Glass fire is already burning but theres also extreme fire danger in the east bay hills in Santa Cruz Mountains. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here is tracking these dangerous fire conditions for us tonight. In joins us with the latest lawrence the ad guys looks like this is going to be more of an extended event now not just for tonight, but i think again by tomorrow evening going to likely see these winds get very gusty in parts in and around the glass fire so watch for that very closely red flag warnings now posted not only in the north bay, but in the Santa Cruz Mountains again, the looking at high fire danger. Theyre expecting some strong gusty winds moving across the Santa Cruz Mountains maybe 10 to 20 mile an hour winds maybe gusting to about 30 humidity down 10 to 20 . So certainly very dry out there the east bay Oakland Hills watch out above a 1000 feet some very gusty winds 10 to 20 mile an hour maybe gusting high as 30 humidity even lower down to 10 to about 15 .
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital earlier tonight, good evening, everybody thanks for being here 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the accident took place at the departments training yard. An investigation into what happened is now underway or kron fours terisa stasio has details. The fire chief was visibly shaken as she talked about losing this firefighter. She also talked about how the Department Needs to be strong right now during this very sad time we lost a young man named jason cortez who has a wife. And 2 little kids as a father. Retired from the San Francisco Fire Department. All of them are grieving. As is. This Fire Department family. A somber San Francisco fire chief Janine Nicholson reflecting on losing one of their own. In a horrible accident. It was around 10 00am wednesday at the Training Facility on 19th and fulsome fire Officials Say the court has got injured he was rushed to the sucker berg San Francisco General Hospital. A short distance away whe
Heading into menlo park. So what want is not your friend this morning youre going to be stuck. We also have an overturned big rig leaving the north bay this is coming out of benicia this is southbound 6. 80 at industrial this big rick flipped over this happened at around 5. 55 this morning sort Traffic Alert remains in place your 2 left lanes are closed. This is right on that Little Bridge between industrial in 7. 80 and youre back up spills. Well beyond like herman so do not take 6. 80. Use 80 instead they will have to get around that back up our Police Activity cleared from the freeway but its still wrapping up in concord the northbound to 42 connector to west for was closed for a police investigation, the freeway is back open. We do have a reporter on the scene who give us an update on that Police Action in just a bit by want to give you the bay bridge quickly a minor wait, youre looking at 14 minutes for 80 west into San Francisco john. Well robin easier going as far as weather goe
County that wasnt there yesterday so we can be thankful that we are making progress albeit slow progress so far and as james mentioned still in the midst of a recordbreaking streak of spare the air alert days, 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with concord and pittsburgh each at 60 degrees. Oakland at 61 right now while San Francisco berkeley much of the north bay hanging out in the 50s to get things started. Robin. Thank you have some trouble spots and lots of heavy traffic to talk about crews are wrapping up a car fire on vasco road right now at one point we had all southbound lanes closed on southbound vasco at the south end of the last week Harris Reservoir but it looks like theyve just released traffic which is good news for people coming out of iran Discovery Bay brentwood trying to get south into livermore but still a lot of heavy traffic there are residual delays leading up to the scene we still have an overturned crash active in san leandro 80 south before to 38. Theyr
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