Today. That adds to the fire danger, mary. Thats right. Here we go again, dealing with extreme heat, dangerous fire weather conditions as we go through the day and into tomorrow. In fact it gets even hotter still. First, looking at that red flag warning in effect for the areas highlighted in red, inland valleys, Santa Cruz Mountains already seeing gusts 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. The peak winds with the offshore wind event is happening now. I am continuing to watch winds ramp up this morning. Low relative humidity values and extreme fire danger and a wind advisory because of the strong wind gusts for north bay mountains, foothills, possible downed trees and power lines, record breaking high temperatures. This is 20 degrees above average for this time of year and tomorrow we will see temperatures sky rocket and get even hotter tomorrow. Well talk more about what you can expect in your neighborhood coming up. Lets check with gianna who is tracking the hot spots including the altamont where
Commute is definitely a wet one tonight. Check out the bay bridge. Wet weather slowing things down for drivers heading into San Francisco. Darren has been monitoring doppler. We are not completely done with this. What is left is pretty light. Just enough that it gives us something to track and show you there will be light rain and places. Im going to come in for a closer look at the peninsula and come into the city. Every one of these green blips is just enough that windshield wipers will have to go on for a time. It is not the kind of constant pouring. The should have a major impact on the rest of this commute home. If we look ahead at what happens the remainder of tonight. Watch the timestamp. Starting at 11 pm. Keep the possibility for rain going into the overnight hours. Rain at 1 am and possibility for spotty showers at 3 am. The start of the commute tomorrow it stops. That says 5 am. I would be hardpressed to find any left over rain. On that forecasts. The thing that becomes inte
Moments later, second accident. A driver of a tour bus traveling westbound rearended a teacup truck sending that vehicle to eastbound lanes as well. The dual accidents backed up traffic in this part of the south bay impacting motorists days before a major holiday. From there, we were just like bumpertobumper the whole time. Its been pretty crazy. Reporter drivers headed for alternate routes, team of engineers and other experts work to get the crane righted. With caltrans crews clearing debris. Repairing a section of the damaged median after several hours, the measurements were right to lift the crane back onto its wheels. We have some real expertise, being able to get this cleaned up as quickly as possible. Reporter two drivers were injured in the pair of accidents. The driver of the crane suffered minor injuries but did not go to the hospital. The driver of the pickup truck that was rearended, he did go to the hospital with minor injuries. On highway 237, here in our san jose, jesse g
Two breaded chicken patties plus fries and a drink for 4. 99. Three patties for 5. 99. Or even four for just 6. 99. Four patties . Well, tickle my elbow no thank you. Try my really big chicken sandwich combos. Starting at 4. 99. Welcome back a and we have liftoff pg any workers take to the air to begin the inspections needed before power lines are re energized. And its happening is a part the bay area are nearing 48 hours of black shoppers took off from the airport in santa rosa and Sonoma County thats where kron fours Maureen Kelly is standing by live. Maureen 44 chopper sounds like a lot but this is a big job. Stood there for a second, but yeah we have 3 of those choppers took off from right here at the Charles Schulz airport in Sonoma County. It looks like one of them just recently landed and re field. And appears to be getting ready to take off for another inspection tour. You can see it behind me right now. You can see behind right now looks like its taking off right here. You kno
Adapted so were not relying on laptop computers, projection systems, or the internet. I think the biggest advantage would be having, like, no electronics because, like, we can finally, like, get out, like, and interact with other people. Reporter yes, talking with parents and teachers, we all agree we didnt expect students to be quite so happy asbout beig away from their devices. Again, in the past 20 minutes weve seen some of the power is being restored so coming up at 6 00 well show you the surprisingly mixed reaction were getting about things going back to the way they were. Live in san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Okay. Roberting thank you. Now where you are the bay areas biggest city is fighting back. San jose mayor sam licardo in our studios today saying pg e cannot dictate the lives of millions of people. And within the past hour the mayor demanding compensation from pg e. We have certainly spoken to the Governors Office about large public costs. I have, myself, were g