heavy smoke fills the air. and evacuation orders are in effect. the bear fire is burning in the northern part of santa cruz county near highway 35 along bear creek road. kpix 5 s sandra osborne reports from boulder creek where the fire has been burning since last night. sandra. reporter: we have been watching as helicopters circled as they are making air drops on the flames in the canyon behind me. recently we have had a lot of ash falling down on us. we have seen a lot of smoke over the canyon. this fire right now is at 152 acres but the containment is only 5% right now. now, the good thing is we do not have a lot of wind out here. the bad thing is the amount of smoke we re seeing, they have one helicopter making drops right now but because of safety reasons they have to limit the number of air strikes as of right now. our cameras captured these images of what s being called the bear fire carrying through dry brush and trees along the edge of bear creek canyon this morning
50s. north of the bay 39 santa rosa, 38 degrees in napa through vallejo. meanwhile, temperatures today under a mostly sunny sky albeit hazy into the 60s. winds kicking up tonight. san leandro is the hot spot now a traffic alert in effect northbound 880 at marina boulevard. there was a crash about two hours ago but it did some damage to the guardrail and they are repairing it. it could be blocked, the left lane, for a while longer causing delays coming into the san leandro area. if you are heading to oakland, problem-free near oakland airport if you are dropping somebody off or picking somebody up. silicon valley commuters, everything is great to sunnyvale . the zipper truck is opening up lanes. we try to find the truck every morning. it can run but can t hide. [ laughter ] all right. thank you, elizabeth. video from inside the plane as it lowered into the pacific with the parachute. anne makovec joins us in the newsroom with the remarkable cockpit video. reporter: h
behind between specifically to watter in stores to ito the just talking about it new photos about the prom or near their our graphic pictures here. the carcass of rodent found in this downtown san francisco what is store on thursday or was it on the ground in the photo center. it covered by officials as services go walgreen of how a tree during a routine inspection. this is just one of the disturbing images taken by inspectors trade in this shop and see on flavored chips. still hold and the bottom of the bag may of been the work of rodent. health department at the store located at 141 race st. for about two and a half hours thursday. and as these floors against what they found all the road and feces on the sales floor here feces in the basement storage area and feces on the electrical room. in fact also found rawhide bone that had been gnawed away at a matter of inches from rodents ec s trade message from the health department listed in the report and states immediately elimi
we have video that shows how fast the flames are burning and cal fire says there have been close calls for the 4,000 men and women on the fire lines. 12 firefighters had to deploy their emergency shelters. they were airlifted out and are doing okay now. we have seen the fire in the previous days go 2, 3 miles. yesterday the king fire ran north approximately 15 miles. [ talking at the same time ] officials say because of the drought the moisture content is at record lows which is making fires burn hotter and faster than usual. and in siskiyou county evacuation orders remain in effect for weed. the fire destroys 150 structures. most are homes. tonight the fire is 65% contained. and in two hours they plan to hold a community meeting. governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency to free hup money for the up money for the fires and we are updating www.ktvu.com with late information on all of the fires. we have also posted a lot of pictures showing some of the heart bre
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