The news at 6 00 starts right now. Thanks for being with us on this friday. Im raj mathai. Im jessica aguirre. Goode news for a group caught in the crossfire of a conflict in west a of ka. The Church Mission group is from the east bay, and theyre finally on safe ground because of being tranned in niger for almost a week. The government was toppled by a military coup which prevented the group from flying out until the u. S. Government stepped in to help get everyone out this afternoon. Reporter from the airport in nigers capital city today, 15 smiling faces. A group from antiochs Cornerstone Christian center and school boarded a flight to paris chartered by the u. S. State department after six days of sheltering in place. My wife and family and daughter and faerl are in the air right now. Reporter 11 members of the church group flew to niger and joined other american missionaries to provide support and resources to a local bible school. The Church Groups flight home last friday was unex
People who have died in the fire has gone up to 29. He its been six times the size of san francisco. Cal fire Officials Say 10 fires burning in california have been declared disasters, something they have never seen b the biggest fires have caused untold damage threatening highly populated wine country. The atlas fire spans napa and solano counties burning 43,000 acres and is only 3 contained. The tubbs fire is now 10 contained. And its burned more than 34,000 acres. And the redwoodpotter fires have destroyed 35,000 acres and 5 contained. Take a look now at this picture. The devastation caused by these fires has taken a toll on everyone especially those working around the clock battling the flames. This picture captures their dedication. It shows exhausted firefighters sleeping on the side of the road one of them right in the middle is actually leaning against a rock. Sound asleep. The person who took this picture wrote, quote bless their hearts, so thankful for our First Responders. T
That, been asked to turn something over, talk about that coming up. As i mentioned, its raining in part parts of the bay area. That has concerns about land erosion, Water Pollution. Crews are are setting up barriers to protect storm drains. We have christian kafton and how the rain could affect the fire victims and water supply. Lets go over to Rosemary Orozco. It was raining on me, frank im assuming you, too. On all. Win win win, we get much needed rain, and dry wet tore enjoy the weekend, there is a look at the dark start over the bay bridge. Here is a look at storm Storm Tracker 2 where that front is moving through as we speak. It looks like the north bay getting a quit of a break. Lets start in areas over the peninsula, light rain 101, woodside, palo alto, you have some on your area. East bay as well, freemont moved over towards pleasanton, alongside 80, you are going to find the roadway wet there. 680, walnut creek, bay point, antioch, oakwood, brentwood all rain at this time. Ove
Only inland but also along the coast. In Southern California they have rain and working its way to the south with this High Pressure coming in for two days before we go into the cool again with 60s and 70s along with some very low 80s. It is 4 31 am. We are making it little by little and we hope it is quiet. It is quiet right now, thank you very much. Lets dial it up to look at Solano County on 80 westbound from back to build, fairfield and vallejo, traffic moving nicely if youre driving from fairfield to vallejo and into the carquinez bridge area, looking good with no major issues. The traffic at the toll plaza is not bad, very nice. It is also nice all the way into San Francisco. We are looking at 280 and san jose which continues to be good. We hope to have a nice and quiet monday morning at 4 31 am. The jury expected to continue deliberations in the murder trial of Antoine Garcia torres who is charged of killing sarah lamar of morgan hill even though her body has never been found an
Warmer today and then cooling down. The water temperature at 47 to 51 degrees outside of the golden gate so even though we do not have heat inland we do have fog forming. The high clouds are to the south but here we go with bodega bay at 47, Half Moon Bay at 51 which is bone chilling cold. Salons that cold water stays there the fog is having no problem forming with that westerly breeze. 40s and 50s for many, 44 in grade 10, kelseyville and mill valley in there, and bodega bay at 46. A big low in Southern California and moving south with that pressure relaxing a little bit but very impressive on the water vapor as the moisture has back into the sierra. We will have dry weather today and tomorrow before the next system drops in wednesday for cooler weather. 60s, 70s with a few low 80s. It is 6 02 am. The traffic is okay and we start with the bay bridge toll plaza. We do have a backup, so i do not want to miss lead you but no major problems as i look around. When it comes to getting into