From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. Now a knight tense time says firefighters in oakland have been busy late this afternoon and tonight feverish lee working to get control of this brush fire. That burned dangerously close to homes and drivers along 5. 80. Thankfully, nobody was injured tonight and the damage appears to be minor good evening, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis took more than 50 firefighters to answer the call and although the fire is contained tonight, its still a very active scene for us taylor sackey joins us now shes. Live in oakland where crews are still working to make sure hot spots still flare up. Taylor this was really scary. Earlier today, gran, yes again lot of these neighbors, a large scale scare because the fire was getting close. But thankfully, we know now that that fire is contained and you can actually see behind me that many of these firefighters are packing up in this intersectio
The finish of the weekend, so red flag warnings expiring for most of the bay area now hang on and read in Solano County then up into lake mendocino counties out into the central valley. What youre seeing in that goal this you on the map what these are are high wind watches that actually dont take effect until sunday into monday that is expected to be the windiest time of this weekend so keep your eye out for sunday night into monday morning well be talking a lot about that early next week as for right now temperatures are in the 40s and 50s with livermore in napa each in the low upper 40s right now 51 while Oakland Hayward and San Francisco. Each in the 50s so your forecast definitely not bad to be starting this morning and im thinking that traffic actually is holding up pretty good to at least the bay bridge not looking bad robin yes, it is indeed still friday light, so thats great a lot of folks are taking the day off must be checking in on the commute into San Francisco and there it
Flames shooting from their plane midflight. U. S. Open shocker. The worlds number one player is thrown out after his ball hits the line judge in the throat. What Novak Djokovic is saying this morning. And on patrol, the goat that broke into the Police Patrol car and took a bite out of crime literally. Good monday morning, everyone, and happy labor day. We begin with a new state of emergency in five counties across california because of fires raging through the state. More than 2 million acres are burning so far this year. Thats a record. One fire this weekend trapped 200 people. They had to be airlifted to safety. And now authorities are warning conditions could get even worse because of recordbreaking heat. Abcs faith abubey begins our coverage. Reporter this morning, a new state of emergency in Southern California after a wildfire exploded to more than 70,000 acres in just days and a terrifying glimpse from inside this inferno in fresno revealing smoke so thick, it blocked the midday
Coast. Right now 74 in San Francisco, 69 in mntai ba sutroower camera, air quality not bad right now. 60s in the north bay. So 23450i7b9s by 9 00, and 106 by the delta, 1 00 with 94 in oakland looking at those pinks, really kind of staying in the east bay valleys and well look for the seabreeze to strengthen a bit by later on tonight. But that brings in a high fire danger. More that coming up. And a statewide flex alert is in effect today. The extreme heat could strain the states power grid. So were being asked to conserve energy. Utility companies will focus on conservation from 3 00 p. M. To 9 00 impeachmen 9 9 00. So avoid using large an appliances, use fans and set the thermostat to 78 degrees. And if you are trying to beat the heat, you will probably want to stay away from ocean beac crow pn tay i not is live at ocean beach for us this morning. Good morning, lauren. Reporter yeah, mayor breed warned that Law Enforcement will be patrolling the area. The parking lot will be closed u
And russia marks 77 years since the breaking of the siege of leningrad one of world war 2 is a most appalling humanitarian crisis its. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. The pentagon insists its been honest after washingtons own watchdog for afghan reconstruction accuse the military leadership of routine lies over progress and americas longest war. Has more. Common cynicism aside most people would prefer that those responsible for leading the country tell the truth and this is most especially true when it comes to situations like war where the lives of the men and women in the armed forces are on the line well according to the special inspector for afghan reconstruction the pentagon has been lying for years the problem is theres a disincentive really to tell the truth we have created an incentive to almost require or for people to law there is an odor of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue and i know c