Bay 2019. We have an exciting announcement. I am so glad you are here to join us on this Beautiful Day overlooking the lovely bridge. I am frank finn. I am here for the golden state warriors. It is a lot of years on that side and of course time on this side. You know i have done a lot of events for both mayors in the city. It is an honor to be here. I am a bay area guy born and raised here. We are bringing two cities together to do something positive and to make things happen in the bay area. We have the biggest champions from the neighborhoods and cities here for battle of the bay. We want to acknowledge the lovely mayor mayor london breed and from oakland to my right. It is a competition, folks. It is friendly. The smiles are great. You know we are rolling our sleeves in a few moments. Lets acknowledge from both sides. It wouldnt be a battle without or mascots. From the San Francisco giants lucille. From your oakland as give it out for stomper. [cheers. ] of course, we have Community
We are live with the details. Reporter terry, firefighters will be out here overnight, battling the six fires right now, they are only 40 contained and tonight, they have two new challenges. Increased winds and darkness. A night time battle for conta containment, after six wildfires, some miles apart, scorched the earth. We have investigators out there right now. They are look they are look engi ing in to it and we are not ruling out anything at the time. At the responded to fivefis concerns about arson. Since 300 firefighters battled the fires today from the ground and the air. Blanketing the area. Working in the terrain, its working at night time, we have currently close to 300 firefighters out there between the fire engines and the bull dozers and the hand crews that are there. Calabares boulevard, will be closed, eliminating the ability for others to bypass the traffic. Theres no billings burned. I got off the phone with cal firer and they say, its 40 c marianne, thank you very muc
Abc7 News Reporter luz pena spoke to fire investigators and she joins us in the south bay. Luz. Reporter dion and erik, they will continue on scene investigating the fires on the perimeter around them. At least 40 is contained. Two columns of smoke where only Spring Valley fire chief needed to see to call cal fire. As he made his way in and as they were dispatching out for engines to respond, he saw a third, eventually we ended up with six separate fires. Reporter the call came in at 11 37 a. M. It shows the fire in the east hills of milpitas. Ground resources began to contain the six fires. Firefighters are now ruling out the possibility of arson. Arson is always a possibility in Something Like this, but you also have the possibility of you can have cars driving along the road and you can have catalytic converters kick stuff out of the exhaust, and he and we get road starts like that as well. Reporter according to cal fire, the six fires combined have burned a total of 128 acres in th
Someone they believe intentionally set the fires. Cal fire was one of several agencies participating today. But halfway through the event cal fire took off. A plume of smoke started. Corey johnson took pictures of this. Two of the larger planes dropped retarget. A lot of equipment responded quick. Cal fire is investigating six fires in the hills as arson. Fire crews saw a honda suv leaving the area. Calaveras road closed throughout the night. Predicted high temperatures and gusty winds prompted pg e to warn customers of potential power shut offs. The utility raised the likelihood of power should off to elevated. Forecasters are predicting hot, dry and windy conditions for monday and tuesday. The shut off program has grown to 30,000 miles of power lines in high fire risk areas. Kyle will have more on the fire danger coming up. The pentagon is deploying military forces to the middle east a fields were bombed. Bia the pentagon said this is just the first step in response to these attacks,
And it was sent by a committee to the full board with no recommendation. Thank you. Do you have updates for budget . I also wanted to say that the new school was presented, we put it forward with no recommendation and also wanted to let the public know that, at that meeting, the Budget Office shared a lot of helpful information about the timeline for the year, and i encourage folks, budgets are important, and i encourage folks to come out to budget meetings. It is the best committee ever. If they go online they can also see what we are going to be covering over the year, so that when we make decisions those things are not surprises. I encourage folks to come out. You can also reach out to me im happy to share with communities how were trying to make things more transparent for families and staff, how we make budget decisions. That will be happening throughout the year. There is lot of opportunities for folks. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any board member delegate membership updates