Is on to keep fire debris out of the water in wine country. Ktvus tom vacar joins us from petaluma where a company is making a key element to keep those toxins out. Tom. In order to prevent wholesale contamination of the watershed you need do something very important, which is what this factory is doing. You need to manufacture tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dams, called wattles, in order to prevent the watershed from being grossly polluted. Pretty much everywhere you look in the burn areas, you will see barriers placed around storm drains. They keep toxins from washing into the drains. That blocks debris flow into the storm drains and creeks. We are also adding compost rolls to add additional filtering to reduce the potential. Reporter nobody is sure what and how many toxins are in the ash but some think its a lot. We are planning to do Water Quality sampling to determine whats running off into our creeks and waterways. Reporter they will be looking for toxic heavy
A lot but heres the area getting the most amount right now. This is about a quarter to a half inch of rain per hour. It is quick moving. So its not going to cause ponding or flooding or anything like that. Pittsburg is getting good amount of rain at the moment. So highway 12 and 160 if you head that way obviously keep that in mind. Fairfield, cordelia, rockville, the cell just moved through. And the north bay hills the area that we are watching very closely because of the burn areas, st. Helena just saw very strong cell that came through there but it quickly moved away. You see its now winding down a scattered shower. Thats what well see throughout the day. We are going to get continued rain coming in from the north. And thats going to impact the north bay hills later on today. So well track that for you hour by hour coming up. The wet weather could create a slew of new problems pour people in the north bay affected by the wine country wildfires. Jessica flores reports. Reporter in the
Moving in. Willow glen temperature trend will go well above average, reaching into the mid to upper 70s today. Average high just 66 degrees. Bring it back down as we head in with more clouds. The timeline of that coming up in seven minutes. Mike is tracking three incidents. , kari. A lighter friday than we expect. The bay bridge, east bay and the south bay. First, lets talk about the bay bridge. We had a stall on the incline that lasted five minutes. It was enough to slow down traffic. No backup out of the maze. Lanes look like they have cleared off the incline the last couple of minutes. A crash at the y itself. One lane blocked. The connector has youed up. In the south bay, the issue were talking about is slow drive. North 280, a half mile approaching the 17 interchange. It looks like the tow truck has cleared. They may be clearing them as we speak. We will track this recovery. Back to you. New this morning, 6 02, a and shooting in the east bay. It all started late last night in anti
Moving in. Willow glen temperature trend will go well above average, reaching into the mid to upper 70s today. Average high just 66 degrees. Bring it back down as we head in with more clouds. The timeline of that coming up in seven minutes. Mike is tracking three incidents. , kari. A lighter friday than we expect. The bay bridge, east bay and the south bay. First, lets talk about the bay bridge. We had a stall on the incline that lasted five minutes. It was enough to slow down traffic. No backup out of the maze. Lanes look like they have cleared off the incline the last couple of minutes. A crash at the y itself. One lane blocked. The connector has youed up. In the south bay, the issue were talking about is slow drive. North 280, a half mile approaching the 17 interchange. It looks like the tow truck has cleared. They may be clearing them as we speak. We will track this recovery. Back to you. New this morning, 6 02, a and shooting in the east bay. It all started late last night in anti
Moving in. Willow glen temperature trend will go well above average, reaching into the mid to upper 70s today. Average high just 66 degrees. Bring it back down as we head in with more clouds. The timeline of that coming up in seven minutes. Mike is tracking three incidents. , kari. A lighter friday than we expect. The bay bridge, east bay and the south bay. First, lets talk about the bay bridge. We had a stall on the incline that lasted five minutes. It was enough to slow down traffic. No backup out of the maze. Lanes look like they have cleared off the incline the last couple of minutes. A crash at the y itself. One lane blocked. The connector has youed up. In the south bay, the issue were talking about is slow drive. North 280, a half mile approaching the 17 interchange. It looks like the tow truck has cleared. They may be clearing them as we speak. We will track this recovery. Back to you. New this morning, 6 02, a and shooting in the east bay. It all started late last night in anti