Studios, this is kpix5 news. President trump hospitalized with a coronavirus as more close aides and republican senators test positive. Could it jeopardize a vote on a Supreme Court judge . Plus, fire activity along highway 29, in napa county overnight. The latest on the battle to protect homes in the path of the glass fire. Break the windows. Break the windows. And a dramatic rescue as a crowd of people desperately pull a man out of a burning car in san pablo. Good morning, its saturday, october 3rd i am devin fehely, lets star with with a check of the weather with darren peck. We will see less wind on the fires and we are going to start improving the air quality and theres a possibility for rain by next weekend. But before i get no that, its foggy this morning. So if you are hitting the road, the one place you have to be concerned about fog is on the Golden Gate Bridge pip dont want to give you the impression its widespread fog. It is just along the coast and especially out along the
Streaming on cbsn bay area, more local news, dramatic video of fire crews battled to stop flames as they roar over a santa rosa neighborhood. Getting word of major layoffs with American Airlines, how the government could step in. Some neighbors in san jose are alarmed about fires at homeless encampments, stunning new numbers. I am elizabeth cook. I am ken bastida, lets go to len ramirez, in san jose, the Fire Department says it is responding to an average of three homeless encampment fires every single day. Reporter thats right, every single day, the numbers are pretty shocking when you see them in black and white, but they reinforce what firefighters and neighbors havent seen the past couple of years, a surge of homeless campfires, many are worried that the fires could spread to them. Reporter the smoke from an outofcontrol homeless campfire billowing up under the to 80 overpass in downtown san jose, a neighbor cell phone camera was rolling when firefighters arrived second later. Firs
Staging area just south of st. Helena in rutherford. We are pretty much surrounded by fire on the hillside all around us. There is activity on Spring Mountain road and we tried to go there. But we got blocked. It was too dangerous even for media crews. We saw a cal fire investigator gathering evidence of a fire that seems to have started off of the road next to a steep hillside. There were evidence markers and he was on his hands and knees using Electronic Devices to scan for clues. The investigator did not say much about why he was there. The blaze raced up the hillside where firefighters were called in. We spent the morning around the hills southwest of calistoga. One benefit of the inversion layer is the thick smoke trapped in the valley is starving the fire of oxygen. Much of the town is empty under mandatory evacuation order. We did meet buster davis. He survived the 2017 fire. He says he has worked too long and too hard to walk away now. This is my life. Aint nobody going to tell