Water quality and supply at this moment are not affected. The fire is growing on 3 sides and moving both up and down the river canyon and toward the community of Pine Mountain lake. Highway 120 in yosemite remains closed. More than 2500 structures are threatened and residents living in the fire path are getting ready to evacuate. Just want to get our pet out and my computers and all my photo and box of clothes and thats about it. Reporter right now firefighters are dealing with steep terrain and hot dry conditions on the fire lines. Good evening. Im carolyn johnson. Sandhya is tracking the conditions rate now for us near yosemite. Sandhya. Let me show you live doppler 7 hd and talk about the conditions and humidity starting to creep up a little bit. As you look at live doppler 7 hd we have the fog near the coast and the Current Conditions near the fire line 69 degrees relative humidity at 38 percent gone up from the teens early today. Wind out of the west north west at 7. Not quite as
Military jury kicked ma dal hasan in the fort hood shooting. He faces the Death Penalty for the 2009 attack that killed 13 people and injured more than 30 others. Nadal hasan was convicted. Firefighters from the San Francisco Fire Department are on the way to the rim fire. Five strike teams with 20 crewmembers plus a battalion chief left this morning to help battle the fire burning near Yosemite National forest. Now, that fire is the largest of the 50 wildfires currently active in the western states and since this morning, the flames have reached the park. Cbs reporter Teresa Garcia joins us live on the front lines with the very latest. Teresa. Reporter frank, began. Yes, indeed, the fire has pushed into the borders of Yosemite National park. We are at Pine Mountain lake airport. Now, behind me this is the community that is under evacuation orders. We have been seeing some flames just pushing up and then subsiding a little bit so you may well see some behind me eventually but what the
The rim fires progress toward the reservoir, as well as nearby camp grounds. Theres a lot of ground fuels, which we call ladder fuels. They climb up into the canopy. Then it travels from tree to tree. We spent a lot of resources and time in the park and with water and power to make sure that entire water shed remains clean and safe and healthy drinking water. So its important for us to focus on that effort, as well as the others. Reporter so far, we have not heard of any problems in the back fire operation going on. It is taking place quite a few miles away from the reservoir, because the National Forest says it is not only worried about the structures, but also contamination. Live near yosemite, robert handa, ktvu channel 2news. Water concerns continue to increase the closer the enormous blaze gets to the reservoir. The fastmoving fire closed in on the reservoir in the last three days. Take a look at how far the flames were on monday. Then on wednesday, the fire gained ground, chargin
Crashes, especially one near the 580 24 interchange. Its making a mess of the commute, mornings on 2 starts now. Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now. This is ktvu mornings on 2. 7 00, youre looking live at the bay bridge, and next week at this time, this will be completely empty, no cars going across the bridge and well have more on the shut down in just a moment. Good morning, welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. And im dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. Were going to steve first. Good morning, lots of low clouds in place. Breaks here and there. Most of the forecast area has low clouds or you can see it. We have get a couple holes in the fog bank. The low which gave us wild weather this week has accelerated up to oregon. A little system which will enhance the fog tomorrow and tonight. And 52 to 62, a lot of low clouds, some sun and mostly sunny, partly cloudy skies by noon, 5 to 78 and 60 to 90. Mostly sunny. Most will be in the 60s 70s and 80s. 56, 57, 58
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