Valleys and the hills, the Santa Cruz Mountains and the north bay valleys and mountains. Kron fours dan kerman spent the day in santa rosa were firefighters and residents are getting ready for high heat and gusty winds. I temps and high winds a bad combination when you couple it with this very dry brush 90 degree temperatures were already bearing down on santa rosa tuesday afternoon. But by wednesday, a red flag warning kicks in with even warmer temps wind gusts to 55 Miles Per Hour. And exceedingly dry grass and brush just ready to ignite. Santa rosa Fire Department will be staffing to additional wildland fire engines of those 2 fire engines will join a number of other Fire Departments from across noma county that will form a ploy for to a strike teams and task forces right now were looking at a least upwards of 12 Additional Fire engines that will be staffed across the county and likely many more to come. Residents are being told they might have to evacuate thats something beth phil
Through the day, warmer compared to yesterday. 5 degrees above average for this time of year for many locations. With sunshine, 71 in San Francisco, 76 and in oakland. I will let you know when to see temperatures into the 90s this week, coming up. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. Lets go to the l. A. Area where there is a wildfire burning. Chopper kpix showing a lot of smoke coming off the fire. This is the east side of the five freeway. It is 20 acres. It started earlier this morning at 3 40 am and quickly took off. That is because they are dealing with the santa ana winds throughout the entire region. It is burning some medium brush on the east side of the freeway. It is not threatening any homes but it is threatening a jail in the area. The Los Angeles County Fire Department had more than four helicopters doing water drops, trying to get out of control because they say at this point it has the potential to grow to about 50 acres. The entire elliott area right now is under red
Oakland, demonstrators chose to stay still instead pretty group gathered this afternoon for a sit in at freckle gobble plaza in front of city hall. Our top story at 5 30, redeployed workers, thousands of city and county workers in San Francisco getting reassigned to completely different jobs during the covid 19 pandemic good evening, i am alan martin. Sharon chin shows us it is part of the largest disaster redeployment in the citys history. Reporter is Branch Manager of the public library, Bernie Sanders usually moves books. Im not usually moving potatoes into a bag. Reporter one of more than 100 Library Staff reassigned to the food bank to deliver food to 12,000 Senior Citizens a week who are sheltered at home. There is definitely a need for food delivery and we are thrilled to help. Reporter other Library Staff monitoring Homeless Hotels and shifting to covid19 Contact Tracing at you cfs. It is one example how City Employees are reassigned as Disaster Service workers. In a disaster,
Today, gilead stock was again writing haiku distract the other big story, revised shelter in place order issued across most of the bay area will allow people to participate in Outdoor Activities. The new health order impacts of those living and working in six bay area counties and those changes take effect may 4 through at least may 31. Len ramirez is live in san jose with that announcement today, glenn . Reporter definitely cheered by the people who were on the job six weeks ago and walked off of construction sites like that one. Although this announcement was made here in Santa Clara County as part of a regional agreement with all of the Health Officers across the bay area, so for some it is back to work, but those that do go back wont be business as usual. We are dipping your toe in the water come easing a little bit. He the lifting of stayathome orders for a few specific job types may be a small step for the greater bay area workforce but its a giant leap for tens of thousands of c
Is 6 oclock thank you for joining us, im James Fletcher and im darya folsom to new coronavirus test sites are opening this morning. In santa clara county. More than a 100 people are going to be tested each day at the site weve got kron fours will tran standing by live in san jose with more on the story good morning. Well. Good morning james, im at one of those locations, im in front of james Like High School in East San Jose often north white road it will open in one hour from now i daria said they will try to test about a 100 people every day starts at 7 closes at 7 oclock at night. This is not for everyone however weve seen the site said other locations of where people show up from throughout the community in this particular case theyre starting off with a plan that only they are one they encourage people with flu like symptoms noticeable flulike symptoms to come down and First Responders those people will be the First Priority at least when they start off over the next couple of day