Now at 11, the glass fire creeping dangerously close to calistoga. We are on the front lines as crews try to keep the flames from reaching town. Last time it was really close to the house. We still have a lot of trees, so we are worried. Im tracking high fire danger, record height temperatures and a continuation of poor air quality in thursdays forecast. New rules are on the way to prevent a repeat of last nights debate debacle. Good evening, now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area, the glass fire ranging dangerously close to calistoga and now shifting winds are raising the threat of new fires and bringing suffocating smoke back to the bay area. Andrea nakano is in calistoga tonight with the effort to keep the flames at bay. Reporter air resources and ground crews attacked this fire north of calistoga all day, and they did a really good job. But as you can see behind me there is still an intense fire burning on a hillside. And the problem is, calistoga is surrounded by flames. Air tan
From reaching town. Last time it was really close to the house. We still have a lot of trees, so we are worried. Im tracking high fire danger, record height temperatures and a continuation of poor air quality in thursdays forecast. New rules are on the way to prevent a repeat of last nights debate debacle. Good evening, now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area, the glass fire ranging dangerously close to calistoga and now shifting winds are raising the threat of new fires and bringing suffocating smoke back to the bay area. Andrea nakano is in calistoga tonight with the effort to keep the flames at bay. Reporter air resources and ground crews attacked this fire north of calistoga all day, and they did a really good job. But as you can see behind me there is still an intense fire burning on a hillside. And the problem is, calistoga is surrounded by flames. Air tankers made drop after drop as the fire raced up the hillside, just up the highway 29 a dc10 and a 747 were part of the aerotec
Talking about our high fire danger and a spare the air alert with our hazy and smoky skies. There is a lot to get to. The heat advisory is along the coast and the bay for today. We have excessive heat warnings in effect for the rest of the bay area. All the highlighted areas in pink are under the excessive heat warning. We have a spare the air alert that remains in effect and we continue with smoky and hazy skies. We are record 21 days in a row with our spare the air alert in effect. So we are looking at a red flag warning, critical weather conditions up in the hills. The north bay mountains as well as east bay hills, that is from tonight all the way until wednesday morning. We will talk all about this coming up in my full forecast in just a few minutes. Lets check in gianna lets look at traffic. We start on 80, westbounder leisuretowne boulevard we have a crash with all lanes blocked that happened at about 2 30. This is a fatal incident. Chp is still on scene for the investigation. Th
And livermore and san jose and it will be a hot day around the bay, 90 in San Francisco, 94 in oakland and the low 80s along the coast. There are excessive heat warnings that can be for the rest of the bay area and another spare the air alert, a record 21 days in a row. And a red flag warning that starts from 10 00 tonight until 8 00 wednesday for the Higher Elevations, wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour as we go through tonight and wednesday. We will talk all about this coming up in just a few minutes. As we look at the roadways, if you are getting ready to go outside , or laboring on a labor day, youre good to go. We started with a serious crash along 80 and midway. That has been cleared and the commute is pretty easy towards the bay bridge. You can see our short, once you get to the bay bridge, there are no delays into San Francisco. All our travel times, especially the Allatoona Pass commute, are in the clear. Because of the labor day, there are a lot of changes to Public Transit. A
Bay area, looking at this dangerous heat that continues. Triple digit heat and then, still hot around the bay and warm conditions along the coast. Here is a live look with our camera from the lick observatory, you can see those hazy skies out there. We are still dealing with that smoke. We are going a record 21 days in a row with our spread the air alert for the bay area. Also adding to that, we have critical fire weather conditions. This is the last thing we need. We are looking at dry and gusty offshore winds. That red flag warning is in effect tonight until 8 am wednesday. We will talk about what you can expect coming up in a few minutes. With temperatures expected to hit 105 to 108, concord will be using the Concord Senior Center as a cooling center to beat the heat. Some other bay area cities are opening up cooling centers, Margaret Todd center, the mills at a community center, the San Rafael Community center, the Fremont Community center and the Calistoga Community center. Pg e m