Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, were looking live from from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look east at the bay bridge. A little hard to tell because of the low visibility out there. We are going to get to that in a minute but i want to say good morning everybody. Is monday, september 14. Im michelle griego. Im going to say good morning as well. Im len kiese. Lets get to your forecast first with mary lee. As he saw the visibility , still not good as we start this week. Unfortunately so. We are dealing with the smog. We have file, we have smoke, we have for visibility this morning. And with that we are looking at visibility down to a mile in many locations as we start off our day. Really the poor air quality, unhealthy air once again this morning. Once again we are starting off a new week, still dealing with that smoke. You can see the red dots indicating that unhealthy air for the bay area. In fact from the peninsula, redwood city, south bay and san jos
It is a long stretch of time. Great day on the lake but i want to narrow down the it is. Lunch is cookin and i saved a bunch of money on my boat insurance with geico. Window, later tonight into sunday evening and monday fellas, can it get any better than this . Morning that is when the whoa ingredients come together for another round of thunderstorms. Right now it is 30 and growing. My old haiso did mine. Ba [80s music] in other words it is looking what . I was an 80s kid. More likely than it did last night. It is not on ly the concern for dry lightning. 60 milesou gustsomg thetorms wie flames in chaotic and unpredictable ways. You cant predict the direction when you get a down burst from the thunderstorm. Much more on that coming up. I will leave you with the way it looks and feels. If you are getting out on a sunday, and air quality from moderate to unhealthy. The specifics on that coming up. New information about evacuation orders. People living east are being ordered to leave. If y
Mike, how is it looking right now for whats happening around the bay . Kari, overall things are improving. The trivalley had a couple issues coming into the area. Starting in the south bay north 101. Capital expressway theres a crash involving a couple vehicles one in the middle of 101, some slowing for the sensors right there holding folks up from 680 up to oakland road where we typically see the slowing starting to clear about now. Well track that and also clearing south of 80 through sunol out of pleasanton, that crash cleared a while ago. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Were going to continue to monitor all of the fires across the bay area. The latest this hour for you. The lnu fires in the north bay have burned more than 356,000 acres. And right now its 27 contained. Five people have died and nearly 1,000 south bay the scu fires are still the biggest in terms of acreage. It has burned nearly 366,000 acres and is 20 contained. Three First Responders have been hurt and 18 structures d
Hours ago. Firefighters had a chance to go into some of the damage from the fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties yesterday. They have confirmed 440 buildings have been destroyed, including 320 homes. On the northern end of the fire in San Mateo County, it is not spreading. That is good news. Firefighters say they are very confident that the fire will not spread toward Santa Clara County, where evacuation warnings had been issued earlier in the week. There are new Evacuation Orders or warnings foot and the counties involved. Near bonnie doon and Boulder Creek, there is a fire that is actively burning. Crews are going into do Damage Assessment, and repair some of the power lines and the infrastructure. That way, eventually people will be able to return home. It is stressful. We are staying at an Extended Stay Hotel with only six other dogs and a cat. 77,000 people were forced to evacuate because of the fire. They cannot return home yet, but they are very anxious to do so. The Santa
I was invited by my colleague here, karen stone, who has done an amazing job of continuing to tell the story and to kind of bring this story out from the darkness and into the light. A little bit about karen. The director of the news seems division of saint marys countys government. She oversees three sites in that county, is responsible for strategic planning, fundraising, creating partnerships like this overseeing like this one, overseeing Museum Operations and more. This is exciting. Love this article she recently published an article about this disaster in American Civil War magazine potomac peril on the. Thank you for joining us on zoom this afternoon. Himn i am glad to tell people the story. The incident actually took place ago. , april 22, 155 years a great day for us to be talking about it, and there are a number of connections. Between our two institutions. The incident took place off of colts point, the site of one of my museums in maryland. That is why i am involved. It is n