It destroyed eight homes and 20 out buildings and forced the evacuation os of a number of homes and small hospital in the town of bernie. This is just one of the fires. More evacuations could be announced. You have to have your bags packed, all of your clothes ready, tent, sleeping bag, all that stuff ready to go and be out the door within an hour of the call. A slew of bay area Fire Agencies have in on this battle. Christie smith is joining us now from san jose where crews took off two hours a i go. Firefighters have been leaving from the south bay and peninsula all evening. The latest group left from san jose. What firefighters are telling us is that state of the Emergency Declaration is very important because it opens the door for more resources given the magnitude of the these fires. Its early august. California historically, the season gets going in september and october. Reporter strike teams from Santa Clara County deployed this etching from san jose with more than a dozen fires
Joses recruitment and seen as a possible future candidate for chief. Him leaving is a shock for all of us. This is somebody who has led us through some of our darkest times and someone who we saw probably leading us into the future of this department. Reporter the chief declined to comment on the departure but said the department is determined to move forward. We increase the capability to have three academies a year and secure or Marketing Firm to help us with our recruiting efforts. Reporter his exit comes at a critical time. The already Ailing Department has 186 officers who will be eligible for retirement over the next 21 months. I think its hugely significant that somebody who is so woven in the fabric of everything that were doing, community policing, recruiting, training, is leaving. Its going to effect other people. Reporter through the poa we learned and were told that lieutenant bauers has declined any interviews. The department will begin dealing with the void starting aroun
That system will bring us all kinds of precipitation overnight and right through the day tomorrow. Then sunday we could see another system and more snow. We have Team Coverage at 10 00 tonight. Action News Reporter dann cuellar is live in king of prussia with preparations on this storm, tonight. We begin with our team of miles adam joseph and cecily tynan who is tracking conditions the snow has arrived. It has. In philadelphia and northern western suburbs. As you look at double scan live its a battle of cold air to the north to the very warm air invading from the south. So it depends on where you are. Whether youre seeing snow sleet or steady rain. We start in and around Center City Philadelphia and points east ward 70 and to the west near media and north jenkin town to 130. Its all snow at this point. But as you head to the south, you notice that mixed line of sleet. That is transitioning to rain in southern parts of new jersey. Wilmington, glassboro right now seeing the mixture. In t
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But, today we start off with 30s, 40s, 50s and mostly cloudy skies, a little bit of a breeze as well. Most of it is showing signs of north and east. I saw a north wind near the golden gate. There will be a weak front and its dragging across. We could have splash and dash showers to the north. I doubt much will come out of it. 54 in half moon bay. They have a breeze there. Upper 30s for some and low 40s for others. These systems dont do much, they give us cloud cover. The big news continues to be the weekend where temperatures will rock it up rocket up ten degrees. Well have the afternoon highs of 50s and 60s. Heres it is sal. We have slow traffic. Were going to start off with the bay bridge toll plaza and the metering lights are on and theres a 15 to 20 machine wait at the toll plaza itself. As you drive into the city there are no major problems if youre driving through. Lets take a look at the commute on interstate 880. That traffic is moving along well with no major issues. As we tak