The Alexander Valley School District and the guys are bill School District more schools could cancel classes depending on the fire and air quality conditions. The Sonoma County office of education says it will be updating that list throughout the night and tomorrow morning we have Team Coverage tonight on the growing kim k fire kron fours michelle kingston is live in hillsborough gas are going to the fire line with the fire crews Justine Waltman and gayle ong have been in geyser ville all day today. Surveying the damage and our dan thorn is live in carterville but first want to go to kron fours 10 us actually who was at that cal fire News Conference earlier this evening. And they have the latest information taylor. Can the best piece of information in the best news to come out of this press conference was that this fire is slowing a little bit you know we saw grow so fast because of the strong winds last night today the fire. A little bit slower because of those slowed when conditions
Cleaner air hopefully to get to as well look outside from berkeley is showing Crystal Clear skies overhead we do have a high wind watches that are effect right now but will be in effect later in the week and ill get to what that means here in just a second as for today we are actually seeing winds having really calm down this is good news. Of course for the blaze up in northern Sonoma County compared to yesterday communities like asti in cloverdale which were seeing gusts into the 40 mile per hour range are only looking at calm winds as we all are across the bay area this morning fire such as the one on mount tam and now having been contained and extinguished that is certainly get a good news. Calmer winds helped out with that calm winds across the east bay 2 blackhawk a scene around really unremarkable as far as wind speeds go this morning now as far as fire weather goes. It is diminished of noticeably from yesterday temperatures are still just as warm know right now were in the 50s 6
Including a big rig, that crash on southbound 880 under 238 is all cleared. Speeds are slow still this morning. Moving over to b. A. R. T. I want to keep people posted on whats happening there. Tenminute delays on the San Francisco line headed into the east bay because of work in the tube. And another alert for b. A. R. T. Riders. The Holiday Plaza side is closed. Access can be from the westfield mall side. We will be watching. Thanks. We begin with the fire emergency in Sonoma County. Heres what we know. The fire spread to 16,000 acres. This as whipping winds are expected this weekend. Cal fire is telling us 49 structures have been december tr destroyed and more are threatened. We have learned that a pg e transmission line failed at about the same time that fire started. Mandatory evacuations are in effect east of highway 128 to geyserville. The Healdsburg Community center, Sonoma County fairgrounds and the sonoma Veterans Memorial building are being used as Evacuation Centers. It is
The area are close. Live over the fire right now. We have been watching these dramatic images the past 20 minutes. This is an active part of the fire. Towering columns of smoke hovering above the ridge. The next 24 hours critical as the firefighters scrambled to contain more of this blaze. And beat back that forecasts of severe wind event. Much more from the fire lanes. We have been watching this firefight. You want to get you much more of what the bay area has been bracing for. Which now looks like an epic power outage this weekend. Officials just wrapped up their news conference. Julia joins us now with what people need to know for this weekend. We have the Survival Guide for you. But first pg e is warning if you cut off power to as many as 850,000 customers beginning tomorrow. It is because of this major wind event with hot and dry conditions that bill on tap for this weekend. You can see from this map how extensive the outages could be. Encompassing much of the north bay east bay i
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