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Not as strong with the winds compared to our last wind event but still we are looking at gusty conditions, especially watching the north bay mountains. In the meantime, we are dealing with the smoke this morning, unhealthy air quality in santa rosa, unhealthy air quality for sensitive groups from napa, san rafael, vallejo, concord unhealthy air quality for sense tore groups in concord, livermore, as well as for san leandro, redwood city and vacaville, moderate air quality right now in San Franci...

Just one of several issues during last weeks power outage that impacted some of the bay areas most vulnerable. There needs to be some sort of plan. President and ceo bill johnson said pg and e had to pull a plug to avoid a wildfire. We can try to ilprove service. We have a lot of other things going on, for example, we have some things in bankruptcy and were still trying to resolve claims. For tubs fire survivor will abrams brings back merls of them running to and from the flame. Flames johnson s...

Checking the winds, tomorrow night will be just wild with the winds hitting 45 to 55 miles per hour. Tomorrow night will be more dice y so remember that. Solano counties. Temperatures today are going to pull back a little bit. Mid60s to 70 from Half Moon Bay to San Francisco. All those winds out there, please be careful if youre driving especially if youre in one of those taller vehicles like an suv or minivan. A live shot of the bay bridge. There was someone on the lower deck who got a flat tir...

Gate. Mid40s to mid50s and milder this afternoon. Frances, a lot going on on the roads. Two Traffic Alerts right now. A couple spots you need to avoid this morning. Coolidge. Oakland westbound 580 overturned crash, multiple vehicles involved. A person may have been hit. Two right lanes will be blocked. And then we have a second sig alert on the peninsula. Southbound 101 as you make your way to redwood city. Apparently it was reported as a person walking in the lanes and was hit by a car. A sig a...

That is where that fire is. She tells us from the fire lines, trying to get more information but from what we understand, its an evacuation warning for the area of middletown and the wind is not too bad this morning but that could pick up in just a little bit. Lets talk about the kincade fire in Sonoma County having burned 116 square miles now, an area twice as big as the city of oakland and its only 15 contained. It kept growing through the night, but at a slower pace because the wind was not a...

Into the middle to end of this week and well see for the weekend things starting to calm down but for San Francisco, we have some low 70stoday, and well drop it back to the 60s by tomorrow. Mike, youve been tracking a Traffic Alert and now a crash. Thats right. We got converted, kari to two Traffic Alerts, the second crash on the. He ininess lasoun is more significant. Highway 101, southbound 101 as you exit belmont down toward redwood city at britton avenue, a crash blocking two lanes. There ma...

Is going to increase that fire behavior to levels we saw when the fire initially began. Lets pull up the map of the areas affected by the kincade fire. The red portion at the top of the screen is where the fire is burning. The purple area shows where there are mandatory evacuation orders in place. The blue area indicates places where people were told they can now return to their homes. However, they have been told there is still and evacuation warning in effect, and they should be ready to evacu...

It has just mros blossomed insi. Pete, i know you were just asked to move from the fire line because you were too close . Reporter yeah, well, we were positioned at geysers road in geyserville. Were about as close as you could get, which is pretty far up on the fire line. You could see the fire burning clearly, the kinkade fire. It started roughly at about 9 30 p. M. Overnight near the clover dale area off kinkade road in that area. That fire is burning very strong here in geyserville. We had to...

Dark. Treat a dark stoplight as a fourway stop. Good advice, kris. Now to the latest on the kinkade fire. Breaking news, out of control wildfire explodes in the north bay overnight triggering tense moments to evacuees heading to safer ground. All the latest in live reports from the area. Evacuations are under way as we speak right now. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. The kinkade fire right now we have more about whats going on. Cal fire is on the ph...

Area, but its now getting closer to homes. We want to talk to greg, our sky7 photographer. What do you see now . Reggie, this is a live shot from sky7 over the kincaid fire. Over Sonoma County, near geyserville. You can see the terrain is very, very hilly. And theres a lot of ridges to deal with. Probably intensifying the winds that fuel this fire. We are getting reports that there are structures being burned at this moment. Well have to wait until its brighter outside before we can see it. I wi...