Anything positive to help. The winter decrease later on. The strongest gusts are in the Sonoma County area. More coming up later. Here is sal. All rights. Right now we do look at the commute that is going to be busy if you were driving on 80 westbound. I want to show you that the traffic is beginning to wrap up a little bit heading out to the macarthur maze. 22 minute drive. Right now the bay bridge is a typical commute. If youre driving on interstate 880, this traffic is beginning to ramp up. We are getting into the ramp up stage of the morning commute on all the freeways in the bay area including the east bay although you have an opportunity to jump ahead of the crowd, especially for the Silicon Valley commute. You can see 87 has a problem northbound but the rest of that is easy. Use 101 or 85 to 17. Lets go back to dave. Complete coverage of this outofcontrol wired fire. Cristina rendon is near the front lines of the kincade fire. Give us the latest from where you are. Reporter good
Power to parts of 35 counties 34 counties to reduce the risk of wildfires in windy conditions. According cal fire, the majority of the states destructive while wildfires have happened in october. Joining me no are anthony sehgal and jonathan cox welcomef to botyou, jonathan i want to begin with you give us a season is a shapup compared to last year with the camp fire and now we are approaching november, which was whenthe camp fire broke out, in early november. Thats right. In comparison to the last few years we experienced under 200,000 acres ofland burned california. This time last year, we were over 1 million acres of land burned, a relatively mild co season in arison to the last few. Maybe the biggest reason for that is because we have some more stens that we hahad in the last two years thats due to the rain and much we havent had earlier into the year. However we are nointo the timeframe that we tend to get large instructive fires in california. As we have seen over the last few da
Bay. Henry lee is in the east bay. Parts of both of those areas are set to lose power tonight. Tracking the critical fire weather conditions. We want to start with tom vacar joining us live from sonoma, where parts of that city have been without power since early this morning. How are those folks coping . Reporter pretty much all the city is out right now. Very few things have power. But thats what this story is really about. The expected winds that weve been expecting have yet to show up. Sonoma business folks are making very, very sure that local folks here who dont have power are served, and served well. Sonoma, a wine country tourist town of 11,000 finds itself without power, even though there was scarcely a breeze today. That does not go down well with a lot of people here. Right now, its so calm here. For us, its like, could it have waited until the winds come up . Reporter pg and e, says although it may not be windy, winds are expected to be high. Eye ray taylor lives up in the
Next event theyll be down around 70 Miles Per Hour at the peak of course the other problem is once your power has been turned off as pg e has said over and over its not as easy as simply flipping a switch to get it back on they have to check all of the lies there using a helicopter equipment from the state from the chp the state is offering all kinds of equipment to help them make this process move a lot faster, nonetheless it still can take up to 48 hours for reason for all these power shut off says try to to try to prevent fires but we do have fires burning are continuing to track the fastmoving kincade fire as of right now more than 66,000 acres have burned in the kim k fire over the weekend. The continment percentage. Actually dropped from 10 back down to 5 . And while have from the bay area is dealing with evacuations. Other sections of the bay area have been in the dark because of the Public Safety Power Outages by pg the historic winds have led to those power shut off restoratio
Near windsor. Tim . Well, life is returning to normal here in towns like windsor, with the winds down, containment on the fire lines is up. Neighborhoods are opening up again. Now earlier today, we did find some folks who had never left the fire zone. Well before Evacuation Orders had been lifted, windsor area wineries were busy with workers. Theyve been given temporary passes that allowed them to check and prep their facilities. For all the damage dunavin yards, somehow seem immune to the flames, and there is an explanation. The violence are so moist, and with the surrounding ground not cluttered with leaves, well, fires tend to run out of here. It works as a great firebreak. If you look at the divisions hit by the fire front, you see one, two rows that just dried out and near re stopped right there. Windsor told to leave followed through with those instructions. The blaseys, who grow 15 acres of chardonnay grapes were ready to leave if they had to, but they stayed. All of our vineyar