Acres in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Sadly, one person died. 925 homes destroyed. But firefighters did manage to save thousands of homes. Cal fire tweeted out this video, firefighters reading parts of the hundreds of thank you letters they received. Also tonight, progress in the fight against covid19. Three more bay area counties are now in the red. San mateo, solano, and alameda counties have moved into the red tier, which means increased capacity at a number of businesses and indoor customers for salons and tattoo parlors. One of the counties is saying not so fast. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney reports from Alameda County. Reporter its out of the purple tier and into the red in san mateo, solano, and here in Alameda County. But Alameda County Health Officials say there will be no immediate changes, and as with other reopenings, it will be important for Alameda County to take a measured and phased approach to avoid dramatic increases in disease transmission and reclosures. At s
Great to see you guys. Well check in with mike in just a minute. But, what, lets talk about the heat wave. We are in fall now, right . We are officially in fall, the first full day of fall. We are definitely heading towards hotter weather this weekend. Lets enjoy today while its still nice and mild and our good air quality that continues as well. We are going to see that continuing today for all of our microclimates. Spend some extra time outside. I know i did yesterday afternoon. Were going to see our temperatures reaching into the low 80s in the south bay and up to 83 today in napa. Mike, do you have a Traffic Alert going on . Yeah, kari, this changed in the last ten minutes. We have a crash in fremont. Lets show you on the map were looking at the east bay northbound 880, the nimitz. As you travel past the connection over toward the dumbarton bridge everything seems fine except for dakota. Closures for all lanes suddenly. The map marks it farther north than i would like. All lanes ar
Positive. They played the vikings this a 28 in sonoma county, 18 past sunday, forcing both teams structures have been damage. To halt in person activities as of the fire has burned 43,000 a precaution. Acres. This afternoon, and 0 any person must be cleared by contained. Want to give you a live look Team Physician and then go from sky fox above the fire zone. You can see is an awful lot of undergo cardio testing. Smoke and a little bit of flames in the distance. Cal fire says the fires rolling through the area that has not heavenly Mountain Resort announces more plans for his burned. In fact, it did not burn and reopening. Coming up next on the for, when the devastating and deadly fires operations resume in november. Another warmup underway. Back into thousand 17. This area has no fire history. Officials say that is creating a lot of problems for the after the break. Firefighters. We have lined live team coverage. Meteorologist is tracking the later conditions as the hot water weather
Haze. Lets bring in Frank Mallicoat who will talk about the air quality. Here we are, today feels different, not quite normal yet. Not quite normal but were certainly getting there. No bright orange glow, gasia. What a site it was yesterday. Today were back to our old faithful fogfilled sky. Theres plenty of smoke in the sky. That means two thirds of the air quality is poor quality, especially if you live in the east bay or north bay. This bears repeating. What a difference a day looks. Heres a look at oakland, wednesday draped in that bright orange hue and then back to the well take it. This is looking down on highway 24, foggy and gray there and as we go into the Rockbridge Area much of the same area. After fires, extreme heat, blackouts, anything that resembles normalcy in 2020 well take it. Its nice in the moment but scary and sad to think about the environment and think about the fact this will be yet again another new normal. But there was nothing normal about this. Actually had
Situation. The stands are empty today. A tough loss for the 49ers in the season opener, losing to the cardinals 2420. Some feared the game would never happen because of coronavirus and because of air quality. As ms. Smith joins us live with reaction. Reporter concerns subsided after the airquality index did not rise above 200. A disappointing loss for sure. Many fans were happy to watch football again. The faithful watch the first game of the season on outdoor big screens. Sunday football is back and fans are ready. It is different. We have to keep it together. Reporter different for the seasonticket holder that flew in from portland rooting for the team at a bar instead of at i want to be in the stadium. You cant do that. Reporter the champions playing against the Arizona Cardinals under smoky conditions. Absent were the loud fans and parking lots empty of tailgaters. Typically full on opening day. On the field, everyone except players and coaches were masked. Unsure what the 2020 sea