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Yesterday and that is definitely a nice little shift look at this lightning up his first colors go on the map which is a very noticeable difference that deep deep red now right there clumped up on the eastern end of the Central Valley were worst of air quality of settle down ahead of the Sierra Nevada foothills deep here across the bay area indicating poor conditions which weve become familiar with for nearly 30 days to spare the air alerts now and then conditions up in portions of the north bay for the first time in multiple days, so these are some positive changes working your way in a good direction and will continue to slowly do that for out the rest of the week eventually setting us up for a better weekend air quality wise. And what we have this past weekend. Still winds light enough that we are seeing a light on shore breeze pushing in just a bit more of that smoke thats ....
Is improvements thats where that were talking about moderate as improvements. But thats how bad we were just a couple of days ago. Now conditions will continue to get better as we make our way especially into thursday and friday these are your 2 days to really savor because theyre going have the best air quality before weekend conditions look likely to get a little worse yet again. 50s and 60s right now for your morning temperatures, not a bad way to start the morning. Later on today will be in the 70s 80s, not a bad way to spend the afternoon either robin thank you john were checking in on the Richmond Center fell where the drive time its double what it normally is because of an accident a minor crash, but its blocking. And its adding to the backup. So lets check in on west bound 5. 80 leading up to the pay gates, the crashes right after the view and we see looks like fire trucks responding to that as well if you look over to th ....
Is burning in a large area of the north bay. Leveling homes and impacting thousands of People Living in Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo counties and the woodward fire that is burning in the Point Reyes National seashore area of marine county. And so far those devastating north bay fires have scorched a combined 215,000 acres and 4 people have died 3 in napa county one in Solano County. 480 structures have been destroyed. These numbers were just updated and they have really jumped 125 other structures have been damaged tonight more than 30,000 structures are still threatened. And right now the entire complex in the north bay is 0 contained. And tonight, were learning all Evacuation Orders have been li ....
Forecast with kari, another warm one ahead. Were starting out with warm temperatures again this morning. This is what we look at for those fire conditions. Usually those Early Morning hours are critical and seeing some of the fire not spreading as rapidly and were looking at still another morning start where we have temperatures in the upper 60s, not much of a wind, but at times we get these gusts up to about 11 miles per hour. As we talk more about this well get a look at how our trends change for today. Thats coming mike, hows it looking for those routes . Kari, we actually have a couple of Traffic Alerts were watching. On the peninsula, getting more dale around the embarcadero exit. The speeds are okay on the peninsula but the big problem is the active Traffic Alert in S ....
Overnight gaining ground in nearly every county and word of new deaths tied to those fires and were standing by for a live News Conference from santa cruz county, today in the bay continues right now. And a good friday morning to you, thanks so much for starting right here with us, im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. A lot to cover this morning and that includes the weather, which really is a key factor in trying to fight these fires as well, kari, another warm one ahead. Yeah. It will be a warm afternoon but at least we do have a cooler start to our morning which will also help in keeping those fires from spreading so rapidly. We could still see the smoke layer over san jose, lets talk about that air quality. Because its been really bad. At times shifting where you start out clear and then suddenly the wind changes and the air quality goes downhill. Were seeing a lot of the worst of that from the north bay from san rafael ....