Endangers everyone. Ad paid for by San Francisco Police Officers association. Not authorized by a candidate or committee controlled by a candidate. Disclosures at sfethics. Org. So that early retirement we planned. Its going ok . Great. Now im spending more time with the kids. Im introducing them to crab. Crab . They love it. So, you mentioned that that money we set aside. Yeah. The kids and i want to build our own crab shack. Ahhh, youre finally building that outdoor kitchen. Yup with room for the whole gang. See how investing with a j. P. Morgan advisor can help you. Visit your local chase branch. You are watching kpix5 news at 5 30 pm. We have live pictures from chopper five. The aggressive aerial attack on the kincaid fire as the winds threatened to pick up tonight. We are standing by life for an update from pg e on its latest round of power cuts. We are looking at live pictures here. Nearly a quarter million customers in the north bay are impacted at about 25,000 more could be in
Morning. Also as of last night it stands at 15 containment, close to 00 buildin 200 buildings have been destroyed, including 86 homes. Pg es latest round of Power Outages went better than expected for people outside of the north bay because the utility never turned the power off for people in santa clara, alameda, contra costa and san mateo counties. They predicted overnight weather conditions never really materialized. The map scholes the current outages, most are in the north b bay. Lets get to meteorologist kari hall tracking the wind and fire conditions. We are seeing breezy winds picking up this morning. That will start to increase as we look at oakland, San Francisco and Half Moon Bay. Earlier this morning we had a wind gust at st. Helena reaching 57 miles per hour. As we go through today well see improving weather conditions for most of us, but we will have the breezy conditions for the higher elevations, and so as we go into the next several hours, it looks like oakland, San Fr
Ween when you wake up and see that, hopefully that provides you comfort. The red flag warning continues until 4 00 for all of us in thee red. Heres a look at the winds. Theyll still be in the 30mileperhour range to 40 in the mountains and hills. Look at by noon, were in the 20s. By 4 00 were down in the single digits. Ill show you the temperature forecast coming up next. First back to jobina. I want to head back over to this incident in hayward. This is northbound 238, the connector there to northbound 880. This is a tractor trailer versus car. The tractor trailer rolled on to the car and actually started a fire, a brush fire off of on fis well. Emergency crews are on the way to that incident. Hopping up to the north bay quickly to look at the impact the kincade fire is having on our roads. This is state road 128 between geyserville and calistoga. That will remain closed until further notice. Albany to the maze, 4 minutes. Fremont to san jose, 14 minutes. Highway 101 to cupertino, 10 m
The worst but it really has been a relatively quiet night for the most part. The wind really hasnt been that bad with the exception of some gusts here and there since weve been here since about 4 am. The National Weather Service Canceled a high wind advisory because wind below 2500 feet has died down but, again, still under a red flag warning. Wind is Strong Enough and humidity is low enough to create critical fire weather conditions. Spot fires that can turn into bigger fires are possible. Firefighters will finally get a break after an intense week on the front lines because the wind well let up after today. That does not mean the area is safe. Fire could be burning inside trees coming even if we dont see it. Cal fire says they can fall, roll down the hill and start another fire. We did see firefighters pulled off onto the side of the road earlier spraying water on a smoking tree. Another issue is how dry everything around here is. Vlive fuel moisture up there is a 50 . 60 is critical
That reduces the number of customers affected to a half million and 22 counties that includes lake, marin, napa, sonoma and solano counties. This morning cal fire crews battling the kincade fire are reporting the wind was not as strong as originally forecast and the high wind advisory has been canceled. Officials say that could lead to better than expected containment numbers this morning once they get a chance to analyze the work ground crews were able to do overnight. The last report was 15 containment. 189 buildings including 86 homes have been destroyed. Lets go out to Sara Zendehnam in Sonoma County. I know firefighters are hoping that the wind conditions will help them. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Thats right. Not too windy here in Sonoma County right now. We are on highway 128. We pulled over because we saw fire vehicles on the side of the road and this is why. Take a look at this structure that is still smoldering behind us. This is off of highway 128 in the healdsburg