around the bay area. cate caugiran following some small fires in the east bay. anne makovec is up in the north bay. but we are going to kick it off with lawrence karnow and this windy weather. lawrence. just walking out the door you can feel the winds and smell the smoke. the temperatures are very mild. we have those offshore winds kicking in. in fact our mount vaca cam you can see those winds whipping around. this is about 3,000 feet. so blustery winds across the tops of the mountains. you re looking at winds gusting to 54 miles per hour right now in the oakland hills, 36 in fairfield, 30 in napa and 26 miles per hour in livermore. red flag warnings are up above 1,000 feet across the bay area. we are seeing some very dry northeasterly winds with strong gusty winds and the humidity levels are very, very dry. so conditions are ripe for fires. we are going to get more on that with anne makovec in the north bay where they re already seeing a fire. anne. reporter: yeah. big f
heavy smoke and even put out extra patrols at this time. officials have some words of wisdom when dealing with this much smoke. for children for the elderly, of course, for those with asthma, it s best to stay indoors and as for the rest of us, close the windows to keep the smoke out. live in the oakland hills, mark kelly, kpix 5. thank you, mark. let s head out to roberta gonzales in solano county where firefighters are now facing the problem of flare-ups. reporter: take a look at this right now. this is what it looks like after a fire runs through the hills here in the suisun city area. 1,000 acres already burned. the biggest problem now for the firefighters, not only the fire that continues to burn on the other side of the ridge there, a good two miles in, but the flare-ups that continue to pop up. in fact, my photographer scott and i were standing at this exact location just after our 5:00 newscast when we had indeed a flare-up immediately in front of us. we were ab
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real money. all right, we start the show with breaking news out of washington. we can confirm that health and human services secretary, kathleen sebelius, is resigning after five years on the job, after a miserable start to the rollout of obamacare, the affordable care act in october, because of technical glitches that prevented people from signing up. she has submitted her resignation, and it has been accepted on friday morning. her replacement is being named. she has served two terms as the governor of kansas. and earlier today, she confirmed that 7 and a half million people enrolled in the public exchanges. hundred thousand of them after the march 31st deadline. president obama will nominate the white houser arm of the budgeting arm of the united states government. there s a white house office and a congressional office. sylvia matthews birwell runs that end of it. joining me, a senior policy adviser to the white house, larry, good to have you on the show, and thank you
we can confirm that health and human services secretary, kathleen sebelius, is resigning after five years on the job, after a miserable start to the rollout of obamacare, the affordable care act in october, because of technical glitches that prevented people from signing up. she has submitted her resignation, and it has been accepted on friday morning. her replacement is being named. she has served two terms as the governor of kansas. and earlier today, she confirmed that 7 and a half million people enrolled in the public exchanges. hundred thousand of them after the march 31st deadline. president obama will nominate the white houser arm of the budgeting arm of the united states government. there s a white house office and a congressional office. sylvia matthews birwell runs that end of it. joining me, a senior policy adviser to the white house, larry, good to have you on the show, and thank you for being with us. what do you make of this resignation? of this been rumors fo