Because there are multiple fires erupting across the bay area tonight, one of those fires is burning dangerously close to the benicia bridge. While in the south bay another fire is forcing people to evacuate their homes. Good evening, thanks much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman and we have a team of reporters following all these breaking news stories of all these fires are erupting across the bay area right now strong winds are fueling the flames will talk to lawrence about that well go to the south bay first 4 firefighters continue to battle the crews fire thats burning in gilroy evacuation orders are still in effect there. But first we go to the east bay where there are 2 fires burning right now one is in benicia the other rodeo and thats where we find kron fours tell the sacking she joins us live now with more on the progress that crews have made just in the past hour at the she seen that shes at right now they and just seeing as you mentioned as you could
Gray for a long way because there is a big fog bank out there. Santa rosa 54 and not much change. Speaking of livermore northwest at seven and gusts up to 30 miles an hour and on the bridge i should add wind gusts at 30 and some pretty good gusts and mount diablo northwest at 40 as well. The quote cloud deck gives us the start of a cooling trend and we can change is windy and cooler as the load drops into oregon and northern nevada. Temperatures going below except for in livermore but you trend lines going down and not up anymore and 501 on friday morning. We dont have a lot going on. You have an nice start to friday and if you are out there there are people out there for sure and if you are driving 880 and oakland and that is moving while in both directions. 5 02 a. M. And lets go back to the headlines. Breaking news from fema. Firefighters busy battling this car fire. This is video of about 20 minutes ago. The car was fully engulfed in flames. This happened west of interstate 880 whe
Made worse by those who disregarded social distancing guidelines. The states included arizona, arkansas, mississippi, north carolina, south carolina, tennessee, texas and utah. A, a has a 74 increase in average hospitalizations since memorial day. Here in the bay area, all counties saw an increase in covid19 cases over the past 14 days. You can see this graph. The uptick in cases. For example, marin countys numbers have gone up. One. Highest per cam at a just pass county announced its plans to move deep entire phase ii. Reporter we are seeing the second wave of covid19 cases building as restrictions have been loosening up, right . It is not only in marin county but throughout the entire state. You heard Governor Newsom say, there is no turning back. Beginning tomorrow, marin county will allow for all indoor retail sales, including auto dealerships. Businesses must limit the number of customers inside an establishment, while also enforcing facial covering requirements, and physical. Pro
Less than 24 hours after fire ripped through two tanks at the Nustar Energy Storage Facility in crockett, investigators with te Contra Costa Fire Department served a search warrant on the site. I would ask that you not infer anything negative about that. The company is being completely cooperative, and its purely a common practice that we do in investigations especially big complex ones. Reporter the evidence seized could include documents and computer servers that have video before and during the fire that consumed two tanks that contained about 250,000 gallons of ethanol. Just 1 of their capacity. The huge fire sent a giant plume of black smoke over the area forcing the closure of interstate 80 at the height of the evening commute. You can get longterm Health Effects from smoke, but thats when youve been exposed for a period of time, not this short few hours we had last night. Reporter in the meantime, the chairman of the contra costa board of supervisors is calling on his county to
Fatal crash in sunnyvale. It happened overnight while you were sleeping. Car making that transition from southbound 101 to the laurence expressway. Investigators are on the scene. It is a fatality. You will see cones and flares out there. You cannot take the lawrence expressway offramp. You will need to continue on to bowers Great American parkway and work your way back to lawrence expressway. They have not told us an estimated time of reopening. Southbound 101 ramp to lawrence expressway is shut down at this hour. Elsewhere, we have some green out there, which is good, but some other problems. The transition ramp from northbound 680 to eastbound 80 at cordelia, we had a solo spinout facing the wrong way. Thats been cleared off. Not much of a delay from eastbound 80 from 680. Out of tracy to dublin, 45 minutes. Highway 4 looking good. Your drive into San Francisco over a foggy g ygy golden gate , still no delays, about 20 minutes. Developing news, the north bay faces an increased wildf