Cristina rendon is live at the bay bridge toll plaza with more. Reporter heather, we are seeing traffic, but its no different than any other saturday when people are trying to get into the city, so this is typical right now, but there is an increase in ridership on the ferries. The weekend weve been warned about is here. Barts closure of the transbay tube means many are finding an alternative mode of transportation. Its why the San Francisco bay doubled routes, already seeing a 24 increase in ridership compared to a normal weekend day and a 6 increase on the route between vallejo and San Francisco. Its working quite well. We have four boats in constant operation at alamedaoakland service. We have three boats on the vallejo service. Reporter they have been at capacity on nearly every ferry leaving the east bay, and with that comes long lines. It hasnt been too bad. I mean, its a longer wait than expected. Weve been here about an hour and 15 minutes. Reporter one family visiting from out
Athletes. Is it safe . Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Right now fires are burning from one end of california to the other. The worst of them northwest of sacramento where at least 24 homes are destroyed, 6,000 structures are threatened and 13,000 people have been urged to gather up their belongings and head to safety. In all an incredible 9,000 firefighters are working more than 20 fires across the state. But the socalled rocky fire has proven the most dangerous and confounding, tripling in size over the weekend. Nbcs joe fryer is there with the latest. Rowdy good evening, lester. You can see we are surrounded by smoke from the rocky fire. 2,500 firefighters are now on the ground here. And weve heard from veterans whove been doing this 10 20 even 30 years who said they have never seen a fire behave like this one. The villain of Northern California is a massive agile wildfire
Will take west. They start off on the cool side but then well end up with temperatures that will be in the 80s. I went 88 runs a little warmer there and then clout. It will spin in a lot of cloud cover here. We could eke out a few showers because of it. 50s and 60s on the temps. The water temps are very warm so the coastal locations are staying warm. Southwest 20. Not as breezy. A mix of low clouds and enis up in the morning. Er, 70s. All right sal sal what to you have for us here . Well, we tonight have pretty decent conditions when it comes to the traffic. The trafficking also looking at the commute thank goodness i have a cough button. Westbound bay bridge that is light coming into San Francisco with no major problems. Also the morning commute looks good if you are driving on the san mateo bridge heading out to the highrise. As we look at highway 101 in San Francisco, northbound 101 looks good approaching the 80 split. Lets go back to the desk. We are following a developing story th
Here. 7 00. Good morning to you. Welcome to mornings on 2. Its tuesday, august 4th. Im gasia mikaelian. Is you are you are back. Thats right. Im dave clark. Lets get to steve paulson. A lot going on. A couple of upper 40s. Cobb mountain 49. The humidity is higher as well. Those are good signs. We have some low clouds around. Nothing compared to yesterday. Its the high and midlevel clouds. First of all, our source from clearlake is chloe. Currently, 58, partly cloudy. A 4mile breeze. I think they go partly sunny to cloudy. Humidity, 92 , way up there 50, 51, 81 humidity. Kelsey still, 51. Hawmed is higher. The temperatures are lower. Thats good. I think the cloud cover will help as well. We dont want lightning strikes. But well get the cloud cover. There could be a few showers especially to the north. Clouds are on the increase and they are coming off whats Tropical Storm guillermo sending in a lot of cloud cover. There is a little system grabbing ahold of some of that. Thats whats movi
5. This is the second murder in two weeks in that west hayward neighborhood. A light rain started falling this afternoon on the rocky fire. Cal fire says its going to bring little relief simply because that fire is too big. Its charred 65,000 acres and remains out of control. In fact, its only 12 contained. Almost 7,000 homes are threatened by those flames. Let me show you a map that will give you an idea how big the rocky fire is. The area in red has gone up in flames. The fire has jumped highway 20, headed north. Reporter Chris Martinez has the latest from lake county. Reporter the rocky wildfire is quickly tearing its way through heavy brush in multiple directions, blackening more than 101 square miles. This area has never burned before. The fire is extremely dense, extremely dry. Thats whats really fueling, pun intended, the fire. Reporter the wildfire has destroyed at least 50 homes and other buildings. Flames jumped this highway that was acting as a vital containment line. Despit