We have a heat advisory that will be in effect for many of our valleys, especially inland. That also includes San Francisco. Well talk more about this and whats ahead. Mike, youre seeing the traffic break. Thats right, kari. Lets look at the map. Overall looking good. Typical slowing on 680. One little blip as they clear some remaining cones left over at construction. Smooth drive towards the bay bridge where the live look shows you the cash lanes backed up, but we have a couple lanes that have yet to open. Pretty typical pattern here. Thanks, mike. Fire danger today is people in high fire danger areas are basically for controlled outages. Not only that but firefighters are on high alert. We take a closer look at the extra lengths people are going to to stay safe. Reporter high danger fire the red flag warning means extra staffing. Well have 14 extra pieces of equipment on the road. Well a strike team thats state funded. Reporter crews will be roaming, ready to put out a fire fast. If
Ill have more on this and the fire danger coming up. Mike, do you have any update on the wrong way driver . No news on that. A wrong way driver reported southbound on the north side of 17. From hamilton they may be heading down across the santa cruz mountains. Usually with those situations no news is good news. That driver usually gets off the freeway without injury or incident. Were looking at the rest of the bay and tracking a smooth flow of traffic. We have a new crash, west 580 and a little slowing at vasco. Back to you. 5 01 now. Searing heat and high winds fueling possible fires in the bay area. The red flag warning remains in effect. There are shut offs expected to help prevent any fires from sparking power lines. We have a reporter live for us is santa rosa. Whats todays plan . Reporter were in a stand by mode for north bay. That means about 55,000 pg e customers waiting to find out if their power will be shut off as part of the Public Safety power shut offs as pg e monitors it
Thats the key, and we are waking up to flood warnings for the Guadalupe River. You can see south of downtown san jose, until 11 00 at least 11 10, and i will doublecheck the numbers in a minute, and it takes a while for all the rain to select and move into the creeks and eventually the rivers and more rain is on the way for you later this morning and afternoon. Right now we have a Flash Flood Warning for santa rosa all the way to sonoma, and down 121 to serious point. Petaluma is also seeing some of the creeks pushing out. This is where the rain is falling right now and will continue to fall for the next hours, and we have more wet weather, heavy storms hitting in from the south and hitting the rest of us. From now to 7 00, its heaviest to the north and then moving to the south bay during the late morning and early afternoon hours and then 7 00 it will start to taper and more flooding and Power Outages on the way. Mike, we are enjoying you this morning, and thank you. Yes, indeed. If y
Transmission towers because it wont have to upgrade the transmission towers. It is a lifeline for the Police Department. They are being used as pawns by the i. T. Department. In the end, it came down to the safety of oaklands residents. We have a lot of bad guys with guns running from the police in my neighborhood. We saw our Police Officers on their personal cell phones. They couldnt communicate with themselves. We couldnt communicate with them. It was terrifying. The finance committees recommendation for move to the regional system goes to the full city council next tuesday. Its expected to pass without a problem. Live in the newsroom, Elizabeth Cook kpix 5. New at 6 00, crime falling in another bay area city. And now one of the reasons why its suddenly on the chopping block. Kpix 5s Ann Notarangelo on how Richmond Police say they are losing approved important Crime Fighting tool. Ann. Reporter ken, for the last five or six years crime has been going down in this city. The Police Dep
Lessened one charge. Kpix 5s anne makovec reports from the newsroom. Reporter the main charge of seconddegree murder was reduced to manslaughter for now at least. Miss tichleman didnt enter a plea. She is in jail. 26yearold model and call girl Alix Tichleman appears less glamorous than the pictures we found online. According to investigators, she is addicted to heroin and gave this man, 51yearold forrest hayes, a lethal dose then left him to die. He was a google executive and married father of five, living in santa cruz. The two met on seekingarrangement. Com. Its a website for sugar daddies and younger women. Police say hayes hired tichleman for a night of sex and drugs on his luxury yacht in november. It wasnt their first date but it turned out to be the last. Miss tichleman provided the heroin. We know that she injected the victim with the heroin. Reporter Police Originally said the murder at the scene showed a level of guilt that reached seconddegree murder rather than manslaughter