State park. Cal fire bringing in the big gun here at this dc10 swooped low over the fire zone to make several passes dropping retardant on the flames below. Cal fire is also using other air tankers, three helicopters pouring water on the flames. And if you probably have seen around the bay area, the fire is filling the skies with smoke. Thats not fog youre looking at there. This view from chopper 5 showing the smoke for miles. Linda yee on the bad air and changes in daily routines. Reporter a smoky brown haze settled over parts of contra costa and alameda counties. Some said it was enough to drive them indoors. You could just notice it from in blackhawk the smoke coming over and we started smelling it so went inside. Reporter the air quality district issued a smoke advisory. The pollution levels moderate. But for the Dublin School district it was enough to cancel p. E. And lunch outdoors. I have asthma so it was getting to me a little bit. But as the day progressed it was fading. Repor
Makes it a lot harder to burn. Their interest and helicopters and airplanes during the middle of the day to day or with more equipment to battle this bright blaze. Reporter he is telling me how crucial this is a water drop are trying to put out the diablo fire. Usually a hundred and 50 to 200 ft. Above the trees. So i see a lot of different pockets. Reporter so you are looking at video at what his helicopter looks like. Depending on how things look like but it carries about 100 gal. Of water and he needs to figure out where and diablo he is allowed to dip his bucket and appeared he could drop maybe one or hundreds and he is prepared to be out here at the diablo fire for a full week. There are few other things i like to point out. The smoke from the diablo fire is moving south. On the accounting and so clear county. The air quality is really bad right now. We are a lot we are far away i cant smell it as much as we can see it. We do not know the cause of this fire. Will be back with anot
Expected to unveil a new i phone. Will it meet Consumers Expectations . We are waking up to a mile to a cool morning. The temperatures are in the upper 50s. We do have pretty dense fog. As we head into afternoon you can expect a sunny day. It will be made 90s in line. As we focus on was born on at mount diablo the temperatures are going to be about the same and will lead to know what that would do for firefighters. It has been pretty quiet for the chp but things are changing. There is not a stalled car on westbound interstate 80 at central. It is backing up the ride on the east shore freeway. Because of the slowdown is reaching all the way back to the richmond parkway. There is a new pair of accidents in hayward and fremont. South bond. There are two new accidents for the nimitz south. Yesterday, was a slow stretch. Were off to a bad start this morning. Happening now, firefighters continue to battle the large wildfire burning on mt. Diablo this morning. The blaze is now more than 27hun
Retardant. Cal fire suing other tankers and three helicopters pouring water on the flames. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran is with firefighters in dublin this morning. Cate. Reporter michelle, as you have learned, the morgan fire tripled in size burning about 3,700 acres, 20 containment. There have been 700 firefighters on the line and still this morning, 100 homes evacuated but there is some good news and for that im joined with cal fire spokesman dennis rain. Thank you for joining us. Good morning. Reporter i understand you guys made a lot of progress last night despite these bigger numbers. Yeah. Yesterday afternoon we had a little bit of wind, last night things settled down. The humidities came up so we made a lot of progress last night. Things are looking better that n yesterday at this time. Reporter any changes in store for this morning as you guys are prepared to go back out there and fight these flames again . We have more lines so we are going to connect them and up our contain
Mens u. S. Open tennis champion. Reporter from across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on kpix 5 news this morning. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com your realtime captioner linda Marie Macdonald. Good morning. It is tuesday, september 10. Good to have you with us. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Time now is 6 01. We are just hours away from a big announcement from apple. The company is expected to announce two new models of its iphone. And an earlymorning fire berkeley prompted evacuation. The twoalarm fire happened on oregon and telegraph streets at an apartment building. The morgan hill fire on mount diablo is still burning. The fire is 20 contained this morning. Mount diablo state park is still closed because of the fire. Kpix 5s cate caugiran is with the firefighters at their base camp in dublin this morning. Cate. Reporter michelle, we can see that the new round of firefighters are getting ready for the day actually getting the