We know more than 100 homes have been lost in the fire and dozens more damaged. So far, though, no one has been hurt. Heres a look at where the fire is burning. Firefighters are preparing for more dry and breezy conditions. A red flag warning goes into Effect Tomorrow afternoon. Firefighters are hoping the progress theyve made pays off as those red flag conditions bear down, and they try to protect the town of calistoga. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony has the story. Reporter it seems counterintuitive, to set fires when theyre trying to stop one. But thats exactly what firefighters are doing high atop Diamond Mountain road just a few miles from downtown calistoga. The goal, to gain the upper hand on the glass fire. While the winds are down. So thats why were really trying to button up the lower parts of the fire with our burn operations and aggressive operations there. Reporter in downtown calistoga its raining ash but no homes or businesses in town burned overnight. A night that pro
Right now, on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look out beast and see the bay bridge on this monday morning. Good morning, it is monday. Where did the weekend go . It went by pretty fast. I am michelle griego. Good morning, i am len keise. Well be had a wonderful weekend. Lets get to the forecast and it will be a bit cool with us , mary . It well, len and michelle. If it was a little too hot, we will cool down. Here is air quality. We will be anywhere from moderate across the bay area through the day and even looking at better air quality for the rest of the work week with a stronger onshore flow kicking in. As we look to the daytime highs, a little cooler compared to yesterday by a few degrees, 87 in concord, 79 in san jose, mid70s in oakland and 70 degrees for San Francisco. We will talk about what you can expect through the rest of the weekend when we will see temperatures climbing later in the forecast. Lets
Ofour day and the afzy sunshine this afternoon. Here is a look at air quality. Moderate for most of us through our day. We have good air quality for the southcentral bay as we go through the rest of our monday. And as we go through our day we will see temperatures a little bit cooler compared to yesterday. The start of the cooling trend with that ocean breeze kicking in, it is 87 in concord, 79 in san jose, 74 in oakland and 70 for San Francisco. We will talk about when temperatures will be on the rise and return to offshore winds. Details on that will be in my full forecast request check in with gianna for look at traffic. It is monday and we are seeing people out the door right now on the Allatoona Pass communicate is getting busy already. The delays originate out of tracy and mount house. It is stop and go using speeds to 60 miles an hour in some spots. Sluggish conditions and drive times her 33 minutes. No delays getting on and off of the 680 interchange. Traffic is still limit anw
Setting off investigation orders and and warnings at this hour. At least five different fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties. You know see the big plumes of smoke from the air above the fires. There are now Evacuation Orders in the area of Butano State Park, and people who live in the communities deer born park be under evacuation warnings. Altogether, these fires have burned about 1,000 acres, and right now there is zero containment. All right. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist bill martin now. What are firefighters dealing with, and is there in any positive news . Well, what theyre dealing with, frank, we have a live picture of the hennessey fire in napa. What they are dealing sat two and a half days of lightning strikes in the bay area. Unprecedented from my tenure of 35, 40 years in the bay area to have that much lightning that much over adoration over that large of an area. All bears counties had some strikes. Weve seen numerous fires. So cal fire is in a situation where
Whole , with love and understanding and small acts of kindness. Is the Halfway Point of a very unconventional convention. Good evening, everyone. The democrats ramped up their criticism of President Trump tonight and made an appeal to moderate voters. Our local reporter greg lee is back with us. The nominee himself even made a couple of cameo appearances tonight. Reporter at a normal convention we would to the only see the candidate and full of times. The democrats really tried to use this virtual format to showcase joe biden sympathy and emphasize the parties diversity. 231 votes for Bernie Sanders and 263 votes for our next President Joe Biden reporter with a virtual rollcall from across the country democrats formally made former vice President Joe Biden there 2020 president ial nominee. Thank you very much, from the bottom of my heart. Thank you all, it means the world to me and my family. Reporter day two of the highly produced Democratic National convention headlined by dr. Jill b