Exclusive fire Investigative Unit one year to the day after the kincade fire started tearing through the north bay. And coming as the region copes with more extreme conditions. Today in the bay starts right now. And a good morning to you on this friday. Im marcus washington. Oh, yes you are. And im laura garcia. Were all happy its friday. Get through the show this morning. Look at you in your sunshine shirt there. Dark and early in the morning. Exactly. Wearing a yellow shirt, kari. Thats really nice. Love that combo. Lets check it out for our friday forecast. We are starting out with clouds now. I do have some things im watching as we go into the weekend even though the wind is now calming down and we have cooler weekend temperatures. We turn our attention to another high wind event as we head to the beaked where we may see wind gusts topping 70 miles an hour. Our high temperatures for today right now. Its going to be a nice one. Get out there and enjoy it before we have those other c
Cause a high fire danger by sunday into monday. As we check out our temperatures for today, San Francisco will reach 67 and some sunshine for the inland areas reaching into the upper 70s. Well talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Kari, we have a couple of notes. So, folks, while we show you the big view, and you do see its dominated the map green, thats the color we want to see with Speed Sensors at the limit. A lot of slowing for a couple of minutes on the right side. South 880 through hayward and whipple just cleared. Marcus, were also looking at eastbound 580 just past North Livermore. Word of a roadside fire im tracking. It sounds like its all right. The time of year were worried about any reports of fire. Back to you. Very true. Keep your eye on that, thanks. Pg e this morning is still in the progress of restoring power to customers who lost it from this weeks high fire danger. The latest shutoffs now appear to be just a small
Mess. Lets ta the fire. You can see some smoke sight now, this was in the chinatown district on webster street. It broke out around 8 30 a. M. Crews think it raced between two buildings in a tight space and got inside this building. They had to cut into the roof as you see there to gain access to the fire on the second floor. Here is another view from the ground. The building houses several businesses including the rang dang vietnamese restaurant. 70 firefighters on scene successfully prevented the fire from spreading to the buildings next door which were evacuated including a bank. The old buildings, were they built really closely to their neighbors so it always creates an issue with exposures. We want to protect the exposure at the same time that we are taking care of be so tight. People all over oakland and alameda posted video and pictures from the scene this morning of the smoke and the flames. We found this video on the citizen app. No injuries to report. Webster street is going
Hardest hit areas. Cal fire has been around 120 years and there really has not ftburnedto the his magnitude in ground the tally doubled overnight. The firefighters are doing what they can with the limited resources they have it. We are doing the greatest good for the residents by assuming the defensive role and going house, to house. We are firing around the houses. Reporter at least 50 structures have been destroyed that they do expect the number to increase with more than 24,000 structures threaten. Eric gordon believes his home is okay for now but not his coworkers place nearby. There were houses on fire including the house across the street from his that burned down. There were cal firefighters out there actually putting ou flames. What is your understanding of how many people kenny, that remain in the area yeedto cal fire officials thing the majority of residents in this area have left ace on the observations that they have made over the last couple of days. They always say there
In the terms of fresh firefighters, theyre stretched thin, but they are making a lot of progress 17 can tame and thats up from 13 and good news to pass along they hope to make significant inroads in the fire over the next several days because the conditions look really good meaning winds are down humidity is up and that means they can launch their aircraft once again which yesterday they did for the First Time Since the fire started more than a week ago and they were able to drop 200,000 gallons of water down to the flames. They hope to do as much if not more today unfortunately because the fires are still burning in a lot of times theyre in rugged hard to reach areas that the new number to pass along this morning. 330. Thats the number of structures are homes destroyed thats up from around 280 yesterday so the fire has been destructive although not as deadly. No fatalities in the overnight hours, no major injuries as far as evacuations people. 77,000 people have been told to evacuate