Im mike. Lets get right over to rose mary and a quick check on that weather this saturday. Not only saturday, but the first day of summer, 2014, and its going to be another fabulous one outside our doors and across the bay into San Francisco. You can see weve got a little bit of low cloud, patchy fog cover out there. We also have high cloud. Lets take a look at the satellite view. Ill show you very widespread this morning. These high loud clouds continues to stream through on and off for today. A mix of high clouds as well as the sunshine. The onshore breeze is a little stronger this morning. 17 Miles Per Hour rortd in fairfield. We do have concord at 14. That southerly gust about 23 Miles Per Hour. The low clouds in the fog a little deeper this morning. The on shore breeze just a tad stronger. That should lead to a minor drop in temperatures for the afternoon today. Right now we are looking at 62 degrees in antioch. Wall mutt creek, youre checking in at 58. Stepping outside in novato,
Junction. A battalion chief tallied the damage for us. Four sheds and a garage were lost to the flames along with three homes. We get the developing news tonight from debora villalon. Shes live near the intersection of interstate 80 and 680 where the first report of this fire came in just about 4 00 this afternoon. Why did this fire get out of control so fast . Reporter essentially in one word it was the wind. The wind was just whipping for hours out here. Right now its pretty much just mop up. You can see pg e back there. They are restoring pole that is were destroyed by this ferocious fire. Fires consuming several buildings on its marchest. A battalion chief described the early going on its march east. Theyre trying to find some place to hold it. Reporter holding it proves impossible and whipping winds that carried embers among properties. At least two homes didnt have a chance. At least two of them were inhabited homes. The Sheriffs Office came in and evacuated homes out ahead of it
SACRAMENTO A bill to require the California Public Utilities Commission to consider the wider community benefits of rooftop solar was introduced today in the state Assembly. Assembly Bill 2256, sponsored by the Center for Biological Diversity and Environment California, is intended to unwind the commission’s 2023 net-metering policy that gutted the state’s rooftop solar industry.
The Southern California counties of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Diego could collectively power more than 270,000 homes annually by lining their highways with solar energy infrastructure, a new analysis has found. The three counties have more than 4,800 acres of suitable space to develop solar power alongside highways, which could potentially accommodate up to…