Throughout the morning there. The wind blows. You can see those embers as they move in the wind. That is causing a lot of that fire to spread in many areas. Homes, businesses, a lot of things destroyed. Anything in the path of that. We have been on air since 4 00 this morning. The fire broke out about 10 00 last night. Live on the air on today in the bay we showed you the Mobile Home Park right kind Kaiser Hospital there. Own our Damian Trujillo is there to show us. Is there anything left behind, damian . Well, laura, you know what, this is right out of a movie set. Look at this behind me. Just a bunch of charred metal. The flames you see are the open gas lines that are just ongoing. I mean, crews really dont have time to come out here and they shut off these lines or do anything else because theyre busy fighting this fire in other parts of the area. If you go to the other side of the street here, what were looking at is a commercial building that is destroyed. Still on fire. Then you
For mike nicco. Calm winds today. Air quality is unhealthy across the majority of the region once again. And little in the way of improving air on saturday as well. Numbers right now mainly 40s and 50s. We have chilly spots like gilroy and ukiah in the upper 30s. A look at your winds today theyre pretty light. What were watching later tonight and Early Saturday Morning theyre going to increase greatly with winds over 30 Miles Per Hour in the north bay. So your 12hour planner is all about the smoky conditions, the haze in the sky, temperatures will mainly be in the 70s later on this afternoon. Thats weather. A check of traffic with sue. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. Happy friday. Weve got some situations out there for you to be aware of. A tour bus and a sedan mixing it up on the right lane, southbound 680 near andrade. Traffic is continuing to stack up to highway 84 with about a 25minute delay there. Eastbound 24 still in the clearing stages. They have this earlier truck fire.
Hour but watch what happens Early Saturday Morning. Those winds are going to increase once again gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour and that will send more smoke south into the bay area. It is hazy. Poor air quality across the entire region. Check out the roads with sue. Metering lights are on. Lots of cars stacked up into the mcarthur maze with delays at about 15 minutes to get all the way into San Francisco. A little sluggish on the upper deck. Slow traffic out of tracy up and over the altamont. An earlier accident cleared. Traffic is starting to thin out just a little bit but expect delays out of pleasanton. Well take a look at your mass transit options this friday the 13th in a couple of minutes. Thank you, sue. This could be a make or break day for firefighters defending the town of calistoga against a major wildfire making an allout effort to keep the flames from crossing a highway and into the community. Live to reporter matt keller in napa county for us. Matt . Reporter good mornin
Numbers now. The atlas fire in napa and solano counties has now burned 48,000 acres. Its at 27 containment. The tubbs fire in napa county is nearly 35,000 acres and is 25 contained. And the nuns fire is now a combination of several fires burning 44,000 acres with 5 containment. And heres an overview look at the fires burning in northern california. Still a lot ground to cover. And the weather of course could play a big role in the fight today and into the weekend. Kpix 5s jackie ward begins our Team Coverage live from the Napa Valley College Evacuation Center with the latest there. Jackie. Reporter so some of these fires are beginning to consolidate as they move from sonoma into napa county where we are this afternoon. That is forcing them to merge. So five of the big name fires are now under the umbrella of what they are calling the nuns fire. Prior to this morning we knew that the adobe, norrbom and nuns fire had all become one. Today the partrick and presley fires are expected to jo
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