From the flames and the smoke the fire thats still burning. Firefighters do say that they have stopped before progress on this fire. So again more breaking news that military helicopters now attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire thats the one burning down in fresno county. This is a 3rd attempt now to get those hikers the rescuers had to be called or the rescues had to be called off last night because of the heavy smoke that was blocking visibility. Very scary. We actually have some pictures of the hikers you see that there they are right there sheltering at the vermilion valley camping resort thats at lake edison volunteers are out there and theyre helping the hikers a stay fed and hydrated hydrated excuse me as they wait to be rescued and then we also have a map here showing where those hikers are in relation to the creek fire. Itself and you can see that red outline is the outline of where the fire line currently is and the marker that you see there that the curse is pointing out right near the lake showing lake edison in the Sierra NevadaNational Force thats where those hikers are hunkered down waiting to be evacuated and then we have some more video thats actually showing the damage from the creek fire. So far look at that it has exploded to more than a 135,000 acres after sparking on friday. And as of this morning, it is still 0 contained the blaze just moved quickly so quickly over the weekend that a trump more than 200 people in Madera CountyNational Guard helicopters were brought in to airlift folks to whats going to be a very tough day for firefighters as the heat intensifies the winds also expected to pick as well down in that area thats right, lets check in with meteorologist on travel who has more on the weather conditions that theyre dealing with john yeah we saw explosive goes growth of wildfires these past few days. With the heat and dry conditions weve had for keeping both of those factors around today guys now were adding strong winds on top of it which has resulted and especially high fire concerns. This morning we are off to a nicer start than yesterday morning though a little fog at the coast and a nice coastal breeze sweeping through last night really resulting in a big cool down for us temperatures are now down into the 60s and even 50s for nevado in petaluma compared to yesterdays 70s 80s at this time actually offering up some relief from the heat fairfield the exception at 78 right now of course fire danger is a top concern today, red flag warnings for much of the bay area, especially or upper elevations for the east bay winds gusting as high as 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour and that has resulted in that high fire danger potential as well be back into the triple digits for many of these areas all of Solano County under red flag warning through tomorrow with 25 to 40 Miles Per Hour winds and much of wbur in sonoma and napa counties in the north bay also affected by that as we make our way through what will be a very breezy day ahead right now Sonoma Calistoga vacaville, some of our windy your spots winds really spread out towards the coast and down through the east bay come the afternoon and remained a factor through the evening on into tomorrow as well you add in very low humidity and that is where that fire danger really starts to spark out. Todays daytime highs still triple digits for concord livermore in antioch the lazio at a 100 livermore also at a 100 today and we still do have poor air quality, especially for those inland areas, moderate towards the coast and right along the bay, ill be keeping you updated not all these factors still to come the rest of your forecast. Robin all right. Thank you lets check in on your morning commute around the bay area we are starting off with a look at 80 into San Francisco. The tropics picking up a little bit but nothing to worry about come on and word 8 minutes from the bottom of the maze off to the fremont street exit. Heres 92 and it started stacking up in the 4 oclock hour and yes, its still busy. But busy does not mean bad theres just a little crowd here leaving hayward but a nice trip overall to the peninsula. A quick peek at some drive times were on time for highway for west through. Any out pittsburg bay point conquered no problems for 6. 80 rolling south. The minutes hot spot free. Thats what we like to see in 1, 1, even looking good easy drive here heading north from san jose to menlo park james. Well happening today we have students in 14 Warren County schools to be one of the first in the bay area to return to class for in Person Learning. The class sizes will be limited and the schools will have to follow new safety rules. But theres already been a setback. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson is live in marin county to break it all down for us good morning. Sara. Hey there good morning yeah, big setbacks regionally run county Health Department they okay 15 schools to reopen today. But now thats going to be for change because the school behind me. The bay side marina or the Bayside Martin luther king Junior Academy actually had a teacher that may have tested positive. Last week they tested all of the teachers at those schools and one teacher from the sausalito Marine City School district may have tested positive today. No longer the schools reopen because of that teachers test results, this is out of precaution. They dont believe it has spread to anyone else in the school instead students here will return to school next monday on the 14th, however, 14 other marine county schools will continue with in Person Learning today. Its a big day this is after each school apply for a waiver to reopen with an extensive safety plan and the Health Department approved it they will be allowed to reopen for students in kindergarten through 6th grade 11 schools applications are pending right now and more schools will continue to apply to reopen in doing so Protection Plan with tons of coronavirus precautions has to be created. They have to. Verify that they comply with 30 different recommendations or orders for her safe reopening of schools, including establishing testing resources making sure that they have asked me to to screen individuals both staff and students are going to come and disinfection procedures et cetera. School. When we come back to me. On your screen or the other in county schools that will reopen today. Its big day first day of school, the first schools in the bay area to reopen during the pandemic we have that full list on our web site kron 4 dot com. Im sure youre aware though if your student goes to one of those schools. Back here at Bayside Martin luther king Junior Academy live distancelearning will have to continue until next week students can actually come by here from 8. 30 until 3 oclock to pick up breakfast and lunch to can also pick up their chromebooks that way they can successfully continue with Distance Learning this is a something that they had to do back in the spring. So there are its nothing new for them, but they were expecting to be in school and now theyre going to have to continue with Distance Learning were going live this morning. Checking out some of the other schools that are reopening so stay tuned as we continue to cover back to school here in Warren County will send it back to you in the newsroom all right. Thank you very much sara. Lets head to the south bay now force hill elementary and for other schools in the Campbell Union school district. Well begin with a call modified in person classes now the idea is to provide some extra help to students who are just struggling with Distance Learning. Still ahead on the kron 4 morning news protesters take to the Golden Gate Bridge to deliver a message about racial equality. 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Maxx, marshalls, and homegoods. Welcome back everyone, the power shutoffs in the north bay have people preparing to be in the dark kron fours dan thorn house the story from calistoga. For people here in wine country theyve already had to deal with these high temperatures also the bad air quality and now theres the concern a potential power shutoffs but over the next couple of days. The biggest worry is the areas across wine country are preparing for high hot wind and the potential for no power pg and e is planning to energized electrical lines to minimize the risk of fire danger were pretty prepared weve been through this multiple you never like when it happens calistoga mayor Chris Cannings small city is at risk of losing electricity along with thousands of others in napa county but calistoga also has a backup as one of the first cities to experience a Public Safety power shutoff pg and e recently installed this planned interconnection hub to help get 2 thirds of the city up and running in case of a shot off grocery stores. Pharmacies etc police fire. Everything that we need to take care of everyone else in those folks who do live in the un powered area or an energized area. Well we will have some cooling centers for them to move over to the National Weather service has warned about high wind gusts over the next few days the hills have become a big concern for residents. The threat of fire is all too familiar. But the earlier threat and the potential for losing power has become alarming it said terrible thing were left in this heat and we dont have air conditioning or food is going to waste until we have a fully resilient. Power network. This is what they need to do and weve all experienced in this community, firsthand what happens when you have a power line go down during a high wind event. And we dont want that. The mayor says if the interconnection hub works as planned it should be able to fire up the electricity within a couple of hours which is better than having to wait several days for the electricity to come back on pg and e has set up Community Resource centers for those that will be affected by these potential power shut off one of those is located and angwin at Pacific Union college another one here in calistoga at highlands Christian Fellowship and another one in saint helena at saint helene a Catholic School reporting in calistoga dan thorn kron 4 news. And to be without power on days like this robin weve got temperatures as hot as they are and stuff that is coming into town. Well i hear were in store for a little bit of a cool down that john doesnt want people to get too excited. James because we think cool down its not drastic. But i guess were going get a little of relief from the heat right john i know, yeah a little bit of relief from the heat as far as temperatures go, but then you add in those winds on top of it. Those potential power outages. Sometimes its hard to focus on the good this forecast. But there is plenty of good ahead of us. In these next few days for sure so lets get to it walnut creek this morning you are seeing some haze overhead, its are inland east bay areas that do have the worst of air quality right now. Better conditions right along the bay and near the coastline now we are in the midst of a pattern change still going to be hot one today but this dip in the jet stream to our east is a bringing snow to the rockies. Not going to be bringing that to us what it is resulting in to the strong winds pushing in from the northeast. Peak, Sonoma Calistoga vacaville already very windy this morning and winds pick up further towards the coast and into the east bay as we make our way into the afternoon and evening tonight, this is where high fire danger comes into play its going to be hot. Its going to be very dry and it is going to be very windy over the next 24 to 48 hours for inland in north bay areas thats red flag warnings taking effect for Higher Elevations in the east bay winds gusting up to 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour paired with some triple digit heat Sonoma County rinse a lot of counties looking red flag warnings too 25 to 40 mile per hour winds in Solano County. Then you head out towards the coast and also looking at hot weather dry conditions and those strong winds red flag warnings in effect from tonight through wednesday. As far as we are concerned with temperatures still hot as robin and james were mentioning mission in financial district still close to the 90s today. On terror or cool spot at 72. Daly city in Half Moon Bay right at the coast still in the 80s millbrae and burlingame in the 90s 90 stretch all the way south to mountain view. We traded in the triple digits of yesterday and the days before that in the south bay for some 90s so yeah we are working our way in the right direction temperature wise Pleasanton Livermore still at a 100 degrees surrounded by red warnings in the inland east bay conquered in walnut creek at one 04 today, oakland at 94. Well triple digits remain today in valais hope and show on through fairfield down to antioch up to sonoma and young bill too. 99 and center fell another scorcher, but we are working our way in the better direction and tomorrow, youre really going to notice some differences highs at their warmest will be in the low 90s and even cooler come thursday and friday. We will all be in the upper 80s, a warm este the 70s near the bay at the coast. Robin. All right. Thank you lets check in on the traffic taking a peek at the drive around the bay area here at the bay bridge 80 west is doing fine. No delays no problems its a quick 8 minute trip from the bottom of the maze over to the fremont street exit. Were off to 92 busy right we have a little bit of a crowd, nothing really to worry about its just a little sluggish off and on along the flat section. But thats it thats the heaviest stretch of this drive, its only 12 minutes to make that trip over to the peninsula were checking in on the Richmond Center fell bridge, picking up a little bit but still no major delays we havent had any problems or hot spots from the east bay to the north bay, so nows your chance to get on out there 7 minutes off to one oh one and a foggy Golden Gate Bridge. We did not start off this way thats the top of the 4 oclock hour certainly after 4. We Clear Conditions and then maybe like 30 minutes later the fog just rolled and we cant even see the towers anymore. So thats going to impact our visibility so that just means take it easy to forget the headlights and wipers no 19 minutes rolling south to San Francisco. And a quick peek at some numbers, nothing but green so were right on time for 5. 80 west livermore to dublin 6. 80 south dublin to fremont and youre good on to 37 6 minutes rolling west milpitas to sunnyvale. A lot of National Politics now both president ial candidates spent their labor day focused on the economy as they. Attempt to appeal to voters darryl forges has that story. This labor day the spotlight is on jobs. We really celebrate. The American Worker we are in the midst of the fastest economic recovery and the u. S. History. So we have a lot to be thankful for an april during the height of the coronavirus pandemic the United States lost more than 20 million jobs since President Trump now touting a stronger economy weve added. A record setting 10. 6 million jobs since may. Democratic nominee joe biden says thats not enough. Long a stock market is doing great. Everything ok sir you have everybody else it can climb are millions of people still have trouble making ends meet. In are in desperate need of benefits we want to help. Businesses that are particularly impacted by this and will continue to work on proposed new legislation yet congress and the white house are at a standstill over the next round of stimulus funding there is no question thtt donald trump has been an abject failure and incompetent. When it comes to addressing the severe job loss that has happened as a result of the pandemic despite the pandemic and protests over Racial Injustice polls reflect a race that has barely budged which is why both campaigns are targeting key battleground states like wisconsin hello, wisconsin. Vice president mike pence a senator Kamala Harris are