On at the south bay Emergency Dispatch Center that handles 911 calls. Were live in san jose, well share how crews worked through it all. Also a stretch of 280 in San Francisco is now closed for the long Holiday Weekend. The best way to avoid the expected gridlock. Mornings on 2 starts now. Were live in napa county. You can see in this picture still some plumes of smoke as we continue our coverage of the wildfire still burning out of control. Evacuations still in place. Ktvus Tara Moriarty has been touring the burned area and in two minutes, she will tell us about a serious issue she notice noticed this morning thats adding to the challenging conditions. And we have j just received new updated numbers. Good morning. Im tori campbell. Im brian flores. Lets get your day started with weather and traffic. Steve, what is the weather like . Well, they had fog yesterday. That bushed burned off. They did not today. The humidity is high. The wind is light out of the south southwest. The high will be 91. Humidity will go dune 30, 35 . The breeze should stay westerly. Lake county said the smoke has turned more southeast. So well see if that holds. Theres fog. But there was a lot more yesterday. Sheas thats for sure. A breeze is still in place. Even down to the santa clara valley. Gilroy is 56. Los gatos, 49. Saratoga, 54. San jose state at 56. A breeze in place. But its coming down gradually out to the delta, not at concord where its been howling. West oakland and westsouthwest napa airport. You get farther up in the valley, its not as strong. Fog will give way to sunshine. A little sooner. Morning fog, then sunny, breezy at times. 60s, 70s, 80s to a few near 90. Heres sal. Were looking at a commute thats busy in some areas and lighter in others. Start with the busy. 58 westbound as you drive from livermore into dublin, it will be slow, as it normally is. Its a little bit better than it normally is at 580 at 205. A lot of the slow traffic is on westbound 580 as you come through the main part of livermore. Lets go to the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see traffic is about a tenminute delay getting into San Francisco. Not a fullstrength commute but definitely some waiting. And in the santa clara valley, Silicon Valley, northbound 280 traffic is looking good. It looks like traffic is moving very nicely getting up to highway 17. A normally busy stretch of 280 in San Francisco is now closed for the long Holiday Weekend. Last night, caltrans shut down all northbound lanes of 280 between the 101 interchange all the way to king street near at t park. The southbound lanes will remain open. The freeway closure began right on schedule at 9 00 last night. The northbound lanes of 280 are scheduled to remain closed until 5 00 monday morning. Crews will replace a section of the freeway built 50 years ago. The freeway closure is certain to cause delays. Its already causing delays for many people driving in and out of San Francisco. Caltrans is urges drivers to take mass transit. Alex savidge is getting a first hand look at this big freeway project. Hell have a live update coming up at 7 30. The time 7 04. Back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Now to our continuing coverage of the wildfire burning in napa and lake counties. Minutes ago, a Firefighting Team from Alameda County started to head up there. Also moments ago calfire Just Announced the fire has grown by another 500 acres. Its burn 4300 acres. Thats six square miles. Its still only 30 contained at this hour. 380 structures are threatened with nine already destroyed. Ktvus Tara Moriarty is live in napa county with the fire danger that still exists this morning. Good morning, tara. Reporter good morning. Were sort of in the area where the smoke has greatly dissipated. When we first arrived at 5 30, we could see a lot more smoke than were seeing now. Theres still a little bit of smoke coming out of butts canyon road. This is a picture we took. The road is windy. Its narrow, tucked in the canyon. Crews said the only other visible flames are out of sight. Its warmer. Authorities say we are two months dry than normal with rainfall totals at historic lows over the past year. So officials are concerned this could be one of the worse fire season in decades. This fire has scorched nine buildings, two of them homes. Mostly in berryessa estates. A policeman took me up there. It was devastating driving through there to see everything just you leave in the morning to go to work and you come back and its all gone. Its all gone. Reporter now, again, as tori mentioned, the fire has grown by another 500 acres overnight. And then yesterday it had grown 600 acres. See far 4300 acres blackened. Calfire expected this fire to calm down overnight. It looks like it did. But with the heat picking up later, its all right warmer than this time its already warmer than this time yesterday, that could definitely be a concern for fire crews. Im Tara Moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you, tara. The group of Alameda County firefighters heading to the fire zone tweeted this photo as they prepared to leave. They come from several fire districts including hayward, fremont, oakland and livermore pleasanton, the menlo Park District sent a paramedic last night. Bonedry conditions, fireworks are raising fire concerns in the entire bay area this weekend. The city of oakland wants to prevent more fires like this one that we covered yesterday morning. The city will host a Fire Prevention town hall meeting tonight. Residents will learn about the fireworks threat this Independence Day holiday. And Fire Prevention strategies. The town hall starts at 6 00 p. M. At the Diamond Recreation Center on hanley road in oakland. Some parts of the bay area could see temperatures in the 90s. The spca has reminder for pet owners. Make sure dogs and cat have plenty cats have plenty of water and access to shade. Also try not to walk dogs on hot pavement and never leave an animal unattended in a car. Pets are already likely to be frightened by fireworks and may try to run away. 7 07. Fire investigators are trying to determine what caused a barbecue pit explosion in campbell that injured two cars. It happened last night in the backyard of a home on brierwood way. They say the barbecue pit was running on natural gas. Six girls were sitting nearby. Two were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. The explosion did not cause any fires. Power has been restored at the 911 Communication Center after an overnight outage. Janine de la vega is live with how long the outage lasted and how Emergency Service was affected. Good morning, janine. Reporter good morning, brian. It took a couple of hours for power to be restored at the countys Communication Center. Dispatchers here already work at a fast pace, so any glitch, of course, slows things down. We were told by the Emergency Service director that they worked quickly by using a backup plan. The outage affected 911 calls. It wasnt a complete loss. It did take down the Emergency Services, Fire Departments and Law Enforcement agencies. This forced them to set up a Communication Center outside of the building. Many 911 calls were rerouted through San Jose Police and fire dispatch centers. The ems directors said they didnt have any major problems during the power failure. We had Communications Personnel here, we had ems command staff here and we worked closely with the other departments to make sure every call was handled promptly. Reporter the countys 911 system was back up and running normally at around midnight. The ems director said they havent had this type of thing happen before but says they were able to adapt. They are not sure what caused the power loss but they will be investigating that today because they know that this is Critical Infrastructure in Santa Clara County. Reporting live from san jose, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you, janine. Voters in san jose could soon have their say on changes to pensions and benefits for city workers. The San Jose City council has announced plans for a Ballot Initiative to let Voters Decide on changes to measure b. Voters overwhelmingly approved measure b in 2012, leading to cuts in benefits for 5500 City Employees including police and firefighters. Police say those cuts caused officers to leave the department in droves. If language for the initiative is approved by august, it could appear on the november ballot. The city of oakland is celebrating the graduation of a new class from the police academy. This mornings ceremony will include 34 graduates. Police hope the new recruits will help address a shortage of officers. Oakland police would like to hire 100 new officers by the end of the year. 7 10. In San Francisco, police are asking for the publics help finding nancy jewel cross. Police say the 94yearold was last seen friday. Now, cross is homeless and is known to frequent the Berkeley Law Library and had appointments scheduled at hospitals in alameda and oakland. Shes also wellknown for her work with a. C. Transit until 2002 and and for the number of lawsuits shes filed. She was declared a legal nuisance to the legal system back in 1992. Shes also previously been accused of biting her hayward landlord and throwing a glass and throwing glass at another landlord in fremont. San Francisco City officials spent millions of dollars in public funds on unnecessary repairs to private sewer lines. Its all according to the center for investigative reporting. The Organization Says employees in dennis herreras office are accused of spending 10 million on unneeded repairs based on false and inflated bills. An attorney who came in was also reportedly fired. That attorney has filed a wrongful termination claim with the city. A new dating site that targets married people looking to have affairs finds some of San Franciscos most expensive neighborhoods actually have the most cheaters. The website ashleymadison. Com analyzed data from the 52,000 users in the bay area and found they were most likely to live in Pacific Heights and the marina. The site found user who live in the sea cliff neighborhood have the most partners. The controversial dating site allows people who are married or in a committed relationship to advertise for additional partners. Kind of interesting, the connection there, i guess you could say. I guess. Controversial, as you said. 7 12. Coming up a special meeting set to begin in 90 minutes. How this mornings vote could affect the future of Major League Baseball in oakland. A video clip of a crying japanese politician is raising a lot of eyebrows. Up next, why this assemblyman is so upset and how the public in japan is reacting to his outburst. Good morning. Were still looking at traffic that is a little better than usual. However, its getting a little slower here in san jose and now there is a problem on 101 in the city that may be related to the closure. If you dont like warm or hot temperatures, forecast over the Holiday Weekend may make you cry a little bit. Today theres fog and a pretty good little breeze. Well talk about that and theres a hot going on, the fire, the hurricane and the holiday forecast. Female announcer sleep trains 4th of july sale dits going out. With a bang through sunday, save 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic. Plus, pay no interest for 36 months on tempurpedic and serta icomfort. Big savings and interestfree financing . 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They threatened slavery and forced marriage, unless the Nigerian Government releases some of their members from prison. One of their commanders, key commanders who supply information to them has been apprehended. So something is being done. Were inching towards it. Were inching towards where we want to go. Government frill Officials Say 219 girls are being held captive. Some of the girls have managed to escape. A japanese politician is making unwanted headlines worldwide. These clips from Tokyo Television show the 47yearold lawmaker bursting into tears and screaming after he was accused of spending public money on 106 trips to a hot springs rae sort last year rae sort last resort last year. Some call his apology bizarre and his behavior a sign of weakness. When asked whether the lawmaker should resign, the government spokesman said hes not usually that emotional. Well, time now, 7 18. Back here at home in San Francisco, members of the sisters of perpetual indulgence are speaking out against hate crimes that took place during gay pride weekend. Police say three men and a woman attacked a member of the wellknown Charitable Group and her husband near 18th and castro streets. The attackers made antigay slurs while kicking and punching the couple. I think its something thats becoming more and more, i hate to say it, but a sport for individuals who want to target lgbt individuals. Police are also investigating an attack on two women near 9th and mission as a hate crime. Both women were targeted as they headed home from the Civic Center Pride celebration on saturday. Police are asking witnesses to either attack to come forward. 7 18. We want to check in now with sal and traffic still pretty light day before the 4th of july . It is in some areas. We have a problem in San Francisco. Northbound 101, the closure is affecting traffic on 101 because people are coming up on it and they obviously cant take 280. Some of this confusion may have led to a crash in this general area, northbound 101 right at the 280 interchange here. There is an injury accident there as well. So now traffic is slowing down on northbound 101 from at least third street. 280, you cant continue to the extension, so you have to take 101. Its becoming a little bit of a bottleneck. If you are driving to San Francisco, especially if you are an insider, if you have to drive, use some of your favorite city streets. If you can just forget driving into the city, use public transportation. It will be much easier for you. Lets go out to the bay bridge toll plaza, thats lighter. In fact, now its a lot lighter than usual getting into the city. 12 45 baseball game today at at t park and 237 normally we have stopandgo traffic here. Its not there driving into the valley today, it looks good. Lets go to steve. Some fog out there. Some drizzle, thank you antonio from daly city, heavy drizzle and a strong sea breeze. Theres plenty of low clouds around. A lot more yesterday. Fire conditions so far, its warming up quicker. So far the breeze has not been that bad. Everybody near there saying calm. Probably pick up later. 56 right now. Were going for a high of 93 today. Humidity is 90 . But thats going to go down. Low clouds made it yesterday. Did not make it today according to tara. I believe that. And the wind is going to be mainly southerly, westerly southwesterly but hopefully not that strong. They are getting a break at least hon the conditions on the conditions. Temperatures will start to warm up. Hurricane arthur right off cape hatteras. That will be going right along if the path is correct parallel to the east coast and then out into the atlantic, we hope, by saturday and then sunday looks dry. But thats the path and about 85 Miles Per Hour. Right now its at 80. Some of the fog, definitely more of a break along the snow na marin sonoma marin coast. Inland areas that had it yesterday probably dont today. 58 fairfield. Concord is in there, walnut creek and livermore. The breeze is howling at concord. 63 lakeport. Sebastopol and petaluma, 51. Heeldsburg, 54. Its not often that the sea breeze or breeze is stronger at concord than it is at travis this time of year. But it is today. Gusts to 28 at buchanan. Westerly at napa, also oakland there is a component of a westerly breeze at sfo as well. A lot of fog. It