From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. Now a knight tense time says firefighters in oakland have been busy late this afternoon and tonight feverish lee working to get control of this brush fire. That burned dangerously close to homes and drivers along 5. 80. Thankfully, nobody was injured tonight and the damage appears to be minor good evening, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis took more than 50 firefighters to answer the call and although the fire is contained tonight, its still a very active scene for us taylor sackey joins us now shes. Live in oakland where crews are still working to make sure hot spots still flare up. Taylor this was really scary. Earlier today, gran, yes again lot of these neighbors, a large scale scare because the fire was getting close. But thankfully, we know now that that fire is contained and you can actually see behind me that many of these firefighters are packing up in this intersectio
5,000. But the agency says victims of the valley fire especially if they were uninsured may be able to get more. Live in the newsroom, cate caugiran, kpix 5. This morning, the valley fire is 82 contained. Hundreds of crews from all over the state have invaded middletown trying to bring back power and phone service to those affected by the valley fire. Pg e, at t and logging crews are working side by side to get things back to normal. Specialty crews are reeling spools of aluminum conductors more than 4,000 feet long. With essentially two efforts, one beginning down here on the flats working west and the other effort working from the top of cobb east hoping to get those two to meet in the middle. The ground is still hot. We have stump holes, hazards, stuff is still smoking. We have to for us it comes down to safety. Pg e says the goal is to get power back to most of the area by this friday at 6 p. M. Now its 1 minute after 5 00 on this thursday morning. Its time to get a check of both t
Tonight that the blame is falling on the shoulders of many contractors the controversy of the rusting bolts in the single anchor suspension section of the bay bridge has finally played outas far as who is to blame and how much it will cost. The fines are in the millions of dollars and project leaders say they will be able to finally close the books on the construction project. Leah robinson it was determined that three parties were equally involved in the failure of the tower anchor rods. Those parties are the contractor, american bridge four, t. Y. Lynn moffit nickal, as well as cal trans. That will round out that 24 Million Dollars. Jeff an expensive mistake for sureall three parties will be equally responsible for their share. it came to a total of 24 million and each of the parties is going to provide eight Million Dollars so the way that will be broken out is that cal trans will get a credit from american bridge four, the contractor. Caltrans will seek a claim against t. Y. Lynn m
The system didnt do much south. It did from marin county north. It left behind a lot of low clouds. Thats what were dealing with here. A couple breaks in the clouds. Once the low clouds burn off a lot more sunshine today. A gradual warmup. The rainfall is what is impressive. Especially towards the russian river. Vinnie martin is along saint alena road. 1. 18. Upper lake, thank you peggy,. 80. Forestville, lake port. 5inch rain. Santa rosa. 41. Napa. 20. Sausalito. 16. System has moved out. It fell apart. It gave us good rain up to the north. A lot of low clouds and mist drizzly conditions for some. 50s, 60s on the temps. Not much of a breeze. A breeze later once the low clouds burn off. There is plenty there. The trend is for sunshine and little bit warmer today. Morning clouds or fog. Some of that fog is thick, by the way. 60s, 70s for others. Sal, slow traffic to report . You know, one of the things that we are looking at is the volume of traffic has increased a lot. Starting off wit
Much south. San francisco. 03. North bay, though, there was really kind of almost jaw dropping, 1. 70. Lakeport picked up half inch. Kelseyville as well. Santa rosa. 1. Ukiah three quarters. Napa. 20 and san rafael. 16. After that it fell apart. Still falling apart in the sierra under cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. System on the back side, low clouds is is whats left. 50s, 60s on your temps, plenty of low clouds to go around. Mot that cool, although kelseyville 46. There are a lot of 50s. It wouldnt surprise me if it its chillier as it clears out. Sunny and nice, a little warmer inland. Breeze picks up slightly. 70s to near 80 inland. 60s, 70s coast and bay. Feels like ive been at work for an hour already hour and a minute. Exactly. Good morning, steve. Commute is getting a little slower. 5 30 is when the bridges usually start slowing down, so you have a little bit of time before you have to run out the door, but not much. About a halfhour the bay bridge toll plaza will start filling u