Its a little hazy out there and it is all across the bay area. Air quality suffering now for the north bay, the east bay and the south bay with pour conditions in all these areas again you are immediately going to notice that smell smoke as you wake up this morning. Its going to be the first thing thats changed from yesterday as far as what you do notice skies are dry all across the region and we do have relatively calm winds for most areas this is the positive factor here we have wildfires burning in eastern Contra Costa County amid what is generally some calmer winds overnight winds picking up today though of course these napa blazes as well very dry conditions up here lower humidity than what we had been seeing winds mostly out of the west and then multiple fires burning closer to the south to including in Santa Cruz County up in the Santa Cruz Mountains so a lot of smoke being put up it is going to be another hot one not sure ideal day to be spending much time outside definitely find a cool place and take it easy, especially if you have respiratory conditions already off to a warm start look at pittsburgh 84 right now 74 in concord fairfield at 76 degrees currently after a warm morning. We are in for another scorcher this afternoon highs in the triple digits for a few inland spots, 80s 90s closer to the bay. James all right john thank you very much, lets get to the fires now california under a state of emergency as wildfires continue to scorch thousands of acres across the state. Here in the bay area several wildfires have forced thousands of families to evacuate from their homes and into sweltering heat amid this pandemic these on the screen are just some of the major fires burning right now they are fires that are burning in napa contra costa, san mateo and marine counties in the north bay. Lets start there with the l a new lightning complex which is a sort of a conglomeration of a number of fires, 7 large fires as matter of fact burning across napa and sonoma counties they include fires like the hennessy fire. The gamble fire a couple with some strange names, the 1510 fire, spanish fire markley fire the 13 for fire and the 1116 fires again all of them combining to become whats called the l a new complex. So far a total of over 32,000 acres has burned with 0 containment the hennessy fire is the biggest among all of them that one burning in napa county its exploded in size to 10,000 acres. That was calculated just yesterday and already 3 structures have burned to the ground Officials Say the underbrush in the area is whats making it very difficult to fight the flames for over 80 years, so theres a lot of extensive growth hasnt had a fire. So thats why its basically just you know burning uncontrollable right now. Theres just so much a dead pine trees and underbrush its rural areas really steep terrain. Getting crews in there on the ground has been difficult and thats due to the steep terrain and the locations of the fire. Cal fire says about 600 firefighters are currently battling those flames again the fire still just 0 percent contained and some breaking news to report about the l a new complex fire. Its now forcing evacuations in vacaville evacuations have been ordered for everybody on Pleasant Valley road and all connecting roads. We have crews on the way there again to the l a new complex fire were going to bring you more details on that in live reports as they become available so stay tuned for that. Meanwhile firefighters are also working to contain whats being called the 4, 6, fire. That was in Marin County Fire Department there tweeting this chopper video of the smoke as you can see billowing up from the hills. This is near the Point Reyes National seashore right theyre adjacent to the woodwork trail. Firefighters say no structures are threatened at this point no evacuation orders needed for now, but that may change she want to keep it tuned here. This fire has burned 15 acres so far and its still growing. Evacuation orders are in place throughout the bay area because these fires we listed some of the counties but where those orders have been issued you can find a full list of the evacuation zones and Emergency Centers on our website at kron 4 dot com. Flames are also forcing people to evacuate their homes in san mateo and santa cruz counties as well. This comes as the seas eu lightning complex fires burn in the mountains and at this point is still 0 contained like in the north bay, this is a combination of a number of fires at the group together this large complex of fires has burned over 7500 acres. The fire started sunday morning due to lightning strikes in the area which we all saw to First Responders were told have been hurt as some 1200 structures are threatened. There are several evacuations in place in San Mateo County communities. We spoke with one woman who lives in lamar and she tells us the whole experience has been surreal. You couldnt see it from my house as a thing. A gorgeous sunny day and then the fun happening doesnt get on a ridge and its on the other side of the ridge, so it had to come over the ridge go downhill as part of a move that quickly downhill. And then theres of all toll road which is a fire road and a creek before we jump on the right Properties Sell that gives me like a little bit of confidence that its just looks like its getting big really fast amazing to see how powerful nature isnt just to be reminded that like more 9 control. Firefighters say trees are breaking and falling over in rolling down the hill. Theyre hoping to make a perimeter that will save homes and property in the lamar and pescara creek areas. But again theyre working awfully hard right now to make that happen from here, lets jump over to the east bay fires there to tell you about as well in fact 4 separate fires making up whats called the deer zone fires. This is spreading in east Contra Costa County on the east side of mount diablo the complex of fires is at 0 containment at look at the flames there on the ridge. Lightning sparked these fires again from that Lightning Storm sunday morning, mandatory evacuations remain in effect for about a 150 homes in the northeast side of mount diablo firefighters are struggling right now with the hot temperatures weve been seeing the very tough terrain and a fire they say that is spreading at a dangerous rate. I can take and not a lot of information right around we still have limited information on what is actually happening in going on just covid you know these guys are out there plus and women busting their butts for their families and keeping everyone safe and keeping all animal safe than other property safe and i have so much respect for First Responders. Cal fire says there are no reported injuries. And luckily, no structures have been damaged yet, but again 0 containment. So firefighters out there struggling to try to get their arms around what you see on your screen. The hills absolutely ablaze and although fires are burning in San Francisco look at the impacts that all these fires are having this was video from ocean beach in the city where the air is hazy from all of the smoke from the wildfires that are burning. Again this is something thats going to be packing everybody even in counties that dont currently see fires burning right now weve also received a photo from San Francisco sunset district where here look you can see the heavy smoke in the sky, creating beautiful sunset shots but making it awfully hard to breathe which is already difficult enough as were all Wearing Masks and heres video from santa rosa re can see the smoky skies bringing ash to a lot of communities. Both a big problem, the smoke and the ash for people with respiratory issues. There are several large fires burning in Sonoma County this morning which has forced evacuations and were going to have the latest coming up in a live report at 5 oclock this morning from that part of the bay area. So stay tuned for that. Meanwhile the California National guard is on standby to respond to emergencies related to wildfires and the extreme heat. Governor Gavin Newsome declared a statewide emergency on tuesday. He also announced he secured to Fire Management assistance grants from fema to help ensure that all resources will be available that are needed to respond to these fires burning in napa and nevada counties because fires are burning there as well. Well nows a good time free to download the kron 4 mobile app thats going to be our best way throughout the day today and the week ahead to send out emergency information to you any time of day the latest with the fires updates on the Weather Forecast the Power Outages lot of ripple effects on our daily lives from these fires that are burning so download the kron 4 app and well be able to get that information to you again as it comes in to our newsroom. On to other headlines now as we take a look at our National Political map the Democratic National convention is under way virtually of course. Jill biden doctor jill biden was front and center for 2 day 2 of the Convention Last night but she wasnt the only headline are coming out and supporting the democratic nominee nadia romero has more. We roll call for all 57 states and territories officially nominating joe biden is a democrat partys nomination for president. Now he accepted that on twitter but hell have his formal acceptance speech on thursday, the headliner of the night jill biden his wife. Night 2 of the Democratic National convention more big names with the same message there is one person looking out for us all of us in that show by tuesday marking the official roll call vote to formally nominate joe biden is the democratic nominee for our next president of the United States. Thousands of delegates cheering on this year over chores and ill see you on thursday Democratic Leaders urging americans to remember tuesday steam when pressed the family Leadership Matters steady Inclusive Leadership in the spotlight, 17 rising stars in the Democratic Party delivering the keynote address the new generation of leaders is rising up among them former georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams we know Joe Biden America we need joe biden former president bill clinton warning against 4 more years under President Donald Trump at a time like this. The oval office should be a command center. Instead its a storm center. Theres only chaos and the woman democrats hope will be the next first lady doctor jill biden making the case for her husband as commanderinchief he does it for you. Shows purpose has always driven him forward. His strength of will is unstoppable. And his faith is up next on wednesday bidens running mate kamala harris. President obama will deliver his address on wednesday night expecting to tell voters that democracy is on the line they have to head to the polls to save this country and that means a vote for his former running mate joe biden. But tonight will go to kamala harris. The senator will formally addressed the nation after she accepts the nomination for the partys vice presidency. From the white house, im nadia romero. And dont forget you can watch the convention all this week on our streaming app kron on our coverage begins each night at 6 oclock. So just download the kron on app and visit our website at kron 4 dot com and dont forget kron 4 is your local election Headquarters Well be giving you updates for this and the republican National Convention as they happen. A quick break coming up next on the kron 00 04am morning news. Were going to be getting a better picture as to what triggered rolling outages over the weekend were going to get that today. Well have the latest on governor newsoms call for an investigation. Plus thousands of students in the east bay are waiting right now to get their laptops for Distance Learning how the School District is working to address the shortage. And after the break the u. S. Postal service is backtracking tell you why the postmaster is causing changes that have so far slow down service ahead of election day. All right we are back time now is for 15 want to bring you some breaking news this morning, not only we deal with wildfires here but it looks like in texas theyve got a giant industrial fire burning right now. This is in Grand Prairie a huge flames and smoke pouring up from an industrial fire. This is a poly america, they manufacture a lot of plastics also burning right near the Lockheed Martin plant where theres a lot of combustible material there as well. The Grand Prairie assistant fire chief had a press conference not too long ago talking about how was apparently power lines that fell on to the property. Theyre poly america and began burning some of the roald Plastic Products that they store their and apparently it spread to all of the inventory there so that a lot of toxic smoke. Coming up as plastics are burning right now at this plant, theres a longer yard on one side of it and a number of train tracks on the other and apparently just sunrise where were looking at the live pictures now apparently im reading that there is. Rail car that apparently exploded and other cars on the track that are put in potential danger of exploding as well so this is a major story happening in texas right now massive industrial fire. And what appears to be a lot of toxic black smoke coming up so well keep you updated on this as well as thats also making some National Headlines this morning. Lets bring it back here in the studio obviously more pressing to you on a daytoday basis will be the weather and the fires that are burning here john trouble talking more about the hot Weather Forecast and the winds and Everything Else related. To the fires will give you an update on the on the actual fires themselves in a bit but first the weather john had indefinitely in from the heat the dry conditions and then the lightning up being really felt out there today. This was last night your view over San Francisco on look at what you can see out there on the horizon thats that smoke plume rising from the complex burning in northern ap a county weve seen multiple of the smoke plumes rising overnight last night and now settling down into the bay today because we have a ridge of High Pressure built up its going to result in sinking air pushing that error right into the bay and then we also have winds that are all that breezy so its going to be fairly still so these hazy conditions going to be noted throughout the afternoon not the windiest of conditions some sinking air hot hazy conditions definitely not your ideal. The spent day to spend much time outside one of our hottest days remaining in this forecast. We have poor air quality for most areas find yourself a cool spot use that is the perfect excuse to not do too much today just take it as easy as possible. Futurecast shows you that we remain dry in the days ahead of us couple of clouds out there at times up in the north bay really no chance of rain in this forecast. We do have the return of a deepening marine layer come thursday now this is going to be welcome news, especially closer to the coast. As its going up humidity keep things a little bit cooler, mostly just for coastal areas though are inland areas despite not being quite as hot are still going to be on the warm and dry side of things. Heat advisories just for one more day these are excessive heat warnings pretty similar locations as to where we have been seeing them in effect through the evening tonight and when you look at daytime highs today, its pretty easy to understand why 60s 70s for your highs in San Francisco, as well as elsewhere right along the coastline. Notice, those numbers are cooler than they have been 70s and 80s from brisbane to melbourne ling game, not a big difference theyre also not a huge difference just yet in redwood city saying carlos or Mountain View high still in the low 90s. San jose a few degrees cooler than yesterday from 99 to 94 today while also falling out of the triple digits in the tri valley livermore and pleasanton from over a 100 degrees yesterday to 98 today working our way in the right direction danville walnut creek in concord still at or above the century mark. Well oakland at 83 today, north bay temperatures a little cooler than they have been still a future pull digits to note in pittsburgh. Antioch in youngsville napa youll be at 98 today while petaluma and nevado in the low 90s. Tomorrows temperatures fall further into the 90s with way if you are a triple digits on the map than what we have been seeing friday saturday sunday were going to keep those mid 90s going so no major heat wave ahead of us sure temperatures remain hot conditions remain dry fire danger will remain high. But we are looking at least improved conditions from where we happen. James all right john thank you lets get back to the news now here for 19 and after getting some pretty swift and Harsh Criticism from all across the country. The newlyappointed postmaster general says hes now. Holding off on some of the major changes that he was putting in place or to post office until after the november elections. Louis dejoy now says the retail hours at the post office will not change they were going to be shortened Mail Processing equipment and blue collection boxes will remain where they are they were going to be reduced and no Mail Processing facilities will be closed like his original plan called for the postmaster general who is a big trump donor has been heavily criticized for approving budget cuts that would have crippled the post office ahead of the election. The house is a house of representatives is set to return on saturday to vote on legislation related to the Postal Service. The joy also set to testify before a Senate Committee on friday and the House Oversight committee. Next week. Lawmakers from the bay area are lashing out about the controversy surrounding the Postal Service and its new postmaster House Speaker nancy pelosi spoke in San Francisco yesterday and kron fours Theresa Stasi reports on her calls now to save the Postal Service. With the slogan dont mess with the usps House Speaker nancy pelosi in San Francisco on fighting for the United StatesPostal Service and its vital role it plays for residents. And by the way. And the cost of last week the Postal Service having cut overtime and late deliveries due to a financial shortfall began warning states that it cant guarantee all mail ballots will be received in time to be counted. The president planting the seed of doubt for weeks saying that the post office couldnt be depended on. Also the president admitting that he was withholding funding. It needs making it harder to process the expected surge of ballots during this pandemic now postmaster louis dejoy walking back some of the changes including removing mailboxes and equipment representative anna eshoo had this to say not going to allow a Democratic Institution to be taken down. It is a threat to democracy and its also trying to hijack an election and adding to all that u. S. Representative barbara lee. Held a town hall meeting to address her concerns about what is happening involving United StatesPostal Service. And i want to thank all of year with this from my district because 581 people responded to say that they have experienced mail delays recently and so this truly is an emergency Speaker Pelosi has pushed to cop the summer recess, short return to washington and hold a special vote to boy the u. S. P s terry says stasio kron 4 news. Coming up next on the kron 00 04am morning news as coronavirus cases start to slowly decline. Theres renewed hope for a vaccine for more on that coming up after the break. Were back for 25 is the time after months of grim news new data shows coronavirus its grip on the u. S. Actually may be loosening whitney wild bringing us the latest from washington. After months of grim projections, a glimmer of hope data shows fewer americans are testing positive for coronavirus as of monday. The u. S. Recorded an average of 49,100 new cases per day down from 65,000 per day in july, however, the heartbreak continues across the country as deaths still hover around a 1000 per day my dad represents literally 10s of thousands of people whose lives have been prematurely cut short. Because of the way that weve handled the coronavirus enthusiasm is growing for a rapid test using saliva that creators say it delivers results in 3 hours. The product could be available in a matter of weeks. Although the u. S. Surgeon general warns testing wont eradicate the risk we need to lean on prevention. And thats making sure it was wearing a mask washing their hands and washington since from others as researchers race toward a vaccine experts worry about Racial Disparities in the research according to the covid19 Prevention Network people who are black or latino compose only roughly 10 of the entire testing pool in clinical trials. Despite contracting and dying from the virus at higher rates than other demographics. Its a major trust factor. And theyre going to have to reach out and theyre going to have to have trusted messengers in washington, im whitney wild reporting. Time now is for 27 well be right back with the very latest on the large number of wildfires burning across california and here in the all right were back at 4. 30 and if youre just joining us at the half hour. Obviously its going to be another hot day today weve been talking about that this week so far fires continue to grow so youre going to wake up to smoky or conditions you owe less certainly detect that the many step out the door lets get to the Weather Center start there before we get the updates on the actual fires and johns talking more about the weather is there a guess we can take some solace in the fact the temperatures are coming down slightly today john is that story have thats