You. Well get to the commute with mike. Take a look at the air quality laura was just mentioning, certainly a big concern for a lot of people still, kari. We are going to see the smoke come in today. Unhealthy air quality in the north bay where weve seen all of that smoke still being pushed down as fires continue to burn and so were going to have a lot for today and unhealthy for your time outside. Its also going to be hot again today with our coastal temperatures in the upper 60s. Our valley temperatures in the upper 90s. Well get a closer look at this as well as the rest of the forecast. How is it looking for the commute . Pretty good, kari. We had that construction cleared from oakland. Lets take a look at your maps and we have no real surprises or changes since the last couple of minutes. Still a little slow out of the altamont pass. There is a crash reported heading north through hayward on the nimitz just past 80 street. There may be partial onelane blocked. Maybe your slow lane.
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Afternoon. Were still talking about temperatures in the mid to upper 90s, even up to 100 degrees in ukiah. We are seeing some improving weather conditions due to the higher humidity and that fog that were seeing near the coast, which will help cool the immediate coastline. Well talk more about this as well as our air quality throughout the rest of the week coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking for people heading out the door right now . Well, kari, for your main commute, a couple of the slower spots to call out as we look at the map, everything along the perimeter looks to be okay. Calling out a special issue for oakland, though. The Altamont Pass as well. Over to the right coming out of the Altamont Pass, the west 580. A crash waiting for a tow truck over at north flynn. One lane is blocked by a car or a vehicle that is perpendicular to the rest of traffic making it tougher to see. Over there southbound 880 jams up from the bridge and from alameda. Those crews probably w
More than 70,000 people under evacuation orders. Fire officials are giving an update on the glass fire in santa rosa. Once that press Conference Begins we will bring that to you live during our newscast. I want to talk about the entire town of calistoga. It is still under that mandatory evacuation order. More than 5,000 people are out of their homes. Reporter good morning. Its a situation that folks here in calistoga are all too familiar with. Just driving through town, you can see the roads are more empty than they typically would be and many of those businesses have shut their doors. Its because of that mandatory evacuation because of whats happening just over my shoulder, weve been here since about 4 00 this morning. And this particular hill has been calmed and reignited and calmed and reignited. And now its a huge plume of smoke that weve seen the last 45 minutes. This is just one example of the impeding danger folks here in calistoga are under. Weve had crews here since last night
Theyre working to get prepared but its iced today because, for the shutoffs by helping others. Kari, i just couldnt even fathom the thought of drinking hot coffee. We have so many elderly people in here that we have to well, its still going to be hot throughout today, and well look after because a lot of them also have a gusty wind. Dont drive. They dont get out of their we are going to have some houses. We have to help them. Slightly cooler tthe forecast. Lets talk about this red flg warning that we have in effect for all of our bay area hills. Reporter pg e expecting nearly 23,000 customers in napa elevations above 1,000 feet will have the highest wind gusts today. A lot of us in the valleys wont and sonoma counsties to be feel as much of the wind but the impacted. High fire danger continues as we in all 22 counselees ties will get hot weather. Temperatures over 100 degrees in experience shutoffs because of dry conditions and that wind parts of the east bay, the south that is expecte