The weekend weather not cooperating as much as last weeks day. Unfortunately we do have winds picking back up late in the weekend. Temperatures hot to start the weekend. So yeah, maybe one of those weekends where you plan to take a little bit easier than not now skies are very clear today we are going to be seeing any cloud cover anything you see in the skies is likely to be some smoke from the kinkaid fire burning up in the northern part of the bay area its going to drift its way on into marine county today, possibly even further southward than that. But no cloud cover so thats not what youre going to be saying were again. Cloudfree this morning now as far as winds go they really died down yesterday and compared to yesterday at the same time a much calmer start to the morning in the vicinity of the fires well as just across the bay area in general winds are calm across the board with a so the conditions remaining calm throughout the course of your friday tonight on into early hours tomorrow. Now after tomorrow morning winds will pick back up and that is why we do have high wind watches and fire weather warnings, taking back effects across the bay area come tomorrow night on into sunday and eventually into monday too here we could see additional Power Outages and definitely high fire danger making its return across the bay area come the latter part of the weekend as dry conditions persist thats dry tinder dry humidity. A warm temperatures and then those windy conditions working their way back into the forecast. 50s 60s and 70s for your current temperatures, its another warm start to the morning. Fremont each at 70 degrees berkeley just below the 70 degree mark oakland at 59 while concord sitting at 60 degrees to kick off this friday morning. Temperatures later today, almost as warm as yesterday is were still going to be in the 90s for a lot of the bay area a few more of us now down into the upper 80s still hot and definitely above average for this time of year. Robert all right where your morning commute off to a fantastic start. We can say fantastic when its nice and quiet and we dont have any hot spots are major problems to worry about but just keep in mind that it is a spare the air days, so you may want to carpool ride a bike as a smart car. All of the above would help the drive into San Francisco looks good though i dont see any problems or you know issues leaving the maser making your way into San Francisco so come on in. Minutes to make your way off to fremont street within the next 30 minutes 45 minutes, its going to be pretty crowded so you have time to beat the rush. Were checking in on 92, always backs up or early in the 4 oclock hour. We have a crowd and from the east bay over to the peninsula. Its only 13 minutes from the cow sluggish it is already. The golden gate. Were checking in on one oh one. Its looking good. Problems to report so far its smooth in both directions. I dont even see a bridge crews out there blocking what we normally have northbound heading out of San Francisco. Traffic tracker shows more freeways and these drive times are all looking good were the green, so that means were on time. If you come from the shore freeway, its 14 minutes to head west from crockett down to oakland. So thats a great average 24 looks fantastic out of walnut creek lafayette, the caldecott or end of the open side all is well 5 babies looking good and so does the net and that if you use it now its only 9 minutes from to 38, making your way into downtown oakland. For you this morning out of Sonoma County check out this video thousands of crews are out there on scene working hard to put out this Massive Wildfire in quickly force thousands to evacuated has destroyed at least 49 structures so far its called the ku k fire and as of this morning 16th out 1000 acres have burned and crews are having a tough time in his only 5 contained. Well take a look at the map that we have for you on your screen and highlight some key areas so the areas and brown as we zoom and those are the mandatory evacuation areas thats whats currently underway. And then the little red dots those are the p g outage areas. Thats where the power has been shut off. And then we have the little green icons on the screen to those are your Evacuation Centers been set up by the red cross. Keep in mind that this fire broke out wednesday night near the geysers geothermal. Firefighters say that those winds just pick right up that pushed the flames toward skies are ville and thats why they have to do those mandatory evacuations which are still in place. Pg e says that it has equipment problem. The transmission tower that was not d energize around the time that that fire broke out, but it is still under investigation kron fours dan thorn has more. Tearing through a hillside behind vineyards just east of guys are built crews racing to stop the fast moving flames through difficult terrain. Air drops providing support as hos is needed to be dragged hundreds of feet down. The fire burning trees and tree limbs that broke off making it crucial for firefighters to be wearing their helmets in many of these areas the plumes of smoke were then sent billowing into the air as crews continue to get a handle on the flames. The fire was threatening some Alexander Valley wineries near river road as the sun started to go down as sky took on an eerie red glow as smoke move through the air once it was dark only bright orange flames could be seen to the dark hillsides. Dan thorn. Kron 4 news. Well, the hills for. I was one of 3 places that opened up to fire evacuees. Kron fours Maureen Kelly talked to some of those folks who arrived early. Forced to flee their homes. In addition to getting shelter and food here the red cross is also providing Mental Health services for adults and children. Since for many this is not the first time in recent memory. Theyve had to flee their homes with whatever they could grab at a moments notice. Were here. To offer a comforting a place for our neighbors that are going through traumatic traumatic things in. Even people that had went through that cubs are this bringing back the memories so want to make sure that its a. I talked to one couple who lost their home 2 years ago in the pocket fire and now once again they were forced to flee with their dogs. Although this time in the rv they now live in since theyve yet to rebuild. Im hoping the 3rd time will be the term i hope that this is enough. Unfortunately it looks like this is going to be the new california. This time Animal Services brought out their mobile shelter to help house some of the pets like these trembling she who can get fresh water food and colonels, its a service that helps their owners as well think like having someone to take their animals so they can focus on themselves and. That whats going on what theyre going to that. Some pet owners say they wouldnt be here if they couldnt bring theyre furry companions its very important to us some the parts part of the family be like leaving your kids donations have been dropped off here at the shelter, one truckload of supplies. Coming down from ukiah brought by women who say they were burned out 2 years ago, bringing products, they know from experience will be welcomed by fire evacuees when i went to a fire a location in lakeport. This is all the stuff they had so of the list. But i tried. I spoke to a red cross spokesperson here who says they have not turned any of those donations away and they appreciate the spirit in which theyve been given but they really dont have the staff here to deal with a lot of goods being dropped off they would prefer people looking to help fire victims. Donate cash to the red cross they say any amount will help no matter how small reporting from healdsburg i morning kelly kron 4 news. Well, lot of you may be wondering about the schools all schools will be closed today in both Alexander Valley School District in the guys reveal School District and then more schools could cancel it really depends on the fire and the air quality conditions so well definitely keep you updated. The Sonoma County office of education says that they will be updating the list later on this morning and soon as they to well, dozens of structures have burned down to the ground and because of this fast moving fire. Many of those structures were homes. The contained fires continues to even threaten more kron fours gayle ong has more from geyser bill. 4 miles away from where im standing homes reduced to rubble. Aftermath of the can kade fire at least 3 homes went up at its worst the air was filled with smoke and embers swirling the wind there was no wind when i went to bed this time maybe 50 mile an hour winds. But it wasnt blowingywhen it was it was a gusty when it was my cover. Like a windstorm circular. It started Late Wednesday night in quickly got out of control you can see the globe but at that time it looked as though he was probably the head north northwest. Incredibly everyone got out ahead of the flames that firefighters did everything they could to save homes, but stronwinds and dry conditions threaten the entire community thought it was going away, but apparently is a. They have contained pretty good. This job is about the only thing left standing in what was just hours ago someones home is for the we were there when alex ing went to check on his friends home on geysers road in geyser ville heartbreaking. Thing in thing could happen to so close to home. This is a. Were told that family of the home this story is reporting in geyser bill gale off. Cross Northern California are in the dark and heres a look at the pge pop our shut off. The map that we have for you on your screen, the areas that are highlighted in yellow on areas that going to be impacted. So if you look to the north like north of the car keane is and the show we have portions of fair fail. Vacaville are right along the 80 core. Throughout the north onoma county near one 21. One on one portions of mill valley as well and then as we move a little closer to the east bay we see stretches there threw water creek lafayette, some portions of Contra Costa County resuming into the pleasanton area right along the 6. 80 corridor. You see those areas highlighted there in yellow as well all of those areas will be impacted by the pga. The outage. So you need to be prepared, especially if you live in Contra Costa County because theres another outage thats coming up so well take a look at that map coming up again sta county, ust a bit. Cont your power will be shut off through the weekend. So you got to get prepared. Pg officials confirm that the outage will happen saturday night and that moves from 10 00pm to 02 00pm. Its all because of the strong winds forecasted and the dry conditions. Now do you have the kron on you needed during times like this downloaded its in the app store weve removed the pay wall all for you. You dont have to pay for you can have all of information for frel access it for free get all of the uates about the power shut off happening throughout the bay area, your neighborhood. The kim k fire thats burning right now are Live Streaming Service Provides 24 hours of commercial free music rhonda, make sure you have it will take a quick break well be welcome back to the kron 4 morning news checking in with meteorologist strong tribal whos taking a look at our forecast today. What can we expect on well robin we are. Calm today, but still tomorrow. But winds picking back up so each day has a catch to it and the next round of lanza said the major concern because were going through that weve gone through that the last 24 hours or so its like we get a little break and then we stress out ae next system catch a breather at least this is a good chance for crews up there at the t kinkaid fire flee game that upper hand. Before this next round winds we do have this break this chance to get back out there before winds do pick back up and thats especially going to be noteworthy on sunday as for this morning skies. Crystal clear this no big surprise there a Golden Gate Bridge just one of many areas that are fog free, we are seeing a dose of some smoke that is pushing on into the north bay. So if you are crossing into marine county today. You have respiratory conditions may want to limit too much time outside to take it a little bit easier its going to be hot anyways so use that as an excuse to maybe save any Outdoor Activities on intel next week, 60s 70s for most of your current temperatures, although we do have a few spots in the 40s and 50s is really a wide range of temperatures to start this morning, oakland youre at 59 right now berkeley at 68 degrees nevado in petaluma some of our cooler spots east at 46 degrees. Now we are seeing some very low humidity again for the north bay today. So this is going to contribute to get again some very dry conditions. But the good news is is even though will be hot dry winds are going to be a lot calmer so although conditions out there for the kinkaid fire just across the bay area in general are still high for fire danger, its not the stream levels that we did overall so yesterday as we see tomorrow winds picking back up and then were going to see the risk of rapid spread a wildfire again high wind watches and that well fire weather watches both taking Effect Tomorrow night across the day in similar locations us to before the coastal parts of the peninsula. All across the north bay and that are inland east bay areas. So sunday is going to be our peak fire danger day monday. We start to see winds coming down again and then the rest of next week should be a lot calmer with daytime highs a lot cooler than what were about to see today which is 80s and 90s across the board compare that so the temperatures youre about to see under 7 day forecast 70s return on sunday which will be our windiest a after that as winds calm down and temperatures remain cooler. We are in for a much more pleasant forecast around the corner so look forward to that. But this weekend may want to take little bit easier than you did last weekend. Robin. All right. Thank you lets check in on your Early Morning friday commute, its pretty quiet heading into San Francisco. And the normally on friday mornings the commute will start a little bit later so we dont see that 5. 30 rush. Im like we do like monday through thursday, usually folks coming a little bit later and hopefully it will thin out sooner, but we shall see it all depends on what happens right now, you know its just a good time to get on out there. I dont see any problems are major trouble spots in San Francisco so come on and while its quite hot spot free. It is only 9 minutes for the commute off to the fremont street exit checking in on the san mateo bridge. Its been busy since we started the broad its already crowded in the flat section making your way out of hayward west of the toll plaza you see the crew. But at least theyre moving with no major issues off to the golden gate, its looking good one on one at the limit in both directions. 18 minutes thats quick to make your way from nevada to San Francisco. Just a quick mention of highway one if you travel on the coast near double slight southbound all right before double slide. Getting word of an overturned accident so looks like the Pacifica Police department is heading out to the scene we may have all lanes blocked southbound one right before double slide, a fresh overturn accident blocking all southbound lanes just coming in definitely be keeping an eye on that 5. 80 looks good livermore to dublin soda 6. 80. The nimitz and 2. 37 is only 6 minutes milpitas to sonny bill will check more coming up in a bit. Back to our breaking news story that were following for you this morning, an explosive wildfire has forced thousands to evacuate and leave their homes, its burning in Sonoma County right now. And heres a look at the map area and brown that we have highlighted that shows you where all of the mandatory evacuations were issued. Its being called the can cain fired his video of that fire. It broke out wednesday night this was near the geysers geothermal power. And firefighters say that those winds were strong and just push flames towards guys are real. And thats why they decided to do the mandatory evacuations for those areas as of this morning, the latest update that we have from crews out there is that it has burned 16,000 acres. Its only 5 contained and it could grow even larger. Pg e says that it has an equipment problem at th transmission tower that was not d energizer right around the same time time that that fire broke out. So right now thousands of firefighters are out there battling the flames from the air and the ground kron forcefully paul has more on their efforts. Busy spot for cal fire, another cruise here in geyser ville theyve been focusing on a hillside where they continue to drop fire retardant in this area that has already been evacuated along geyser ville road at route. Weiner iraq. We did see a couple of homes burned out and some outbuildings the fire also hopped the street and burn some of the creekside along the roadway. But no other structures in that area were damaged there are a bunch wineries here and some of the neighbors that live out here have been trying their best to do what they can to protect their property. The really got to get out of here at this point mostly only media and fire crews in the area, several run roadblocks but again the winn is whats helping our right now theres a breeze but its not very strong gusts. Are not heavy. And thats why firefighters are trying to cut fire. And also prevent flames from spreading munster able to contain. The spread of the fire then theyre in good shape. But until that point its going to be busy along this roadway and certainly throughout town guys are ville felipe all kron 4 news. Course, this is a good reminder to make sure that you are ready take notes make sure you have all the things on your screen ready to go in the in case of a wildfire threat. Make sure you have an updated con tack list you know during an emergency are you on medication you need to have all of your medications ready to go have an Emergency Contact list with you have an extra battery for your cell phone may be an emergency supply kit and you need to keep that kid fully stocked as well. You know if theres a power outage have a generator, especially if you own a business or youre in a residential area that a generator is always a great thing to have. Make sure you have the kron on happ its available in our app ap store in the app store. The pay wall is down. So that means its its complimentary and that is great for you because you can get updates on weather on traffic on the power shut off on the contained fires any other fires that will pop up throughout the bay area. Its our Live Streaming sce it provides 24 hours of commercial free news, so make sure you download it right now well be right ck stay with us. Welcome back. It is 4. 54 now youre look outside of San Francisco shows Crystal Clear skies overhead. We certainly do not have any cloud cover out there nor fogg if youre looking at anything thats blocking view its likely to be smoke on into the afternoon today as far as temperatures go its a pretty mild start fremont especially for you sitting at 70 degrees right now San Francisco not far behind at 65 oakland at 59. Its a comfortable morning. Its a calmer morning than yesterday was that certainly good news as winds have really calmed down across the bay area. Looking ahead at future cast of wind gusts were going to see calm conditions lasting all through the day today and eventually into the evening tonight now as we make our way into tomorrow. Wind speeds are gradually going increase late into the day you see how those wind speeds do eventually eventually rise all that red spreads inland and eventually out towards the coast. This is tomorrow night into sunday there you grown numbers finally caught up here by the time we work into sunday, Sonoma Calistoga petaluma santa rosa, back to those winds gusting regularly anywhere from 30 to 40 miles per hour. And thats why we do have increased fire danger yet again saturday night into sunday today com not so much staying that way for the rest of the weekend though ive got those updates on weather factors and of course weve got the latest on the kinkaid fire what that means for you as you get outside today, smoke impacts and all of the information that you need this friday, still ahead. Well coming up on the kron 4 morning news at 5 mandatory evacuations still in place this morning as the kim k fire continues to burn in Sonoma County coming up. Well take a look at the conditions that the residents and the firefighters are facing this morning. Plus more Power Outages for thought thousands will have the latest on the pg e power shut off. 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The even bigger this morning now 16,000 acres plus well have all the air angles you need to know plus. Were bracing for another round apg in forced to blackouts as strong winds are expected to threaten the power lines this weekend. Good morning everybody thank you for joining us and our breaking News Coverage im James Fletcher and im darya folsom and it seems things are getting worse that wildfire burning near geyser ville has burned now 16,000 acres and its only 5 contained this morning. As we know it was sparked on wednesday night. We are starting to learn more as they are already investigating the cause. But we also know the damage is worse to homes and other outbuildings 49 structures in total have been burned down. Or damage so far. Luckily, everybody k
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