Couple of hours. Well go ahead and get a look at the air quality. You can see as weve headed through today, as you look off toward the distance, you can see that smoke. It is cloudy. The sky has that orange haze in it, but its not necessarily in the very unhealthy air range right here in the bay area. So as you look at these live air quality monitoring sites, the only spot now thats tipped into the unhealthy category is napa. Otherwise its good in San Francisco, moderate for most of the bay area, and a few spots that are unhealthy for sensitive groups right now. So i want to talk more about the smoke and why were seeing it off towards the distance but were not necessarily smelling it as bad as it looks. And it all has to do with three different fires surrounding the bay area. We have one off to the north, the august complex, the one near fresno, the creek fire, and then the dolan fire off to the south. So with all of these fires, they are so large theyre creating whats called pyorcumul
Punch. Both by the economy and health. The recent study found more than 3000 people tested in the mission last month, 2. 1 came back positive for covid19. By comparison a similar test in the other community turned up zero positive test. 90 of those testing positive were unable to work from home. They were almost all latinos. The virus exploits creek assisting vulnerabilities in our society. Hopefully with this data we can respond and start putting resources to work. It saddens me to hear that we are the highest population affected by the virus. And worse, what really bothers me is that people who have the virus, dont even know about it and they are living in a Housing Condition that they are living in. This man agreed to be tested and he was glad he did, the results are negative. My kids are concerned about me so for them i oh it to them as well as myself to know i am not infecting anybody else. Residents say that many live in overcrowded conditions and worry if they will still have jo
He is going to be okay after a pretty rough accident here in the middle of rush hour. Back to you. Thank you. We have breaking news out of oakland as well. Chopper 5 over interstate 880 at 66th avenue. The exit there, look at this. A crash involving a big rig has blocked all the lanes. This is right by the coliseum. This may have started with a collision involving two other vehicles. It looks like there are injuries slow going here for some time. Also in oakland, a possible road rage incident blocking traffic at highway 13 at the redwood road exit. In this vit video you can see a car with a broken weld. The witness tells us off camera two drivers were racing. The damage appears to be from a large rock or something similar rather than a gunshot. At one point Police Reported a group of men were fighting in the roadway in the aftermath of the incident. So far there have been no arrests. A new study on the impact of juul ecigarettes on users health. And it shows juul Vape Products are very
They got the last of the people out, even the people who did not want to leave. Here is a look at the current evacuation map. You can see that people should be ready to leave in many parts of Sonoma County, reaching all the way to the pacific ocean. It goes all the way as far as mt. St. Helena to the coast. Once again, these are mandatory Evacuation Orders. We also have video from sam brock, our former coordinator and now nbc correspondent. He tweeted this incredible video. It looks like driving through the end of the world. He said fire encroaching the highway on this is in sonoma up. Everywhere. Trees and power lines are down thats from sam brock. We have video of structures on fire in geyserville. Look at that. A big home on fire. These are under mandatory evacuation. We heard that 50,000 people were evacuated within five hours yesterday. Its incredible that authorities have been able to successfully get everyone out safely. We have no word this morning of any injuries given this in
Between 270,000 and 605,000 in the bay area. The north bay will be hit the hardest. This morning pg e is explaining why. We have two very important critical, 230kv transmission lines that are in the north bay area and they serve customers along the north coast and down into marin county. Pg e is still trying to restore power to thousands of people impacted by last weeks shutoff. Just minutes ago pg e says 58 of people have their power back. That leafs 56,000 people still in the dark. Several schools will be closed this morning because of the power shutoffs and for a full list of closures and blackout updates we have your Survival Guide on kpix. Com. The winds pg e are expecting are a problem for firefighters as they work to contain the kincade fire in Sonoma County. This morning a new evacuation warning for parts of lake county including twin pines casino. The kinkade fire burning more than 75,000 acres. It is now 15 contained. The fire has destroyed 123 buildings including 57 homes so