Much tougher for them so you can see theres a canister in his hand right there theyve been setting fires along this hillside and heres what theyre doing its genius they actually started at the top of the hill and started walking down the hill closer to the home meanwhile they were just doing it keeping a close eye in case it erupted they have their hoses on the ground ready to go. Let me show you give you an education on firefighting because he was giving me an education yulia sevens and i look at how the fire burned itself out you can see the smoke right there, theyre saying thats because the humidity level is high so they set it on fire. They watch it and then it burns itself out, but he had they done at noon it would not have burned itself out and therefore could have gotten closer. So the home, so thats why they do a lot of heavy lifting with the humidity level is up and the overnight hours. You can see just how smoky the conditions are embers flying everywhere. Trees are falling d
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
Were staying on top of our were staying on top of our breaking news, this morning President Trump and the first lady testing positive for covid19. Earlier we spoke with chief White House Correspondent jonathan karl. I just want to point out Something Else that we learned thats gotten kind of lost in the shuffle here regarding hope hicks. Not only did she test positive, but we have also been told that she is symptomatic. She is sick. And i thought it was notable just as dr. Jen pointed out, the use of the word convalescence in the statement from the doctor. Also, the president himself in his tweet talking about a recovery process, raising to me a question of whether or not the president is not only in a situation where he has tested positive, but where he is also experiencing symptoms. That we dont know the answer to that, but we do know, again, the doctor using the word convalescence, the president talking about a recovery process. We do know that his close adviser, hope hicks, is not
Were monitoring for today is going to be the return of some smoke thanks to some drifting winds. We have winds from the north creeping in towards the afternoon. And our temperatures are going to be in the 70s and the 80s and because of that incoming smoke, the bay area air Quality Management district has issued a spare the air alert for today. Right now, the sensors are good, but as we head into later in this evening, were going to start to notice an increase in that smoke and unhealthy air quality especially for the north bay which is likely going to be seeing the worst air quality for today. Details into the weekend in a few minutes. The nation is waking up this morning remembering the legacy of Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Ground Breaking jurist fought until the very end after battling bravely pancreatic cancer. Only the second woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court, the 87yearold was surrounded by her family in washington, d. C. We begin our coverage with today in the b
Now offer that same improvement in air quality to all of us across the bay. There are going to be some visibility issues this morning as we do see fog pushing it past the day most of it sitting right above us so bridges should be better that our upper elevations like our east bay hills will be although the golden gate is pretty socked in this morning from that dense fog as for air quality look at this improvement if youre not seeing a shade of yellow orange or red on the map its because youre good or very close to good which is something that you will want to step outside and enjoy of moderate conditions do remain in just a couple of pockets in yellow, but even that a huge step up from where we have been a good day to get outside and enjoy a nice brisk morning walk with steady winds from the coast you will want to put a light jacket on as you venture out there 50s and 60s for your current temperatures. Robin. Thank you john were checking in on the bay bridge as traffic is recovering fr