We have had some nasty traffic the last couple of weeks, with a last delays. Right now the Altamont Pass is building over from tracy to greenville road with debris in the lanes. Southbound 880 approaching a street not causing delays. We will keep our eye on it. Here is drive time traffic, i80 westbound from albany to the maze is four minutes. 280 northbound from 101 to cupertino is 11 minutes. Developing news in labor county, this morning firefighters are bracing for another brutally hot day against an outofcontrol wildfire spreading at a near record pace. Here is the latest on the rocky fire burning 13,000 acres in the clear lake area. Flames are near Morgan Valley and rocky creek road and only 5 percent contained. Three homes have been destroyed and the fire burned at 10,000 acres in only 24 hours. Firefighters worked to save plans where hundreds were evacuated. Did you think you would see your home . I was not sure. I said i did not know, just pray for us. We left it hype. Dont know
J. R. Stone hes been evacuated from his home where he was able to see black smoke like is pouring into the sky and flames can crackles to his house on top of this mountain wednesday night fire crews are now fighting the flames from the sky and on the ground there are not many in people in the area of many animals are displaced the stockswap down the street and walk down the stock unless the 40 people were either standing apparent to be out of breath a short time later this power pole came down blocking the road a concern as hard as we were talking to jim it could be is unsure when firefighters arrived. J. R. Stone everyone hopes the these crews can did the flames under control last check just 5 percent of this contained over my shoulder off in the distance you see all of that smoke pouring out into the skiver are several areas like that here in the county firefighters although there are hundreds out here still have a very long way to go. James it leads to explosion and evacuation flame
Six others were damaged force and no one was hurt. Darya we have a crew headed to the scene. Michelle apon 13,005 under a is a little but overton about the football field the brush is very dry in a steep in that area of the awful dilemma with some pretty warm conditions as of right now 71 degrees will have some live north wind that is not too bad but later on today customer to one of multiple digit heat but mid90s still pretty one does with the firefighters will be dealing with this afternoon along with a string shower thunderstorm chance donald from the mobile application in the news you can follow exactly whats happening but were looking at a little bit closer to the bay area we have mostly cloudy skies. Michelle apon 4 isolated showers and thunderstorms may bet if youre traveling man off to the east heading into top of this weekend your bill will showers and thunderstorms possibly tomorrow but as of right now most of the bay and is pretty much dried. Michelle apon looking at the nor
Youre right. A little more widespread, temperaturescontinuing to fall for the afternoon. Subtle changes outside this morning. Some of us waking up with less sunshine, some of us with partly cloudy skies. Giving you a view at some of the sunshine. Over portions of east bay we have a mix of sun and clouds to start. Meanwhile widespread gray in the bay, along the coastline, the peninsula and to the north bay. Heres a look from up above at what is happening. As we get into areas like livermore and concord, reporting a little cloud cover. Yesterday you started with mostly sunny skies. So the cooling trend continuing. The onshore breeze strong this morning through fairfield. 23 Miles Per Hour. Gusting at times to 30, even 35 Miles Per Hour. So that will continue for today. In concord we have the onshore breeze at 13 and napa reporting 14. Temperatures this morning similar to yesterday, starting in the 60s. 64 livermore now. 63 walnut creek, low 60s oakland. 61 fran. To the north bay, 62 nova
Th this is abc7 news. There is so much energy and heat in the main body of the fire. The rocky fire is burning hot and intense tonight forcing more evacuations. Good evening, everyone. The rocky fire in lake county continues to grow. It has burned nearly 85 square miles and has become the largest fire ever in lake county. And it has spread to yolo and coluuso counties. 3,000 firefighters are battling the fire and it is only 5 contained. Sergio is live with the latest. Sergio . Katie, tonight we found a hill so we could watch the fire line in the distance. It is something we notice a lot of the residents near clear lake doing. A lot of people are evacuated and they say they have things packed just in case they have to leave. At sunset crews started backfires to cut a fire line along this ridge which is only a couple miles away from the town of clear lake. We are afraid it will jump that ridge and come down. It is really close. It is and out back it is nothing but grass. Gail and lots of