Threatened. We still just got an update from calfire. The valley fire is now 15 contained. We also know they added 500 firefighters to the firefight overnight. We do have continued Team Coverage for you. Well bring you the latest as well as the Recovery Efforts in just minutes here. It is a tuesday morning, september 15th. Im gasia mikaelian. Im dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. We know its cooler up there and the weather is a big factor. Its much cooler. 40s and 50s. They will get rain tomorrow. Mendocino county, lake county. Down here could be iffy. But up there it looks like it. We do have low clouds. A lot of reports of drizzle. Measurable amounts. 03, San Francisco. 14 100ths in sausalito, even in the santa cruz mountains. Some cloud cover and cooler, cooler, upper 40s, 50. 87, 90 to 100 . Ive seen 47s, 49s. We will get a little more sun today. Its pouring in l. A. Theyve had 1. 25 around the l. A. Area. There are flood watches and warnings. Incredible rain down there. 50s and 60s for us on the temps. There is a westerly breeze in place. There goes the one system. Crazy wind up at bridgeport. 7100 feet. Thank you for that, kelly. Light rain in the central sierra. It will make it to the north. I will see if it makes it down there. Let me deal with it tomorrow. 60s and 70s, staying cool and breezy. Here is stall with an up sal with an update on the traffic. Good morning. Well start in the east bay and look at the eastshore freeway. Remember, the was time is 18 minutes. Right now its taking more than double that. 45 minutes to drive from the carquinez bridge to the mauz to the macarthur maze. You will see that traffic is going to be slow as you drive into San Francisco. Most of the waiting is going to come at the toll plaza once you get on the bridge. Its moderate. We have problems on vasco road. We had earlier incidents. If you take vasco road it will be slow almost all the way through. Weve had some minor crashes, construction. It has not been that good. Once you get to 580. A lot of people get on 580. Its not all that bad. 680 coming out of pleasanton will be slow. The 880 freeway has been ridiculous this morning. We had several crashes along the way here. Look at all of these icons of crashes that happened in this area. Most of them have been cleared out of the way. Traffic is backing up for Marina Boulevard heading down to fremont. Thats a long one even for a morning commute. Its extra long. 7 03. Back to the desk. Were getting new numbers on whats happening with that huge fire in lake county. The valley fire. Ktvu fox 2s allie rasmus live where a briefing just wrapped up. Crews made some progress overnight, didnt they . Reporter they did make some progress. Well get into that in a second. I want to show you where we are. We were at the lake county fairgrounds. This is the command center for the valley fire thats now now has 23 firefighters and dozens of Law Enforcement agencies are involved in tackling this massive fire. Whats happening here. There is a briefing going on. They are trying to figure out their plan for battling this fire. You can see weve seen this is the third firefighter thats gotten up. Behind them, they have the map. The numbers have increased. 67,000 acres scorched. The fire is now 15 contained. Any dont have any updates in terms of the number of homes that have burned. But unfortunately, according to the calfire Public Information officer here, the fire did burn overnight through residential areas and they had to focus some of their resources overnight. North of Hidden Valley lake and highway 29 also butts canyon road, the fire was creeping in over there. Reignited and went back through cobb. Firefighters say the weather conditions did help in some ways but overall, overnight it was a mixed bag. Always good to have cooler weather. The temperatures come down. Humidity comes up at the same time with the cloud cover. Some of those winds, it creates fire behavior that we dont necessarily want to see. Its definitely a challenging area right now. Reporter 23,000 people in lake county have been displaced by this fire. And evacuation orders are still in effect for a lot of the lake county towns and areas nearby. Last night calfire officials issued an evacuation advisory. Thats just a warning for parts of napa county, including pope valley and parts of ango an anguin. The crews will be heading out later today and figuring out their plan of attack in tackling the valley fire later today. But the latest numbers, valley fire grew by a couple thousand acres to 67,000 acres. But it is 15 contained. So that at least is good news. Back to you guys. Have you had to a chance to talk to the men and women fightth fight ult fighting the fire . I can assume they are exhausted. Reporter i wasnt sure i heard you. I heard you say exhausted. I can only imagine you are talking about the firefighters. Thats why they brought in some of the additional resources. There are firefighters around here from around the state. Other parts of the country. Yesterday, they had 1800 tackling the fire. They brought in another 500. Theres 2300 men and women out on the front lines. Doing such good work. Thank you. 7 06. Well, some of the evacuees will be allowed to go home for a short time today. Alex savidge is live in middletown to tell us the specific reason a Certain Group of people will be allowed to go back home, alex. Reporter right, dave. Good morning to you. The only evacuees who will be allowed pack into this area today back into this area are people who either have pets they need to try to find or they have livestock that they need to feed. Those folks will be allowed back into the fire zone starting at 10 00 this morning. But for a lot of people, this will be the first time returning to their neighborhoods and for many people unfortunately, this is the kind of scene that they will find when they come home. Streets just wiped out by this fire. A lot of people will not have much to come home to. But still, sheriffs deputies will be escorting people starting at 10 00 this morning back to their homes to check on those animals who were left behind when this fire raced in over the weekend. Deputies doing the escorts over the next couple days as well. There were some people who chose not to evacuate. A handful of people who stayed put here in middletown during this fire and they told us they are overwhelmed by what they went through. It was run for your life. Run for your life. Homes burnt down right around us. But we we helped save some peoples houses. Reporter while many evacuees are certainly ready to return, much of middletown and the surrounding communities are unlivable. Pg e is trying to restore power to more than 7200 customers. They are bringing in portable generators and trying to get the lights back on as soon as they possibly can. More than 200 workers are fanned out across the fire zone repairing broken lines, also dealing with hundreds of downed power poles that are just everywhere in these neighborhoods. A major hazard. Part of the reason that these evacuees cant be get back in on a more permanent basis. Only a select group of evacuees will be coming back into the fire zone today and they will only be doing so for those very, very brief visits and that gets underway at 10 00 this morning. All right. Thank you. Organized rescue groups are helping abe maps whose owners cant get to them animals whose owners cant get get to them. They were left behind. And volunteers are taking food and water to where pets and live stock might be hiding. The rescues are scared and hungry. They cant count on the animals being happy to see them. But they say even when the animals growl or they try to run away, their work is gratifying. Every place we get is one more animal thats gonna see it through another day. Its a great thing. Every house we finish is like, yay, a celebration. Some animals, theyve been hurt. This one was injured jumping over a fence to get away from the fire. Rescuers will be looking for injured and distressed animals again today for as long as people are forced to stay out of the fire zone. Many people are looking for places where they and their animals can stay. The rranch, its opened its others to people and horses. Theres cabins and stable space as well as recreational vehicles can be there. And volunteers have been bringing food, water and clothing to help the victims. At ktvu. Com, weve posted a list of ways you can help the victims. You will find it with all of our coverage on the front of our home page. 7 10. Today, san jose will consider taking a big step toward raising its minimum wage again. Its one of the Santa Clara County cities that could raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour. Today, the San Jose City council will vote on whether to pay a consultant to study how a pay raise would affect the region. Right now, the minimum wage in san jose is 10. 30 an hour. Other cities that have expressed interest in coordinating a regional minimum wage are sunnyvale and campbell. The Berkeley City Council is set to consider a proposal to raise that wage to 19. They are recommending the increase take effect by 2020. The proposal calls for bumping up the minimum wage next year to 13 and that would be followed by additional increases over subsequent years. 7 11. Still ahead, we know now know more about the woman killed in the valley fire. Why authorities think there may be more victims and what people are doing to find missing loved ones. Reporter big named ceos, celebrities thats what you will find in San Francisco where the citys largest tech conference of the year is kicking off today. Well have a live report coming up. Good morning. Were looking at a commute here that is just not good. San francisco is about the only bright spot where you can see traffic is moving well. But the east bay is very, very slow getting into the city. Well tell you more. You like cooler weather, then the forecast is good. We could use some rain. We have a tun of it in Southern California. What about tomorrow . Maybe. Well have more on that coming up. Youre only young once. Unless you have a subaru. announcer the subaru xv crosstrek. Symmetrical allwheel drive plus 34 mpg. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Selling 18 homes . Easy. Building them all in four and a half months . Now that was a leap. I was calling in every favor i could, to track down enough lumber to get the job done. And i knew i could rely on American Express to help me buy those building materials. There are always going to be unknowns. You just have to be ready for them. Another step on the journey. Will you be ready when growth presents itself . Realize your buying power at open. Com welcome back. Today, San Franciscos biggest tech gathering gets underway talking about the sales force dreamforce conference. Ktvu fox 2s janine de la vega, already live in San Francisco. So tell us about some of the big events, janine. Reporter oh, theres so much going on. The doors just opened up here at the moscone center. There was a huge crowd of people and they just went inside here. The dreamforce conference is taking up three of the convention halls. I just spoke to some of the attendees. They are pumped. The crowds are expected to build here at the annual tech conference thats expected to attract 160,000 people. Attendees from all around the world come to learn the latest in cloud exuting and attend a variety of Breakout Sessions variety and attend a commuting and attend a variety of Breakout Sessions. There are numerous celebrities attending. They will be speaking on women and leadership and equality. Goldie hawn will be here. Jessica alba will be here. They have a lot of celebrities typically related to some kind of a business. Thats pretty good. The concerts are gonna be great. They their three bands. Thats they have three bands. Thats thursday night. Reporter local restaurants and businesses are benefiting from the event which reportedly brings in 226 million in revenue. This convention runs for the next four days. A lot of activity going on here. You will see signs, detouring traffic. If you dont need to be here, avoid the area. But its sure gonna be a lot of fun for the people attending here. They are very excited. I asked them people, hey, are you kind of bummed you didnt get on the crude ship and they just cruise ship and they sort of laughed. They are just excited. Dave . All right, janine de la vega in San Francisco. Thank you. 7 16. The next republican president ial debate is tomorrow and donald trump is still the gop candidate to beat. Trump campaigned yesterday in dallas where he riled up a conservative crowd while talking about illegal immigration and sanctuary cities. He also talked about incompetent washington leadership and his own rise in the polls. Now its time to really start because this is going to happen. Im telling you. This im not going anywhere. Meantime, Bernie Sanders drew a large crowd last night in virginia. The first democratic debate between sanders and Hillary Clinton is set for october 13th in las vegas. Another billionaire reality show star says he could crush donald trump or Hillary Clinton if he ran for president. Mark cuban told cnbc he gets asked every day with that about that possibility. He said he would focus on Economic Issues if he got into the race but he didnt say whether or not he would make a run for the white house. Today, the founder of amazon is expected to announce plans to launching a Space Tourism business while he visits cape canaveral. Reportedly, he and his Company Called blue origin will build and launch its rockets from the air force station in florida. Now, blue origin successfully launched an unmanned test flight of the new shepherd vehicle earlier this year. It circled the earth but it did not go into space. The ceo is raising with Richard Branson to develop commercial spaceflights for customers. Sal has been watching traffic for us. 880 is a mess. Theres slow traffic everywhere. A lot of people have commented to me how this new season, which is notfullily autumn yet. Officially autumn yet, but it will be soon. Its made things slow. Lets take a look. We have northbound 280 that listen super slow getting up from downtown into the valley. That means 101, 85 are slow as well. Were looking at 880. 880 is backed up out of san leandro into fremont now. We had a rash of accidents earlier this morning between 238 and 92. Some of them have cleared out. But traffic is slow. Its also slow getting over on the san mateo bridge westbound to the peninsula where we have slow traffic as well. And you can see 680 coming out of the pleasanton area is backed up. But the bay bridge thats really backed up for the 40, 45 minute delay. Thats big coming into San Francisco if you are paying cash. 7 19. Lets go to steve. Steve . Yes, sir. Its raining pretty hard in Southern California. Boy, is it ever. We take you to marina del ray. It is pouring down in Southern California. For l. A. For the month. 24. Theyve had 1. 06 this morning. Just this morning. Wow. Couple of sc usc, almost 1. 50. Culver city, 1. 25. Santa monica, 1. 18. There are flash flood watches out. I mean, its coming down. I will show it to you right there. They are almost on the back side. Look at mission viejo. Thats impressive. From l. A. , long beach, mission viejo, riverside, really pouring. About. 50 to 1. 50. Some of the rainfall totals have been off the chart. We do have a lot of drizzle here. Theres some breaks in the low clouds. Well get some partly sunny, partly cloudy skies. Well increase the clouds. The big news up in lake county, its colder this morning. There are upper 40s and low 50s. I just heard from jim up in cobb. Thank you for checking in. He has he has 51 degrees. 50 in hawkeye. Knoxville creek, 53. There are 47s to 49s. So the humidity is up. The cold temperatures, that will help and they will get rain tomorrow. Mendocino county, lake county. Measurable amounts. 50s, 60s on the temps. Most locations are oning 1, 2 degrees are running 1, 2 degrees colder than 24 hours ago. Westsouthwest oakland, west napa, 20 at fairfield, west from sfo to hayward to livermore and a northwest at san jose. 52 in truckee, although very windy up in the central sierra. Crazy windy according to kelliant. 05 on the precip. But fresno, yesterdays high tell was 82 temperature was 82. They have rain in the area. Thats the front going in. Were waiting on that guy. It will be in tonight and tomorrow. More likely tomorrow. Well put in the future cast, clouds will be on the increase here. The low clouds arent going anywhere. They will be back. Well cloud it up by late tonight, tomorrow. Tomorrow morning well have drizzle. There is the line. Maybe about 9 00 a. M. Mendocino county, ukiah north. Here comes the line by noon. That look like 2 00. Lake county, Mendocino County. By 4 00, could come in for the north bay for commute. After that, it falls apart. But it stays in the north bay. There will be some drizzle on the coast. It looks like a Little Development takes off right off the santa cruz mountains. That will be for wednesday. So i think. 25 to. 50 points north tomorrow. Low clouds or sun. Windy at times. 60s and 70s on the temps. These are very, very cool. But a combination of some sun. Clouds on the increase. It will give us a cool day. Rain in the afternoon evening for the north. Dont think there will be too much left by the time it gets here. We clear it out on thursday but the weekend looks better. All right. Big changes. Big changes. Thank you. 7 22. Its supposed to protect children but it may be doing just the opposite. Up next, troubling new revolutions about the dangers of those hand sanitizers. Are more likely to have a to frsuccessful future. E born talking and reading to children in their first years has a huge impact on what they do with the rest of their lives. The fewer words they hear, the greater their chances of dropping out of school and getting into trouble. Talk. Read. Sing. 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