From the bay areas local news station we begin now with that breaking news takes us here to oakland where firefighters say unfortunately theyve gotten control of this brush fire thats been burning dangerously close to 5. 80 threatening several structures. But again it appears firefighters aggressive attack has prevented destruction and perhaps worse thanks for joining us said 8 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the fire broke along west bound 5. 80 east of 35th avenue at the overpass there. At one point it was upgraded to a 3 alarm fire more than 50 firefighters answered the call. Another the fire is contained as grant said its still a very active scene. Kron fours taylor sackey joining us now live from the scene and taylor. What a tense afternoon and early evening for firefighters. Address thankfully things are looking much better and firefighters were able to get on top of that fire very quickly of course its now contained and behind these fire engines you would s
Abc 7 news contributor and chronicle insider is here with his perspective. First though lets hear from abc 7 news anchor liz kreutz breaking down the debate. At least we had a debate tonight. We did. A total 180 from the debate a few weeks ago. The candidates were still as contentious and combative but did allow each other to speak in part because the mics could be muted which led to a healthy debate on several topics starting with coronavirus. The two sparred on how to reopen the country. If you have a restaurant you need plexiglas dividers so people cannot infect one another. You need to be in a position where you can take testing rapidly and know whether the person is in fact infected. You need to be able to trace. These are businesses with no money. Putting a plexiglas up is unbelievably expensive and its not the answer. Youre going to sit there in a cubicle wrapped around with plastic . The candidates also sparred over health care and national security. The president went after bi
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
Thank you sir, lets check in on the traffic taking a peek at the morning commute around the bay area looking good moving well with no big trouble spots working. Around the bay area right now we are hot spot free. Were taking a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, the trip into San Francisco remains nice and smooth and thats how we like it right you dont have to worry about any issues so nows your chance to come on in since were on hot spot free its going to be roughly a 6 to 10 minutes to make it off to the fremont street exit all right over to 92 always are bza ce most crowded bridge a lot of stop and go traffic westbound on the right leaving hayward working your way over to the peninsula but i dont see any problems and thats good news. Its just a little sluggish on the flat section but you can handle that no problems into foster city or send the tail we have one more to look at and thats the richmond sandra fell west bound 5. 80 few cars there rolling through the pay gates an easy
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