Now 11 00, times up, and oakland still doesnt have a distancelearning plan, what it means for students back in School Tomorrow morning. Coworkers remembering the life of a san quentin guard who died of coronavirus. Probably one of the wisest people to were uniform and treat people with respect, and above all, he loved people. A graduate makes a he in san fr from the sound lab to a biotech laboratory, the bay area woman and rapper working on covid19 vaccines. Breaking news 11 00, good evening. Within the past 30 minutes, one of californias top Health Officers has abruptly stepped down, according to the same just go critical, sonia angel, in charge of developing the response to the pandemic, she did not give a reason for her resignation, it comes less than a week after officials disclosed a glitch that led to the undercounting of thousands of coronavirus cases. Angel had served in her position as a state Health Officer sioctober,you can join our morning team for the latest on this develo
Highway so that the people that are living in those communities can evacuate quickly and safely. Reporting live in fairfield. We will keep on top of this. Thank you. Fenutel fire reporting a helicopter pilot was killed while fighting a wildfire in fresno county. There are now investigating that. With the lightning complex fires have now scorched more than 46,000 acres in containment which is zero. The evacuation orders are covering parts of vacaville and fairfield were the leading edge of the fire is still threatening homes. We are life the evacuation zone where people are packing up and getting out. Reporter i am life on the north side of interstate 80. And everything you can see has been evacuated at this point. Take a look on the ridge line behind me. You can see smoke from one end to the other. As the fire continues to grow unchecked. Driving along Pleasant Valley road the damage from overnight becomes apparent quickly with mailboxes. Not far beyond that the danger remains the flam
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. A heat wave in california has triggered the first rolling blackout in california for over 20 years with more possible in the coming days. The bay area beach town is begging people not to visit but unclear how that could be enforced. Who will be vaccinated first when the shots become available, and what california and other states are asked to do ahead of time. It is 6 00 on this saturday, august 15. Good morning. I am emily turner. I am devin fehely. Lets get to our meteorologist. Yesterday was bad but thats only the start. Here is the view over the bridge with no marine layer this morning but i dont think anyone is surprised to see that. Although we did cool down in the upper 60s in the city after being in the mid90s yesterday. We shattered the record of San Francisco from the gold rush. We will do it all over again today. We have intense heat again today and it could get technically cooler tomorrow but dont think sunday will fe
Saying that we have smoke. Its an interesting start to a brandnew day. Rosemary, we have been talking about this all morning. It is not going away. Good morning dave and gasia. The air quality over the peninsula looks moderate at the moment. Unhealthy in the inner east bay and south bay and also the eastern edge where fires are burning. As we get into the afternoon, we are not expecting any improvement. There is a look at the estuary. You can see cloud cover there indicating whether changes that are already underway. Here is a look at what we are expecting for the afternoon. Poor air quality with an onshore breeze coming in and will improve things in some areas. That will cool us down and bring up our relative humidity. It will also increase our wind, which could be a challenge for firefighters. When i come back, i will have what you can expect. How are those highways doing this morning . It is crowded at the bay bridge toll plaza. Right now i can see it, and you can see it too. If you
They said its unsafe because fire still threatens this community. And im live here at the Fire Department got some information for everybody theyre bracing for higher temperatures. Take a look at the terrain that theyre facing this is some video that i shot yesterday before leaving the area. I was reporting on sweet water springs road and you can see its very steep. The road is narrow. Its a single lane road and that cal fire truck basically takes up the entire lane and they are have been use monitoring the flames and putting them out and yesterday was pretty calm until about 00 03pm in the afternoon when they expected that wind to come in thats exactly what happened the fire began raging yet again cal fire crews say the flames were going hard for at least 3 hours until 6 at night when he started to calm down a little bit. The fire in this area near guerneville and west of healdsburg has burned more than 20,000 acres says a fire fighter here at the Fire Department, its still 0 containe