News station. Youre watching kron 4 news every tear. Like the whole neighborhood with gun and claims. Now at 10 the threat of wildfires is still here a grass fire near the landmark South San Francisco sign filling the sky with smoke. The danger hitting too close to home for families which were forced to evacuate we want to have more on this in just a moment, but first tonight, the bay area as a whole is still not out of the woods when it comes to fire danger, thank you for joining us tonight at 10 im pam moore and im grant lotus in tonight for ken way we saw another day of record breaking heat here in the bay and a red flag warning that was set to expire this morning was extended for some regions until tomorrow our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow standing by with the latest on the fire danger tonight, lawrence yeah guys, this red flag warning now extended until 8 oclock. In the morning tomorrow morning thats because this ridge just really stubborn not breaking down very rapidly and
Temperatures will climb, not hot yet, that is later in the week that you notice today is five or a degrees warmer than yesterday, mid90s by the middle of this coming week and by the time we get towards wednesday and thursday, there will be pretty views all around as we look at our cameras, this is on top of the Salesforce Tower over the bay bridge and numbers range from anywhere around 46 at santa rosa to the upper 50s in the bay. Topping out 84 inland today and that number is only upper 70s yesterday as begin upper 70s that is where we will be in the bay. 84 around concord and 76 in san jose and 82 for santa rosa and we do have a spare the air yesterday and we did nicely yesterday with the onshore wind is air quality was great, today it goes downhill a little bit but we may notice that it will be a trend the next week. But for now back to you a tragedy on lake tahoe as a woman drowns and the man who tried to save her is in Critical Condition this was friday evening on the east side of
Hills, my side to start a sunday morning temps on the board lower 60s lining up a good chunk of the east bay shoreline 59 conquered 62 for antioch 50s up to the north bay, 59 meanwhile for san jose most the readings a touch cooler than yesterday but were going to catch up on this board within a couple of hours after sunrise what fog going on this morning basically pretty clear going on and then as we head on until late tonight and tomorrow morning, not much fog to replace that by tomorrow morning either lets see what your breakdown as for today sfo in the background 77 by 11 by 2 were talking 88 some inland areas will briefly touch into the 90s this afternoon. But a minor little cool down looks like by the time we get to early part of fall the well talk about that coming up in a bit marty sounds great davis continues this morning tomorrow was supposed to be the reopening of some San Francisco Unified School District classrooms for in Person Learning. The district has been making some p
Much tougher for them so you can see theres a canister in his hand right there theyve been setting fires along this hillside and heres what theyre doing its genius they actually started at the top of the hill and started walking down the hill closer to the home meanwhile they were just doing it keeping a close eye in case it erupted they have their hoses on the ground ready to go. Let me show you give you an education on firefighting because he was giving me an education yulia sevens and i look at how the fire burned itself out you can see the smoke right there, theyre saying thats because the humidity level is high so they set it on fire. They watch it and then it burns itself out, but he had they done at noon it would not have burned itself out and therefore could have gotten closer. So the home, so thats why they do a lot of heavy lifting with the humidity level is up and the overnight hours. You can see just how smoky the conditions are embers flying everywhere. Trees are falling d
Damage. More than 8,000 structures still threatened as we wake up this morning. Yeah, when you saw metal would go down just big recognizable places like big wineries and then peoples homes, this is the circle of where the fire is burning east of saint and Calistoga Napa county and east of santa rosa. In Sonoma County. They dont know the cause they just know that this fire spread rapidly with the heavy winds and were still under a warning for that so theres 0 containment were continuing to follow the latest 60,000 people have been evacuated, including the entire town of calistoga kron fours will tran has been live for us there in napa county. Bringing us up to speed on the latest firefighting efforts and will they were working to save a home this morning looks like they were successful for now. For now they are actually having their breakfast because theyve been working nonstop for pretty much 48 hours so those heroes are next and a fire truck in front of the house just finally getting