tom baker joining us live from the fire zone in napa county, where the impact has been really strong on the small community. the town? >> except for the media and first responders, this is calistoga, a virtual goes down, it has been that way for several days, and of course, recently, and you have first responders and stuff like that but people aren't allowed back in here, and because the fire isn't coming down into these towns a lot of people think the fire isn't so bad, well, we went just a little ways outside of the town of england, but a 44 minute drive from here, 1500 feet up and we could not get a signal out. we want to show you what is going on there. very close to the center of town. >> reporter: and wildfire lore and science, where there is a smoke column, you will almost always find a fire at the bottom of it. the current fire in napa county, lots and lots of snow columns, some small, some enormous, as the crow flies, the robert craig winery is only about 2 miles from the center. here, a full-court ground and aerosol has been underway, as helicopters finding an occasional br

tom baker is in the evacuated town of calistoga, meteorologist mark maillot tracking the red light weather conditions, we begin with ktvu's andre senior , the governor visited the fire lines today, to get a firsthand look at the situation. >> reporter: the glass fire has destroyed some 150 structures, damaging 46 more, and is threatening $24,000. the hit from mother nature just keeps on coming. >> reporter: renewed urgency to slow the glass fire as a red flag warning created unfavorable conditions for firefighters in sonoma and napa counties. >> the fire has impacted the highway 29 n. of calistoga, and, so we are sending an impact for that with road closures in that area. >> reporter: flames rage on the outskirts of the community of anglin, as 2100 firefighters decide to fight the flames, and build containment lines in an effort to keep the fire from encroaching into the town. >> >> structures engaged in the area as a talk more about aircraft usage in that area trying to get the fire skirted around the community, and then also pope valley. >> reporter: the santa rosa fire chief reports tha

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baker shows us, airlines hope the results convince people to fly. >> reporter: friday afternoon, the ones bustling in united terminal was either at a snails place or devoid of passages. in the covid-19 era, a few souls chose flights over fear. >> when i first started flying, it was a little nerve-racking, but then i kind of got over it, but that is just how i feel, personally. >> reporter: some have deep concerns. >> very much, because the particles, it is higher risk to get it in an airplane anyway. >> reporter: a new study concludes that the risk of contracting covid-19 on an airliner, even a completely full one on a 12 hour transoceanic flight, is extremely unlikely or virtually impossible. tests were conducted in the air and on the ground on a united boeing 777 and 767 wide-body aircraft, the researchers from the legendary and secretive defense advanced research projects's agency performed hundreds of tests. >> to have a respected research agency doing a study like this, i think it is an additional reason for confidence in air travel. >> reporter: researchers relieved traceable a

tom baker is in the evacuated town of calistoga, meteorologist mark maillot tracking the red light weather conditions, we begin with ktvu's andre senior , the governor visited the fire lines today, to get a firsthand look at the situation. >> reporter: the glass fire has destroyed some 150 structures, damaging 46 more, and is threatening $24,000. the hit from mother nature just keeps on coming. >> reporter: renewed urgency to slow the glass fire as a red flag warning created unfavorable conditions for firefighters in sonoma and napa counties. >> the fire has impacted the highway 29 n. of calistoga, and, so we are sending an impact for that with road closures in that area. >> reporter: flames rage on the

. >> at the peak of this outage, ktvu's tom baker tells us the utility is starting to give the all clear after a long night for fire crews. >> reporter: last night, the bay area dodged not a bullet, but a high-speed meteorological freight train. pushed by 50 to 89 mile an hour wind gusts, cal fire says 37 new fires spring up statewide, fires that firefighters beat back, it truly amazing outcome. >> are increased staffing, the local pre-positioning, and even , more importantly, the public's help in being prepared and helping to prevent fires, all of that has really helped us get through, so far, this red flag warning. >> reporter: the 90,000 bay area customers in eight counties were without power, the overwhelming number of them in the north and east bay counties. pg&e public safety power shutoffs do a good job in preventing blowtorch fires, another amazing outcome, but golden gate weather says, in such weather conditions, nothing is patently obvious. >> it is hard to prove a fire that didn't start and for the cause of it was, unless there is some evidence of a tree branch that spoke, pow

. >>> keeping riders safe, that is the goal as part of tests of new technology, tom baker explains two tests undergoing right now as a way to increase rider confidence. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. knows of the biggest problems it faces is rider fear of covid- 19. it is doing something about that. b.a.r.t. is testing two tried and true technologies to make the air in its fleet as clean as can be. >> i love using port when i can do anything they can do to help his great. >> reporter: first, it is replacing the current already dust filtration systems with the most intense filters that will work in its pressurized filtering. >> you are talking, again, a 90% reduction in the size of the particle that filter is going to catch. >> reporter: with the system, all of the air in the car will be replaced every minute and 10 seconds. this is a simple, slightly more expensive, but immediate air quality improvement that should be online in all cars by early spring. >> the air going through that filter is going to be much improved. >> reporter: the other technology is a high-powered form of psychedelic blac

pg&e says right now, it is considering whether to begin the restoration process , tom baker joins us with a look at what happened overnight and where we are heading the rest of this fire season. >> reporter: 35 counties are caught up in this outage, but in the bay area, five of those counties are now allowed to consider the idea that there will be inspections and there will be a restoration of power, alameda county, san mateo county, santa clara county, sonoma, and marin. the rest of the counties will still have to wait, but all of them will come online for leasing. last night, the bay area dodged not a bullet, but a high-speed meteorological freight train, pushed by 50 to 89 mile an hour wind gusts, cal fire says 27 new fires sprang up statewide, fires that firefighters beat back, it truly amazing outcome. >> increased staffing, the local pre-positioning, and even, more importantly, the public's help being prepared and helping to prevent fires, all of that has really helped us get through, so far, this red flag warning. >> reporter: more than 90,000 bay area pg&e customers in eight

i'm joined by correspondent tom winter and heidi prizbella and peter baker. tom, we went straight to the news conference. let's set the stage with what we learned about this investigation so far and the details as to how authorities stopped this plot. >> reporter: there's two distinct prongs. a 16-page criminal complaint unsealed this morning. the suspects taken into country. five from michigan, one from delaware and state charges against seven other individuals associated with the militia group. those individuals were involved in some of the protests at the michigan state capitol, the second amendment protests. you saw people heavily armed with assault rifles. some of those seven were part of those groups as well. as far as the federal investigation, ayman, as far as how this was disrupted, according to the documents, confidential human sources, informants, as well as undercover fbi agents were involved in this. they were able to engage with a person in a militia group that was a group that the fbi was monitoring after social media posts caught their attenti

peter baker, tom riggs has a book out where he studies the foundation of this constitutional republic and talks about the development of the constitution. and he said that george washington, obviously the first president, believed in public virtue. it was absolutely critical and that a president should be given deference and the only way our government works is if we have a president with -- with virtue, as defined by the romans, public virtue. and madison and hamilton were more skeptical, put in more checks and balances. but ricks does describe how the presidency depends still in great part on having a good-faith actor sitting in there. you've written a story about how just as watergate led to watergate reforms, how donald trump's presidency may lead to trump reforms. and it's really a question that -- that i'm continually grappling with. and that's why i loved your article, found it fascinating the what are some of the solutions that congress and reformers may do moving forward? >> after watergate, as you know, joe have they tried to fix the systems in ways that they could. they ins

the reason is because he was engulfed in a massive scandal with a man named bobby baker who was an aide of his in the senate. he was under investigation. what i learned talking to tom brokaw who remembered that quite well was that both cbs and time life had the goods on lbj. they had the full dossier and they were ready to go public with it. and when kennedy was assassinated, they made a deliberate decision to put it back in the box. because the country had been thisbecause the country had been is really important through such , a dramatic transition where you cannot have a situation where kennedy was assassinated, skala breaks, and at the height of the cold war, the new president has to resign. of the united states has to resign. remember, there's no 25th amendment. so there's no provision for replacing the vice president. they had flipped the speaker. in the president pro tem. you would have gone to the speaker for the acting president and the secretary of state would have had to schedule a special election. so this is an interesting sort of ethical issue to debate in the context of h

moderate outsiders would be people like larry hogan or charlie baker or even alisa stefanik two or more centrist and distinctly not part of any action would perhaps attract a following among people who want something completelyte differen. >> is there any advantage now what his name and identification? >> with respect to the individuals the name identification. with respect -- i tend to believe that the what is more important than the who, the alignment of voters eventually determines who the nominee is rather than coming from the top down. i i think that the interesting question is there's clear to people who want restoration is view. there is. people who would like to see a trump like figure it but i think there's a very strong potential majority leaves for liability, primary voting guide the run performers crowd if they're able to both articulate a good message and find an s attractive messenger sometime by 2023. croe to both articulate a good message and find an attractive messenger some time by 2023. >> thank you very much. you have all been remarkably concise. there are some issue

the reason was that he was engulfed in a massive scandal involving a man named bobby baker who was a nativist in the senate and under investigation. what i learned in talking to tom brokaw who remembered that period quite well was that both cbs and time life had the goods on lbj, the full dossier, and they were ready to go public with it. and when kennedy was assassinated, they made a deliberate decision to put it back in the box. really important because the country had been through such a dramatic position that you could not have a situation where kennedy was assassinated, scandal breaks, at the height of the cold war, the new president of the united states has to resign. remember, there was no 25th amendment and no provision for replacing the vice president so it. would have gone to the speaker of the house as acting president and the secretary of state would've had to schedule a special election. interestingn ethical issues to debate in the context of history. sorry? [indiscernible] but thisknow the name, -- yeah. the country had been through a dramatic transition. we all know th