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150 years ago. a wind gust of 93 miles per hour was clocked in the area. when embers blew in, the building was quickly a total loss. was man was living here in an apartment, an art studio at the time. luckily, he followed the mandatory evacuation. he is alive today because of it. in all, 190,000 people are under evacuation. the biggest ever in sonoma county. officials are being extra cautious because just two years ago in this same area 22 people were killed in what's known as the tufts fire. evacuees are obviously and understandably emotional. >> i'm a little tired because it's very emotional...

17 million americans in california and parts of nevada still under a red flag warning and that means high fire dangers will continue and i think maybe what the mayor was eluding to is containment is there. half of the fire of the tufts fire is contained. last week, it was zero contained. these are the red flag warnings that continue in effect throughout the day. the difference will be the wind. yesterday, a couple of fronts moved through and areas of low pressure that kicked up the wind and not a good thing. now an area of high pressure moves in on top of you here. that will allow the winds to...