This fire started yesterday afternoon. And it has already burned a thousand acres. The red cross has opened an Evacuation Center at carmel middle school. Earlier the Monterey County Sheriffs Department planned to escort some evacuees home. But canceled because of dangerous conditions. They will try again tomorrow. Those evacuation areas include tassajara road from Carmel Valley road to kashahwa. Cal fire says firefighters made containment lines. But this drought is making things difficult. Nearly 300 firefighters are working on this fire. The smoke also creating a Health Hazard in Monterey County. Meanwhile. The spca is working behind the fire lines tonight. They have already rescued more than fifty animals. Back to you. Vicki the valley fire is now listed as the sixth most damaging wildfire in california history. It has been burning for more than a week in lake, napa, and sonoma counties. Forcing thousands of people from their homes. The fire has burned more than 75thousand acres. And
Moving along to interstate 880 in oakland. Southbound traffic looks good all the way to san jose. Speaking of san jose 101, 280 and 85 are off to a good start. Its 5 00 lets go back to the desk. Now to the latest on the valley fire. Its the fourth worst wild fire in california history. 162 more homes burned down over the weekend. Now more than 1,000 homes have been destroyed. More than 75,000acres have burned. At least three peel have died. Four firefighters have been hurt. This fire is 69 contained. More than 4,000 firefighters are still battling those flames. Now some of the fire evacuees were allowed to go home overred weekend. At this check point at lower lake high school, sheriffs deputies told people their neighborhood was safe to go back to. Some of the people were frustrated when they could not go home. One thing that we have learned from this no matter what, we are not leaving home next time. I dont care if the fire is all around us. They are not letting us get back in our hou
For Southern California into arizona. Not for us though. System to the north will sweep in starting tomorrow. That will start a cool down. Today is more about sunshine and warm to hot. There might be a late breeze over by the coast. 90s and 100s for some. 80s and 90s for others. All right sal still something going on in the city . Yes. And also in the east bay so we have a couple of spots, steve, where the traffic is not doing well. First spot we will start with is in san ramon. Southbound 680 a couple of different crashes. 680 which is normally doing pretty well at this time in the morning heading down to pleasanton is just not. Its backed up into danville because of these crashes southbound 680. San francisco they finally cleared southbound 101 near 280 its off to the shoulder but traffic will be a little slow there as you drive through. Its much better than it was. It cleared up rather quickly. This will will help the bay bridge. You dont have any surprises waiting for you. Lets go
A lot of that high cloud deck starting to work its way toward Southern California. Cant find much of a breeze. Sfo west at three. A lot of cloud cover and rain will move into Southern California. We have one more hot day here. Tomorrow we will drop 2025 degrees. A little cooler by the coast. 90s to 100s but still a lot of 80s and 90s around the bay. All right sal 4 31 on a monday. Yeah and still so far so good, steve on the roads. Good morning to you. And even. If you are driving any time soon. Lets take a look at what we have. San mateo bridge does not look bad as you head over to the highrise. It is a nice looking drive. Weve had some crashes over night but they have not caused any major delays. As you take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza there is a little backup. Maybe people cant sleep its so warm. There are no problems in the south baby the way as you look at all the freeways. You can see green road sensors. For the most part its a nice start. 4 31, lets go back to the desk. T
An unexpected promise. How a Church Gathering put the governor on the spot, ali . Reporter the governor made a promise to the church members, offering help that could come in the form of a long time partnership, but so far, no addition plans have been made. It was sunday Morning Service at the Gospel Church in oakland that the congregation had a visitor. Our governor is here. Parishioners to vote for proposition 30. I said while you are in that mode, asking us for help, we need to ask you for something. Can you declare the city of oakland a state of emergency that we can get some help in here to put Public Safety number one in the city . Reporter Governor Brown promised help. I will make sure that our highway patrolmen are beefedup for the city of oakland and work with the police department. I felt so good about his statements that he made. Reporter jackson said its an issue his parishioners live and suffer with every day, there have been 98 murders in oakland this year, most due to gu