On here at the staging area. Quite a few deputies are here from Alameda County part of the mutual aid force that is out here for two main reasons. They are going to be going door to door as they to notify people if they need to evacuate. Also, theyre going to be here to provide security for all of those people that are evacuated so that when they do return, they will have homes that have not been broken into. In Boulder Creek tonight a few homes are destroyed. The fire moved through this evening. Cal fire has confirmed 50 structures have been lost in the sprawling complex of fires and, unfortunately, the destruction may be much worse. We believe that it will go to the triple digits. It is just too early to know what that exact number i few mi alan strong is taking a stand against the coming fire, spraying down the roof of his friends bakery all day. He knows danger is on its way. You can feel the breeze. Its coming this way from the alba ridge. When it starts doing that, you know something is happening. He loaded his dog in the car the fire comes. Edto a nearby pon he is staying put because he a little good news here. Doesnt have anywhere else to it appears the historic lick go. The chp has set up road blocks observatory on Mount Hamilton to keep evacuated residents from escaped serious damage from the returning and protect their scu lightning complex fire. Homes in their absence. That is the situation at this evacuees have fanned out across the region to escape the fire. Point. This is a view from the iconic we live in an extended family so we got little kids in the 133yearold observatory house and we loaded in trucks and are at my brotherinlaws tonight. Crews so far have been able to protect the telescope domes and house in santa cruz. The visitors center. Everybody on the floor with the massive fires are drawing mattresses. We got what we could. Crews from across the state. Reporter with nearly 50,000 in fact the san louis obispo people under evacuation orders the county of santa cruz has Fire Department is the one that asked everyone on vacation here tweeted out this have you had to wrap it up. Yo. Their firefight to save the observatory and some of the hotel and motel rooms may be homes up there on mount needed by residents like michael hamilton. We do know some of the homes oxford who cleared out well have been damaged. Before his town got the final order to evacuate. We dont know the extent of if you are not paying that. Sadly well be doing a lot of attention and being stubborn and these stories in the days to come. Youve gotten an evacuation flames also destroying parts of order to get out, get out now. A historical South Bay Park big basin south of saratoga home to reporter these fires are the old growth ancient redwoods fast moving and very difficult and also californias oldest for fire crews to actually get to and do battle with. State park. Rangers say there is extensive so it is very likely fire damage and many historic unfortunately that these buildings such as the visitors mandatory evacuation zones are going to be expanding. Center, ampitheater, and reporting live in Scotts Valley campgrounds have burned. Sergio quintana nbc bay area the giant trees are known to be news. Thank you. That is a common theme. Fire resistant but can be they could be expanding across damaged. Their status wont be known for a while. The bay area. Sad to see that. Back in a moment with the lets go to the north bay. Giants big night. One of the many gems of wine perhaps their new superstar. Well show you how he did. Country is heelsburg this is what it looked like a couple hours ago west of town. Tonight both firefighters and residents there in Sonoma County are just defending their properties and homes. Lets bring in our reporter joining us in healsburg where conditions just like in the south bay, conditions are changing fast where you are. Reporter they are. Law enforcement has the roads here on the west side of healsburg closed so that emergency crews can move around these narrow, winding roads quickly and weve seen a lot of that tonight. The Sonoma CountySheriffs Office says the fire is still several miles away but it is moving in this direction. And it is destroying property as it moves. Fire spreads in heavy its path. One of my friends lost his house over on mill creek road. Reporter people who lost everything. Now he is helping others prepare for advancing flames. Remove all the pots even the ceramic ones from away from the house because sparks can get underneath. And pull everything away from the home and then rake all the leaves away from around the house. Reporter the wall bridge jean, did you know geico is now offering fire has burned 20,000 acres in an extra 15 credit on car and motorcycle policies . Sonoma county. When they can, crews dig in and thats great save homes. Cal fire is working on the thats 15 on top of what so what are you waiting for . Ground and in the air to try and john stamos to knit you a scarf . Stop it. Enjoy firefighters are doing their best to protect structures but thank you. The wind is picking up and i give. The stitch work is impeccable. Embers are flyingar of its just a double fleck pattern with a reverse garter stitch. The massive 215,000 acre lnu no big deal. Is your hair this soft . Softer. Geico. Lightning complex fire that is save an extra 15 when you switch by october 7th. Also burning in napa and lake and solano counties. Cal fire says the fire has killed four people. Geico. vo i have the best job in the world. And destroyed 480 structures. I get to remind people of their grandmothers conchitas. I packed yesterday. Two cars. One at home one here. Give the little kids cookies. We have to take separate cars because we have three dogs and and celebrate birthdays with all our neighbors. Two cats. Reporter with zero containment people are taking hopefully, well be part of this community for many, evacuation warnings and orders many more years. Seriously in healsburg. Packing up and leaving isnt easy. Everything weve worked for for 70 years is in a house of hours. Reporter it is going to be a long wait filled with worry for people who have evacuated and people who are preparing to evacuate as they wait and hope that the Fire Department can get a handle on this fire and stop the spread. Reporting live in Sonoma County, jean elle nbc bay the evacuat happening across the bay bay, east foot hills of san jose. Tonight people in gilroy and morgan hill are also being told they need to get ready, prepare if the flames get too close. And that is a real possibility. Well go live to morgan hill. Okay. People are nervous and scared. Expectations always tough. It is just so much to take in. But giants fans are hoping the teams new superstar has reporter it is really scary arrived. Stay with me, yes. Times for people who live here in morgan hill and gilroy. Joey bart. Case in point this sign. Hes the giants top prospect. If you dont live in the area wow he would be the next buster stay away. That is because folks in morgan posey. Tonight, the young catcher from hill are on stand by for georgia, just like buster, making his Major League Debut and gets his first career hit, a evacuation. The photo albums, jewelry, double down the left field line. Just anything important. You know, heritage from the joey bart finishes the night 1 for 4 as the giants beat the grandparents is already loaded and we got the dogs ready. Angels 105. Across the bay in oakland at the they have been getting coliseum, the as splitting evacuation warnings all day. Their series against the so they packed their important diamondbacks. Belongings and they are ready to matt chapman, mvp caliber, got go. Were leaving because we live the scoring started with the on top of a hill and i dont want to watch it burn. Solo home run. One of two home runs of the there is nothing here that is so important i got to stay here. Night for chapman. The real highlight came in the reporter morgan hill is the next area of concern. Stands. No fans to catch the foul balls. The cit and county posting signs, putting residents on but the teddy bear takes one in alert. Unprecedented lightning the head. The teddy bear is okay as far as storm. Over 300 fires in california. We know. Oh, no. The as win 51. So just bad luck. Steph curry taped a video reporter that bad luck is message for the dnc endorsing spreading near grant lake in the san jose foot hills. Joe biden and he was part of the cal fire making fire retardant warriors draft lottery. Drops trying to stop the fire hopefully yall checked out from barreling over the hill. The lottery. I got nervous for a second. This family is not taking any number two aint bad. Chances. They watered down their property curry reacting to getting the because they are worried about second overall pick. Their animals. We dont wapt be them to get and he, you involved in everything so were trying to water everything down noticed the corn rows there. To make sure it doesnt burn. The timber wolves get the first by the way i to overall pick. The draft is in october. Evacuate and take them out. Os foothills and family lives i just like to look at stef. Were back in a moment. Experience the ultimate sports hub. Evacuated last night. Looks like it is slowing dune bit. But we are going to be kind of ready. The car is packed to go back where you can find games, news and highlights. Again. You know . All in one place, right on your tv. And evacuate. The xfinity sports zone. Well see. Reporter now people who live here in the hills own different use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Types of property. A lot of horses and live stock. Follow the teams you love. And, even get notificati i talked to a lot of people who with breaking news alerts and more. Tried to get them out before so youll never miss an update. Evacuations become mandatory. With the xfinity sports zone live in morgan hill, cheryl everybody wins. Hurd, nbc bay area news. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Good reporting. Thank you. Click, call or visit a store for details. This is our fifth straight day of poor air quality. We could be in store for five more days of unhealthy air or maybe even more. Here is a look around the bay area among the worst spots there the tri valley, you can see our dublin cam a few hours ago. Walnut creek, contra county just looks hazy. The city is getting a lot of smoke baufs the fire in marin county. There is one bright spot or blue spot we can see there. San jose the south bay and the peninsula relatively breathable today. Hopefully that moves forward. Lets bring in our meteorologist. Could things change again . Could we see smoke come back, the wind direction switch, and the peninsula get smokey again tomorrow . Yeah. We really have to pay extra special attention to how strong the daily seabreeze is or the lack of it. What will end up happening at night is the drainage winds down to the north bay can pump a lot of smoke down into the central bay area or also the hills around areas east of san jose down toward morgan hill, too. That could be a big problem once the winds turn relatively lighter. What is interesting tonight with the stronger seabreeze which has helped air quality in spots it is bringing down the temperatures a little bit. I want to show you some of the fire weather around the bay area. You can see here on the map we do have out at Mount Jackson itcan it help with snoring . Le of the year on the sleep number 360 smart bed. West of healdsburg a pretty ive never heard snoring. Exactly. No problem. And done save 50 on the sleep number 360 limited Edition Smart bed. Active fire. Temperatures still near 80 degrees. As we head south to the hills plus, free delivery when you add a base. Ends monday. Eeflt east of san jose now down to 68 degrees. Humidity 35 . Temperatures in the 60s. At the czu complex on the ocean facing side of the Santa Cruz Mountains cooling temperatures, stronger seabreeze, seems to be impacting a few fires tonight. Well watch it closely. Meanwhile a few areas like santa cruz and livermore still dealing with unhealthy air and well let you know what other air quality changes we might see into the weekend in a few minutes. That combination of air quality and also evacuations that has a lot of School Districts throughout the bay area canceling really Distance Learning classes because kids are supposed to be at home. They are canceling it this first week because of the fires. Most of those are in sonoma, solano, and santa cruz counties. We have all the information on school closures. It is scrolling across the lets check in one more time bottom of your screen and we with rob. Same type of air quality also have it on our website. Tomorrow, rob . And a valuable resource and free were sending out push yeah, same areas were alerts 24 7 on our nbc bay area expecting to be impacted. The reason for the weather alert right now is the fact that the and also Live Streaming all of air quality is very unhealthy at our newscasts. Times around the inland easttemt air quality, rising temperatures, and could tropical couple of days but headline for Thunder Showers try to get back into the seven day forecast . Through the weekend. Ill give you the timing on all i think more spare the air days to come over the next five to of those when we come right seven days. Im not sure how much it back. A popular place to hike and means this week, but we have made it to friday, almost. Camp whether an adult or kid but it is never going to be the thank you, rob. Same. Extensive fire damage at for an indoor weekend, great. Californias oldest state park. See you tomorrow. Well tell you president of the United States of america. Joe biden formally accepts his partys nomination. Tonight the message to the American People on why he says he is the best man to be the president. Welcome back to our breaking news coverage. Weve never covered a bay area fire storm so widespread. Nearly every county being impacted. Thousands of people evacuated this evening or under evacuation warnings. A warning means essentially stand by. This is new video from bonny doon which is a well known spot near santa cruz. Tomorrow we mentioned Governor Newsom will be in napast hand. Tonight he was one of the speakers at the Democratic National convention. He taped a short message from the fire zone. If you are in denial about Climate Change come to california. 11,000 dry lightning strikes we had over a 72hour period leading to this unprecedented challenge with these wild fires. This is an extraordinary moment in our history. Mother nature has now joined this conversation. Nah was part of the message that was sent out across the country for the dnc this evening. Now hell be here tomorrow in napa county for the latest conditions not only in napa county but across the region and to deliver his regular news briefing which was coronavirus related but now has shifted quickly to all the fire updates. After more than a year of primaries and campaigning and then waiting the nation finally got to hear from the democratic partys president ial nominee, joe biden, accepting his partys nomination at the dnc. Alice barr in wilmington, delaware with the highlights. Reporter after nearly 50 years in Public Office and three president ial campaigns tonight joe biden formally accepting the democratic nomination for president framing the election as a battle for the soul of the nation, biden standing alone for his adris while supporters gathered outside to watch from the safety of a make shift drivein Movie Theater biden promising to fight the spread of the coronavirus and vowed to lead an economic recovery like the one he oversaw as vice president. The nominee using this night to focus on his own extensive record more than attacking President Trump and drawing from his personal story of overcoming hard ships. Former rivals from the campaign trail calling him a uniter. You have a human being who is empathetic, who is honest, who is decent. It was an honor to run against you. It is even a greater honor to stand with you in support of joe biden and Kamala Harris. Reporter joe biden and Kamala Harris closing out a one of a Kind Convention but just beginning the battle for the white house. In wilmington, delaware alice barr nbc news. President trump today campaigning near joe bidens hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. He spoke to a socially distanced crowd accusing of biden of failing that state but the president also spoke off the cuff about our wildfires here in the bay area and across california. As he did he was visiting the remains in paradise in 2018 and he blamed californias Forest Management saying the forest floors should be cleared and groomed. Ive been telling them this now for three years. But they dont want to listen. Maybe were just going to have to make them pay for it because they dont listen to us. We say you got to get rid of the leaves. Get rifd the gris. You got to get rid of the fallen trees. Get rid of the debris. Reporter he told the scranton crowd he would be a better leader claiming he brought back coal mining and the Steel Industry and this sets up his big week next week for the Republican National convention. In the south bay and peninsula the smoke was much better than yesterday. But now the north and east bay are getting the worst of it approaching dangerous levels. Here isbc ian cole. Reporter today as the south bay could breathe with relief the iconic santa cruz wharf is socked in as thousands revacuat. Even short term exposure to wild fire smoke can impact. Mi in from the lnu compl fir an n95 mask will help you otherwise stay inside. The air quality is almost hazardous. Contra costa county is the heaviest smoke impacts right now with air quality conditions in the unhealthy to very unhealthy range. It makes it hard for me to breathe and gives me headaches. Reporter she stayed inside her house for three days because of it and tried to go for a walk only to turn really heavy so i especially with this mask you have to keep it on. Reporter in walnut creek more businesses decided to stay closed under hazy skies with dropping ash. This morning we got up. 8 30 we called each other and were like i dont think it is going to work today. Reporter doctors say when you smell smoke stay inside with the windows closed. Smoke will last until at least tomorrow and a spare the air alert through sunday. In pleasanton, ian cole nbc bay area news. This morning when i opened my door in the back yard to let the dog out it smelled like a universal barbecue was going on all around us. It was unmistakable that the whole bay area was on fire. It was just so thick. Yes, we too up here in the danville area, similar thing. You wake up and the smell of smoke is almost drifting into your house even if all the windows are shut. I know with our two boys the online teaching right now, the teacher redirected the students to stay indoors which is a good thing. You dont want to get your you want your outdoor time in when you can but not with air quality as it is right now which is at times very right now in terms of temperatures weve seen about 24 hours ago. We were seeing nsrsome of the higher hill tops around the bay area. At this hour now 50s and 60s bay side. 70 inland the warmest in concord. That would be great. You can open up the windows on a typical night. You cant outside with all the smoke pollution we have. It is much cooler. Around the east bay especially out toward livermore once again around santa cruz the south coast there facing down wind of the complex in the Santa Cruz Mountains seeing unhealthy air at this hour and very likely with more or less a similar weather pattern into tomorrow many of the same areas will see that type of air quality again. The inner bay may begin to see more smoke as the seabreeze backs off a little bit. That is what happens when your temperatures start to warm up we will begin i think to see some areas of smoke trying to fill back in. Morning temperatures in the 50s and across the central bay. Highs tomorro wper 80s to low 9. Here is where the smoke can make for an interesting part of the forecast if there is just too much of it outside. We saw this in 2008. It can actually keep the temperatures down below what the forecast is currently showing. Well be watching that, too. Also from a temperature standpoint. It may actually keep some of the afternoon temperatures a lit lower than youre seeing here. Numbers in the 80s bay side. 70s coast side on the peninsula. San francisco in the low 70s. For the north bay numbers in the low to mid 90s. So aside from air quality, aside from temperatures. The next thing we really have to watch is what happens if tropical moisture stream pg away from Tropical Storm genevieve which at this hour sustained winds at 50 by this time tropim it is for us as forecasters is it has the potential to unleash another surge of mid level moisture. Mid level moisture increases. A lot of instability in the mid levels of the atmosphere. The showers that form at that level can drop dry lightning but tend not to bring a lot of rain at ground level. This kicked off the this week. That is the prop call clouds midway through the seven day forecast. Over the weekend well see areas of air pollution at times. Slightly warmer temperatures. All eyes on the next plume of tropical moisture coming in early next week. I wish we could fast forward three weeks from now and just get past all of this i wish we could fast forward to 2021 actually. Even better. Thanks. All right. Happening now uber and lyft will be staying in california at least for now. A sudden court decisiof the rid giant. An and lyft, in their favor today when it comes to forcing companies to classify drivers as employees. So the ruling granted the companies more time to negotiate with the state. Were back with more in a moment