Across 420,000 acres and that is about 14 times the size of San Francisco and they are still having no containment. It is daunting, it is overwhelming. It is out of control and it is out of anybodys control. We are covering all angles of this massive fire battle including the unhealthy air and the impact as people escape. Lets look at the mountains, where an update is about to began. We are coming to you from the incident command post in the city of Scotts Valley and they have a map that shows significant it has expanded in size overnight. We will get the exact numbers once the press conference gets started. Where we are standing, this is west of highway 17 and we are in the mandatory Evacuation Order area. It will give you a better sense. Look at this map it shows you how big of an area were talking about. The orient shaded in red is a la honda to the north. Skyway 17 to the east and down to santa cruz campus and then the only thing stopping it was the Pacific Ocean to the west. At la
So im justice delighted to have her join just delighted to have her join the department. So its a great announcement to make to you all today. And then i, again, i will go through the covid19 update as the next. The agenda item and i am prepared to take any questions. Clerk thank you, dr. Colfax. Commissioners, before you might have any questions. Number one, can i ask everyone except actually everyone to mute themselves except for dr. Colfax right now. I see a lot of microphones on and were hearing someone typing. So everyone would please mute yourselves. And then the Public Comment line, any Public Comment for the directors report . Lets give it one second. Im going to share the Public Comment line info real quickly. Okay. There are no questions from the public. Im going to put this line up quickly for that in case number is watching. Commissioners, if you have any questions for dr. Colfax on the directors report, please raise your hand. Commissioner chow this is dr. Chow. I cant rai
A little fog in oakland. Not much. Santa rosa 53. Embarcadero headed northeast with a northwest at three. 55 degrees. Not that bad. West southwest oakland, Berkeley Hills. New pekin mount diablo do north at 2143. Mount diablo with gusts almost up to 50. Not in fact real are warmer. San jose cooler. This is wind driven. A little bit of breeze. A dry air mass and it will be sunny today. Over to sal now on a monday. Anything you want to get to . Still pretty quiet out there. We dont have a lot going on. Im looking at what we see and it looks pretty good. The toll. That plaza looking good. Driving into San Francisco this week i dont. We will get a big crowd. We are getting closer to the holiday and i think some people are taking time off right now its off to a good start. Lets go back to the headlines. Topping our news, happening today the man suspected of being the Golden State Killer is expected to plead guilty to several charges. In exchange 74 yearold Joseph Dangelo would avoid the Dea
On sunday. Today mainly confined to the hills. One heck of a low in the intermountain region. I mean, 46 and raining in salt lake city. 48 in boise and raining. Thats impressive for this time of year. We have the wind with a northerly breeze behind that. Mostly clear skies. Fog around santa cruz and monterey. 50 some attempts. The fire danger is high today until 8 00. Higher elevations above 1000 feet and the east bay hills. A little offshore breeze in livermore. Some locations running cooler. Livermore, san jose, concorde. Vacaville, santa rosa, novato warmer. Vacaville has northwind 12. A lot of sunshine today with elevated fire danger. Temperatures warming up. This will be the warmest day of the week. Over to sell now. Anything new . We have a little bit of backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. It is a little unusual for this holiday week. Some people are backed up. As you can see at the bay bridge traffic is going a little slow. No major issues. That is the only slow traffic we have
Or whatever the processes would be, for a more permanent way of making sure that hiring is really more effective as you have shown . Thank you, commissioner, for that question. Just so you know that part of what we did is that we dismantled some of the norm processees that we used in hiring. But even with that, if you looked at just the nursing, for instance, that theres some things that we did which we can keep as we go forward. And im hoping that it will also blend and lend into the rest of the type of hiring that we do. With the directive from the mayor we were able to bypass some of the Civil Service rule processes in terms of hiring. But what we did specifically is to start looking at with the nurses and hiring without having to wait for the supervisor who is doing the clinical work to do the interviews and the processing. And h. R. Took control of that. And those are some of the things that we can do and to look at in the future as we start in our hiring process. One of the key t