Even notice this wind last night. If you didnt know advertise it last night, youre going to not notice it tonight. And were also seeing despite this red flag warning, an onshore flow at the surface. We have fog at the coast, and that is good news, generally. Temperatures are running 25 to 30 degrees cooler than last night at this time. This is the winds, right . See the areas . Thats the north wind essentially. Thats this afternoon. See the fog come back in. And then watch this. Thats onshore flow. This is about 5 00 tomorrow morning. Thats the red flag warning, but look at the wind speeds in the north bay. 24 miles an hour. Its not going to be a or shouldnt be a robust overnight like we had last night. So the red flag warning is up. The hills above 1,000 feet. But it does not look as strong as last night. So if you felt good about last night where you lived, youll feel better about tonight. Of course well keep an eye on it. Ill see you back here in just a little bit. The power shutoff
But first escaping the were trapped. Flames. Tonight inside those daring reporter while multiple agencies are making sure there helicopter rescues near yosemite are no hikers still trapped in the fire zone, those who were c. I was a little bit anxious because you dont know how rescued, are grateful. Quickly its coming up the hill. Were just so lucky and two people from the bay area with stories to tell after being fortunate to have made it out and to have been helped by all airlifted to safety by the those amazing, amazing people. National guard. Reporter in the south bay, tonight we have that inside ian cull, nbc bay area news. Story of those helicopter were seeing dangerous fire rescues. Among the 200 people who were weather across much of the state. Here in the bay area, the heat and the wind and the smoke rescued, some hikers from the bay area who didnt know if they remain a big concern. This is what it looked like all would make it out alive. Their Labor Day Weekend road afternoon
Breathing it in more. I bought for error purifiers from target. So i have air purifiers in my apartment. I close the windows. Thats all i could do. Its the new toilet paper air purifiers. Personal care businesses that have seen customers outdoors, are being forced to shut down again because of the smoky conditions. They just opened up an outdoor area after being closed for six months. They are eager to go back to work but not with the current poor air quality. You can see the fine layer of ash on all the furniture. Many salon operators feel the cities restrictions are not there. Y we are high risk rather than retail that cant Contact Trace and dont have a questionnaire and we are doing all these things to be as safe of as possible. We are left behind and later than these other things that are open. The salon owner got new and good news from the city. They will be able to open indoors with limited capacity beginning on monday. Satellite images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric A
Contain at least two dozen large fires in the middle of a historic heat wave. More than two million acres have burned so far this year, making it the worst on record in california and thats before the usual peak of the season. Hot dry gusts are blowing tonight, whipping up blowtorch conditions. Over the weekend more than 200 people had to be air lifted as a fire ripped through this campground. And just take a look at this tourist town tonight. Big creek, nearly wiped out by the flames. And on this labor day, the 2020 president ial campaign is in full swing. A new cbs news Battleground Tracker poll shows joe biden leading the president in a National Poll of likely voters. The president today also suggested a Coronavirus Vaccine could be ready by election day despite several of his own Top Health Officials saying that is unlikely. Meanwhile the country is bracing for a potential surge of new covid cases after Mass Gatherings over the weekend. We have a lot of news to get to with teams co
Are there. An urgent plea from police after a 6 yearold boy is killed on july 4th what we know about the investigation tonight good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news today. We have a team of reporters following these fires across the bay area we begin in the east bay where a fire burned close to homes in rodeo and thats where we have kron 4 status aqi joining us live with the very latest on that fire taylor. Welcome though wind is still picking up a little bit here today, the wind played a huge role and how this fire behaved and where it moved today earlier it started out as 2 smaller fires, but ultimately merge into one as the winds picked up now thankfully though the one good thing about the wind is that it pushed the fire away from homes, nearby and instead pushed the fire into the wilderness area you see here behind me. Now you can see that that areas no longer smoking like it was just hours ago. If you take a look at this video from e