I showed just before the commercial, a couple cars waiting on the side. There was not a problem that happens before 5 00. They are waiting for the metering pricing to change. Thats a nono. Never pull over unless theres an emergency in the area. To the map, a smooth drive. No one pulling over in the maze or out of the north bay. Thats great news. A smooth flow of traffic. The overnight rains and slick roadways. Be careful, grease and oil may be on the road. So far, traffic flows smoothly. Back to you. Thank you, mike. New this morning, video from the north bay showing the much needed rain falling in santa rosa. Bay area firefighters have been waiting for this wet weather since the fires started. Wile containment numbers are up, this will give crews a bigger upper hand in fighting the flames. 42 people died. Thousands of buildings destroyed since the fire started last week. To the north bay, the rain is helping fire crews further south. The bear fire is still burning in the Santa Cruz Mo
In the area. The progress being made this morning. Plus, new this morning, the wild crash in the east bay that had bart workers scrambling overnight. Today in the bay continues right now. Thanks for joining us on this friday morning, im kris sanchez in for laura garcia. Im marcus washington. We can say friday, indeed. We have been waiting for this friday to come. Its been a long couple weeks. Part was the wildfire danger. The rain is going to help. Yes, it is helping this morning, hopefully. We are going to see improved air quality around the bay area. Looking forward to a nicer weekend. Here is a look ott how much rain we had around the wildfires in the north bay. Generally about a tenth to a quarter inch. San francisco had a little less than a tenth inch for most of the city. The peninsula had rainfall totals anywhere from. 3 inch rain to a few onehundredths inch closer to the bay. The south bay, near the bear fire, measuring a tenth to quarter inch. Well look atmore rainfall totals
Victims by asking Insurance Companies to expedite claims by cutting red tape and doing all they can to help policyholders. Today in santa rosa, people who lived in three communities will get to head back for the first time to see the damage left behind by the deadly wildfires. Kpix 5s Jessica Flores is live in santa rosa with more on an emotional day ahead. Reporter were here at coffey park one of those three communities that was just obliterated in this fire. You can see behind me, not much left behind. But people will get the chance to sift through the ashes and pick out any personal items they can find. No largescale debris removal but they are being let in, in a controlled environment to sift through all this ash. Now from 10 a. M. To 5 p. M. , people will be allowed in who live here. They will have to show identification in order to get in. That includes anything from drivers license or passport, utility bill with photo i. D. Santa Rosa Police Department is allowing two cars per p
How about those slick conditions, alex snis. We had a lot of crashes overnight, mike. I think the fact that it is a friday is helping us out. Heres a live look at golden gate bridge. A little bit of sheen on the pavement as you can see. No delays coming from the north bay this morning and a quick check of some drive times, too. A couple start to go flip over from the green to the yellow including westbound 580 tracy to dublin. 40 minutes for you. 24 minutes westbound 4 antioch to concord and southbound 101 still wide open in the green at 15 minutes. Alexis, thank you. Some residents forced out by the bear fire near Boulder Creek are waking up at home this morning. The neighborhood was evacuated overnight tuesday after the fire broke out. Residents were allowed to return to their homes last night. The fire has burned 320 acres and is at only 35 containment. Weve talked about the santa rosa neighborhood of coffey park and seen images of the enabled flattened by fire. The people who live
Remaining of these cars. The damage, the homes, nothing but rubble. As you mentioned for the first time were actually seeing families, seeing people see all this damage facetoface. In fact, show you some overhead from nbcs skyranger. Taking a live look of what the scene looks like. You see rubble. Nothing really in this area, as the areas been completely wiped out parts of this coffey park neighborhood have been wiped out. Before 10 00 a. M. , we saw people coming up here seeing their home for the first time. Really an emotional time for them. We spoke to a couple of people in this area where were standing describing what its like to see all of this for the first time. To see it in person, there are just no words for it. Reporter and, guys, you know, its been a very tough time for folks as theyre here and outside of coffey park, we have we have we have journey and orchard park, people havent been able to come here. Theyre been here since about 10 00 a. M. , it will last until 5 00 p. M