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Take a look at whats going on right now. This is part of the operation that will go on for hours and hours. The wind is blow which is just perfect for additional fires, and they want to make sure that doesnt happen. About an hour and a half ago, 911 got a call of a brush fire in the black point area of east novato in marin county. The fire, which was stopped at about nine acres, threatened numerous rural homes, leading to evacuations of five streets. Units from cal fire, marin fire, willmar, san rafael fire, and novato fire, all were aided by two aerial tankers that made short work of the fire spreading in gusty winds. Anytime you have dry brush, high winds, on a hot day, its never a good thing. But thankfully, out of an abundance of caution, we issued evacuation orders, and with the quick workinside, we were watching tv, and the sheriff came through on the loudspeaker and told everybody theres a fire at the top of the hill. Everybody needs to evacuate, so my girlfenand i grabbed every ....
It gets hotter for tomorrow. But speaking of that spare thers alert, we have unhealthy air quality for sensitive groups for the east bay and for the santa clara valley. Lets check in with gianna and with the spare the air alert good idea to take mass transit. Absolutely. Sfg on time with mass transit. So if you want to skip the roadways, you can use bart, muni, ace, cal train. Sferg on time. Freeways not the case a couple snags out there right now we will get a live look at the bay bridge. Traffic is backed up. Metering lights are on. Slow and go out of the maze so that morning drive is in full swing. Starting to see brake lights off the east shore freeway. Bay area bridges starting to load up now. Heres a live look at the san mateo bridge. Brake lights as well westbound away from the toll plaza heading towards foster city 808 area. North or southbound along the pi nines larks traffic so far sogood. Richmond san rafael bridge. 808 better news. We have had brake lights significant beyon ....
Starts right now with the grass fire in Santa Clara County. I am ken bastida. I am veronica de la cruz. The fire now burning in the foothills east of san jose between sarah and filter road in the diablo range. This was taken from chopper 5 a few minutes ago. Cal fire ordering four caretakers to battle the blaze. It has already burned 50 acres just within the past hour or so. As of right now, the fire is a zero containment. The fastmoving blaze already burning up 250 acres and one structure has been destroyed. Black smoke can be seen throughout the santa clara valley. There have been no injuries and no evacuations to tell you about. Is the temperature rises, the relative humidity drops. We did see that today with values down below 25 or 30 . Hotspots around 100 degrees. Clayton, 104. Concord, 102. This heat has been away from the water. If you find yourself near san pablo bay, ....
Hills. You can see the damage from homes by a torpid that was whipped up by arthur. The hurricane reach add category 2 status. Winds of 100 Miles Per Hour last night and 22 thousand ,000 people right now are still without power. The storm is moving northeast after turning slightly west yesterday. Were going to have a live report in North Carolina in 15 minutes. Erica kato tracking the storms path. Lets look at it on radar imagery. You see it has made its way through North Carolina. The eye shrank which indicates an increase in wind speeds. It will continue to peril the coastline. Were going to continue with hurricane watches an warning. This has been downgraded to a category 1. It should die out by saturday morning. Heres a look at our satellite and radar. Patchy fog along the coastline. Its a little gray out here at the ....
For sunday and it looks like we could see lingering cloud cover and drizzle for the next work week. You may need to use your windshield wipers along the coastline. A deep marine layer sitting at 3,000 feet. Keep the umbrella handy just in case. There is the chance for an isolated shower. It will feel sticky with humid hair out there. Not the best of hair days. Next week, High Pressure will rebuild. We will see warmer temperatures. In fact a few 90s inland. More on the forecast coming up. Investigators in Eastern Ukraine trying to collect evidence and piece together what happened as a surface to air muscle downed Malaysia Flight 17 killing all 293 people on board. Getting access to the site is proving difficult. Mike is in the news room with that. We are getting a better look at the crash site that stretches upwards of 9 ....