Winds making a comeback. Temperatures have cooled off considerably, mostly 50s and 60s outside. 24hour temperature change shows a big drop into the north bay now. Tomorrow night, north bay hills above 1,000 feet, fire weather watches. May get extended to diablo range tomorrow i think. Stay tuned. Monday evening through wednesday morning. After that, second offshore wind event that looks stronger in wind speeds. For that reason coming up Late Wednesday into friday, could leave to pg e power outage issues. Well be watching closely. Cooler and more wind on the way. Closer look in a few minutes. New at 11 00, close call in benicia, fire got close to apartment building. Fire burning on South Hampton are road near 780. One woman saw smoke, flames, yelled for kids to run to the car. Opened the door and looked left. Flames higher than all the streets. Just engulfed. Got goosebumps, next building, right next door. Sounds terrifying. Fire did damage outside of the apartments and Patio Furniture
Traffic on this wednesday morning. Good morning. We are starting to see the slowest spot forming for that typical traffic pattern as you work into the pass. Things starting to get a little sluggish there. If are you getting ready to head out the door and plan to take 580 you will have a pocket of slowing between the 580, 205 connector. We are seeing speeds dipping down to about 19 miles an hour there with a 32 minute drive time from 205 toward 680. Also chp still working on a trouble spot. You have a big rig blocking the high street onramp to northbound 880. Firefighters in Southern California struggling to contain the silverado fire. One of two explosive wind whipped wildfires in Orange County that forced the evacuation of almost 70,000 homes and badly injured two crew members. This is new video of flames around lake forest. The fire and the blue ridge fires have grown to almost 30,000 acres combined in less than 48 hours. At last word silverado was only 5 contained. Some different nu
Good morning. Right now on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a live look from our exclusive Sales Force Tower camera at the city of San Francisco. Its already a hot one this morning and its only 4 30. Thanks for joining us. Its friday, october 16. I am anne makovec. I am michelle griego. I love when you say friday. Lets get on check of our weather with meteorologist mary lee. We are still in high fire danger. We are, thats right. We are looking at temperatures that are going to be heating up for sure, even hotter than yesterday, still tracking gusty offshore winds. In fact gusts this morning, especially in the higher elevations, mountain peaks, up to 30 to 50 Miles Per Hour. We are still looking at the red flag warning in effect for the areas in red until 11 00 a. M. North bay and east bay mountains, inland valleys, Santa Cruz Mountains under the red flag warning. Low relative humidity values, so looking at extreme fire danger. The heat is on for sure. The heat advisory for the bay
Conditions are expected to return in the next couple of days, heres a live look at downtown San Francisco right now. The windy weather is expected to return wednesday morning, causing increased fire danger. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, lets get right to our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow with more on the dangerous winds expected in the days ahead lower, yeah guys historically this is that time of year right where weve seen some of though. Worst fires in the bay area because of those gusty winds and going to see that northerly wind really kicking in over the next 48 hours here right now were starting to see the effects as reaches way all the way to the surface but weve got nice clear skies in the San Francisco, no fog to speak of and just a beautiful weather outside now this ridge of High Pressure that city across the west coast, fairly flat right now you see a cold front up here in the gulf of alaska to watch happens here. This front is going to kick to the east be
The outcome bay area businesses are either boarding up again or simply staying boarded up kron fours dan thorn is live in berkeley tonight, he joins us with more on what police have plan and what the residents are expecting to dan. Well ken and pam some Bay Area Police departments say they are increasing staffing on election day and the following days and theyre also canceling any discretionary time off its been said before that this is likely going to be an election unlike any other and police are not taking any chances. Businesses throughout the bay area are boarding up or are continuing to stay that way as election day nears depending on which way the elections go police in Berkeley Oakland and San Francisco are also preparing for potential unrest by increasing staffing to help keep the peace open residents tell us if the presidency doesnt change hands. Theyre expecting protests. I think youll see more. Rebellion, you know i think youll see more revolutionary movement i hope bay. Th