minutes. mike? i notice there's a crash reported near devil's slide. not a major traffic concern, but i'll let you know if there is anything to report there. we do see more slowing there on 880, heading toward h hesperrian. it's slow, so out of san lee ando heading toward hayward. castro valley has light traffic flow, but it will start to build. vasco road, the early commuters, right now you're after speed, including the section where you funnel down to one lane off 580, and the altamont pass is lighter flow. because it's friday, we have a later start to the buildup. the rest of contra costa county

looks fantastic. no delays right flow, and upper east shore freeway, no major issues. you'll notice this red in the squiggling section. that's the portion of 101 affected by the work on the muir fire. and that area is still closed because of the kinkade fire. it's breaking news we continue to follow as the wild fares tear apart parts of california. >> right now there's more than a dozen fires up and down the state so far the kinkade fires has burned 16,000 acres being fueled by strong winds and it's only 5 march contained. at least 49 buildings and homes have now been destroyed. about 2,000 people in geyserville and hillsberg you

are under evacuation. our crew discovered broken equipment that may have sparked the fire. pg & e cut power to quite a bit of the north bay, but we have learned that they did not cut power to high-power transmission lines until after the flames broke out. well, the changing winds will certainly cause a lot of problems. look at the smoke billows into the bay area as well. firefighters are up geffen a very tough fights. there's a spare the air alert issued today, because all of this smoke moving in is not good to breathe in. be care of if you want to go for a morning run or something. we want to show you video of the kinkade fire that you see overhead, the thick, rugged terrain is what firefighters are dealing with here, but look at

all this smoke, that's tough for them even to deabout. bob redell joins us live this morning. bob, let's talk about it. the smoke is not the only problem we're facing going into the weekend. >> reporter: correct, we have the potential for pg & e power outages, but places like parks, playground, not ely where you want to be today. the heavy smoke is expected to drift southward, which mean places like concord, where we are at right now, could get covered in haze with particulate matter. the air district is warning this could be particularly unhealthy to people sensitive to bad air. the best advice is to stay indoors and keep your doors and windows closed. a number of people already buys masks. the hardware short in san

francisco said he's already sold ten times the number of masks than on a clear day. people remember when the camp fire send many people scrambling for protection. and he recommends the 95 masks the air quality district says those offer also protection, because many people don't wear them properly. we're going to follow what's happening in the north bay with the massive wildfires, and we'll be right back. tv just keeps getting better.

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right now we are under a microclimate air alert. the bay and the coast will see it during the afternoon. the inland east bay anytime from 3:00 to 7:00. the south bay from 4:00 to 10:00. so we are going to see really thick smoke at times due to the kinkade fire. an union date on that as well as the weekend forecast coming up in less than five minutes. right now the bay bridge looks great. not really a -- all right. >> he lost his microphone there. we do have more breaking news there.

there is a death investigation under way at a recycling facility in san jose. let's check in with kris today. she joins us live from the scene. >> reporter: well, we haven't confirm some information, so we won't make that publ. what i can tell you is this is happening in the green way facilities off 101 and 880. the green waste facility handles all sorts of recycleables. there are officers deep onto the private property. and we do have video from earlier this morning where the investigation first started out here at the recycling facility. we managed to talk to a couple employees who didn't feel comfortable talking on camera, but did confirm to us that there was a body found inside the facility. we don't know how the body got there. we don't know if there was foul play. what i can tell you is we did

see an ambulance and paramedic leaving the scene as we were arriving, no lights, no sirens. so clearly not transporting somebody to the hospital. what we had not seen, though, at this point is the coroner's van, so we don't know if the investigation is just going longer or perhaps the coroner just hasn't gone here yet. we'll keep asking question. san jose pd does not have details for us just yet. thank you very much. obviously a developing story right now. 5:09, and we've been talking about this, the weather and the traffic, of course, the weather, kari, you're telling you it would be a calmer day? >> a much-needed break, but unfortunately the smoke from the wildfire will be moving in as we go through the rest of the day. if you need to get outside, try

to get out there early, not because of just the hot temperatures, but also that smoke moving in. we'll have kind of two things working against us today. it's even going to warm up in san francisco. we will see our start this morning at 62 degrees, much cooler right now in the north bay, with napa starting out ought 49 degrees. it's 504 santa rosa. in palo alto it's 59, 58 degrees in san jose. as we check out our morning trend for mountain view, as you get ready to head out, we're at 59 degrees in the next hour, dropping down just a couple more degrees before sunrise, and our temperatures do heat up fast. we're saying get out there for those activities before our decrats start to reach 80 degrees. we'll feel that at noon. we're going to get even hotter going into the rest of the day, as we go hour by hour in early afternoon in concord we're at 83, palo alto at 84, even the upper 80s in the peninsula

today, with some of our areas getting slight cooling in spots like antioch. in the north bay, we're still looking at hopefully more containment ohat .fire 'l have some very hot weather for those crews up there. for cupertino, we're at 90 at 4:00 today, also briefly hitting 90 in the south bay. as you make evening plans, expect mid 80s, dropping int the mid 50s later tonight. as we go into the weekend, new watches and warnings will go up. this is highlighting some of the same areas where we had the red flag warning that expired yesterday afternoon. this is for elevations above 1,000 feet. it does not include san francisco and parts of the valleys from the inner bay down to the south county. it does include the north bay as well as we head into saturday night. it does end on monday morning,

and so once again it's for the higher elevations. right now here's what we know. we are expecting the strongest wind event we have seen in a couple years now. unfortunately it looks like it comes during the early morning hours, so a lot of people may be asleep. before you go to sleep sunday night, assert morning, we could start to see the winds picking up and those gusts anywhere from 20 to 40 miles an hour in the valleys. anywhere from 50 to 70-mile-per-hour mountain gusts, this could bring down som trees and cause some damage. over the weekend will be the time to make sure that all of 9 items around your house that may blow in the wind is secured and put away. we are looking at the upper-level windterns coming in from the east and surface winds from the west. this will what will c the smoke, and we'll start to see the smoke coming in for the morning, for the north bay, the

afternoon for the rest of the bay area, even though it will be a light wind. as we go into the weekend we are still hot tomorrow, 87, but on sunday, when we expect that high wind event as a small cold front moves through, it will drop off our temperatures quite a bit. and some mid 70s for highs. we also will be quite warm in san francisco today, and those gusty winds picking up late saturday evening. mike, you're updating a crash along the coast? >> that's right. only one lane, as i understand, is affected, in the southbound direction, bur it is involving a vehicle reportedly overturned, on its side perhaps as it went down the embankment, i think, but not down the hill. that would be scary. this is another issue we're tracking. we have reports of -- just got word overnight that the traffic

control around pigeon point has been cleared. highway 101 in that stretch is just fine. as we look southbound 880, we still have -- the reason i point this out is it may affect the off-ramp there as well. a little slowing, you just saw that, see the yellow that pops up? there will be an issue as this is right off the interchange out of the castro valley y. our senses are just waking up. and the bay bridge, though the toll plaza, there are a few folks starting to wait for the morning pollute. here we have highway 1, muir beach, those are iconic spots, but there's a closure through highway 1 because of yesterday's fire. we'll continue to follow its

progress. 188 that remarin closed because of the kinkade as well. if you are south of healdsburg, you are okay, but be careful if you have plans to head into this area we've been talking about. here's a live look at san rafael. it's moving smoothly and nicely toward the golden gate bridge. back to you. good morning. happy friday. i hope you're staying safe out there. tesla posted an unexpected profit, the stock jumps 17 pick and roll. the opposite is true of amazon. investors have not had a charges to reac yesterday, but these numbers were less than wall street expect that's going to cost jeff bezos dearly. we figure he could lose as much as $7 billion today, as it sinks in reaction to the numbers. bezos the richest person in the world for now.

his loss could be big enough to catapult bill gates into the top position. google says it's making the biggest changes to the algorithm in five years. the details are not particularly interesting, budt says tell make your searches noticeably better. earlier this week google said it made a major step forward in quantum computing. the white house re-tweeted ivanka trump saying the achievement was a collaboration between the trump administration, google and uc santa barbara. a google spokesperson points out they've been working on this for 13 years. google tess me, quote, they appreciate the help and support they have gotten along the way. speaking of revolutionary, this is a factory that can make a football helmet or shoes, all kinds of things just by pulling

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that's where she's serving our sentence in the college admissions cheating scandal. once released on sunday, she'll still be on the hook for 150 hours of community service, also playing a $30,000 fine. in recent years we've learned much more about cte, the progressive brain disease in some theets who experience repeated concussions. >> a new study is concentrating on the potential damaging consequences for women soccer players. world cup champion and brandy chastain is among the study's participants. she wondering if routine mistakes is related to her athletic career. >> is that just getting older, or is that make soccer? you know, was that from heading? i was very brave. i wanted to head the ball as a sign of my stuffness, as a sign of my contribution to my team.

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coverage. we have the very latest numbers in the kinkade wildfire burning right now in sonoma county. plus we are also watching another round of gusty winds which could trigger wide outages kari hall is tracking it all. and then for the weekend, a fire weather watch goes up once again. we'll talk about the timeline of this and how high those winds will get. it's coming up next.

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it's just a scary time. we have no idea if we'll have a house to come back to. fast-moving flames, evacuations and a path of destruction left behind as a raging wildfire burns in the north bay. our "today in the bay" team is live across sonoma county tracking the fight. and weep trackle smoke set to move into the rest of the bay today. good morning, everyone. we want to get to kari hall. it's looking calmer today. >> yes, looking calmer, but the day after a major wildfire breaks out, we can see the drifts of smoke, and at times maybe even ash falling. we're getting ready for that.

the spare the air alert today, you'll start to see thempacts of the smoke getting thicker, and then for the bay and the coast, it continues to move down into the rest of the bay area for the east bay, as well as the south bay later on this evening. it's also going to be another hot day, as we check out what's happening, we see it going from 57 this morning to 71 at 10:00, then 81 at noon, eventually reaching near 90. heading over to mike, you're tracking two crashes. the first one has been taken over by pacific pd over there. we may not get further updates. no major injuries reported. all around the bay, the other is across the bay. here is southbound 880, we continue to see slowing southbound, coming into the area, possibly blocking the

off-ramp. they need a larger tow truck. so overall looking at the friday traffic. i'llhow that build coming up, but we just got word of a small fire. i think it's easily control off the roadside, highway 4 over at laurel. obviously we are on high alert for any reports of fire. we will track that, but you have much bigger cases. >> firefighters now working against time befores conditions get worse in the north bay. >> easily the largest right now is the kinkade fire in the north bay. here's where things starred so far. the fires burned 16,000 acres in the area around geyserville. at least 49 structures are destroyed. about 2,000 people in geyserville and healdsburg are under evacuations. we've had team coverage send

yesterday morning. let's staking to sonoma county. sharon is there for you. >> reporter: you have to be careful out here. we've seen so much all right this morning. we pulled over here, because we saw some fire trucks and firefighters out here. you can see a little flare-up here on the hilltop. they're looking for hot spots. we came from an area where homes were in complete rubble. it was very heartbreaking to see. it was devastated that whole area, just about a mile away from here. in daylight yesterday you could really see the devastation, with virtually nothing left of the homes, just bed frames, other metal scraps and parts of the homes. that's what we're seeing out here this morning. in this area, our reporters counted in daylight at least six structures destroyed.

evacuees describe how quickly they needed to leave their homes. >> he said get out, the fire. i thought, my god no, and when i open up the screen door, the whole hill was bright head. you couldn't see in front of your hand, but you could see this bright orange. >> reporter: evacuees are staying at nearby evacuation centers in healdsburg and sonoma county. back here live, you can see one of the engines. they tell me they're working on equipment here, but again, we're probably going to see them heading up to the flare-ups that we're seeing on the hilltop. very good sign that at least firefighters are out here still trying to deal with the active fire, luckily not as bad as yesterday, but still we're seeing embers and a lot of smolderi smoldering. >> i'm sharon katsuda for "today

in the bay." the cabrillo fire burned about 95 acres, near the santa cruz county line. as of last night it was 25% contained. the fire is not threatening any homes. firefighters are attacking a 35-afire burning just north of lake del drool near livermore. as of last night, it was a tough one. there's zero containment. more power outages coming this weekend because the danger is supposed to get a lot worse. >> at this point homes and businesses on really all sides of the bay will feel the impact. bob redell has the details. bob? parts of places like concord

could see the lights go out, as more winds are expected to be coming in sometime this weekend. pg & e has put out this map. you'll see the yellow areas you'll notice those areas cover large swaths of alameda, santa clara, san mateo counties as well as portion of the north bay. in coco county, up to 30,000, these outages are designed to prevent wildfires, could start saturday evening and run through monday. >> we do think it will be the strongest offshore wind event this season by a large margin. >> we are preparing with our communities and state agencies for a large-scale shutoff that has the potential to be on the same order as the one on october 9th, but a longer duration.

>> governor gavin newsom yesterday, he addressed these outages. he expressed outrage over the fact that california, a state so innovative, so entrepreneurial can't keep the lights on. he blames pg & e for decades of mismanagement and in his words, putting the shareholders first. reporting live here in concord, bob redell for "today in the bay." 5:36 right now, of course a big concern for those firefighters, they'll get a break at least today. they say they're going to go after this fire as much as they can. >> and then you think about how hot it will be today as they're fighting the fires, and the time we have under the next wind event is so small, you have such a small window to get control, because we are expecting some high winds to develop late saturday night, really peak on sunday morning. even the valleys will have some high winds this time around,

anywhere from 20 to 40-mile-per-hour gusts, and in the merchandise we could see the winds anywhere from 50 to 70 miles per hour. that could bring down some trees and cause some damage, and so we are expecting this to also last for several hours. looking at our forecast for today, we are seeing our upper level winds still blowing the smoke overshore, but then we start to see things shift going into the rest of the day. that will bring in the smoke, but the winds are still pretty light here. we also will have light winds throughout much of the dade tomorrow. then as we go into sunday morning, we start to see the winds rushing in from the north, and at times anywhere from 35 to 45, even 50 miles per hour in parts of the north bay, and then even in the valleys this time we could see throughout sunday afternoon some really high winds, which of course all you need is one little thing that could cause a fire to grow out of control with some high winds.

we do have a fire weather watch already in effect that will start on saturday evening. we also have a -- that damaging wind event, so there's a high wind watch. a lot to watch here as we go throughout the weekend, mike. you're looking at the north bay. >> that's right. we continue to follow the kinkade fire. of course it's still huge up there, and 128 continues with the closure. the reason i point this out first, is perhaps folks made plans earlier before this fire broke out. just avoid that area. remember that sonoma shaven as well as calfire has been noting it could potentially threaten highway 101, so be aware that could cut off a significant route. this closure near the muir fire that's under control, but we still have that tracffic contro.

again we're on edge. this is the big issue traffic-wise, as you're approaching lieu wellen, the big rig is still involved, and that's really the only slow spot. back to you, guys. 5:38. we continue to follow breaking news in the south bay. there's a deadly investigation under way at a recycling facility. >> kris sanchez is live at the scene. what have you been able to find out so far. >> reporter: in the last few minutes the big san jose police crime scene investigates under just arrived rolled onto the scene here at the facility that's on charles road. this is a heavy industrial area in san jose, not too far from the intersection. police out here are not say

much, but i can tel you that several people who work at the facility talked with us off camera this morning. they didn't feel comfortable talking on camp ra. they told us a body was found here among some of the material they were working with here. who that person might be, we don't know. how that person might have died, we don't know at this point. we do know that there were also paramedics and an ambulance that were teenaged here. when they left, no lights, no sirens, which tells us they are not transporting anybody to a local hospital. we have been reaching out to san jose police for information. the officers here are just not talking. they are working on the investigation, but the big crime scene truck is here, so we might be here for a while. >> we know you'll gather as much new information as you can. 5:44 right now.

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it is still pretty good in terms of our air quality right now. we're starting out with the upper 50s. normally reaching 72, but we'll be at 82 all right by noon. we'll talk about the hot weather today and tomorrow, and high wind event. that's coming up in less than five minutes. the nimitz moves nightly no problems here. we do have the delay out of the oak lend, heading down toward the san mateo bridge. can you imagine what a tough fight they are having? the biggest fire is burning in l.a. county. the tick fire has forced some

6500 people from their homes. the fire has burned for hours, nearly 4,000 acres have been consumes. firefighters say high winds and wind gusts are making it a very different battle. into michael anderson works at san lorenzo high school, deputies say he assaulted a stay tuned in a series.

none -- >> 18 california cities have money chants. >>y useactors whether a city has enough to pay its bills and whether the city can afford its retirements. >> 5:46 right now. the fire department has launched a criminal vague into the origins of the russian interference case. it's an investigation into an investigation. >> to be clear, the government won't investigate the connections between the election and the russians, but, rather, the origins of the investigation into the investigation into the election and the russians. we have very little details, but

we will bring them to you as we get them. the understanding of why and how the genesis of how this came about is fairly simple. this guy, carter page, associated with the trump campaign, blabbed to an australian diplomat, the russians had offered to help the trump campaign in 2016. that diplomat then alerted his connections in washington, including john mccain, who then in turn alerted the fbi who wiretapped page. that's been the narrative some republicans are say this is unfair. you'll recall a number rushed the special facilities where democrats and republicans were questions witnesses. these members of congress calling for open testimony, not testimony behind closed doors. as we've been pointing out this week, many investigations start

behind closed door, then move into the public sphere, including the benghazi hearings. in fact, here's the chairman of the benghazi committee, republican trey gowdy, of course they had to start behind closed doors, when republicans were in charge of the house. >> our private hearing was much more constructive. public hearings are a circus. that's why i don't like to do them. i mean, it's a freak show. the private interviews are much more constructive. >> we're not expecting a ton of information to come out today, but we'll be watching it. you can follow me on twitter. >> thanks, scott. well, look, guess who is back? sister mary clarence. hit it, gabrielle ♪ i will follow him ♪ follow him wherever he may go ♪ ♪ there isn't an ocean too

deep ♪ ♪ a mountain so high you can keep me away ♪ >> i love that song. look, who could keep whoopi away from being away from "sister act." fans can follow her to london to the stage. she's actually expected to reprice the role of dolores van cartier. she'll be joined by jennifer saunders from the iconic series "absolutely fabulous" is set to play mother superior, who is not underselling the excitement. >> i can't buy tickets because i'm in it, but i think this could be the event of the century. that's all i'm saying, a small thing, but the event. this is all part of the stage musical based on the movies. she's also a producer here.

she briefly appeared in the mother superior role in the show in 2010. >> i love it. it makes you forgot what a great movie that was. the music was fun. s. >> i'm always looking for good movies i can show my kids. they've got to be clean. though. we've been talking a lot about the weather, dealing with the fires, but certainly something that the wind -- >> today it's the wind. it will be moving, and it chokes us out when we have a couple days after a wildfire. so here's a live look outside in dublin this morning. spare the air alert today. anywhere from 2:00 to can have, the east bay from 3:00 to 7:00, for the south bay it starts to move in this evening.

we had a wide range in temperatures this morning, but check out how much cooler it is in the north bay, compared to 24 hours ago. it is 25 degrees cooler notice, and that's also a sign that our winds are calming down that allows for the temperatures to drop. now that we do have the calm winds, we are starting out in the mid 50s, as you head out to the b.a.r.t. station, grab a jacket. you'll be tossing that to the side as we warm up to the low 80s. we see our winds coming in from the east to start. as we go into this evening, we'll get ready for another high wind event, and then starting to taper off monday.

we see the change in our temperatures going from 90 to 75. b.a.r.t. just reported a ten-minute delay, some sort of equipment problem. they could be able to get through this no problem, get into san francisco, here's a delay that's developing. the bay bridge targeting, we're talking about just under a half hour ago, the backup now forming out of the maze. overall, though, looking great, a disabled vehicle on highway 4. not a major issue. over here.

still mild slowing, because it's -- that holds for the rest of the bay. back to you. thanks, mike. happening now police have arrested two people in connection with the deaths of 39 people found in the back of a container truck in southeastern england. a 25-year-old driver of the truck also remains in custody on suspicion of murder. he has not been charged. police have not released his name. authorities now believe the victims are from china, though its embassy says nationalists are still being -- nationalities are still being verified. it's 5:53. next the holiday deals already starting, and the perfect discount you should be watching for. plus a can't-miss video. pushing a stroller. oh, my goodness, the miracle and brand-new reaction next. you're watching "today in the bay" you know when you're at ross

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to get through. >> can we do one holiday at a time here? this year some parents are using smartphone features to make the night a little less scary. keep tabs on your kids' location with a family link app on android or find my iphone on family sharing on apple devices. set an alarm to remind your kids about their surfews, and bump to the top of the inbox with group chats or texts with even family members. >> that way you can have fun keeping in touch. he feel accountable not just to their parents. >> or just follow them from a distance. neighbors can market whether they're passing out treats, or even offering allergy-safe treats. trending this morning, a follow-up to a close call caught on camera. a family in phoenix pushing their baby in a stroller nearly hit by a drunk driver.

take a look at this. that incident caught on could many ra. right there. that's when the driver run the red light. another cart slams into it. the woman behind the wheel, she's now spoke egg about had -- in the car i should say. >> i'm kind of in a situation where i'm in debt now with the car and everything. it doesn't really matter about material. it's also, you know saving a person's life. even though it wasn't my intention to. >> so after the crash, the driver of the jeep tried to run away, but was arrested shortly after. luckily, looking at that, no one was hurt. >> i almost feel like there was a dome of safety.

>> when you see how quickly they act. if that car had not been there. >> they were flying rapidly on that one. breaking news right now at 6:00, that out-of-control wildfire, all of the smoke is now on the move, about to billow into the bay area. how could it affect you? plus forced to flee. >> under a mandatory evacuation. >> right now our crews are spread across sonoma county as a massive wildfire tears through parts of -- the scorching path of destruction. and -- power off, so limited ability to make phone calls. >> powerless, as more wicked weather moving in. the worst wind since the wine country wildfires are coming. today tens of thousands will begin scrambling to