Tonight kron fours closely monitoring the spread of the glass fires burning in the north bay and at this hour, the wild fire has burned more than 48,000 acres, it is at 2 containment joining us now via zoom islington much off with cal fire when thanks for being here again tonight what can you tell us about the conditions right now and. What firefighters are up against as we brace for the red flag. And one has been pretty good the past couple of days of firefighters have been making progress on and obviously able to get 2 containment out of been working really hard today. Particular because we are expecting those reflect a kick in early for afternoon bringing got the win put that. So the take away we we were listening in at a press conference earlier with cal fire what i did here was that we are bracing for really bad couple of days. In terms of the weather who. Who is in the bulls which community are you most worried about. You know its probably most likely going to the communities on
143 homes have been destroyed more than 26,000 structures are still threatened calfire post same this video on twitter today and you can see smoke filling the napa county sky near the Robert Louis Stevenson state park flames from the glass fire have devoured swaths of brush and trees as we mentioned a red flag warning has been issued as the weather is expected to take a turn for the worse. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here to begin our coverage tonight, yeah guys a little bit of a break the last couple of days we see more of a westerly wind that has been carrying with it. Some of that moisture right off the ocean to bring up the humidity slow down the fire, but also pushed the fire different directions. These some of the winds around the fire now you can see fairly light. For the better part of the day now beginning to pick up a little bit the very conditions you can see some of those winds now 11 miles an hour saying lena 10 miles an hour outlets peak 10 miles an hour in
Dispatch. Two two officers showed up. They went to wake up the driver and both were standing on the drivers side. I depth hearing them say put the car in park. Put the car in park. I could the reverse lights go on and off, on and off. As they checked on his well being to see if he needed medical attention, the driver started to wake up, quickly put the car in reverse, knocking both officers down. Reporter but one of the officers was more than knocked down. All of a sudden the guy just reversed and kind of tracked the officers for a little bit. One of them was caught by the vehicle and was dragged about 10 to 15 feet. He was not run over, but he certainly was dragged. I was really scared for them. Reporter police say the driver sped off, and investigators are looking for him and his car, a light colored suv. The best thing to do is for the driver to turn himself in. We want to let that we are but hovering over this quest on sunday, a gunman opened fire on two Los Angeles County sheriffs
Thought i was on mars. It looked orange outside. Let me give you a quick explanation for why it appears orange in the sky. The smoke particles scatter blue light, which leaves us seeing what appears to be yellow and orange. Any particulate matter in the atmosphere affect the way we see light, the way our eyes and brains translate light. Water droplets can do that and smoke particles can do it. All kinds of pollutants can do it. You look at a satellite image to show you how thick the combination of smoke and coastal fog we have. Let me move along from the satellite image now and give you another view of the conditions outside. This is going to give you a look at conditions above 1,000 feet, where most of the smoke saand aw 1,000 feet and the marine layer that brought us some cooling and brought fog and some lower spots. The layer cape effect at the surface but weve got a smoke deck or smoke layer above where the winds are a bit lighter s. Its just collecting up there, the marine layer i
Thanks for starting it right here with us. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Well get to mike and the Early Morning commute, if there is one out there, but lets check in with kari right now. Were talking about cooler temperatures could help out firefighters. Yeah, thats been such a Welcome Change for the bay area as we start out this morning with a layer of that marine layer, the clouds, and the fog near the coastline. Our air quality will still be unhealthy today for many of our microclimates except for the coast and beaches where we will see that fog pushing in more of that fresh air and not so much of that stagnant air we have in the valleys. As our temperatures today reach into the upper 80s in a lot of we continue to monitor all the bay area fires. Heres the latest this hour. The warmer spots. Well talk more about this the lnu complex in the north bay coming up. Mike, any issues for drivers this morning . No, kari. Has burned more than 356,000 chp did warn about the fog a