Firefighters battled flames that pattern. Were waiting to see what firefighters trying to get a lit up a tree next to homes happens next with respect to the handle on them. The series of fires that is situation but were also starting to lay all our plans stretching across san mateo and Santa Cruz County has reached evacuation on the west side. Reporter as evacuations 57,000 acres. Continue and more areas are put containment at 2 . On standby just in case, county 97 structures have been destroyed. 77,000 people under mandatory authorities are asking tourists evacuation orders. To turn around and come back he terrorized women in the later. Please, if you dont live here, dont come here to bay area and across california for years. Recreate. Tonight the man known as the wed love to see you on a different day, just not now. Golden state killer will spend the rest of his life in prison. Reporter and there is a little more progress. A judge sentenced joseph there are more firefighters that are coming here from other parts deangelo to the harshest penalty of the state, and even from possible, 11 consecutive life other states. Sentences with no chance for fire commanders are going to be having an Early Morning briefing parole. Deangelo admitted to killing at tomorrow here at 6 00. Least 13 people and raping at reporting live in scotts vaioey least 50 women in the 70s and 80s. Deangelo today removed his mask, news. Now, some residents are briefly addressing his reluctant to leave evacuated victims the family of his areas, and one reason for that is the threat of looters. Victims directly, saying he was tonight proof that some of their truly sorry for everyone he fears are justified. Hurt. Santa cruz county sheriffs jennifer cowell, one of his many deputies say these five people victims, and some family members have been arrested for trying to witnesses the sentencing. Break into evacuated homes near i think he got exactly what fall creek drive in felton. He deserved with one exception they were in two cars. One didnt stop for deputies and which is that he needs to be in general population because he crashed into a ditch. Needs to see himself in the the five are being charged with image of the people around him. Looting. Well, with so many people, deangelo eluded authorities so many fires, some people are for four decades, finally taking rescuing their homes into arrested in 2018 thanks to a new their own hands to save form of dna tracking. Property, to save their houses. As firefighters are on the this is brian garahan, working front lines working around the clock to put out the flames, tirelessly tonight to try to Governor Newsom says save his own home in his reinforcements are on the way to help crews. He explained there are more than Longtime Community of boulder creek. He says he has spent the last 14 500 fires from thousands of lightning strikes. Hours building a 400 yard fire they now cover an area about the break around two homes on park size of rhode island, but they avenue. Are offering support. When askedecause i want to sa we now are engaged formally with mutual aid from ten different states. Weve been on the phone with neighborhood. You know, its short work, and governors a states. Just a little path like this can save one home, two homes. I tried to reach out as far as thats enough for me. The east coast to see if we can he says he has lived in this get resources here into the community his whole life. State of california. Now, to give you an example of heres a fascinating fact. How many people are impacted by the fires tonight, check out currently 96 of cal fire these new numbers we just got engines are in use. From cal fire. The czu fire has reached 57,000 newsom also said the state is working on an agreement with the u. S. Forest service for acres and containment is just at additional forest management. We told you allcos down to. 2 . 97 structures have been destroyed. More than 24,000 are threatened, not enough equipment. To give you a perspective, we and 77,000 people have under talked to a cal fire official today at the czu fire. Mandatory evacuation orders. He told us there are 1,000 fire now, the scu complex fire, personnel working that fire. Thats burning in five counties that actually would be the adequate number for a fire including santa clara, contra measuring 5,000 acres. The czu fire is ten times that, costa, and Alameda County. So far, only fiv 20,000 50,000 acres. Were told that normally would are threatened, and several require Something Like 8,000 to acres are und bay, 9,000 more firefighters to the collection muof fires there combat it. Now, even if your home isnt threatened by fire, the air we the lnu complex, four people all breathe certainly is. Have died. Air quality remains at unhealthy more than 300,000 acres burned, levels, and its not just for people, for their pets as well. 480 homes destroyed, and another 30,000 threatened. Bay area veterinarian. Containment is up to 15 . Good evening. The smoky air is bad for the 43,000 people have been evacuated. The wall bridge fire burning lungs of people and animals. In Sonoma County is part of that that goes for all our pets but lnu complex fire jess just told especially certain dog breeds. You about. Today we talked with dr. Crystal its getting a lot of attention from crews as it burns towards heath. She says dogs would short snouts like pugs and english bulldogs healdsburg and guerneville. Are especially vulnerable to firefighters are hoping to strop breefthing problems and its trail of destruction. Heatstroke. She says its important to keep nbc bay areas jean elle is in pets indoors with windows closed guerneville with the latest on as much as possible right now, the firefight. Even if you dont have jean . Reporter garvin, tonight cal airconditioning. Getting a fan on them, fire says the humidity is helping to firefighters keeping them moist with a fan blowing is a great way much needed time keeping the windows closed, even progress. This fire has already destroyed with the windows closed and everything, the soot, the air homes and threatens many more. In the rucked hills north of quality is so bad, and it comes into your house. Probably a good idea to avoid guerneville, the fire continues too much of long walks out there right now. Side note, its also a good to burn. Idea to make sure your emergency they go bag includes a few days we saw when they dropped the retard ants, and i go up my hill worth of pet food and a couple of favorite toys. As well. Have a good night. Reporter mara has evacuated some good advice. So no weekend trip to the her home, but shes keeping a close eye on the fires southern beach. San mateo county has shut down progress, watching crews drop its beaches and is asking water from the air and fight the visitors to stay away. Flames on the ground. The beaches were also closed flames on the east side of the fire burned through part of because of the coronavirus over the july 4th weekend, but this Wallace Creek road yesterday. Time county leaders want to head a home firefighters worked to een moved out. Oblems especially protect is destroyed. Several homes are now rubble while others on the same block are untouched. Parts of highway 1 are closed, fire crews are still putting out hot spots and tree crews are so the last thing the county making sure conditions are safe. Needs is for ambulances and fire trucks to be impeded by beach traffic. Lets bring in rob mayeda. Fire has burned through many rob, areas of concern for this weekend, one, the heat. Evacuation zones, but theyre two, the air quality. Still dangerous. And then of course thats a this tree crew chopped down that potential for lightning strikes to be coming inunday oral the t smoldering tree before it fell down. Crews are staging along mill creek and west side road preparing to stop flames if they those things. Advance. And air quality at least at this cal fire says fire is spreading hour, weve seen it improve just slower today than yesterday. A little bit. Back in rio nito, this woman we had that late evening breeze which picked up, actually helped says shes prepared to load up her pets and leave if flames get to clear the skies a little bit around San Francisco. Well show you the latest aqi too close. So this is my car and my index numbers. Husband as the this is as good as it gets. But its still spare the air houseboat. We got it stacked. Bad. We saw levels technically three reporter shes just one of times as high as the standard thousands of people impacted by the wall bridge fire. That would normally trigger a it is just a small part of the spare the air day. That was in santa cruz and larger lnu lightning complex. Around the trivalley. Tomorrow straight on through the cal fire says it has burned weekend, it is a spare the air weekend. We will see this air pollution 219,000 acres in four counties, and its still burning out of likely settling in, draining down from some of the Higher Elevations down into the valleys for the morning. Control. Firefighters from all over the plan on more of that smoke region are out working on the filling in again for saturday. You can see the worst will be fire lines tonight, and cal fire says more resources are on the the inland east bay and santa clara valley. Way. Reporting live in guerneville, slight cooldown in temperatures, you did hear on some of the jean elle, nbc bay area news. Press briefings that they made we are going to need them. Some headway on the fires. The bay area still has some of a large part of that is due to the least healthy air on the planet this evening. The fact temperatures have come its causing problems with down. 71 degrees on the czu complex on peoples health. Local doctors say theyve seen a the oceanfacing size of the rise in patients complaining of santa cruz mountains, humidity has come up a little bit, so respiratory issues. They say if you do have to go thats helping out. Outside, see if you have one of off to the east of san jose, the those n95 masks. Scu lightning complex extending theyre better at blocking down and away from mount hamilton, 66 degrees just two at the scu complex fire as it nights ago at this hour we were seeing mid80s up there. Also the humidity is up to 59 , continues to move through parts of the south bay. Some communities breathe easier so thats an improvement. A little more difficult though while others are starting to get up on the lnu fire. This is up in the north bay. Nervous. And resources, well, theyre an you see numbers still in the 80s issue there as well. But the humidity numbers there too have come up. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd is one thing that our radar isnt live in san jose with that part of our coverage. Picking up on are those bright white plumes of ash. Again, when we switch our storm reporter garvin, there is some good news to report. Ranger and our regional radars evacuation orders and warnings over to wildfire mode, what have been lifted in the city of were scanning instead of rain san jose, but thats not the drops are bits of ash and leaves case in all cities in santa tossed up by the column plumes. Clara county. Were not seeing any column places like morgan hill are plumes at night. Thats a good sign. Still under an evacuation that means fire activity for now is relatively tame. Warning. Its still at a warning. But stay tuned. As we go through the weekend, we are highly recommending that outer fridge of high clouds people evacuate now because there is only one way in and one approaching from the south. Mid level moisture sweeping up way out. Now, starting to approach Reporter Police officers southern california. Making sure people who live in as we learned this week, morgan hills jackson oaks increasing mid level moisture neighborhood are taking the increases instability and can be warning seriously. If everybody waits to the a trigger for dry lightning. Last minute, it could get very notice all of our fire zones are backed up back here. Included in this fire weather im just trying my best to get what i can out. Watch from 11 00 a. M. Sunday to 11 00 a. M. Tuesday. Important stuff. That is the most c reporter grace, who is just coming home from work, says shes getting her documents for the second half of the ready for packing. Weekend. With the morning, a combination pictures, Social Security of smoke and fog on the coast. Cards, birth certificates, you highs tomorrow, mid90s inland. Know, legal documents, just stuff like that. Along the fire lines, reporter the lightning temperatures into the 90s. Complex fire is making its way the tropical component now of over the San Jose Hills on our weather starts to develop as we get into sunday. Thursday. Yesterday the fire made a notice how the remnant low this little bit of a push to the south, more of a push to the time around is actually going to east. Reporter as it moves approach the coast. Deliberately through the san before we had moisture thrown at jose foothills, a different set us from a storm that stayed far of along away. The center of low pressure will get closer during the day sunday the coyote creek, taking and monday. Thats probably the best precious resources away from the opportunity. Those bands of green, thats the dangerous and deadly complex mid level moisture were talking fire. Fires that should be having about. That is the fuel for potential well over 1,000 firefighters on dry lightning or isolated them are trying to get along thunderstorms that may move through quickly. With 500 firefighters until even if they do have rains resources get here from other areas of the state and from out fastmoving storms dont put out of the state. We know weve got help coming, spot fires from lightning strikes. But we dont know when its her. That is the window well be watching. Mid morning sunday probably through Tuesday Morning will be the highest risk. Taying warm resources are stretched so thin throughout. It will feel more muggy by the that when fires break out like this one in san jose, not time we wrap up the weekend. Related to the complex fire, it the hope is we see from sunday morning to Tuesday Morning we will take a while, and it will get a little more rain out of be a challenge to get crews here this particular setup and we to put them out. Avoid the hundreds and thousands reporting live in san jose, im of lightning strikes we had just earlier this week from a similar cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. Pattern. Its going to be a long rain good, lightning bad, couple of days. Thank you, cheryl. Now, you can find the latest on yeah. Thank you very much. Ahead, businesses on the the evacuations. Were posting them as they come brink of shutting down for good. In and as they change as well. Now some of those owners in san head to nbc bay francisco are asking for one thing to help them stay afloat area evacuations. Still ahead, as the flames rage on, resources, well, they during the pandemic. And happening now, actress are stretched thin. Lori loughlin sentenced to two the reason why, there just months in prison in the College Admissions scandal. Arent enough firefighters to her husband, Fashion Designer contain the flames. Plus Mossimo Giannulli was sentenced and i am really sorry to to five months for his role. The couple admitted to paying half a Million Dollars in bribes to get their two daughters into everyone ive hurt. The university of southern he eluded Law Enforcement for california. We will be right back. Decades. Tonight the man who terrorized parts of the bay area and beyond finally sentenced. What prosecutors are saying about the golden state killer. Wildfires burn across the and were on a microclimate bay area threatening tens of thousands of homes. Weather alert, tracking were watching the fire lines all weekend long. Unhealthy air quality through well have updates that you need the weekend and the return risk of dry lightning. Well talk more about the fire to know. Weather watches up around the plus complete coverage along bay area when we come right with carys forecast. Back. Make sure you join us monday morning, 4 30 to 7 00. When thet a little surprise. Two . They didnt panic. They got a bigger car for their soontobebigger family. After shopping around for insurance, they called usaa who helped find the right coverage for them and even some muchneeded savings. That was the easy part. Usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it easy. Okay. Listen to this one. Certain Outdoor Activities will be allowed to open next week in Alameda County. Outdoor pools, outpersonal Care Services like hair and nail salons. Carbased gatherings with Live Entertainment and outdoor wine tastings. That begins friday at 8 00 a. M. Lots of nonessential businesses in San Francisco say they are on the brink of closing after learning the city will remain on the states watch list after all. Hairstylists and pub owners alike are begging the state for answers and some sort of guidance about the future. Some simple timeline of when they could having an impact like this pub. Theyre fortunate to have outdoor seating but had to close early this week because of all the smoke. Its just that unknown. It would make it easier if we had some idea of when were able to go back inside. Just limited, safe, distanced inside. Napa county did manage to come off the watch list this week, but most bay area counties remain, meaning strict guidelines are still in play. The bay area added 1,185 confirmed cases of covid19 today. The numbers could be skewed because of continued problems at the state lab. Contra costa county has had the most new cases with 316 followed by Alameda County with 285. Santa clara county added 243 cases. Both San Francisco and san mateo counties added just under 100 new cases. A field trip for the raiders. The Team Checking out their their reaction next in sports. vo i have the best job in the world. Dmrs conchitas. Give the little kids cookies. And celebrate birthdays with all our neighbors. Hopefully, well be part of this community for many, many more years. Okay. We have a happy update to share with you tonight. Be that huge bear hit in the head with the foul ball last night. Teddys doing just well. So good. I was really worried. Look at him. Hes got a bandaid. There he is sitting in the standing at tonights as game. A head bandage but otherwise were told hes doing okay. As for the game, Stephen Piscotty led the team with a three rbi on the night as the as beat the angels 53. Across the bay the giants looking to extend their current win streak to four games. Evan lon gorio got them up on the board first with a tworun homer. The diamondbacks would tie it up but Wilmer Flores put the giants up for good with this tworun shot of his own. Flores has now homered in three straight games. The giants win 62. One month from today, the raiders will play their first game at allegiant stadium in las vegas. This afternoon the team took a little break from training camp. They hopped on buses from their practice facility to check out their brandnew, billion dollar state of the art stadium together for the first time. Many of the players pulled out their phone pictures of the moment. We will be back in a moment. Boo for them going. Hi. Were glad you came in. Whats on your mind . Can you help keep these guys protected online . Easy. Connect to the xfi gateway. What about wireless data options for the family . You can customize and save. What about internet speeds that can keep up with my gaming . Lets hook you up with the Fastest Internet from xfinity. And now with our stores reopening, were putting Healthy Practices in place. Come visit a store today. Stop in or book an appointment online at a time that works for you. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Ask. Shop. Discover at your local xfinity store today. An army family who is always at the ready. So when they got a little surprise. Two . They didnt panic. They got a bigger car for their soontobebigger family. After shopping around for insurance, they called usaa who helped find the right coverage for them and even some muchneeded savings. That was the easy part. Usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it easy. We want to give you a final look at the fires burning across the bay area. The czu fire burning along the coast and the santa 57,000 acres. Firefighters working around the own. Neighborhoods. Heading to the right on your screen, theres the scu complex, in alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties as well as the central valley. It has burned 275,000 acres. The lnu fire, thats in the north bay, burning in a few places. Four people have died in the fire. That one, the biggest of them all, surpassed 300,000 acres. It is going to be a very difficult weekend, potentially dangerous for a lot of people, so be careful. Heed those evacuation warnings, and if youre outside, wear that mask. Everybody be careful out there. Our next newscast is today in the bay tomorrow at 7 00