Local news station. Breaking now thousands of californias weary wine country residents confronting yet another devastating wildfire. The glass fire burning through land that was saved from the other recent wildfires, we found out of our house. It gives you pause and it gives you a a moment to realize whats really important in life because. What we thought was important. Is now ashes. Hard work to build a home wiped away in mere seconds a sobering realization for families of last a lifetime of memories to the glass fire. We have live kron 4 Team Coverage to his own head of the cdc said if we just wore masks between now if there everybody wore a mask social distance between now and january we probably save up to a 100,000 lives. It matters and theyve all since i have to sit no serious person said the plus a night full of 5 interjections and contentious exchanges. President trump and democratic challenger, joe biden going face to face for the first time our political analysts are breaking
Right now, on a special edition, the glass fire is advancing. They are not seeing many firefighters for addiction. Tonight, the glass fire is marching away from santa rosa where evacuation orders have been reduced to warnings, west of calistoga road. A much different story in napa county where the community of england has been added to the mandatory evacuation zone as the had, the flames had east york 112 buildings have burned so far. 80 were private homes. The fire covers an area nearly the size of oakland about 73 square miles across the two counties. The entire city of calais yoga of calistoga is a ghost town. That is where kpix 5 s reporter giants, joins us live. Firefighters have quite a battle on their hands, dont they . Reporter i am here at the silverado trail just on the eastern edge of calistoga this hillside behind me was completely covered in flames last night. As you can see, now, there is an orange glow right over there as the fire has now moved north and is just northeas
Start the week and much calmer winds also compared to where we were to start the week. Fog this morning pushing into San Francisco just the top of the Sales Force Tower in the distance there, and also see some lights from the bay bridge there somewhere down there in that blanket of fog that has moved in across the bay. This onshore breeze has really helped to keep air quality near the coast on the cleaner side now we do have spots pockets where quality is in the very puerto worst category and that includes portions of Sonoma County and then especially on over into napa county the east bay also looking at it impact from range of moderate to pour conditions, zooming in on the north bay though we do have some of that worst of air quality as you know up in northern portions of napa county closer itself. To where the glass fire is still burning this morning now with relatively light winds. We dont have a whole lot of a transport system said pick up the smoke can get it out of the region, so
We look to tomorrow. The heat will be back. And also our high fire danger. I want to get you updated on Current Conditions and what firefighters are looking at for m for the glass fire. Temperatures cooler compared to yesterday morning. Mid 50s to mid 60s and humidity 33 to 59 . And northwesterly winds that are light. But as we look to tomorrow, the winds are going to be picking up. And also lower relative humidity values. So a big concern as we head into tomorrow. In the meantime, looking at air quality, good to moderate this morning. Although closer to the glass fire, calistoga, st. Helena, looking at unhealthy air quality this morning. So a spare the air alert that remains in effect for today with those hazy skies. Temperatures mid 70s this afternoon in San Francisco and mid 80s in oakland and upper 80s for san jose and upper 90s for concord. Well talk about the heat advisory and fire weather watch for tomorrow coming up in just a few minutes but now lets check in with gianna for a
Right, thank you john for checking in on the bridges summer packed with traffic others are just foggy. The golden gate were checking in on one on one a dense fog advisory issued early this morning and we can see why were at that hours you can see it right now so going to be dealing with that from the north bay to San Francisco. But youre averaging 20 minutes. So thats really good for your drive here in the bay bridge toll plaza it looks like the morning commute is already thinning out. Yes, we have a line thats feels back be on west graham but about 20 minutes ago it was really packed it was much heavier so its already improving 13 minutes off to fremont street and ill give you one more highway for west slow from right around the pittsburg bay point bart station up and over the hill into conquered no crashes theyre averaging 24 minutes up to 2. 42 daria. Thanks a lot rob and lets get to the breaking news which are the fires in sonoma and napa counties and what has been devastated, you