That is myers starting to move down along the coast. We are not done yet, the it is a busy morning. Thousands of acres burn across woodward fire in marin county several bay area counties, is also sending in plumes of homes have been destroyed. People are forced to evacuate, smoke, ive been looking at the and the weather is not letting up. It is like we dont know where to start. San mateo coast, you can see the smoke looking all the way lets dive right into it, down the peninsula, then, of course, look at all the smoke we are going to start in the north bay where we have seen thats boring right there, and several structures go up in now, you get into santa cruz flames, residents say they had very little time to react, as the fire spread so quickly. This is all part of the l and county and into the santa cruz you lightning complex fire, we mountains, the smoke is blowing toward san jose, you can see it right there. We have unbelievable amounts of smoke getting caught up in the have been
The wildfires continue to expand across the bay area with the level of destruction growing. Some firefighting crews are facing added danger with residents that are refusing to move. If youre in the area and dont need to be there, please leave. Tens of thousands of homes in danger in the north bay with one fire in particular posing the biggest threat. The fires in the area creating other setbacks for struggling bay area business. It is 6 00 on this saturday, august 22nd. Good morning. I am emily turner. I am devin fehely and lets get to our meteorologist darren peck. We have smoke and hazy skies. The colors are pretty but weki unhealthy air quality bay area wide. The te prettwarm for this time of the day. Typical 57 in San Francisco with marine layer along the coast. We have to shift the focus from talking about temperatures as we zero in on the airquality. Look at all the orange and red dots on your screen right now. That tells you it is unhealthy for sensitive groups, and flat out unh
Heavy military vehicles arrived at the Sonoma County fairgrounds where they will be based. They have been on orders, some of them continuously since early this year with covid. Reporter a third of the citizen soldiers have been a major fires before but all have been trained in camp roberts before coming here. They come none too soon. This is a much welcomed asset, a valuable asset and resource to us here locally. It will be good to get them to work right away. Reporter the cal fire truly needs this help. Obviously the season is already very busy and so we fill the gaps that cal fire doesnt have with resources for reporter these trips will have a very handson approach to provide a wide variety of critical functions, including write up on the fire line. Our mission here is to help the cal fire inside command gain the fire fermenters and how to allocate resources, callout evacuations and key people on the front safe. Reporter other units already at the fires for the last several months or
Of our spots in the low 60s right now. Later today expect 70s 80s for most of the bay, to still to come. Back to you robin. All right, thank you john now, lets check in on traffic. Its definitely busier out there check out the line now at the bay bridge plaza. It was not like this just 15 minutes ago now we have a big backup spilling 80s slowly stretching out to west grand. So make sure you get out there early since we have more folks rolling in 14 minutes and growing from the bottom of the maze off to the fremont street exit, heres a little trouble spot on the peninsula. If you travel from the south bay heading to the peninsular towards San Francisco heads up for this overturn northbound one oh one at hillsdale still blocking one lane. So you see the traffic stacking up theyre approaching the scene and checking your drive on 5. 80 that looks good no problems for 6 ad the name its a tad bit slow 23 minutes from to 38 to 37. All right now to one of our big stories this morning. The styl
Very foggy its a mix of both now even though it might not smell so bad for your area we are still looking at poor air quality as we see ash falling from the hazy layer above us. You dont want to be breathing that in so of course the Face Covering will be as helpful as possible as you are venturing outside now why is it so smoky when we had our fires a couple weeks ago and thats when they were really expanding and now theyve come down. Well we had strong winds from the north a couple days ago that resulted in rapid spread of fires on the northern end of the state and the smoke from those fires just drifting down our way since winds have calmed down now that haze that smoke a sitting with us and gradually sinking yesterday the hazy layer was above us so any sort of light that hit that he is the lair pass through it with just the red remaining today the grey sinks and now were looking at a whole different hue entirely as you see outside your window this morning, 50s and 60s for current te