Testing sites and case numbers on our website nbcbayarea. Com and click on coronavirus updates in the top stories bar. Lets take you outside. Beautiful and warm fall weather. This is a live look in bawalnut creek. We hit the high 80s. Hotter in the north bay where a red flag warning has been issued. Lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. How widespread do you think this fire danger is . Well, its going to be to the northeast and the south bay hills. It will be an event where its on again off again. We will see gusty winds, things calm down and it will ramp back up again. The fire danger overall isnt until 8 00 a. M. On friday. A red flag fire warning in the north bay, its a little more critical and a fire weather watch for the east and south bay hills. I want to be clear on this. 2,000 to 3,000 feet is the top risk. You have to go way up in elevation for those 15 to 35mileperhour wind gusts. Sustained 5 to 15 and also that low humidity. Now, Something Else we have been followi
Glow there, the flames in the background, this is eerie and eerily familiar. Its evacuated b im still sticking around. Its not my first you know theres been like three fires here now, and every time ive just stuck around here. Dozens of homes and iconic wineries have already been damaged or destroyed. Firefighters hoping the weather begins to work in their favor so nothing else is lost. People are nervous. Firefighters are exhausted, and in the last 30 minutes, the governor declaring a state of emergency. Yeah. This latest run of fires now known as the glass fire. The complex of fires started yesterday morning. Its burning in napa and sonoma counties, including parts of santa rosa. Late tonight new numbers from cal fire. 80 homes destroyed along with 32 other structures. 68,000 people under evacuation orders in Sonoma County alone. Its estimated another 10,000 are under evacuation orders in napa county, including the city of calistoga. The fire exploding to more than 36,000 acres, and
Rolling our way. I wanted to highlight two different systems, surface cold fronts sitting offshore. Thats whats helping to disrupt the air flow. Its taking the wind, moving it from the west off to the east. Its exactly what we needed to get these changes. Its going to be slow moving, which is great news for us because its going to continue to keep the air circulating and also moving. Now, as we get you down into the fires, what youll be able to see is the smoke from these fires. The three large fires we had been following is now moving to the north and the east. If you move close, you see the faint image. Its moving north and east away from us. Thats why youre seeing air Quality Improvements with good air for parts of the north bay and San Francisco. Moderate air for most of the area and healthy air floating around the south bay. So over the next 12 hours, i think well stay moderate for most of the area, and the coastline dipping back into the good air quality. Well take a look at chan
Happened as he was climbing near or onto the third story of the Training Facility. We are trying to make sure that his family is the numberone priority and that they are given all the time necessary to mourn this along with all of his brothers and sisters at the San Francisco Fire Department. Reporter dozens of firefighters and Law Enforcement gathered outside the hospital where he had been taken after the fall. While little is known about exactly what happened, firefighters were able to tell us a lot about the life he lived. Jason is not only a fellow firefighter paramedic, hes a friend to all. Hes an advocate for public safety. Hes a father of two children, a husband to an amazing wife, and a child to a retired San Francisco firefighter. Reporter they say he rose from a paramedic in 2007, working mostly at station 49, that he attended fire academy, graduated as a firefighter paramedic assigned to station 3 in the tenderloin. Late today a powerful image as a procession for the fallen
President ial debate. This time we heard mostly uninterrupted from both Vice President pence and senator Kamala Harris. They squared off at the university of utah in salt lake city. Now the candidates were separated by 12 feet and plexiglass dividers. Senator harris requesting the additional safety measure because of the Vice President s potential exposure to the president. As we all know has contracted the coronavirus. The two answered questions from coronavirus to taxes with some occasional interruption. Joe biden has been very clear. He will not raise taxes on anybody who makes under 400,000 a year. Im speaking. Im speaking. The important thing is you say the truth. Joe biden said twice in the debate last week that he will repeal the trump tax cuts. We begin our Team Coverage with jay gray in salt lake city. Jay . Hey there. Good evening, jessica. Good evening, raj. You could tell this would be a. Different debate than the president ial debate last week. Psych the covid protections