Million individual pieces of person protective equipment arrived at a San Francisco warehouse and the city is beginning the process of passing them out to Small Businesses, helping them to reopen their could bees sooner rather than later. The mayor saying covid19 will be an ongoing obstacle businesses will have to battle, even as many reopen their doors for the first time in months. We received over a million pieces of ppe, and we have today masks, we have shields, we have hand sanitizer, and were passing them out directly to Small Businesses, at least a 30day supply to support our Small Business community in San Francisco. The first round of handouts was directed at the citys latino population and latino businesses. Latino Task Force Members saying their community has had more coronavirus cases per capita than other community and has more essential workers. The step we see today with this ppe and this distribution through this partnership allowing us to help protect those same essenti
Humidity values and we are looking at, with those winds picking up, it should mix up some of the smoke. It is still unhealthy and we have an alert in effect. You can see this morning, looking at unhealthy air proportions of the north bay and the peninsula and the south bay and the east bay. This morning, were looking at a spare the air alert that is in effect for us, not just today but for tomorrow as well. That will be the case into tomorrow. We are looking at the winds. Those winds are going to be increasing about 10 to 20 miles an hour as we go through the afternoon. So looking at those windup a bi about what you can expect for temperatures, above average for this time of year. Details on that are coming in a few minutes. The woodward fire has grown to nearly 3000 acres, prompting overnight evacuations for parts of olema. We are at the desk giving us the very latest on those evacuations. Evacuations have been ongoing throughout the night and we have a lot of Evacuation Orders and wa
Just a few moments. And, of course, air quality still a huge concern. Here is a live look at the air quality tracker on our website abc7news. Com. You can see the air is unhealthy and in the south and east bays. Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, august 25th. A lot to get to. But, first, we want to check in with you, mike, to see what our forecast has in store today. We know that will have a big impact on how theyre able to fight these fires. Exactly. We have a mixture of fog and smoke this morning. And the fog the closer you are to the coast, that is where the marine layer is the deepest around 1,100 to 1,200 feet and visibility down to less than a quarter of a mile on the peninsula coast and with the winds blowing ashore lightly some of that fog is making it all the way into napa. Now, i want to wrap it up right here and send it back to you guys because we have a press conference on the fires. Okay. The czu lightning complex fire burning were hoping to get some updated numbers.
Of the road man to dev moving a burning quickly. We have had a photographer on the scene overnight gathering that video and getting the stories and spoke with folks burned trying to escape the fire and heard people gathering the belongings, taking photographs of the inside and outside and belongings to document what they have in case there is any damage from this fire. It is important to note that this all stems from the lightning that we had a couple days ago, that lightning struck some very dry brush creating this fire and thats where we are right now. Take a listen to someone working to escape this fire here in ive never evacuated before. But why this time . Because it was it was coming hard and fast and winds probably 45 miles per hour. Reporter and i can tell you the smoke out here very, very heavy. You cant see the flames. They look like fire flies in the distance but that fire still burning out here smoke very thick. There are cars covered with ash and looks like 5,000 outages a
Mountain and this is what has been vacaville and it was bring to the northwest and so its closing in pretty quickly. Thats why people are quickly having to flee their homes covers will tran is there this morning and will we moved to vacaville because things change so fast. Whats going on right now. Well right now im off a highway 80 off a cheery glenn exit and you can see over my Left Shoulder jeans and yuri of the fire along the ridgeline these people these poor people have been up all night watching the fire get closer and closer to their homes and then. Just a short time ago they got the knock at the door from the Sheriffs Department take get out. This is obviously a very busy street as far as people hopping on to highway 80 instead it has turned into a parking lot with a lot of evacuees at this location just pulled over sitting in the back of the pickup truck. Just helplessly watching the fire get closer and closer to their homes. This whole area jeans and area. It is just glowing