That are coming to assist. Firefighters are working really hard, trying to stay hydrated, just trying to get this fire out. Were a little concerned about the road. We are trying to keep people safe. Reporter i know you guys have said there were ten fires that started overnight because of potential Lightning Strikes. How are you dealing with that in terms of staffing and in addition to all the fires we have going on right now . Lightning expected again tonight . Absolutely this morning i started at 5 00 a. M. With these fires here in the area. But we anticipated the red flag warning. And also the local governments, we did staff firefighters ahead of time. So we have some units that are ready to go and our resources got spread thin. We were in action quick. Any concerns about tonight if we will see more of these wildfires started by lightning . Absolutely. You know, the thunderstorms are unpredictable. We dont know unprecedented times with the weather. If you see some smoke or flames mak
Now at 11 00 we are on storm watch for another Lightning Storm in the bay area. The city is already seeing some rain. People are cleaning up after this mornings storm, a look at some of the major damage. This happened all the same time. Large wildfires sparked by lightning still burning across the east and south bay. Thats where we start with breaking news. 4 fires bursting in east contra costa county. Orders impacting residence along marsh creek road. Just outside of brentwood. The four fires sparked this morning when lightning struck the ground at the round valley regional preserve. Now burning 400 acres with zero containment. After hours of battling the fire, crews issued evacuation orders less than two hours ago. Coming up we will have an update on the growing cluster of fires in santa clara countys prompting orders. A short time ago we learned of a small earthquake in contra costa county. A 2. 6 magnitude earthquake near alamo around 10 00 tonight. Since we live in earthquake coun
West of grant line. We have reports of a crash there over to the right shoulder. Traffic getting busy anyway on the westbound side out of tracy. As you work towards that grant line area. Weve got some slower speeds there. Friday, so not seeing as many cars on the roadways so your travel times only about 26 minutes 205 over to 680. The good news is, eastshore freeway and highway 4 and 101 all in the green with no delays. 101 at clear field over to sfo. Thats a look at the morning drive. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are keeping our eye on several fires burning in the bay area starting off in alameda county. Fire crews making progress on this grass fire in a rural area near livermore. It has scorched more than 250 acres since it started last night near tesla and mclohl ad last report, it was about 60 contained. Luckily not many homes nearby. But we did spot some crews there dousing flames near one property. Also keeping an eye on a brush fire that broke out last night nor
But we are going to warm things up as High Pressure builds back in for us. Just in time for the weekend. Well talk about that coming up in just a few minutes. Len . New this morning, gunfire erupts at two separate scenes in san jose. And now four wounded victims are in the hospital. Kpix 5s Katie Nielsen is at the scene of one of those shootings for us this morning. Katie, whats the latest out there . See the flashing lights behind you. Reporter yeah, so len, officers still here at the scene. This is actually on kollmar drive near south capital avenue and story road. So what we do know right now is that this shooting happened around 12 45 this morning. Nsthfr italo we learned this happened in front of one of the apartment complexes righkollmar drive. Now there was also a second shooting earlier in the night. That happened around 11 15 last night. That other shooting was at 24th street and san antonio. One person was shot there. We still do not have the condition of all the victims but
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our rooftop camera out at the bay bridge this morning. Good morning everyone. Its friday. Up with of our favorite days of the week. July 17th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning to you, so glad to have you with us on the friday. First up, a check of our forecast with mary lee. Mary, hows it looking as we kind of look ahead to the weekend this morning . And len and michelle, we are looking at temperatures for today very similar to yesterday. But as we look to the weekend, were going to warm things up. Especially for tomorrow. Heres a live look with our san jose camera. And right now in san jose 61 degrees and upper 50s concord and oakland and livermore and for San Francisco, low 50s right now for santa rosa. As we take you through the day. Daytime highs near average for this time of year. So 66 in San Francisco this afternoon. Looking at 73 in oakland and 85 for san jose as well as for concord.