Are choosing to stay. Cornell bernard is in napa county tonight. Reporter a fastmoving wildfire in wine country, igniting acres of dry brush in the hills above st. Helenhelena. Sky 7 was over the hennessey fire late monday as the blaze exploded in size, burning through rugged terrain. Cal fire attacking the fire from all sides, including precise air drops of flame retardant. Hundreds of firefighters staging near Hennessey Ridge road. This fire possibly started by lightning strikes. Mondays weather certainly didnt help firefighters. When you have these hot conditions, its not favorable for fighting fire. And then with the little storm fronts we had coming in throughout the day, that brings a little wind in the front of those which gets fire pretty active. We know the fire son our property and its moving towards us. Reporter mandatory evacuations have been ordered in the area, but jeff is staying, ready to save the winery thats been in his family for 130 years. Were a little winery, but
Near hey ridge road. This fire possibly started by lightning strikes. Mondays weather certainly didnt help firefighters. When you have these hot conditions, its not favorable for fighting fire. And then with the little storm fronts we had coming in throughout the day, that brings a little wind in the front of those which gets fire pretty active. We know the fire son our property and its moving towards us. Reporter mandatory evacuations have been ordered in the area, but jeff is staying, ready to save the winery thats been in his family for 130 years. Were a little winery, but we have a big family, and there are about a half dozen of my cousins around right now, and were kind of at the ready if the fire gets a little closer. We have the hoses out and ready to make a stand. Reporter right now the fire is burning at the top of this ridge. Lots of smoke here. It is too close for comfort for the folks who live in this house. Im here to protect my house and my property. Reporter phillips is
Deadly diseases. Today in the bay starts right now. Good morning to you on this tuesday. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. All right. Made it through monday and mike is back, and we will check in with him. Yes, it was too hot yesterday. Yes, it was. And see what we are in store for today and it was kind of weird yesterday. Oh, my goodness with all of the humidity and the smoke and the lightning aunnd all of the wildfires, we are seeing the Strange Weather out there, and now that humidity that brought in the thunderstorms and the lightning has moved to the north of us, and so we are going to hopefully have some quieter weather today, but the smoke is going to be drifting by as we have another really hot day with triple digit temperatures especially for the inland valleys. We will talk more about this coming up, and mike, any issues for the Early Morning drivers . Well, carr shg, kari, we are about the peninsula, and take a look at the maps and what we are talking about on south
Oakland is going to reach up to 87 degrees. We will talk more about this coming up. Mike, how is that looking for the commute . Well, pretty good, kari, but i have to call out the east bay, because looking at the map, there is a green view of the sen source, but over here in freemont, northbound and 680 at the bend of washington and irving, showing the northbound slowing there with a crash perhaps caused by debris, and a larger boulder is reported in the roadways heading past washington and you can see the Speed Sensors changing. Meanwhile in the same area as usual, we have the westbound commute from 580 and highway 84. In the same area, marcus, i hand it back to you. All right. Staying on the breaking news for you, and this is the fires ripping through parts of the bay area, and in some cases coming dangerously close to homes, and prompting evacuation, and all of this is happening in the extreme degree temperatures, and talking about 100 degrees or higher in some place, and taking you
I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Lets get to meteorologist mary lee with the hot forecast. Here we go, we are looking at our extreme heat continuing for us today and with it, with those daytime highs, likely tying or breaking records. We have some cooling centers open. Santa rosa will have them from 11 00 to 7 00 four people trying to get some relief from the heat at Rincon Valley library and the Salvation Army senior center. If you do go out there, you will need to wear your mask as well as social distance. In santa rosa, highs are in the triple digits. It is 104 in concord and around the bay, low to mid 80s. 80 for San Francisco and 86 for oakland. Because of this extreme heat, excessive heat warnings remain in effect due to this persistent and dangerous heat and it remains in effect not just for today but actually through 9 00 wednesday. So we are still looking at the heat and going to cool down a little bit. Temperatures will be slightly erdeils up in just a bit firefighters a