California air operations fixed wing aircraft air attack one 40 worked up until nightfall today supporting ground crews in the angwin in deer park communities in napa county and as communities get ready for bed. The mayor of calistoga says he is worried about tomorrow projected wins coming from the north and east. Direction puts it behind the fire moving in this direction toward downtown. Thank you for joining us on this wednesday night, im ken wayne and im pam moore, cal fire officials tell us tonight the glass fire burning in sonoma and napa counties has now exploded to more than 51,000 acres and is only 2 contained at this hour. The fire has now destroyed more than 107 homes in napa county and 36 homes in Sonoma County more than 26,000 structures are still threatened tonight. We have Team Coverage on the glass fire. We begin with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow tracking the increasing fire risk to the glass fire area. Yeah guys this a very dangerous situation already setting
The skyline just as hazy and smokey. Taking a look from our east hills camera, definitely you can see the same smokey conditions in its glory. Glory is probably not the right word. This is nonetheless a reality. Lets look at the air monitors right now, you can see it is mostly red or even dark red, maroon, meaning very poor air quality, certainly you should avoid exexertion being outdoors. The reason we are getting such poor air is we have hold on, my director is talking to me. Go ahead all right. Certainly that air quality is not good for people so we want to bring in dr. Hung who often joins us to talk about covid19. Right now, i want to get you talking about the poor air quality. Weve had, of course, for such a long people. Whats the advice for folks . Folks may know the regular mosque isnt filtering that air. You need to breathe in an n95 if you will go out. Unfortunately, this is a time not to spend too much timeout doors. They will be checking the air quality but be very stay hom
Care of us and theres others that are elderly. While that was happening. A short period of time. Pg and e was also using voice mail and Text Messages to get the word out. Rolling blackouts are going to be with us at least for awhile. Because there was not sufficient supply to meet the demand in the state of california. The outages mean she, her husband and their three kids are in limbo. Nothing gets done. My husband doesnt work. My kids dont go to school and you know, its right now it is a necessity in life to have our power. If youll lose power today youre less likely to lose it again in the near future. Really the primary factors are how many mega watts need to be taken off the grid and who has already experienced a rotating outage and we try to do our best to make sure that folks that already experienced one do not have enough one. They know people are nervous. One message this morning from pg and e saying possible Power Outages. Mean while, san jose mayor this afternoon blamed the
Increase over a twoweek period. Reporter and the governor says thats already placing a strain on californias hospitals. The question now is whether these new restrictions will really help, especially considering the immediate response. Within minutes of the governors announcement, counties were flooding his office and the state Public Health officer with questions, most of them stemming from conflicting data on the states website about which counties are and are not on the watch list. In San Francisco, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Admittedly it is very confusing, so lets take another look at the bay area counties on the watch list. Again, this means additional businesses have to close. Among those hair salons and barbers. In contra costa county, those businesses have only been open for a few weeks, and now its back to square one. Owners have no idea when theyll be allowed to reopen. Coming up at 6 00, we spoke with several Small Business owners about this new order and the frustr
Thunderstorms are possible and more south and closer to the proximity and with the moisture background around Solano County so the low is not moving very fast and as it does we will see break and a little bit of rain, so were not done yet and you can see some of that continue to move back as well and that is the theme with temperatures below. Now would check with sal on the highways. That is something we started to see with a couple rashes although none are causing major delays at the moment you can see northbound 280 there on the right and it looks really good as you drive through and the commute has been all right with no major issues. Lets go back to the desk at 6 01 am. Protests are planned in San Francisco is the grand princess cruise ship was due to docket peer 35 to refuel and restock. Two passengers and two crewmembers died from coronavirus on the ship and a quarantine for the cruise ship was lifted on saturday. Among the planned protests, one will demand safety protection for