fires are spreading right now in napa county, this is as the north and east bay are in a red flag warning. >> more on the weather as we are going to see unseasonably high temperatures around the bay area today, but also strong winds will last throughout the morning. >> we will see plenty of 80s outside. it is 84 year high in sunnyvale. it will be a another one day around the bay. if there will be a wind one. we do have a wind advisory in affect. a red flag warning pushes into the 6:00 hour. if this is for anyone above a thousand feet. i will have a full detail of what you should expect not only today but

the weekend. >> we are now tracking a number of incidents that may have the potential to be a hot spot. on 37 westbound just pass highway 121 there is a big semi truck that is blocking a lame. this makes it a problem and there may be close enough to 121. however, this is a major route and if you drive this every morning did you know how it may be perry ed here in the south bay northbound 17 at hamilton, chp has a another special traffic advisory. two of the four lanes are blocked and the northbound direction. so far the traffic is pretty light. >> fire crews are working a

fire in the yountville area just north of napa up. the flames broke out run the 11:45 p.m. last night and have burned 15 a.. the fire is 25 percent contained, crews are hoping to have it fully contained by 8:00 a.m.. there are reports of a few other small on 1 a. fire is just south of the yountville fire off of the silverado trail area. a total of three happening right now. overnight gust and the area got up to 44 mi. per hour. >> a red flag warning is across the bay area and it is in the effect throughout tonight. the national weather service has issued a red flag warning for the north bay hills, east bay hills and the diablo range.

kron4 mike pelton joins us now from the berkeley hills area with more information. >> you can see the sign that is posted. fire officials stated that this is coming early in the fire season and we may have a very long fire season. they have a lot of dead and dry brush and that means that it may be explosive conditions for wild fires. this is due to a combination of higher winds and temperatures. there is a statewide ban on burning-barbequing. is it is supposed to be very nice weather but this does mean that it will have an impact or you cannot let up your grill. there are fire crews working to battle other fires as well. they are working to give full

containment of these fires. you can smell a lot of the smoke in the bay area. the national weather service center stated that some of the smoke will be drifting in. if you have got to work, you may be wondering what the smell is. it is a fire that is burning up north. officially, all of this nice weather that we have seen comes with a down side. >> there are no goodbyes, take care my sister. >> it was an emotional candlelight vigil that was held at jenny lind elementary school last night to honor eight your old lei la fowler who was killed over the weekend and calaveras county. people

wore her favorite colors, pink and purple while mourning the loss of the little girl. >> an autopsy was performed and the county corner says that fowler was stabbed multiple times while inside of her home on saturday, the young girl bled to death. law enforcement has interviewed sex offenders in the area. if of boards are not saying that sexual assault was part of the crime. there has been an intense three day manhunt that has turned up no clues. police do not even have enough to prove a suspect's name, nor a sketch. >> i want justice to the country. we are not in the city, we're in the country.

we do not take kindly to what goes on around here. the road where she was murdered was open for a short while yesterday, the first time since the murder. her home is not a crime scene, so round with yellow tape. >> police have arrested a suspect in an attempted kidnapping of a 15 month old child. if this happened in placerville. authorities are investigating whether the attempted kidnapping might be leaked to the murder of leila fowler. police say that he follow the mother upstairs at her apartment building and tried to grab her child. >> this is a very, very

bizarre event. >> the officers have collected dna samples from wyrynan and send results to the calaveras county sheriff to compare with samples taken at the scene of a eight year-old murder victim. >> the warriors did not play their best game last night. the nuggets came out on fire needing a win to stay alive. the warriors were down 20 points at halftime and there was more offense from the nuggets in the second half. the warriors trailed by as many as 22 points in the third quarter. steven curry

makes it a five. game within five minutes to go, it was a rough night for him, scorn only 15 points. the series has back to oakland for game 6 where the warriors for try to close out on cars that. >> the sharks are opening against the canucks in vancouver tonight. san jose is exceeded six while vancouver is of the no. 3 seed. the sharks' are undefeated against the canucks this year when all three games, two at the age people billion and one in vancouver. tonight's game is at 7:30 p.m.. >> we will be right back.

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>> welcome back. the time is 6:11 a.m.. is 6 degrees currently in oakland. off they shall warm-up to the '80s later on today. we are expecting a another hot one for today.

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>> the time is 6:15 a.m.. we have fires and that are burning. 200 a. have been burned. if there is a red flag warning into tonight. it is windy and very warm. >> it is very when the outside. we had wind gusts up to 70 mi. per hour. i

have listed that the hallways and how warm we are compared to the seasonal high. san francisco will climb to 80 degrees. it will be a few degrees warmer for santa rosa. it is also a warmer start for the morning. check out napa up. hit 68 degrees currently in fairfield. he is a very warm morning perry ed we will be moving to 70's. hayward, is coming in at 65 degrees. as we follow these numbers into afternoon. futurecast 4 shows '70s and '80s by lunchtime. as with the clock in motion this indicates where we will see possibly '90s. we will probably see some '90s for the morgan hill and gilroy

area. by 8:00 p.m. tonight the winds will have died down. let's break down your afternoon highs. it will be plenty of 80s for the south bay. san jose will come in at 84 degrees. mountain view will come in at 84 degrees. 82 degrees for san leandro and 87 for walnut creek. downtown san francisco will come in for 80 degrees. >> we do have a wind advisory in effect to a 11:00 p.m.. the red flag 1 and will stress to 6:00 p.m.. we have already tried a couple of wild fires. this is something that we will continue to monitor. the winds and should die down. the heat however, is on. we may see record-breaking temperatures. the national weather service center did issue a heat advisory between 1:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.. >> the 7 day around the bay shows potential for record-

breaking temperatures. some spots could actually reach the triple digits. it will be cooler conditions for the weekend. the temperatures will go by sunday. in fact, a few locations may seek 25 to 30 degrees. >> we have been monitoring a couple incidents one, which is not a hot spot this is a 17 in the northbound direction. these are the very same freeways and it just changes number. as you come out of campbell the traffic now is starting to back up. three of the available four lanes northbound are blocked by this accident. the chp has issued a special traffic advisory. so far, it is backed up to camden. it is not all the way back into los gatos. we may be looking at a major problem as it wears on. we continue to

follow traffic in the north bay were westbound highway 37 has a accident is in my truck. the backup is still mind but again, it has the potential to be a huge at the lake from vallejo. you might want to come down legs bill instead if you have that option. >> your bay bridge ride, the meter and lights have been activated and there is a back up once again. we are tracking slowly. the san mateo bridge westbound is an easy ride they have no lights to contend with is 11 minutes. your ride to the golden gate bridge is easy, it has been a great commute for the past few days. they have no problems this morning for 1 01 southbound. >> a quick transit check for you. there no delays on bart

or caltran. the strain also looks good. the muni metro is also fine. >> tens of thousands are expected to rally today in

dozens of cities across the country and what has become an annual plea to reform immigration laws. today's rally carries an extra sense of hope. two weeks ago a group of senators introduced a bill that would bring many of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants and u.s. out of the saddles. the may date crile's are not expected to approach the mass of the demonstrations of 2006 and 2007--during the last serious attempt to reform the immigration system. advocates are focusing their efforts on getting supporters to call and write members of congress. >> new jersey state

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>> the munster and beverage company is suing the san francisco city attorney's office over demands this teammates. the city says that munster must reduce the amount of caffeine is energy drinks as the marketing to minors. the company says that city attorney denis herrera is targeting munster by asking the company to produce documentation showing the drinks are safe. if the city attorney also faxed munster to reformulate their drinks and change the labels and marketing. this comes as the fda investigates reports of deaths that were linked to monster's bride adjust. the agency has said the reports do not prove that the drink

cause any deaths. >> i strongly disagree with monsters legal contention, and i intend to litigate this case aggressively to reform their responsibility for marketing business practices. >> we will now take a break. the time is 6:27 a.m.. we are watching live pictures of new york with the new york stock exchange. look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet.

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the opening bell. >> taking a look at wall street this morning. future trading shows all three indexes are positive this morning. if reports that ibm bud raise its dividend helped pull the dow and s&p 500 out of a morning slump yesterday. here is a look that the closing numbers. the dow fell as much as 84 points in the morning trading but ended with a gang of 21 points and 14,839. the nasdaq rose the 22 points to close at 3328. the s&p 500 is up nearly 4 points to close at 1597. will be watching the numbers all morning starting at 630. >> it will not be really hot but it will be warmer than average. it will be almost 20 degrees warmer than what we saw. we may see a few

'90s. today is not going to be as warm as to what we was see into thursday and friday. 88 degrees for fairfield and napa. 83 is expected for fremont. as of right now the temperatures are in the upper 50s. it is a bright start to the morning. later on this afternoon this is one temperatures will run up. the winds will decrease in the evening hour. i will have a full detail what to expect in a few minutes. >> we are updating our hot spot 17 northbound. there was a right hand lane that was blocked and they manage to get more of the lanes open. the traffic is still backed up beyond cam them. we are still looking at delays but minor ones was

some 37 highway 141. off this big semi truck accidents still blocks the middle lane. we are still getting reports of just minor slowing past the scene. if you are in san lorenzo if you will run until a problem on northbound lanes do to them being shut down at grant. there is a serious accident and a car was traveling extremely fast when it struck a wall. >> we will not give back to our team coverage due to the red flag warnings. the national weather service center has issued a warning for the areas and mike pelton as live to follow the story from berkeley. >> it is pretty come out right now but i just spoke with the berkeley fire chief he stated that they will

have increased patrols in berkeley hills and will be looking for any problems or campers who may be starting campfires. he told me that this year will be a bed fire season because of the dead drybrush that is over the hills. he told me that most of this comes from all the rain that we've seen. he stated that because of the lack of rain, it dried out and it has added to explosives conditions. today's red flag 1 and runs until 6:00 p.m.. calc fire has issued a ban order and park officials in the area will be puputting out a note barbequing signs. you cannot go and live up your grill. they stated that you can help them by helping

keep your own home safe. they wanted to clear of any debris that may be around your area that may be taller than 6 ft.. this is certainly a clear sign of this. there have been several fires to burn in the napa sonoma area. >> i could smell the smoke when i left my apartment this morning. a lot of this fire is seeping down into oakland and if you leave for work and you wonder what it is is due to the fires up north. >> the small town of valley springs is struggling to cope with the death of the eight year-old girl and le

ila fowler. here's what we now know. an autopsy was performed and the coming corner says that she was stabbed multiple times a wall inside a car on saturday, the young girl bled to death. law enforcement has interviewed sex offenders in the area. an intense manhunt has turned up no clues. police do i have enough to provide a suspect's name nor a sketch. >> >> someone stepped my little girl, is she okay? >> i do not want justice through the system, i want the justice through the country. we are not in the

city, we're in the country. plain and simple we do not take kindly to what goes on around here. >> the road leading to her home was opened for a short while yesterday. this was the first time since the murder. her home is still considered a crime scene surrounded with yellow police tape. >> police arrested a suspect in an attempted kidnapping of a 15 month old baby in placerville. authorities are investigating whether the attempted kidnapping might be linked to the murder of if leila fowler. police were called to an apartment building in place to build their arrested a 44 year-old man jason wryrynen. police say that he follow the woman up the stairs and into her apartment. police say that he grabbed the 15 month old

girl from the mother's arms, but the mother fallback to keep her daughter in her arms. are arresting officers collected dna samples from him and sent the results to the calaveras county sheriff to compare with other samples that were taken at the scene of the eight year-old murder victim. >> a martinez boy was injured in the boston marathon barman is back home and he will be celebrating his 12th birthday today. 11 year-old aaron hern came back from boston yesterday afternoon. his mom and dad say that he is tired, but he is extremely happy to be back, martinez. >> this is one of the hardest things for me to deal with. i was sick and about how much worse it

could have been. he sold all of that, and he knew. >> the community and martinez held several fund- raisers for the family to help them out. the family is incredibly grateful for what everyone has done for them. >> the time is 6:38 a.m. perry ed we are waking up to fire danger. we have already seen fires that broke out while you were sleeping. here is our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. you can see all the smoke coming from sonoma county. this broke out about 2:00 a.m. this morning. it is about 200 a.. if we do have other fires that are burning right now. if you can smell the smoke as far as san francisco. the red flag

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>> we have a couple of fires in the north bay we're following this morning when antioch will area and joining us is daniel with cal fire. >> good morning >> we have to fires burning bring us up to speed on both. >> when it is just north of napa and we are making progress on that one. the fire in the night ballet has earned just over 200 a..

>> we're looking live with their helicopter partnership and there are lots of small during spots in flames coming from the fire right now. how many people are working this? the note the wind gusts are at this time? >> we have a over a hundred firefighters and we are calling in more resources. fortunately for us we were able to research that in the last couple of days. we knew we were going into fired danger even though it is only the first day of may. >> as we take a look at the pictures the terrain looks awful rugged. is this thing

going to be awhile before you finally get your hands on it? >> we will be up there all day battling the fire and we will have helicopters helping us. even though it is rough terrain we have been trained for it. >> a lot of people are concerned when they see fires like this the direction that they're moving in. will they need to voluntarily evacuate? >> right now we do not have any evacuations that are in place, we try to give our residents as much notice as possible to evacuate the area. know what you need to do it if you do have to evacuate and evacuate early.

if a fire is approaching, do not wait for us ask you. ready evacuation is always the best idea. >> are these fires glowing in the direction of populated areas? >> there are homes scattered throughout that area and out easily we will be taking a very aggressive attack to put the fire out and also keep away from homes. >> any idea of when or if you need to activate any aircraft? >> we are evaluating that and we will be bringing our helicopters out. it is still early in the season,

we will be evaluating our staffing for northern california. we're hoping residents do their part, it will definitely be a busy year for us. and we can bring in some air tankers from our southern airbase. >> there's also a 50 a. smaller fire and napa. you can see the danger out there and you can feel the danger in the wind. he was a saying they had a hundred fire fighters on this one that you're looking at live. they are more evaluations.

>> if this thing lasts longer than today to the jurors are steadily increasing as we make our way towards friday and that will make it more difficult to our firefighters and provide more drybrush fuel. >> will be back in just a couple of minutes.

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we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [ kids cheering ] you're missing a good game over here. those kids wouldn't have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. call to get u-verse tv for just $19 a month with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. welcome back >> i wanted to talk about the winds first, i was looking at peak wind gusts over highway 128 and currently these are actually pretty impressive. 24 mi. per hour winds on highway 28. mt. diablo is in the east bay but still saying 68 mi. per hour winds. we will

continue with when the conditions in future cast four highlights 7:00 hour. all of the blue shading indicates wind gusts between 20 and 30 mi. per hour. by 11:00 a.m., the wind advisory expires for the east bay hills. temperatures, it is already a warm start around the bay area. you can see plenty of upper 50s and already some 60s out there. 66 san francisco, 59 oakland, 63 san carlos. temperatures are going to climb in the afternoon. the highs, will be one of them we saw yesterday's santa clara 85, 84 mountain view, 86 evergreen. in the east bay fairfield 88, 86 antioch, 87

pleasanton. downtown san francisco 88 degrees, 88 napa, 85 santa rosa. we was the low 80s and the east bay shoreline. if you're headed to the a's game, first that it well 35 and expect sunny skies and pretty breezy at time with temperatures in the low 80s. did you think today is warm, wait until tomorrow. we have the heat advisory in effect until 9:00 p.m.. some of our spots getting very close to triple digits. 7 day around the bay highlights really warm weather. return of coastal and morning fog saturday into sunday. temperatures dropping as we start the next workweek, mid-70s in land. 6:52 a.m. and here is

george. >> we have been tracking a hot spot in the south bay campbell's 17th northbound at hamilton ave. three lanes are black, one has been cleared. it is backing out from campbell's 17 northbound. all lanes are now open and flows much better for that very popular in heavily traveled south beirut. 17 northbound, all lanes open at hamilton. the crash is still on the shoulders though it will still slow things. we're seeing back up headed toward 121 on 37 westbound with the right lane remaining block. there is also an oil spill reported here. they still have not cleared the lanes of his berry and boulevard. bay bridge westbound, there is a

stall on the incline section just before 6:00. that is why think that locked up here. the san mateo bridge is problem free with no delays as you head towards foster city. the golden gate bridge ride continues to flow well would no delays southbound. the time is 654, we will take a quick break and be right back on kron4.

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>> we are back and out of the north bay wild fires are burning. one of them 50 a. in size the other is burning to the north, the knights valley area 200 a. fire burning right now. the expected time to contain

them? they do not know. they will be working all day long. we are under a red flag warning throughout the day. more news for you straight ahead.

(male announcer) live from the bay area here is your kron 4 news >> we're starting live in the weather center. we're starting off this morning warm already in getting warmer. >> we are ready in the upper 60s and napa and san francisco. we're seeing 60s all over the place, pleasanton and danville our warm as well. forecasted, everyone is pretty much in the '80s. you can see it will be 616 degrees warmer and sam francisco. and livermore at 87