Peninsula. Tonight people breathing a sigh of relief after flames got way too close for comfort. Good evening. Dozens of homeowners in belmont on edge this evening. Theyre back home after a fastmoving brush fire forced them to evacuate. This happened near alhambra drive, which backs up to open space near san juan canyon. The outcome could have been very different but quick work by firefighters saved homes. Nbc bay areas jean elle has more. Reporter standing on the rooftops of homes, firefighters poured water on a fouralarm brush fire moving up a dry canyon in belmont. While crews attacked the flames, Belmont Police officers went door to door. They said, sorry, you have to evacuate. So we just got ready. Reporter telling people in 40 homes in the cipriani neighborhood to evacuate. One woman snapped this picture of flames out her back window before she left. Some didnt know they were in danger. I saw the smoke. At first i thought it was the regular stuff. Reporter officers tied caution t
Including coronavirus, the economy, taxes and the Supreme Court. Well be bringing you the very latest coming up this morning, all the highlights. But first, lets take a look at markets the morning after pointing to a rally at the start of trading, the dow futures up 8 85, nasdaq up 68 around the s p 500 up 11 and a quarter. Investors optimistic over talks targeting stimulus for airlines, Small Business and another 1,200 check for all americans. The president wants to do individual bills. This is what drove markets yesterday as well. Dow industrials at the close yesterday up better than 530 points, that was almost 2 . The nasdaq up 210. The s p 500 higher by 58. Were on it all morning long. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets in the green, fractional moves, fq up 20, cac up 17 and dax index up 68 points in germany. Lets take a look at asian markets overnight, japan was the best performer, hong kong was lower, the Chinese Market remains closed for a holiday and the ni
As i mentioned order last days with temperatures this cool that well see in quite some time. Im talking the heat and increase fire danger to all still to come. Robin wright, thank you john were off to the bridges were checking in on the drive around the bay area this morning, some spots are crawling other spots are just wide open so. Lets start off with some good news and thats your drive to the richmond sandra fell west 5. 80 is looking really good early at 7 minutes to make your way into the north bay starting to see a minor back up at the bay bridge toll plaza right down the middle with stocking up just a tad 12 minutes and growing to make it in and heres a motorcycle crash in livermore 5 he was found in greenville we have injuries, lots of debris scattered across the lanes the left lane is closed. It was already a mess through the altamonte and tracy so now that we have this new problem youre backed up all the way into tracy on to 2 05. But thats good news for those of you getting
When you have the sun and you have the smoke moving through, different wavelengths of light are able to pass through. Red and orange is able to pass through that smoke while shorter wavelengths in the blue color are not. So it leaves us with this red to orange color. Now, check this out. Even though we have all that smoke i showed you, air quality is reading moderate to unhealthy, but the way it looks, youd think it would be reading very unhealthy. Ill explain why it looks very unhealthy but were not breathing in very unhealthy air. Pretty complicated but ill see you back here in about 18 minutes. That does sound complicated. Thank you, jeff. So how are we coping with 22 days of bad air . Live from San Francisco to continue our coverage. Pete, how bad is the air there . Reporter yeah, well, jessica, surprisingly the air quality isnt as bad here in San Francisco as weve seen recently, but as you guys mentioned, were in this long stretch of that 22 days straight of the spare the air aler
Only rising to the 70s for most of us in the bay even for inland spots, most areas only upper get some more of those numbers still to come daria thanks john lets get to the big news in the east bay, the city of martinez has decided to pave over. Their black lives matter mural which is out front of the citys courthouse. It has attracted a lot of local and National Attention kron fours reyna harvey is live with the latest so why are they going to do this. Well daria its a part of their larger citywide project they have a lot of things in the works here terms of the city so thats going to be having early next month like you mentioned a lot of people have been talking about it since it went up right here behind me of people that are happy that the black lives matter mural was here and then some other people not so much well show you what it looks like this morning now this is video i take it you can see it was yellow and one point in time now its more of a white faded colors so really has