Staff, who says the reliefan who speed up vaccine distribution. The enemy within. Speaker pelosis extraordinary warning about violence in congress, and calls for a Freshman Member to be expelled after her old social media post indicates support for executing prominent democrats, including former president obama. Californians hit with a firehose of rain. Neighborhoods evacuated as levees break. Gamestop chaos. The st reried. The et wride. And, this incred Story Ofthinurn doses about to expire. L se thedt from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin with Breaking News on two fronts tonight. As we come on the air, two cases of that highlycontagious South African Variant Of Coronavirus have now been found in the u. S. The first evidence that another dangerous mutation may already be spreading nationwide, and could soon lead to a surge of new infections and deaths. The c. D. C. Says it discovered the cases in So
This photo sent by les carr. Lets look at live conditions. This is our camera on top of our studio in jack london square, looking out towards San Francisco. You cant even see the city there in the distance. Some are describing the key is as having a post apocalyptic look. Here is another camera at sfo. The sky appears more gray than orange. Flights have not been affected by all of the ash in the air we are told. And finally a live camera in the east bear on highway 24 in laugh fayette, looking toward walnut creek. Our view from mount diablo has been obscured. You cant even see it, for the past three weeks now. Lets go for more on this s bill, weve all been talking, never seen anything like it. No, this is, in our tenure, definitely, julie, this has been unprecedented. I saw something similar to this, like i mentioned earlier, when Mount Saint Helens blew in 1982 in eastern washington. The skies looked like this. But that was a major, massive volcano. I mean, the smoke from these fires
Skies today in san jose. The skies werent as orange there, but you can still see the thick of smoke around the city. Even at 12 30 this afternoon. Tom vacar is live in beauty county with the latest on the north complex fear that has for thuses of people to evacuate. We begin, though, with Cristina Rendon for a closer look at todays weird weather. Cristina in. Reporter well, julie, weird is right. Its still raining ash here in my backyard. The Patio Furniture is still covered in ash. It was the difference, he, this morning of that or an sky. It felt like night in the middle of the day. My wife said its yellow. Would say its more orange. Reporter wednesday felt like we woke up on a different planet, mars perhaps, or a world filled with falling ash . It looks like nighttime. Its insane. Reporter angela was a bit disoriented when her alarm went off. I woke up this morning and it was a really eerie feeling. I felt like did i mess up . Is it nighttime . Whats going on. Its disorienting. Feel
Its a change from when life is kind of normal. This is a look at interstate 880 and you can see traffic here is okay. I have noticed that traffic is a little lighter coming in through livermore through the tracy triangle. Usually we have slow traffic here. This morning. 5 01. Lets go back to the desk. Seven bay area counties issued legal orders for people to stay home through april 7th. You can see the bay area counties and santa cruz counties. The shelter in place order took effect overnight at 12 01 a. M. Ktvus allie rasmus is in San Francisco right now and you have details on what is happening. Good morning, allie. Reporter good morning. Yes, were about five hours into this shelter in place order. We are on 2nd and Market Street in San Francisco. You can see behind us it is erie eriely quiet. Maybe a bus go by here and there. Other than that, its pretty quiet out here. I want to point out across the street there is a skrooens store that is open. But they are letting customers in one
That they had some but not light up a lot of locations. Santa rosa only had one third and 38, every reporting station thing light rain except santa rosa bid 40s for the temperatures so it is a cool day to the north of the golden gate far less rainfall into the south a lot more. There could be embedded thunderstorms and the snow will continue all the way through most of the day and is sierra and there is snow and the hills and we had to wait until daylight to see but the radar indicates that it will keep temperatures well below average today as the load drops south. And Sal Castaneda is here and it usually causes some busyness. Southbound 680 there was a stalled car that maybe hit the guardrail, not sure but it is blocking the fast lane and you can see traffic is slow there it is. All of the slow traffic coming out of lessons and. And as we look at the rest of the bay area commute it seems lighter than usual and i will have a complete look in just a few moments. California has free hund