The spread of the fires that continue to rage. Temperatures tomorrow still above average for most of us a little cooler in the city but stronger on short breezes. Back up into the mid90s in concord. We will show you all the high temperatures we expect on saturday. Regardless of whatever you have planned on saturday try to limit your time outside. The air quality will be the dominant feature of whatever kind of weather is directly overhead. The smoke near ground level will slow you down. Mears mid 60s on the coast. Mid to in santa clara you are watching kpix5 news at 5 30. Right now, and streaming on valley. Hottest temperatures on the cbs sunday more breaking news from the Santa Cruz Mountains. East side of the diablo range we take our cameras into the upper 90s. Low to mid 90s for most the tri valleys with upper 60s low 60s sorry low 70s around the bay. Decimated Scotts Valley neighborhood. A first look at the damage from there are fires off to our henew nstingdscan north as well but we are focused on the ones that are push flames across the russian happening in the counties of the bay area. Temperatures back in the upper 90s for lake and mendocino river. Counties. And hot temperatures as we head through most of next week. We have added those lightning icons to sunday and monday. The all out effort to slow the walbridge fire. The big wildfire burning in the hills east of san jose have triggered a massive evacuation. Low 70s mid to upper bay. Some residents are questioning the orders. Good evening in terms of the smoke is still going to be with us until the fire crews pure physical size the largest of all the fires burning in the bay area is located in the hills east of san jose. Crews have ordered a massive evacuation north of highway 152 get a handle on things. Maybe we can get the wind to to i five to the santa clara stir things around them you county line and santos county will get another check on current air qucas t e right mas line. As devon reports residents are and also over to the right kind of error filters. Asking why they are being displaced. Reporter cal fires trying to build a a line of defense. There is limited mount manpower right now. To prevent the fire from spreading towards the west and the biggest fire that one of the areas have ever seen and. The destructive north bay threatening homes. Even as they are struggling to convince some residents that it is time to go. Fires killed multiple people including three believed to be at this location. Fire is very erratic. When youre asked to leave theres a reason. Reporter this is where firefighters will make their stand. That story, is coming up. Still ahead at 5 00 finding ways to behind a line of bulldozed dirt of the massive fire that is building in san jose. Your mi come back. Reporter lisa barry evacuated her home wednesday night. A process neighbors described chaotic, confusing, and just plain scary. We had half of our neighbors that stayed at half that have laughed. Neighborhoods miles away from n the actual fire. A strategy designed to prevent the loss of Life Experience during recent wildfires. The citizens are the most important things to us. So we have to change from a firefight to evacuating the residents from their houses. Reporter the fire nearly doubled in size overnight but cal fire has managed to slow it stopanemergency situation with a elderly dad. Reporter cal fire said that they understand some people might be the evacuation orders are too much but as long as people are out of harms way it allows them to have a singular focus on fighting the fire. In the hills above san jose, kpix5. The flames are going across a section of empire grade road. Closer to ben loman our cruise could not find a single home left standing. So far at least 50 homes have been destroyed. A number fire crews say, will likely get into the triple digits. Cal fire says with a shortage of manpower they are focused forced to make some hard choices. Its hard to say what we can and cannot say. All we can say is that we cannot save everything so you do with what you got. We as a triage process just like the medical field. You have to sort. We found all of the buildings did find three horses they are dusty, dirty their eyelashes crusted with ash, but all of them did survive the fire. Eating and Drinking Water. Great. Cal fire tweeting out this view of the flames burning in mateo county. The fire closing in on a lumber yard at the hillside. It will only feel the flames fuel the flames. We learn today a suspect was allegedly under the influence and illegally carrying firearms while trying to enter the close evacuation zone. Santa cruz chp arrested the man last night along highway nine for dui and multiple weapons violations. President trump is weighing in on the lightning fires and he took the opportunity to criticize the state for its force management. You need to call clean your forest there many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they are like so flammable a th times art hard right now. We do want to bring some positive news and ways you can ive been telling this them this for three years but they do want to listen. Relax and kick back this the president has criticized weekend. Liam has some of fun art and film on top. The golden state, despite the we will kick off with some rapping teachers as the wee comments governor gavin newsom ones return to school check did say that they have a good out. Working relationship with the government. The federal government is providing a to fight the fires. [ music ] he has quickly responded in thats one way to wake up teachers from the high School Almost every instance favorably in addressing the needs and Emergency Needs of the states. He may make statements publicly in georgia, wanted to inspire but the working relationship kids returning to school they privately has been a very did so with that final wrap. It has gone viral was now effective one. Hundreds of thousands of views. The kids are now excited about t. Employment rate in th their new school year. Out thats the case in the bay area as well. Coming up a little is mon 20,000 jobs were accepting submissions for the from junes report public art project that celebrating his 17th year for the 2021 series the foundation of 12 . Thats in line with the national average. Welcomes design submissions by unemployment in california was 13 for july down from the nearly 50 in june. Coming up, banned from an airline over a selfie . The ex upandcoming and establish local San Francisco bay navy seal said he killed osama artists. Check out the art there. Bin laden and hes questioning the 2021 heart in San Francisco deltas actions over a mask series will have six large flap. What a trip to the theater might look like in the hearts 10 many heart sculptures renderings of the heart sculptures must be submitted, artists get your pandemic. Coming up new at 6 the raging wildfire work in by monday, august 31. Lightning have turned deadly. Lets talk movies. Here we go. Brittany medcalf was a big the story of one neighborhood in the path of the flames. And the three people who had no time to get out. Im in contra costa county. Flaming mom. And 95 masks or clh maskse al t stage mother starring lucy lu and Adrian Kinnear and others. It follows a church choir mom of smoke and a covid19. Kpix5 at who who adopts drag queens. I know what i am watching tonight it is available on demand and on video. Lot and lots of laughs. You can see the rest of liams list of things to do on kpix. Com. That is it for the news at 5 00. The news at 6 00 begins now. Houses, burning down one by one as wildfires are growing out of control. The biggest challenge firefighters are facing. I will not stand by and watch as place burned. Homeowners taking a stand. The extent that people are going to to try to save their properties. The areas and not impacted by the fires are impacted by smoke. The risks that come with unhealthy air and how to cope with it. Good evening to you. The lightning complex fires are burning in almost every bay area county. Thats reaching a total of 780 mi. B2 in just one week. 500 structures have been destroyed. Our team is at the major fire zones right now. Thats including new fire activity in the Santa Cruz Mountains this afternoon. So far, the flames burned 50,000 acres and destroyed at least 50 structures and counting. Right now 64,000 people have fled their homes. Lets get right to kenny who is in the middle of a evacuation zone going on and ben loman. Reporter that fire activity you are talking about northwest of us. That is where we are hearing that the most intense flames are. We are here in the town of ben loman. Most of the residents have evacuated. According to cal fire officials. Pr frurations wondering where the help is. These firefighters say there are dozens of firefighter fires burning a former navy seal who claims he is the one who killed Osama Bin Laden says, he was banned from Delta Airlines for not wearing a mask. It comes one day after Robert Oneill took this mask less soulfullyaselfie. In the background of the now deleted photo you can see another passenger and that are masks. The former navy seal says the tweet was a joke, and claimed he always wears a mask. He tweeted that he is not the bad guy. Delta confirmed oneill is no longer welcome aboard. Meantime a new york mother and her six children were kicked off a jetblue flight at orlandos airport after her two yearold kept taking off her brooks says she was fine with her children from orlando to newark when she got into an argument with a Flight Attendant about the age of her youngest daughter. Brooke and her kids were told i jetblue to exit the plane along with every other passenger. The airline has a policy that says all travelers two years and older must wear a face covering. I felt targeted by the crewmembers. I really did and bullied. Brooke and the children returned to new york on united. It did not enforce the mask policy for the twoyearolds. The centers for Disease Control and prevention recommends all people two years of age and older wear a mask in public. Prominent theater chains are reopening for business in some parts of the country after being shut down for months. In addition to requiring masks, leaders are limiting their capacity. For example amc is only allowing 30 of seats to be filled. Theaters will be disinfected often. I miss the slushy ease and going there with my family and the seats and watching new things. I miss the food. On a scale from 110 my excitement is on a 10. Customers are being encouraged to buy their popcorn, candy and drinks using their phones. Several states including california and new york have decided to keep all movie theaters close for now. Starting this weekend to blocks of 18th st. And castro will be closed to cars. Thats to encourage shopping and to allow people to walk around safely. The streets between collingwood and hartford will be closed to traffic from 2 pm to 7 pm on sundays to stimulate local businesses being hammered by the shutdowns. The closure comes in the wake of similar shutdown of of three block portion of valencia street. Still ahead this buds for you . Abacavir man turned to the only thing he had, to save his shop from a fire. And we want to bring you the good news happening in the bay area. Go to kpix. Com together. You will find stories of how we are a man was trying to protect his home from the out and you lightning complex fire. He did not have water so he is the only thing he did have. It was beer. Our reporter emily has the story. It was crazy because the propane tanks everyones on them right now and it was a war zone. Booms fires. Reporter the land surrounding chad littles home is charred. I saw the fire coming across the canyon you could see it on the ridgeline that way. Reporter as his family packed up little made up his mind he was not leaving. He was going to stay and protect the family home. That artie lost once five years ago in a attic fire. The rebuild is set to finish this year. Then this happens and i said no i cant let it go. Reporter little has hoses around the property that he was covered. He was not prepared for the water to be turned off. He grabbed a rake and started clearing dry grass. Is putting out fires all the way around here, stopping it from going towards the house. Meanwhile all of the cars were on fire. Then it traveled to here and i was like oh reporter his cars were torched and his shop was burning up quickly. It was burning the wood down though i didnha wate hae barrel with a little bit of water in it and i tried using it did not work. Reporter he grabbed the only liquid he had left which was cans of bud light. When i ripped up the sheet metal it had a nail so i was just shaking it up and spraying it grabbing another one and keep going. My buddies always tease me about Drinking Water beer and i say hey it saved my shop. That was emily reporting. The man says firefighters got to him right after he was able to put out the flames. At his shop. Heres new video of an effort to help feed some evacuees. The Charity World central kitchen is putting together free meals ae nqueear the t tre shopping center. The Organization Says it has also activated two mobile kitchens. World mobile kitchen specializes in responding to natural disasters and talents of local chefs. A lot of people are sharing videos of the devastating fire on social media. Chris miller shared these with us as part of the deadly l and you lightning complex fires. In napa a deputy found a hungry goat left behind after the fire destroyed the owners home. The Sheriff Department tweeted out that the goat was or actually loves the graham crackers. Heres a chilling video of vineyard at 5320 posted this of glowing flames from the scu fires. I thought you were going to say that the goal like the bud light two. We are trying to find bright news wherever we can or Silver Lining but the air quality is going to be bad across the bay area once again. That is a fires continue to burn. Sensitive actually health unhealthy for sensitive groups. Just unhealthy for the solano counties. The smoke modeows all of the welfare spjuof california. This rinds forward to the next 48 hours. There are little brakes every once in a while when the wind shifts or dies down at night but in general the smoke will continue to spread and you can see it spreading off to the Rocky Mountains and even into the great plains and the upper midwest. We talked about that chance of thunderstorms that 5 00. The shows where the moisture is in the atmosphere. The brighter whites indicate more humidity in the air. To the depth of the atmosphere, it has set off in los angeles and headed up to the coast towards us. It came from the hurricane. This is a posttropical system is no longer a hurricane and no longer a tropical storm. There are still 40 mileper hour sustained winds. As it gets pulled apart it gets sent up the pacific coast. Eventually up towards the coast in the bay area we will watch for a chance of showers may be some thunderstorms again, as we head into the second half of the weekend. Not to start the day on sunday. We will start off with dry weather with smoke in the air. The longerrange forecast models indicate potential for scattered thunderstorms to develop by late sunday afternoon. This forecast model overdue the amount of rain. These are likely to be dry storms because the rain will probably event rate on the oran evening into sunday night and early monday morning. E potentia
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