Experiencing of the week conditions that were bracing for on sunday and so that is obviously in our favor right now. I know that if this fire started on sunday night things would be vastly different we talk all the time daniel give us some perspective i know all red flag warnings are not created equal how bad it is this one thats coming sunday night monday. Well we definitely dont want to sound like a broken record as we have been in and out of red flag for the last several last several weeks and really the last several months this wind event that we are expecting to see on sunday will bring a extremely strong winds winds that we have not really experience this fire season in fact the last time we saw winds this magnitude and this widespread really in the 2017 and north bay fires so when the tubbs fire yeah was fires burning in sonoma and napa counties and we know how destructive those result so yeah, definitely its been a destructive year definitely bracing for what could be the stron
Making sure that you are prepared. Gayle ong has in orinda where theyre bracing for the strong wind event dan thorn is insane alina where theyre already dealing with a brush fire there, but we start tonight with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to give us a better idea of what we can expect lawrence guys this looks like a significant wind event may be the strongest of the year maybe several years were going see how all works out. But right now it looks very very impressive. The winds, fairly light right now just a general breeze around the bay area but watch what happens as we take you through the weekend now as those winds by tomorrow morning, not bad just a gentle breeze early on so not a bad start your weekend by tomorrow afternoon, the winds do begin to pick up but you notice the direction that is out of a westerly direction that brings that nice moist air off the ocean so fire danger running fairly low that all begins to as we get in towards sunday afternoon. And there you can
Are focus our efforts. And tonight protesters held a go slow caravan over three bay area bridges including the bay bridge. You are seeing the end of it right now. We just saw the chp pull over an ambulance and two other vehicles which were part of that protest as we zoom in here. This is on maritime street in west oakland heading east. They were leaving San Francisco, and you can see all those officer vehicles there as those three cars including that ambulance are off to the side. You can see they are there. It appears the people may still be in their cars at this point, but officers are standing by. Our live sky dot 7 technology showing you exactly where this is happening. So were keeping an eye on this. Earlier officials closed the Treasure Island exit. The protesters are showing their outrage over the kentucky grand jurys decision not to charge any of the Police Officers in Breonna Taylors death. Taylor was an emt shot and killed by louisville Police Officers in march during a botch
Here throughout the weekend to make the lake safe again in the meantime napa county deputies want to make sure that people stay away. Napa counties Lake Berryessa might seem like the ideal place to cool off an escape this weekends scorching temperatures but because of the hennessy fire. The lake is off limits through labor day the areas surrounding the lake. The infrastructure and some places the roadway itself. Suffered some pretty some pretty significant damage. A county under sheriff John Crawford says deputies will be patrolling the lake to keep people away. The closure is for safety and will allow hundreds of crews to remove trees clear around roads and put in new utility poles and lines all that work needs to happen without visitors flocking to the lake. Theres just a lot just a lot of things that need to be taking care of cleaned up prepared. Before people can really safely come back and recreate a late various, the head of the fire is the largest of the lnu complex fires, its b
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