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good morning, everyone. it is saturday, october 22. i m amara walker. i m boris sanchez. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we are grateful you are starting your weekend with us. there is a growing health concern this morning for parents of young children as cases of a common respiratory virus known as rsv are surging across the country. listen to this. 74% of u.s. pediatric hospital beds are currently in use with capacity filling up faster than at any other point in the last two years of the coronavirus pandemic. cases are rising fast. during the first week of october, more than 4,400 rsv infections were detected by pcr tests, more than triple the levels were just two months ago, and some states are already in crisis mode. illinois only has 6% of pediatric icu beds left, and space is running out so fast at the connecticut children s hospital that they have had to treat patients in the hallway and in the play rooms. cnn s brian todd has more. the drive to the emerg ....
Deserted for days. Pg e expects to restore power to almost all customers in napa and Sonoma County. Here is what cal fire is telling us this morning, the tubbs fire is at 60 containment. The atlas fire in napa and Solano County sits at 65 . The pocket fire in geyserville is 30 contained and the nuns fire is at 40 . Here is what cal fire is telling us this morning. The tubbs fire that caused most of the destruction in santa rosa is 60 containment. Right now, we want to head to meteorologist, kari hall. She has been following all of this. What kind of weather conditions today, kari . We are going to see some improvement today. We have this very dangerous air quality that lingers over the north bay. The rest of the area is unhealthy. The air quality will be improving as we go through the week. The other big story, the wind. The good news is we start with calm winds this morning. V ....
Weather. The weather plays a big role in the fight of the fire. It does. We have had winds shifting the past couple days. Thankfully over the weekend, the winds were not as strong as expected. We are going to have poor air quality across the bay. Outside in San Francisco, another spare the air alert day especially for the north bay. Inland areas, some of the valleys that smoke will settle in. Winds will be light and variable. At times things will change. We have a mainly offshore flow with winds picking up at 5 Miles Per Hour but for the most part looking calm, which is great news. Then we have a shift as we head into the day tomorrow. As we will have that return of the on shore flow. Its going to transport more humidity and also cooler temperatures into the bay area. Ill talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. Lets start with a crash in san jose. Thats right, kari. I ....
Two miles west of highway 29. There you can see his water tender. It lost control and went over the edge of the road there. This happened around 6 50 this marking. This is one of the steepest roads in napa county. The driver came around this bend, his rig and empty tender rolled sideways, and landed upside down on the side of a very, very steep hill. There are skid marks on the road, but chp isnt sure that indicates he applied his breaks before the accident. They will perform a mechanical inspection to see if his equipment failed. They will investigate whether he was driving too fast and the also see if fatigue played a factor. Cal fire points out this is the eighth day of this fire fight here in wine country. Everyone is getting tired. There have been no breaks for the firefighters since the fires erupted last sunday evening. And so, yes, people are getting tired and that is a factor that we are aware of. We consider it in our daily activities and we work to sbat against that. Whether ....
Now a fuel spill. Cleaning and getting everything under control and out of the way. Word its not going to be there for much longer. Front street to route 23 closed. You can see slow down approaching the scene in either direction there. Traffic being detoured around the scene. Shouldnt lead into too much of your morning commute. Of course be here to update you as soon as it clears. Construction the vine street expressway. The not an active scene. Open between broad street and schuylkill expressway. Good thing there. 295 looks great. Southbound 295 looks the same. Headed towards trenton or headed down south to philadelphia or other parts of new jersey. 42 freeway will be just fine. End here on the pa turnpike. 23 minute trip eastbound looking pretty much the same. This morning, growing calls for Philadelphia District attorney Seth Williams to step down. It comes in the wa ....