Create its own weather. You get a lot of hot air. It has to go somewhere, that air is going to be rising, and eventually it does have to come back down, and its going to create downdrafts. It is very steep terrain, as we mentioned. And the brush is so, so bone dry as many of us know with this drought in effect. This is going to be a firefight that could go on for a couple days in here to napa county. We sure hope they get containment of it. But right now conditions are not on their side when it comes to temperature and humidity. 90 degrees. Humidity values in the 20 range. As we heard from firefighters, this is dry enough to spread the fire across the brush like lighting a piece of paper on fire. Thats how quick it spreads to these trees. No major fire windstorm in effect but that is the good news. The humidity is going to make it difficult. The other thing is the wind. Check out these wind values. On the north side the wind is coming out of the northeast. On the Southern Side of the f
To the plane. Back to you. Okay, thank you very much, tony. This comes months after a south bay teenager hid in a wheel well of the plane at San Jose National airport. You remember this story, Officials Say the boy jumped a fence at the airport, then hitched a ride on a flight bound to hawaii, this is all back in april. The 15 year old survived subzero temperatures during a fivehour flight. At this point, the teen is not facing any charges. A rare sighting in the bay area today. Were talking about rain. It has been raining on and off in some areas. Nbc bay area chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is measuring every droplet falling from the sky. Anything significant . It is certainly significant here for august standards. Its all sparked off by this area of low pressure, also spiraling in some humidity. Lets get right to the rainfall totals. The top rainfall total we had today was martinez coming in at a whopping, for august, again,. 11 of an inch, concord. 09, walnut creek, petaluma,. 04,
There will be challenges ahead, but were going to do whats necessary to take the fight to this terrorist group. For the security of the country and the region and for the entire world. President obama promised to go after isis in syria and to do it with a coalition, including arab nations. Now hes done both. These are some of the strikes in syria, pentagon video, 120 terrorists reportedly killed in all. Here a hit on an isis command building. 50 targets were reportedly hit. This is said to be some of the damage, the video unconfirmed by nbc news. As he confirmed, the first u. S. Led air strikes in syria, president obama sent a message. Once again, it must be clear to anyone who would plot against america and try to do americans harm that we will not tolerate safe havens for terrorists who threaten our people. Reporter u. S. Pilots flew in from the persian gulf, four dozen tomahawk cruise missiles fired. In all, three u. S. Navy warships hit four isis targets in syria. President obama b
Check a few blocks ago, they were at 42nd market. Once again the police and the protesters are dispersing pretty quickly. We have confirmed, chp officers from all nine bay area counties have been calleden to he en tee in. We saw looting and vandalism. Tmobile, 49th. Broken windows. People going in taking stuff. Our chopper caught several people going into the store removing items. Further down on telegraph avenue, the kelly moore paint shop, below there. Broken into. Several people left the building with paint. We later saw them using the paint to write vulgar messages on nearby buildings. Chopper was over this. Protesters breaking into import motors, car dealership on telegraph. Breaking glass. Kicking in windows. Running inside. Then saw people rung out. We werent sure if anything had been stolen. Throughout the night we have seen this. Dozens of small fires. No reported damage to homes, businesses the plenty of dumpsters, couches and items set fire. This one on telegraph. Protesters
Of rain. Santa cruz mountains, 5. 42. And up in san jose, 1. 39. The numbers are unbelievable, when we continue to break down the numbers, this 1. 49 in San Francisco now makes some of the most rain were on track for since 2009. Some 1,876 days ago. Again, that is how unbelievable it is to get this much rainfall for us right now, with that drought effect. We have areas of rain that will continue from 11 00 tonight into the overnight hours with some heavier periods of rain. So my top three concerns once again will be rain picking up again in the overnight hours, another wet morning commute, and spinouts likely again to continue through tomorrow, with more downed trees. Weve got more in your forecast in about ten minutes. Well check in with you at that point, thanks, jeff. Weve talked about the flooding across the bay area. Plenty of it, but for one peninsula family, the problem isnt just water gushing into their house, but raw sewage. They live on court street in redwood city, not far f