Voluntary evacuations. We have live team coverage. Amy hollyfield and Lauren Martinez are in Sonoma County. We start with lisa argen tracking that critical fire danger. The temperature in San Francisco at 70 degrees. Offshore winds have been blowing all night. At the surface, not too gusty. Right now looking at 20 to 40mileperhour winds. This will continue through the 8 00 and 9 00 hour. Offshore winds bringing down the relative humidity here into the Single Digits. Elsewhere in the east bay and south bay, not as dry. We are looking at the relative humidity. Very dry at Half Moon Bay. Look at the temperatures in the east bay valleys, near record warmth in the upper 80s today. Could see 90s in San Francisco. Looking at very warm weather throughout the bay and at the coast. Thank you very much. The kincaid fire started around 10 00 last night in geyserville and it exploded to 10,000 acres. This map gives you a better idea of where the fire started. Its northeast of geyserville near john
This area are dealing with because they have to evacuate. This is video that came into our newsroom of the kinkaide fire. You can see flames burning on both sides of the road. The smoke is so dense you cant see too far ahead of you. All of this is happening near guyserville. Evacuations are underway this morning. We have multiple crews in Sonoma County this morning to bring you the latest on where this is burning. Were going to start with lisa argen. She is watching the winds. What are we up to . We have winds over 40 miles an hour up in the upper elevations here and some of these winds are certainly drying out. All the winds are drying out the atmosphere. We have the red flag warning. As we look at the relative humidity, 12 and 11 . Elsewhere, not as bad. We continue to see the gusty winds as we go through the afternoon. Notice the colors, the reds, the yellows. Im going to stop this at 7 00. Were still up to 40mileanhour winds in cloverdale. As we go through the afternoon, the good n
Anything positive to help. The winter decrease later on. The strongest gusts are in the Sonoma County area. More coming up later. Here is sal. All rights. Right now we do look at the commute that is going to be busy if you were driving on 80 westbound. I want to show you that the traffic is beginning to wrap up a little bit heading out to the macarthur maze. 22 minute drive. Right now the bay bridge is a typical commute. If youre driving on interstate 880, this traffic is beginning to ramp up. We are getting into the ramp up stage of the morning commute on all the freeways in the bay area including the east bay although you have an opportunity to jump ahead of the crowd, especially for the Silicon Valley commute. You can see 87 has a problem northbound but the rest of that is easy. Use 101 or 85 to 17. Lets go back to dave. Complete coverage of this outofcontrol wired fire. Cristina rendon is near the front lines of the kincade fire. Give us the latest from where you are. Reporter good
Its called the kincade fire because it started a long kincade road near the geysers geothermal field with 60 Miles Per Hour wind. You are taking a look at some of the video of howse peak how big this fire is. Pilots said the wind was too rough but they do plan to get back in the air as soon as the sun comes up. We are getting aircraft ready in anticipation of when the wind does die down we can get aircraft and helicopter in there as quickly as possible. The area under evacuation includes hundreds of homes and the river rock casino. Evacuation warnings have been issued for parts of healdsburg and geysers bill. Flames are expected to approach vineyards on the eastern edge of Alexander Valley. Evacuation centers are open at Windsor High School and the Healdsburg Community center. Authorities say the evacuation zone is not heavily populated but there are homes and some hunting cabins scattered throughout the area. New overnight video to show you of geysers road east of cloverdale. Flames o
She didnt return home to Salt Lake City where she was said to be honored with a women in tech award. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. Im julie haener. Her family said she was found dead in her rental car in san jose yesterday. Ktvus andre senior joins us outside San Jose Police headquarters with the latest on the investigation. Andre. Reporter tonight San Jose Police will not confirm the body found in that vehicle in that quiet neighborhood is that of erin valenta, but her family and friends say it is her body, in fact, and theyre now looking for answers in this case and theyre mourning her passing. There are flowers, a note with three hearts and the name erin written on it sitting on a sidewalk on the 6500 block of lane in san jose. Her body was found in a car here saturday night. When we came out to walk our dog, we noticed all the activity. Reporter this resident told us he had an inkling of what might be happening here because he had been following a Facebook Page creat