Black car spun out and hit 4 other cars on the bay bridge. Preliminary reports are that driver may have been travelig at a high rate of speed at least for the 5 lanes on the bay bridge are being blocks right now well be monitoring this accident throughout the hour and let you know of any changes and you remember you can always keep track of traffic alerts with our kron 4 mobile app thank you for joining us here at 3 im sanaz were following several bay area stories from dangerous accidents involving car crashes into crowds, dining outdoors to homicides and election safety. But we begin with concerns a fire dangers of this week that has pga new warning of another possible power shut off. High temperatures mixed with high winds is causing major concern for wildfire danger. The genie is warning it may start turning off power in the north bay mountains and pockets of the Santa Cruz Mountains wednesday afternoon. The Utility Company is still monitoring the wind events at this time because we
Forecast. Thank you for joining us. Lets get right to our breaking news in napa county. Taking a birds eye view of the blaze from chopper five come you can see the white smoke blanketing the area not far from surrounding neighborhoods. This is all happening near deer park to stop the silverado trail about 4 miles east of calistoga. And 5 miles or so northeast of st. Helena. Jewels has more on when it broke out. Scorching the back arrange east of st. Helena and calistoga. In the last hour, we have learned the fire has grown to 1500 acres, containment still stands at 0 . Mandatory evacuations in place right now for the Deer Park Community with the flames already destroying homes, and right now fire crews are most concerned about the wind picking up tonight, and fueling the flames. We find out more about that from darren. About 2000 residents have been forced to flee their homes in napa county, dozens of hospital patients have been evacuated. Those evacuations covering 660 homes and wine
Now more than 7600 cases of covid19 across the bay area. Today Santa Clara County reached a grim milestone , becoming the first bay area county to reach 100 deaths. San francisco was one of the first cities to launch an aggressive effort to combat the virus. The mayor said the citys approach was to ensure the Hospital System was not overloaded with a surge in patients. It worked but the fight is far from over. The challenges that we face, still around ppe, we have known this crisis is coming to our country for a long time now. As of april, we are still having the same conversations about the challenges. I know that most people are seeing the same data, if we do nothing it gets worse. We are also learning another inmate at the santa rita jl been infected. 31 inmates and two staffers have tested positive. Governor gavin newsom says dont expect to see any Mass Gatherings anytime soon. We spoke to an analyst on when and how sports might return. I think by lid mid to late fall we will see r
Around a quarter of an inch as well. The system is now gone. On the mild side, although the patchy fog, probably for me the next few hours. A lot of cloud cover, upper 50s low 60s, rain tomorrow, 4 30 one, what are you looking at my friend . Everybody always asks me that. You can see where the computers are. To think the one time i do this job without computers. Isnt that crazy . That is crazy. Lets talk about the san rafael bridge, traffic here approaching the bridge major is traffic is on the east or freeway still 60 minutes to drive from the carquinez bridge to the bay bridge toll plaza with a light delay, we have more on the south bay, 20 come back and if you miss. 4 30 to lets go back to the desk. Heres a look at some of this morning top stories, police in new jersey and new york were on high alert to protect a predominately jewish neighborhood after a long gun battle with two men in jersey city. It happened yesterday near a kosher market. Six people died including a Police Office
55 and often on rain. 52 n. And 60s to the south. Probably all into subnet. 7 am, a couple of issues. Where would you like to start. Will start on 80 with slow traffic on 80 because of the crash coming out of the bridge and heading out to highway four. In slow traffic with 50 minutes to drive that stretch when early this morning it was taking about 15. This is a look at the bay bridge. Add 50 minutes to wait in line. San francisco slowing leaving southbound 101. Dont be late heading down the peninsula. Used 280 instead. More on the traffic rent in a few moment. Helping news in oakham. A woman was found dead in her car on 98th avenue. Police found the car while they were responding to the activation of the system near e street. This happened at 9 pm last night. Officers arrived and they found a woman dead and discovered she had been shot in the head. People in the neighborhood said they heard as many as 10 gunshots. Police im not said if they think the woman was targeted. Oakham police