Been used multiple times. The withstands picked up over winds picked up overnight. Ktvus alex savage is live. Reporter good morning to you. We are feeling those winds. It will be calm for a moment and then we get some real strong gusts thats starting to pick up. These are the northeast withstands. Theyre dry that are blowing into this area and its really caused this fire to pick up in intensity and its pushed it closer in here to the Sonoma Valley. Im going to step out of the way and give you a live look here. These are the hills kind of east of sonoma and for perspective, were on east napa street, just east of eighth street. For people familiar with this area, were start of the city that has been e vac voted. The evacuated. Those foot hills is close to the area of lovel valley road. There are homes come we dont know that have burned but there are homes in the Sonoma Valleys itself as this fire started to creep closer into the town of sonoma itself. I want to bring in Rockland Fire Dep
For us, we are looking at coastal flooding today. It wont be as significant as it will be to the north. Still looking at Tropical Storm warnings. That means winds 40, 45 Miles Per Hour. Another thing well do today is not just with the winds but we have the tornadic threat that will be with us throughout the day today. On titan doppler radar, weve been seeing a lot of rotating thunderstorms this morning. The good news is they have been parallelling the coast. Some of these will be making it onshore. Necessity will be tornadoic they will be tornadic. You can see whats happening here. That right there, if that were to make it onshore to pinellas, thats awfully close. Some have been weakening some have not. That will be the trend for today along with the gusty wind getting us into the 30s, 40 mileperhour wind gusts and then again the coastal flooding coming up especially at the time of high tide. We have high tide around 2 1 2 pete. Well get splashover and and st. Pete. The rain falling fr
Investigation. I dont is detail on the cause. How many cars were involved . I dont know. We are still investigating that aspect. Here is video of a helicopter that airlifted one of patients. The pay ship was so critical they had to bring in the helicopter. Nine were taken in. Three of the 39 are in critical condition. If you are traveling southbound 880 you will be diverted at marina. Northbound, you will be diverted at washington avenue. Avoid the area altogether. That is the best advise. There are no far attempts at this point. It was a terrible and dramatic accident. They will be here if several hours. They will investigate what happened. They are advising people would drive on 880 if a couple of days to be careful. They will do their best to clean up the debris and fuel spilled, up the debris and fuel spilled, you want to look out for it another look at the traffic situation and leyla gulen has been following that all morning. That was dramatic. Incredible pictures. Here is how it