It triggered evacuations in the area. Earlier flames were racing across trees and dry brush on the steel hipside. Firefighting planes dropped water on the fires. And fire crews responding to a three alarm fire. You could see the smoke there billowing up into the air from our sfo camera. This fire is on star lite street near north canal street. No word on which building is burning here, but we know this is an Industrial Area about a block or so away from the South San Francisco fire station. This fire was reported just before 3 00 this afternoon. As of 3 30 or so, it did look as the crews on the scene were getting a pretty good handle on this fire. Of course some very challenging conditions out there for fire crews across the bay area. Lets check in with Rosemary Orozco on the weather were seeing. Alex, that wind is Still Holding on, into the second part of the afternoon into the evening hours, with the advisory still in place as well. We can take a look at where were seeing a red flag
Grows. 7 00 a. M. , 78, 9 00 a. M. , 81. The key here is that northeast wind coming down the hillside. As this comes down in elevation and sinks, that warmth, and thats why it led to that very warm start this morning. Now, the red flack fire warning has been extended for a portion of the bay area, for the north bay hills and east bay hills. This has been extended until 6 00 a. M. Saturday. Winds not extremely strong, but it is still warm, and it is still to try and breezy. We could have winds gusting to 30 miles an hour. Right now as we look at some of the sensors, the winds, nothing too extreme, but it is still so hot and dry. Here is our live camera this evening, looking out towards San Francisco and downtown with mostly clear skies. The current numbers, still have 90s well inland. San francisco in the mid80s. Half moon bay, 81 degrees. The heat advisory expires later on this evening. The weekend will bring in some cooler air. More on your weekend outlook coming up in a few minutes.
Cool off so yeah. We are lucky. Reporter and all, about 41,000 customers were impacted in parts of 24 counties with peak wind gust one state reaching 65 miles an hour but now that weather clear has been given an pg e is systematically bring that power back on. Places like alameda and santa cruz counties are 100 restored, Sonoma County bite midafternoon was more than halfway there. Basically you have it in sectors, and alignment, cruise basically going and my ends along those lines to make sure there is not any damage and that we have helicopters, eyes in the sky, also doing this on the line. Still on the winds have abated, the heat has not yet been it is hot, it makes it hard to be outside, especially with the kids. Has left residents and Business Owners looking for shade at their whiskey bar and grill, they have got a spot ready for those looking to leave their homes and have a cool drink. Still it is hard on staff. Reporter people keeping on during it, make sure the are taking care o
The economy, pretty much at a dead stop until may, maybe longer. The market is looking to the other side of the virus problem and surely welcomes more financial help. However, stocks are ending the worst month since 2008 and the dow will open lower this morning, off maybe 140 points. Similar story for the s p and for the nasdaq. A down opening bell today. The price of oil, well, that remains at depression levels. This morning we are in the low 20 per barrel and the average price of gasoline, you got to look at this, the National Average gas price has dropped below 2 a gallon. 1. 99, thats your number this morning. The price is dropping about two cents a day but so what . Demand has cratered, the roads are empty, and few people are taking advantage of dirtcheap gas. Now, this caused a stir yesterday. The u. S. Navy hospital ship arrived in new york and was greeted by crowds of onlookers. They were breaking social distancing rules. Those people who were holed up in their apartments and h
What the governor said a moment ago, he is tired of being behind this virus. We have been behind it, playing catchup from day one, trying to put a plan in place that puts him ahead of it, plans what he believes will be the apex in terms of the virus and the impact on the state of new york in the next two to three weeks. Before we go back to the numbers, another thing the governor mentioned in albany a moment ago, his brother chris, who host as nightly program on cnn, is positive for covid19. His symptoms, according to cnn, are mild. Chris cuomo will continue to host his nightly program, they say from his home on a daily basis, again with mild symptoms. The governor has been talking about his brother who he says is his best friend here for the last few minutes. Before that he did go through these numbers. Lets put them back up there. 75,759 cases in the state of new york and 1500 deaths. 1550 is the latest number, up from over 1200 yesterday. These numbers, to neils point continue to ri