16,000 acres in only 5 contained. Fire continues to rage on. Inside the Evacuation Center where residents are preparing. Get ready for round three. Pg e warning of more power shut offs this weekend around the bay area. The fire in Northern County has exploepded to 16,000 acres. All in less than 24 hours. 49 structures have been destroyed and how this fire may have started. Pg e ceo says tonight a transmission line failed at about at the same time the fire started. It appears to have been excellent condition. Recent recently inspected. We have to wait for the results of our investigation and cal fire. The extreme weather conditions will continue into the weekend increasing the fire threat and widespread power outages. Mandatory Evacuation Orders currently. 1,300 firefighters are on the front lines and more on the way. We begin the Team Coverage live from geysers and red wine road. Were here on guiders road two houses have both burned to the ground. Take a look behind me. You can see thi
Up quickly heading into the early afternoon hours, eventually reaching into the mid to upper 90s for a lot of the valleys. Ill have a look at that and whats ahead as it gets even hotter tomorrow. Mike, youre already tracking a crash. This is walnut creek, southbound 80. We do have a smooth flow of traffic with one crash reported around the altamont. It doesnt look like its presenting any additional slowing. This is southbound 680. Chp said they were about to run a traffic break and that may be whats causing all this focused slowing. Kari showed you the live view and thats south of the crash to 24 thats cleared after the walnut creek interchange. The bay bridge is not so bad. Mike, thanks. New this morning out of the north bay a man ran into a fiery and explosive crash to pull a driver from safety. But, unfortunately, the driver didnt make it out alive. Sharon, such heroic moments. Sadly the story didnt end well. Reporter the Good Samaritan is a retired firefighter and he tried to save
Readings down from 50 to 70 points. Even though we have the smoke moving in from two different complexes one at the oregon border here and one right out there sword southern oregon. The smoke is drifting down but the sea breeze is returning. The two cameras we see the biggest difference is walnut creek. That is blue sky proving in. Still some haze but getting better. Some blue sky here in San Francisco. 121 san mateo and the walnut creek now at 99 which is considered moderate. The rest of the area unhealthy for sensitive groups range. Do tomorrow we have smoke that will drift down through the bay area. And i do think we will dip into the unhealthy for sensitive groups range except for the coast, which will be moderate. However, friday night, saturday and sunday we expect marked improvement because we get an approaching system moving out from the pacific. This is unlike anything we have seen in terms of how early we are getting this rainfall asked in the mix across the west coast. It lo
Windows were actually cracked before the wind storms back in march. Here is nbc investigative reporter. Reporter although the city was hit with gusts up to 70 miles an hour, the wind was not the main cause for many of the 31 window failures. In some cases windows had already cracked due to heatrelated stress. In others the windows had defects detected beforehand. This entire dynamic has to be changed and brought to the dawn of the middle of the 21st century. Reporter supervisor aaron peskin says it will help for city regulations to be introduced next week including stronger inspection and reporting requirements, using photos and Video Evidence the report found the window at the former bank of america building at 50 california street had likely failed before the wind storm. Thats where cell phone video showed the window plunged to the ground. The report showed it had already cracked likely from the stress of temperature variations between the center and the corner of the window. But the
Along highway 101, highway 29, highway, the perhaps 16. That darker shade of gray indicating visibility down to about a quarter mile. Outside of that visibility, it looks pretty good for the central and south bay and winds are generally light out there and we are going to remain with light winds for today. Temperatures will be in the upper 60s to low 70s. Not a lot of change going on for the start of your weekend, but wet weather learning for the returning for the back end. Shoppers waking up early this morning wanting those black friday deals. We are live at the livermore premium outlets. You have a huge crowd behind you,. Reporter yes, and this Shopping Center opened 3 00 p. M. On thanksgiving day and it has been non stop here ever since. This is the line just for one specific store. This is to get into, and just to get into and shop at the kate spade store here at the San Francisco premium outlets. The wait in this line is about an hour and a half. People started lining up at 2 00 a