Containment with it over the weekend we have been told by officials that is not a huge cause for worry firefighters right now have an important window of time in which the wind has died down dramatically. We have an update on the number of structures that have burned, how much land has burned. This has been an intense firefight. You can already feel some of the smoke affect us. Ive gotten a lot of tweets asked about the quality last time. There is a marsh fire as well and some of that smoke is coming down here as well. You can almost see in the newsroom this morning when you came in. As for the king fire it is still racing across north bay. It is expanding so fast as mentioned only five containment and has burned almost 85 square miles thus far. 94 buildings including more than 30 homes have been destroyed and almost 80,000 buildings are in danger. A News Conference will be held shortly and we will bring that update to you coming up in just a matter of minutes. So far 200,000 people ha
Pleasant in the evening for most of us. It is but it gets dark fast, doesnt it . Low clouds in place and higher clouds above the low clouds. You can see those right there unless you are listening. Youll have to trust me. And that will make for a cooler day. 50s and 60s by the coast. Visibility is coming down a little bit from santa rosa took a petaluma. A halfmile to two miles. Yesterday was almost 0. A little better but something to watch. Now the airport went from seven miles to eight mile visibility. Pretty good over san mateo peninsula over to haywood. Oakland was socked in yesterday along with the san mateo bridge. So far its okay. Humidity is very high. Anywhere from 65 to 100 . Low clouds. 50s, 60s and 70s. Temperatures come down 35 degrees today. The city is below. Most everyone else is above. Oakland is only one above. 40s and 50s for the temperatures around the bay. The city is at 50. Low 50s or upper 40s. Everyone is close. Isothermal as we like to say. After these clouds cl
Traffic and visitors. It has been empty the last five days. E mayo heasburg said it ents is time for everyone to come home. Time to come home. People are coming in now. It is pretty cool. Reporter you get to go home to. Yes. My family gets to come home. Reporter it has been tough. Yes the empty plaza just doesnt feel right. Without the people here. Reporter the mayor said he did not think he would get that emotional. He just became overcome with emotion when he saw people returning home. That plaza will be filled in the next couple days. We are in santa rosa. This was the evacuation center. A of peleare re still here. Heading back tsor an respective homes. Santa ana winds creating havoc continuing to cause problems in southern california. We have live pictures of helicopters dumping water on a brush fire in whittier. This one looks like they have a handle on it for sure. The air assault has been going for a while. You can see the choppers as they collect the water at the nearby lake. L
Into our Service Territory around wednesday and thursday, mainly in the sierra foothills and northbay. Operation center is not just a bunch of computers. Actually have a lot of people in the field. 26 crews that practice the 3ss. Safety, including suppression of fires, switching, between sparks can happen and they are on standby to put those out if they happen, and finally, seeing, reporting back the actual conditions on the grounds of these folks here, who then alerts the Emergency Operations center. Reporter it is here that the decisions are made where and when to have shutdowns. Check this out, cal fires history of fires in the last quarter of the year, seven of californias worst fires occurred in the last quarter. 14 of the 20 deadliest fires also came in the last quarter, and 17 of the most destructive wildfires also came in the last quarter. So, whether the last shutdown was poorly handled, the risk is all too real. We learned a lot from the last Public Safety power shut off and
A conference we will discuss a little more that we discussed in other panels and hopefully a little policy as well. So the broad team with it for this panel which it think weve detected has been true for a lot of immigration stuff since at least this president took over is its a very important issues have been sort of getting shuttled among three branches of the government. In one way were saying you could say each branch of the government is sort of putting they cant any of the persons lapin hoping they can will stop there somewhere. Many of these cans have stopped. This is our job to see where they cans are and where they will finally land. So ill begin this by asking questions of our panelists, more in a conversational style so that we could get too many topics than sort of one issue only for a long time. So let me start with cecilia, because she represents the aclu which many people regard has been the president s thorne side more than any other organization. Organization. Last cou