We have nice bit of an orange glow over the bay ahead of what will be a hot and pretty breezy afternoon. Were already in the midst of red flag warnings those take effect this morning at 05 00am for the Santa Cruz Mountains. Inland east bay and all across the north bay as winds are now beginning to pick up these will remain in effect all the way through friday at 11 00am so really the remainder of your workweek we are impacted by this high or higher fire danger. North bay areas starting to see increased winds not near a breezy us just yet though that will be tonight into tomorrow morning. This is 04 30pm today outlets peak vacaville, callous toga sonoma even down to Livermore Hayward and san jose really seeing wind speeds picking up here by the time we work into early tomorrow morning vacaville regularly seeing wind gusting to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour range areas like out was p calistoga even upper elevations, the east bay right there with you. Now into thursday evening and into friday m
In a couple more warm days to come as well. Nice clear skies above San Francisco really no fog and very minimal marine layer this morning that does result in dry conditions across the bay, another warm one and of course winds spreading across the region now red flag warnings for coastal spots in the peninsula up into the Santa Cruz Mountains all of the inland east bay and then those same areas of the north bay that we had been seeing them, upper elevations exposed to our highest wind gusts as much as 40 Miles Per Hour. Well gusts, mostly in a 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour range, relatively calm for parts of the bay this morning but look at where we are heading this afternoon wind speeds really start to increase areas like San Francisco oakland and hayward seeing gusts well into a 20 mile per hour range at times same for inland spots in those upper elevations as i mentioned prone to even higher gusts. Tomorrow thursday here on the map we are going to be seeing Even Stronger gusts likely conti
Theres a red flag warning so we have to watch out for more fires threats as we go through the weekend more bad air in the bay area and were looking at more damage the entire city of calistoga has been evacuated calistoga still okay but everybody had to get out your kron fours will tran has been driving around there for us this morning giving us boots on the ground, a first person perspective and will what are you seeing this morning. I see the flames are right behind the same house that ive been showing you since 5 oclock in the morning. We have a location the firefighters tell me this is tucker road off a highway 29 about a mile from calistoga so this is your home. It is fine for now they have dozens of firefighters and i just stepped out you can clearly see there your backyard. Right now theyre actually laying down some Fire Fighting fire with fire creating a line and how hunting is this james and darya theyre saying right now the fire is playing nice so theyre keeping a close eye on
Fall as this is the last friday of summer youre more than the rest of your forecast is still ahead james all right john thank you 6 oclock. Lets take a quick live look here at the bay bridge. So far so good youre still making good time from oakland in a San Francisco, the morning backup really hasnt taken hold yet. And maybe well enjoy a friday light commute well have to wait and see but for now anyway, its looking all right. The san mateo bridge also moving well. Volume a little heavier here, but you can still see the traffic moving pretty much at the limit even though it is getting a little more congestion out there on your right from san mateo out towards foster city and then one final stop for you we have the Richmond Sandra fell bridge and in this one we do have a few lanes beginning to backup as the morning commute begins to but no major incidents, no problems reported on the span itself so once you get past the toll plaza. Youre making good time into marion county. The big story
Bridge toll plaza the trip into San Francisco is much heavier now. Within about 10 minutes it just stacked up in the line kept growing now its 80 all the way out to west grand. So thats what youre going to have to sit in as you make your way into San Francisco this morning. But at least we dont have any problems on the bay bridge or downtown so your average just under 15 minutes. We do have a problem in the east bay, this is walnut creek northbound 6. 80 at a sealed valley. Crews are clearing a motorcycle crash was blocking the 2 left lanes there running traffic breaks to get this off to the Center Divide so a minor delay, just before and after the scene but keep that in mind if youre heading north and southbound traffic looks good and still at the limit daria. Thanks a lot robin 6 oh one lets get to our top story protests across the country last night. After the grand jury decided not to indict the officers who killed Brianna Taylor. You can see from los angeles to las vegas and provi