There is a beautiful view. This is towards San Francisco and you can see a whole lot better and we can actually see San Francisco this morning. Yesterday, it was covered in gray. Temperatures are also off to a cooler start with clearer skies and drier air moving in and we have temperatures of falling off this morning. You can see the afternoon approaching and temperatures are going to warm. We have 53 degrees in San Francisco and upper 40s in oakland and a mid40s over livermore and san jose is 49. We will see we are down by a few degrees in most areas down by six over oakland, cooler by 11 00 in napa and san jose is a degrees cooler. There is the cloud cover and it is a mix of cloudy skies and sunshine to start the day and you can see visibility maps, napa is reporting less than a mile at the airport, and everybody else is looking pretty good. The closer you get into the sacramento Central Valley, you can see the darker shade of gray indicating dense fog. If you have an early drive, th
Good morning and welcome to mornings on 2. Its friday, october 17. Im claudine wong. Good morning. Im dave clark. Steve paulson is here. He knew the exact date. Im sure you got to bed very early last night in anticipation. I did. A couple hours sleep . Two. Plenty. We do have mostly clear skies. The weak system brushing us to the north will keep temperatures in check until sunday. Then they start to warm up a little bit. If youre in mendocino county, maybe a little this is pushing toward fort bragg. Temperatures will warm up but not until sunday. An even keel if you will for saturday and then it looks warmer. I would not go hot but it will be warmer with 80s showing up on monday and tuesday. Not much of a breeze yesterday. Really ramped up for some. 40s and 50s. At the airport at 42. Or valley at 40. Upper 40s and mid 40s for many. Rohnert park at 47. Kernville, 46. Mostly sunny. Partly cloudy around carla stone as the system brushes up. A little breeze picks up but not as bad as yeste
This morning the evacuations have been lifted but that part of highway 29 is still closed while crews are battling the flames. Contra costa county supervise say that gate to the Nustar Petroleum Storage Facility was locked with the first firefighters arrived to fight the fire. Workers also left the scene without activating the Fire Suppression system. Investigators are looking into what sparked the explosion and the fire. Whitehouse acting chief of staff of Mick Mulvaney is backing off claim that prompt blocked almost 400 million in aid to ukraine for political reasons. Yesterday he first said President Trumps withheld the aid before releasing a statement saying otherwise later in the afternoon. President trumps has repeatedly denied any such quid pro quo deal. Now to the Syrian Border were fighting started again despite a ceasefire record less than 24 hours ago by Vice President pence and secretary of state mike pompeo. Doug luzader reports from washington, d. C. On another challenge
Any injuries . I havent heard of any injuries at this time. What can you tell us about nustar . I cant tell you a lot about nustar at this time. I dont know if theyve had significant incidents. There was a vegetation fire up interstate 80 a little west of here last summer. But i dont think it was associated with the refinerys operation. Im unaware of any other incidents in the refinery itself. Are you confident that another tank is not going to eplode . I am not confident of that. I know theyre doing a lot of what theyre doing right now to prevent that from occurring. Youre attacking that hillside pretty aggressively with water drops and so forth. Why is that . Are you concerned about it spreading to other tanks up above . It could be that. It could be that the vegetation on that side is a little bit thicker. It looks like theres more brush and trees as opposed to the grass you see on this side. They may be concerned about fire spreading to the vegetation and to the tanks at the top of
Threatened tanks by pouring water on them. In the meantime on the other tanks, two tanks that are burning, theyve been putting they have brought foam material as well and also cooling them down with water. Crews are down there. I know you cant see them from here, but they are down there really attacking this fire very aggressively. Let me just also tell you what theyre also bringing here, firefighters. We are told that the refineries nearby are bringing also experts to monitor this situation and also bring in special equipment. I mean, you know, chemical fires are different and require the expertise of people who know how to deal with them. They are bringing special equipment to help these firefighters here. They have about 200 people on scene from different agencies, but 200 people right now trying to combat that fire. They are combatting it again attacking it with foam and water. Now we had vegetation fires, about 15 acres were burning. That is no longer an issue. They, again, aggres