Is 22 contained. Thats a very large size. Sadly at least five people have died in that fire. More than 5,000 homes have been cal fire has six Incident Management Teams that are destroyed. The scu lightning complex fire staffed on a rotational basis is one of the largest gro 347,0 yearround. All six cal fire Incident Management Teams have been and is 10 contained deployed statewide. It spans seven counties in addition to that our federal partners also have incident including contra costa county, ala media, santa clara, san management teams that have been deployed throughout california. So everyone is working actively joaquin and stanislaus. To put these fires out as and we want to get you caught up on the czu august lightning quickly as we can. Complex fire thats burning in i want to remind everyone its the san mateo, Santa Cruz County border area. August. Fire season lasts many months. And it has scorched 78,000 acres and typically weve had fires in and is 13 contained. October. We have a few more months of fire season. 24,000 structures there are in so im asking everyone as weve the fires path. Already nearly 200 have been asked everyone here today has destroyed. Now a group of the scu fire asked you is to be prepared. Id like all of you even though slowing again overnight. Some of you listening in may not nbc bay areas blivermore. Be in the fire line, i would like all of you to go to so, bob, whats the latest there . Reporter well, within the past couple of hours, air readyforwildfire. Org, have a plan, be prepared, sign up for operations are ruped at this cal your alert Warning Systems for your county for your local fire helibase behind me here. Areas, be ready to evacuate and do so when asked to. Lastly, i just want to close and say thank you, thank you to the first responders, our weve seen type one choppers off cooperators, everyone supporting our firefighters on the front line, and for those of you to do recon. Supporting the communities and those evacuees. Type twos faring firefighters without you, we couldnt be here from hardtoreach places. Where we are today. So thank you. The scu fire group a few thousand acres overnight. Thats slow growth, thats good. Thank you, chief. Its now just over 347,000 at this time id like to bring up our Incident Commander chief kavanaugh. Acres, still 10 containment. Lightning caused one fire last night. And that was kept to a half acre. Back out here live you can see good morning. Thank you for joining us again. How smokey it is. Were looking south valley these news briefings we do and livermore here. Thats because a marine layer. These press conferences are very and you can see theres one of important to get information the helicopters coming back in. But this marine layer is good out. So i appreciate everybody thats joined us this morning to get for firefighters. The updated information. It raises the humidity and slows as ive been doing the last few down the fire. But this is evacuation warning days or the last week, i will give some statistics and numbers and then get into an overall briefing. Extended to the southern right now for the lnu lightning portions of livermore and complex, were sitting at pleasanton. This is not for people who live 350,030 acres as of this morning. The city residents. 22 containment. A number of people including my we have right now down in the wife are concerned. East zone the hennessy fire is sitting at roughly 293,602 acres if you would envision a scenario where it gets into the city of livermore or the city of with 26 containment. Our west zone over in sonoma pleasanton . It might butt up against the county, the walbridge fire is cities. We will put every and all currently 54,600 acres or 68 resources in the path of civilians if Something Like that happens. Acres and 5 contained. Unless we have Something Like a the myers chief as chief waters santa rosa, it doesnt generally burn into towns like that. Because we dont have the talked about, were feeling good woods around us . Yeah. About it. You just dont have fuel. 95 contained. So that is Good Progress and concrete doesnt burn, stucco thats what were calling a win doesnt burn. They all burn slow. We have lots of buffer. Here. As far as the number of resources, were starting to get reporter heres time lapse a lot of resources in which is video from overnight of the fire good. Were sitting with 259 fire burning over mission peak in fremont. This fire, the scu fire is now engines, 12 helicopters, 15 hand the Third Largest in state history. Crews, 36 dozers, and a total of cal fire expects to be 1,857 personnel. With that, its good to see the the worst. Resources coming in. Humidity will go, recon helicopn and the Operational Plan and Organization Im feeling really good about where were standing today moving forward. For landing at this temporary we have good cooperation with base. All the agencies. So, again, weather not expected and the plans are comingsonoma r to be good in a couple of days. Its supposed to be worse. And also cal fire is limited on the number of resources. Fatality fire victim that was normally they have about 4,000 discovered. Our condolences go out to the family and friends of that men and women. Right now theyre just over individual in solano ouchl. 1,300. And thats because the 12,000 that makes a total of five kids lightning strikes from the weekend before that started 500 directly related to this incident that have perished. Fires over 48 hours sending crews throughout the state. Thats two now in solano county. As chief jones was talking about reporting live, bob redell. Work never done there. We had over the last, yesterday well, right now we want to and over the next few days we get to officials holding a news are gearing up for potential of conference about the lnu fire. New lightning, new starts and listen in. Starting on the south end, what that may bring to our the east zone working from highway 80 up to about apples overall incidence when it comes to the weather. As of last night, we were pretty peak, fires looking real good. Fortunate that we did not get hit with new from from atlas peak moving up behind the wind. Pope valley up to the palisades there was a red flag warning over the area for today and that has been lifted. Which are behind the community so thats good news. Continue to keep watching that ofic weather though. Of calistoga. Thats why i ask everybody. As we know, it can be very and were currently at the unpredictable at times. We have the best folks around highest priority of the fire trying to watch that for us and right now which is in the palisades working up towards the predict that weather. Lake county line in that area but things can change rapidly as it moves across the incident. Theres a bunch of dozers, with that yesterday and the day before we did have pretty good engine crews trying to get a line connected which will get smoke inversion that limits some our containment a lot more of flying. Secure. Up to where the fire starts in today this afternoon theres going to be aircraft that are lake county. On the northern side of the going to be flying. Fire, the fire is pushing up we have pretty much nailed in towards lake county. And we still get some fire runs 20 to 30 acres a day or so, but that early afternoon area from around 2 00 to 3 00, the fire we have bulldozers trying to get a handle on that. Behavior, so there hasnt been a working our way south from where lot of active smoke columns that you see because of the the cash creek, weve actually inversion, but youre going to got black line from there thats actually secured all the way see those smoke qualms. From there to the community of we have our aircraft resources winters. And that area is in patrol. From winters south to vacaville that will be engaging heavilys. Damage assessment. In the area along Pleasants Valley road, there is still a Damage Assessment is a huge lot of heavy mopup, a lot of undertaking. We have teams that are out right structure damage. Were right now trying to get now, all over both sides of the that area secured so we can east and the west zone gathering start the repopulation base. And trying to validate correct thank you. Information. One of the things its a process thank you, chief. That we have, and we want to now id like to bring up our law make sure that we give the right information when we get the enforcement spokesman, chief collection done and the data mark essick. Collected. We try to get that as soon as we get these numbers, we will and john crawford. Get it out to the media and out to the counties. Good morning. We want to make sure were my names mark esis. Validating those numbers all together. Im the sheriff of sonoma and once we start breaking those county. And im here with my colleague up per county, we will start from napa county sheriffs office. Giving those numbers per county. We continue to monitor the fire with cal fire resources and our repopulation is taking place. This is a priority. Partnership with cal fire. We continue to be in your we have numerous areas today that will be repopulated through neighborhoods patrolling and protecting neighborhoods that have been evacuated. Napa, solano and sonoma counties we want to remind people that and even over in yolo ason thin evacuation zones are dangerous. We have numerous downed powerlines, trees, and other obstacles and barriers in those public when you go b homes, i a evacuation zones. Additionally, we have fire you just do a safety check of resources in there. Your residence and we have brought in considerable property. Fire resources from cal fire. Make sure everything is good and safe around your property. Theyre doing incredible work. If theres downed debris, trees, but we want those firefighters to be able to do their job effectively. And that is why we ask that you if your property has been burned, just take a check of continue to stay out of evacuation zones so that we can your property. Do that work. People have been through there, but to make sure the roads are over the next few days, cal fire open. I would ask everybody to just check your homes, check your begins their Damage Assessment. Property and make sure its safe we will start to learn the to reenter your home. Extent of the damage in our were doing good like ive been talking about. I think as we move forward, i counties. This often times is a time when think the likes of the plan that we start to feel a sense of loss we have, feeling very confident as a community when we start to about where were moving. Realize the aftereffects of the weathers always a key factor. Fire and the impact thats going to happen to our communities for we have a very large incident on a long time as we try to get a both the east and the west zone. Grip on that and rebuild. Its taken a lot of our resources. And this is an emotional time its taken a lot of time. For many people. Its taken a lot of effort. This is a time when there is one thing again though i keep that sinking feeling really saying is the cooperative effort starts to set in about what the and the cooperative loss is. So we still encourage you to use communication that we have is the only way we get through this those resources out there, you and we mitigate the large incident that we have. Can call 211 for assistance if so far its takes a while to get needed. Going. But so far were happy with the but this is a time we need to come together as a community and communications. Check on our neighbors and check were happy with the cooperation that we have with all the in with each other. So with that i will turn it over agencies. Theres many agencies involved to the next speaker. Here and it takes that cooperation. Please be kind to each other and thank you. Take care of each other, and well talk to you soon. Thank you. Now id like to bring up our okay. Unit chief, chief jones. As weve done each day, id like the i. C. To stay up close here. Were going to turn over just a couple questions as they come up good morning. Over to our team up here. So are there any questions today . You received todays briefing, all right. Well, with that, wed like to the unit, the incident is making Good Progress. Make sure we are getting the predicted weather that we outreach to the entire were expecting overnight did not community. Id like to bring up sergeant produce the lightning that we were expecting. Valencia and officer lopez to this is great news. Unfortunately, that wasnt the help translate for our spanish case for the rest of the state. Listeners. Thank you. And there you have it. That was the update given on the there was lightning, which does spark new fires. Lnu complex fire. I want to tell you that everyone on the line is extremely tired 350,000 acres currently burning. 22 containment happening right but working so incredibly hard. Now. Of course, they said they want i had an opportunity to see some people to just be mindful to go folks yesterday out on the line, make sure you get out and go if youre told. And i cant tell you how much joy it gives me to see them and or if you need information or what you need to take in your the smiles on their face because emergency kit, we have a lot of they are really very happy to do that information on our website the work that they are doing. Nbcbayarea. Com as well as on our free nbc bay area app. So, i wanted to share that all its really a great tool to keep up to date of whats going on. Were going to have much more with you. For you during this newscast. Well be right back. What should you bring . Computer harddrives, medications, food for your pet, toiletries to last for at least a few days. Close all the windows and remove curtains. Leave a light on in each room so firefighters can more easily spot your home. Outside, move anything away that you can. Take a ladder and prop it up outside your house and pull your hose where firefighters can see it. You want to make sure your home is the easiest one to protect. Hi, im pat and im 75 years old. We live in the mountains so i like to walk. Im really busy in my life; im always doing something. Im not a person thats going to sit too long. In the morning, i wake up and the first thing i do is go to my art studio. A couple came up and handed me a brochure on prevagen. Ive been taking prevagen for about four years. I feel a little bit brighter and my mind just feels sharper. I would recommend it to anyone. It absolutely works. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Welcome back to you. We want to break down some of the numbers for you. And they really are important for people who have everything on the line here. Now across the state right now, there are more than 14,000 firefighters. And theyre battling those flames. Some of the equipment being used includes 2,400 fire engines, 284 dozers, and 95 aircraft. More help is on the way. Cal fire, they will soon be getting reinforcement in the form of National Guard troops. The california guard tweeting out this picture of cal fire issuing protective gear to 270 guard soldiers. Those troops are undergoing hand crew training. This is at camp roberts on the central coast. The guard also showing off this view from inside the cockpit of a pilots view fighting those flames. Well, just in, the state Supreme Court justices overturned the Death Penalty for scot peterson. Peterson is on death row for the 2002 murder of his wife lacy and their unborn son. His trial was moved to redwood city. His attorney argued that it shouldve been moved even farther away. He also argues that prospective jurors were improperly discharged. Developing news for you, a man in hong kong is now the first confirmed patient to be infected with the coronavirus a second time. Thats according to new research from the university of hong kong. Those findings suggest that some patien patients who will recover from covid19 may have shortlived reinfection. His symptoms subdued but then he tested positive again four months later. This is after returning to hong kong from spain. He remains asymptomatic. Now its time to get a look at that forecast for you because we have been talking about that. Of course the air quality not great right now in the bay area. But we also are looking at lightning strikes. How are we looking with that . Well, the good news is that our chance of seeing any lightning has diminished for the rest of the day. That storm now pushing to the north. But look at whats left behind. Just this horrible air quality. Weve had such bad views of the bay area as we get a look at all of this smoke thats trapped in the fog that we had earlier this morning making the air quality really bad. And you really cant see beyond a couple of miles as we look out over toward clayton right now and then over in dublin. You can barely see anything on this camera as well. Its looking a little bit better in san jose in comparison. But lets get a look at how bad the air quality is and where were seeing the worst numbers. This is a measure of particulate matter in the atmosphere. This is basically the smoke particles that get suspended in the air. We are seeing some of the highest measures of these numbers over toward parts of fairfield where its at 405. Thats really bad. Right there in the area of those wildfires. And were also seeing over toward the east bay some of that smoke drifting over there. Weve also seen some high numbers in san francisco. But then notice for areas like los gatos and san jose and morgan hill, we have some bad air quality if you have breathing problems. But its unhealthy for everybody. Were looking at that storm system that brought that potential of lightning now moving to the north of the bay area. It did cause a lot of lightning strikes over parts of the Central Valley over toward the southern and central sierra. Now that activity has started to calm down. And so as we go into the rest of today, its going to be a fairly calm day. But lets take a look at what happened. This is a measure of how much humidity is in the air. We see some green that indicates some high humidity, that surge of that tropical moisture moving into the midlevels of the atmosphere. And so now we are looking at some drier air where we see the brown shading. Thats going to be what we will see for the rest of today. And thats actually what suppressed our potential of getting some lightn in the bay area. So we had some dry air at the surface, but also a little bit of some dry air that kind of slid in behind that tropical system in parts of the bay area. But we did still get some rain in parts of the north bay. So that was good to see as well. So we are not seeing any more lightning strikes, and our temperatures are still going to be hot today despite the fact that we did see some spotty north bay showers. And so our temperatures today will reach into the upper 90s for parts of the north bay, some mid90s through the east bay and up to about 90 degrees for san jose. And so for our inland areas over the next few days, were still looking at more 90s in the forecast. In fact, it gets a little bit hotter by the end of the week. This is going to keep that smoke in the bay area, and hopefully we get some more containment as we see cooler temperatures near the coast. Were also looking at some morning fog each and every day which means higher humidity and slower fire spread. So thats some good news in the forecast for us, marcus. All right, kari, thank you. We want to switch gears just a little bit for you where we are on the home stretch of our nbc bay area monthlong clear the shelters campaign. And were really working to find those forever homes for pets. The pandemic of course posing a problem for many of those shelters. How to safely place those pets in new homes and then remain closed to the public. Chris chmura here to show us how the north bay shelter is finding homes for cats and kittens. Normally they look at homes. But this year its differe f mof the pandemic. And now likely because of the fires. Prospective pet owners cannot visit. But the shelter did get creative to continue its mission. It leaned on its partnerships with rescue groups and one essential business to keep adoptions going offsite. We are transferring out longterm dogs in here most to other rescue groups and organizations that are able to adopt out. So heres what they did. Offsite adoptions. Dogs via rescue groups. And the cats to a farm supply store. And because that store is an essential business, its doors were allowed to stay open. If youd like to participate, you can join our clear the shelters effort. All the information you need is online right now. Simply head to cleartheshelters. Com. Marcus, over to you. Thats going to great. Nows the time to do it. Coming up for you, President Trump is pushing for a new coronavirus treatment. Well break down what he means and all this means for patients. And our breaking coverage on the wildfires continue. The red flag warning for the bay area over, but were still in danger. A look at what firefighters are dealing with. Fires are raging all sparked by lightning. There is so much haze, smoke, and ash. They had to close this freeway down. This is what firefighters are dealing with. Download our free nbc bay area app. That way you can get all the alerts that we send out. If you might have to evacuate, our new fire resource page can help you prepare. A lot of compassion has to go out to everyone whos in the midst of all these fires. For continuing coverage of all the bay area wildfires, connect with nbc bay area. Try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. Try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. So, everyone stays entertained. So i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . You know, if you turn on your subtitles. Thats almost reading. Get 1 gig internet with at t fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. Welcome back to you. Thanks for joining us for our extended version of our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. The scu lightning complex fire, one of the Largest Group of fires here in california, it spans seven counties including contra costa county, santa clara, and all the way up to stanislaus. But were actually now learning that the growth of that fire has slowed again