Disabled vehicle and that is reportedly blocking your right lanes, so that will be an issue, a couple lanes down, unexpectedly, so watch for the flashing lights but the Speed Sensors dont show a problem through the area. Were also tracking the incident affecting tennison and onramp and nimitz freeway and construction in san leandro. A smooth drive and getting lighter for the backup at the bay bridge cash lanes are open. Breaking news for you this morning, a busy morning for firefighters in southern Santa Clara County. A brush fire flaring up along highway 101 in gilroy, and cal fire is on the scene. So is today in the bays kris sanchez, joins us there riff with the latest. What do you know, kris . Reporter well, as of right now, cal fire is no longer here because the fire is out. The smoke smell is still really heavy in the air, and about two hours ago, that fire was inching up along the shoulder of highway 101 here in gilroy. This was the scene about 3 00 this morning, off highway 101
Lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri with more on the conditions theyre dealing with. Even some low 90s in the vicinity of the fire. The heat and the humidity are the number one things theyre battling. The good news which is probably helping them get that containment we just heard about is the wind is not extremely gusty. Right now we have winds out of the northwest at 10, occasional gusts to 20. So that likely has been helping those firefighters. Here you can see it on this map. South of Lake Berryessa. Smoke from this primarily blowing towards winters with the way that that wind is blowing. Once again, 128 and wragg canyon road. Tomorrow winds out of the west at 10. Tomorrow gusts also up to 20. Hopefully that lower wind would again help out the firefighters. Now, our fire danger going up all across the bay area. Today the fire burn index is 75. Basically putting our fire danger on a scale which is in the high category. Tomorrow goes up to 100, which is still high but getti
That jam near the coliseum. Near the numbers that sound like the temperature range youre talking about, 66 here, 98 toward the bottom of the screen and at 66, we still have your right two lanes blocked by a disabled vehicle, thats jamming up traffic, counter commute unusual from the bay bridge through downtown, things are fine, then you jam up past the coliseum for southbound 880. That is the issue right there on the nimitz. Everything else moves nicely. Your commute of course takes most folks to the bay bridge, more folks to the bay bridge. Also north 680 sees slowing over the last half hour. Northbound 680 mtague expressway your two right lanes are blocked by as well as basically a delivery of a larger rig with big large payload on the back and half your freeway is blocked. Back to you. Thanks so much. 6 01 right now. Tens of thousands of people across the bay area woke up without power after losing it in the midst of the sweltering summer heat. The hardest hit was marin county. Thom
District with the story youll see only on nbc bay area. Jessica, theyre feeling the pinch all across the south bay. They say the reasons could range from the high cost of living here in Silicon Valley to those ins of the mass deportations, immigration crackdowns coming out of mississippi this week. Children watch in visible agony as their mariners are led away in handcuffs by immigration agents in mississippi. Many who saw these images here say it felt like a punch in the stomach. Oh, my gosh, it was horrible. Reporter superintendent in alum rock thinks the threat of a similar i. C. E. Action is forcing parents to pull their kids from school. Alum rock saw a large drop last year and this fall another 270 students will not be coming back. 6 of those parents told0hp alu rock theyre leaving the state. That tells me families are moving north, up north somewhere. Or many of them might be just going back home to the country of origin. Reporter thats a 3 million hit in state funding for the a
Truck slammed into it. Its so lucky that no one was there inside the house sitting in this area when it happened. Let me show you what it looked like earlier. This is what it looked like when it arrivedch the suv was sitting on the side of the house. According to glen arden police it came down the hill. They believe the driver had a medical emergency andcould not stop his vehicle, slammed into the corner of the house and then bounced to the right where it see it sitng. Hear now from the chief of the glen arden police department. When a car hits the house you never know whats going to happen, the house could fall down. Someone could be sitting in a chair so were thankful that nobody is sitting in the house. Oh, yeah. Now, as for the man who was behind the wheel of that vehicle, he was transported to the hospital. They do believe that hes going to be okay. There was some bleeding, but they say ths he in stable condition. His mother was able to get to the scene here. Shes quite upset abou