Nearly 6, six 66,000 acres have burned in the last 24 hours. Theyre battling three major fires threatening thousands of homes. The largest the thomas fire. Reporter i can tell you firefighters are focusing their fight on some flair ups. Tonight their worried about the wind. Its hard the to put emotions and words together. Reporter its one of at least 150 structures lost in a devastating wildfire in ventura. It looked like it was going to be saved then this happened. Its almost like an out of body experience. Reporter david chapel is one of tens of thousands of people evacuated in a hurry. When he came back his home was burned down to it studs. Im in shock i think. Im emotional but its like wow its all surreal at the moment. Reporter the result of santa ana wind gusts in combination with dry weather. No rain came in the month of november in california, so we have extremely dry fuels. Reporter at least 30 homes have b been lost with many more threatened. The foothill area is also home to
Oakland 37 degrees. In the 30s in oakland. Livermore 35. Chilly all around except San Francisco, the warmest spot. Right now, we are seeing a lot of yellow along westbound 205 and westbound 580 to the Altamont Pass out of tracy. Your cruising speed about 35 Miles Per Hour. Still in the green between 205 and 680. No accidents and stalls but a big backup at the bay bridge toll plaza in the cash lanes. Fastrak is good to go. 10 minutes from the maze into San Francisco. High winds today could fuel the wildfires burning out of control in Southern California. Crews are battling three major fires threatening thousands of homes. The largest is a 50,000acre thomas fire northeast of ventura. Governor brown has already declared a state of emergency for los angeles and Ventura County. More than 66,000 acres have burned since monday. 180 homes have been destroyed. Crews from the bay area are among 1100 firefighters on the front lines. Lets go now to Kenneth Craig in Ventura County where the high wi
Wanted to see. Its a terrible feeling. Everything behind our house burned but we are a sitting pretty, it looks like. Late last night, the thomas fire hopped the highway 101 in Ventura County near solimar beach and the fire made it all the way to the shoreline. Smoke from the three fires affecting air quality throughout the area. On your left, the satellite image taken from space shows how bad conditions are right now. A smoke advisory and bad air quality warning is issued for the west and east san fernando valleys and beach areas of the counties. Its hazy all across Southern California. Its something of course we saw with the wine country wildfires wine. The smoke lasted for days. You have to feel for them. The problems in Southern California with those windy conditions, they cant get the choppers up because its dangerous when you have those high winds. So whats the situation there now . Unfortunately, the winds are not going to be calming down for a while until about friday. Its beca
Hopefully your pets are also inside and staying warm or they have big blankets, frost advisory also in effect as you head out further east but this does include fairfield, near freezing morning lows all across that area. Right now, our temperatures 40 degrees in concord, oakland 37. Livermore in the 30s. San jose 30s. Santa rosa 30 degrees below freezing and below the dew point of 31, as well. Today is one of those days i had to turn my seat heater on driving into work. Roadwork at richmond parkway all that will be wrapped up eastbound. Westbound 14 minutes down towards the maze from highway 4. But we are seeing a big backup develop over at the bay bridge toll plaza. Now, just that one toll gate remains closed number 14 from that accident over the weekend but the backups stretch beyond west grand. Its close to 880 overcrossing at this point. So if you dont have fast tracks, give yourself a few extra minutes if you dont have fastrak, give yourself some extra time in that direction. Huge
Peace process. The president s announcement could have serious ripple effects on the world even the pope is weighing in recognition of jerusalem is the news from the president of the United States. This marks a departer from democratic demonstrations of the past here they continued to keep the embassy in tel aviv not moving into the touchy question of what the status of jerusalem ought to be the administration will not move to jerusalem immediately they said the process will be kicked off by the president of the United States. It could take some period of time, possibly years before an embassy is built in jerusalem and the site located and security put in place and the Embassy Opens and begins functioning in jerusalem the president is expected to recognize that it is the capital and that is expected to touch off reaction among palestinians who very much view East Jerusalem as the capital of a palestinian state. We will see what the president has to say here at the white house in a coup