Lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri with more on the conditions theyre dealing with. Even some low 90s in the vicinity of the fire. The heat and the humidity are the number one things theyre battling. The good news which is probably helping them get that containment we just heard about is the wind is not extremely gusty. Right now we have winds out of the northwest at 10, occasional gusts to 20. So that likely has been helping those firefighters. Here you can see it on this map. South of Lake Berryessa. Smoke from this primarily blowing towards winters with the way that that wind is blowing. Once again, 128 and wragg canyon road. Tomorrow winds out of the west at 10. Tomorrow gusts also up to 20. Hopefully that lower wind would again help out the firefighters. Now, our fire danger going up all across the bay area. Today the fire burn index is 75. Basically putting our fire danger on a scale which is in the high category. Tomorrow goes up to 100, which is still high but getti
Have had four traffic fatalities on the streets of San Francisco, four more people have lost their lives through the end of june, a total of 19 lives lost. Eleven of which were pedestrians just to walk through them, and you will see you might hear some themes here. June 23rd at 1 30 a. M. , a southbound vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed allegedly ran a red light at third and paul, striking another vehicle, which killed the driver and passenger of the other vehicle. The driver was 26 years old, and his passenger was 49 years old. We did send a Rapid Investigation Team out there. We did find some faded crosswalks, which sins have been repainted, but clearly spee was the issue here. On june 24th, the next day, 3 00 a. M. , a 56yearold man was killed at California Park california and Park Presidio when an eastbound driver, travelling at a high rate of speed ran a red light and struck his vehicle as he was going north on park and presidio. We also went out and repainted the lines,
Supervisor peskin . Thank you, vice vice chair. Commissioners, director, and to the remarkable staff of the sfmta, my name is aaron peskin and im not here in my capacity as a supervisor, that will happen later. I am here in my capacity as chair of the littleknown Funding Agency called the San Francisco county transportation authority. Momentarily to be joined by our executive director, tilly chang, for the purpose of saying what is rarely said to the public, which are words of sincere and profound thanks to our outgoing director, address given, and to acknowledge and celebrate and ruskin, and the fact that i have been a constant pain in his but. [laughter] so lets be real. This is the toughest job in San Francisco government, maybe the second toughest job is the one that Jeff Kaczynski has running the department of homelessness, but eds is the toughest and i just want to say, i have known him, and all three of his positions, going back to my first tour of duty when he came and made 311
A rented tesla, sharon. This happened in a high traffic area just outside of union square, and its still unclear whether the tesla was an in autopilot mode. The accident occurred at the taylor and ofarl streets intersections around 2 00 yesterday. The driver of the tesla ran a red light and was going about 45 miles per hour. The tesla hit a mini cooper and the tesla driver lost control hitting two pedestrians in the intersection. The victim who was killed has been identified as 39yearold Benjamin Dean from the fresno area. You can see dean and his wife, kelly, on her facebook page, just yesterday, posting video of their trip to the San Francisco museum of ice cream. Nbc bay area talked to the owner of the tesla yesterday, who rented the tesla out to the driver. He says he was in the office when he got a message that said the tesla was not drivable, and something failed. Then i received a followup call from tesla roadside assistance, and the guy was saying your car is in accident, are y
Model 3. Police walked the women accused of hitting the pair out of a nearby hotel in handcuffs. They have not released her name, but say she is in her early 20s and is cooperating with their ongoing investigation. She is charged with rung a red light and mcdonalds machines. She was behind the wheel of this black tesla model 3. She blew threw the red light at ofarrell and taylor in the tenderloin. The mini cooper had the green light, made contact with the tesla as it ran the red light, causing the vehicle to hit two pedestrians in the crosswalk. The San Francisco medical examiner has identified the man in the crosswalk as 39yearold Benjamin Deen from clovis. The driver of the tesla rented it from a car Share Company called get around. The owner, albert kim dime the crash scene because he got an odd notification from tesla about the collision. The message showed up your car is not drivable. Reporter police say they have security video camera from three different angles. They estimate th