Holly. Latest. Holly. tiffany thanks holly. We will check back with you through out the morning. james good morning and thanks for joining us. Im james fletcher. tiffany and im Tiffany Mcelroy. Mcelroy. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. James James James the devastation is enormous in florida after irma. To help get the state back on its feet. There are several rescue teams from the bay area there now. tiffany kron 4s Justine Waldman tells us what. And how they are doing in florida. The brunt of the brutal storm has passedand the rescue and Recovery Efforts are about to begin. Members of oaklandbased california urban search and rescue task force 4,made it to florida just in time. Sot bridges are closed, one closed right behind me fortunate to get through right before it happenedover the phone, battalion chief robert lipp tells kron 4 news. The team arrived sunday and spent the night at the Or
Morning. James fletcher is here with your forecast. james after a very busy day yesterday with multiple storm cells and lightning, we are starting out the day on a quiet note. Radar shows that the only cells still going are off the coast. The combination of instability, moisture, plus daytime heating will lead to at least a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms through tonight. Rainfall amounts will be generally light under a tenth . The system giving us this weather will track farther to the northeast on wednesday which could shift the focus of the rain. Outside of the risk for rain, a noticeable cooling trend will start no major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. darya and this morning we are getting a look at even more lightning strikes that happened across the bay area. Plus some new reports of damage. mark Tiffany Mcelroy is here with some of the best video this tiffany. tiffany we saw lightning in virtually every part of the bay area. This i
These families lost everything in the Redwood Valley fire in Mendocino County last month. They say pg e is to blame. Pg e of gross negligence for not properly cutting back vegetation and maintaining power lines. To we are certain this is the cause. That will eventually be the official cause. We can do discovery. Reporter they say pg e should have seen the dangerous situations coming and shouldve cut the power to Certain Homes to cut the fire. We dont want to have people without power but this was far worse. You should cut it off so that if lines fall, they dont start these ignitions fire victims and Sonoma County also blaming pg e for negligence for the destruction that happened with these wildfires. The representative for those clients says this is likely to be consolidated as one large lawsuit going forward. Thank you. The tubbs fire was started near calistoga and its the most destructive wildfire in state history. Now a preliminary report from cal fire shows how bad it actually was.
Is on to keep fire debris out of the water in wine country. Ktvus tom vacar joins us from petaluma where a company is making a key element to keep those toxins out. Tom. In order to prevent wholesale contamination of the watershed you need do something very important, which is what this factory is doing. You need to manufacture tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dams, called wattles, in order to prevent the watershed from being grossly polluted. Pretty much everywhere you look in the burn areas, you will see barriers placed around storm drains. They keep toxins from washing into the drains. That blocks debris flow into the storm drains and creeks. We are also adding compost rolls to add additional filtering to reduce the potential. Reporter nobody is sure what and how many toxins are in the ash but some think its a lot. We are planning to do Water Quality sampling to determine whats running off into our creeks and waterways. Reporter they will be looking for toxic heavy
Also in the programme a Scrappage Scheme for diesel cars could be on the way as the Government Strategy to tackle Air Pollution is due to be published later. Ill be looking at what that might mean for car owners. And a lifetime of service, we will hear your memories as the duke of edinburgh retires. And in sport, Manchester United reign in spain, where Marcus Rashford makes his mark, to help his team, take a big step towards the Europa League final. And Sarah Keith Lucas has the weather. I will have a full forecast in about 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. There has been a substantial swing from labour to the conservatives in early results from yesterdays local elections. The tories have made significant gains in england and wales. Counting doesnt start in scotland until later. All the councils in wales and scotland were up for grabs and a third of those in england. The conservatives have gained 115 seats and labour have lost 113. Heres our Political Correspondent chris