Right now on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area looking live from our camera over the bay bridge looking east. Good morning. This is thursday, october 1. The glass fire is raging dangerously close this morning and now shifting winds raising the threat of new fires and bringing suffocating smoke back to the bay area. Fire crews are racing against the clock by air and ground trying to knock out the flames before the wind picks up. Yesterday afternoon air tankers made drop after drop as the fire raced up the hillside off highway 29. This is aerial video by cal fire looking on the palasades Mountain Range below. It shows the fire coming close to homes in the mountains. A lot of people live around here. Its scary. How many times . A new fire, you are evacuating. Its scary. This is not the only concern. A big orange glow above summit lake road is sounding the alarm and hot spots can be found on the western hillside of napa valley. Those in surrounding areas remain evacuated until fire dang
Mail, Committee Members asked witnesses about mr. Dejoys ownership of a company that contracted its services to the usps. The chair would ask without objection that ms. Debbie wassermanschultz i got it right here. Ms. Cooper and representative mary gay scanlon beor waived on the committee. Without objection, it is so ordered. I want to welcome everyone to s our hearings on recent developments regarding the Postal Service and i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement and i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement. I have agreed is the chairwoman on . Does the chairwoman wish to have an Opening Statement . Ill recognize here with your permission after myself. O our colleague ms. Lawrence is going to issue have an Opening Statement. I will recognize if somebodyv on your side wants to have additional okay. That would be fine. The cr you justow let me know. Okay. Theit s Postal Service is the crowned jewel of our federal government. It emplo serves every household b
It seems very much that the department of justice are in the headlines about all whats going on in t the country, if its not the protests in portland or in kenosha, if its not issues about covid and restrictions and whether they should be followed or not, if its not about the election and concerns about the legality of the election at the procedures to the election, not to mention the number of cases that involve administrative officials and the dojs role as those cases go through the system. We have a lot to talk about today at of what to start with the big question, and the big question is, does this look different to you . Doesnt look like a different environment than would you,ik fr example, the two of you at department of justice, or are we just overreacting . Lets begin with you because you were there the longest time ago, josh larocco come seeking give us some recent history. And i have the gray hairs. Thanks, karen. Its good to be here. I thought i would start with come to ques
Forward and get kids back to school as soon as it is safe to do so. Reporter some transitional kindergarten through sixth grade good resume in midseptember. Middle schools mid october, high schools in november. The city laying out a timeline for indoor businesses to resume. Hotels, Outdoor Movies and religious gatherings may begin in midseptember but with limited capacity. Barbers and hairdressers held a rally at city hall, health and safetya top priority for them. They are still on when Indoor Personal Services can resume. I need to feed my kids. Barbers need to feed their families. My heart breaks for anyone thats had to shut down and you guys that are struggling through this. Reporter some hair salons and Indoor Personal Services may resume at the end of september. We can move our nail salons, barber shots and massages by the end of this month, indoors. Which is incredible. If we continue at the pace we are now. Reporter an important caveat. The mayor and Health Leaders say the date
With all the fires in place, you have so much smoke. Again, the wind does push it around, when you get a west southwest winds, like right now, it is going mainly east, so like contra costa county, Santa Clara County, those will get a bit more in the areas of haze. Oakland, san jose, at 60 degrees, the wind of change is howling for some. The fog bank will retreat, but it may be a bit better for you with that westsouthwest wind. It looks like its going to start losing out over the next couple days, but today, temperatures below average across the board. Lets go over to sal now and see if there is anything new popping up on screens. Good morning, sal. Nds good morning to you by the way, steve. On the carquinez bridge and Altamont Pass, the winds are an issue, but not the bay bridge, as you come into San Francisco. We have also been looking at some of in oakland is off to a 4 32, lets go back to the headlines point all right, sal, thank you. Accused of threatening the Santa Clara County he