Is burning in a large area of the north bay. Leveling homes and impacting thousands of People Living in Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo counties and the woodward fire that is burning in the Point Reyes National seashore area of marine county. And so far those devastating north bay fires have scorched a combined 215,000 acres and 4 people have died 3 in napa county one in Solano County. 480 structures have been destroyed. These numbers were just updated and they have really jumped 125 other structures have been damaged tonight more than 30,000 structures are still threatened. And right now the entire complex in the north bay is 0 contained. And tonight, were learning all Evacuation Orders have been lifted in vacaville with the exception of south of fort hill drivein west of alamo drive from monte vista avenue to interstate 80 was michelle kingston is in vacaville with what conditions are like. Well theres not much activity here outside the eu lead his community center. This is the only Evacuation Center still open in the city of vacaville but i got to tell you that destruction out by Pleasant Valley road is devastating an American Flag still waving off of Pleasant Valley road despite the fastmoving fire that traveled sell from napa county toward vacaville early wednesday morning forcing evacuations of thousands of homes. The fire jumped interstate 80 clogging traffic for hours today we see the devastation fences burned power poles down. I have been driving up and down these roads in the hills in vacaville and i have to say there is just so much smoke these hillsides are completely charred. Wildlife is devastated. And so many homes and barns have burned to the ground fire Officials Say crews are working to stop the spread putting out hot spots throughout the city. Despite resources being stretched thin in vacaville, michelle kingston kron 4 news. And as you just saw there one of the areas hardest hit by the fires last night it was vacaville but conditions actually are improving and tonight, we know the Evacuation Orders have been lifted for the remainder of the city with the exception. Im just 2 areas joining us now is vacaville fire chief Kris Concepcion thank you for being with us tonight chief obviously things are. Or better this what are conditions like as we speak. Good evening. Yes, youre absolutely conditions are as you weve lifted all of the or most of the evacuations in the city with the exception of a small sliver to the west side. Our city north of 80 south of foothill drive and west. West of alamo. So its affecting probably between 500 and 1000 homes and as a weve shut down most of most of our Evacuation Centers and we only have one open now which is the latters community center. Yesterday when that fire jumped the freeway what went through your mind. First of all thats not something that you see very often during the fire service a fire. Jumping what is it 8 to 10 lanes of freeway. Luckily we we that the weather was going to come up to the winds were going to pick up. So we were prepared for we are able to called for the evacuation very very quickly. So that was good and our move very quickly to remove the threat from the houses because we had a call for some evacuations. But because of firefighters over to the other side of the freeway where was threatening the homes. And they were able to to do some of burnout remove the threat. Chief in marin county said that he hasnt seen a fight like this for resources in his 25 year career. How is your city doing are you getting help from the outside or are you helping different areas of the north bay and the greater Northern California area because this scope of all these fires is remarkable. Absolutely were doing a little bit of so and youre absolutely california has one of the best mutual aid systems in the country if not the world and so currently we actually have crews down in Southern California that are helping with with fires down there. We had some crews up in in reading. Were actually released it to come down and help with the firefight here at and then weve recalled just about every firefighter. And so our or have been workin. Nonstop for the last 3 theyre theyre tired, but their spirits are ive seen and nothing but heroic actions from the firefighters theyve done great work in protecting the city. And im happy to report with their efforts. There there hasnt been a single. A structure thats been damaged in the city of act will. Wonderful before we let you go we need to just revisit this for a moment, the Evacuation Orders have been lifted for the remainder of the city except for a couple of areas and are you telling residents there that you know they can rest easy tonight or is there still a danger at their door. The reason we we didnt lift the evacuations in that small area of the city of act goes. Were expecting some winds. Weve got most of you know that the weather did agree with us today. So our firefighters were able to get out there really solidify the line between the houses and the unburned fuel. So were not too worried, but just out of an abundance of caution. If we wanted we wanted to make sure the weather held tonight. So thats why we uh we didnt lift the evacuations in in that area. The residents that are in that area bear with us we just wanted to make sure that we are absolutely safe before you let you let you back to that is. All right Kris Concepcion fire chief city of vacaville appreciate your time all the best to the men and women of the vacaville fire department. Thank you thank you. I want to give you a map now showing the current evacuations in Solano County the areas in red here mandatory Evacuation Orders that includes Travis Air Force base as you can see here the yellow areas are currently well the evacuation warnings you can see a full list of all the evacuation information on our website kron 4 dot com. And check out this new video of the wall bridge fire shot just hours ago over healdsburg quite a sight there this is part of that same l and you lightning complex fire in the north bay so far it has burned 20,000 acres this one specifically it is 0 contained and that is where we find kron 4 s Taylor Bisacky tonight, taylor. Whats it like there now. Well vicki grand this is my view from killing drive in healdsburg and if you see over this way you can see those huge smoke plums weve seen a black it and some flames earlier this is the view that were seeing in the main concern obviously its for the people that live out there on the rich now. If you follow this road it will eventually need mill creek road. I drove down there i talked to a woman who. Was actually choosing to stay behind like she says a lot of our neighbors have as well. Her husband was actually dozing some lines in there. She says that they have got the horses out though they also had a lot of animals to worry about but she a she and her family have been in healdsburg from. For a long long time is that theyre actually one of the first to build in this area and they say its been such a long time since this area has burned so theyre very concerned, i mean maybe take a look just of the area. Theres so much pressure brush that is able to burn so obviously fuels for this fire. But if we come back out to me i do want to give you a look here again here behind my camera i want to show you what it looks like over the earlier the good thing here that we did see as we mentioned its now burning a 20,000 acres but i do want to we finally start to see some of those drops we saw planes coming in and i will say that. I know it looks bad now, but the smoke actually looks a little bit better from earlier here today and we look out of the view over here. Theres just a bunch of cars lined up in this area, everybody has been watching whats been going on with this fire for the last few hours some people waiting there in the car, but yeah, this is the scene out here on kelly drive people just parked along watching the progress of this fire. You know, of course people in healdsburg they were told wednesday night too leave the area, you know or at least get ready to leave i should say all as i mentioned lot of people chose to stay back, but i want to toss it to the side, a sound bite from one of people that i spoke to who is watching this fire watching its progress for a good time today. Doesnt seem like its slowing down. I mean its nice to see the planes. I dont know if you noticed and buzzing around like honestly finally out getting it from the air which is great and i think theyre more hitting the very north end of it it looks like and this kind of murky stern part. They havent had that much it also plans thats something to stop and see what happens otherwise its up to the grades. Well again were out here in healdsburg and that fires burning off to the west and its moving now south more southwards so lots of concerns for those people out there living and the hills by that ridge, some have chosen to leave others are choosing to stay so well have to monitor the situation. The key grant. Yeah the gentleman you just spoke to talked about having to leave it to the grapes we notice that the vineyards are behind you in previous fires in napa and sonoma we found that the vineyards actually formed a bit of a fire is that the giving us a level of confidence that you can youre in a safe spot. Absolutely video just a bunch of grapes here vineyards here behind me and if you travel long actually further along when you get closer to that hill. There are more vineyard so hopefully that will help out if the fire does prove progress and make it that far you know as weve seen in the past these been years have really helped out and just for a reference you know we obviously this is an area thats been from fires in the past but healdsburg over on the other side to the east we had the kincade fire. So you know this is bringing up bad memories for a lot of people but now this is the other side, the west side. You can see here behind me a lot of fresh russia that didnt burn in last years fire. So we just got to keep monitoring and hopefully everybody is paying attention to those evacuations right stay safe, well check back with you. Were going to take a closer look right now at where the l in you fire complex are caught complex fires are burning again this is a group of. Fires that does stretch across 5 counties and despite the distance as you can see their immune between some of the flames. Cal fire has chosen to designate the different fires has just one incident thats due to a lack of available resources. So thats how theyre treating it. And heres a look at the Evacuation Orders and warnings currently in effect in Sonoma County anybody living in the red area is under a mandatory Evacuation Order yellow area indicates an evacuation warning meaning that you should be ready to go at a moments notice. Sheriffs deputies will be in those areas. The warning areas if the evacuation is upgraded to let people know its time to go. And heres a look now at the evacuation map for napa county, the blue area here is where evacuations are mandatory, yellow is an evacuation warning. The map also shows the evacuation shelter where people can seek refuge, it said Cross Walk Community church. And video now of smoke up in the north bay just hours ago, this is shot with our quad copter 4 in rohnert park our drone you can see a thick sheet of smoke up there in the sky, its ominous is and lets go ahead and check on weather conditions up in the north bay and you know how theyre impacting the wildfires. Meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez. Here with our forecast map theresa Mother Nature helping us are hurting us definitely helping us right now begin grant tracking cooler temperatures right now in napa 72 degrees. Noticing a lot more moisture out there as well, thanks to those cooler temperatures, 61 relative humidity. And wind speeds remaining breezy but in the teens 12 mile per hour sustained winds soaker wind speeds out there right now for most of the bay area a lot calmer than earlier downtown San Francisco did see gusts upwards of about 35 Miles Per Hour just a few hours ago now tracking sustained winds at 23 Miles Per Hour. But with us once again will be an issue mainly for the north bay valleys and also along the coast of the San Francisco peninsula could see gusts upwards of about 30 Miles Per Hour or less, but it is that stronger sea breeze that is going to bring us the return of that marine layer tonight during the overnight hours cooling down temperatures and increasing that moisture content or during the overnight hours we can reach up to 60 of percent relative humidity for most of the north bay cut that in half though by friday afternoon still tracking a fairly warm and dry air mass out there, but it is going to benefit our coastal areas significantly an air quality is improving slightly along the coast as the winds shifting from the westnorthwest but por amounts for those of you in the east bay so youre noticing some pretty poor air quality tonight even through tomorrow as well some improvement for everyone else in the bay area dont forget we have a spare the air alert for the bay area now through sunday, so we still have a few more days to go limit Outdoor Activity as much as you can those of you with any pulmonary or respiratory issues in the coming days back to you grant vicki. Thank you bree says stay with us as our breaking News Coverage continues right here on pro 4 news at 8 oclock after the break well go live to Santa Cruz County where the what theyre calling this easy you complex fires are still burn welcome back to our continuing wildfire coverage another series of fires. Were tracking tonight is this easy you august lightning complex and you can see them out there on your screen showing where those fires are burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Yes so far the seas eu august lightning complex fires have scorched a combined 48,000 acres, 50 structures have gone up in smoke nearly 21,000 are being threatened at this moment, and right now the entire complex is 0 contained earlier tonight cal fire issued new mandatory Evacuation Orders in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Starting in san mateo that includes the Pescadero Beach area thats good arrow creek county park area the being hollow area the pescadero and san gregorio areas. The honda red barn Russian Ridge openspace skyline, the area and the langley hill region. Meanwhile Santa Cruz County these Evacuation Orders were issued about an hour ago, including scotts valley, residents west of highway 17 the Santa Cruz County area east of sadiq canyon west of highway 17 and south of highway 35 along with and this is significant. The you see santa cruz campus. Just hours ago cal fire tweeted out this video here of fires burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains and tonight we know that sees eu complex fires. Well there prompting even more evacuations. Harper scale on live for us in scotts valley, shes got an update on the situation, gayle. They can grant cal fire just wrapped up a press conference around 6 oclock in the main take a ways was of the evacuations you mentioned and the firefighting effort said today they actually had a good day. Aircraft wise where a smoke has been an issue all week long so they were able to put a helicopter fly helicopter in tankers, the drop water and we have video. New video today from cal fire just surveying the damage of this area. This is in north part of Santa Cruz County on highway one going past water creek and then a big creek lumber company. So i just given an off giving you an idea just where what is being impacted here that was a really difficult all week where they had to ground aircraft and so they could not even really survey the damage of as far as damage goes according to a press conference 50 structures have been they confirmed that, but believe there may be more. Theres also reports that up a state park has been destroyed and that would be that was tweeted by Santa Cruz County regarding a b a big basin state park that tweeted about 5 hours ago people saying they are devastated at this is a redwood preserve. The group thats been tweeting that so. Cal fire when not confirmed that information yet as there still, im trying to survey the damage here so this is just the so were getting in from but they expect to be more and as far as evacuations go on. Officials sheriffs deputies are leading those orders and they are just urging the public to take those warnings and here in scott valley at the base camp of cal fire where this area will remain but west of 17 is where the issues are by felt in the conditions today very smoky but good enough to fly aircraft that had to fight the fire. Heres some more from that the press conference on the firefighting effort. There preparations reeva made some advancements are getting some winds put in a suppressing Fire Protection life safety. The number one priority of structures throughout the incident. Where we looking at the weather change increase humidities that we will still have wind factor, well have the marine layer that will push and just a little bit more than they have in the previous few days. Carly the fire activity has been happening overnight due to the high winds. The good news is this particular fire has received a more personnel. There is about roughly 600 personnel on the ground now they say they have about a 1000 and thats Still Limited resources for a fire this big. Live in raleigh gayle ong kron 4 news. All right gail and we want to take a live look outside in downtown San Francisco. And as you can see here given the visibility issues and all the smoke you cannot see much tonight our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez standing by with the forecast and also an update on some of the conditions for the firefighters were preset yeah, lets take a look at Current Conditions for this lightning fire. It is near the coast of monterey, so they are going to get a lot more moisture already tracking that cool sea breeze influence. And the return of some marine layer 68 degrees right now in monterey near that fire is burning relative humidity up to 73 so that is great especially for firefighters getting a lot more moisture out of that area compared. To us here in the north in the bay area was a little bit drier but wind speeds also calm in the single digits. So certainly going to help out firefighters, hopefully they really get the upper hand during the overnight hours because Mother Nature will really favor them with some patchy coastal drizzle and also them rich return of that marine layer with at low and high cloud cover temperatures out there right now cooling down into the 50s 60s along the coast, widespread 70s as we make our way inland 61 degrees for downtown San Francisco, mid 70s, right now for those of you in san jose and livermore and widespread mid 60s throughout the east bay shoreline with berkeley and oakland, currently at 67 degrees and in the low to mid 70s for most of the north bay with not at 72 degrees santa rosa degree warmer at 73 degrees, current wind speeds out there right now light and breezy in the double digits sustained winds around 25 Miles Per Hour less for downtown San Francisco in stormtracker 4 tracking that fog bank off the coast going to make its way inland though during the overnight hours bring us some patchy coastal drizzle as well but better clearing in lifting by friday but were still going to have or your friday afternoon smoke and haze live look outside from the south bay berry as she there as well with overnight lows in the low to mid 60s. Daytime highs cooling down 70s along the coast low 80s for the east bay shoreline midnineties as you make your way inland but cooler weather heading our way and then little change even 7 days from now back to you grant vicki. Thank of reeses still to come tonights state regulators are responding to the investigation into californias Energy Shortage and recent rolling is hey, my twitter is blowing up dear jack box, bring back the spicy chicken strips, still waiting for the spicy chicken strips, so many about spicy chicken strips. Wow, i hear you. So im bringing back my juicy 100 allwhite meat spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99 is it the juicy 100 allwhite meat . Or because you can spice them up or cool them down . Or because a little birdie told me you wanted them back really bad. Get my spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99. Tonight state Energy Regulators are responding to the investigation into californias Energy Shortage in those rolling blackouts storing. The record breaking heat wave. We just had our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains whos taking the blame and. How they say this could be avoided in the future. California Energy Regulators are taking the blame for the states Energy Shortage in a sixpage letter to governor Gavin Newsome leaders of the states Public UtilitiesCommission Energy commission and grid operator vowed to improve their systems after a record heat wave threatened power disruptions for nearly a week leaders explained california is relying too heavily on out of state power imports to meet the high demand for electricity on summer afternoons and nights when the west coast heat wave hit officials explained it hampered its ability to access imports. They said the imported powers unreliable noting its not secured through longterm contracts as power supply dwindled over the weekend the states Largest Electric company pg e said the California Independent system operator gave it 10 minutes notice to shut down power to hundreds of thousands of customers leaders of california iso said it could not have predicted the chain of events but promised to do better in communicating. Energy regulators are now suggesting newsoms administration reexamined state rules on Energy Supply leaders wrote the forecast and planning reserves need to better account for the fact that Climate Change will mean more heat storms and more volatile imports and that are changing electricity system may need larger reserves. Officials say theyre working to bring in an extra 3300 megawatts of power into the States Supply by 2021 Energy Regulators maintain californias commitment to clean energy did not cause the shortage governor Gavin Newsome who ordered the investigation has not yet commented on the reply in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news coming up our breaking News Coverage continues as several wildfires burn across the bay area. Next up well take a look at the growing scu its time for the biggest sale of the year on the sleep number 360 smart bed. Can it help with snoring . Ive never heard snoring. Exactly. No problem. And done save 50 on the sleep number 360 limited Edition Smart bed. Plus, free delivery when you add a base. Ends monday. 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. 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Alameda contra costa, san joaquin and stanislaus counties, heres what cal fire spokesperson, jake miller had to say earlier about the challenge and how long they may be out there. Weve had really smoky and thick smoke. Conditions, the past couple of days, so it has been difficult for for our air assets to get up there and drop some water on the fire and theyre still rapid rate of spread on this fire. So were were set to be here for at least a couple of weeks. 20 to 20,000 structures are threatened which is why evacuations are mandatory for several spots. Take a look at your screen in Santa Clara County. You must leave if you are north of highway one 30 to the county line west of San Antonio Valley road west of minds road to the county line east of 3 springs road and south of county line. North of Mount Hamilton road to 3 springs road. There are a lot in the unincorporated areas thats east of ed levine county park felt a road sierra road. Tell you on avenue in Mount Hamilton road to 3 springs road. North of Mount Hamilton road to 3 springs road and south of the county line as well as west of the fire perimeter. Also east of San Jose City limits south of Mount Hamilton road north of metcalf road and san felipe bay road east to the county line as well as east of San Antonio Valley road to del porto canyon road to the county line. Also south of Stanislaus County between Santa Clara County line and the i 5 west of i 5 north of santas loss and were said county lines in the east of Santa Clara County line evacuation warnings have now been upgraded to mandatory for east of shingle valley road and east of Anderson Lake east of coyote creek and the reservoir and east of route road east of levis lee road east of crews road east of ferguson road east and north of highway one 52 south of metcalf road and shingle valley road and east of sanders last county over in Alameda CountyEvacuation Orders remain in place for all of mines road south of mile marker 10 to the county line and there are warnings for the city of fremont at mill creek road. So if you have a somewhere to actually its senseless county Evacuation Orders are also under way for south of west crawl, hollow road to the county line west of i 5. 82 the Alameda County line east of Alameda County line to i 5. 80 in Stanislaus County so again if you do need a place to go Evacuation Orders have been set up at Creekside Middle School at 5. 35 parable grine drive in paterson n Milpitas Library on north main street im going to be updating guys on the su complex fire specifically throughout the night back to you the keys all right. Thank live to the north bay now more than 1600 structures. Theyre currently threatened in brain county due to the woodward fire that has burned at least 2000 acres in the beautiful point raze National Seashore area there are evacuation warnings in effect tonight for those living west of highway one from sir Francis Drake boulevard in a lima down to bolinas those evacuations are not mandatory. But officials warn that dont things could change if the winds pick up. Theres 0 containment at this hour Officials Say this fire like so many others burning right now was sparked by lightning. And time now to get a look at the weather conditions that are impacting all of the fires as well as the smoke that is coming from the yeah its all about the weather meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez taken away, yeah, lets take a look at current weather conditions right now with the su lightning fire near san jose 73 degrees relative humidity up to 61 wind speeds fortunately tonight for firefighters breezy in the double digits, but in the teens so that is great news right there. We are going to notice though some improvement as far as air quality goes along the coast, thanks to that strong sea breeze but for those of you in the east bay, poor air quality as that smoke and ash moves over towards your neighborhood, lets take a look though at your microclimate friday forecast going to wake up to some marine layer along the coast finally getting a little bit of a break from Mother Nature 72 degrees for downtown San Francisco, widespread mid 60s from daly city to half moon bay. Wind speeds out of the west northwest at 20 Miles Per Hour less mid 70s for those of you in burlingame and also san mateo warming up to 77 degrees foster city in the low 70s with mid 80s for redwood city and Mountain View with widespread 80s for those of you in the south bay santa clara 84 degrees, san jose 87 degrees for your friday afternoon highs in livermore in the mid 90 so still going to be warm inland about 5 degrees above average about 10 degrees above normal for most of the east bay shoreline with widespread low to mid 80s there oakland 81 degrees richmond 83 degrees and for those of you in moraga under in also in the mid 80s but walnut creek in concord 93 degrees for your afternoon highs with widespread low to mid 90s for most of the north bay not been 90 degrees and lay ho 92 degrees and we are going to see your triple digit heat numbers out there so we are going to see widespread 90s fortunately not tracking that heat wave like we saw late last week into this at last weekend but were still going to be warm. No rain in sight and also tracking very dry conditions could actually see some moisture from what is now hurricane genevieve making its way into the bay area on monday increasing temperatures to near triple digits, but could bring us also that threat of possible dry lightning if any pop up thunderstorms do form some going to keep an eye on that from the kron 4 Weather Center in the coming days back to you grant vicki all right every say we are following breaking news tonight is several wildfires are burning all across the bay area coming up next. Well hear from a woman who lost everything after tonight we continue to follow those wildfires devastating the bay area dozens of homes have been destroyed as cal fire struggles to get all the flames under control one reason theyre having so much trouble is because their resources are being stretched so thin. And earlier today we spoke with a woman from santa cruz who found out just today that she lost her home in the seas eu lightning complex fire and she believes that the lack of resources played a role. We were told that it was monkey fred fired off. Cal fire actually pulled out of our neighborhood last night before house burned because they decided it was unsafe and they wanted to volunteer to pull out. There are still people who are not on the volunteer team, but who are neighbors. Much i mean its a Small Community people know each other people care about each other people take the time to help each other during these times and there are people still trying to fight the fires there in pine ridge which is where it lands. Our lives. And theyre not getting the support they need from cal fire if were not going to have enough cal fire firemen. Then we need to have good bond 13. 8 we had a a fire i talk to them are met by or you dont buy or fire station. The volunteers came up to help because our monitors were defending the neighborhood and they defended the fire station. You can still see if you. Well you could see her in a public cant but for years you could see a perfect square all around our fire station because the delta fire team defended the fire station they protected it. Half of an oak tree burned but the half that was close to the station they kept from burning because they were protecting our fire station. Thats what our community do for each other. Stay with us our bay area wildfire coverage continues right here on kron 4 news at 8 after the break were going to live to Santa Cruz County where the seas eu complex fires are prompting even more evacuations tonight, including a breaking News Coverage continues of all those wildfires tonight, the weather is a bit better, but we are still a bay area on edge or worse. As fires burn all over the region the cdu august complex fires are currently burning in Santa Cruz County tonight. We know that you see santa cruz also is issuing a state of emergency and theyre evacuating the campus. Our first gayle ong joins us now live gayle what are you learning about this situation. Begin granted. This was issued about an hour ago the campus tweeting Effective Immediately everyone living on the residential campus in working at order to leave you see santa cruz and be prepared not to come back for 2 weeks. You see Santa Cruz Police officers will plan to go door to door to evacuate those who are still on campus and people will not be allowed to enter the cant the residential campus because of the mandatory evacuation. So why they want to use ak access to the red access to the campus for First Responders and those who are authorized there is an Evacuation Center for students and employees and that was located on at that Coconut Grove at the boardwalk. Address is 400 beach street in santa cruz n just driving around the area you can see why the campus surrounded by a lot of dry brush would that theres a lot of open roads. Now give some First Responders access to get to where they need to go. A lot of but yeah very surrounded by a lot of ranch like buildings in that area and as far as the seas august lightning complex fires up at last check 48,000 acres burned 50 structures confirmed that are destroyed. It is getting windy the last night time i checked in with you about at 30 minutes ago so that is what firefighters are worried about as fire the fire activity seems to be happening overnight around this time were live in scott valley, gayle, ong kron 4 news. Right yeah, thank you gayle now to some National News tonight and President Trumps former chief strategist steve bannon is under arrest federal prosecutors in new york, indicted bannon and 3 other people today for allegedly defrauding donors through an Online Crowdfunding Campaign known as. We build the wall which claim to raise money to pay for the Mexican Border wall prosecutors say the 4 men instead took hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to that group and then used it for their own personal expenses. Today, the president said he felt bad for bannon. Saying he knows nothing about that wall fundraiser. But he was involved likewise it our campaign. For small part of the administration of very early on havent been dealing with him at all. I know nothing about the project other than i didnt like when i read about and i didnt like it. Well President Trump did claim today that he didnt like the project back in january of 2019 officials with the border wall project said that the president gave them his blessing. Bannon and the 3 other men are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. And one count of conspiracy to commit Money Laundering right another big story tonight, joe biden formally accepted the democratic president ial nomination, this came on the final day of the dnc and marks the climax of. His partys shall we say unorthodox twentytwenty National Convention that also marks the pinnacle of a political career that has spanned but a half century, the 77 yearold delivered his speech live from wilmington delaware that is where he started his political career as u. S. Senator. Lets listen to his official acceptance. Make no mistake. United we can and will overcome. This season of darkness in america. Well choose hope over fear. In fact over fiction fairness over privilege. Im a proud democrat. And ill be proud to carry the banner of our party into the general election. Source of great honor and humility. I accept this nomination for president. The United States of america. Governor newsome and stephan aisha kerry and their daughters also spoke tonight bidens focus this evening was on uniting a deeply divided nation as americans grapple with a monthslong Health Crisis related economic devastation and the National Awakening on racial justice, his running mate. Senator Kamala Harris of the bay area in california. Joined him on stage at the end of the event. Time now for schools. The nba draft lottery is the biggest event of the season for many nba fran bases it can give an organization and a fan base a renewed sense of hope after a rough season for dub nation. This is unfamiliar territory. It had been nothing but sunshine and roses over the past 5 years leading up to 2020. But with injuries to the splash brothers. This year was awash steph curry represented the warriors remotely at the nba draft lottery owner joe lay comes dog larry appropriately named after the larry obrien trophy was also in on the festivities. The dubs had the best odds to give the number one overall pick up 14 . Nba Deputy Commissioner mark tatum made the announcement. The second pick goes to. The Golden State Warriors and that means that the number one pick in the 2020 nba draft goes to. The minnesota timberwolves. Fitting below is there except that the warriors just traded and staff losing out to his former teammate Dangelo Russell and that he was. The rest was obviously very happy still the warriors get the second overall pick in a draft weeks with no clear top choice. Theres a lot of talk the dove will try to trade the pick perhaps along with Andrew Wiggins for a superstar player, general manager bob meyer was asked if the team is leaning one way or the other as far as trading that pick. I have no idea whether about what the value is of that pick know how much people committed. I dont think i know that anytime soon that thats something that might play out. Over the next couple months, but it usually the number 2 pick is. Its pretty pretty good. Theres a ton of us things that have seen on film and seen in person with some of these guys but theres a lot of things we havent seen so its hard to say. Right i feel like the in answer is incomplete. I think well be happy with whatever options whatever route we take i think well be pretty pretty happy about it. Sounds pretty noncommittal to mean a quick note the as are beating the diamondbacks 3 to one in the top of the 8th, and the giants are beating the angels 93 will give you an update of those games again at 10. Thats your look at sports back to you guys. Thanks jason next step many bay area residents are being evacuated from their homes to do that wildfires what cal fire says you should do to its time for the biggest sale of the year on the sleep number 360 smart bed. You can adjust your comfort on both sides. Your sleep number setting. Can it help me fall asleep faster . Yes, by gently warming your feet but can it help keep me asleep . Absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. Will it help me keep up with mom . You got this. So you can really promise better sleep . Not promise. Prove. And now, all beds are on sale. Save 50 on the sleep number 360 limited Edition Smart bed. Plus, free premium delivery when you add a base. Ends monday. To learn more, go to sleepnumber. Com. With so many fires burning in the bay area right now and a lot of people being forced to leave their homes. Its a good time to remember yeah cal fire has some tips for you about evacuations and how you can be prepared to leave at any time. Im going to relent in the Cal Fire Information Center with some important document in information. With wildfires burning across the state and 10s of thousands of people already evacuated. Its really important that you be prepared and know what to take should you be evacuated. So when it comes to evacuations, remember the 60s. The first is people and pets, not just your family members but also your fourlegged friends, your cat, your dogs, any supplies they may need if youre away from the home for a couple days. Second key papers and phone numbers, Important Documents you can put them all in one location put them in a in a back put them in a kit to have them all together in one location. The next he is your prescriptions, your vitamins eyeglasses any items that youre going to need medication wise. The next he is your pictures and irreplaceable memorabilia. This may be a good time free to take photos of them or make them into Electronic Systems as well. The next he is your personal computer, hard drives disks thumb drives and lastly plastics have your credit cards atm cards any cash you have any jewelry make sure that too is all in in one location. So the key is to look at these 6 peas and start planning now because when a wildfire strikes its going to be very hard to remember exactly what you need to grab. And it just may be the most important item that you leave behind for more information on the 60s and for more ways to be prepared. You can visit our website at ready for wildfire dot org. Thats all the information hope you dont need it but better to be prepared right. That wraps up kron 4 news at 8, but our Team Coverage of the wildfires ravaging the bay area continues at the top of the hour. We have video here this is from a few hours ago the walbridge fire burning near hes healdsburg in Sonoma County part of that devastating lnu lightning complex fire that has burned some 215,000 acres now killing 4 people and destroying nearly 500 structures, well bring you the latest on this along with the other fires burn