Clayton fire. 8,300 homes and businesses have in power. The flames have damaged 20 pg e power poles and other essential equipment. There is no estimate on when power will be restored. We will go back to amy for more updates and updates any time with our news app. You can down head it now for free 67 able push alerts to get uptotheminute updates as they happen. Mike, the weather is still hot . Hot and getting hotter through the week. Good morning, everyone. This morning, 71 degrees. Humidity never came back at 20 . The winds are calm at 4 Miles Per Hour. Now, as we head through the day the picks pick up at noon from the east blowing back toward the lake and they will switch and start to blow over to the west as we head into the afternoon. And evening around 1020 Miles Per Hour. The unfortunate part is 93 today and 98 tomorrow, 100 on wednesday, and we will start to see a gradual tapering of the hot temperatures. That means the wind are going to pick up, but, also, when they pick up it p
Now, to Amy Hollyfield. She is in downtown lower lake this morning. You can see the destruction is massive. Amy . Yes, look behind me at this rubble. This is where a two Story Office Building sued on main street the can you see the stairs are Still Standing but nothing else. This is next to the habitat for humanity Office Building which was also destroyed. Here is a look at the fire burning yesterday that tore through the town of lower lake and it burned cars and businesses and homes. Firefighters have not assessed how many or specifically which buildings. They say that will take them some time. 4,000 people have been evacuated, people here say that it was amaze telling see this huge fire invade their town. Ait is Something Else to see this in person and be here and see a fire kick up from a grass fire and jump down interest a building and leap over buildings and catch another building on fire. Fires say that 3,000 acres have burned and it is 5 contained. Those are the numbers from las
Repair shop in perfect condition, stand asking no problems. No power, of course, but this side of the street looking all right, so very sporadic damage. It is still smoky with fire bumping here downtown. But here is a look at what it looks like yesterday. It swept through downtown destroying homes and cars and businesses. 4,000 people have been evacuated and everyone got out okay with no injuries reported. Firefighters officially say that ten structures destroyed, we can look around and we suspect that number is going to climb. Here is what the postmaster told us about the town. They were able to save the post office, there is a fire hydrant in front of office and they were able to save our post office as well as the tire shop next door but unfortunately the Sandwich Shop we are directly next to, was lost. This started on saturday afternoon and, really, whipped up yesterday, they are calling it the clayton fire and they describe the fires behavior as intense. Right now, they are saying
Friday august 12th. Im glams gasia mikaelian. And good morning, im dave clark. We are following a nightmare for commuters. No service turned to limited service. But you should still find a way to get around. Now caltrain has major problems on their system. We have Live Team Coverage of this mornings commute. Very rough on a number of front sal has the latest on caltrain. And brian flores is following the bart problems. You have some good news for riders . Reporter very good news i should say. Things have gotten better. Service has resumed. One the trains is coming right now, right behind me, but that was not the case earlier, roughly about an hour and a half ago. Going to video to what we saw. There was some track problem, an issue with a bad insulator in between the daly city and the balboa station. There was even a small fire that was quickly put out but that caused some major problems. From mission to sfo affecting several passengers, many of whom headed to the airport to work or ca
Before they call 911. Reporter he says people with respiratory problems should stay inside and avoid being too active. Alyssa harrington, abc7 news. All right. And now lets go to abc7 anchor now. Spencer . Reporter some of the smoke will continue moving through the bay area but at first, it was the cause of increasing winds. Heres live doppler 7 hd. Heres a satellite image of the smoke. Its the chimney fires directly to our south and some coming from fires over in the South Central part of the state. But we do have increasing winds in the bay area that will mix out some of the smoke as we head into the weekend and give us better air quality and we see breezes gust to 31 Miles Per Hour in fairfield. 21 Miles Per Hour in concord. And steady winds in San Francisco. So we have improving air quality but it takes a couple of days to get back to a more helpful level. Thanks a lot. Updating the fire is contributing to the hazy conditions. The chimney fire in san louis is now almost 12,000 acre