The flames were so big. We just packed up and everybody is gone. Flames scorching more than 80,000 acres so far. Fueled by strong santa ana winds, gusting up to 60 miles an hour. Low humidity, and bone dry brush. With this area, it has been years since anything has burned at all. Several firefighters injured, desperately trying to save houses and lives. This one collapsing in the street, overcome by heat. Some residents with hoses in hand, staying behind to help in the firefight. We all came together west put out the fires. Any hot spots we could. Reporter and the strong winds arent expected to let up for a few days. In fact theyre likely to intensify into tomorrow. What is the situation at this point . Are they really making any progress . You have four fires to contain. Winds completely out of control. Give us the big picture situation for the next few days. Reporter right. Theyre really not making as much progress as they would like to. Three of the major fires are still at zero con
Clouds, 51 to 56 degrees. The morning commute, guess who will tell you all about it, hi, sue. The east shore freeway, the solid stream of headlights moving at the limit. If your travels take from you the upper portion of the east shore freeway, hercules through san pablo and el cerrito, berkeley into the mcarthur maze, youre looking at about a 26minute drive and thats through the toll plaza. No delays here except for a few minor cash paying folks. Thats not a bad commute. Quiet up there. We do have existing drive times for you in a few minutes. Mike told us yesterday the winds will be worse in Southern California and that is proving to be the case. Were talking about gusts topping 50 Miles Per Hour in some areas thats fanning the flames for the wildfires burning out of control. The rye fire burned 7,000 acres near santa clarita. The skirball fire and the thomas fire has grown to more than 90,000 acres. Thats near santa paula in Ventura County. A live look at the flames this morning in
Traffic is at a standstill and the Highway Patrol expects delays for the time being and probably for some time now along both southbound 101 and westbound interstate 80 can. Our reporter has just arrived on the scene and can bring us up to date from there. Talk about a big mess. We got to the scene, no joke. About 10, 12 minutes ago. Take a look. We are on the 23rd street overpass overlooking southbound lanes of the 101. You can and see there are two, four, six, at least 12 if not 16 response vehicles. Members of the San Francisco Fire Department and Police Department along with Highway Patrol. You can see there out of the one, two, three, four alleges. Only one is passable right now. Of course this is southbound 101. Were only about 11 miles away from San Francisco. A lot of people have flights to catch. Unfortunately, it looks like by the scene here, that is not going to happen. Many delays for the passengers. Anybody driving in this area. I can tell you, looking the opposite directi
Who did more than lead San Francisco. Ed lee is being remembered as a mayor, family man and friend. The unexpected death of ed lee has left the bay area stunned. It has. The impact has spread far beyond San Francisco and were going to share some of those stories with you tonight. We have coverage showing what a difference this man made. Lets begin now with vick lee who is live at city hall. You spent a lot of years covering the mayor. Reporter people are dropping off flowers here at the steps of city hall as you can see. Theres a bigger memorial of flowers on the second floor at the mayors office. The reaction here today as you can imagine is a lot of crying and hugging. Lots of people Walking Around simply shocked and saddened. Mayor ed lee passed away early this morning. Reporter the board of supervisors president now acting mayor made the announcement this morning. This after meetings with the mayors staff and Department Heads before her news conference. Theyre tributes had a common
The sudden loss of life here in ed lee, it is also important that city look to the future and right now the president of the board of supervisors, london breed is acting mayor. A special election will take place june 5th of next year. The winner chosen by voters will finish out lees term which ends in january of 2020. Between now and june, however, the board of supervisors can meet at any time to vote on someone other than lon don brie to serve as acting mayor. The. There is no one like him. Because he wasnt a politician, he did things very differently. Sudden death of mayor ed lee, an earthquake thats shaken the Political Landscape of the city. Who will be the next mayor . Former state senator mark leno is the only one who is a declared candidate for the november Mayoral Election in 20 2019. But now, there will be a special election for interim mayor in june. He faces election much sooner. I was prepared for another two years of campaigning. Now it will be a mere six months. Leno has