Now 11 00, the threat of pg e blackouts. The counties on alert for safety shutoffs this week as businesses begin to welcome back customers. We broke records bay area white beard tomorrow may be a bit cooler. We are not finished with this heatwave yet. I will show you when this finally breaks. Estate of emergency as an inferno rages out of control, leaving a trail of destruction. Tonight we are hearing incredible stories of survival. I think if we had stayed just 10 minutes more, we may not have been so lucky. We have a beach party wanting. Hundreds gather at the ocean beach. Tonight, the crackdown to keep people away . Good evening, i am brian hackney. Lets look outside. We had record high temperatures within 15 degrees of death values high. The dangers heatwave is not over. To make matters worse, smoke is filling the bay areas guys, impacting air quality and making it difficult to breathe. Meteorologist is tracking it all tonight. i will leave the smoke for later, lets talk about the
For us . Its going to be a little bit hotter for today and still some smoke drifting in but a very nice start to our friday morning as we head over to pleasant hill. Upper 50s and then atcroclimate coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the morning commute . Kari, overall green sensors for the commute routes. A lot of closures on our map as well. Were looking at the czu and the scu areas. We do have a new stall southbound across the benicia bridge. Everything should be fine. Ill follow that. Laura, you are following the north bay where we also have closures. Cause for celebration for some affected by the czu lightning complex fire. More evacuation orders are being lifted meaning more can return home. What music to their ears. Jackie ward is live in scotts valley. But theres still, jackie, a lot of people in limbo out there right now. Reporter yeah, thats right. Good morning, laura. 20,000 people are home but that means about 50,000 remain evacuated. We are learning some incredible stor
Of their own home as they were allowed to return late last night so theyre the First Community to do so the hope is to have areas like felton and the highway 90 corridor to have those areas open sooner than later those of the new places that they were targeting today, theyre throwing 2000 firefighters at this and it is working because the number of acres burned its not exploding, it is sitting right now at 82,540 acres and thats up only a 1000 acres from yesterday containment also up youre sitting now at 26 . Containment but firefighters still have their hands full, its basically a race between them and the fire to get to feel that has not been touched yet. Were going to have to start removing trees. The are unsafe. Weve got potentially take out additional power lines across roadways or in danger structures. So like i said its multiphase when we start pushing forward with the entire mitigation process of this incident and its going to take a while. I mean everyone to be patient. Were w
Mikes here getting a look at that commute for us. Well get to that in just a bit. First, lets start out with kari hall with that forecast for today. Different day than yesterday. Eerie looking out there for a lot of us. What does it look like for us today . Still looking at a lot of smoke across the bay area. This is a look at the smoke pollution we have in the upper levels of the atmosphere over the past 24 hours and still really thick across the bay area, we do expect that to continue today as we are not seeing it right now close to ground level, it will be higher up in the atmosphere. So, were still looking at some times of unhealthy air quality especially for people with breathing problems. Well talk more about this coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Its pretty smooth, kari. I want to give a note out there south bay and a puppy reported running around on 280. Lets look at the map and circle right around meridian. No updates in the last few minutes and thats good n
Today in the bay starts right now. And very good tuesday, goodness gracious, its already thursday. Only go back to see how far youve come. Good thursday morning to you, thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im in for Marcus Washington on this thursday morning. Nice to see all four of you, kari. I know you have a forecast that looks gorgeous for the weekend. Yeah and hot, too. Weve been talking about how this weekend were going to be heating up. Excessive heat warnings will go into effect this saturday. So what well want to do is enjoy today because its still going to be really nice as we ith temperatures in the upper 50s. As we go toward our lunch hour, take it outside. Well be mostly in the mid 70s for many of our spots in the inland valleys. And then as we go into the afternoon, or this afternoon well see those temperatures in the low to mid 80s. Well talk more about this and that high heat ahead, thats coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking for the Early Morning commu