Into another battle with firefighters going up against mother nature. Just like the northbay firefighters, strong wind is a big problem and really whipping up the flames. Ellis and barber is back again in Ventura County. Were trying to get the latest on how the wind is. Whats happening out there . Reporter you can see a little bit, a fire truck just pulled into this neighborhood. They have been driving around and keeping an eye on things here in terms of what the wind is going to do today that remains to be seen. Yesterdays fire officials said they plan to get air support up once the sun came up this morning. They want to try to fight the edges of the fire to keep it out of neighborhoods so more homes dont wind up like this one. The wind is starting to pickup and some say they could, experts and Officials Say they could get up to 70 miles an hour today. That could cause a big problem. We know in the past in fighting these areas in the past couple of days at least two helicopters had co
The last time we had one in mid december or in december was in 2013. November 28, 2013. A fire weather watch is out because its so dry and we will get a strong north, northeast breezes here. Conditions we have not had any rain. Very little. Weve not had any since december 2. A wind advisory is out as well and that goes until sunday at 10 am. Gusts up to 50 miles per hour. Patchy fog is a floating around for a few. There is a weak system coming in which will spread cloud cover over us but we will not get any rain. 44, santa cruz. 30s for many. These are running a little warmer. There is an easterly breeze out of the oaklandberkeley hills. Its not strong but it will pick up over the weekend. A system is moving in and a lot of this will fall apart. It will clip northeast california and the sierra with a little bit of snow. The main menchies is it will form a low off of Southern California and that will be the source of our wind as the high bills over the north. 60s for the temps. So far s
It is. 29 in petaluma. Tiburon is 39. 39 in tiburon. Wow. 38 in point reyes. I hit the wall here. I almost did a [laughter] 29 occidental. Graton at 28 degrees. It is cold for everybody here. The higher clouds are moving in. Over time, i think enough will spill in. This will moderate the lows from getting as cold. No rain associated with that. Temperatures though in the 50s. All right, sal. 7 01. Weve come to the conclusion, right. Yeah. I have come to the conclusion that between and you me, we are going to be in the boss office after the show this morning. Just kidding, everyone. I hope so. Lets take a look at the commute now on 80 westbound. It looks pretty good. And steve and i have been saying and this is a rather serious point, you are driving on roads that are a little more wide open so you should be more careful. People are driving faster and when crashes happen, they tend to be more serious. Be careful over the Holiday Weekend. It looks good from the carquinez bridge to the mac
We can take a look at some of the observations out there from local storm reports and see what is happening around the area, and one of the things that i have been tracking is the winds. They have not materialized yet, but some of the reports around the area have given us rainfall accumulations and rates of up to one quarter of an inch in our an hour in places. We have some localized flooding up around alamo, and at the off ramp to livermore road. These are people on the ground. Roadway flooding is reported in emeryville. What this most likely is is some stream flooding. There is a lot of rain coming down especially in paul alto and san san jose. The afternoon commute is a mess and more is on the way. When i come back, i will set you up with that. It is going to be wet and you will be waiting for people to get home from work a little bit later tonight. Said there is a Flash Flood Watch for those areas that were devastated by the wildfires last year. Our reporter joins us live up in san
Sal tells us its crowded out there. People are back. Lets go to the macarthur maze. I want to show you the people lining up to get to the bay bridge. If this is your commute, you may want to get out there as soon as possible. Slow traffic coming around the corner to a very crowded bay bridge toll plaza. It will be jampacked as people are back. Yesterday we had no backup at the bay bridge because of the holiday. It looks like traffic is going to be okay on 237 in milpitas. In the south bay, slow traffic on 280 in san jose. Traffic in the south bay has not really picked up. The bay bridge is slow. We will be following that for you. We are continuing to follow developing news from South Carolina where four Law Enforcement officers were shot while responding to a Domestic Violence call. Sheriffs deputies were called to a home early this morning in york county in South Carolina. When they arrived, they say the suspect, a man who assaulted a woman, took off. During the search for the suspect