The weekend closure is having on businesses, and we are less than 24 hours away from bay to breakers, making a return to San Francisco. Look at the last minute preparations underway before thousands of runners hit the city streets. And we are going to get to those stories in just a moment. But first, were following breaking news. This is on Yerba Buena Island. Crews are battling a fire there. You see the video right there. It started just after 3 00. Firefighters say crews are facing heavy smoke and steep terrain. Now. Two fire boats are also helping put water on the flames from the bay. There they go. This is new video from the firefighting efforts. Its not clear how this fire started as you can imagine, this is impacting traffic on the bay bridge for a period of time. All eastbound lanes. They were shut down in the last 30 minutes. Two lanes. They reopened. Now heres a live look at our traffic map. And you can see that big backup right there stretching for miles. At this point, its a
In mid-August, as a largely uneventful tropical storm named Fausto was starting to wind down in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Baja California, a plume of moisture it spun off had metastasized into dry thunderstorms that were rolling across northern California, more than 700 miles away. Recently flattened by a record-setting heat wave, the region was blitzed by a 72-hour “siege” of nearly 11,000 lightning strikes from the storms. Hundreds of wildfires sparked to life. As the fires tore across the parched landscape, some of them grew so large they bled into others, coalescing into one of the largest wildfires in state history the LNU Lightning Complex, which would eventually incinerate more than 360,000 acres across five counties.