But first escaping the were trapped. Flames. Tonight inside those daring reporter while multiple agencies are making sure there helicopter rescues near yosemite are no hikers still trapped in the fire zone, those who were c. I was a little bit anxious because you dont know how rescued, are grateful. Quickly its coming up the hill. Were just so lucky and two people from the bay area with stories to tell after being fortunate to have made it out and to have been helped by all airlifted to safety by the those amazing, amazing people. National guard. Reporter in the south bay, tonight we have that inside ian cull, nbc bay area news. Story of those helicopter were seeing dangerous fire rescues. Among the 200 people who were weather across much of the state. Here in the bay area, the heat and the wind and the smoke rescued, some hikers from the bay area who didnt know if they remain a big concern. This is what it looked like all would make it out alive. Their Labor Day Weekend road afternoon
No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att ooishlthsdz another wildfire absolutely explodes in size overnight. Thousands evacuated more than a hundred campers trapped. The rescue mission on Mammoth Mountain tonight. As the bay area wakes under a recordbreaking heat wave, pg e may be forced to cut power. We broke a couple of records today. Tomorrow a lot more are gonna fall. Sunday is the peak of this heat wave. First breaking news. At least 150 people trapped after a Massive Wildfire ick nights in the Sierra National forest. And tonight weve learned 63 campers near a Fresno County reservoir were just rescued by military helicopters. The others, told to shelter in place and to get into the water if they can. Until rescue crews return. Mandatory evacuation orders are in place for multiple communities. This is new video coming into the newsroom, showing just how dangerous the conditions are tonight. Two backpackers had to
Exclusive Salesforce Tower camera. As we look out east with the sparkling bay bridge there. It is wednesday, september 9th. Good morning everyone, im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning. Lets get right to meteorologist mary lee for a look at your wednesday forecast. Good morning, mary. Good morning to you len and michelle. And we are looking at those smoky and hazy skies. We had all of that smoke for the bay area yesterday and thats why temperatures were even cooler than what we expected. Were going to cool it down a little bit more as we today as checking air quality conditions. And you can see unhealthy air, the red dots indicating that on our current air quality map. And as we head through the day, we still have the spare the air alert in effect. Were going a record 23 days in a row with the spare the air alert in effect for the bay area. Its not a record that we want to break by any means and we are looking at that high fire danger that does continue. So still tracking
Only a few short miles away we have some unhealthy stuff, especially for the inland east bay and or upper elevations on the peninsula. So some of our upper elevations up in the and closely because its bound to be changing a lot this morning as we do still look at some winds stirring up both smoke across the region as well as resulting in higher fire danger now it is not as windy as it was yesterday nor into the evening last night but still windy enough that we will have fire danger concerns all through the day because its still hot and we still do have some pretty low humidity. That means any potential spark could result in a fast growing wildfire specially for east bay upper elevations where winds will be the stronges and then across the north bay worse a lot of county still under red flag warning across the entire county. All the way through the evening tonight, so that is something you would be especially mindful of as you spend any time outside use extreme caution, 60s and 50s for
Winds now begin to relax in the north bay, not as windy as yesterday that means wildfire smoke from both the august and north complexes in northern called california. Still going make its way our direction but not near as much of it is yesterday still some pockets of pretty bad air both in the east bay and in upper elevations on the peninsula and still under red flag warning for most of the east bay as well as north bay all the way through 08 00pm tonight as low humidity, warm conditions and still breezy conditions exist as far as temperatures go were in the 50s annice mild cool start to the morning really hopefully get a chance to get out there and enjoy our cooler temperatures, im going to be talking more and more of that cooler weather ahead near forecast back to you. The breaking news tmorning, n in plumas imbue counties because of this. Fire. The mayor fly fire. Its not new. But it just they asked laird of overnight. It has already burned more than 8300 acres being struck off fiel