So, lets jump right in to weather. Let me take it from here. We have some issues out there as kumasi talked about. You can see it over my shoulder. The red flag warning in effect for the diablo range and east bay hills and also the north bay mountains and this goes through 5 00 this evening as winds could still gust 50 to 60. That is looking less likely but still possible but extremely dry out there. 8 to 18 relative humidity. We could have extreme fire behavior because of that. Winds are still running anywhere from 35 to about 41 in knoxville. So, that is still pretty critical as far as fire starting and fire spreading. Look at this. 8 in the Oakland Hills to about 10 , 11 relativi relative ty ty rest of us. For the rest of us extremely dry air and temperatures in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Away from the coast in the mid 70s. Okay, mike. Thank you. Oakland police are investigating an incident along mcarthur boulevard. One person is dead and we have reached out to investigators for more i
Died. We will keep an eye on that and bring you breaking news as that come in. Welcome to midday. Im marcus washington. A red flag warning for the north bay mountains and the east bay hills still in effect until this afternoon. Our coverage continues now at this hour. Nbc bay area bob redell is live in lafayette and meteorologist kari hall is tracking the dangerous conditions. In Oakland Hills the concern was the fire spreading to other homes. What about the wind conditions in that area a little bit earlier . We are still seeing winds gusting as we check out oakland and the weather conditions there. We head to the hills. Winds up to 30 to 32 Miles Per Hour. The temperature at 60 but the relative humidity is still critically low and dry vegetation it was good they were able to get a handle on that before it did continue to spread into more of the vegetation in that area. Overall we are seeing a lot of winds in the valleys calming down. Its gusty in hills and upper elevations. We were ta
An extreme fire danger continues as we go through our day. The winds will let up in the hills and mountains as we go through the day. Humidity values down to the Single Digits and teens though throughout the day today. Temperatures with that sunshine looking at 73 and San Francisco, 76 in oakland. 79 in san jose and 80 for a high in concord. 5 to 8 degrees. I will let you know when the ocean breeze will return for us. Lets check in with traffic and delays on 880 in the oakland area. Yeah. We have a few brake lights as you work southbound 880 this morning. Thats due to construction around 29. Looks like they may be clearing it. In the meantime completely off the roadway. I would stick with 580 through oakland. Other than that we have a slow and go ride for that drive in to the pass. Super commuters a 30 minute drive time is when you can expect westbound 580 from 205 to 680. The brake lights start around Mountain House and a couple of crashes chp is working on. Eastbound highway 4. There
Area above highway 13. So certainly that was on everyones mind. This is the memorial to that firestorm but this time fire crews were in the right place at the right time. Black smoke rising from the Oakland Hills at 9 40 Tuesday Morning sent an ominous wave of panic. Oakland fire says what ignited the blaze is a gasoline generator hooked up because power was cut off by pg e because of the red flag warning posted for the east bay hills. It was a huge explosion. Its like i hear a neighbor saying its the generator that explode and then we see the fire all over the place and i started to shake and everybody just get panicked and started to run all over the place. Reporter this family lives next door. It was a second explosion and the fire went across the street into the other peoples yard. And the whole house just went up in smoke and flames, and then the cars exploded right after that. At least two cars. Reporter there were a total of four explosions as the fire tore through two homes, fl
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