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61, at 4:00, 61 to 62, back at 7:00 we will cool a little quicker, 49 to 54. the breezes will taper even more today. we are going to walnut creek where we have an accident this is southbound 680 near north main, a solo car vehicle partially blocking the left lane. chp and walnut creek police are on scene there, but you can see for yourself they are slow and go from the 242 slit in pleasant hill. vacaville eastbound 80 before leisure town road, a car flipped over, landed back on its wheels but is off on the right-hand side in the ditch. chp has to get on scene so we will get an update when they get there. i m not seeing any slow traffic in the eastbound direction as of yet. we will follow that and check back with your bay bridge toll plaza where we are still down a tollbooth this morning. we are still monitoring that breaking news out of southern california where a massive wildfire is burning out of control. this is the thomas fire, it s now scorched more than 31,0 ....
firefighters on the line. the problem very, very strong winds in southern california and the winds are going to continue the next several days. bottom line, it looks like the situation there is going to get worse before it gets better. hillary vaughn is on the fire lines in ventura county. hillary, you spoke to people. she spoke to people who watched neighborhoods go up in flames. we re actively involved in aggressively protecting homes. fast moving and explosive. everything is gone. a pair of wind-fueled wildfires have already destroyed hundreds of buildings and homes including a psychiatric hospital as they continued to burn north and west of los angeles. it s a huge hit. i ve been an owner for 40 years here and it s just crazy what s gone on. good friends up the street lost their homes and i m just so sad for them. i m happy for myself and those of us who kept their homes, but it s awful. the fire is triggering widespread power outages and forcing the e ....
fires. the largest is the thomas fire. it started last night at 6:30 pm in venturers ventura county. and there are two other fires of the battling in los angeles. video from earlier today shows how strong those santa ana winds are. the wind gusts have been recorded up to 60 miles per hour. governor brown has declared it a state of emergency. 150 structures have been involved. a competitive swimmer watched his home burn. i have some important things from my athletic career i will was not able to get the certificates for. and their words i got from a world record. and my wife got pictures and some other things like that. basically, everything is gone. reporter: much like the northbay storm they got the word to leave. it is spreading to the city of ventura. and it is sending more people to get out. we have 100 the sheriff personnel working the fires. we are dealing with the evacuations. the fire department is helping with those evacuations. we are asking people t ....
into another battle with firefighters going up against mother nature . just like the northbay firefighters, strong wind is a big problem and really whipping up the flames. ellis and barber is back again in ventura county. we re trying to get the latest on how the wind is. what s happening out there? reporter: you can see a little bit, a fire truck just pulled into this neighborhood. they have been driving around and keeping an eye on things here in terms of what the wind is going to do today that remains to be seen. yesterday s fire officials said they plan to get air support up once the sun came up this morning. they want to try to fight the edges of the fire to keep it out of neighborhoods so more homes don t wind up like this one. the wind is starting to pickup and some say they could, experts and officials say they could get up to 70 miles an hour today. that could cause a big problem. we know in the past in fighting these areas in the past couple of days at lea ....
hercules all the way into san francisco, a moderate 45 minutes. our big problem here remains highway 84, isabel, closed in both directions between concannon and vineyard. no estimated time of reopening and of course that s a big alternate to 680. 680 not looking so good this morning on the sunol grade. prepare for the grind. at the live desk it is going to be a rough day for southern california firefighters. wind gusts 50 miles an hour in some areas and that s fanning the flames of multiple wild first that continue to burn out of control. the rye fire burned 7,000 acres near santa clarita. the creek fire charred more than 12,000 acres. the skirball fire burned nearly 5,000 acres. near the getty center. the thomas fire has grown more than 90,000 acres in ventura county. john gregory has the latest now from la conchita. reporter: right along the 101 freeway, right along the coast and you can see homes being threatened by the fire. this is la conchita, a very small coa ....