Wanted to see. Its a terrible feeling. Everything behind our house burned but we are a sitting pretty, it looks like. Late last night, the thomas fire hopped the highway 101 in Ventura County near solimar beach and the fire made it all the way to the shoreline. Smoke from the three fires affecting air quality throughout the area. On your left, the satellite image taken from space shows how bad conditions are right now. A smoke advisory and bad air quality warning is issued for the west and east san fernando valleys and beach areas of the counties. Its hazy all across Southern California. Its something of course we saw with the wine country wildfires wine. The smoke lasted for days. You have to feel for them. The problems in Southern California with those windy conditions, they cant get the choppers up because its dangerous when you have those high winds. So whats the situation there now . Unfortunately, the winds are not going to be calming down for a while until about friday. Its beca
Kicking up tonight. The gusts were up to 40 Miles Per Hour in parts of the bay. Tonight, still gusty west northwest thirdly northwesterly winds. As strong as 32 miles an hour at the airport in San Francisco. As far as what happens next, if were going to see rain again, well have that in the forecast in just a few minutes. Strong winds are a concern for fire crews. Tonight, one north bay city could take an aggressive step to cut down on fire danger by ordering Property Owners to cut down their trees. This is as good a time as any to talk about the Inconvenient Truth of fire danger. Three quarters of the homes are nestled among rows of trees. Now the city is seeing many have to go. The city is doing this, we have been doing this and were going to be doing more. Reporter Stephanie Moulton peters says the conversation in her city started with the Oakland Hills fire in 1991. It took on new urgency a few years later. With the amount of vision fire. Watching napa and santa rosa burn, mill val
And then wrongly imprisoned. Florida lawmakers have just apologized for this grave injustice. We will speak with the Pulitzer Prize winning writer gilbert king. He wrote devil in the grove Thurgood Marshall, the groveland boys, and the dawn of a new america. Then to a modern day case of Racial Injustice in the florida legal system. We will speak to Marissa Alexander here in florida. She was jailed for three years after firing a warning shot into a wall near her abusive husband. Think of the people who are in my situation whose case might not have made the news, who dont have the support, and how difficult it is to come up with the money for probation or to find a job or anything like that. Amy this was around the time that George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin. And here in tampa, florida we , will speak to a syrian refugee who just graduated from Saint Leo University near tampa. He gave the graduation address. So we went out to the street we were met by the Regime Se
Groveland four. One was killed by a mob of 1000 men. It was led by the local sheriff. The others were tortured in jail and then wrongly imprisoned. Florida lawmakers have just apologized for this grave injustice. We will speak with the pulitztzr prize winning writer gilbert king. He wrote devil in the grove Thurgood Marshall, the groveland boys, and the dawn o of a new america. Then to a modern day case of Racial Injustice in the florida legal system. We will speak to Marissa Alexander here in florida. She was jailed for three years after firing a warning shot into a wall near her abusive husband. Thihink of the people who o e in my situation whose case might not have made the news, who dont have the support, and how difficult it is to come up with the money for probationon or to find a job or anything like that. Amy this was around the time that George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin. And here in tampa, florida we , will speak to a syrian refugee who just graduated f
For lost people. Reporter how will it cause inconvenience for you . Oh, man, boy, i aint going to say that on camera. Youre not real happy about. Know it will cause me a lot of inconvenience. Im active person y stay in the house. With the strike will keep me in the house. Definitely looking hopefully they come up with an agreement before tonight. If not, who knows. Reporter septa really urging people to start planning for this. We do know the Bike Share Program being expand. Uber being expanded. Contingency plans are being made for University City as well as for the school district. Excused absences will be allowed so really a lot of planning is going into this but again negotiations continue to be underway at this hour. No real news to report. We will have more in about an hour from now. Guys, back to you. So much to talk about. All right, thank much, brad. Lots of hospitals and schools do have a contingency plan should septa workers strike. You can get all the breaking details on our