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Or cars. As the winds calm down firefighters started making progress. As massive air tankers laid down lines of bright red retardant. And dozers moved into cut firebreaks. We want to make as much progress as we can while conditions are optimal. Things are not going to be in our favor this weekend. Reporter from where we are we are seeing two of these water dropping helicopters making roundtrips to a pond right behind this house. This is part of an effort to get those containment numbers up. As of right now the official number is this fire is 0 contained. Cal fire is expected to give us an upda...

If youre wondering what that is, so are we. And just now, ceo and president bill johnson explained what that is. He says that the jumper is a piece of wire that basically jumps the conductor over the insulator. We know that it was broken. We also know according to johnson that this is a 43yearold tower that had been inspected four times. Now as you said, this transmission line was not deenergized, and johnson explained why not. Transmission lines in the area remained energized during the wind event consistent with our established protocols and procedures. In other words, they did not meet the ...

Including a big rig, that crash on southbound 880 under 238 is all cleared. Speeds are slow still this morning. Moving over to b. A. R. T. I want to keep people posted on whats happening there. Tenminute delays on the San Francisco line headed into the east bay because of work in the tube. And another alert for b. A. R. T. Riders. The Holiday Plaza side is closed. Access can be from the westfield mall side. We will be watching. Thanks. We begin with the fire emergency in Sonoma County. Heres what we know. The fire spread to 16,000 acres. This as whipping winds are expected this weekend. Cal fi...

Voluntary evacuations. We have live team coverage. Amy hollyfield and Lauren Martinez are in Sonoma County. We start with lisa argen tracking that critical fire danger. The temperature in San Francisco at 70 degrees. Offshore winds have been blowing all night. At the surface, not too gusty. Right now looking at 20 to 40mileperhour winds. This will continue through the 8 00 and 9 00 hour. Offshore winds bringing down the relative humidity here into the Single Digits. Elsewhere in the east bay and south bay, not as dry. We are looking at the relative humidity. Very dry at Half Moon Bay. Look at ...

Southward into the entire bay area. Thats why we have a spare the air alert. Starting out with 50s, more in line for october. As we go through the next several hours, well be looking at temperatures coming up once again to warm and hazy readings. Its 26 degrees yesterday. We have a steady flow of traffic going over the bay bridge right now. This is a live look outside. You can see everybody just in a rush to get this friday on and going. Also here, nice and smooth, pretty much empty in san jose. This is a live picture at 87 right now. Also want to give you more drive times. We have albany to t...