This morning. Because of that, a spare the air alert that remains in effect. Going a record 23 days in a row with a spare the air alert for the thats never been done before. Also tracking dry and gusty offshore winds. Looking at winds gusting up to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour this morning up in the Higher Elevations is why red flag warning is in effect until 8 00 a. M. Today for the north bay mountains and east bay hills but because of those dry northerly to winds, and low relative humidity values. Temperatures upper 60s in San Francisco and mid 70s in oakland. Upper 80s in san jose. And low to mid90s for concord down as we heads through the next few days. Now lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and its a foggy start this morning. Yeah, it sure is mary. In fact, at the Golden Gate Bridge, that is where chp has issued a fog advisory. So limited visibility asu for the most part right now your drive times south 101, 14 minutes from the richmondsan rafael bridge into San Francisco. But yeah, a little murky out there. So careful in that area. Bay bridge off to a good start. No metering lights just yet. Things are pretty quiet out of the east bay heading into San Francisco. But we have brake lights into the Altamont Pass coming out of tracy. All the way ynn. Its a little slow through there also wind advisory in effect. Thats been issued well overnight. So a little gusty, careful if traveling in a highprofile vehicle. As far as minutes now. Thats how long it will take you to go from westbound 280 over to 580. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. Monitoring that wildfire burning in plumas county. You can see from video just tearing up the hillsides there overnight. It flared up yesterday mandatory evacuations. This is the bear fire. Its part ofthe fire which is one of those many fires that were caused by lightning midaugust. But this park southwestern direction and evacuations are in plumas, yuba butte county. This is video from about 1 00 this morning at 162 and marina vista there in oroville. And you can see driving there just a terrifying sight with sides of the roadway and smoke there. So the evacuees were dealing with overnight when they had to try to get out of that area. Right now firefighters staging near loafer creek road recreational area. To try to make sure that the fire does not extend into some of these little neighborhoods there in the hillside. So were going to keep monitoring this all morning long for you. Again, this is in the Lake Oroville area. Back to you. Happening today, pg e says those impacted by Public Safety power shutoffs should have their power back by the end of the day today. The utility plans to finish up inspections of their power lines in the next couple of some families have now been without e lte cell phone. And no power. So it was a day of work virtually last and its very frustrating. Not only did some people lose a day of work virtually, but most of the schools in the area also closed for the day with many students unable to zoom. One Retail Business off of sonoma highway said it was not business as usual. The manager estimathe business was down 80 explaining customers assume since the power is out, theyre not open. And our emily turner is on the way to the north bay right ory coming up in our next half hour. Look how in yucaipa. The supersmoky skies where you live. Lookedretty eerie day yesterday. And more fire watch. The walbridge fire in sonoma night. But all mandatory evacuations have been lifted. And the creek fire in the Sierra National forest also picked up monday night under extreme conditions. And this helicopter just hauled 88 surface water collection Boulder Creek where 2500 homes were without drinkable water until last night. The fires of the czu complex severely damaged a 4,000foot water line. Melting pipes and tanks and contaminating water. The new water collection pipes will be a temporary fix for the four million gallons lost. 300 homes at all. There is some good news to report though. Crews are nearing 100 containment on all the lightning fires in the bay says it expects the scu complex east of san jose to be fully contained by saturday. Now to the states against the coronavirus. California confirmed 4100 new cases yesterday. But the average test Positivity Rate has dropped d hospitalizations are down 24 . This morning, Santa Clara County is one of a handful of counties in california to mo tier. That means more businesses ligh including indoor personal care services, gyms and Fitness Studios with modifications. Schools can if the county remains in the red tier for 14 days feel the reopening isnt happening fast enough. Still she cant go to school. She cant see her friends. She cant meet her teacher. We want schools to open. Its a daytoday roller trying to put our hands in the air es nothing else we can do right now. County leaders also gave e ok to museums, aquariums and zoos. But not to indoor worship and movie theaters. Santa cruz county also moved day. But unlike santa clara, it is allowing Indoor Dining and movie theaters. A livelook at San Francisco this morning. Today, gyms and Fitness Centers can open back up outdoors. Last week, hair and nail salons, barbershops and massage studios got the green light to operate for limited outdoor services. And for a is reopened in your county, and across the bay area, just head to kpix. Com. Today marks ten years since a pg e natural gas pipeline exploded under san bruno, killing eight people and leveling three dozen homes. Heres a look back. Takea look at the gara it completely collapsed right on top of the car. It is almost unrecognizable as d right over there, the other car. A pickup. The tires completely melted off. Well, days part of the neighborhood is destroyed. Three streets were hit the hardest and you can see from this map just where they were. Everything is gone me completely gone. I mean, theres nothing left. And thats irrelevant though because people died. You survived and your you thank . Well god. God helped me. The citywebsite this morning. Listing the names the and pledging to never forget them. Update now out of the north tiburons police chief just is retiring ws comes after this confrontation between a Police Officer and a black business owner. The man inside his own store and demanded to see proof that he owned the store as he was unlo middle of the night. The town manager said chief had been discussing the timing of his retirement for some time. His last day trial for two bay area teens accused of fatally stabbing an italian Police Officer in rome resumes. It happened last summer near the hotel where Gabriel Ngata lee north of north valley and San Francisco were tourists. The men who were 19 and 18 at the time said they mistook the undercover officers as criminals trying to attack them and that they fought back in selfdefense. Police say the americans were trying to buy drugs earlier that evening. Paying for partying. The proposed charges lined up treaming on cbsn bay area. Our hazy smoky skies continue for the bay jquality going a record 23 days in a row with the spare the air alert for the bay area. Well talk about what you can expect where you live coming up. Road work along the nimiat e spots coming up. And lets take another look outside before we head break. This time, were looking south from our Salesforce Tower camera. It is 5 10 right w[ hi. Were glad you came in. Whats on your mind . 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The lastminute cancellation questions and to stay uptodate on all the changes happening this school year, just check out the special section on our website. Kpix. Com backtoschool. Back to now. The National Guard had to rescue dozens of hikers and got trapped in the creek fire. At least 46 people and four dogs were taken to the fresno airport to be reunited with their family. Oh oh my baby. Thats a hell of a way to get a y. Yeah. Oh, Mary Breckenridge was at the airport waiting for her son and his dog to arrive. The creek fire is forcing tions ne ake. Its also threatening thousands mes in county near bass lake in wawona. A Small Community inside. The california womaeaking out. She says the new brush fire just the latest reastrend. Its the incident weve been telling you about all week when sparked san bernardinos fire a pyrotechnic device meant to sent up a cloud of pink or blue smoke to reveal the gender. The latest in a string of serious mishaps since jenna threw the party the whole gender reveal trend. First one that caused a forest fire was in 2018 and i saw that an and i cried my tears thathand in putting this type of out in the world. Mind you i never use any pyrotechnics, we had a cake. That was in 2008. Jenna says views on gender have changed since then. Another reason she likes totod. In San Francisco a supervisor called for an investigation into an unlawful party at ocean beach on 1,000 people gathered to celebrate burning man now a 9a city supervisor called on the city attorneys to investigate and pursue potential ainst the party promoters. The party went against city orders prohibiting gatherings of 12 or more amid the pandemic. A ton of trash is still cleaned up from the party. We ran into a local yesterday whose daily turned into a voluntary beach cleanup. She t it without doing anything. Its really bad , you know. i feel like usually when its more local folks everyone the beach. When its a big holiday or the crowds come in or maybe its the pandemic. This is the big time outing or something. This looks worse than i have seen it in a long time. The crowds were so bad mayor breed shot down the opened yesterday. Ubers ceo announced the company is joining ght against climate s to only offer rides in electric vehicles e u. S. , canada and europe by 2030. Move exclusive worldwide by 2040. In the meantime, riders can pay 1 more to request a ride in an car. Also committed 800 million to help drivers intain an ev car by 2025. All right, the time is now 5 17. Gianna, keeping her eyes on the roadways for us good morninn. At 880 right now. Thats onout the door, and you are planning on taking the nimitz freeway, lot e lights especially southbound going into oakland. Weve got some late running construction there. Hoping to have things open up by 6 00 this morning but righlot the sensors. A slow ride south 880 near 23rd. Alternate lanes in the area. Thats whygs and alternate route. At least the portion as you work through the oakland area. The rest of 880 looks great head near the coliseum and quiet south of there out of fremont and hayward. Taking a look at the roadway elsewhere. Another portion of 580 where we typically see brake lights is that drive into the Altamont Pass, slow and go ride this morning coming out of tracy over togrant line. Pretty typical for e supercommuter area. 38 minutes or actually thats just changed. 40 minutes now from 205 over to gs getting a little busy asshore freeway, still in the clear. Highway 4 as well as 101 out of san jose northbound. No delays to report there. Another portion of 101 though just a headsup through marin megg fomorning. Chp has issued a fog advisosibility as you work your way across the span of the Golden Gate Bridge. So careful there. Bay bridge, starting to see a few more cars heading towards ththis morning but so good. No brake lights just yet. And the metering lights remain uoff. Thats a look at your morning drive. Smoky hazy skies once again, heres mary with your forecast. Thats right. So tracking that smoke this morning. You know, we had all of that smoke yesterday. And that helped to bring our temperatures down a little that what were will be the case once again for today. Because of the hazy skies. A look at our air quality conditions at this hour. So this morning, looking at moderate air quality to unhealthy air for sensitive groups and even unhealthy for everfor the peninsula you can see moderate air quality redwood city down througbay and san jose. Moderate air quality. Moderate for bay from fremont and union for sensitive groups for parts of the trivalley from pleasanton and dublin. Looking at unhealthy air for sensitive in walnut creek and looking at unhealthy air for sensitive groups those orange dots for the east bay and oakland. San and moderate to unhealthy for sensitive groups for the San Francisco area. Up through lark spur. And sausalito. San rafael. But you can see those red dots right over petaluma and thats unhealthy air for everyone right over petaluma. So because of this, a spare the air alert that effect for today and were now going a record 23 days in a row with a spare the air alert for the bay area. Longest stretch of spare the air alerts ever recorded for our region. And that breaks the old record set back in 2018 during the camp fire. Gianna was talking about how foggy it is along the coast and right around the bay. Heres a liock with the foggy conditions for the Golden Gate Bridge. So onshore flow along the coast around the bay with that fog. Our s to mid60s at this hour. So we are looking at offshore winds though still for our Higher Elevations and north bay mountains and east bay hills. So a red flag warning in effect until 8 00 a. M. Today. Weve seen gusts up to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour this morning. Up in the Higher Elevations. Really still watching the conditions up above 1,000 feet for the north bay mountains and east bay hills with that high fire danger. So were gusty winds buthey will be easing heading through the day. Thankfully so. Then more of a typical september weather pattern going through the next several days. You can see on futurecast, the winds will be easing for today. Daytime highs, little bill cooler compar but again thats all because of those smoky skies kind of that heat. So looking at upper 80s for san jose as well as for i2santa clara. Low 90s in morgan hill. Looking at 39 concord as well as for Pleasant Hill and around the bay upper 60s in San Francisco and 77 in oakland and mid 80s for the north bay. Heres the extended forecast and what you can expect. As we are looking at temperatures a little bit cooler over the next few days. But still dealing with those hazy and smoky skies. Back to you. Cant come here and not smile. Next on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, Strawberry Fields forever. No more. Why this farmer is swapping out berries for sunflowers. And coming up at 7 00 on cbs this morning, the latest on the wildfires burning statewide. Plus an interview with dr. Fauci. A james beard awardwinning we love our new home. Theres so much space. We have a guestroom now. But, we have aunts. Youre slouching again, ted. Expired. Thanks, aunt bonnie. Its a lot of house. I hope you can keep it clean. At least geico makes bundling our home which helps us save a lot of money oh, teddy. Did you get my friend request . Uh, ill have to check. doorbng made easy go to geico. Com. 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But the e of that we have that smoke kind of inhibiting that extreme we had earlier in and over the weekend. The hazy that will continue and temperatures a little bit cooler compared to yesterday. Heres a current look at air quality conditions as we have the rets have Santa Cruz Mountains and the east bay and for the north bay. This morning. So a spare the air alert that record 23 days in a row with the spare the air alert for a high fire danger continues feet. For the north bay mountains and east bay hills. That red flag warning in effect until 8 00 a. M. Togusty offshore winds. So winds will ease though thankfully through the day. More about what you can expect where g up in a few minutes. Lots of road work happening here and thats causing a pretty significant backup. Southbound 880 as you work your way out of oakland and you ca the maps here line of red. Most of the construction is right around 23rd to 29th. And theyre alternating lanes so shutting down most of the lanes except for one so traffic having a hard timesqueezing throc h there. Theyre hoping to have everything cleared by 6 00 this morning. But in the meantime, if you plan on heading out the door and you are taking the nimitz freeway, expect delays. If you want to use 580 instead through that a smooth sailing there in both directions. And once you are past all that the rest of the nimitz freeway is pretty quiet. Headed to the dunbarton bridge though, first reports of a crash near the toll plaza. Ill have more on that in the next report. Yeah, i am here in st. Helena. Where pretty much the power has 24 hours and hopefully only a matter of hours until it goes back on and you cant this neighborhood behind me is completely in the dark. Now these homes and businesses uhave been that way since the s yesterday. Pg e says that the at of fire should have passed by about 10 00 in the morning though the red flag warning extend only until 8 00 a. M. And then they can start running the lines. In total 167,000 customers are without power. They said last night they dont foresee another weather event like this and this kind of outage for at least a week which i dont know if thats good or bad. Week feels like its pretty short period of time. So plenty of people are hoping its going to be longer than that. I had one bar of lte on my cell known. And no power. So it was a day of work virtually lost. And its very frustrating. Reporter yeah, so a lot of folks having to take Vacation Days and kids taking time out from school because they dont have any power to do zoom meetings. Now coming up in the next half hour, im hoping to reach mayor of st see how they handled this from a municipal standpoint. Thats in just the next half hour. Reporting live in st. Helena, emily turner, kpix 5. Now to the fight against coronavirus. U. S. Drug giant pfizer and german Firm Biontech are confident they can have a vaccine against covid19 for approval by the midoctober or early november time frame. But dr. Anthony fauci says its unlikely there will be a Coronavirus Vaccine ready by election day. President trump suggested that could happen by november 3rd. The onyou can see that scenario come true is if that there were so many infections in the Clinical Trial sites that you get an efficacy answer sooner uld have projected. But its unlikely that well have a definitive answer at that time. More likely the end of the year. A new report from the Rockefeller Foundation recommends that in order for the u. S. To control covid19, it needs to perform as many as 200 million tests every month. Im not sure how much longer i can open up. This is my whole life savings and just open up, San Francisco. Please. Bay area businesses are struggling to survive the pandemic and in some places mes down this block of Mission Street is the dividing line between daly city and San Mateo County. And the city and county of San Francisco. In daly city on the San Mateo County side you can done indoors but the other side you cant. The only county in the area still under that restriction. San franciscos department of health says its being more careful because the city is so highly populated saying quote San Francisco is a dense urban city and we must be more advance continues to make progress slowing the spread of covid19, we can get business,s and workers bark on their feet. Back to the fire watch now. 14 firefighters were hurt battling the flames in monterey county. They were trying to take cover when the dolan fire exploded and theless padres National Forest. Firefighters is in Critical Condition this morning. This aftecounty officials will hold a discussion via zoom to share resources with residents who have been impacted by the czu complex fires. That zoom session is intended for coast side residents of San Mateo County. That meeting will be open to the first 500 residents. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And lets go live right now to Southern California where a huge fire has just doubled in size right now. You can see some of the orange flames there in the live picture. This is near the angeles National Forest just north of monrovia. And were talking about 10,000 acres right now. 0 containment. A couple of communities are now under evacuation warnings and monrovia and duarte. Be ready to at a moments notice and the powerful santa ana winds today are rape ay a part. In yuba county, another fire there near Lake Oroville. Now new evacuations around marysville and willow glen road were just hearing about a new fire. 300 acres that firefighters are now evacuating people from in that area. Were going to find out more information posted throughout the broadcast. Back to you michelright, anne, thank you. Update on new yorks law enforcement. The police chief of rochester is stepping down along with the deputy chief and two other commanding officers. The moves come as protests in the city continued over the death of daniel prude in march. Prude, a 41yearold black man, died a week after he was taken into custody by officers who placed a hood over his head. To campaign 2020 now. We are now less than two months away from election day. Later today, joe biden will deliver remarks in michigan. This comes as his Team Released new campaign video. A conversation between Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris and former president barack obama. [ no audio ] President Trump rallied supporters in North Carolina last night. His third trip there in three weeks. He did not wear a mask during his speech. Even though theres a state order. And the republican chairman of the local county commission asked him to dont forget, you have until to register to vote. For more information on how to register online, to kpix. Com campaign2020. And this just in. President trump has been nominated for a nobel peace prize. It comes after he helped broker a peace deal between emirates. There are over 300 candidates for the 2020 peace prize. The winner will be announced in october of 2021. This morning, the irs plans to notify nine million americans who havent picked up the stimulus checks and fraud allegations for a major american bank. Lets go live to diane king hall. For this mornings money watch report. Diane, good morning. Reporter good morning len. Thats right. The irs says millions of people still havent claimed their stimulus checks again that number nine million. That mostly pertains to people who typically dont file a federal income tax turn return. Theres an october 15th deadline to claim the checks. About 150 million taxpayer received the checks. Potential surrounding the government east Small Business stimulus program. Jpmorgan chase is veigfits and other government relief efforts. The bank believes some employees may have committed illegal acts. And tesla the worst day ever yesterday. Shares slumped 21 after it was announced the stock would not be added to the s p 500. Len . And diane, so the word is chipotles latest deal means free chips and guac not just for you but family. Huh . Reporter yep. Yes. Thats right. Teamwork makes the guac dreamwork len. Chipotle is celebrating the new group ordering feature with free large orders of chips and guac. Send a shareable link to friends or family members to create a group order. At least four entrees ne be added to the digital cart. Make sure to use the at checkout. The deal runs through this sunday. The family together stays together right . Reporter stays together, right, exactly of course. We have to put that one on a tshirt. Diane, thank you. Well see you again when the stock market opens at 6 30. Reporter thats right. I guess my family is staying together forever. Next on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a lot of disappointed kids will not be going door to door next month. Where traditional banned in california. And were still dealing with hazy and smoky skies with record 23 days in a row with a spare the air alert for the bay area. Ill let if i could, baby id 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. All right, its 5 43 on this wednesday morning. And still tracking a high fire danger with the red flag warning in effect for the north bay mountains and east bay hills. Until 8 00 a. M. Today. Wind have been gusting up to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour up in the higher elevatiothose dry and gusty offshore winds. Well talk more about what you can expect as we take you through the day and through the week, coming up. New this morning, a weigh event for apple next week. Where manycompany will reveal the new iphone 12. It will be the first iphone to connect to the new ulst wireless network. Questions for months about whether pandemic related supply chain issues would delay its release. Other tech expected to be the new apple watch and ipad models. Movie theaters are back open and Placer County this morning. Studio movie grill and rockland reopened at 25 capacity yesterday. When the county moved into the staffers are sanitizing all seats and trays between showings and encouraging guests to order tickets and meals online. A live look at the white house now where the rose garden is currently under repair a few weeks after renovations finished. President trumps Reelection Campaign is paying to replace sod after damage last month from large crowds and heavy equipment used for rnc festivities. Meantime, the white house is getting a the holiday season. Planning is alread for the traditionacongratiesident trump are asking for volunteers from the public to help out. Theyre also looking for musicians and choirs and christmas themed entertainers to perform during open houses. Details on how to volunteer can be found on the white house website. From christmas to ha, its going to look very different this year. In l. A. The Health Department just released its allowed nor will gatherings with people outside of homes and no carnivals or Haunted House attractions but some locals say theyre going to celebrate anyway. I costumes and i love at other people choose. I love dressing up. Just because people have been kind of stpent up at home. Not much to do. So i think it would be like a big release of fun for everybody. Hopefully thats what it is. The county did give some suggestions for safe ways to celebrate including car parades and online celebrations or watching scary movies at home or at a 5 46. Gianna has a check of traffic. Disappointed. I had the perfect Halloween Costume for this year. Oh. Okay len, you got to tell me what it is. All right, ill text you. [ laughter ] i want someboughter ] all right. Taking a look at the roadwaen gate bridge, some slow and go conditions going through there. Foggy start to the morning and visibility across the span there. So careful working your way into San Francisco. I things are might be slowing down just a bit into the waldo grade through there. Bay bridge toll plaza, already starting to stack up just a bit. No word yet if the metering lights are on but thinks are getting busy through the area. Also brake lights this morning westbound 580. It is a slow ride this morning. 205 near Mountain House we have a crash. Altamont pass because of another crash reported near daughterty. Things are getting a little busy there in the Altamont Pass. Give yourself some extra time and also a wind advisory. The drive times now reached the red zone. 205 over to 680. 45 minute drive time as you head through there. Eastshore freeway clear and highway 4 as well as 101. No delays there. Some brake lightnings this morning, southbound 880 nimitz freeway. A slow ride because of so now that should be wrapped up within the next ten minutes. In the meantime stick with 580 s thats looking better than the drive along the nimitz freeway. The good news is past most of that, traffic is cleared near the coliseum and south of there going westbound on the duspot near the toll plaza. A headsup. Slight delays because of that. Thats a look at the morning commute. Smoky skies once again. Heres mary with more on that. And for you, gianna, with that haze with that smoke in our atmosphere. And we are looking at with those temperatures, a little smoke. Now i want to show air quality conditions. So looking first the peninsula as well as down through the south bay, looking at moderate air quality from redwood city into san jose. Milpitas, the east bay into fremont. Looking at unhealthy air for sensitive groups for parts of the trivalley from dublin to pleasanton. As well as up through concord and unhealthy air for everyone for walnut creek and for sensitive groups for oakland. Those are the orange dots this morning. And moderate to unhealthy air for sensitive groups for San Francisco up through sausalito. Lark spur and san rafael. But over petaluma this morning. We have a spare the air alert in effect. Going a record 23 days in a row with the spare the air alert for the bay area. Thats never been done before. Now its a foggy start along the compost and right around the bay. You can see just how foggy it is. Hard to really make out anything on our Golden Gate Bridge camera. Temperatures are running in the mid to upper 50s to low to mid 60s at this hour. Now i want to show you our peak wind gusts, the Higher Elevations above 1,000 feet. Where we do high fire danger. Looking at winds gusting up to 56 Miles Per Hour in mount st. Lena and pine flat road. 47. Healdsburg hills, 45mileper hour wind mocrk, 43 and Morgan Valley road. 35mileperhour wind gust. So because of that, we have a red flag warning that is in effect until 8 00 a. M. Today. Elevations above 1,000 feet under that red flag warning due to thy humidity values and everything is just so dry out there. So lets show we head through the day, thankfully so. Gusty offshore as we look to the of that typical september weather pattern settles in for us. Those daytime highs for the south bay, a little bit cooler smoke of that, kind of inhibiting that extrean jose as well as for santa clara and campbell and coupe tee know. For the east bay topping out at 93 concord and Pleasant Hill. Upper 80s to 90s for the trivalley. And around the bay, upper 60s in San Francisco and mid for sausalito and daly city. 77 in oakland and 75 for alameda and for the north ime highs in the mid 80s. Heres the extended forecast and what you can expect. So temperatures were going to cool it down a little bit more as we head through the next few days. But we will continue with those hazy and smoky skies. Back to you. All right, mary, thank you. New this morniny area schools have pulled spots in a recent study ranking the Top Community colleges in the country. Csm ranked third in the country. Alone yea college in fremont took seventh. The 14th and cupe was 19th. The study published by wallet hub looked at factors of cost, quality, student to retention and graduation rates. Each of the colleges were in the top ten. Proof age is just a number. Ahead on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, how this 100 yearold man just dove into the world record books. Remember, kpix 5 wants to bring you the good news happening in the bay area. Just go to kpix. Com together. B it is 5 54. New this morning, its one thing to turn old. But its another thing to do so while breaking a world scuba diving into the water to scuba at 100 years young. This is the third record lambert has broken since he started scuba diving. Earlier this wek, he suited up for a 27 minute dive at pearl lake. Its something even his st wrap her head around. Its like what . What . He goes yeah im going to cozumel. Its been pretty insane yeah and the fact hes still doing it and hes still heough to do it at 100. If they like it, pursue it. And its even more impressive considering lambert did not start diving until he was 98. When asked his secret to staying healthy for so long, lambert said if he , he er ] and we are in the final countdown for when the lights come back on here in the north bay. I have that story and the timing of it just ahead. And the murder trial with bay area ties resuming today inad in our next half hour. And heres a live look outside from our morning looking over the bay area. At the bay bridge there. And a reminder, kpix 5 has a new app that gives you easy 24 7 access to cbsn bay area and kpix 5 newscasts. You need to delete the old app. That way i got it all from you im always pushing through i know well make it to the finish line i know youre waiting on the other side im like you on demand glucose monitoring. Because theyre always on. So you dont wait for life. You live it. Right now on kpix and streaming on cbsn bay area, flames forcing northern californians to flee. The overnight rush to get out as the fire line pushes closer to homes. And in the he power could be turned back on in the north bay. Plus, orange skies painting an eerie scene. Across the bay area. Mary shows us if the smoke will clear. And a reopening problem. The complaints one ba is dragging its feet. Good morning everyone, its wednesday, september 9th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese, good morning, a weather now with mary lee. Mary, good morning. Good morning to you len and michelle. So we are looking at foggy conditions along the coast and right around the bay with that onshore flow that developing marine layer for us. You can see that Golden Gate Bridge camera and just how foggy it is this morning. Were also dealing with smoky skies. So were starting off our day in some locations in Santa Cruz Mountains as well as the east bay and parts of the north bay with unhealthy air quality and because of this, we have a spare the air alert that continues so were going now a record 23 days in a row with the spare the air alert for the bay area. Were going to continue with those hazy and unhealthy air quality. Now that smoke is helping to at least drop our temperatures a little bit. So were not talking about extreme heat that we have from over the holiday weekend. Were going to see temperatures ttle bit cooler for today. Ill have details on that coming up in a few minutes but now lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic this morning. At the roadways, that morning drive is in full swing