Backing up beyond that 880 overpass and ki theres still a lot of brake lights southbound 880 working freeway due to road work around the oakland area. Use 580 as an alternate route. And that drive along 580 at least the portion through the Altamont Pass, still pretty as well. Westbound 580 a slow ride working your way outhe Altamont Pass, a new crash reported near dougherty. Thats coming up in the next report. Anne . Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are keeping our eye on a couple of large fires burning right now causing evacuations near lake oroville. This is new video from overnight from plumas county. Just tearing up the hillsides there. This flared up yesterday and these new evacuations ca last night an is called the bear fire and its part of the north complex fire and it is now moving in a in plumas and yuba and butte about 1 00 morning from the and fa heard from one. And we are going to have that coming up at 6 30. We know some homes wn. Also want to let you know abouin the same area. Also near lake oroville. This is called the willow fire. New video just in fire. This is low marie coo in yuba county. 3,000 people there also just evacuated in the area, there are closures and again two fires causing thousands of people the acmite in the of the night near lake oroville. Yuba county. Well hear from the evacuee coming up in hour. Some north bay residents are waking up in dark for a second day. Due to Public Safety power shutoffs. Pg e says theyll only restore power to customers 12 hours after the all clear from high winds. Kpix 5s empty turner is there right now and emily, power isnt expected to come back on until this evening. Reporter yeah, theyre pretty much giving the estimate of about 9 00 tonight and in the moon timesome folks up here who have generators, this is one of the areas always in these pspss. Now these homes and businesses have been in the dark since the erday. Its been more than 24 hours now. Pg e says that this t threat of fires should have passed though the red flag warning expires at 8 00. And thats when theyre going to be able to start running thelines the find and then judgment fix any damage. In total about 167,000 customers are without power and thats across counties. Pg e last night says that they dont see another weather event or a potentially power event at least a week. Which is im hoping, going to be longer than that as is everybody else involved. I had maybe ten customers all day because nobody thinks that were open since the power is off. Situation. Reporter in addition to that, lots of schools both here and napa county as in Sonoma County are closed because students without power have a hard time zooming for their classes. I spoke to a sheriffs deputy and the fires anne was just talking about in yuba county. Now called Napa County Sheriffs Office asking for mutual aid to closures to make sure there are no looters. So red flag warning days is pretty much if you dont have a fire in your county you are helping somebody who does. Reporting live in napa y turner, kpix 5. Looking the sky was in yucaipa. Lots of you have been sending in photos of super smoky skies where you live. Look pretty eerie. All day yesterday. And this is why there is so much smoke right now. In Sonoma County flaired up monday night. But in mendocino county, the oak fire has grown to more than 860 acres north of willetts and is 10 containd. And the crthe Sierra National fost also picked up monday night under extreme conditions. Good news to report. Crews are nearing 100 containment on the lightning fithe bay area. Cal fire expects the s cu to be fully contained by saturday. Some encourg news for returned home in Santa Cruz County. Their water lines should be day now. This weekend to no water. The san lorenzo valley water distct started moving in new pipes to replace the one damaged in the czu complex fires. Iveeen taking showers at friends in another town. This morning, 500 homes are without king walt water and about 300 homes still have no water at all. The trial for two bay area men accused of fatally stabbing a italy Police Officer in rome resumes. This happened last summer near the hotel where finnegan elder staying. They mistook the undercover officers as criminals trying to attack them and they fought back in selfdefense. Police strying to buy drugs earlier that evening. California confirmed 4100 new cases of the coronavirus yesterday. But the average test Positivity Rate has dropped below 4 . And hospitalizations are down 24 . Rning. Today, gyms and can open back up outdoors. Last weenail salons and barbershops and massage studios got the green light to operate for limited outdoor services, this morning Santa Clara County is moving into a er. That means more businesses can light up their open signs including Indoor Personal Care Services and gyms and Fitness Institute yesterdays with modifications. Schools can also open up if the county remains in the red tier for 14 but some feel the reopening isnt happening fast enough. Still she cant go to school. She cant see her friends. She cant meet her teacher. We hools to open. Its a dayto coaster and were just trying to put our hands in the air and enjoy the ride because theres nothing else we can do right now. County leaders also gave the ok to museums aquariums and zoos but restaurants, places of worship county also moved into the red yesterday. But unlike santa clara. It is allowing Indoor Dining and movie theaters. For a list of what has reopened in your county and across the bay area, just head to the website. Kpix. Com. Today marks a dark day. Since a pg eur gas pipeline exploded under san bruno. Killing eight people and leveling three dozen homes. Take a look mpletely collapsed right on top of the car. It is almost unrecognizable as a vehicle. And the otr he car. Melted off. Days part of the neighborhood is destroyed and three streets were hit the hardest. You can see from this map just where they weis gone i mean, everything we owned is completely gone. I mean theres nothing left. And thats irrelevant though because people died. You survived and your home survived. Who do you thank . Oh god. God helped me. The ciof san bruno has this message up on its website listing the names victims and pledging to never forget them. Tiburon stubbliest chief is leaving. Chief Michael Cronin is recovering after 12 years. The news comes after a confrontation with a black Business Owner and the Police Officer. The officer questioned the man inside his own ore and demanded to see proof that he ing inventory in the middle of the nithe chief the timing of his retirement time now. Hiss last day is sunday. A Labor Day Party investigation. Next on kpix 5 streaming on cbsn bay area, the facing the promoters weekends burning man bashright, were going a record row with a air alert in effect for the bay area. So hazy and smoky skies once again for today. Ill let you know you can expect where you live. Coming up. And its a busy ride as you work your way into the Altamont Pass. Weve got couple of crashes there. Plus delays continue on the nimitz freeway. Ill have that and more coming up. And lets take you up to the roof this morning. A live look at the bay bridge from our roof camera. Time now 6 10. We ome. And we did. Over 24,000 homes have been destroyed by wildfires in the past few years. Wildfire victims need help so im voting yes on 19. It limits propertyaxes on wildfire victims without you never know what youll be faced with. Please, vote yes on 19. n so youre a Small Business or a big one. You were thriving, but then. Oh. How do you bounce back . You dont, you bounce forward with serious and reliable internet. 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We ran into one local who not expect to pick up trash on her daily walk. Its really bad. You know, i feel like y en folks, everyone takes car of the beach and its when its a big holiday and. G the crowds come in or maybe its like the pandemic, people are pent up. Like the big time outing or mayor london broad shut down the beech parking lots. Those reopened school reopenings. Palo alto unified schools plans to reopen today for high ed ve been closed since march. Each middle and High School Campus will house one to two cohorts of 14 students with no more than two supervising adults for each group. The students will foschoa bit of a setback tuesday. Some st a marin city for the first day of inperson classes only to be sent back home. Empty classrooms at bayside king jr. Academy. The lastminute cancellation camemembers covid19 test result. And to stay uptodate on all the changes this school year, the section on our website. At kpix. Com backtoschool. A big relief for a Colorado Firefighter as the cameron peak fire has scorched more than 100,000 acres so far. But fire crews credit edsnowfall along the cooler temperatures for stopping a continued spread. It is a relief and lord knows we needed it. Been pretty try. Five inches of snow fell yesterday as an early winter storm transformed intense ng te developing are coaf from sugar bowl ski resort in tahoe. It cant be fer guests since the navirus rules they just keep changing. 6 16. Thnna. And its a one this morning. As you work your way aloninvolving a couple of vehicles and minor injuries but a lot of activity there on hes over to the right shoulder and we have a brake lights now. Working to the dublin interchange. Traffic slow there. East of there brake lights y into the Altamont Pass. Wind advisory in effect. So a pretty troublesome commute as you work westbound 580. With a 45 minute drive time now 205 over to 680. Eastshore freeway, doing okay as far as drive times go. 17 minutes highway 4 to the maze. E maze this was whstore for you. You have a slow ride at the bay bridge toll plaza and lots of brake lights there. Metering lights are on and slow up the incline as well. A little slow off the upper deck heading into the city. South 880 very slow work in the oaklan brake lights through there on the rough oakland and you miead as an alternate. And a new crash just reported und 24 right at ranch road. Two left lanes are blocked there and traffic is building and you are backed up into orinda this point. A very slow rithe Golden Gate Bridge this morning. Chp issued the advisory overnight and thats stilinso limited visi work your way across the span. Red flag warning continues for Higher Elevations, heres mary with details on that. Thats dangertill for elevations above 1,000 feet with red flag warning in effect. Im tracking this in just a moment. Just how gusty it is still up in the mountains anheres a live look with our Treasure Island camera. And it is a our day. Ast and right around the bay and aclypretty much across the bay area. Temperatures arerunning in thto upper 50s to low to mid60s nthat the hour. Live look with our mount Mount Hamilton cam. Pine flat road 47 Miles Per Hour and healdsburg as well as for mount 45mileperhour wind since midnight. Mount doe ab diablo 45. Because of the strong red flag warninm. Today for the north bay mountains and east bay hills. So low relative humidity values, those northerly to northeasterly winds and of course everything is just so dry out there. Still a big concern for us watching that closely for you. Thankfully winds will ease as we head through the day. We have a spare the air alert that remains in effect. We are looking at hazy and smce again. And with it, were now going a record 23 days in a row with a spare the air alert in bay area. That is the longest stretch ofalerts ever recorded for the region. Now this afternoon, because of at smoke, temperatur at fog and that haze. For low to mild and sour inland tions to low 90s this aftonridge of high low bringing snow to the colorado area. We are going to see day back to seasonal temperatures as well. And so you can see on futuwill be easing and not quite as strong as this morning. And even yesterday morning temperatures are running in the upper 50s for santa clara and san jose and campbell and for cupertino this afternoon. For the east bay, and pleasant hill. Upper 80s to low upper 60s in San Francisco and mid 60s in sausyou in oaklan bay, mid 80s so heres the exatures cooling off just a bit more. With that haze and smoke in our atmosphere. Back to you. L ahead on kpix 5 and area yocorenot sea of flowers. Mission of this strawberry farm trading berries rush to work, grab a drink hurry home. [cell phe beeps] stop dont be on your phone. Let someone else take the wheel. 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Good morning, mary lee starts us off with the midweek forecast. Cooling down a bit mary, but the smoke still out there this morning. Thats right. So the reason why its going to be a little bit cooler for today is because of that smoke and we have that spare the air alert that remains in effect and we have also got the high fire danger this morning. The red flag warning in effect today for the north buy mountains and east bay hills. Gusts up to 40, 50 Miles Per Hour in the Higher Elevations above 1,000 feet this morning. For you. Also watching that smoke. This is our smoke forecast model here. And we are looking air once those hazy and smoky skies so that spare the air alert in effect i think the worst of it the north bay and east bafor today. Looking at record 23 days in a row with a spare the alert for the bay. The afternoon, for the coast mid 60s. And around the bay, upper 60s to low tomid70s. And looking at upper 80s can expectbut now lets check in with gianna for the latest on a Traffic Alert just issued. Yeah, chp just put a traffic advisory on westbound 24 right at fish ranch. This is due to a three car crash with injuries. Two left lanes are blocked until further notice. And trafbeyond camino pablo at this point. A very slow ride as you work to that area near fish ranch. Yesterday major problems on 24. Today. At about 25 minutes to go from 680 over towards where that oakland connector is if you are headed towards the bay bridge. So definitely extra minutes there if you are traveling along 24. You know speaking of oakland, late running road work freeway causing delays out of downtown oakland. Anne . Im anne makovec the live news desk. And we are keeping an eye on a and in fact, a couple of them and heres a live look right now as one of the photographers drives through ar check out the new video we e homes burning right now. Several properties already oroville therty. And this the bear fire where new evacuations overnight were just ordered. It roared up midnight tearing throug comm flames burning on either sides of their vehicles as the fire burned toward oroville and we just heard from rson who barely made te toe. It was coming on me so fast. I had to go a a sheet this property and everybody burnt to the ground except for the shop. With me in it. I i thought i was going to die. If not from the smoke inhalation. Reporter just terrifying. In another fire in the same area, this is in loma rica in yuba county. 3,000 people evacuated there were just talking about near oroville and this is video from cal fire im hearin several people have been inacuations are ongoing. We have closures around marysville and willow glen and fruitland and loma rica and dolan harding. Now at least some of the fire fires already burning in the area from the lightning strikes weeks ago and the problem is with these new powerful yzwinds, mary has a. They can kick up the unburned areas sort of islands in the middle of the fire causing this new destruction. Were going to keep an eye on it. Back to here at least for here the winds have started to die pge and issued the all clear. Which means that as soon as the sun rises theyre going to be are still the dark without a generator. The homes have been in the dark since Early Morning hours yesterday. Now han 24 hours without power. Pg e says its a threat of fire should have passed or has now passed, and theyre going to start running the lines when the sun comes up to find and then ultimately fix any damage. Now in total 167,000 custome iple different counties. And pg e last night says that they dont foresee another weather event orone for at least a week. But as you can imagine, locals both here in napa county and in Sonoma County are hopeful will be longer than on my cell known power. So it waof work virtually lost. And its very frer and also in just the last half hour i have had the opportuny to talk to th mayor of the city here and he says that downtown is with the Public Safety power shutoffs that have happened in years past. Thats because in the last year, theyve been working with pg e to adpower poleand more Power Sources so now, instead of poion and whenever theres a red flag warning, oops, everybody is out, theyre Different Directions and that will allow the downtown or with a lot of its facilities and its resources there to be the places that are a higher fire risk are without power. Emily turner, kpix fied by high winds have now burned thousands of angers in causing evacuations and Power Outages and highway closures in oregon. Governor kate brown has approved an emergency declhelp get more resources to local responders. 14 firefighters are hurt battling the flames inunty. Officials say they were trying to take cover under a fire exploded in the Los Padres National forest. One of the firefighters is in critical condition. State officials along with camp fire survivors will hold a yes on prop 19 zoom news conference. The proposition creates a dedicated fund resources. It also benefits wildfire survivors and seniors and people with disabilitiesset to begin at 10 00 ththe stock market. Wall street opening up just a few moments ago. And taking a look at the big board here you can see the dow is way up about 255 points. Tech stocks have been struggling the last few days and were going to get a date from Diane King Hall in a few minutes. Now rus. U. S. Drug giant pfizer and german Firm Biontech say they are confident they can have a vaccine against covid19 for approval by midoctober or early november. But late stage testing of astrazenecas covid19 vaccine is on hold now. The company is checking to see whether a patient had a serious side effect linked to the shot. Right now, its being called a quote unexplained illness. Two other vaccines are undergoing final stage testing in the u. S. Looking live at capitol hill where republicans have put forth a coronavirus stimulus proposal that is expected to be week. Its smaller than the plan House Democrats passed months ago that the senate. Meantime, the irs has nine Million People still not claiming their stimulus checks. The agency says there is an october 5th claim the checks before the year is over. It how much longer i can open up. Because this is my whole ings. Just open up San Francisco, please. Bay area businesses are struggling figuring out if theyll beable to su some places, it all comes down to one city block. The the dividing line between daly city in san mateo the city and ty of San Francisco. In daly city, on the San Mateo County side, you can get your hair done indoors. But on the other side, you cannot. The only county in the bay area still under that restriction. Update on new yorks law enforcement. The police chief r is stepping down along with the denity chief and officers. The move comes as protests in the city continue over the death e ba march. N died a week after he was taken ho into custody by of a at white house this morning where the Trump Administration will announce it is withdrawing additional troops from iraq. This comes as the president tries to mike good on his promise to disentangle the country from quote endless wars. At yesterday President Trump stopped by another battleground state. Florida where he signed an order extending a moratorium on offshore drilling on floridas gulf coast. Expanding it to the States Atlantic coast. As well as the coast of georgia and south carolina. Its a reversal from the administrations earlier to expand drilling off the next stop president , michigan. But not until tomorrow. Today joe biden is expected to deliver remarks there. His vp running mate Kamala Harris plans to visit florida later this week. 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Trading has s for just shy of 15 minuansome buying in the early action after stocks were really beaten up th few days. The dow right now better 254 pointssector and focus seeing signs of life after sharp ll off over the past few days. Now that selloff had sentthe nasdaq into correction territory. Keep in mind, the nasdaq had been the starof recently but regaining some ground today and app was recovering some after a nearly 7 drop yesterday. Let me give you a check of where it is now. Up more than in mind it has a big for we expecting to reveal the next 12. The new device is reportedly expected to be len . What about amazon . What are we seeing with that stock . Reporter right . Another ch se focus and amazon also regaining some ground today. Anat company also its going on the hiring spree with plans to thbiggest hiring the average starting salary is about 150,000. The Company Plans to host a find these candidates and then new hires would work remote initially. Len . All right, hiring just in time for hall of thank you. Reporter uhhuh. Indeed. All right. You got it. New this morning the academy for the oscars must meet two ia at least one or supporting actor must from an e storyline theme or narrative must be centered on unrepresented groups the. New standard doesnt take effect until 2024. Are back io movie grill and rockland reopened at 25 capacity today. When county moved into the county into the states red tier. Stsanitizing all seatand trays between showings and encouraging guests to order online. Well, celebrating halloween will look very different this year in los angeles. Yeah, trickor not new department of health. Carnivals and haunted houses people outside homes also wont be allowed but some locals are going to ate anyway. Gianhacheck of traffic for us. Do and we have a Traffic Alert along westbound 24. Two lanes blocked and some big delays through as you work towards fish ranch. Thats where chp and emergency crews are working on the injury accident. Its been out there for some time. Traffic is certainly building. At last check backed up beyond st. Stevens. In fact i took a snapshot of one of the caltrans look at that. Its just bummer to to bua. R. T. Might work as well. But definitely slow for that ridealing with some road work, they still have east one ght lane blocked near 23rd. That was supposed to be around 45 minutes ago. Instead, you have a very slride along the nimitz th so use 580 instead. Westbound 580 and eastbound as through there. Bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights are on. Not quite to the 8808 ss the upper deck with most of the brake lights ing into the city. The earlier accident we had at daughterty has now been cleared and just west of e some brake lights working into the Castro Valley y area and east of there the brake lights still coming out of tracy into the Altamont Pass with speeds dipping down to about 10 Miles Per Hour. 43 minute drive time along 580 and now seeing some slow and eastshore freeway commute. Thats a look at morning ride. Another spare the air alert in effect. He tracking the hay i can and smoky conditions for us and that smoke is the reason why temperatures will be a little bit cooler as we head through our afternoon. Checking air quality conditions thwell as for the soair redwood city into san jose although unhealthy air over the looking at moderate air for the east bay from union city asensitive groups from concord and for everyone in walnut creek. Those are the red dots indicating unhealthy air. For oakland and into parts of San Francisco up through sausalito this morning. Lark spur as san rafael. Then unhealthy air right over petaluma and santa rosa this morning. So because of those hazy smoky skies, we have a spare the air alert theffect now going a record 23 dayswith our spare the air alert for our bay area locations. The longest stretch ever recorded. This breaks the old fire with 14 days in ay start with the Treasure Island camera this morning. Foggy conditions and its a cloudy start even inland as well. Our temperatures are runninto upper 50s to low to mid60s at this hour and i want to show we are looking at those at least for the north bay mountains and east bay hills elevations above 1,000 feet still dealing with the dry and gusty offshore winds. A live look with our Mount Hamilton camera and the hazy start and looking at hoount st. ro helena since may want. Gusts up to 43 at knoxville creek and morgan valley. 35mileperhour winds gusts. Because of that, a red flag 8 00 a. M. For the north bay mountains and east bay hills. Due to the dry and gusty northerly to winds. And low relative humidity values. Everything is ju there. For us andgoing to settle into ar weather pattern at least with our temperatures. Few days. Seasonal for this time of year. Now because of that smoke and were not talking about that extreme heat. So looking at upper 80s for santa clara as san jose. Campbell and cupertino. For the east bay, 93 in concord as well as for pleasant 80s to low 90s for the trivalley. Around the bay, were talking upper 60s for San Francisco for and for daly city. 77 in oakland and 79 the north bay in the mid 80s this afternoon. Heres that extended forecast ash the next couple of days but still dealing with those hazy and smoky skies. Back to you. Mary, thank you. Time is now 6 50. A reopening problem. Why some complaarea county is moving too slow. Thats next on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area. Reporter and in just a hours cdif not less than that, pg e will begin rinne every running their lines running their lines to reenergize. Ahead on cbs strong wind where thousands are evacuating and hear who needed to be airlifted to safety. Ments also dr. Fauci will join ask the governments top Infectious Disease doctor if he thinks there will be a Coronavirus Vaccine before election day and plus his in cases on college and chef david chang finds happiness outside the kitchen. The James Beard Award winner tells usand reprogramming his personality. Hes got a fascinating memoir out. All that coming up when we see you at 7 00. And a re24 7 access to cbsn bay area and kpix yo is 6 51. Well be right u . [upbeat music] today was the day that i put everything in perspective. I fell asleep but when i woke up. boy hi, do you want to share my sandwich . vo good feeds our connections. Good feeds us all. Atural choice lunch meats. Im anne makovec at the live news lets go live right now to county a fire just exploded overnight near lake oroville. Overnight evacuations we know several homes have been destroyed in yuba county. This is the bear fire. It roared up at around midnight tearing through several communityuba and plumas and butte counties. The mandatory evacuations safety as the fire burned toward oroville. And were following another fire at same area. This is a new one in Loma Rica Yuba county. 3,000 evacuated there. This is just south of the fire we were just talking about near orovil reported as well. But were not going to get a picture of the damage until cal fire is able to get a handle on the burning that continues as we speak. Were going to keep an eye this all day long. Im emily turner in st. Helena. Experiencing ash falling out of the sky and in addition to that, the sun is about to come up and that means that these power lines right here are going to be run be checking them to see if theres any damage before they reenergize. Now the homes and businessesin napa and noma counties have been in the dark for about 24 hours. Basically the power went off at 3 00, 4 00 in the morning yesterday. In total about 167,000 customers without power across the state. They dont foresee another event like this for at least a week and there are plenty of people who hope that its actually doing to be longer than that. In the meantime one thing thats changed is that maintained and thats as a result of changes made by pg e. Reporting live. Emily turner, kpix 5. 6 56. Time for a look at this mornings Santa Cruz CountyOfficials Say residents returning to Boulder Creek should have their water lines fixed any day now. Yesterday the Water District started moving in new pipes by helicopter to replace the ones damaged in the czu complex fifire crews are making progress this morning. The scu fire is now 96 contained. And in north bay the lnu complex is now 92 contained. And the 81 contained. Republican senators have put forth a coronavirus stimulus proposal thats expected to be voted on this the plan House Democrats passed months ago. That package failed in the senate. Today, Santa Clara County b will move into a less restrictive tier. That means more businesses can light up their open signs including indoor pe and gyms and Fitness Studios with modifications. Schools can also open up if the ns in the red tier for 14 days. Gyfitness centers in San Francisco can open back up outdoors. Last week hair and nail salons got the green light to operate for limited outdoor services. San taking a more conservative approach to reopening. Traffic is on the mend as you work your way westbound 24. Were still seeing brake lights out of lafayette into orinda but all lanes now open near ranch. Thats where an injury crash had lanes blocked for at least an hour. So traffic looking at little bit beetler and things are ovimpron thenimitz freeway. Lanes are now clearing. Taking a look at traffic westbound 580. Loaded up this headed into that castro just seems like things are extra ound 101 out san jose, brake lights comingfrom 280 and 680. Mary . All right, well, its a foggy start along the e bay. And actually for our inland locations as well. Im tracking the hazy and smoky skies with the spare the air alert in for today as well. Were going a co a row with ou alert for the bay area and ity. And because smoke temperatures a little bit cooler. Looking at 92 in livermore and 93 in concord and 88 for san 77 in oakland 60s for San Francisco. Mid 60s for pacifica. A little bit cooler through the next couple of days and dealing and ies over the next unfortunately. Guys, backto you. All right. Mary, thank you so much. And thanks everyone for watching kpix 5 news this morning. And dont forget, the news l day on cbsn bay area. Cbs this morning is up next. Have a great one. [ captions by vitac 800278 4822 email marketing vitac. Com ] good morning to you, our welcome to cbs this morning ondnesday, september 9ayle king with mason and dokoupil. 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