Smoke rising from the glass fire as we look over the napa valley. So far it has a burned about 11,000 acres. It really exploded overnight, and unfortunately there is zero percent containment. More than a thousand firefighters are on the fire lines battling the flames. We have Live Team Coverage tonight, Christien Kafton has the latest on where all of the evacuees gorge, and greg lee with the destruction to wines and homes. Tom vacar with details on the homes destroyed near santa rosa, put we begin with Cristina Rendon on the specifics of the glass fire. Cristina . Well, frank, the big unknown right now is how this fire started. We know they are planning a brief update is any moment now with Sonoma County officials. At this hour, nearly 60,000 people remain under Evacuation Orders in napa and sonoma counties. The glass fire exploded overnight, burning from wine country in napa county to eastern Sonoma County. The winds pushing flames towards communities there was tremendous loss between
Hours after voting down an agreement that would have opened the door to classroom learning during the pandemic. Teachers were asked to be both online teachers and in prison teachers. And in many cases, at the same time. Reporter this mom of second graders has her own doubts about hybrid learning. Three different schedules because they will be remote one day and be expected to learn completely independently with no teacher supervision two days a week. Reporter various schools are planning and some moving ahead with a mixed model. Staggering arrivals and rotating sessions creating cohorts that swap campus and home to limit risk. But nevadas 400 teachers they cant get find the hybrid model. They just dont believe its the best path forward. Reporter the teachers unions is any return to classroom should bes slow and small with hundreds, not thousands of students to start. And preferably after the first of the year. We would have to be zooming with a mask on to the students at home. We canno
Hour but ill give you the good news first and that is our bridges look really good so heading into San Francisco this morning, no delays for you at the bay bridge toll plaza it is picking up more folks are rolling in, but no big problems so were still at an easy 7 minutes off to the fremont street exit were off to 92 and its much busier and our busiest bridge right now we have a crowd, lets itself on the flat section but that is the norm, so youre averaging a very quick 12 minutes to the peninsula. Heres the trouble spot left over from the 4 oclock hour injury crash 80 north at to kowtow so coming out of fremont into union city weve gone from having all lanes blocked to just the right lane. It was a multi vehicle accident and car fire. The right lane is still closed your backup tore thornton but thats really not too bad as i zoom out you can see that as soon as you pass the crash the rest of the trip continuing north will be fine on through union city and hayward well check out some mo
Well bring that you coverage of the memorial as it begins. As we wait for that today in the bays tracie potts is at the high court. Tracie, a somber day certainly but people cant forget that politics also at play here. Reporter no question about that, and we are on the grounds of the u. S. Capitol just across from the court where its still evident that the somber moments that were seeing this morning, the private memorial, the beginning of the public paying respects, all pierced by some very difficult capitol where republicans and democrats one more person now onboard to consider this nomination. People, especially women, are flocking to the u. S. Supreme court to remember the late justice known as the notorious rbg. I really like the fact she stood up for everybodys rights, men and women. Reporter more are expected to pay tribute today as Justice Ruth Bader ginsburgs casket is placed outside overlooking the u. S. Capitol where theres a fight to quickly confirm her replacement. Well fi
Near as fun to be stepping outside and today though i mean look at this beautiful morning berkeley. Probably my favorite ive seen the shot is just gorgeous out there with plenty of sunshine. Trading in the gray of yesterday for the sunshine this morning and not hazy sunshine either weve got blue skies in green on our air quality map indicating that hey were going to be breathing in some fresh air yet again today, 50s and 60s for your current temperatures that is a little cooler as youre venturing outside to go ahead, get the jacket ready to go as you step outside for work this wednesday morning later on today, no need to worry about the jacket were back in the 70s and 80s talking the much hotter conditions this weekend still to come over to you robin, thank you john im noticing that the morning commute is already improving. I think the worst of the traffic was actually in the 6 oclock hour because. Im checking out the san mateo bridge and its already thinning out so asvery nice improve