Acres in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Sadly, one person died. 925 homes destroyed. But firefighters did manage to save thousands of homes. Cal fire tweeted out this video, firefighters reading parts of the hundreds of thank you letters they received. Also tonight, progress in the fight against covid19. Three more bay area counties are now in the red. San mateo, solano, and alameda counties have moved into the red tier, which means increased capacity at a number of businesses and indoor customers for salons and tattoo parlors. One of the counties is saying not so fast. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney reports from Alameda County. Reporter its out of the purple tier and into the red in san mateo, solano, and here in Alameda County. But Alameda County Health Officials say there will be no immediate changes, and as with other reopenings, it will be important for Alameda County to take a measured and phased approach to avoid dramatic increases in disease transmission and reclosures. At s
Like a numbers game. What happens when a Novel Coronavirus threatens to shut down schools. It places pressure on those who are barely making ends meet. If the school shut down and parents are working minimum wage jobs have to stay home with the kids, there is a good chance they will not make the rent payments. Thats what ray branson chief impact officer with destination home is worried about the nonprofit across the country are increasingly concerned about families that are already in the midst of a housing crisis, now may soon be impacted by a health crisis. I absolutely think that Something Like this which keeps people from being able to go to work, which keeps people in the big economy from being able to do their jobs every day, i think various a if things get out of hand the worse it will see more people o homelessness. The homeless are another focus for nonprofits now especially when the message from officials is, washer hands, try to wash your hands frequently. Continue to be vig
Better chance to possibly see thatwe a great start especially in our bay area bridges, no delays right now at the bay bridge so if you are taking that commute out of these bay, via the bay bridge in San Francisco right now things are pretty light, and easy right there, just a heads up there is reports of a traffic hazard, a broken down vehicle east on 80 write it Fourth Street so that will help you head into the city at the san mateo bridge looks good, no delays, still have a 30 minute ride to go over towards 101 and the Golden Gate Bridge quiet in both directions just a heads up, north of sausalito. Alive look now at the port of oakland, where last is quarantined on the ground prince is cruiseship will continue to disembark later this afternoon. They arrived around noon yesterday. Anne vic is live there right now with what it takes to get thousands of passengers off that ship. At least they are waking up a little closer torylada re is the ground princess behind me in the port of oakla
Antioch, brentwood, oakley as well. Light inc. In the distance and even towards napa county. Southern lake county. Some those are coming out of lodi and then towards st. Helena, calistoga. We are not done yet but the big cells have been towards monterey. Look at that. Kaboom. They are around the northern area, fairfield, look at that low. The fog came back. That pretty much put the kibosh on everybody for us but the flow around that is producing some thundershower activity but its hit and miss. 60s on the temps. A lot of drizzle around the bay. A few 50s, calistoga in there. A lot of low 60s. This will be the coolest day for many in a long time. When you get a west wind, west wind, west southwest and west of 30, 35, at the delta, cooler. 60s the temps. If you are headed up there, watch out. Even this morning out to the east, some thundershower activity. Sal, 5 02. What do you have, my friend. Looking at my tweet just to make sure that are someone is not asking me a question make sure t
Near capital expressway and 101. It caught many people by surprise. Christien kafton is out there live. That water is still on the rise. We do know that five people were rescued in your last live report. Have more people been rescued. Reporter at this point, no. They have drawn back the response. You see the water is still moving quickly. It might be tough to see but there is debris. That is what remains of some of this homeless encampment that was in the area. We had heard initial reports of 20 to possibly 40 people that called this their temporary home. The water started rising at 6 45. Fire officials got the call to come on out here to the golf course to try to pull people out of the water. We heard reports of people in trees on high water, desperate for rescue. Now at this point though fire Officials Say that they have scanned the water with the helicopter. They have scanned the water with boats. And they say at this point it seems that there is no one else out there. We have video