Competition and the words best surfers are putting on a show. Continuing his dominance with a huge air drop. Spectacular pete trying to run away from this and he is feeling good. Lots of excitement as fans watch their favorites but the view from the sky just as thrilling. Chopper 5 is capturing everything from waves to wipeouts. Take a look at that one. It makes it look like art. Waves today will be up to 50 feet. Lets go live to Roberta Gonzales in Half Moon Bay with more on the competition. Reporter its just amazing, imagine this, 24 of the best athletes in the entire world receive a phone call. The good news, they have been invited to compete in the greatest surf contest on the planet. The bad news, they have only 24 hours to get here. Water temperature, 46 degrees. Waves, up to 40 to 50 feet. The size of apartment buildings now, nobody can tell this story better than founder of Mavericks International, jeff clark. Now we have 24 of the best guys in the world from australia, hawaii,
Temperatures up into the 60s some low 70s. What about the weekend . Well have more on that in a moment. Right now lets check on the roads with liza battalones. Friday light for all Silicon Valley freeways including 101 as it rolls through the santa clara area, san jose, sunnyvale, no big problems to report to you. 280 is fine approaching downtown san jose. And the 880 237 interchange leaving the fremont area bound for milpitas that is trouble free with no roadwork either. The 580 680 commute thats also looking good right here our sensors are picking up a very quick trip so far for west 580 leaving the Altamont Pass bound for the dublin interchange. Thats a look at kcbs traffic. Guys . Thank you. Breaking news this morning out of san rafael, where firefighters are battling a brush fire. In this photo you can see heavy smoke and tall flames. Drivers are reporting seeing this fire from the freeway. It is spreading off of east francisco and shoreline right now. The fire burning in the midd
Were up already. Reporter this is how it ended with the chp helicopter hauling blake off the side of sheer granite. The stanford alum and employee is an experienced climber tackling the most difficult stretch when everything went wrong. Went to pull and, you know, i didnt make it and i fell and it was about 20 or 30 feet before the rope caught me. Reporter but not before his back was broken by the boulder he had landed on. I was carrying a water bladder and that exploded against the rock and when i went to feel my back initially i thought he was i thought it was my blood which was a bit troubling. Reporter climbing partner ben was panicked not from the fall but the silence. Whoa, this seems bad. It seemed bad that he was not responsive. He was not shouting to us that he was normally when a climber falls, right away, they would say im okay, getting back on it. Reporter when ben and the other climbers got to blake he was in bad shape. They called 911 and the rescue began. If you move for
Not as much wind today so temperatures going to start to warm up still a few high clouds overhead, as well. You can see some of that on our latest satellite image. Otherwise it should be a nice dry day ahead. So here we go with the temperatures. 50s and low 60s coastside. 60s inside the bay and low 70s in the warmest valleys. If you are headed out the door it is cooler than yesterday at this time in fact temperatures dropping off into the 40s and 50s even had a couple of 30s early on. By the afternoon we are planning on a high of 68 degrees in san jose. Should be about 67 degrees in oakland cool into San Francisco a little breeze there 62 degrees in the afternoon. Lets check the roads with elizabeth. Thank you, lawrence. We still have a couple of wind advisories in effect issued by the chp in parts of the east bay, benicia bridge, carquinez bridge and later on today we could see some traffic tieups if you are traveling on the nimitz freeway because of an oakland as game playing texas o
Quarter Million Dollars . Lets get to it. Good thursday afternoon. We begin with a fox weather alert in south florida. This is the big picture look of these storms coming across the peninsula. Here is the serious part. Right in miami and the northern part of miamidade county. We can give you a closer look. This is north miami, and all of this just moving toward the north and east. The most recent report from Miami International airport, operations are normal because is passed by. The national, we service says there was a tornado believed to be over sunny isle, bay harbor island. And up towards fort lauderdale. All coming in this direction. Very serious storm. This shows the Tornado Warning area. Actually moved a little bit. I think theyll be updating this. North miami beach, hall lendale, hollywood, in broward county. Tornado warnings until 33 00 eastern day light time. If youre in this area, tune to south floridas news station and they will keep you updated. Thousands of people are ri