Though with my kids up here. I grew up here being able to walk the neighborhoods. Im not sure i ever feel they are safe walk the neighborhood. Reporter she heard the rumors the fire may have been started by a marijuana farmer. Most of the community is worried since they moved up here that Something Like that would happen. Reporter as for the fire itself, its days are numbered. A cool, moist sea breeze with a steady stream of helicopters making bucket drops meant we didnt see any major flareups at all. [ chainsaw ] reporter we caught up with a prison work crew as they chased down hot spots on a steep hillside. As the fire winds down and burns out, investigators will get in there and find out the cause. Theres been some chatter it might be a marijuana farmer that caused this. The fire itself remains under investigation. Reporter is it suspicious in nature . We just dont have any better information at this time. Reporter and so this is the windiest day of the week. The fire technically is
Petaluma by 6 36 and 7 04 tonight. Were thank not only this storm system thats over us but another one offshore thats set to hit for tomorrow. Ill have full details on that and exact river levels on where things could go really bad the next 24 hours. Okay, jeff. Well get back to you shortly. We havent had this problem in awhile. In Sonoma County jeff was referring to it. The Russian River is expected to overflow its banks. Kim yonanaka yonanaka in knoxville whats the game plan there . Reporter first off everyone is hoping that all the el nino preps will pay off. They are watching the Russian River very closely to see how it will handle all of the rain and runoff. Because it directly affects this creek also reaching a critical stage. You can see how waters starting to push up the culvert. It will turn around and push this way. Reporter wendy lives on mill street in guernville. It is already underwater. So shes moving her livestock out today. With the threat of more rain on the way, five
Even San Francisco is going to get a blast of heat. Lets bring in meteorologist rob mayeda who has this updated timeline for us. Temperatures about 10 to 15 degrees warmer than yesterday at this same time. San jose running in the mid80s. 82 in san jose. Out towards walnut creek, 81 degrees as some of the east bay micro climates also in the 80s. Antioch, brentwood, well take you over to San Francisco. Typically the coolest micro climates around the bay area should be right there near ocean beach but pretty interesting, you can see the numbers here, upper 60s and 70s. Right now were fogfree out at ocean beach. A little bit of a late day sea breeze occurring right now, but the winds will change direction tonight into tomorrow. And that is going to set the stage for a warmup that takes us very likely past some record highs tomorrow. So the numbers to beat tomorrow, upper 80s to low 90s. Low 90s breaking records in the north bay, clubbed closing in on one and san jose. Were talking about re
Book. It shouldnt be hiding behind criminal lawyers, paid for with utility customer money. Reporter hill said hell try and stop the p. U. C. From getting the 6 million. But he tried last year to stop a similar request for 5 million. The p. U. C. Responded by threatening to gut programs. Eventually the legislature relented. San brunos mayor notice this years 6 million request on top of the 5 million they got last year adds up to double the p. U. C. s annual budget for Pipeline Safety regulation. This is ridiculous. This is crazy. Its an outrage. Its a slap in the face to taxpayers in the state of california. Thats Mark Matthews reporting. Were still waiting to go hear back from the p. U. C. Meanwhile, the woman who prepared this request is the same person implicated in those emails between the p. U. C. And pg e. Our Investigative Unit tracked all the turns in this investigation with this cozy relationship between the Public Utility Commission and the pg e. You can see those on our web s
It is 76 degrees right now in San Francisco, 75 in san jose. Maunlt ray is at 77 degrees. Now, to compare things we like to show you how the rest of the country is faring. We are just about the same temperature as miami, florida. And you know thats a place thats always hot, so were talking about summertime temperatures here today. 86 degrees is where were headed to San Francisco later on. Low 90s expected for our inland valleys, trivalley, south bay and the north bay for today. As we move toward the day tomorrow we will see temperatures cool down in a big way. Weve got more cloud cover and will see the potential of seeing some showers as we start off friday. Thats going to kick off the weekend and we are expecting to see those showers continue on and off at least for the first half of the weekend. Well talk more about that, how much rain we can expect and how cool those temperatures will go coming up in 15 minutes. Guys, back over to you. Anthony, thanks. Many people enjoying the weath