How hot were going to be getting these next few days. I think most of us probably are. Weve enjoyed what has been a pretty comfortable week actually it has been hazy though thats been your big catch. This morning, a nice little blanket of fog shrouding the bay area think you blanket of fog are keeping a school for one more day. Before we switch out this cool in land breeze with a very hot and dry. Breeze from our inland areas out to the coast as far as air quality goes still a couple of pockets where its not so good including right around richmond up in Contra Costa County and then through the golden gate and southern portions of moran and then San Francisco as for our temperatures were nice and cool 50s 60s for your current numbers get out there enjoy a cool morning, especially if youre one of our clear areas. Daytime highs today will be all that bad either we are going to be warmer today than we have been but this will be the coolest one of your weekend so that tells you something co
For several neighborhoods up in Sonoma County. And we actually have a live camera there it is right there thats from mount jackson, its point at wes right at the fire you can see the smoke and the haze thats coming from the fire and firefighters do say that theyve stopped the forward progress of that fire. And more breaking news to to our south militarily military helicopters are also attempting to rescue more than 60 people that have been trapped. In the creek fire. Thats that one in Fresno County, youre looking at some of the latest video this will be their 3rd attempt to get to those hikers the rescues had to be called off last night because of what you see on your screen. The smoke just became too heavy for the helicopter pilots. We actually have a picture of the hikers you see them right there all gather around there are sheltering at the vermilion valley camping resort thats at lake and his son. They have volunteers out there helping them making sure that theyre fed and stay hydr
Live camera to from Mount Jackson points to the west here you can see the smoke coming off the fires, theyre filling the valleys and also overhead firefighters do say that they have stopped the forward progress of the fire so at least theyve been able to accomplish that. Speaking of the fires more breaking news to our south military helicopters are attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire burning in Fresno County. Now today will be their 3rd attempt to try and get these hikers out the rescue operation had to be called off last night because as you can see in this video the smoke just got too heavy and too dense for the helicopter crews. We have a picture of the hikers they seem to be doing in fact this photograph shows you theyre all hunker down right now at the vermilion. Campers and lake edison volunteers are helping them stay fed and hydrated as they wait to be rescued again theyre in good spirits for now because they are still a little bit of ways
For some time. Now there are questions about staffing and what role that plays for officers on the street kron fours dan kerman is live at Police Headquarters tonight with our top story. Dan. Well the police union is coming forward saying despite the fact that the Police Department has a 122 funding positions they have never fill those positions all at once not placed in the last 10 years and they say that is requiring officers to work overtime and that is putting citizens lives at risk. And understaffed police force is a threat to those that live in vallejo. So says the Vallejo Police union which says citizens are endangered by the citys failure to hire police specifically they say there are not enough cops to cover all beats on a regular basis. The says for 10 years the city has had open positions and because the forces consistently shorthanded there are generally no more than 6 officers on the street at any given time in a city of over 120,000. The says that puts filet o well below
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