We begin in Contra Costa County were firefighters say they have seen a dramatic increase in the number of vegetation fire is. We have details on several fires in the past 24 hours. Reporter i spoke with fire officials in contra costa and alameda counties. They told me crews have been busy putting out brushfires every day. With professional Fireworks Shows canceled in the bay area, they expect a very different fourth of july. This video, posted on social media, shows a fire that broke out along interstate 580 in livermore shortly before 10 thursday morning. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Fire officials tell me there are homeless encampments in the area, but they did not rule out other causes, such as illegal fireworks were discarded cigarettes. Vegetation fires are keeping firefighters in the east bay busy. This fire in concord wednesday night was one of six brushfires in just one day in Contra Costa County. It burned near a pg e facility. Small and acreage, but concernin
Wednesday is over 5,300. While its a slight dip, it is the second highest daily total for the state since the pandemic began. Governor newsom began his press Conference Today reinforcing a family message. Were still in the first wave of this pandemic. We are not in the second ve. A wave that is clearly growing. 56,000 new covid cases reported in california in just the past two weeks. And in the last two weeks, a 32 spike in new hospitalizations. Lets break it all down. More than 5,000 cases reported on monday. Jumping to more than 7100 on tuesday. Dipping to 5,300 on wednesday. What exactly is causing the increase . Yes. The cases have gone way up. But a lot of those are outbreaks and some of it is just more efficient case finding. This is the ucsf leading epidemiologist. He explains the latest spikes indicate cases identified within the last five days. So these are from reason exposures, maybe as reason as last weekend. These are not part of the protests. I can tell you that. And thes
That they had some but not light up a lot of locations. Santa rosa only had one third and 38, every reporting station thing light rain except santa rosa bid 40s for the temperatures so it is a cool day to the north of the golden gate far less rainfall into the south a lot more. There could be embedded thunderstorms and the snow will continue all the way through most of the day and is sierra and there is snow and the hills and we had to wait until daylight to see but the radar indicates that it will keep temperatures well below average today as the load drops south. And Sal Castaneda is here and it usually causes some busyness. Southbound 680 there was a stalled car that maybe hit the guardrail, not sure but it is blocking the fast lane and you can see traffic is slow there it is. All of the slow traffic coming out of lessons and. And as we look at the rest of the bay area commute it seems lighter than usual and i will have a complete look in just a few moments. California has free hund
Be coming. Sonoma Valley Hospital lost power in the october 9th shutdown. Bill borum sits on the board of directors. It wasnt expected because hospitals are not supposed to cut off. Reporter pg e never responded to repeated phone calls during the outage and the utilitys website crashed repeatedly leaving customers in the dark about whether theyd be cut off or not. They need to fix their website. Reporter Sonoma County supervisor shirlee zane is steamed over the utilitys lack of specific information. They basically made a lot of promises that they were going to improve how they notify people and how they break down the grid. Had they done this yet . No, we havent seen it. Reporter a pg e spokesman tells me the next time it will be better, that the utility has compartmentalize the grid to company told minimize the areas that have to go dark. The manager of the nughereget i another blackout like the one they had two weeks ago. The Company Purchased a shiny new generator to take care of ou
A gorgeous look. Sun rise at 7 25 in the morning. Quickly warming under the sunny skies. Look at that. By 4 00. M. Were well into the 80s if not low 90s away from the coast. First a check of traffic with jobina. Good morning. Good morning. We are going to first head over to the city and check this out. We are looking at an issue westbound 80 on fish street, the off ramp there. We do know it is a solo car crash but it is going to be impacting people as they try to make their way in this morning to San Francisco. And now moving over to livermore, this is an issue weve been following and you can see that speeds still at 10 miles an hour out of tracy. Westbound 580 past greenville road, fourcar crash. We are looking at a big rig, two of them. Emergency crews are there as well and we do know that injuries have been reported. Reggie and kumasi . Governor newsom is calling for an investigation. Drivers pay a dollar more than the rest of the country. Laura martinez is live in the east bay with