Staging area just south of st. Helena in rutherford. We are pretty much surrounded by fire on the hillside all around us. There is activity on Spring Mountain road and we tried to go there. But we got blocked. It was too dangerous even for media crews. We saw a cal fire investigator gathering evidence of a fire that seems to have started off of the road next to a steep hillside. There were evidence markers and he was on his hands and knees using Electronic Devices to scan for clues. The investigator did not say much about why he was there. The blaze raced up the hillside where firefighters were called in. We spent the morning around the hills southwest of calistoga. One benefit of the inversion layer is the thick smoke trapped in the valley is starving the fire of oxygen. Much of the town is empty under mandatory evacuation order. We did meet buster davis. He survived the 2017 fire. He says he has worked too long and too hard to walk away now. This is my life. Aint nobody going to tell
From our Traffic Cameras we just saw the Golden Gate Bridge were actually it will make it out for the first time in just a few days. But you can see the smoke still lingering around the bay area today. So we want to bring in now meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez to tell us when we will be able to see the smoke clear and the blue skies return good evening of risa it wont happen until tuesday. Justine and jonathan so lets take a live look outside right now still tracking unhealthy air particles. Mixed in with that fog fortunately not denser as low as it was last night where we were already under a dense fog advisory National Weather service from the Bay Area Holding back on issuing any fog advisories tonight, but as we take a look outside right now. Tracking unhealthy air particle so slight improvement from yesterday when we were under that very unhealthy range for the eastern portions of the north bay and our inland valleys of the east bay but expect similar conditions to start your work
Steve talking about improvements. At least it seems that way, rosemary. We had the disturbance that moved through over california and it brought a mix to the atmosphere and helped to clear things out a little bit. The onshore breeze will continue over the next few days, and hopefully that will help to continue to push some of the smoke away from the bay area and further in land. We have a spare the air alert in place and the hazy skies are expected to remain. Morning clouds followed by afternoon sunshine, at least away from the coast, this morning starting with fog along the coastline. Temperatures are expected to cool. I will have a look at Current Conditions and what to expect for the afternoon coming up in a little bit. It is 5 00,. Lets check the highways. Right now, we have traffic that is doing pretty well around the bay area. I want to put up the fire closure map as you approach santa cruz. Boulder creek there are several areas, outlined in purple, still shut down. Highway 17 is
The country. And now hospitals in the state say they are preparing to expand the number of available beds for covid19 patients as the surge in patients continues to grow kron fours reyna harvey is live now she is a live report with more on this rain. Marty good morning at a major concern for a lot of these hospitals now is running out of beds along with protective equipment for staffers to use now weve seen a surge in cases like you mentioned we a top new york a stark number for california and so now hospitals are looking at the data and typically when you see a rise in cases you also see an increase in hospitalized station rate so thats what hospitals are racing for right now, and its not just about the ppe its not just about the bad. They also are seen a decline or a shortage of trained qualified nurses that are able to help along with testing material so its a lot of concerns that they have. Now beds are used for other injured or sick patients, the size those who have the virus. Hos
The school, i love my team, i love everything so much. I love it altogether. It stinks that volleyball will not be part of it. Reporter jasper is one of 240 for athletes that are seeing sports vanish, the sports could become club sports. 2020 has become the worst year of my life. 100 college and universities have made cuts to athletic programs and more are likely on some of the other schools that were mentioned are back east. Today the ivy league announced that they are counseling sports in the fall. That means the football season has been postponed for harvard, yale , and princeton. There will be no earlyseason for Winter Sports like basketball and hockey. They said that they will not begin until january. There has been talk of rescheduling football for the spring. The ivy league is the First Division i sports conference to make this decision. United airlines is sending layoff warnings to half of their u. S. Employees. They said they hope to limit the layoffs by offering early retirem