Blaze. It just moves so quickly over the weekend that attract more than 200 people in Madera County National Guard helicopters were brought in to airlift them to safety and as i said before they are still working on rescuing more people. Good morning, everyone and thank you for waking up with us on the kron 4 morning news, its tuesday september 8th, im robin when said lets start this morning with a check of your forecast well check in with john and see how the day is shaping up another spare the air day fire crews are dealing with the rescues and the weather of course is going to impact the fires burning so lets check in with john to get a robin thats exactly right. We saw the massive growth of the creek fire and now here in the bay area were looking at heightened fire danger ourselves. As we work our way through this tuesday now last night we had a welcome sea breeze pushed back through our coastal areas this really resulted in a nice overnight cool down. For areas like San Francisco
Air pushing on in your windows if you open and i would say you probably should because its going to be another hot afternoon today, and its going to be a hot and windy one this time around so this is where fire danger comes into play a lot of the bay area specially or upper elevations with up in red flag warning says were going to be seeing dry conditions hot weather paired with winds in the east bay gusting as high as 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour an hour. More exposed hillsides where temperatures will be in the triple digits still Solano County entire county lit up in a red flag warning 25 to 40 mile per hour winds. And as for murder in napa and sonoma counties also heightened fire danger specially in those upper elevations, these will remain in effect tonight into wednesday as that when really kicks into gear out of the northwest sonoma calistoga vacaville already on the breezy side and look at winds picking up later today. Sonoma petaluma down through fairfield in danville all going to b
Hour in the Higher Elevations. We have a dry cold front pushing through, kicking up the winds. We have a red flag warning in effect now all the way until 8 00 on wednesday due to these a dry and gusty offshore winds. There is low relative humidity values for the north bay mountains and east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains today into tomorrow morning and we have a wind advisory that will be in effect for the north bay mountains for today, at a possible chance of downed trees and power lines. It will be hot but not quite as hot as yesterday. Were looking at mid 80s in San Francisco and low 90s in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and dealing with triple digit heat in concord. 103 for a high in concord and because of the extreme heat, still for inland locations, concord is opening up a cooling center at the Concord Senior Center from 1 00 until 6 00, to give some relief to people, so go out there if you need some safety from these hot temperatures. It is from 1 00 until 6 00 in concord.
Advisories or excessive heat warnings but still looking at temperatures soaring in the afternoon. Lets get to our red flag warning. It is in effect until 8 00 on wednesday for areas highlighted in red, so that is for the north bay mountains and east bay hills and we are watching the winds. They are gusting up to 60 to 61 miles an hour in Higher Elevations this morning. It is a big concern for bius an also low relative humidity values. A wind advisory for the north bay mountains until 11 00 tonight, with possible downed trees and power lines with these strong winds. Lets talk about our temperatures. No longer looking at those incredibly hot temperatures. Were looking hot, just not as hot as yesterday. Mid80s in San Francisco and low 90s in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and triple digit heat expected for concord at 103. I will continue to go down through the week. Details on that with the future cast winds taking you through today into tomorrow coming up pick lets check in with gianna
Neighborhoods in Sonoma County. And we actually have a live camera this is a live look from mount accident. The cameras pointed west right at the fire. If you look closely you can see that glow thats the flames and the smoke thats coming from the fire. Firefighters do say that they have stopped the forward progress of the fire but they continue to battle it. And more breaking news as well with military helicopters attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are track right now in the creek fire in Fresno County this will be their 3rd attempt to get to those hikers the rescues had to be called off last night because of the heavy smoke and because it was getting too dark and too dangerous and gosh thats a pretty scary situation we actually have a picture of the hikers take a look. Theyre sheltering at the vermilion valley camping resort at lake edison volunteers are there theyre helping hikers say fed and hydrated as they wait to be rescued, now theyre smiling for now because theyre sti