Im liz kreutz. Following the american fire. How neighbors came together to help firefighters put out the flames and save their homes. Were watching our winds very closely because they will be ramping upstarting on wednesday and this will prompt a fire width weather watch for higher fire danger. Well have the latest details in the accuweather forecast. Im luz pena in San Francisco. Its fleet week. The ships have arrived and our military is getting ready for multiple events throughout the week. Abc7 news starts right now. Announcer now news to build a better bay area from abc7. Tonight firefighters are still working to extinguish a brush fire burning in napa county, the socalled american fire has burned more than 500 acres. It prompted an evacuation advisory and some neighbors rushed to keep their homes safe. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Dion is off tonight. Abc7 News Reporter liz kreutz is live near American Canyon with the latest on this fire. Liz . Reporter eric, the fire is burning
Can see carquinez and phoenicia bridge traffic looking good. At 4 31, lets get steve with the weather. We are starting off mild with high clouds and not much of a breeze at the surface. A little bit in the hills but temperatures, this will be the warmest day of the week and cooling begins tomorrow. In this er in nevada, we will be cranking up the breeze with much cooler but windy toward wednesday. 80s just about everywhere and sitting at 65 and it wouldnt take much, 66 in berkeley with 40s, 50s and 60s on the temps and his high cloud deck is holding up the temps on the peninsula. Woodside, wa high cloud deck and for the area, the breeze is offshore with an easterly breeze and we will look for a warm to hot day today and cooler weather tomorrow tomorrow. A santa rosa doctor is accused of killing patients with opioid subscriptions and he will be back in court. Dr. Keller is charged with seconddegree murder after four of his patients died. Hes accused of writing prescriptions for hundreds
Our exploratorium camera at pier 15. Dont worry, no rain is coming. Well have above average temperatures, already nearing 80 around the bay. Well stay in the 70s at the coast. Well hit 80s to 90 by 4 00. A spare the air all day today with the air quality usually getting worse as we head throughout the day into the evening hours. In the east bay valleys and the south bay, unhealthy for those most sensitive. Talk more about the commute with frances. The commute is looking great. A live shot of the bay area, you can see the only sloei ingslowi seeing is through tracy. There was an accident on westbound 580 through tracy that has been cleared. It is slow on 280 approaching the tracy area. And 205 heading through the altamont pass. The drive time on this stretch is yellow at 42 minutes. Southbound 680 looking good, dublin to mission boulevard south. We have a live shot of 680 in walnut creek, that southbound traffic on the right near geary, looks good towards highway 24. No problems in the
But the b. A. R. T. Trains are running about nine trains running on time without delay. Over here, the san mateo bridge we wanted to check back in if you were with us about 20 minutes ago. It did look slow but things are moving nicely signaling as you change lanes good advice. Traffic may be light because you see how early it is, 5 01 and a smooth flow of traffic all sides of the bay. The crash on the grid but i think it cleared off off of eastbound 80 around highway 4, so it shouldnt be a problem anymore. Ill give you one more scan and the bay bridge toll plaza a few cars waiting in the cash lanes off to the right. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. 5 01. New this morning, San Jose Police are investigating the death of a man who was stabbed in a fight, it happened about 9 00 last night on alum rock close to where it crosses right over highway 101. Officers responded to reports of a fight involving multiple people. From at least unidentified one stab wound. He later died at a hospital.
Liver. More and san jose. And it might be a late seabreeze, and its already pretty warm. 8463. Last week we couldnt get the low or the high. They were both below this week. They were starting off a little low coming in spinning in high clouds. Before they come, 40s, 50s and 60s in the temps. Some on the mild side and component coming off, and humidity is 23 , and tomorrow though, we will start with a cool down in 70s and 80s and a few near 90 degrees. Well, the east bay commute is getting busier steve as you might expect. Right now here we are. You will see the traffic is going to be slow coming around the corner to the bay bridge. It is not really that bad once you get to the bay bridge, but that backup is just a little longer than normal, so you should give yourself 5 or 10 minutes. Not a big deal. As we look at these commutes, you can see that some of them are heavier than others. And its heavy from 92 down into union city, and the bridge is okay. Peninsula has been fine. As we look