It was for sure, strong winds in fact the most powerful offshore winds weve seen so far this wildfire season, pick wind gusts, mount st. Helena topic 89 Miles Per Hour. The Oakland Airport reporting wind gusts as high as 58 Miles Per Hour. Current wind speeds looking at 23 Miles Per Hour sustained out of the north, 10 in napa, 22 for santa rosa and looking at 15 for oakland, 14 in San Francisco and for hayward looking at when gus right now at 30 mileperhour. The red flag warning has now been extended all the way until 5 pm today for the entire bay area as we are looking at that extreme fire danger, dusty conditions, low relative humidity values and for the Higher Elevations, the east bay hills and diablo range, that red flag warning will continue until 5 pm on tuesday, so looking at low relative humidity values down to the Single Digits and teens we have record drive fuel and vegetation so we are looking at dangerous fire weather conditions today into tomorrow. Well talk more about wha
Contra costa, santa clara, san joaquin, and stanislaus. Nearly 230,000 acres have burned. The fire election and now 10 contained. Cal from their homes d. The czu complex is burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the southern end of San Mateo County. 50,000 acres have been charred, and the fire is still zero percent contained. 64,000 people are under evacuation orders. Cal fire said at least 50 structures including dozens of homes have been destroyed, but that number is expected to grow. For those frying to get out of the Santa Cruz Mountains today, it has not been easy. Gridlock was described as they tried to leave. You could see people packed up, trucks backed up, trailers backed one motor homes leaving. It was have a very slow crawl. Reporter multiple towns in the Santa Cruz Mountains and toward this coast have been evacuated, including boulder cream, davenport, and pescadero. This is a live picture. This is jonathon cox of cal fire. Lets listen in. So seven clear on what that means
Later today, daytime highs eventually on the warm side yet again weve gotten used to this lately though upper 70s 80s right alongside the bay and 90s for a few inland spots. Daria. Thanks a lot lets get to our top story right now the fall semester for oakland is here online today, thousands of students. Well Start School Year the district spent the week distributing computers and wifi hot spots to students who need them. There are frustrations though with the Distance Learning plan has some parents reported last week that their students didnt get their laptops yet. Attendance is mandatory for students in all of their classes. The beginning of year so important for teachers to ponder students yet another stunts to get to know their backgrounds and the things they deal with outside of school. And they cant do that now because we are all this is their students. I know this is a really different than what youre used to when you were hoping for and. Were going to get there were going to mak
To hot weather expected although not quite as hot as we were early in the week. Temperatures similar to yesterday after taking a little fall. Temperatures around antioch in the upper 90s. Pacifica and Half Moon Bay in the mid to upper 60s. The cloud and fog is back. What to expect for this afternoon, coming up. Lets check on the highways now. Good morning. We have traffic doing very well. I want to talk about the east bay where we still have slow traffic that wont go away, it seems. Theyre clearing a crash that was a hitandrun at south 81 near whipple in that house traffic going slow. Otherwise, San Francisco had a stalled vehicle in an earlier accident that excluded. And traffic into San Francisco from east bay looks okay. No problems on the Richmond Bridge this morning and on 880 in oakland, this traffic is moving along very nicely. Brick newsprint more destruction caused by the walbridge buyer, part of the bigger lmu complex fires in the north bay. This video from this morning showi
Shortly. Similar questions have been raised about outbreaks of schools and when they can reopen. Is there a standard on when they will know, or will schools have the ability to keep them private . I expect full transparency. We put out our guidelines. I encourage anyone watching that is interested in looking at the guidelines we put out for Public Education to go to the site and look at the protocols and processes that we have put forth for over 1000 districts in the state as it relates to monitoring and as it relates to opening and the prospect of an outbreak and the prospect of closing a school. We talked about contact tracers and local Health Officers working with school districts. We talked about expectations on testing and cohoarding staff as well as cohoarding our students and our expectations on mask wearing. The differentiation between Elementary Schools and cohorts of older kids. All of that is available and sets forth the expectation that we have and the transparency we think