Helping increase that low cloud deck. Its back to school in beautiful pleasanton. Starting off very warm. 60. 75 we will go for a high today. 82 after the morning clouds. Santa rosa close at 59. Temperatures on the very mild side it will be a little cooler today. Kind of muggy. A little bit of moisture and humidity in the air too. Temperatures coming down a few degrees from yesterdays highs. Low to mid 80s for many. Here is sal. Steve, good morning. Right now we have traffic that is going to be doing pretty well. Expect, there is a crash in sonoma county. This crash is on highway 121 which is arnold drive. Right in the area. Right here at wagner road. Which is just south of highway 116. A lot of people do take that road. Just give yourself a little extra time. Chp is there along with medics and the traffic is doing okay because its early. If you are driving on 80, there is road work in cordelia that may be slowing you down. Again its nice and early. Lets go to the toll plaza. Westbound
Well, good afternoon. Im dave clark in for tori campbell. One of the largest wildfires in california history still threatening Yosemite Park this afternoon. The rim fire still growing in size but crews are making some progress in containing it. Alex savidge is here telling us why the governor met with firefighters this afternoon. Reporter the governor is at the Fire Command Center right now getting an update from crews. 3,000 firefighters on the front lines. They gained some ground overnight. They now have 15 containment but there are still a lot of homes and precious Natural Resources still threatened by this huge fire. I think we have what we need, but this is a kind of a daily, eferred every day we take a look at it. And i will certainly not hesitate to call president obama if i think we need more than we have. Its unreal. Reporter from the air you can get a sense of how big the fire has grown. This is new video from a National Guard plane. The fire has grown to 150,000 acres of for
With the latest from the front lines. Jay, this has been rough all e way around. Yeah, it has, jon. While progress is being made, not near enough at this point. You can see the thick smoke hanging in the air here. Small towns like this one really literally in the line of fire right now. This area serving as a base camp for the crews trying to hold the flames back. As the sun pushes through the smokey haze it reveals signs of the fire and the fight this morning in northern california. Teams rotating in for their turn on the front lines of the fire thats already charred close to 150,000 acres and now threatens more than 4,000 homes. Weve got a serious situation going on here. Theyre going to be our heroes. Heroes throwing every weapon they can at the massive fire, as the flames inch closer to several communities along the western edge of the blaze. It is continuing to grow in that direction, albeit at a slow rate. Theyre doing a lot of work with fire lines and contingency lines in case t
Whats valuable, whats not. Reporter residents and business openers in tuolumne are the latest on edge as the fire creeps its way toward the usually sleepy town. But they say the amount of help coming in is comforting. Theres like a fire truck for every house. Thats a good thought to go to sleep with at night, you know. Our number one thought out there is firefighter safety and the safety of the community. Reporter this strike team is among the 3700 firefighters on the front line. Their task, to protect homes in the Tuolumne City area. Its moved toward the hetch hetchy reservoir. They acknowledge, San Francisco has a lot at stake. The watershed and the hetch hetchy and the power supply is a concern to the city. And how it affects the whole area with power and water. Reporter another blow to the bay area, the loss of the Berkley Tuolumne camp, a camp thats been owned and operated since 1922. Firefighters hope they can keep other wellknown areas from meeting a similar fate. Right now our
I dont know if it would be advice as much as action. Michelle obama about straightening out justin beiber. What the first lady would say to the bad boy pop star. And Cool Runnings part two. The Jamaican Bobsled Team on track, trading sand for ice and living the olympic dream. Were very hungry. Their strategy for taking home the gold. From abc news, this is good morning america, sunday, february 9th, 2014. From new york, dan harris and bianna golodryga. Good morning, everybody. Weve got lots of breaking olympic news for you. But before we dive in, a spoiler alert. If you dont to want hear the results right now, put ear muffs on. Ron, put them in your ear. You ready . Fresh u. S. Gold. Jaime anderson just won the gold in the womens snowboard slopestyle. An event brand new to the games. Big congratulations. And Sage Kotsenburg yesterday, and her morning this morning. And so much emotion. The possible thrill of victory seent face of Ashley Wagner after a good performance in Team Figure Ska