Odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin with breaking news tonight. What is now being called Hurricane Sally is threatening the gulf coast and growing stronger by the minute. Just a few hours ago sally was a Tropical Storm but as we come on the air tonight the system has picked up so much force it is now a category two hurricane. We want you to take a look at this storm because forecasters now tell us that sally is intensifying so rapidly that it could be a dangerous category three hurricane by the time it slams into the coast tomorrow. Tonight more than 17 million americans are in sallys path and hundreds of miles of coastline are under storm watches and warnings. From louisiana all the way to the panhandle of florida, millions of americans are scrambling to board up their houses and move out before the storms flooding rain and hundred mile per hour winds move in. Now sally is the seventh hurricane this season and there are four more active storms brewi
California tonight where at least a dozen people are now dead and thousands of homes and businesses have been incinerated in a fire season that is as devastating as it is historic. As we come on the air tonight, nearly 30 enormous and fast moving blazes are burning across the state, forcing 20,000 people to flee their homes and leaving thousands more in the danger zone. From Washington State to oregon, down through california, entire towns have now been wiped off the map, including berry creek, california, and the surrounding area, where tonight at least three people are dead and a dozen more are still missing. The deadly firestorm is now spewing so much toxic ash into the skies, the smoke trails from the blazes are visible from space and on the ground the devastation is even harder to fathom. Tonight fire crews are trying to keep pace with the flames but just cant keep up as heavy winds continue to push the flames into a tinderbox of dry brush and houses. More than 100 major fires hav
Second chad wolf and Ken Cuccinelli offered to be changed because they made the president look bad. Murphy said he was told focus on the sbrrch activities by china and iran and he said that wolf told him that these instructions came from White House National security advisor robert obrien. I dont think theres anyone whos been tougher on russia than very. Murphy said he was told to modify intelligence on white supreme cysts in a manner that will made appear less severe. In line with the president s public comments. Antifas a criminal organization. Mark seine is nur fis attorney. Information pertaining to russia and the analysis and the russian intelligence reports was downplayed in order to assure additional favorable information to President Trump. Which was something mr. Murphy said no, he would not do. The w hou denst briever dictated such changes. Meanwhile on capitol hill, house intelligence chairman adam schiff wants murphy to testify before his Committee Later on this month. Murp
So please stay indoors if you can. Because we are looking at that air quality you can see those red and purple dots from unhealthy to hazardous air quality conditions. So looking at very unhealthy air to hazardous for redwood city and down through san jose and fremont and the trivalley as well as for concord. The east bay, walnut creek. Looking at very unhealthy air for oakland and hazardous air in the San Francisco area. Up through sausalito. You can see all of those purple dots. That is very unhealthy air to hazardous up through san rafael and petaluma and for santa rosa. We also have, because of the foggy conditions, the smoky conditions, low visibility. We have a dense fog advisory for the San Francisco area as well as the peninsula, coast and north coast. Visibilities down to a quarter mile or less. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and the foggy conditions. Yeah, most of the foggy conditions affecting the bridges as well. Fog advisories for the Golden Gate Bridge as
Extreme smoke just really trapped at the surface here in the bay area. So we have very unhealthy air to hazardous air quality this morning. You can see those purple, red dots indicating this unhealthy to hazardous air quality from redwood city to the trivalley and up through concord as well. Walnut creek. Around the oakland area. Into San Francisco. Very unhealthy to hazardous air quality up through lark spur and san rafael and the north bay. And into petaluma. San rafael and for santa rosa. Not only dealing with those smoky skies, we have the fog. So Poor Visibility this morning near zero for petaluma. Down to three quarters of a mile at halfmoon bay. And a mile and a quarter at sfo. Looking ata mile a lf kland hayward as e. Rmora densfo and in safr ea unti 0a. M. What you can expect for the weekend coming up. But gianna, we are dealing with that extreme smoke and those foggy conditions. Hows the commute . Yeah, its certainly affecting the drive this morning. Were seeing some slow spe