Come. Thank you for starting your weekend with us. Im kira klapper. Vianey arana joins us with your microclimate forecast and you said today is the day to enjoy and to prepare for tomorrow. Absolutely. Its going to be a lovely afternoon. I mean, mostly sunny. Seasonable temperatures, but by tomorrow thats all going to change. So definitely take advantage today. Mostly Clear Conditions right now. Couple of straggling clouds here and there. 53 degrees in san jose. Current temperatures really in the 50s throughout a chilly 40 degrees in napa which is something that we really havent seen in a while. We have been seeing above seasonable temperatures and this is the reason why were under a microclimate weather alert. We want to make sure youre prepared and in anticipation of whats to come and thats headed into sunday afternoon two red flag warnings kicks in. First at 11 00 in the east bay hills and then a second one that kicks in for the Higher Elevations. Details in a minute. We look forwar
Orinda with more dan. Well this is literally the calm before the storm right now there is absolutely no wind at this point but theyre expecting gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour in this region and other regions throughout the bay area beginning tomorrow night that coupled with possibly triple digit heat has firefighters on alert. As the sun bear down on Contra Costa County friday winds remain calm with temperatures in the 70s. But come this weekend a recipe for disaster high temps low humidity and winds gusting to 50 Miles Per Hour. Looking at very high fire danger and as you point out. We got an awful lot of dry fuel out thats just waiting to burn it was last october when Contra Costa County experienced similar conditions. And had a fire siege, 10 major fires and 15 hours including one that jumped the carquinez bridge. Sleep with one eye open. Those who live in Contra Costa County have been through this before and are ready, we know or pc is and all of our personal documents and should be
Out there early were starting off with the approach to the toll plaza and you can see the goes all the way back to west grand. So yes we have reached that point but we dont have any problems in the 10 minutes off to fremont street a foggy golden gate, theres your yellow truck there your bridge truck switching around the lane configuration but no problems here 19 minutes the moto to the toll plaza and just some minor crowding for 5. 80 west as you leave Castro Valley merging ought to to 38 and then another Little Pocket of crowding on the nimitz leaving san lorenzo rolling south into hayward its a pickup after a street darya thanks a lot robin lets get to the breaking news which are the fires burning in sonoma and napa counties still no control. And you can see the flames npthat firefighters are up against this is new video from overnight and the firefight here was off of highway 29 on Greenwood Avenue in calistoga the glass fires so far burning 46,000 plus acres just 2 contained. And t
Continued whether the possibility of thunderstorms. There has been some cloud buildup in your area this afternoon. With winds from the northeast expected to reach up to 35 Miles Per Hour in Southern California music californias summer and fall months are traditionally a time for vacations, time for traveling and camping in the great outdoors. A time to seek quiet shade on a mountainside. And a time for fires. The wild land area is teamed with people. People smoking, cooking. Ramping and playing. And some even working. Ground vegetation has been dehydrated weeks of hot sun with little or no rainfall. Inevitably, there will be fires. Some caused by natural phenomenon such as lightning strikes, but most caused by human beings. Californias Fire Protection problems are unique among the 50 states and probably among the worst in the world. It is the most populous state in the union, with a network of roads affording access to most wildland areas. It has the widest variety of topography. Nearl
Black car spun out and hit 4 other cars on the bay bridge. Preliminary reports are that driver may have been travelig at a high rate of speed at least for the 5 lanes on the bay bridge are being blocks right now well be monitoring this accident throughout the hour and let you know of any changes and you remember you can always keep track of traffic alerts with our kron 4 mobile app thank you for joining us here at 3 im sanaz were following several bay area stories from dangerous accidents involving car crashes into crowds, dining outdoors to homicides and election safety. But we begin with concerns a fire dangers of this week that has pga new warning of another possible power shut off. High temperatures mixed with high winds is causing major concern for wildfire danger. The genie is warning it may start turning off power in the north bay mountains and pockets of the Santa Cruz Mountains wednesday afternoon. The Utility Company is still monitoring the wind events at this time because we