Coronavirus restrictions are gradually being lifted, allowing limited curbside retail in the bay area and people are trying to figure out what the new normal should be. Everyone can just continue to wear a mask and not shake hands. That businesses need to reopen so people can live their lives again. When i go out i wear gloves. And a mask. Reporter a poll released thursday showed 83 of respondents were somewhat to extremely concerned about a second wave of Coronavirus Infections as an restrictions are lifted. 78 were in favor of people in quarantine for the coronavirus, 59 said widespread testing, 58 wanted mandatory social distancing and working places and restaurants and 50 said mandatory working mask orders. The city Digital Party differences. 75 of democrats said masks were important compared to 37 of republicans. What we are seeing in america right now is people with really differences of thought about the facts. Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy says that could lead to
The week. Right now there are more than a dozen fires across the state. The largest is the kincade fire in the north bay. And here is the latest numbers. We know the fire has burned more than 54,000 acres. Containment has dropped to 5 . 94 buildings have been destroyed and another 80,000 are threatened by flames. Firefighters now believe it will take at least until november 7th to contain the fire. Thousands of schools are closed today because of smoke and the ongoing Power Outages. In fact we have a full list on nbcbayarea. Com and also run those on the bottom of your screen right now. And we are tracking new evacuations overnight in Sonoma County as the fire continues to spread, today in the bay Sharon Katsuda is near windsor and giving us different vantage points all morning long. What do you see now . Reporter that is right, laura and marcus, were here off of pleasant avenue new thought road where there was an active fire a couple of hours ago and behind me there are still some fla
Of those, 40 are homes, three are commercial buildings. 80,000 structures are still threatened. Containment still only at 5 . Dozens of schools are closed because of the smoke and Power Outages. Sharon katsuda is live for us in santa rosa. She spoke with some of the people about the tactics being used to fight the flames. Sharon . Reporter marcus, in the News Conference this morning the leaders of this battle against the kincade fire were clear they are working together to try and get evacuees back into homes. But right now there are still structures threatened, theyre saying especially in the windsor area and the mt. Saint helena area they are concerned and that is where we were live all morning long along spot road and pleasant avenue. Overnight the most fire activity that we saw was just south of the town of windsor along the shiloh ridge area. Firefighters made an aggressive stand in that area and brought in a significant number of resources as it was impacting a relatively populat
Destroyed including 86 homes. Kari has a look at the forecast, we were so concerned about those winds and the good thing that died down. Were starting to see the winds dying down except for the Higher Elevations where weve seen the highest peaks, as we go throughout the morning, well see our Winds Continuing to relax quite a bit. Up to 57mileperhour gusts at mt. St. Helena. Healdsburg hills up to 54 and mt. Diablo 50mileperhour gusts and were seeing in other areas lighter winds as you go down in elevation and our hour by hour forecast shows throughout the day, our winds will start to get much lighter, and get weaker as we see the winds shift directions. More on that and whats ahead, coming up. Mike, you have a Traffic Alert on the peninsula. I do. Were looking at it from palo alto camera headed north. No slowing up to marsh but north of there things are jamming up as you approach woodside to the north of there at 84. An overturned vehicle, Traffic Building up north of marsh. 280 is cle
Pg is slowly restoring power to millions of people affected by this latest round of preemptive power shut off. Only to warn customers it is likely to cut power again tomorrow when the high wind return some people might not get power back before it goes out again tomorrow which could amount to 4, 5, days of darkness. Good evening, thanks for joining us tonight at 5 everyone im grant lotus im Vicki Liviakis we continue to get updated information. On all 3 of these developin stories first was going to start with the latest numbers on the kincade fire. So far that fire has burned more than 66,000 acres. Containment it actually went down from 10 to 5 overnight. The blaze has destroyed 96 structures, including 40 homes. 2 firefighters have been injured nearly 200,000 people have been evacuated and 80,000 buildings are still being threatened tonight. And we have Team Coverage this evening of the kim k fire the bad air quality as well as the pjd angle with all the shops. Prince Charles Cliffor