Nurse aide training to address staffing problems in longterm care. This program was established with the assistance from the Georgia Healthcare association and allied Health Solutions to provide quick onboarding for nurses aides needed to care for emergencyduring this period. I commend commissioner frank team for his developing the resources for our georgia families. Weeks now, my team has worked closely with the Trump Administration and our federal counterparts to mitigate the impact of this virus in georgia. Decisions and directives are informed by data and Public Health recommendations. Focused onin protecting the lives and the livelihoods of all georgians. To slow the spread of covid19 and prepare for hospital surge capacity, we ask georgians to shelter in place and close businesses throughout our state. Most businesses remain open with restrictions to ensure Community Health and wellbeing. Ourere successful in efforts to protect georgians as well as our States Healthcare infrastru
Including from lisa argen who has been on top of these weather conditions. We have a red flag warning until 11 00. Upper elevation winds, 39 Miles Per Hour up in mount diablo. Thats 3,000 feet. Mount tam, 2,000 feet, 22 Miles Per Hour. The upper elevation winds have come down a little bit. At the surface were looking at lighter winds, they will diminish throughut the day today. Right now in geyserville, it is getting chilly. 48 degrees. Winds out of the north, much lighter, 6 Miles Per Hour. Were looking at lighter winds, but not everywhere yet. We get a break later today. Red flag warning through 11 00. We have a spare the air alert. Patchy smoke in the north bay, drifting towards the delta. You can see it in the east bay at times today. Then well be looking for another round of some very gusty winds into tomorrow. So were lightening up today through the overnight hours, then looking at about 11 00 tomorrow when we begin to see more of those winds coming into play through wednesday. G
For today. Signals are not working. The power outage affecting safety. Due to the Power Outages, the rockridge bark station. A. R. T. S several other stations, the escalators are not working. The golden gate transit buses have delays due to drivers who cant get to work this morning. A dree totree down in lanes blo the slow lane on 24 near acalanes. Slow almost to the walnut creek area. Well be back in a couple minutes with an update on some of the road closures in the north bay. Thank you. Lets get you caught up on the latest information on the kincade fire. This morning it is burning more than 54,000 acres in Sonoma County. Containment dropped to 5 after being at 10 over the weekend. At last check 94 structures were destroyed. Were not sure how many of those are houses. 80,000 structures are in danger. Two firefighters were hurt yesterday. Two of them had burn injuries. One of them serious. About 185,000 people are being forced to leave their homes. This is the largest Evacuation Orde
Under Evacuation Orders. At least 94 buildings have been destroyed. They are also working to restore power to more than 1 Million People. We are live with Team Coverage this morning. Mary is tracking the dangerous conditions. Lets start with jackie ward. We are at the Equestrian Center. You see behind me this barn is still burning on the inside. Completely gutted by fire. The Fire Department was actually here battling the fire. They just moved out of this area. Just a couple minutes drive away from where we were last half hour. We try to get to the road to see what was happening and that is now impossible. The fire has grown to more than 54,000 acres. It is only five percent contained. A few hours ago i spoke to the mayor about the situation. We had a very scary day today. We were concerned last night that we would lose quite a few homes. All the different agencies coming to support our time. Altogether not infrastructures at least have been destroyed. 17 damaged and almost 80,000 were
Check, more than 66 those acres burned, equivalent to 100 swear miles. Firefighters have just 5 contained right now and today they are hoping to make progress. As the wind calms down the smoky air is settling. Here is a live look outside. Mitch of the bad air youre seeing and smells is coming from a large fire burning on griz by island. Looking at the east bay from San Francisco, this shows the skies getting more and more hazy as the hours go by. The air, so bad there, the Unified School District is letting students go home early. Here you can see the dark skies over the city. Meteorologist mary saying you can see and smell the smoke. Dealing with the smoke from two wildfires, one from the kincade and grizzly fire. You can see on our camera lacking north, the smoky skies this afternoon. That will continue as we go through the day. Checking current air quality conditions, up in windsor, closer to the kincade fire, hazardous dangerous air quality with a value of 619. Very unhealthy air i