Ive noticed that the traffic has picked up within the last hour or so under 10 minutes off to fremont street, heres 92 its always our busiest during the Early Morning hours so traffic is a little sluggish off and on west of the 70 over its still possible. This is a good trip. No problems into foster city or send the tale and ill give you one more the richmond sandra fell hot spot free and easy drive here 7 minutes into the north bay area back to you thanks a lot rob and 5 oh one and lets get to the breaking news devastation in sonoma and napa counties where the glass fire continues to burn out of control. This is new video from overnight. This is a fire thats burning off of highway 29 on Greenwood Avenue in calistoga look at those flames. The glass fire has burned more than 46,000 acres. So far its 2 contained more than 22,000 structures are threatened. Its destroyed about 80 homes in napa and sonoma and we have a map here showing just how widespread the fire is within napa and sonoma
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In has very cold air. Highs will be in the 50s and temperatures arent going anywhere for the next couple of days. Well have more coming up in about 10 minutes. Yeah. , it definitely feels colder outside. Theres a traffic alert. Sal, what can you tell us. [ music ] this is George Harrison for those of you who dont know. You probably already knew though. It was a car overturned welcome back to mornings on 2. From the wall. George harrison give me love. And unfortunately someone died at the scene there. Were doing traffic jams all theres not much of a backup this week not only on fridays, but all lanes are blocked. Just to give you a little bit theyre taking people off the of music in the morning. Holly sanders thank you for the freeway if youre heading request, and by the way, if you want to get in on traffic jams, you have to send us your request using the hashtag southbound well keep an eye on it. And all southbound lanes are ktvu just go ahead and send it instagram and ill see it bloc
This morning, we have new aerial video to show you of this firefight. This is burning in a remote part of the merit island preserve on the southwestern tip of the preserve. It is not threatening any buildings or homes on merit island. It is an air are i cant that is step with heavy brush and veg taig, its been difficult to access some of the fire. It has burned 7 acres since 3 00 this morning. The fire is a percent contained according to firefighters so its not spreading out of control, just accessing it has been difficult. They do have hydrant service on merit island, the challenge for firefighters have running fire hoses to get access to the flames, firefighters tell us this fire was started by someone who intentionally cut power poles causing lines to come down and spark the fire. Can you clearly see someone tried to saw into the sides of the power pole there and caused the line to droop, the fire investigator believes someone who did this may have been trying to steal copper wiring
Establish a shot. It is can be a long time before the lanes reopened. You can see it off in the distance there. What you see other lights, what is actually happening, fuel tanker is pulled over because it was linker linking. We are joined by officer with chp basin dublin. How the initial accident happened and what has happened since . This all started about 148 this morning. A big rig that was traveling northbound 680, loss control for whatever reason, at the center median, blocking three lanes. Seconds later another big rig, one in question, caring the flute fuel came along and clipped the big rig and left us with this mess. Reptile how many gallons of spilled and how long is the pre cleanup process going to take . About 3800 gallons of fuel have spell. Caltrans is out there, cleanup is just getting started. It is going to be hours before this is all cleaned up. Until we understand there are two other cars involved in this crash are we talking about any serious injuries . Luckily with