Red flag warning is set to go into effect later this weekend to parts of the bay area are bracing for what is expected to be the strongest wind event of the year. Lets go to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow who is tracking the dangerous fire conditions certainly dont like to see an active fire were forecasting a potentially some of the strongest winds. Weve seen in quite some time at least this year maybe even longer, but certainly a possibility some firestorm events we continue to see this but. The winds out there right now in and around this active fire. The pope fire we continue to see some of those winds out of the west thats not a bad wind thats a more moist when thats developing right now. We saw as high as 80 Miles Per Hour this afternoon now to 8 to 10 Miles Per Hour. So just some light winds blowing now on likely going to see those winds pick up a more out of a westerly wind as we head toward tomorrow, but. Then things begin to change and so thats what were concerned about
Experiencing of the week conditions that were bracing for on sunday and so that is obviously in our favor right now. I know that if this fire started on sunday night things would be vastly different we talk all the time daniel give us some perspective i know all red flag warnings are not created equal how bad it is this one thats coming sunday night monday. Well we definitely dont want to sound like a broken record as we have been in and out of red flag for the last several last several weeks and really the last several months this wind event that we are expecting to see on sunday will bring a extremely strong winds winds that we have not really experience this fire season in fact the last time we saw winds this magnitude and this widespread really in the 2017 and north bay fires so when the tubbs fire yeah was fires burning in sonoma and napa counties and we know how destructive those result so yeah, definitely its been a destructive year definitely bracing for what could be the stron
Black car spun out and hit 4 other cars on the bay bridge. Preliminary reports are that driver may have been travelig at a high rate of speed at least for the 5 lanes on the bay bridge are being blocks right now well be monitoring this accident throughout the hour and let you know of any changes and you remember you can always keep track of traffic alerts with our kron 4 mobile app thank you for joining us here at 3 im sanaz were following several bay area stories from dangerous accidents involving car crashes into crowds, dining outdoors to homicides and election safety. But we begin with concerns a fire dangers of this week that has pga new warning of another possible power shut off. High temperatures mixed with high winds is causing major concern for wildfire danger. The genie is warning it may start turning off power in the north bay mountains and pockets of the Santa Cruz Mountains wednesday afternoon. The Utility Company is still monitoring the wind events at this time because we
This wednesday and we will begin in kentucky were grand jury has chosen not to charge the 3 Louisville Police officers for their role in the death of brianna taylor. Taylor was shot multiple times by officers who burst into her home on march 13th while conducting a no knock warrant in a narcotics investigation. Prosecutors say 2 of the officers who fired their weapons were justified in using force because they were protecting themselves. However, former officer seen here Brett Hankinson who was fired earlier this year for his role in the shooting was charged with 3 counts of wanton endangerment which means extreme indifference to the value of human life. But this was for firing into the apartments of taylors neighbors. These long awaited charges were immediately met with frustration and disappointment. As for months protesters have pressured kentuckys attorney general Daniel Cameron to arrest the 3 officers and now none of them are facing criminal charges in taylors death. And this tea
Need to attack this fire on the ground and in the air. We have a significant air attack. Right now, flying this fire are air tankers, even some of the very large air tankers, lobbing retardant ahead of the fire trying to slow down the fire. The winds are not as strong as what we saw overnight and yesterday. That is welcome news for sure but experiencing dry conditions and the fire does continue to grow. Its good to hear we have a little bit of relief at least, those high winds still burning at Higher Elevations. Our weather guy in just a couple of minutes. When it comes to the overall scope of things, earlier, we heard from the governor who said there are 27 wildfires right now. Give us an idea of where the glass incident ranks among all of those fires as we speak. With 27 major wildfires across california, the glass fire itself actually has the most amount of evacuations, more than any other fire. In fact, today, in all 27 fires, there are 66,000 people under evacuation orders. 53,000