Hefty hefty hefty some 30 fires are burning across whispers gimme. See more of that as these fires california. Today in the bay cierra confused give me the bag . Johnson live where the fires get intense over the bay area get hefty ultra strong at a low price from the peninsula over toward exploded overnight. What is the latest . The east bay to the south reporter yes, exactly. County. Make sure youre wearing the if you woke up like i did in the mask all throughout today and this will definitely have some city far from where i am i could Health Effects for people with smell the smoke coming in on 80 breathing problems and healthy east. You could see it in the air and people, as well. See some of those flames from well monitor the air quality, the freeway. Right now i am in vacaville and the fire conditions and an update coming. Mike, hows it looking for drivers heading to work . From our Vantage Point you can kari, obviously folks up in the napa area where we talked see those flames ove
Legal attack. A new report published in the journal of pediatrics finds a threefold increase in dog bites during the pandemic. Well tell you why. Wildfires raging in california as temperatures soar and Power Outages grow throughout the states. Early today starts right now good wednesday morning im phillip mena. And im frances rivera. Covid19 is now the third leading cause of death in the united states. The news comes as over 5. 4 million americans have now been infected and over 1712,000 people have died from the virus. The virus is also sweeping through College Campuses across the nation just as the fall semester begins. Students attending Notre Dame University will go online for at least two weeks and students at chapel hill are headed home. Reporter notre dame going virt you for at least two weeks after 19 of students tested positive for covid19. The surge attributed to at least two offcampus parties according to University Officials who say they may be forced to send students home.
It is tuesday, august 25th. Is it smoky in there this morning, kumasi. I find it gets smokier as the day goes on. Early in the morning, oh, its not too bad. And then it comes back. No, were not done here. For anyone without air conditioning, you might be like me. The windows open in the middle of the night woke you up. I hope that did not happen to you. Mike is back right now to give us a forecast for today. Mike, i hope you have some good news. I do. But let me tell you, even those of us with air conditioning are suffering as you can probably tell from my voice this morning. It tends to draw it in. We cant our houses air tight enough. Everyone is suffering, just different degrees, i guess. I want to show you the fog out there because it is mixing with the smoke and low visibilisibii in many areas and slowly funneling off towards the east. Air quality is unhealthy in the south bay. Unhealthy for everybody in the east bay valleys. Its moderate around the bay, thanks to that localized se
The air and from the freeway you can see the flames. We are at cherry glen and Pleasant Valley road and chp blocking that intersection only letting law enforcement, First Responders in to try to prohibit that traffic to do their job. For hours folks have been working to evacuate, preparing to evacuate from this fire. Earlier you heard from one of our own discussing how stressful it is. He said he could see the flames from his home and began taking photos of the belongings, photos of the home in case to document the damage. Good advice in this vacaville area. May be best to prepare or get a plan together to leave. When we were here we were actually parked next to a car of a gentleman and his dog. They left their home seeking higher ground. Take a listen to what some of these folks are going through as they prepare to leave this area. Been through fires before. Ive never evacuated before but why this time . Because it was it was coming hard and coming fast and winds were probably about 4
Of the road man to dev moving a burning quickly. We have had a photographer on the scene overnight gathering that video and getting the stories and spoke with folks burned trying to escape the fire and heard people gathering the belongings, taking photographs of the inside and outside and belongings to document what they have in case there is any damage from this fire. It is important to note that this all stems from the lightning that we had a couple days ago, that lightning struck some very dry brush creating this fire and thats where we are right now. Take a listen to someone working to escape this fire here in ive never evacuated before. But why this time . Because it was it was coming hard and fast and winds probably 45 miles per hour. Reporter and i can tell you the smoke out here very, very heavy. You cant see the flames. They look like fire flies in the distance but that fire still burning out here smoke very thick. There are cars covered with ash and looks like 5,000 outages a