Lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri with more on the conditions theyre dealing with. Even some low 90s in the vicinity of the fire. The heat and the humidity are the number one things theyre battling. The good news which is probably helping them get that containment we just heard about is the wind is not extremely gusty. Right now we have winds out of the northwest at 10, occasional gusts to 20. So that likely has been helping those firefighters. Here you can see it on this map. South of Lake Berryessa. Smoke from this primarily blowing towards winters with the way that that wind is blowing. Once again, 128 and wragg canyon road. Tomorrow winds out of the west at 10. Tomorrow gusts also up to 20. Hopefully that lower wind would again help out the firefighters. Now, our fire danger going up all across the bay area. Today the fire burn index is 75. Basically putting our fire danger on a scale which is in the high category. Tomorrow goes up to 100, which is still high but getti
A rented tesla, sharon. This happened in a high traffic area just outside of union square, and its still unclear whether the tesla was an in autopilot mode. The accident occurred at the taylor and ofarl streets intersections around 2 00 yesterday. The driver of the tesla ran a red light and was going about 45 miles per hour. The tesla hit a mini cooper and the tesla driver lost control hitting two pedestrians in the intersection. The victim who was killed has been identified as 39yearold Benjamin Dean from the fresno area. You can see dean and his wife, kelly, on her facebook page, just yesterday, posting video of their trip to the San Francisco museum of ice cream. Nbc bay area talked to the owner of the tesla yesterday, who rented the tesla out to the driver. He says he was in the office when he got a message that said the tesla was not drivable, and something failed. Then i received a followup call from tesla roadside assistance, and the guy was saying your car is in accident, are y
Model 3. Police walked the women accused of hitting the pair out of a nearby hotel in handcuffs. They have not released her name, but say she is in her early 20s and is cooperating with their ongoing investigation. She is charged with rung a red light and mcdonalds machines. She was behind the wheel of this black tesla model 3. She blew threw the red light at ofarrell and taylor in the tenderloin. The mini cooper had the green light, made contact with the tesla as it ran the red light, causing the vehicle to hit two pedestrians in the crosswalk. The San Francisco medical examiner has identified the man in the crosswalk as 39yearold Benjamin Deen from clovis. The driver of the tesla rented it from a car Share Company called get around. The owner, albert kim dime the crash scene because he got an odd notification from tesla about the collision. The message showed up your car is not drivable. Reporter police say they have security video camera from three different angles. They estimate th
To heat up. Well be in the low 60s at 6 00, and then at 75 degrees at 9 00. Up to 87 degrees at 1 00 today. As we check out all of our High Temperatures for this afternoon, we do see some 90s here and this is going to be we have to get used to, because theres a lot more in the forecast. Ill talk more about that and whats ahead, its coming up in a few minutes. Thank you, kari. A tragic Chain Reaction crash in San Francisco left one man dead, his wife is in the hospital in serious condition this morning. Today in the bays Sharon Katsuda joins us to explain how the accused driver obtained that tesla. Police say it triggered the accident. This happened just outside of union square. Its unclear whether the tesla was in autopilot mode. The accident occurred at the taylor and opharrell streets intersection. The driver ran a red light and going about 45 miles per hour. The tesla hit a mini cooper and the tesla driver lost control, hitting two pedestrians in the intersection. Police arrested th
That knocked out power to more than 36,000 people in three different states. In mississippi, alabama, the storm surge has been the big concern here. You can see firefighters wading through rising water at a casino parking lot garage in biloxi. That casino and others were closed before nates arrival. Nate is blamed for 28 deaths in Central America earlier this week. The pictures from costa reek reek rica here. We want to bring in Martin Savidge and we have ed lavandera with us. Martin, lets start with you, the situation there from what youre seeing, has the storm backed off a bit. Do you feel things are improving there in biloxi . Reporter not as bad as it was on the front side of the storm. Were on the back side now. The eye passed directly over biloxi. For about an hour, it was downright pleasant. The rain had stopped, the wind was down to a few miles an hour. It was suddenly peaceful. But then it picked right up again. The thing we noticed about the back side here is that hardly any