Good morning and thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 morning news. Im Tiffany Justice in for Stefanie Lynn this morning. It is sunday. May 5th. Lets get things started with a look at the weather with dave spahr. Good morning, dave. How are things looking today . Well, tiffany, good morning and good morning, everybody. Looking pretty sweet today. What a difference a day makes. Time chilly, though. But lots of sunshine from beginning to end. So enjoy all of going to have the lunch on the patio and so for them, if they could drag out the heaters for a little bit. But definitely where the sweater. Youll need that. Its a cool start. Well get to that in a bit. Right now. The satellite picture, theres the low thats in our backyard. Still its impact. Of course, in the back side, we dont get much from any of that. But still has a bit of moisture with it now, i dont hate it too much because will need these things in the summer to break the back of the heat spells that we get. There are the
Take a look around there is now a smoke advisory that has been issued and you can see why smoke everywhere its hard to see too far in to the distance but the sky is an eerie sight it looks like something from an apocalypse movie. The fire is causing some major disruptions to travel as you can see im surrounded by cars. It forced a Freight Train to make an emergency stop and has closedown parts of highway 138 interstate 15 which is where i am right now is also closed near the fire in both directions heading to and from vegas and its causing some major back ups so officials are encouraging people to stay off the highways and maybe hold off on already facing traffic back ups. Getting back to the fire. Nearly 700 firefighters and other emergency workers fighting to put it out and get it under control. Theyre using 102 engines, 15 crews 8 hellicopters, 8 air tankers, and have about 750 more people on the way so far we know two firefighters received minor injuries, according to the u. S. For
Meteorologist ted pretty shows us how the fire will be affecting our air quality in the valley. But first Miguel Martinez valle show us the damage the fire has already caused. The out of control brush fire has prompted a state of emergency, massive evacuations, and many road closures. Were about a half mile away from where Fire Fighters are still combating the growing flames. We were there earlier and as your about to see the fire destroyed everything in its path. The devastation continues in Southern California as the blue cut fire spreads rapidly over cajon pass. Gary sigler, retired fire fighter one of the largest fires ive lot of fires down on cajon pass when i was with the department for those living in the area the way the flames spread from a few acres to more than 15 thousand in a matter of hours caught them off guard. Jason akins, lives in the area the smoke just got more and more intensive the wind unfortunately blowing straight at us it just kind of worked its way up and as