Southbound lanes. Fire trucks there by the side of 101. All of this happening on snow drive near samuel elementary school. The flames were so big and produced so much smoke, the smoke could be spotted from all across the city. Crews are still there making sure there arent any flareups. Investigators still trying to figure out if the fire started on the grass or at one of the homes. One of our Traffic Cameras caught pictures of the smoke when it was at its peak. You can see the smoke billowing into the air. Lets bring in meteorologist rob mayeda. What firefighters are dealing with in terms of the dry. Yeah its very dry and breezy. Temperatures not too bad. Average highs should be closer to the mid80s. 72 right now. San jose not all that bad. Humidity levels not too bad either at least for the humidity that is in the air. Not talking about the vegetation on the ground. Got those onshore winds bringing in relatively more moist air across the bay area. But the larger perspective, of course
Quickly spread to the others. The red cross has arrived to assist 12 people who are now displaced. Now, at the same time these houses were burning, there was also a brush fire along highway 101 that, as farce as we know is still burring. The chp closed the right lane of southbound 101 south of hilyer avenue because of the smoke and flames. Its close to where we are so the structure fire and brush fire may be related. An ember from one may have caused the other. Thats the latest from here. Abc7 news. Thank you. Now, to the california drought. New restrictions are in place for gray water giveaways after overwhelming demand in the east bay. Cornell bernard is live. Reporter unbelievable. In fact, most of the lawns here on melanie circle are green because theyre being watered from that tank with free recycled water from the Dublin San Ramon Services district. The water give away, once available to everybody now has some new local restrictions. Keep my garden alive. Ed is filling up 20 oran
And included thousands of hours. we think people that gave a up there we can and gave a passion to get it down. Reporter the road has 28,000 lbs. Of asphalt even though had delays we feel like we had great success. Reporter it will open at 10 00. They remember that once its all been its not going to be go drive its can be pursued to parkway. Reporter this fire is reported at 3 00 this afternoon Fire Fighters found two homes our on firings. The roof collapsed he told a dozen what to do. out of nowhere else to go. you can even see the fire drummed and overlong. Reporter nobody was injured i hear in the exact cause of the fire is still being investigated with. Reporter went into the drain today. Wasted. A broken water main was left without repairs for hours on end. Angry neighbors called us. Our kron 4s alecia reid went to investigate, and tells us why east bay mud took nearly a day to fix it. we have people that cant water their lawn but were watering pavement reporter miles of pavement
I talked to chp earlier and theyre hoping there will not be a bottleneck. Is beautiful and i had chance to walk out there earlier today and it looks great. Reinforced steel even more asphalt and concrete. This is a three year project in working on that cost a quarter billion dollars, and they pulled off without a hitch as it opened early and never able to do everything without any injuries to the team and theres only one arrest delays nothing more than one hour heading south bound into the city which chp says is better than expected Going Forward you can expect some other asset changes coming in later on vicki a fire that damaged homes in san jose has been put out. Now the families that live in those homes are getting help from the red cross. That fire also sparking a grass fire along highway 101 this afternoon. Kron 4s scott rates spoke with one of the homeowners. And shows us how firefighters were able to get a hold of the blaze. Scott i checked with the firefighters and this fire da