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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...

Cleaner air hopefully to get to as well look outside from berkeley is showing Crystal Clear skies overhead we do have a high wind watches that are effect right now but will be in effect later in the week and ill get to what that means here in just a second as for today we are actually seeing winds having really calm down this is good news. Of course for the blaze up in northern Sonoma County compared to yesterday communities like asti in cloverdale which were seeing gusts into the 40 mile per hour range are only looking at calm winds as we all are across the bay area this morning fire such as ...

Burning buildings and we are working to confirm whether the buildings are outbuildings or sheds or homes. Weve obtained coverage of this fire with meteorologist Steve Paulson talking about the powerful wind driving the fire. First, we bring in Cristina Rendon. Talk to us about the conditions. I can see its windy. Reporter very windy and the winds have not let up whatsoever. Its gotten worse since weve been in geyserville at the corner of Alexander Valley road and pine flat road. This area has been closed off to the public but cal fire crews are deep in the trenches trying to get a handle on th...

Commute. Giant generators were brought into the caldecott tunnel, a major traffic route in the east bay. Caltrans had to figure out how to keep the tunnel lights and fans on or face a traffic nightmare. The tunnels themselves have a very large fans that circulate to make sure that the exhaust from the cars are actually taken out of the tunnels. Caltrans first thought some of the four tunnels would need to be shut down but bringing in those generators may have fixed the problem. The lantos tunnel on highway one new pacifica is open. Caltrans brought in more generators there at double slide. Tho...

Miles per hour at my house. Why are you shutting down the power . Beep because the humidity may be in the low digits. That means 50 Miles Per Hour may not be far away from me. You know how fast he can travel so thats why. And that very low humidity means the fire can spread quickly. We are bone dry. The soil was bone dry. We have a wind advisory that just started at 6 00 from the north and east bay above 1000 feet and you could get gusts up to 65 Miles Per Hour. Closer to the surface anywhere from 40 45 is likely. That tells you up in Higher Elevations, a few thousand or above, it could be roc...