The woodward fires burning at the Point Reyes National seashore in marion county. Right now at this hour crews are in a race to try and save homes and property from those fastmoving flames. Good evening. Everyone, im Jonathan Mccall in tonight for ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 oclock tonight. We are going to tackle each of these complex fires, one by one from the damage done to the evacuations which are in effect we begin in the north bay and as we mentioned the largest of those fires, the l a new complex fire. In the last 30 minutes weve learned that this blaze has now grown to more than 124,000 acres now scorched. With more than a 100 structures destroyed and 25,000 more now being threatened you can see on your map exactly the areas that are made up from this particular inferno. Flames as we mentioned now burning in napa sonoma and solano counties. So far this blaze once again scorching more than 124,000 acres to give you an idea of just ho
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3. 82 at san jose and phoenix 3. 78 since october. Clear at sfo and for everybody with 40s and 50s. Livermore at 52. Have been over everything goes, way above average on highs today translating into 70 to 78 degrees. We have sal that would like to begin with san jose. We are recovering from a crashed northbound 101 near 880. They moved it but the damage is done. Northbound 101 is slow and slower than normal. You can see this part of the valley, the eastern part where people are trying to get west. Going this way is tough. There is slow traffic on 880, 580 slightly recovered with a look at the other community. Marin county so far, so good heading across the golden gate. San Francisco Police are investigating two people they drove erratically, hit pedestrians and slammed into the san Francisco Police patrol car. We are live to take a look at some of the damage caused, Sara Zendehnam. Reporter theres a lot of damage on as paris street on the sidewalk. You can see how far the top marks str
Leaders making the announcement late this evening. They say the decision was a unanimous one between the mayor and the members of the Police Commission was made during a closed door session kron fours gayle ong was there when that announcement was made she joins us live from oakland with more gayle. And this all went down about 2 hours ago here at city hall and mayor libby schaaf said she called and kirkpatrick after the vote. Thursday night, the city of oaklands top cop is out of the job the oakland Police Commission voted unanimously to join air shaft. In terminating the chief of police about cost the announcement the citys Police Commission chair Regina Jackson lasted about 2 minutes after meeting with mayor libby shaft and other commissioners at city hall for hours details on what led to Ann Kirkpatrick firing were not disclosed other than this was a no cause termination a Personnel Matter there wasnt enough. Leadership. And so that we needed new leadership can i do not regret choo
The state youre on this weekend if youre heading down south watch out for that rain temperatures in the 50s for most of the bay right now look at oakland nearing 60 degrees already and just take a look at these daytime highs later today, San Francisco up to 70 oakland 73 while san jose a warm 74. Rebecca all right, thank you john and that its definitely friday light. Around the bay area were really seeing its across all the bridges and including the bay bridge look at the toll plaza approach, nice and thin here for you if youre going to be heading into San Francisco shortly enjoy all the sunshine and the light traffic only 10 minutes across the upper deck to get to the fremont street exit. The san mateo bridge looking at the right hand side, your screen. We still have a stall on the right hand shoulder there, but its not causing any problems. No delays traffic is at the limits and under 15 minutes to get over to the peninsula and out of the east bay. Checking a drive times are througho