All over the real estate were behind this morning complements of that fog look at the Coverage Area even in the inland areas were seeing the fog cutting down of visibility levels so little careful in the area roads this morning. By 1 oclock or so its hovering along the coast there as you was notice is going to be slow clearing at the beaches of looks like today coming back with force it looks like. Again tomorrow morning so back to somewhat normal see a little bit. A check in area winds. Theyre fairly calm Single Digits and they pick up a little bit as you head up the Contra Costa County a little bit alright for today, were talking about turning mostly sunny 6676 by 11 of course will be the continuation of smoke and there are no major winds or rain to really mix this out a check of your more of your forecast coming up in a bit robin. Thank you dave. Major wildfires across the bay area are burning hundreds of acres cal fire says ling you lightning complex fires in the north bay is now 25 contained the scu lightning complex fires in the east bay is 15 contained and the czu augusts lightning complex fires along the peninsula or 13 contain. Well, heres a map of where these fires are burning check it out on your screen here the lnu lightning complex thats the biggest and the deadly us of them all so far 5 people have died the fires scorched more than 351,000 acres and solano napa sonoma lake and yolo counties. The c z you august lightning complex fires are burning in the mountains and sand the tail and Santa Cruz County that fire has burned over 78,000 acres and finally the scu lightning complex has burned 360,000 acres and contra costa alameda and stanislav counties. Well to the north bay over napa county while there are still plenty of evacuations in place several areas have been downgraded to evacuation warnings. Now there is still brush and trees burning and smoke near where highway one 21 meets with one 28 homes along still canyon road where damage done on long the hillside there on both sides of the highway scorched. We spoke with one man who stay behind a trying to fend his property while his wife left. Hes breathing a sigh of relief this morning at his property is safe and his wife is back home. More relieved a lot more an for us to get prepared for the next we knew that it was here when it was in Lake Hennessey then it got to bury a son and we knew that it was their. We really werent expecting that to come south too much so but but it did. Kind of caught us by surprise a little bit. Residents were just worried about the fires looting has also been a major issues so they were on the defense you know in defense mode for several reasons. Evacuations have not been completely lifted cal fires urging everyone in the area to still be ready to go if things change. One of the areas hit hard by the l a new lightning complex fires is hillsborough thats where the walbridge fires still burning and its already destroyed many homes kron fours taylor psaki spoke with a family who lived on mill creek road and lost everything. Planes remain active on mill creek road in healdsburg as dozens of homes are now destroyed we saw this is going to be all the time at home. Homestead though legacy for our children. And weve been in the process of building a farm and its. And the place for. A long time and now we dont know nor bora out about shes dream home now reduced to rubble or sold his business and the 2 moved up here. Over the last 4 years even building a farm in building their future but that along with family heirlooms now lay among the ashes very startling my husband is a Custom Furniture designer and many pieces that weve had in the family for 20 years or more design pieces beautiful custom pieces are all gone. Family heirlooms jewelry. I these are all things but i think the most important thing is that each object has a. As a human story connected to it and thats thats really what we. Im morning on sunday, they return to their home on mill creek road to see the devastation. For themselves. The fire barreled through their property destroying everything in its path. Their cabin, their truck and tractor also their workshop in barn. Despite the destruction all the one thing remained in ok condition, their garden and its rose is really sort of hout me feel inspired that we can we can move on that theres some hope. Now i spoke to that family earlier in San Francisco. Thats where theyre staying for now and if they hadnt already been through enough well while theyve been in San Francisco, one of their cars was unfortunately stolen. Back here on mill creek road. This area is still under a mandatory evacuation. You can see the crews there behind me watching out to make sure that no one goes down that road in healdsburg Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news. The czu lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties has grown to more than 78,000 acres. It is currently 13 contained more than 25,000 structures are being threatened and 276 have been destroyed. Well now moving to the scu lightning complex you can see on your screen where the fires are burning in alameda contra costa and santa clara counties. The flames as fred more than 360,000 acres containment this morning at 15 5 people have been hurt over 20,000 structures are still threatened. Well do not go around road closures and wildfire zones thats the message from First Responders people are still doing it. This is video. It was taken by deputies with the Alameda County Sheriffs Office. That were assigned to the scu lightning complex fires as you can see just the dangerous flames there right on the side of the road in that 10 smoke in the air. The closures are there to keep people safe of course and First Responders say even they have trouble driving through wildfire conditions. With gets you its not the flames in the fight, its the smoke is tremendous amount smoking can barely see the road. And so trying to navigate and operate in an environment like that even as a trained firefighter or a Law Enforcement person is is almost impossible and if youre a someone whos not experienced in those environments, youre looking for trouble. Yeah, its a bad idea dont do and while officials with the Sheriffs Office say they understand why you know people may think its worse arrest to go around the road closures. Deputies say it is their duty to warn the public and prevent that action is possible. Well nows a good time for you to download the kron on mobile app you can stay connected on the latest fire dangers across the bay area get updates on weather and traffic and forecasts and you also get updates on the latest Power Outages to go ahead and download it now and take it with you as youre on the move. Well americas death toll from the coronavirus continues to grow more than 17 excuse me 177,000 americans have now died from the virus. As the number of cases inch closer to 6 million erica hill has the latest on the pandemic. And truth is that ball in tuscaloosa is in serious jeopardy, bars in tuscaloosa. Closed for the next 2 weeks as cases rise in the college town greek life feeling concerned on a number of the university of kentucky retesting its 5500 greek life students in atlanta, a spike in cases at a georgia tech fraternity, forcing all residents of that house into isolation. Plus weve got our first exposure we did tie or ties to the people who are not. That Living Community outside of that. Weekend parties at the university of kansas earning 2 fraternities theyre a cease and desist letter ive kind of given up a little bit on the on the fraternity and Sorority Members i think its just going to get worse canned is among the midwestern states seeing a rise in new cases south dakotas numbers are also up. At least 26 cases in 3 states. Have now been linked to the sturgis motorcycle rally there earlier this month. Much of the south is among the 25 states posting a decline in new cases over the past week average daily deaths finally under a 1000 for the first time in nearly a month. Yet even in areas doing well concern remains new york announcing plans to offer voluntary testing at jfk and laguardia for arriving passengers as the mayor of danbury connecticut says travel barbecues and youth sports are fueling the spike in his town this is a good time to pause. Get our numbers down and then we can maybe look every opening it if at all possible as more children return to the classroom, the w h o says kids under 5 shouldnt be required to wear masks. New york citys mayor making a push for Outdoor Learning im certain cases we can close off streets for period time in certain cases we can make Space Available in local parks. Zoom out in reminding many just how reliant we become on technology. Atlanta, Public Schools on their first day back among those impacted. Meantime the president praising the fdas emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma to treat the virus just days after several experts warned more data. He is needed for going to get through this pandemic and were gonna take care of people the best way we can weve got to let science drive not a political time. Well that was erica hill reporting for us this morning. Were also monitoring the latest on the covid19 pandemic and so far the state has recorded more than 676,000 cases and more than 12,000 deaths all across the bay area are more than 77,000 reported cases and more than 1000 deaths. You can always find a running list of these numbers broken down by city and county on our website. Its all available at kron 4 dot com. Well its a foe is now the first airport in the United States to launch rapid covid19 testing for workers. The airport is teaming up with Dignity Health for this facility and its located in the International Terminal it launched late last month. Officials say results are actually available in less than an hour, its open for airport workers daily 08 00am to 06 00pm. Coming up next on the kron 4 morning news as wildfires rage out of control california is now bracing for even more fires and the coming days, how the state is preparing to get ahead of the game. Tensions protests set a curfew for one wisconsin city after police shot an unarmed black man will have the latest on the investigation coming up after the break. Welcome back everyone, the times for 14 yesterday we had a little bit of moisture in the air. Some of us got some sprinkles lets check in with david c whats in store with todays forecast a full good morning robin good morning, everybody at least we got some fog going on today really pushing that marine layer a little bit further well see the same thing again her tomorrow morning so carlstrom lend a helping hand with all of this going on here. Live shot coming in from the Golden Gate Bridge a little bit of glaze the we have as we start the day, a look at area winds all without surprise pretty much on shore, although theres little bit of a northwesterly wind you can see along the east bay shoreline in inland. Theres a little bit of a breeze happening there too as well lower 60s line of the east bay shoreline to the east. Were in the middle 60s with 50s for the north bay peninsula also holding on the 50s 64 san jose, and you can really get a nice shot of the submarine layer here on futurecast for as you can see it mixes out late in the day by compared the sake of fog is going to take a little while to kind of mix out here through the Morning Hours and maybe not until noon. It will make some places that normally does so attended even 9. 30 along the beaches, it will be slow going but here comes back again by tonight and tomorrow morning 02 30am you can see it starting to fill up around the bay. Very nicely as we go into the overnight hours to tomorrow morning can do the whole thing yet again we can get a shot of this in terms of the moisture levels in terms of relative humidity. Heres what happens during the driest time of the day off to the east. Were in the 50s and 60s thats well above the criteria needed for red flag warnings will way lower than all of that. So thats a good news having that these numbers high it spills back in again into the Sacramento Valley as you can see all over the bay most readings. The 90s so thats somewhat return to normalcy going on but a slightly drier looks like by wednesday afternoon. So the game plan is basically this we have the thick morning fog to deal with clearing out. And then will warm up into the afternoon. For this week, its more of the same with the morning fog to deal with in that opening the skies up by the weekend i think inland youre gonna notice some of those temperatures starting to pop into the upper 90s for today, 66 San Francisco 73 for oakland, 85 checking in for san jose in far inland only the lower 90s 80s up here to the north bay 85 san jose, chicken bay area roadways and bridges robin whats happened. Hey were off to a very quiet start we are hot spot free and we love it we can start off without any major problems so if youre an early bird and you need to get into San Francisco. This is what its looking like at the bay bridge toll plaza quiet smooth clear on the upper deck and trouble free. All the way into downtown San Francisco. All right lets check out some more shall we lets head over to 92, heres a peek at the san mateo bridge. This is your westbound role leaving hayward so far little thick often on right here on the flat section of that is traffic leaving hayward west of the toll plaza and thats where the bulk of your slowing is, but its okay up and over the high rise into foster city. Well take a peek at more purchase coming up a little bit later. A protest in cities nationwide after Police Involved shooting incident in wisconsin. The victim who was shot right in front of his children is hospitalized and an investigation is under way John Lawrence reports. Protests erupt across the country as demonstrators voiced their anger about the Police Shooting of jacob lake. Police say they responded to a domestic incident sunday evening. Shortly afterward at least one officer fired a weapon into place back right now we are. Demanding something and that is that the copy all restaurant and bar is blake was shot in front of his children just dont know. What they can go back screaming, that will make no says that you treat somebody like that who are not giving you know probably i dont know punch or not and can ocean professional Police Association says the video of the shooting posted to social media. Does not capture all the intricacies and asks the public to withhold from passing judgment until all the facts are known the commitment i made to ever make to their family for officer mcdonald. Is justice will be served. People will be held responsible for their actions. And we will know the truth blakes family is calling for nonviolent protests. We want justice and were going to get justice were going to demand justice. But were going to do that without an about communities. Im John Lawrence reporting. Were getting a look at the man now wanted in connection to stealing the wallet of a firefighter who was battling the czu complex fire. Santa cruz county investigators say the man used a one stolen credit card at a shell gas station in santa cruz, and also at the safeway in Officials Say that he even tried to use the stolen credit card to buy virtual currency. Now the wallet was stolen between friday and saturday from the firefighters car and that car was parked at the body doing fire station. He was out there on the front lines fighting the czu lightning complex fire. Now heres a closer look at the man whos wanted check it out on your screen here investigators say that he was wearing a green San Francisco giants cap. While white black checkered mask yet on a black tshirt light blue jeans and vans shoes, black vans shoes. Officials believe that the man is likely a body doing resident, if you know this man or have any information youre asked to call the Santa Cruz County Sheriffs Office. Well the helicopter pilot who died fighting one of the wildfires in california is going back home to be laid to rest. There was a per session on monday for Michel Fournier he was safire ing the hills fire in Fresno County with water drops just last week when his helicopter crash. Mondays 4 session is taking his remains to Rancho Cucamonga the 52 yearold leaves behind a wife and 2 daughters the ntsb cal fire and the Fresno County department are all investigating the crash. Well a new program by covered california will help uninsured residents get health care coverage. And help californians affected by the wildfire and the pandemic covered california says the move was created because californians are facing a triple threat. Threat wildfires the pandemic and the recession. The program is now in under open enrollment, thousands of californians have already signed up. Im alexandra le mon in washington, the postmaster general was in the hot seat once again coming up well have all the details on what he said about the delays to peoples mail. And were heading outside before we head to break to check out the Golden Gate Bridge, theres a special fog advisory for the Golden Gate Bridge issued by chp so. Take it easy here across the span but no problems into or out of San Francisco will be right. Ladies. Check it out. So strong. So. Not ripped. Whatre we talkin about. Thats the hefty ultra strong bag hefty hefty hefty whispers gimme. confused give me the bag . Get hefty ultra strong at a low price when its made with love, its made to be shared. Welcome back everyone the postmaster general once again testify before lawmakers about recent changes at the post office that have led to widespread melt. Alazan concerns about those delays could impact the upcoming election. Washington correspondent alexandra le mon has details of the hearing. In a heated house hearing postmaster general lewis dejoy was on the defense over controversial changes at the post office i never put a limitation on over time dejoy said decisions about limiting hours or removing equipment or made by other managers despite that california congressman harley rouda questioned why the joy isnt moving to reverse those decisions you know how absolutely insane. This is this is like telling jamba juice they cant plug in the blenders to do their job there must be a reason i didnt do it. But in the organization is youre the head of the unit, youre the head of the business, the buck stops with you the but come with me she gets club then thats outrageous statement democrats say restoring post Office Equipment would also help americans leaking confidence in the upcoming president ial election. What is the harm to do it til election day in washington and it makes plenty of sense to me makes not if it will restore peoples faith in a democracy and avoid a polarizing like it, but i think it got a billion get me to billion and ill put the machines but congressman jim jordan downplay democrats concerns changing out the sorting machines. And removing in changing out mail collection boxes is nothing different that happen before republicans and the postmaster general said changes are needed because the u. S. Postal service is in financial peril. In washington alexandra le mon. Still ahead of the cross the morning news, a highprofile Death Penalty conviction overturned, well have the latest on the Scott Peterson case coming up and as we head to break were checking in on conditions at the bay bridge toll plaza the traffic is moving well and looks good so far from oakland to San Francisco, the air quality is force if youre just waking up and youre used to stretching those windows open. You may just want to keep a close its another spare the air day with pretty poor air quality will be right back. Welcome back everyone, the time for 28 good morning and thanks for staying with us, lets head over to the Weather Center and say good morning to dave spahr he has an update on todays forecast safe. Well good morning robin good morning everybody im just checking out stormtracker real quick we have some showers in the Sacramento Valley looks like some are holding up as they venture up to the north of behind it looks clear shore but its that morning fog thats greeting us today, yeah, we cant see too much from the bay bridge toll plaza here. But this gray skies and smoky skies that will be replaced by later on. Well see as we start to get some of the light of day speaking of which in terms of that fog it does clear out but look what happens late in the afternoon still it doesnt look like it really clears the coast and also its the marine layer snap and back which is something we like to see it kind of helps out of the firefighting efforts a little bit. Most readings in the lower 60s along the east bay shoreline inland were into the middle 60s 50s up to the north bay, 64 san jose in for comparison sake were cooler all over the bay today with actually the exception of the coast a little bit breaking the day down for you 66 by 08 00am by 11 were talking 76. Coming up a little bit well take a look at that 4 zone forecast for you and the extended that has a little bit of a warmup for those in the valleys by the end of the week robin. Is going to be a profoundly important week in terms of. Our efforts and were going to put everything that we have to do we can because this weve got some wind conditions that may be shifting may be changing. Well as wildfires rage out of control california is now bracing for even more flames, the state has received a major disaster declaration and is requesting more resources and manpower out of state to help fight the fires. Governor newsome says that this time last year there are 4200 wildfires in california that burned 56,000 acres now so far this year. More than 7,000 fires have scorched
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