Idea. Plus, the famous luxury label changes its name. And an elk sandwich . One fast food giants new idea. And we do say good morning, everyone, on this thursday. Were going to start with the breaking news in northern californias fire zone. Heavy winds pushing the flames into New Territory as the death toll rises. Nearly a dozen fires are tearing through wine country forcing entire towns to evacuate. At least 23 people are confirmed dead and Officials Say the worst is far from over. Abcs maggie rulli joins us from santa rosa. Maggie, good morning. Reporter dan and kendis, good morning. Overnight new Evacuation Orders have forced thousands of more residents to flee their homes and those who are allowed to come back are often finding this, their homes, their cars, everything completely destroyed. 22 fires are still burning in california pushing firefighters to their limits, unable to gain control of the flames they battle against the wind. Were trying to make a path forward so it comes u
Er areas. Its about 3 in napa but that will change once the sun comes up. The breezes will pick up temporarily this morning before tapering later this afternoon. Its not nearly as cool as it was yesterday. We had mid30s. Were in the mid40s, low 40s to around 50 degrees so its a little bit warmer. The humidity is not as robust. Were in the 50 to 70 range, whereas yesterday we were in the 80 to 100 range. Now, as we go through the day its going to be hard to breathe so well look at the spare the air and air quality coming up next and the breezes will taper by 4 00. Temperatures in the 60s at the coast, low to mid70s for the rest of us. How about the commute, alexis . Reporte we do have road closures in the north bay. We did have the latest about five hours ago saying 121 was closed from state route 37 up to state route 12 so from the sears point area into sonoma due to those evacuations yesterday. Im working to confirm whether that is still closed or not. It does look like you can use la
At the bay bridge a little bit of haze in glazes the fall this made it into the inland valleys as well but that will be not as noticeable but there you concede is covering up the entire bay area this will mix out very quickly for today is a pretty good job taking care of the inland valley expects some overcast skies still by midmorning. Reporter we have 57 for san jose and contrast and four hours ago were running around the bay pretty closely notice how much cooler than we were yes today 7 degrees behind for concord 3 for Fairfield Oakland we got to the 70s afternoon clearing all mild afternoon as far as the key to cast temperatures here is how we were more reporter web once we send a bigger jump in terms of the daily high six goals on 4 00 a. M. With a talk and 79 the timber to start to rise to 70 Robin Winston know the trouble spots no major problems is a good ride all the way across the upper deck into downtown San Francisco a live look at 580 west so far the great writer know the p
The bridge sunday night. Cdot says teams are working on a design to fix the damage to the bridge. They will need to reclose 6th avenue during off peak hours to do repairs on i70. We have some alternate ways to get around the block canning. Good morning. Yes, this is going to be a big delay across your i70 stretch near golden. Very light nd some alternate routes in mind heading through golden right over towards your drive through golden connecting with 8th avenue could help out a bit. Right now i would say stick it out on i70. The whole 6th avenue transition could run a little heavy. Keep in mind the curiosity delay will impact the make out exactly whats going on. The southbound stretch of sheridan still slow down at 14th. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Monday were marty we are on this monday in for a cool down i guess. We are, and its all relative because it was 90 yesterday so cool is still going to be quite nice around have us figured somewhere in the mid to upper 70s today. Th
From middletown and got to see what was left. Kpix 5s Christin Ayers was there this evening. Christin. Reporter yeah. We have actually been here since this checkpoint to let people into middletown opened around noon today and you can see people have been lined up all day up and down this highway trying to get back into middletown. You can see there is a checkpoint set up here signs that say residents only. People are passing through for the first time as Law Enforcement officials give them the okay to finally go back home. These among the first cars to roll through the middletown checkpoint around noon today. This is going to allow you to drive in the community thats not closed so leave that sticker on there. Reporter a bumpertobumper backup of evacuees who have spent days waiting to find out what happened to their homes. A lot of loss, a lot of fire damage. Devastating. Reporter now waiting just a little longer. Been waiting all week. Kind of a nice moment to get up there but on the o