Coastal hills and valleys and the saturated soils and swollen creeks are running pretty fast. As we look outside, from our explore tore yum camera, it is wet. Upper 40s to low 50s and this is the way it will play out throughout much of the day. Well have scattered light rain showers but bulk of the heavier rain and front will be hung up into the north bay throughout much of the mid Morning Hours. Gusty winds will accompany the system and just afternoon time well see more showers south and breezy south winds will track the rest of the day today. The stronger system tomorrow coming up. Thanks, lisa. Were tracking developing news this morning out of oakland. Police in the Highway Patrol are investigating a shooting on the freeway involving a party bus. It happened around 2 30 at the eastbound interstate 80 and 880 interchange where drivers get off the bay bridge. Many windows were shot out by someone who drove by and opened fire. The bus driver pulled over at fifth and union in west oakla
Latest information. Heres a live picture from sky 7hd over a geothermal plant near st. Helena which has been damaged by the fire. Apparently cooling towers have been lost. You can see the scorched earth around the facility in st. Helena. Firefighters say the fire is just jumping so quickly because of the winds theyre contending with through the area. You can see smoke rising from inside of the power plant. We know the winds are bad. Its warm. And of course, four years of drought has created a situation that is just treacherous. This is what we had feared all summer long. That a fire like this might take hold, and that is certainly what happened in this case. Now lets go to cornell bernard, live in middletown. Residents lost a lot of homes in. Reporter its trulying extraering. So many homes are gone after this fire storm engulfed much of middletown. Im standing in what used to be the driveway of a home here on as you can see the shells of appliances, barbecue, part of the the ferocious
The month. Allen . Nothing is a given. All right, da, thanks. Under the 10year deal, the as would pay 1. 75 million to play at the coliseum this year dropping down to 1. 25 million next year. The annual rent would eventually go back up to 1. 5 million. Oakland would also have to forgive 5 million that the as owe in back rent. You can get out of San Francisco tonight but if your Holiday Plans call for going into the city, get ready for gridlock. Chopper 5 caught this mess on northbound 101 during the lunch hour. The backup at times today stretching all the way back to brisbane. The reason . The 280 extension into San Francisco is closed in the northbound direction. Caltrans is replacing a hinge on the freeway between cesar chavez and 24th street. It is part of an earthquake retrofit. If all goes as planned, the freeway reopens monday morning. Heres a live look at the traffic now from chopper 5. As you can see, bumpertobumper on one side of the freeway. The other side smooth sailing. Kpi
80s for the valleys. All right, lets check the roads with elizabeth. Heads up, the long Holiday Weekend is bringing a major freeway closure northbound 280. We have dealt with the southbound 280 closure. We had that earlier. Now this time its the northbound lanes closed between 101 and king street. Begins tonight around 9 00. And then lasts until monday morning. They are hoping to reopen it just in time for the monday morning commute. In the meantime, Police Officers will be around directing traffic and confused drivers. Theres also two giants games during the closure tonight at 7 15 and then another one tomorrow during the day. So just a heads up. It could cause traffic tieups. Hopefully not a total nightmare around city streets in San Francisco. But 101 is the best alternate. South bay, 60 Miles Per Hour through downtown san jose, guadalupe parkway, 101 all look good. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you. Right now, californias biggest wildfire in weeks is burni
Reporter from a distance mandy thought she was look at a bonfire. 911 asked if it was the size of a football field and at that point it was. And at that point, it just started getting bigger, really fast. Reporter alarmingly fast. Within just a few hours, the flames would consume 2500 acres in rural pope valley fueled by grass, trees and rocky terrain left desiccated by a punishing drought. This firefighters told us is not your typical july wildfire. We are seeing fires that we would see later in the year. Hot conditions, low humidity, strong winds and fires will burn faster than this one. Reporter an aggressive unpredictable intensity that firefighters have been struggling for hours to try to control. Heres one of the unique problems firefighters are dealing with, spot fires like this hopping all along the hillside. They are sporadic and when they come together they create larger fires causing this particular fire to spread fast. And firefighters say this is just the beginning. Wildfi