Especially the closer you are to the coast and up 101 where visibilities are less than a quarter of a mile. And there is no wind to turn over the atmosphere and make the smog go away. Dont expect to see the sunshine today. Take a look at these two videos shot. On the left, you see august 21. On the right, you see what happened yesterday. As the cameras pan on a clear day, you can see all the way to twin peaks. Now you can barely see in front of you. Julian glover is live in san jose. Reporter good morning. Yeah, an issue out here in the south bay as well. And on that 25th consecutive spare the air day, nighmight mi as well call it spare the air month right now. We really want to show you the difference a day makes. Look at the video, on wednesday the day the sunrise looked more like the sunset, the eerie orange and yellow skies. It trapped the wildfire smoke over the bay area protecting some of the air quality. And then thursday, you can see the skyline disappearing and the thick gray
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from Solano County right now as you can see unfortunately, a house on fire. New evacuation orders just issued as numerous wildfires burn in several bay area counties this morning. Good morning everyone, its wednesday, august 19th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. This morning, wildfires rning in several locations across the area. Are forcing more evacuations. And blackening the bay area with unhealthy air. All the details on the fires in just a moment. But first straight to mary lee for all the latest on the heat and the air quality. Yeah, len and michelle, firefighters will be up against the heat once again. So extreme heat continues. We are not done yet with our heat wave. Looking at excessive heat warnings that remain in effect today due to the dangerous heat. Now lets show you our temperatures. So looking at mid 70s in San Francisco. 83 in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and 102 for concord. So 8 to 15 deg
In santa rosa, some pockets around these areas actually seeing visibility below a mile look what happens especially after 10 00am fog starts to really burn off and then we have sunshine hazy sunshine will be up for the rest of the day. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with san mateo and alameda each at 58 degrees right now conquered in pittsburgh at 5759. I mean San Francisco youre the 57 currently later today, daytime highs in the 90s for just a few spots 70s for bayside cities and 80s for areas like conquered livermore and san jose. Thats your forecast time for traffic with robin. Thank you john what a difference just one 15 or 20 minutes makes of the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. Its pretty heavy now we went from slowing that spilled out to west grand to now a backup. Thats all the way through the bottom of the maze in fact its spilling over to the 5. 80 west connector. That brings you over to 80 west and up to the bay bridge toll plaza so it is packed not only here.
Set some new records as we reach over 100 degrees for many of our 6 21 now. Fore chaotic weekend in portland microclimates and the overall as there were tense traffic map as you head out on confrontations with Police Saturday night. This labor day were seeing a the weekend marked 100 days of smooth flow of traffic. Protests there and included an no major incidents, good news as incident that were not showing of right now for the south bay you because its too hard to as we look at the commute watch but its a protester who direction, not even any yellow accidentally set themselves on sensors which would show some fire with a malakhov cocktail slowing. We are looking pretty good for and likely suffered burns. You on this holiday. One said the message is getting kris . Lets take you to San Francisco and some breaking news. Diffused by other interests. Police are investigating a the issue is not black lives deadly shooting witnesses say broke up a large sideshow. Matters. Its right and wron
3 a slow news stations. And breaking news happening right now protests erupting in the east bay over the shooting of jacob blake by police in kenosha wisconsin. Good evening, im ken wayne and im pam moore. Blake shooting has sparked protests across several cities in the nation kron fours Ella Sogomonian is live in our newsroom right now with more on the demonstrations happening in oakland tonight l a. Mccann hundreds of people have taken to the streets already in just the last hour or so in response to similar what we saw last time with the killing of george floyd except this time, theyre chanting the name take a flake. This is video courtesy of dennis pres bravo on the ground in open right now as they make their way down broadway and hes reporting broken windows and fireworks allegedly shot at police. Jacob blake is a man who was shot by officers in kenosha wisconsin this weekend and just outside his car which his children were sitting in the 29 yearold is now recovering in the hospit