Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Man, have you ever seen anything like this . September . In napa of all places a freak hailstorm hits the bay area tonight. Paul, you were in it. It was crazy it was nuts. I have been here 20 years and never seen a hailstorm and the aftermath like this. It started in napa when we were reporting from the Napa High School football game. Things got crazy there, then we got video from Browns Valley road. That purple there was intense hail and look what it look like after the storm was finished. It is not everyday you can do hail angels in the bay area, but they did tonight in wine country. The ice is deep enough for kids to play in. Driving and in napa tonight, it looks like it snowed but it is not snow. It is thousands of pieces of ice. Hail, a huge hailstorm hit the ground and it looks like an inch or two of snow on the ground in late september here in napa. People are out having a good time having hail fights thinking its a snowba
It started in napa when we were reporting from the Napa High School football game. Things got crazy there, then we got video from Browns Valley road. That purple there was intense hail and look what it look like after the storm was finished. It is not everyday you can do hail angels in the bay area, but they did tonight in wine country. The ice is deep enough for kids to play in. Driving and in napa tonight, it looks like it snowed but it is not snow. It is thousands of pieces of ice. Hail, a huge hailstorm hit the ground and it looks like an inch or two of snow on the ground in late september here in napa. People are out having a good time having hail fights thinking its a snowball fight. If you dont want to get wet, you can always try to pack an ice ball and throw it up in the air. After all, it is not often the streets of napa look like this. It is certainly something people here will not forget. All of a sudden we looked outside and all the hail was moving down the street toward ou
During the same time rain and thunder moved through sebastopol and other spots. Kron 4s dan rubin is tracking the weather. Dan what can we expect this weekend . We will see partly cloudy skies cooler temperatures, but not a whole lot of rain. Knapp reporting just over one half in inch of rain close to threequarters. A lot of heavy rain and the north bay, with lightning and hail. Theyre very unsafe roadways in driving conditions. One viewer snapped a photograph of a double rainbow and lightning in the sky. In the hours of the evening. Continuing our Team Coverage on the wild weather. Lightning also struck a chimney of a napa house. The residents inside are bit shaken tonight, but are okay. Kron 4s jeff bush shows us some people captured today. The storm was literally hair raising. It had every kind of weather you could imagine. I was planning game of chess with my girlfriend and all the sudden i heard a huge noise. What was it like . I saw sparks flying and with the shaking of my house
News at 6 00, hear from eyewitnesses, hear about the moments things went terribly wrong out here. Allen, liz . Its an honor to stay with him. Andria borba thank you. Kpix 5s da lin is in hollister where the pilot was based. He had years of flying experience. Reporter thats right. Its been a tough sad day for firefighters at this airbase. Cal fire airbase in hollister you can see wellwishers dropping off flowers in front of the base to support the firefighters. For the last 13 years, pilot craig hunt had flown out of this base to fight fires who took off from the base with the air tanker around 3 15 yesterday afternoon about an hour later the plane crashed. Hunt was a contracted pilot working for cal fire. The san jose man was an experienced pilot. His daughter shared these photos with us including a wedding photo. She says hunt spent close to 10 years as the u. S. Navy p3 pilot was in the reserves for another 20 years, the family said his other passion was teaching during the off seaso
But then again, no punishment will ever be enough. No matter what, it will never be justice because an innocent life was taken. Well never get him back. Theres still a chance that a judge will decide the suspect will be tried as an adult but formally, its only up to the district attorney. The d. A. s office says it cannot legally talk about juvenile cases. Live in the newsroom, ryan takeo, kpix 5. Tonight we know a 13year veteran bay area pilot was killed in a mountainside crash while battling a wildfire in yosemite. 62yearold craig hunt was battling the dog rock fire when his air tanker slammed into a canyon outside el portal. Kpix 5s andria borba joins us live from el portal where neighbors watched his plane go down. Andria. Reporter well, veronica, it has been a very active wildfire season in. Yeah. Active wildfire season in california. The pilots are considered the families of the area. Tonight the residents of the area are taking the death of the pilot craig hunt very hard. On eag