Firefighters cant get an accurate count of how many homes have been destroyed in the wildfires burning in Southern California right now. Here you see the remnants of a home that could not be saved. We know that fire crews from the bay area are helping their brothers and sisters in the southland. It is different stating situation all too familiar to us in the bay area. Early similar, not only the video that we have been broadcasting but the images were starting to see in the newspapers. Also what we learned from the fires in the north bay, what firefighters learned, hopefully they are putting it towards the fires burning in Southern California. The 405, l. A. s busiest freeway, was closed between the 10 and the 101. That would be like closing the bay bridge for hours. It is one of the huge work horses of the area. They closed it. This shows you the four major wildfires bushing in Southern California right now. The newest fire is near ucla and the getty museum in los angeles. That start
Valley. The camera is moving around quite a bit. Take our word for it. In the area on the 405 in san fernando valley, you can see how traffic is. These are aerial shots, live. The smokes, the flames, if you know the area near the getty center, right in the heart of the san fernando valley, extremely densely populated sherman oaks, brentwood, mullholland drive, it is in the area of the wildfire that is spreading. I was talking i dont know if you can see. They have a Fire Fighting helicopter up. That is good to see. They need that. And Steve Paulson has been talking about the air quality, the winds in the area as well. It is a very, very fluid situation down there in los angeles. And certainly with this situation, steve can chime in here, winds are the story. Very, very low humidity is a factor. 8 for some. 8 by the getty. The winds are not as bad but im seeing 54 Miles Per Hour east of ventura. Really . It is not as bad for some. But there will still be off and on wind gusts around 50 i
The chp responded to dozens of crashes so far. You can expect there to be likely more this afternoon during the commute. And in Southern California, mandatory evacuations have been ordered near the thomas fire burn zone. That includes parts of montecito and carpentereria. Heavy rain, possible wind, mud and debris flows. Many of the people evacuated were just evacuated last month in the largest ever wildfire here in california. We have live team cringe of the storm this monday. Time vicar is live up tom vicar is live up in the north bay. Ruben is in the south bay moderating the debris removal from creeks. Lets start with our meteorologist rosemary. Advisories in place and the evening drive likely to be a mess. Take a look at the satellite and radar where you can see the entire state seeing this rainfall, including Southern California where we showed you the burn areas there of concern. Here at home the burn areas, the recent burn areas, i would say, of concern as well. I will stop the r
Carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze. And you can see traffic is busy here in berkeley and emryville as you drive to oakland. When you get to the bay bridge, it is a normish commute. Some slowing on the carpool lane here. Traffic is a little slow. It could be that people are taking a look at the handsome alex savidge who is right there. His van is right there. He might be fixing his hair or something. You see there is a slowdown right there. There is northbound 101 approaching the 80 split. This traffic is moderate. There have been no major issues driving through. All right. At 7 01, lets go back to the desk. We will go straight to developing news from Southern California and the mudslides there where officials announced earlier this morning the death toll has risen from 13 to 15. Montecito and Santa Barbara county were hit hard. Thats where oprah and Ellen Degeneres live. We received this video taken earlier this morning in a neighborhood in Los Angeles County that was also damaged
Heavier rain, look at some totals inch philadelphia, abington, wilmington, higher accumulations through south jersey. Winslow two inch, the same south and the southern part of gloucester county. So two as much as three inches of rain fallen some spots and look at this strong southerly wind, 64 until. 62 in pottstown. Without the rain, its a pleasant night. 40s to the north and west. Still reduces ability in the poconoses and allentown. And eight and of a mile visibility in reading and three quarters of a mile in lancaster. That fog is going to continue into the night and slowly we will be drying that out. As we go hour by hour. Some waves of heavy rain moving through, and then as we go through the Early Morning hour, we see showers developing still part of the system to the south. Rain for south jersey and delaware even for the morning rush, for the rest of us just some clouds and cooler temperatures coming our way. Well talk more about that with our sevenday forecast but first we have