Higher fire danger yet again we may be. Well into fall now, but as we know in the bay area that doesnt mean youre out of the woods as far as the fire danger is concerned especially not this week. Us clear skies all across the bay, San Francisco east bay looking beautiful, it is a lovely start to the day. I hope you get out there enjoy the cooler temperatures. Well weve got them, we are already in the midst of red flag warnings those took effect 05 00am this morning for the Santa Cruz Mountains all of the inland east bay and pretty much all the north bay aside from the immediate coastline. Winds will begin to gust as high as 45 Miles Per Hour, especially into the evening tonight thats when these winds really going to start picking up even more so already breezy for spots in the north bay by the afternoon even breezier yet and then come the middle of the night vacaville outlets p calistoga winds 2030 even 40 Miles Per Hour. Regularly for your gusts peak, wind gusts could amount to 50 mil
Are still wrapping up a car fire that sparked excuse me a crash that sparked a car fire. Its just off the nimitz freeway the hakan burger offramp from 80 south. Its still close. This is video from the citizen app that shows us exactly whats going on you see that van right there it crashed and caught fire the driver was trapped inside. This is happening right at that hagan burger overcrossing that goes over the nimitz freeway so its not on the freeway, its at the top of the offramp thats why they close it, which means he will not be able to use it you need to dump off early at 66 or past the continue up to 98th avenue, but theyve issued a Traffic Alert for this and its crawling right now from high street leading up to the give you one more san jose north want to tolley injury crash blocking your drive time on the rise but not bad 31 minutes to menlo park and well check in on the bay bridge coming up in a bit darya james is 9 oh one and the breaking news from overnight weve been covering
Much more on all those stories coming up in just a bit. But now its time to get a check of the Weather Forecast for the first time this saturday morning was the high today of spark a good morning robin good morning, good morning everybody in a live shot coming in from the golden gate fog checking in again this morning looks like an. Fairly think is what we got going on not much the way of wind circulation here we keep it to the Single Digits to calm dont expect that to improve outside of just local winds to some degree and im pretty re here. We have of the fog going on which will mix out to only give us kind of hazy sky conditions into the afternoon comes back again in greece has to tomorrow with promises of not being quite as intense although we saw this yesterday like this. But it looks like it may not be as intense. According to the forecasts projections here looking forward into tomorrow morning. But we do have a heat wave coming our way though beyond that right now we have lower 6
Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us on the firefight will. Marty Scotts Valley good news. I just came to this location and the checkpoints are all gone meaning theyre not stopping people from returning to their homes. In fact only the median authorized personnel for this past week were allowed to come through now if you live in Scotts Valley and you didnt hear the news. You can return to your location, west of us highway 17 so you can do that even though the fires are still burning at this time it has chewed up more than 81,000 acres and they expect that number to go up when we carry that News Conference for you live in about 55 minutes from now. Containment number also has gone up when i was here 24 hours ago they were sitting at around 21 containment. Now its 24 containment, but the fire. Still is giving firefighters a handful of theyre throwing 2000 firefighters as says. Theyre hoping to go back up in the air to do water drops because theres been so much damage that
Mountains and also in southern San Mateo County thousands of people have had to evacuate these communities where the fire is burning and also where the fire continues to threaten theres been extensive damage in areas near Boulder Creek and also in bonny doon homes. Theyre just incinerated by the fire hundreds of other buildings have also been destroyed and many more are still threatened fire crews have been dealing with these intense fires for days now fire Officials Say that it is actively burning in heavy timber and thick undergrowth one of the big concerns has been burning trees which have been breaking apart hitting the ground and then causing the potential for more fires to spread however, firefighters have reported that there have been better firefighting conditions, thanks to improved. The weather. More aerial attacks and an increase in the number of crews that are working the fire. But evacuees that have been staying in nearby santa cruz have been patiently waiting for more upd