More progress bay area leaders headline in the l. A. Times. Try to fast track new help for west coast cities leading the the victims of recent fires. World in the worst air quality. Details on that plus todays San Francisco is number three. Visit to the fire zone by portland taking the top spot. Senator Kamala Harris. And all new for you that morning that smoke is not just and cover up or pay up. Bad for your lungs but may be berkeley considering fines for covid rule breakers. A look at who the rules are meant to target the most as the bad for the pinot. Third hour of today in the bay continues right now. Wine growers in the middle of the harvest. Bob . Reporter marcus, the threat thats right, were here for you of socalled smoke taint on the starting at 4 30 in the morning. Grapes here behind me is a real 6 00 right now. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. Concern for wine makers in napa and im marcus washington. Mike is keeping his eye on the and sonoma and livermore. Comm
Windy out here. With daylight you can see exactly how far this fire spreads. The concern was it started on the eastbound side of 580 and then jumped both directions of the interstate 580 onto the northbound side. Traffic is still backed up. This all started from an accident at around midnight last night and the big rig or pickup truck, were still trying to confirm which one it was, whether it was a big rig or a pickup truck. The chp saying it hit the Center Divide and caused a fire. That fire spread to the other side of the freeway. At one point riding in the wrong direction because they were trying to get away from flames. Fortunately the firefighters were able to put the flames out. The fire spread to about 100 acres but now it is completely out in all directions. Both directions are open. Back here live, the traffic westbound is still backed up. I was sitting in the traffic eastbound. At 3 45 they opened up the lanes so eastbound is flowing smoothly. Back to you. Thank you, sharon.
I saw a tow truck arrive, i saw flashing lights reflecting off of the sign over here and then it cleared. Looks like that activity now over here in the parking lot. F calmed down. Lanes clear once again of the crash and the backup just started over the last ten minutes. Happens abo 4 204 25 in the morning, we start to see the cash folks waiting a bit. Not all the lanes are open but no problem, a smooth drive through Contra Costa County, alameda county, in the south bay as well. Back to you. All right, thanks, mike. New for you overnight, were working to find out more about a stabbing, near a busy intersection in san jose. This is new video from that scene. Police say they found a man stabbed near story and king road around 11 30 last night. The actual crime scene is about a mile away on tully and king. No word on the victims condition or any information about the suspect. Our photographer at thehe jail. Developing news on the peninsula, the sarin scare at facebook is over. Crews were o
Time its rattling capitol hill after longtime democratic lawmaker congressman john conyers announced hes stepping down from his seat as the leading democrat on the powerful House Judiciary Committee saying in a statement hes stepping aside from the position as the House Ethics Committee investigates allegations of Sexual Harassment leveled against him. All the while denying the allegations of misconduct. Well, that news comes as another democratic lawmaker, this time senator al franken, is expected to walk through the halls of congress for the First Time Since he was hit with allegations of sexual misconduct. And now hes speaking out since those reports of misconduct came out over a week ago. For more we go to nbcs tracy pots. What can you tell us about what congressman nancy pelosi regarding scrutiny of her own what she said about conjerz . Reporter pelosi on meet the press seemed to defend him to some degree saying she hasnt really heard from his accusers. We are strengthened by due
These little cells that we are seeing that could possibly be popping up all around the bay area will have the potential on produce some lightning as well as some small hail and some brief heavy down pours. So this is something well be watching as we go through the day. Mostly having a large impact on our evening commute. This is already been a pretty dry winter season. Were used to getting a lot more rain in january. This rain, will it help the average . Let me show you where we are. Our arrival totals have been about 50 to 60 of normal and weve gotten about 12 inches of rain in santa rosa. We are still missing seven inches of rain. Thats a lot of rain that we need to catch up to normal. And looking at San Francisco, we need about four and a half inches of rain. San jose, three inches of rain. Well talk about how much snow were lacking in the sierra and how much were expecting with this round of storms. As the storm moves in, you can track it with our nbc bay area app. Download and it