sites. Steady wind, 32 miles an hour at mount diablo, out of the north, calistoga, its ten, but north bay, yellow colors of wind contours, 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour now starting to return across those Higher Elevations. What to expect, 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow tofriday, new red flag fire warning in wio 30 Miles Per Hour, humidity 10 to 25 . Hot day, 90s to 100. Inland. Well talk more about the fire zone and big concern we have with that wind change and some of the cities that could see the smoke, the flames and embers starting to head your way. Ill have new update in about 15 minutes. Well see you shortly. Brought up the heat here, statewide flex alert issued for tomorrow. Everyone needs to conserve energy specifically between 3 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. Aliso is predicting a strain on the grids tomorrow. Powerful stories that stand out. Napa county sheriffs lieutenant saving a home with a garden hose. Tonight met the grateful homeowner. Nbc bay areas jean elle has more from the evacuation zone. Reporter homes here burned to the ground. So did this shed. But this house over here and others on the street are Still Standing after a napa county sheriffs deputy spent two hours dousing the flames. Shed in flames in evacuation zone in saint helena. Pat mcmahon spotted it monday afternoon as he checked on deputies patrolling the area. Just one day after the glass fire burned through, destroying homes. Want going so bad, so i looked, saw there was a garden hose on the front of the house. Water was on. Maybe i can do something. Started trying to wet down the roof. Reporter propane tank in the shed explode, embers started spot fires, but lieutenant mcmahon didnt give up, saving home joe didnt think he would see again when he evacuated sunday morning. Started coming over this hill, flames 150 to 200 feet tall. Reporter friends saw video of the deputys actions on social media, toller connected with the man. Thank you. Its my pleasure. Its a miracle you were driving by at the time. Reporter told him about the firefight and toller showed him the things he saved. Special moment in time of things lost. Nice truck and warm handshake from the two men. Close call for menlo park firefighter battling the glass fire. Sunday this happened. Division chief ben mara and his team in santa rosa, a chimney fell over and missed him by a few feet. Hes been on the job 30 years. Next 24 to 48 hours are critical. Microclimate weather team is tracking the changing conditions as well as smoke. Jeff ranieri just tweeted important update in last 60 minutes. Hes a good follow on twitter jeffrainieri. State is issuing new rules to make sure certain neighborhoods dont get left behind. October 6th, each county will have to meet a socalled equity metric to advance to less restrictive tier for reopening. Plan outlined on the state website. Details. Goal to help prevent the spread among disadvantaged communities. Black and latino workers hit especially hard in the pandemic. Counties with more than 600,000 people make sure the positivity rates in the communities are not higher than rest of the population. And county leaders outlined plans to stop the spread in areas hit especially hard. Buzz in San Francisco we havent seen or felt in seven months, people dining inside restaurants. Nbc bay areas ian cull has the latest on the rush to reopen and why some are choosing not to go. Reporter in this world class city of San Francisco renowned for fine dining, eating inside restaurant is allowed first time in nearly 200 days. Been very difficult, were happy to do real business. Reporter especially china live on broadway, founders say they have so much space. Lockdown meant had to pay rent and energy costs. Now all restaurants can have 25 capacity indoors, up to 100 people. For 16,000 square feet, 40 or 50 diners but its a start. Reporter restaurants have a series of safety protocols, one a health screening. Answer three questions, make sure you dont have symptoms and do temperature checks. 97. 3. Finally seated inside, you have to keep mask on at all times unless eating or drinking. A regular before covid19 made the drive just to be seated at favorite spot. My favorite place. I heard can open up indoors, first place i thought to visit. Reporter next door at v j cafe says its not worth it for them. Takeout only. Not enough people come now, whatever you make is not enough to cover all the expenses. Reporter but still a small step towards getting life back to normal. Some of it has to come back. Its part of our life in the bay area. Reporter in San Francisco, ian cull, nbc bay area news. And new york city also reopening Indoor Dining tonight as well. Still ahead, show must go on, popular circus on the penin la dreams up unique way to entertain local families during the pandemic. And changes are coming. Fallout from last nights debate debacle and what the president said tonight. Im tracking that critical fire weather in the cities that should be concerned with newest wind change, in about six minutes. Wild thing, you make my heart sing wild thing i. Think i. You know what i think . I think you owe us 48. 50. Wild thing. If you ride, you get it. Geico motorcycle. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. We mentioned the next 48 hours will be critical. Another red flag warning about to go into effect. Wind a big concern in wine country. This is downtown calistoga this evening. So many communities still in harms way. Going to check back in with jeff ranieri on these changing conditions in just a few minutes. Live look at capitol hill, congress and white house still cant agree on a deal to help the struggling airline industry. Heres the realtime impact. Tomorrow American Airlines says it will furlough 19,000 workers because it cant get any more federal help right now. United airlines also making tough decisions. Major hub at sfo, will furlough 13,000 employees. Airlines and unions asking for 25 billion from taxpayers to pay workers next six months. Negotiations have stalled between lawmakers over bill that includes the airline industry. Theres bipartisan support for the program that would keep the people employed, only problem is dont have vehicle for getting it done. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and house leader nancy pelosi met today trying to hammer out deal. Chaotic debate with joe biden. Verdict is in and they say that we, all of us, won big last night. President also said biden is trying to get out of the remaining two debates. Biden camp says thats simply untrue. Hell be there if they continue as scheduled. What will happen october 15th . Next scheduled debate in miami. Today the commission on president ial debates says something has to change to restore civility on the debate stage. Nbcs Peter Alexander. Why wont you answer that question. The question is radical left. Will you shut up, man . Reporter denouncing Donald Trumps primetime behavior. National embarrassment. Reporter president still fuming on twitter. We won the debate by almost every poll we saw. Reporter all the reputable overnight polls say the president lost to biden. Facing fierce backlash, rare concession, revising response after refusing to condemn white supremacists. Who would you like me to condemn . Proud boys. Stand back and stand by. Reporter far right Extremist Group celebrating his words. Today i dont know who the proud boys are. Reporter new low for the highest office in the land. Acknowledging the free wheeling formats failure and will make changes for remaining matchups. Additional structure should be added for more orderly discussion of the issues. Two candidates clashing over coronavirus crisis, President Trump looking to deflect criticism of decision to hold large rallies with no social distancing. No negative effect. No did and 35,000, 40,000 people. Totally irresponsible the way hes handled social distancing and people wearing masks. Encouraging them not to. Hes a fool on that. Reporter biden tried to neutralize him tying him to radical left. Im Democratic Party right now, platform is what i approved of. Reporter and distancing himself from most progressive policies. Thats not my plan, Green New Deal is not my plan. That was Peter Alexander reporting. Programming note, next monday night lester holt will moderate a town hall with joe biden. You can watch it here in primetime on nbc bay area, nbc news also offered to host a similar event with President Trump. Today historic bill signed by Governor Newsom opens door to state paying reparations to black californians. I hope people recognize were moving in the right direction. Again i recognize theres a lot more work to do in this space. And we are not walking away from that responsibility. Here are the details. California is first state in the country to adopt such a law, calls for task force to recommend how reparations could happen, whether through compensation or restitution. That task force can also call for eliminating state laws and policies that perpetuate discrimination. Among those on the zoom call for signing was rapper and actor ice cube. Back to fire coverage. New video of the flames from high above, cal fire helicopter. Smoke billowing from the palisades Mountain Range in napa county. Smoke impacting air quality across the bay area. Jeff is back with us. Silver lining here, no reports of missing people or fatalities right now. People are really watching the forecasts and heeding to the warnings and evacuation orders. Which is definitely great news as you pointed out. Been hearing in some of the video as well, new evacuation sirens and warnings that have been put into some of these communities since the fires back in 2017 that changed so many lives forever. That is excellent news. Another reminder. If youre asked to evacuate, were going under some more wind, doesnt look as bad as late sunday night into early monday morning but going to kick up. And fire is raging out there. Bring you into the red flag fire warning, this in effect from 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow, ending 6 00 p. M. Friday. Wind gusts on and off, 15 to 30 miles an hour, steady, sustained wind 10 to 20 and humidity, 10 to 25 range. Fire lines, perimeter i have mapped out on here. Fire icons showing most of the hot spots today, north and south side. Big problem well get into with on and off wind gusts is wind direction has changed. Coming more out of the north. And its going to be pushing off towards the south. That could take some of these flames and embers and push it towards some communities that may feel like theyve been spared like ang win, saint helena, kenwood, glen ellen, be careful if you decided to stay in those communities, asked to leave, definitely do so. Hour by hour forecast. Put the wind speed on. Not going to look impressive overall. But colors here. 5 30 in the morning, orange pop to the east of calistoga, saint helena, 40 to 45mileanhour wind gusts. Thursday evening, more over the north bay mountains, 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour, and then more wind continuing into early friday afternoon before it begins to calm on down. Air quality stays unhealthy through tomorrow. Temperatures will also be hot. Sorry to lay it on you here but got to get the information out. Low 100s inland. Closer to bay 80s and 90s, coast 70s. San francisco does cool off in the weekend, down to 60s. Inland valleys, also dropping down to the 80s by this upcoming weekend. Real fast, we all want to look forward to maybe chance of some rain. Look at this forecast model here by maybe next thursday could have a system approaching the Northern California coastline. Its not a guarantee, raj, but something well keep close eye on. Like to stay optimistic. Thank you jeff. Yes. Circus act like none other, Great Lengths on the peninsula to make sure the show goes on. 880 from oakland to milpitas, no addition, express lanes opening this friday. Solo drivers must have fast track to pay the mandatory toll. Carpoolers three or more ride for free with the tag. Back in a moment. Deal one city is offering to get people back in restaurants. Glass fire, latest evacuation orders, today in the bay, tomorrow, 4 30 to 7 00. As 42 of what a man makes. Voting yes on prop 16 helps us fix that. Its supported by leaders like Kamala Harris and opposed by those who have always opposed equality. We either fall from grace or we rise. Together. Proposition 16 provides equal opportunities, levelling the Playing Field for all of us. Vote yes on prop 16. New at 11 00, show thats a tradition on the peninsula will go on, the zoppe italian family circus will host shows beginning tomorrow at port of redwood city. Drivein show with stunts and circus acts. Circus people in our hearts have to give joy to audiences. Weve been stationary, not able to give our joy to people. Breaks down all these boundaries and gives us opportunity to give joy to audiences. Creative and imaginative. We need it. Circus has been performing since 1842, 13th year in redwood city. Up next, check in with the as on the eve of game three, final game three tomorrow in the playoffs. Stay with us. They do one of the most difficult jobs there is, even in normal times. Our Frontline Health care workers. And when these heroes lack the resources they need, that risky job gets ten times harder. Prop fifteen makes corporations pay their fair share. To invest in our communities, in our clinics, in the essential workers who treat everyone rich, poor, and inbetween. Whether its this pandemic or the next health crisis, vote yes on prop fifteen. For all of us. The unfair money bail system. He, accused of rape. While he,tealing 5. Got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Voting yes on prop 25 ends this failed system, replacing it with one based on public safety. Because the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. Well, past five seasons the nba finals have featured the warriors. They did make news tonight, chase center named the sports venue of the year by the sports business journal. As for the finals, game one lakers and heat from the bubble in orlando. Thats shaq oneal and president obama sitting courtside virtually. They were there virtually. Lakers in control most of the game. Great ball movement, lebron to anthony davis. Too good tonight, 116108 against miami. Do or die for the as. They came out swinging at coliseum. Sunsplashed day. Bottom of the sixth inning, Marcus Semien with a tworun homer, east bay product, as lead 40, win over the white sox 53. Deciding game is tomorrow afternoon. First pitch at noon. If the as win, they play the astros at Dodger Stadium in a best of five series. Banged up 49ers. Practice in santa clara today. Thats nick mullens, might be quarterback again because jimmy g. Is still out with ankle injury. George kittle was back at practice today as 49ers get ready for sunday night football on nbc against the eagles. Back in a moment. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way go your own way your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. Take a look. New video into the newsroom. Time lapse from mount saint helena. Glass fire remains extremely activ

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