Tropical storm harvey keeps pounding texas and even though it is heading slowly back to the gulf of mexico over 25 inches of rain had fallen in galveston and houston. The flooding could get worse as it keeps raining and the army corps of engineers began releasing water from the reservoirs this morning and that is adding to the water that has already turned streets into rivers. Fema administrator brock long has almost 5000 female employees helping the storm victims fema employees helping the storm victims. We are deep into the Safety Mission ofs with water rescue along with search and rescue. President trump planning on flying to texas tomorrow to see the damage firsthand, and in minutes we get a live report from doug luzader in houston. There have been over 2000 rescue missions in texas, and expected to continue through the day with the u. S. Coast guard using helicopters to get the people off of the rooftops, out of the flooded streets, and apply them to safety. Highways above the flo
60s by the coast, hot inland with 90s and near 105 some warmer than that. Cooler for some like those in vacaville, brentwood and lake county, i dont see much change. A very cool pattern for some and for others it will not help with the fog. This fog is very shallow, and the same can be said for the santa cruz coast down to watsonville and the san mateo coast with the fog. 50s and 60s on the temperatures and 70s for some. 56 at sebastopol, petaluma in novato at 56, so some not bad with that fog retreating fast. 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s to 105, 109. Where is that wreck . At the baseline with the metering lights involving of motorcyclist. The picture is westbound at the bay bridge, and it is right as you try to get onto the bridge. It has been there going on close to one hour. The traffic will be backed up all the way back to the toll plaza. Obviously, even the metering lights the carpool lanes are now slow. If you take your car in the San Francisco, you need to give yourself plenty of extra ti
Far left lane currently blocked and some delays as you get through the petaluma area. Bay bridge toll plaza, no issues there between the toll booths but the metering lights have been on since 5 22 this morning. We have another problem on 880 near state route 92. And we just got word within the past hour of a fire in the Oakland Hills is now out. It had threatened homes after breaking out just past noon yesterday. Firefighters launched a heavy assault. It was mainly by air because the hills made it tough to get to. In the end no damage or injuries. There is a lot of construction in that area. New homes are being built. Firefighters dont know the cause of the fire which is great news that fire is out this morning. I want to bring in drew tuma so we can talk more about this. There is a red flag warning in effect right now. What does that mean, and who exactly is affected . Who should care . Everybody should care. Thats the ground rule today. The entire region is ripe for fire conditions.
Planner. It is cool this morning. Temperatures running in the mid to upper 40s. Well be around 70 to for now, temperatures by 7 00, 54 to 61 but the air quality will be unhealthy all afternoon. Heres alexis. Taking a look at the roads this morning, we dont have any major problems. We are looking at heavy traffic on westbound 80 through the emeryville stretch. Now, last night when we had the fires in the vallejo area getting close to 80, caltrans was avoiding trucks to avoid that stretch of 80. They could use 580 through oakland. That is no longer the case, so those restrictions are back on. Youll have to stick to 80 and interstate 880 if you are in a semi here and heading out on the roads this morning. Westbound 580 tracy to dublin up to one hour two minutes. We do have a crash just before 680. Ill talk about that necessary. Westbound 4 antioch to aun cord in the yellow at 28. And 101 san rafael to San Francisco looking great at 18 minutes. Firefighters continue to battle nearly a doze
We have restored cell coverage to many parts of downtown napa and areas in sonoma. The reality is in these kind of fire situations, it happens and you can get it immediately. Because the fire is active we need to work with fire officials to coordinate that recovery. We are bringing you a update from state officials were bringing you live pictures from skyfox. Lets listen in again. It looks like the briefing may have just wrapped up. Thank you for joining us on the news at noon. Getting the latest. The priorities continue to be firefighting and lifesaving and taking care of the thousands who were evacuated and looking at a longterm recovery effort. Specifically cal fire mentioned a few cities that they seem to be focused on. Calistoga where there are mandatory evacuation, downtown sonoma where in the last half hour there was an expanded mandatory evacuation. The north part above east napa street from Fourth Street east. Thats on the east side of the downtown area. And also middletown as