Than 46,000 acres and that 2 contained and take a look at this brandnew video a crime viewer frank blew sent to us it shows the glass fire from above the Santa Rosa Calistoga area around 8 oclock tonight. Franc was flying into sfo from spokane when he saw the huge plumes of smoke and the orange glow of the flames and this is looking down from several 1000 feet and it gives you an idea of just how much landon area is burning in just how devastating these fires are. We have Team Coverage tonight on this last fire we start with kron fours 10 of us live in Santa Rosa Taylor. We just saw it looks like from the sky and youre there on the ground up close a lot more different situation there isnt. Vicki unfortunately were seeing situations like this homes reduced to rubble. This is what used to be the Saint Germains family home you can see some of the areas here still smoldering and right now standing in what used to be the garage. There was a weightlifting room inside this garage, you can see
They say the decision is dangerous and they are not going to follow through with it. They are not putting any fans inside levi stadium. The stands at levi stadium will not be filled with 49 ers fans any time soon. Putting an audience in a stadium in large groups. Is just asking for trouble. Its like a petri dish. Santa clara county executive officer, jeff smith says the states new guidelines allowing professional sports teams in orange tier, 3 to fill 20 of their stands with fans from as far as a 120 miles away will not be allowed at levi stadium. He says well covid positivity rates are near one percent in Santa Clara County. Theyre near 8 in other counties making the risk just too great. If you do the math that means somewhere between 250 and a 1000 people out of those 14,000 people well be infected. Theyll be infected. There will be at the stadium screaming yelling theyll be going to try to get food. Theyll be unmasked during the time period that theyre eating theyre going to be goin
Red flag warning has been issued as high winds and warm temperatures cause increased fire danger putting the bay area on high alert. Thank you for joining us at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia the genie is also ready to shut off power to try to prevent a major wildfire. The utility says the potential power shut off could happen as early as tomorrow afternoon affecting more than 22,000 customers take a look at what bay area counties could be affected by the power shut off. Those counties are alameda contra costa santa clara and san mateo napa sonoma and solano counties, the highest probability areas or the north bay mountains near mount saint helene small pockets in the east bay near mount diablo the Oakland Hills east of piedmont and portions of the santa cruz area. And the power shutoffs do need to happen in your area you will be notified in advance via text call or email. Again thanks for joining us here at kron 4 news weve got Maureen Kelly shes joining us live from napa high morning. Thats why
Youre going to see the strongest gust there, but even in the maybe some damaging winds. As those winds going to howl in too many of the canyons and valleys around the bay area too so do expect some trees to come down. Its going to be a mess across much of the bay areas those winds are going to continue to how looks like that will be the case right on through monday morning. It looks like by monday afternoon things begin to settle down, but this could be a historic event. Thats just developing those winds. The fire danger very dangerous later part of the weekend. All right lauren thank you for that today, California Attorney general Javier Becerra and Law Enforcement leaders from across the state. Address the climbing rates of overdoses amid the pandemic the sarah says within the last 2 years there have been theres been a 25 increase in Drug Overdose deaths in california. Sarah pointed to san diego noting a 50 increase in Overdose Deaths in july and august compared to months leading up
Thats right vicki and grant reducing the Positivity Rate in these hardhit communities is very important because this will be a key factor in any further reopening of the economy, heres more. Like this one posted that story and king roads in east, san jose remind residents that their community has been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus after reaching a high of roughly 60 the percentage of coronavirus cases here and in gilroy is now at 57. 1 that continues to trend downward. The failure to meet with the state says are Health Equity benchmarks could be a problem for the county as it works toward further reopenings has led the aisle. Betty is always a problem when you know the impacted segments and members your community. Or are not are not making the same progress as the rest of our commute were not going to thrive and let everybody drives a multicultural populist language barriers in early lack of testing and contact tracing. Contributed to the higher numbers, a door to door