Making water drops, retardant drops over the burn zone. Just minutes ago, still happening life to the fire broke out in the area, we appreciate the viewer email, giving us the correct pronunciation here. Lower Childs Valley in Childs Valley road. The fire prompting road closures. In the flames of course no word on the cause of this, how it got started but we will continue to stay on top of this firefight and bring you the very latest. Now within the past 15 minutes, we learned that marin county is preparing for a potential pg e power shut off because of the extreme weather and the fire conditions that are coming. The watch what is in effect starting sunday afternoon for approximately 20,000 customers. And those of the higher elevations. Our special coverage of campaign 2020, President Trump speaking live right now in florida, the postdebate blitz, the Battle Ground states. The critical voting resource comes to the bay area neighborhood, residents dont have their own mailboxes. Making s
Tuesday. The entire bay area, high salvations we are talking about sustained wind, 25 to 40 miles an hour with gusts 67 miles an hour, and even a lower terrain, the valleys and along the coast, sustained went 20 to 30 miles an hour and gusts up to 50 miles an hour so this includes everyone. We start 2 00 sunday afternoon, technically under the red flag warning at that point, nothing too low. What happens as we had into sunday evening. The committee is the north bay, dropped around 10 , and the wind arrows are moving a lot faster. The peak of the offshore wind will be sent and into early monday morning and the humidity will be bone dry, the fire fuels our new record levels in terms of how dry they are, this is a very dangerous combination and the dangerous fire weather conditions are going to continue to the day on monday, even as the wind begins to slack off just a little bit. Look at those numbers, 3 to 6 relative humidity levels, any motion atmosphere. We take a look at the specific
The key is to attack fire relatively small. Strike teams were also in place. The Immediate Response was helpful for early evacuations. We knew the vent was coming. Abl a lot of notice. Reporter strike teams could be disbanded saturday but not likely with record winds expected to return sunday. Hot, dry wind is probably the biggest problem with wildfires. Clearly the temperatures have come down but the wind combined with the dry fuels that we still have could present a very big problem for us. Reporter the strike teams will have a lot of help from cal fire in covering all this territory. Cal fire has already got extra staffing and equipment ready for this windy weekend. Live in san jose, robert honda, nbc bay area news. Thank you, robert. Were getting our first look at the east bay yous have them to help on the front lines. The chopper became fully certified to battle flames from the sky. Its already helped crews fight several fires over the past few weeks. We have lots of questions for
Just a week after being diagnosed with covid19 President Trump schedules and in person event at the white house for tomorrow. And a rally in florida on monday. Thank you for joining us on this friday night what a difference a week makes im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis and just a few hours ago the president made an appearance in his first televised interview. After his diagnosis. He credited his team of doctors and a cocktail of experimental drugs for feeling, good and strong in his battle against coronavirus kron fours Ella Sogomonian joins us live in the newsroom to bring us up to date on his condition l a this time last week he had just gotten to walter reed. Yeah i had already he says hes feeling. Good. President donald trump shared that his last treatment today and that he supposes its good to be president because he got the medical attention needed early on to regain his health quickly with few side effects. This segment advertised as a live medical screening was more of a te
Danger expected. These two have a place to go if needed. Were super fortunate. We know someone out of town so its somewhere we can go and reside a little bit. This is the first time in recent memory we saw conditions broadly advising prevacatioevac. We want to make sure our residents living in the hills and also southeast berkeley are prepared and able to be safe in the event of a fire. And so were asking people to preevacuate if they live in parts of our hills in which theyll have guilty getting out quickly in a fire. Reporter theyre encouraging people to discuss covid safety with those they might stay with. Some hotels are offering discounts. Firefighters have taken significant steps to prepare, and police will patrol the hills. Neighbors east of claremont and around panoraming hill were told should be ready for potential power shutoffs. Ive got plenty of batteries, plenty of flashlights. Reporter hes getting his backpack ready. Hes not leaving yet. If he does that could include taki