We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So large storms take a longer time to lose their strength as they move inland so you look up here to the north. Not only do we have a long Wind Damage to get, were going to see some hikely catastrophic rain, and i want to bring Ian Oliver. He started out in st. Petersburg beach and hes now made the trek over to tampa, so kind of on the other side of town, and ian, whether you started on the of other
It is also a foggy and hazy start to the day with patty drizzle as well as along the coast and the bay. Heading to the afternoon, near normal daytime highs in the upper 80s around 90 in concord and livermore. Low 80s and san jose. The upper 60s in san jose several disco and low 70s in oakland. We talk more about the heat advisories and excessive heat warnings for the Holiday Weekend, coming up. Speaking of the Holiday Weekend, we see later conditions on the freeways and for the most part. That is good news. There are a couple of hotspots. Westbound 37, you have brake lights and for the commute working out of the east bay into marin county. I vallejo. You have a slow ride westbound. No accidents. Just a bit busy. We are seeing slightly slower speeds westbound 580 into the past. It is actually pretty clear out of tracy picked the drive times are pretty much in the green for all of the major freeways. 21 minutes to a five through 680. Changes for mass transit. I will have that in the next
Tonight. We are learning they have been deadly investigators say at least 4 people have died. In fires. Thank you for joining us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis investigators say of the ford s 3 were in napa county one in Solano County they didnt provide. Any other details on whether those who died were residents or firefighters will show you a map now of where the biggest fires are burning tonight. But theyre calling the scu lightning complex fire. Its the biggest. Scorching more than a 137,000 acres in contra costa Alameda Santa clara. Stanislaw san san joaquin counties toward the bottom of your screen the seas eu august lightning complex fires burning in the mountains and san mateo and santa cruz counties where people are unaccounted for homes have been destroyed fire forcing thousands of people to evacuate their. And finally the lnu lightning complex that is burning in a huge area of the north bay. Leveling homes impacting thousands of People Living in s
Whats going on and its not right. But the problem is that we have to do this in order for them to realize were not playing any more. I think that people are waking up. I think people are understanding more and more how unjust this system of policing we have now. But im not here for reform. Im here for abolishing the police. Now many businesses have boarded up out of fear that there could be more looting. A Large Police Presence that included officers from other cities we saw there stayed on the outskirts of the rally, but nobody reported any problems. Well, San Francisco police chief bill scott says 20 to 25 people were arrested in the Mission District at 20th and mission. Sky7 was overhead when they were being detained. Chief scott said the group dumped trash and acting belingerant and he believed the group intended to light fires. The chief did not want to take away from peaceful protests that happened earlier in the day at Mission High School where thousands of people gathered. Kate
Firefighters. But thankfully its pretty calm there in san jose right now. Winds around five to ten Miles Per Hour. Lets take a look at whats going on. We still have heat issues. A heat advisory continues for Solano County. Triple digitsndatthugh at least this evening. Heres a look, the moon is about to set but a full moon coming up tonight and a strawberry moon in case you missed this one. East bay hills camera 69 at 1,800 feet. Cooler conditions at the coast. Serving summer spread for lunch and 81 to 90 around our bay and inland neighborhoods and 81 to 96 our last hot afternoon. Enjoy 70s as you head out this evening. Youll notice the closer you are to the coast the breezes picking up this evening, that is a signal that the heat wave is breaking. Ill show you how it drops our temperature dramatically coming up in the forecast. Heres reggie. Cleanup under way in santa cruz after vandals damaged the Police Station and several downtown businesses overnight. Buildings were painted with gr