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Containment. The scu lightning complex fire and parts of the east bay and south bay, 35 contained the czu august lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Now 26 contained and the l a new lightning complex fires in the north bay, 35 contained. Homeowners in vacaville trying to come to grips with the staggering losses suffered in the lnu lightning complex fire. Kron fours phillipe djegal talked to a couple whose home was Still Standing after the initial wave of flames past through their neighborhood but then it did eventually burned out before last week the ride up kurt and lori hattons driveway and the gibson canyon region of vacaville was a soothing pass through green trees ending with their home of nearly 20 years. A modest 960 square foot little piece of heaven on 5 acres of land that has now been wiped out taken by the hennessy fire. One of the wildfires that make up the lnu lightning complexity ban. And unlike well what can you say shaken like everybody who either survived or didnt survive last friday, the hattons learned their house burned down and theyve returned every day since to sift through the ashes. And leave food and water out for their missing cats. All while private contractors helping fire victims in the community that out fire hot spots. The reason the hattons is gone were hearing stories unfortunately that our house survived. The initial fired way. Many neighbors who stuck around and stayed. So its standing. Days after. Just burning embers that no one was here too. Put out gentlemen, the other day said you could just stop there with your feet the lone bright spot, some of our worries are is salvageable. But the good news essentially ends there. Last month kurtz says he learned his department was closing down and being transferred elsewhere so hell soon be out of a job. Almost a year ago to the day. The hattons paid off their mortgage and were making plans to retire the morning of the fire call the Insurance Company to file a claim. Only to learn that is. I had no Homeowners Insurance it had not been renewed. For weeks earlier. Unbeknownst to me i never received any notice. Financially yeah just a what they call a perfect storm wearing free clothes they received that a fire victims distribution center. Hattons grapple with the daunting recovery ahead. But at least they have each other face to thinking that he has 2 healthy this. This to my face. We have to continue to live here if they decide to stay and rebuild. Or somewhere else if they choose a new start in vacaville phillipe djegal all kron 4 news. And we have the latest on the lnu lightning complex fires and 5 north bay standing at more than 371,000 acres, 35 contained 5 people have died 4 people have been injured the fires destroyed 1080 structures that still threatening more than 30,000 others and were following the czu lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties now standing at more than 82,000 acres, its 26 contained more than 600 structures have been destroyed. Most of them are homes more than 13,000 are being threatened cal fire says one person has died in the fires and of this mornings News Conference they were warning everybody it is just the beginning of what could obviously be a long fire season remind everybody. That were just moving into or peak fire season here in san mateo santa cruz. And we have an 82,000 acre fire that were going to be continuing with through that for those that have not done your defensible space. Its not too late to start you see because were doing it so you dont spark a new fire. So if you can get out there protect your homes and start toward said that defense myspace. Even though the fire and smoke may have cleared in many epareas still not safe for a lo of people to return the fire has taken a toll on mountain roads and utilities. Kron fours rob fladeboe has more on that he joins us live from santa cruz rob. And thats right catherine a the chp the Sheriffs Office behind me here still turning away most of the traffic headed north on highway one out of santa cruz too much traffic too soon. In the fire ravaged areas, north of davenport and body doing are only going to make matters worse. Lets take a closer look. Fire crews heading out for yet another day bulldozers working on containment lines and still other crews are working to clear damaged roads and power lines. This is fire ravaged swanton road out of davenport. Were down trees and power lines blocked away many fire weaken trees and utility poles are in danger of falling. These areas are not yet safe for the return of evacuees this not just the fire that were. Having to mitigate its the you know the trees in the road, the some of them were damaged the landscape here is scorched from miles along either side of empire grade whole utility poles have fallen. Crews are working to restore power. A similar story is told by the charred landscape along body dune road. Ice cream grade and smith grade among many many other smaller roads as of friday morning damage inspection teams had identified 799 destroyed structures, 554 of them are Single Family homes. But many homes are Still Standing some residents stayed behind to help fight the fire i had these volunteer people came out of nowhere. A help me see my house. Volunteers are also helping with the cleanup this crew from deer haven in body june helping displaced residents hall fire debris and trash. Well the czu lightning complex fire is still a long way from full containment and control getting access to the hardest hit areas could take even longer your home may have not been affected by the fire. Theres other factors that are leading to the Evacuation Order still be in effect until everything is until please wait as long as possible. Now we learned this afternoon that the Evacuation Order has been lifted to for residents of the small mountain communities of ziad the and lumpy co that would be in the san lorenzo valley but the harder hit above Boulder Creek and along highway 2. 36 near big basin. Well its going to be at least another couple of weeks before those of accusation orders are lifted live in santa cruz rob fladeboe kron 4 news catherine all right rob, thank you very much live in santa cruz and. The 3rd wildfire. Were trarking the scu lightning complex fires in parts of the east and south bay it is now at nearly 370,000 acres, 35 contained. 28 structures destroyed 9 damaged more than 20,000 are still threatened tonight. And time to turn to the forecast meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez and a brace of this could be a critical weekend ahead for firefighters why so well its going to be critical catherine just because i am tracking a deeper marine layer tonight during the overnight hours. That is going to spread inland before triple digit or near triple digit heat returns to most of our valleys next week. So lets take a look at temperatures out there right now already starting to get that marine le or influence along downtown San Francisco in Half Moon Bay with midfifties there oakland cooling down to 67 degrees with widespread 70s as you make your way inland. But mid to upper 80s for our tribe valleys right now so current wind speeds right now the gusty us in downtown San Francisco seeing sustained winds at 20 Miles Per Hour less but future cast for is going to show the return of that marine layer even spreading inland during the overnight hours, adding some much needed much welcome moisture for our firefighters during the overnight hours we are going to notice relative humidity still a little bit dry in the 30th to 40th percentile for most of our driest inland valleys in the north bay and east bay, but the good news is tracking cooler weather as we head our way inland by this weekend until we really start to crank up the heat for most of this upcoming week more my full forecast in just a few minutes catherine back to you thank you members saw today and Alameda County personal Care Services were given the ok to resume working outdoors of course there are rules heading into the weekend you can now see hair and nail salons and barbershops skin care. Waxing services all outside so many polls are open again. Wine tastings are okay by appointment nonmedical massages and you can pick up Library Books at the curb thats been the case in some places. Guidelines of course require you to wear a mask and keep your distance also happening today, some Contra Costa County being allowed to reopen outside. Theres been a gradual downward trend in cases and in hospitalizations those businesses include personal Care Services. If they dont involve close contact with the face like nail salons massage parlors gyms fitness centers, hotels and short term rentals. Were looking now to a uniform framework. One that provides 40 years will be no hearing a lot about tears for tears, not 58. A county variations as weve seen in the past. California is revamping its reopening strategy amid the pandemic the governor announcing some businesses can reopen for indoor business across the state. Capitol Bureau Reporter Ashley Zavala explains state leaders rolled out a brand new system friday to determine how and when different parts of the economy can reopen covid19 will be with us for a long time. And we need to adapt moving away from its Community Spread watch list system the state will now use a 40 year to colorcoded system from purple representing counties with widespread covid19 transmission to read for substantial orange for moderate and yellow for minimal the tears are based on covid19 case and positivity rates you some noted 38 counties in california are in the purple widespread tier with the strictest rules but we again expect this to be a dynamic list. And continue to see people move into different tiers no matter what tier of counties on newsome announced indoor barber shops hair salons and indoor malls can reopen across the state the handful of counties representing 12 of the states population in the red tear can reopen indoor operations at jims restaurants, personal care salons museums, zoos and places of worship with minimal capacity schools can also reopen in counties that have been in the red tier for 2 weeks just over one percent of californias population is within the orange and yellow tears which can open indoor operations at wineries bars and card rooms with other businesses allowed to expand capacity, this is going to require us in this new framework. Thats really built around being statewide being stringent and being slow. State leaders say moving from tier 2 tier will be tough each county will have to stay on each tier for at least 21 days. But those businesses given this latest green light can reopen as soon as monday. Reporting in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Although Governor Newsom is allowing indoor barbershops salons and malls to reopen it is still up to each indivpdual county to make final decisions. Today the governor also signed a bill banning the sale of most flavored Tobacco Products this law does not make it a crime to possess of flavored products, but it means it is illegal to sell them. Retailers can face fines up to 250. The law aimed at preventing children from smoking. Although critics say the products still are way too easy for teenagers to get. Coming up tonight. The cdc is still facing a lot of criticism after trying to walk back new testing guidelines. How Top Health Experts at the white house are defending the most. And more protests planned for oakland tonight up next the plea from protesters again to remain peaceful during a planned event tonight. The group thats problematic of promoting tonights event it is the same group that came to a playground, one fan looking at video from that night, im pleased that night did not help several people were arrested after a march turned very destructive businesses vandalized as you see there were fires set. Police are saying the people arrested are not from oakland city leaders say theres increased police staff and tonight. The mayor mayor shaft has a strong message for people planning to cause more damage. I share the righteous rage over Police Brutality and Racial Injustice but i urge people to channel that anger into activism not vandalism we will continue to not tolerate vandalism we made several arrests on wednesday we will continue to do that. On tonights protest set to start in roughly a and our little less than an hour at frank ogawa plaza. Also on the east by police in oakland looking for silver minivan they say it is connected to a deadly shooting this month. The police have released this picture, youre looking at a silver minivan they say this is connected to the shooting of an 18 yearold august 14th. It happened on beverly avenue in order and avenue in east oakland. Police say the victim dove on mcneil was shot and later died at the hospital. Officers are now looking for the van they want anybody with information to come forward. And the north a a chef at a downtown restaurant, this is in petaluma has been arrested on suspicion of repeated abuse of a child police say a young woman told a confidant that she was abused by 66 yearold cory basso when she was a child basso is a chef at seared restaurant in downtown petaluma he had run le bistro for many years before it closed in 2017. Police not releasing a lot of details but they say they want to make sure that there are no other victims that might be out there basso being held at Sonoma County jail. Time for another look at the forecast were looking live at the over the Golden Gate Bridge and that nice marine layer which. Continues to be a good news mowbray so. Yeah, a little bit of good and bad news, the good news is that it does add some more moisture content especially during this dry air mass but the bad news is that its actually helping to push that smoke and ash into the bay area and just really having it linger we may have noticed some more poor air quality especially along the coast and east bay shoreline with the poorest amounts right along the bay areas shoreline. No surprise san mateo and oakland getting the brunt of the poorest air particles pretty unhealthy lit up in orange for those of you in the east bay, but moderate amounts for most of the north bay and south bay, but we are going to notice. The continued smoke impacts as far as air quality goes at the ports amounts. Not just along the coast, but also continuing for the east bay as well so thats what we do have that spare the air alert through sunday, taking a live look outside of the east bay over berkeley and we could see that marine layer really just lingering and hovering not only bringing some much needed air mass as far as moisture content but also allowing those por air particles just hover and sit over the bay area lets take a look at temperatures out there right now as you head out the door widespread mid 50s along the San Francisco peninsula coastline and cooling down into the mid 60s right along the east bay shoreline san jose 76 degrees livermore in the upper 80s with widespread 70s for those of you in the north bay napa 71 degrees in santa rosa 74 degrees in current wind speeds out there right now fortunately on the light to breezy side 20 Miles Per Hour less and we are going to notice that even continuing through this weekend as well as stormtracker 4 though tracking that fog bank right along the coast expected to spread inland during the overnight hours cooling us down into the mid to upper 50s along the bay areas shoreline and low 60s as you make your way inland with near average highs for your saturday afternoon. Downtown San Francisco 66 degrees oakland in the low 70s, mid 80s for san jose and santa rosa both at 84 degrees and low 90s for tri valley. So lets take a look ahead at the next 7 day outlook. Hotter and drier weather for most of this upcoming workweek catherine all we want to see during this high fire danger threat with all of these popup thunderstorms and activity that we saw at that complex fire fortunately though drier weather but still not going to help out firefighters. Impacting and dealing with all of those fires back to you all right lisa thanks very much. In the south bay in person classes theyve resumed at one elementary school. This is after a successful appeal to the county Health Department kron fours Charles Clifford has the story from sunnyvale. Well all around the bay area, many parents are hoping to get their kids back into the classrooms as soon as possible here in sunnyvale in sunnyvale a Christian School right behind me they have received a waiver from the Santa Clara County public Health Department allowing them to resume in person classes the school says so far its only been 2 days but so far things have gone well. In order to be granted a waiver by the county the school had to make changes to prevent the spread of coronavirus students, teachers and staff are now required to wear masks remain 6 feet apart, wash their hands frequently visitors are also not allowed on campus and the school has made changes to allow the kids to learn outside as much as possible. Vice principal margot dixon says so far the students are adjusting to the changes pretty well theyve adapted really quickly and its mainly just keeping them. The 60 department inside the gate we have little dots on the ground that weve measured out the 60 so. Theyre really doing well its kind of a game for them in and theyre doing well with that so the return to inperson classes is also a big relief for parents. We did on my merry last year and then we can have this year and its its hard and so we just feel so blessed that we were able to be here now the other concern the school has is the smoke in the air. The vice principal who you just heard from told me that the school is trying to get air filters for all its classrooms. But erywhere theyve looked a those air filters are sold out they have put an order on amazon. But at this point they dont know when they might get those filters. But for now in the south bay Charles Clifford kron 4 news. Estill aheaea57 years after Martin Luther king juniors i have a dream speech recent Police Shootings of unarmed black man and given that movement new life. And hundreds of homes have burned to the ground in the Santa Cruz Mountains but some were spared from the and the middle of so much wildfire destruction homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains, some of them and theyve been spared from the czu lightning complex fires. Kron fours Maureen Kelly talked to one homeowner says he still has a home because of the actions of some of his neighbors. This video shows some of the destruction along pine ridge road in bonny doon where trees are black and but Still Standing well the homes that used to surround our level but the home of george john orr and his family was mostly untouched by fire he credits the actions of a small band of locals. Theyre very resourceful people and one of the neighbors are generator with the arm and he actually use our pool to to try to save all the houses in on my street. All of burned down except for ours this photo shows one man standing on jun orrs roof using that pool water to try and keep the fire. From coming up the hillside death still not one firefighter we say with cal fire units spread thin trying to tackle multiple lightning sparked fires, the group of 8 friends defied the Evacuation Order to try and save homes in their community. While george says his immediate neighbors homes were lost a member of what they jokingly refer to as rescue one estimates they were able to save somewhere between 26 and 30 others if the situation happened again we would do it again and we would save more homes thats time after learning that his home was saved john orr says he went and bought 500 worth of beer and bananas. To deliver to his weary heroes to help them refuel when he dropped off his care package, he got his first glimpse of the devastation that he and his family were spared hers. Definitely survivors guilt. Were. Going through we have agreed as a family that were were going work really hard to help our neighbors rebuild or do whatever you can do to help. John orr estimates theyll be out of their home for months, waiting for power and water to be restored. But hes incredibly grateful, not to have to completely rebuild. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. Next at 5. 30 tropical depression. Laura it continues to batter the Southern States leaving a trail of destruction. And with the Republican National convention of the books are political analysts look ahead to the next steps in the 2020 election. The president ial debates at the state of california taking a new approach to letting businesses

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