Employees will be on the picket line. Librarians, parking enforcement, nearly every public worker in oakland. 911 dispatchers not allowed to strike. 1021 continues to complain how city departments are understaffed and rely on temporary workers. We rely on a city running on half the force being parttime. Unsustainable way to run a government. Reporter and concerned about health and safety issues they claim the city is unwilling to address. One of the employees. A bunch of needles, feces, plus its just i dont know. Kind of like a mental kind of thing. Youre taking peoples belongings. Reporter union had hoped to bring in former San Francisco mayor willie brown to help as mediator. Idea was rejected. In oakland, abc7 news. Strong winds are being blamed for Power Outages around the bay area. Powerful gusts believed to be responsible for tossing this eucalyptus tree on power lines around 11 00 this morning. Knocked out power to a handful of residents. Winds are blowing pretty strong in that
Plus, oprah strikes a new tv deal. We have the details on the agreement and how many millions she stands to make. This is not your fathers lamborghini. The new suv being called the worlds fastest and what it will cost you. We do say good morning to you, everybody, on this tuesday. We start with the breaking news out of Southern California. That deadly, fastmoving brush fire exploding overnight threatening homes, forcing thousands to evacuate. That fire has grown so quickly its now covering more than 10,000 acres as it races toward the city of ventura. About 8,000 homes have evacuated along with nearby Thomas Aquinas college. Power outages have been reported across an area spanning 40 miles. Kabc reporter leanne suter is on the front lines. Reporter this fire continues to rage out of control. Powerful winds helping fan the flames. You can see over my shoulder here just how much of a fire line were talking about. This is just one side of this massive brush fire. You can see the huge flam
We still have hefty gusts, 38 Miles Per Hour blowing offshore right now at halfmoon bay but only at 12 at oakland and 10 at mountain view. Up in our mountains the gusts are around 20 to 25, that is definitely less than what we dealt with yesterday. Lets talk about whats going on with your roof camera. You can see the flags sitting a little calmer this morning. Adds we look at your 12 hour accuweather planner. 36 to 49, near 60 at noon, low 60s at 4 00 and then upper 40s to mid 50s at 7 00. Still going to be a little bit warmer than average today. Were going to san rafael, southbound 101, if your travels take you from novato down towards the civic center, pretty light, those tail leads southbound past the civic center all the way through marin county looking great. No problems on the Golden Gate Bridge. Typical slowing out of the Central Valley up and over the altamonte where there is a high wind advisory. 45 minutes tracy into tub listen westbound 580. Highway 4 is looking great, antio
61, at 4 00, 61 to 62, back at 7 00 we will cool a little quicker, 49 to 54. The breezes will taper even more today. We are going to walnut creek where we have an accident this is southbound 680 near north main, a solo car vehicle partially blocking the left lane. Chp and Walnut Creek Police are on scene there, but you can see for yourself they are slow and go from the 242 slit in pleasant hill. Vacaville eastbound 80 before leisure town road, a car flipped over, landed back on its wheels but is off on the righthand side in the ditch. Chp has to get on scene so we will get an update when they get there. Im not seeing any slow traffic in the eastbound direction as of yet. We will follow that and check back with your bay bridge toll plaza where we are still down a tollbooth this morning. We are still monitoring that breaking news out of Southern California where a Massive Wildfire is burning out of control. This is the thomas fire, its now scorched more than 31,000 acres in Ventura Count
Eventu Ventura County where the thomas fire is raging out of control. The second, the creek fire, started this morning in cagle anan canyon near sylmar. The third and latest, the rye fire is burning in santa clarita, but no homes are threatened there yet. The big concern this hour is strong winds. As we look live in eventual ra coun Ventura County, see the flames going strong devouring that structure there. Firefighters say theres 0 containment. Abc News Reporter has more. Reporter this is just a glimpse of the destruction, this fire is burning out of control. Due to the intensity of the fire and the winds, crews are having a hard time making access and were told there are multiple reports of structures burning. Winds gusting up to 68 Miles Per Hour, whipping up explosive wildfires raging through Southern California. Anybody home . Reporter sheriffs deputies knocking on homes in the town of santa paula in the middle of the night, and forcing evacuation orders for at least 8,000 homes.