Area counties will be under this new regional stay at home order. And then 2 more counties are to follow soon after the new rules coming us coronavirus move closer to reaching itals capacity. Thursday governor gavin newsom announced that order would go into effect in 4 regions intensive Care Capacity fell below 15 so thursday icu capacity here in the bay area was above 25 . Yesterday it dropped by more than 4 to just over 21 where it stands right now, although capacity did rise by half a percentage point today it is still dangerously low, which is now prompting several Bay Area Health officials to implement those new stay at home orders earlier than necessary. So heres one the orders officially begin San Francisco santa clara and contra costa counties will begin starting these rules on sunday night at 10 which is when the states curfew goes into effect. And the Alameda County it will take effect just after midnight on monday. A marine county doesnt start until tuesday at noon and once
The morning very welcome calm winds in these areas. Welcome relief from poor air quality late yesterday you notice skies really clearing out you could think that deep in marine layer for that the help to push in clean things up a bit. This isnt necessarily going to stay this way through the day so do enjoy are Clear Conditions this morning, a haze is expected again this afternoon, especially for inland areas. 60s 70s, 80s and just a few 90s in the forecast today. One of our warm spots at 91 degrees lot cooler than you have been well conquered in livermore settling down into the upper 80s for areas like san jose its mid 80s 70s for oakland state time high. Back to you james all right, thank you very much john. We are seeing a significant jump in containment numbers with regard to the wildfires burning across the bay area in fact fire crews have been battling the flames for over a week now. And they have made progress cal fire says the lnu lightning complex fire in the north bay is now 2
Have had with the weather, fires, heat. Rosemary has joined us to give us a look and breakdown on how things are going this morning good morning, ladies. We are looking at a transition back to the possibility of thunderstorms today and most of tomorrow. Outside our doors it is still quiet out there. We do have a red flag warning that went into place. It does not expire until tomorrow afternoon. The risk of thunderstorms and more importantly dry lightning along with those thunderstorms. We will talk about what you can expect for the afternoon and the extended forecast coming up in a little bit. We begin with the latest on the efforts to contain the czu lightning complex fire. We want to show you a map of where the fire is burning in relation to the scu lightning complex fire. The czu lightning complex fire is burning and southern San Mateo County. Northern Santa Cruz County as well. Firefighters say they are taking aggressive action and battling the fire. Lets show you some video of wha
Extra minutes. Right now the drive time 72 minutes from 205 over to 680. That might be even more so now. So Altamont Pass road getting busy as well as an alternate route. That portion of the freeways. Heres anne. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. Yeah, it has been a real rough morning in the east bay when it comes to the freeways after this fiery crash that happened late last night. This was 680 north and the north main exit and walnut creek. For some reason this vehicle left the freeway hitting a tree and burst into flames. This happened just before 11 00 and when they put the fire out, authorities found the remains of at least three people in the wreckage. They were on scene there for several hours this morning. Before they towed away that vehicle. Took it to the Coroners Office where the investigation into the cause of that crash continues. Well, ne, we looking at unhealthy air quality once again. A spare the air alert remains in effect today through friday. Now a little bit of
Well forcing on top of breaking news at this hour more than 20 fires burning out of control in whats now known as the santa clara unit lightning complex. The flames spreading across 5 different counties from santa clara to alameda. The contra costa, san joaquin and Stanislaus County kron fours dan kerman is live tonight in pleasanton with the very latest on the firefight there dan. Where the cal fire command post in this is where they are staging as they fight the fires throughout this region as you mentioned it is covering many different counties, 25,000 acres charred so far that was as of this morning we still dont have an updated number at this point they were 0 contained again waiting for an updated number there, but they are going to be here for quite some time battling this blaze. Plumes of smoke off in the distance doesnt really tell the story of the santa clara units lightning complex fire. In fact, its at least 20 separate fires divided into 3 zones fire started on sunday prob