From cal fire headquarters taylor. Is that we are seeing firefighters make some progress here now we did see that fire explode in size expanding rapidly and now today throughout the entire day, its only grown 6,000 acres in firefighters say that the conditions today with less wind being able to see the fire for first time in daylight has really helped them get a handle over this fire. Cal fire says the king cake fires still blazing a burning 16,000 acres in geyser ville as of thursday night, a quickmoving fire fueled by northern winds forced thousands to evacuate and destroyed at least 49 homes. Early the first and 16,000 acres. We have 5 containment. We do have 49 structures confirmed destroyed. That damage. The assessment continues. It is not over. But that is our current account. We have or 1300 firefighters on the line that number is expected to go buy other 50 as early as tomorrow. Aides that they takes a side along with the very large air tanker. Firefighters say they were able t
Authorities had said a person died in a car crash last night while evacuating, but we have learned that its no longer the case. More than 27,000 people have been forced to evacuate. Many of them received the warning in the Early Morning hours grabbing whatever they could before fleeing. Some people though made the decision to stay where they were. Did you spend the night here . Yes, we did. Yeah. I can imagine that was terrifying. It was very terrifying especially when you see all the hills behind you youre supposed to be gone. i know. Its hard to leave, right . It is very hard to leave. Exactly. With a wildland fire like this, such a dynamic, fast moving situation that can easily overwhelm local resources in the initial attack, but the california mutual aid system is second to none. They say there is currently no containment on the thomas fire in ventura. More than 1,000 firefighters are battling this fire from the ground and the air including crews from the bay area. A second fire,
Most in the upper 50s. 60 around the bay and 70s inland at noon but only 50s at the coast. 60s around the bay, a few sprinkling of 80s in the east bay. 50 starts creeping into San Francisco, 60s and 70s for the rest of it. How is the commute this morning . Were off to a busy start to talk about. One of those is in the south bay here. Northbound 101 past blossom hill road. We had a crash that initially sounded quite serious. A sedan was lodged underneath the trailer of a semi. It sounds like that person is out and we just have some minor injuries, but we have a bit of a backupstarting to form. We also have a rollover crash on 680 and mission. Speaking of your commute, carpool cheaters, look out. Bay area is looking for more money to come after you. Tiffany is in menlo park with whats being done. Reporter if your commute takes you down a stretch of highway with an hov lane, youve probably seen it, the driver who dodges the rules by getting a few extra seconds by going into the hov lane e
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Airport 54. But 57 palo alto. Concord, brentwood, livermore. Closed for morgan hills, a little cooler towards so cal. Campbell 10 degrees warmer at 6 of 1 degrees. West at 18, west sfo at 17. West of the delta, even though it will be west, southwest almost to 30 in travis we will have a breezy blustery day. Kind of a quiet pattern which is is a good thing. After the low clouds burn off we will end up with temperatures near average to slightly below for some. 5 01. Still quiet or something on your screens there . Well, its a little bit more crowded, steve, as you might imagine here with especially the Altamont Pass commute and weve had a couple things happen there. Lets go out to the Altamont Pass, i will show you the traffic on 580 is slow as you drive through the area here at 205 as well. So that is a typical delay. When you get into livermore there is a crash westbound 580 atel charro, a little bit a slow traffic commute before you get to that crash. Once i get past it though and if