Strong winds could spread the flames from the glass fire and spark even more destruction. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 oclock im Justine Waldman the bay area is getting smacked with smoke intense heat, a red flag warning and a flex alert. This all happening on the first day of october what a of a day and october is usually are most intense months for fire. So lets get to it now as we start now with a look at our forecast Rebecca Strom us here now with a closer look at the wind speeds and the triple digit temperatures good afternoon. Rebecca. Afternoon justine yeah were actually under a heat advisory across the bay area as well because the temperatures are so hot were seeing anywhere from a 15 to 25 degree difference force what we normally see at this time for the year. And you can see outside right now this or live shot overlooking and the east bay in berkeley right now and very hazy very smoky that were seeing around the entire bay area and yes talking about the winds that were going to start to see kick up during the afternoon hours getting into the evening hours. Anywhere from 5 to 10 even 15 miles an hour thats were tracking right now as far as the future wind gusts, especially in the north bay napa about 5 mile an hour wind gusts right now in a bottle youre close to that 15. Number mark and were only going to increase as we get into tomorrow evening. Thats when start to see things really ramp up anywhere from 20 to 25 mile an hour wind gusts that were expecting into tomorrow night and thats why were seeing the high fire danger and that red flag warning the heat advisory is scheduled until 8 oclock tonight a completely covering most of the bay area all the orange color on your screen because the temperatures are so hot outside right now were in the 90s and a lot of spots, especially inland. 95 right now im tracking in concord 96 in Livermore Hayward youre at 94 80 degrees in redwood city right now San Francisco. Youre at 9490 degrees currently in napa those triple digits still those starting to creep up on us over the next couple of hours, one of 4 in concord today 98 in hayward on more on the wind speeds and the heat coming up a little bit later justine. Thank you so much the smoke is intense again today so were also monitoring the air quality across the bay area. So heres a map now from the bay area air Quality Management district sensors in the north bay are showing moderate air quality for sandra fell in also 4 of richmond. Thats in the east bay but in vacaville, antioch and in san jose, its in the red which means unhealthy zones, San Francisco to oakland are also considered have unhealthy air today. The air quality gets worse east of santa rosa where the glass fire is burning right now and also happening right now were just a few minutes into a statewide flex alert that was issued for today because of the extreme weather events. Its in effect from 3 until 10 oclock tonight. Officials are urging everyone to conserve power and avoid rolling blackouts some of the things that we can all be doing setting the thermostat to 78 degrees, turning off unnecessary lights, closing the blinds unplugging unused devices and well keep you updated on if anything changes with the demand to the states power grid. Lets go now to the latest on the glass fire thats burning in napa and sonoma counties, strong winds could blow the flames back into Populated Areas now according to calfire they just had an update about an hour ago the glass fire has now burned more than 56,000 acres and it is 5 contained. This fire has destroyed more than 288 properties and napa and sonoma counties more than 26,000 other buildings remain threatened right now the cause of the fire still remains under investigations and there are new evacuations to tell you about they expanded this afternoon in napa county. Heres a look now at the evacuation map. The new orders are for all areas of napa county north of the city of calistoga thats between the city limits and highway one 28 the Sonoma County line and highway 29. All addresses of both sides of highway 29 between calistoga the city limits there and the lake county line and all the addresses an old lolly toll road. Theres also some new evacuation warnings and orders in Sonoma County to go through at this hour, heres a look at the evacuation map for there. A new Evacuation Order is in effect from whitehall lane to bella oaks that area also theres an evacuation warning from bella lane to oakville great. We have all these Evacuation Orders and warnings listed on our website kron 4 dot com. Now governor Gavin Newsome toward wildfire damage today in napa county kron fours capitol reporter Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala joins us now with more on his visit where did you go today, ashley. Just seen yet he visited a community in deer park in napa county this meeting with Emergency Management officials comes as the fire weather or exceeding the weather could make californias fire weather situation even worse. Governor Gavin Newsome that with state and local fire officials at us court school in napa county thursday were dealing with extremes. That scientists had predicted were dealing with temperatures that objective lee not subjectively a hotter than theyve ever been newsoms visit and what was expected to be a triple digit day in parts of wine country as state Energy Regulators warn of a potential for power shutoffs. Newsome noted the state thursday distributed around of money to local governments to respond to Public Safety power shutoffs newsome said 13 Million Dollars goes to cities, 13 Million Dollars to counties 20 Million Dollars to special districts and 2. 5 Million Dollars to tribal governments we prioritize those dollars in a way to help support. More broadly the and safety of communities impacted by bad air quality associated. With these fires as well. As impacting the ability provide Quality Health care in a system thats impacted by Power Outages and evacuations and the like. With nearly 4 million acres charred across the state and 20,000 firefighters on the frontlines the governor noted this fire season gives his administration a bigger nudge to spend more money on future Fire Prevention projects and when this area when i mean mile Emergency Management leaders mapping out a plan to tackle to fire weather ahead as california enters october and soon november 2 months already associated with devastating wildfires in years past. Now the governor said the state is working on a series of Forest Management projects. He did note today that the federal government could be doing a lot more in the space given that it owns the majority of californias wild land. Reporting live in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Thank you so much actually and we continue to follow the fires across the entire state of california. Theres some good news today, cal fires reporting. That the scu lightning complex fire. Is now 100 contained this fire started on august 16th and scorched more than 396,000 acres in Santa Clara Alameda and contra costa counties it destroyed over 200 structures and injured 6 people will go back now to a closer look at the devastation that homeowners are facing from the glass fire has destroyed hundreds of homes in napa and sonoma counties. But despite the destruction homeowners are keeping that neighborly spirit alive kron 4 sleep to call has more now from the deer park neighborhood in napa county. Emergency crews continue racing up and down deerpark road here in the unincorporated Napa County Community of deer park which has been ravaged. By the glass fire that has grown to more than 56,000 acres burned at this point and some 248 structures destroyed including the one behind me here. You can see it is completely gone. The car in the background. Leveled. There is still some decency from the homeowners outside. Along the roadway, leaving pet food for those animals out there that have essentially been stranded across the street. You can see a home is standing im going to walk across right here. It has of sensually been untouched and what this family has done has set out some so for firefighters to protect their home if they need them and then hold jug water. And the hose line to help assist in the firefight it is been very difficult driving through this area because so much of it has been leveled. More than 56,000 acres burned, i mean it is a Staggering Number considering that today the lnu lightning complex fire. Which started in august has just now wrapped up. A 100 contain. It impacted here in napa county. But now the glass fire just 5 contained. Cal fire says because of low humidity and above average temperatures and allowed this fire to grow. Overnight so the fight continues. And the devastation is enormous. In napa county felipe 4 news. And a developing story were following new this afternoon. The palais how Police Department has now fired the officer involved in the february 2018 shooting of run al foster the termination according to the vallejo Police Department was issued after an internal Affairs Investigation concluded that officer ryan mcmahon violated Department Policy is by engaging in unsafe conduct and neglect for basic Firearm Safety during the incident. The man who was also involved in the shooting of the late rapper willie mccoy in february of 2019 were just getting new details on this story and youll hear them on kron 4 news at 5 oclock but right now there is an article posted on our website kron 4 dot com. If you want to read more. Breaking news now out of sports the oakland as are leading 6, 4, in the American League wildcard series, but dont change the channel to go check out the game. Well have highlights coming up and a live report from the coliseum. In just a little bit lots more coming up here on kron 4 news at 3 oclock the as. As i said are hoping to keep their season alive and his do or die game 3 will have a live report from the coliseum next and right after the break, well have more on our coronavirus coverage. What Promising Research is showing that can help lessen the severity of symptoms from covid19. And a live look outside right now hazy conditions very smoky out there well talk air quality and the red flag warning and the the big story that were watching today is the air quality of dangerous wind event is on tap for today as were taking a live look outside a downtown San Francisco. Or what should be downtown San Francisco. A lot of smoke covering most of the bay area today. So lets check in now with kron fours meteorologist Rebecca Strom to find out. What the air quality situation is like and how long its going to stay smoking for good afternoon. And afternoon just seen yeah were definitely going to see its a quite for once again today and into tomorrow spare the air alert in effect for today and tomorrow of course you can see behind me exactly why very hazy out there were seeing this in our live camera overlooking. The east bay from our Berkeley Hills camera and it looks pretty similar to this for much of our live shots around the bay area right now high fire danger that red flag warning is in effect until saturday evening at 6 oclock and this is what it looks like for the north bay. Were expecting very low humidity. Wind gusts of up to 25 Miles Per Hour are expected. So that is not going to be good news for firefighters and that air quality out there right now you can see pretty poor especially across our north bay zone pour across the east bay like you can see in our live shot in our south zone and along the peninsula and its going to be like this over the next couple of days to stay indoors. If you can. Now we are going to see winds begin to kick up. This afternoon were seeing anywhere from 10 to even 12 Miles Per Hour in parts of the north bay like the van right now after your at 4 and its going to increase during the overnight hours and then really kick up and it tomorrow night. Thats were going to start to see 20s on the board, especially in the north bay nevado youll be at around 23 Miles Per Hour for wind gusts. Santa rosa upwards of almost 25 Miles Per Hour which is why we have that red flag warning in effect so very windy very breezy. And of course that heat advisory still in effect for today because were seeing some very hot temperatures scheduled until 8 oclock tonight and heres the reason why look at all these temperatures on the board a lot of 90s that im tracking 95 in concord right now 86 in downtown oakland 94 degrees in hayward and if youre in fremont right now youre 80 to 93 in san jose in antioch were currently at 96. Ill have more on the air quality and the winds and the heat coming up a little bit later justine thank you so much more of the south bay now. And another way to beat the heat over the next few days as by visiting some of those cooling centers that are open. So heres a list of some of them that are in Santa Clara County there are locations in campbell cupertino gilroy milpitas and palo Alto San Jose santa clara and saratoga we have all this listed on our website kron 4 dot com including were cooling centers are open in other parts of the bay area. And there are some good news now on the covid19 front researchers at ucsf are testing a drug that could ease symptoms of coronavirus and keep people who are infected out of the hospital kron 4 tahernia is live the newsroom with more on how this drug works good afternoon knots i just seen its a drug that will be administered intravenously as a onetime infusion. And much like the way tamiflu reduce the symptoms of influenza. The goal is for the drug to reduce symptoms and the duration of covid19 according to ucsf Infectious Disease expert and Principal Investigator doctor annie meyer the drug is designed to help covid19 patients who are in early or mild stages and have less severe symptoms making it an outpatient drug that will potentially help patients stay out of the hospital. The drug is a Monoclonal Antibody which is simply an antibody created in a lab specifically designed to target a particular virus monoclonal antibodies. Been successfully used in treating diseases like hiv cancer and ebola they may be wondering how does this drug differ from remdesevir which has also been used in treating covid19 patients. Remdesevir is an anti viral, but directly target the viral replication so that the machinery of the virus making copies of itself. Right now remdesevir is only available as an ivy medicine and so right now its only approved to be given for people who are hospitalized, this similar to remdesivir youre in the goal is to reduce the amount of virus. But it works differently and that it doesnt target the viral. Replication it uses antibodies to bring the amount of the virus down. Now researchers are looking for volunteers for this particular study and you can volunteer if youd like as long as youve been diagnosed with covid19 within the last 10 days and have symptoms get more information at www rise above covid dot com now have more on this story. Coming up on kron 4 news at 5 as well as on our streaming service kronon download the for free in your App Store Just seen. Now to the state. If california where more than 50,000 people have died from covid19 more than 813,000 people have been infected and here in the bay area more than 1400 people have died. And there have been more than 101,000 cases of coronavirus more covid19 testing is coming to bay area airports, Alaska Airlines is partnering with a Health Care Provider to offer Rapid Testing for all people traveling to hawaii. The test cost about 135 the testing will begin in san jose around november 1st, that is one flights to hawaii are expected to resume from san jose and earlier this week, the Oakland Airport said it would begin offering free Rapid Testing to the public beginning on october 6th. Still ahead here at 3 an intense firefight in the north bay as crews try to contain the rapid spreading glass fire along with the high heat. We are expecting fast winds today, so well have a live update. Straight ahead from cal fire on the situation there. Plus the oakland as in the Chicago White south are battling out for game 3 in the American League wildcard series season is on the line, well have a live time for sports. A crazy game 3 of the wild card series is going on in oakland right now the as are taking on the