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Today. So much smoke and haze. A lot of fire shop on the infrared satellite and a lot will continue. My satellite may not move. I will have to toss it. The system is stuck. Cordelia junction and 238 and bay bridge, where would you like to start . The Cordelia Junction because we have a truck accident on interstate 80 at 680 and that has made a slow traffic coming from fairfield and vacaville mostly fairfield and the backup is not that long and not quite into vacaville pick a big back up there. Slow traffic on highway 4 this morning because of earlier wrecks from pittsburgh into concord. The big 80 at industry pick look at all this slow traffic. This is not typical because of an injury crash there clear at industry. You may want to consider using an alternate route. Get on the freeway in union city and avoid heyward on 880 s. We will begin with breaking news where fastmoving flames near vacaville have burned homes or loose money. There is some injuries as well. The fire vacaville is part of a larger group of fires that is causing problems across the north bay. We are live this morning with an update. Reporter we just got an update from cal fire about three minutes ago. The lightning complex burned 72 square miles and zero complaint with the complex is made up of seven different buyers for calpers said it started by lightning strikes and so far four people have been injured. 50 structures have been destroyed and 50 have been damaged while 1900 are threatened. Cal fire said air resources are stretched thin because of multiple fires throughout the region. There are several Evacuation Orders in napa, sonoma and solano counties. The newest Evacuation Order in Solano County is for all of solar hills and gibson canyon road. Evacuations in effect for all of Pleasant Valley road and connecting streets. And also all of English Hills. People who live west of blue ridge road 255 and north of cherry glen road to highway 128 should also advocate. More Evacuation Orders could be issued. The pair present Vacaville Police department sent out advisories for residents to be repaired to leave business there. One of the fires in this complex called the hennessey fire, moved toward atlas peak, soda canyon, silverado highlands and the silver rhino areas overnight. If youre in any of these errors, fire Officials Say leave if you dont feel safe. That is in napa county. We spoke to one man and vacaville who said that even though theres close, he is not leaving his home just yet. Im going to stick. We have hoses and we are waiting everything down. We will wait it out and if he gets too rough, we will get out of here. But we will do our best to make sure our house does not catch fire. Reporter there are Evacuation Centers set up at Crosswalk Community church in napa, the mcbride senior center, and Vacaville Skate Center all and vacaville there are also three different Elementary Schools in vacaville that have Evacuation Centers as well. Animals can be brought to the napa county y animal center. Evacuees are as if the go to any Evacuation Centers to wear a mask and keep your distance. More wildfires are prompting more evacuation across different parts of the bay area. In northwestern Sonoma County, whats being called the 13 4 fire is forcing people to have areas north of the Russian River to evacuate their homes. The fire is currently at 500 acres but Authorities Say they fear its has the ability to explode because of the current hot dry weather conditions. It has definitely grown. You can see billowing smoke now and the breeze is pulling it towards us. It looked like he was going get away but the winds keep changing. It is scary. Smoke from the fire is now over central Sonoma County. Great ash falling on highway 101. Turning now to the coast for an update on the august fires in parts of san mateo and santa cruz counties. Hellfire told us that the fire overnight jumped from 7500 acres to 10,000 acres. 22,000 people have been evacuated in that area. Last night we saw a major increase in fire activity throughout both san mateo and santa cruz counties. We saw several of the fires merge together and essentially make a significant run into Santa Cruz County. We can confirm overnight that the fire activity increased and consumed at least 10,000 acres. We conducted significant evacuations of over 22,000 people between San Mateo County and Santa Cruz County combined. The fire itself is headed in a southeasterly direction. It is headed from the San Mateo County line down into Santa Cruz County in a southeasterly direction. Do have communities out in front of the spire at this time. With that in mind, over 6000 structures have been asked to evacuate throughout the entire fire area. This is active timber fire burning in two counties with a serious threat to both s structures that are out in front of it. Fire says property has been destroyed possibly even homes, but we dont yet know how many homes have been destroyed. Atascadero high school and santa cruz auditorium are being used as relief cheryl close. Our coverage of the wildfires continues throughout the morning on air, online and on the ktvu news app. We are sending breaking news alerts and updates 24 hours per day. It is available for both apple and android operating systems. Today, at a News Conference noon, Governor Newsom is expected to discuss the natural disasters and the Health Crisis facing our state. He will update the public on the Emergency Response to the wildfires as well as the states power supply to handle ongoing heatwave. This is happening in the middle of the pandemic. In the meantime california is under a state of emergency because of wildfires. The governor said the declaration will provide more resources to put out the fires. The Company National guard is being mobilized to assist local agencies with emergency operations. Happening today, the power grid operator wants all of us to conserve electricity again so that they dont have to have rolling blackouts. Cal iso issued a flex alert after extremely hot weather is e and businesses cut back on power used yesterday enoughprevent blackouts. But there are still plenty of places that are still in the dark with no power including some neighborhoods in livermore that have had several Power Outages, some of them lasting four hours since the weekend. Some frustrated people and people that are not getting work done and not getting schoolwork done. Is a poor design or poor maintenance or a lack of upgrades . 100 degrees are normal for livermore. Pg e said the heat wave caused equipment to fail. A spokesman said they understand how our hard it is when customers lose power and that is especially true during a heatwave. Pg e has set up a website to find out if you will be losing power if there is a rolling blackout today. Go to our website, ktvu. Com, look for web links. Lets talk tuesday. Everyone in the air could either be seeing or smelling smoke from the wildfires. There is even ash falling in San Francisco so if will proba everybody else. A lot of it moving northwest to southeast. So many fires that i am seeing some coming in here so it depends on your location but there is a lot of haze and smoke coming in from many fires here. Many of them are also showing on the infrared satellite. There are so many. Northern california with butte county as well. And down in Southern California. We are surrounded by too many fires and thats where a lot of smokers come from. A northerly wind at 30. 50 committee. Not good news for the nappy napa county firefighters. 61 in st. Helena. There is some cooling taking place at the coast and bay. Capitola is 62. Boulder creek at 70 degrees. Upper 60s in the Santa Cruz Mountains. A lot of northeast or northwest directions driving the fire to the southeast. A very dry condition up there with 60s on the temptress. Another tough day in that rugged territory. 59 in santa rosa. 73 in travis. Some 70s but some upper 40s and 50s with cooler lows hazy, humid and hot but not as hot coast and bay. They are cooling down and we will get a little bit of a seabreeze here today. A ridge of High Pressure over utah but close to the nevada utah border. Its a big but it will get moved out of the way from a system coming in. Some cooling coming but its just slow cooling with temperatures above average. Some trading down especially in San Francisco and san jose. Cooler coast and bay and even oakland. One more hot day of high mpwe will finally get relief coming urfriday. The switch from in Person Learning to Online Learning during the pandemic has been financially hard on a lot of families. Coming up, how many parents have said they are gone into debt. Plus, a cluster of wildfires in east bay. The latest on the efforts to contain them as evacuations continue. Reinventing. Its what Small Businesses do. With comcast business, your Small Business can work faster, with powerful internet from the nations largest gigspeed network. Work safer, with all your connected devices automatically protected by securityedge. And work anywhere, with comcast business at home, our new businessgrade Internet Solution for remote workers. Whatever your business needs, comcast business has the solutions to help you not just bounce back, but bounce forward. Call or go online to find out more. Welcome back. At least 20 separate fires are burning right now across by the bay area counties. Officials call it the scu lightning complex. The first buyers started early sunday morning when lightning hit eastern alameda and contra costa counties. Clotting long is here and there is no information that just came in from cal fire. Reporter we have been waiting for this. We got that new information from cal fire about where things stand now. A tough situation. About 575 firefighters battling the scu lightning complex fire and they have their work cut out for them. They have said this has been a very long night. The new numbers from cal fire said they of 5 containment. We do two First Responders were injured and right now 1403 structures threatened. The fires have already burned more than 132 square miles. As you said, these are 20 separate fires that have combined into three zones. We are talking about multiple locations in several counties. Santa clara, alameda, san joaquin and stanislaus counties. Access is a problem. That area is covered with high dry grass. Relatively narrow roads and steep hills. Thats extreme danger for People Living in those areas. And many Evacuation Orders in place. Overnight, they said they had a lot of wind that was moving the spec evacuations included a mobile home park. Of those 1400 structures that are being threatened, no reports of homes being damaged so far. A lot of work in front of them. Last count nine bulldozers and three helicopters and ground crews leading the fight against these fires. The crews say what they need that was cooler weather and several cooler days. We are getting in this for the long haul so when you talk about Evacuation Orders they are in alameda, Santa Clara County and evacuation warnings in place. This is a very fluid situation and they want people to stay on top of this because more orders can come. They are saying this fire might move and its more into Alameda County and even the city of san jose on alert. Some evacuations are set up. Roads are closed throughout this area but such a massive area and as i continue to fight this. Other fires have stressed the resources across the region. People need to be aware and be ready to go if they are in the path of this fire. There are so many paths that it is taking. That the very latest from cal fire. We will watch it for you and update you throughout the morning. Jill biden is now officially the democratic nominee for principate democrats nominated biden on the second night of the dnc with a virtual rollcall. Bidens wife, dr. Jill biden, said her husband led their family through adversity and can do the same for the country. He will do for your family what you did for hours. Bring us to gather and make us whole. Carry us forward in our time of need. Former president clinton and jimmy carter made remarks. Republican support for item highlighting his friendship with john mccain. , harris will probably accept the parties nomination for vice president. Former president obama will be a featured speaker tonight. Stay with ktvu tonight for the coverage of this dnc. Main speakers will be shown on arrested starting at 7 pm. A similar coverage for the Republican National Convention Next week. Truck it is now 7 19 am. We will talk about whats happening on the roads. How do we look . We look okay. We do have most of the commutes doing okay but there is one spot where they have just cleared a crash and it is still going to be very slow. That would be in heyward. I will show it to you on the map. 887. Clearing up the remainder of the crash, look at all from 238 down into union city. That is because of the earlier rack that was there for a while. Sometimes when they clear the lanes, we get lucky and the roads pick up quickly. Bay bridge already showing signs of improvement. It is backed up for a 10 minute delay before you get onto the bridge going into San Francisco. Looking at traffic teachers, i noticed the air quality is not good. Lets bring steve back into talk about that and the weather. There is just so many fires. A lot of it is moving northwest to southeast. So many out in the east that when we get a northerly wind, it brings a lot of snow back in here. That will be the case for today. Tomorrow there might be a better breeze that will help some of the fires especially the santa cruz and san mateo fires. Other fires zone fire. 70 degrees in brentwood. 11 humidity. Not going to be much help today. Still in the low 100 marsh fire, rose peak north of 21. 80 degrees with 13 humidity. And some of the Higher Elevations have a north wind. Tough conditions across the board doesnt matter which county. Relative humidity 10 with a northerly breeze near the hennessey bar. The mountains just as tough. Northeast breeze so thats driving that fire. 60s on the temperatures. It will be mostly sunny but very hazy with smoke, dishes today. 70s, 80s and cooler coast and bay. Inland temperatures in the 90s and 100s one more day. It looks better for tomorrow with the signs of cooling inland. 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Many cite the increasing cost of food as they have to provide breakfast and lunch for the chimp in many low and can mean low income families get costs for food. The girl scouts have revealed a new cookie flavor for the next year cookie season. A french toast and spread cookie that is called toast yet. Available starting in january. Primarily through online cookie sales due to the pandemic. Coming up, we update our breaking news. Wildfires burning from the north bay all the way down to c details on the ongoing firefight this morning and new Evacuation Orders. Also powerful and emotional statements from the victims of the golden estate killer. What they said as the judge gets ready to hand down a sentence. Experience the ultimate sports hub. Where you can find games, news and highlights. All in one place, right on your tv. The xfinity sports zone. Use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Follow the teams you love. And, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. So youll never miss an update. With the xfinity sports zone everybody wins. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Click, call or visit a store for details. And the hidden smiles. The foggy glasses. And the muffled laughs. A simple piece of fabric makes a big statement i care. Wear a mask. Lets all do our part to slow the spread. Several structures earn overnight as a cluster of wildfires got bigger. We are live this morning with the very latest on the wildfires in san mateo and sanda cruse counties. And one of the biggest coronavirus testing sites in Northern California in the south bay. Where it is that and how many test will be provided every day. From ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. Good morning. Thank you for joining us and welcome to mornings on them to. We are following breaking news. Mandatory evacuations and part of the bay area due to wildfires burning around our region. No matter where you are in the bay era, you are likely seeing it or smelling it. I would say so. Just looking at the three web crime is from san jose state meteorology department, it is smoke city. A lot of scarred sky coming down from the north. So many locations now. Even as falling in San Francisco. Very obscure. The heraclitus have moved out of the picture for now. That is good news. The smoke and all these fires and then they are even showing up on infrared thought. So intense especially the one in the Santa Cruz San Mateo era. Active buyers all over the map. So many. We will get a lot of smoke on this. Some areas have a northerly breeze. Hot and humid in appeared not so much coast and bay. Its going down. W 59 in santa rosa. 61 in the city. Livermore at 70. San francisco has the coolest lows we have seen in a week. 50s and 60s. Highs in the 70s and 80s. Just too much era left and too hot inland for at least another day. Temperatures at 100 for many. Lets start out near fairfield and getting out toward the Cordelia Jackson had a second accident on the backup 80 westbound coming up highway 12 in fairfield. And then getting down to the cordelia judging. The original crash is still there so this has been a tough area to drive there for two cordelia and making that transition to 680. Highway 4 is slow from pittsburgh to concord six eddie looks all right from martinez to walnut creek. 880 is still recovering from an earlier crash 238 into heyward with very slow traffic. This morning cal fire say People Living near a fair in the san mateo and Santa Cruz County coastlines should expect more Evacuations Ordered this morning and throughout the day. We are monitoring this changing situation. Heres the latest. Reporter we are talking about the cz lightning complex are building a san mateo and santa cruz counties. A cluster of 22 lightning sparked fires that started on sunday night and overnight cal fire said several of the small fires merged into larger fires. Threatening homes now. Mandatory Evacuation Orders for about 22,000 people in san mateo and santa cruz, and per the latest Evacuation Orders issued within the past hour are for people in Santa Cruz County. Waterman lute loop. Pine flat road. South of Santa Cruz County must evacuate immediately and the fire is continuing in that southeasterly direction. Neighborhood south of those areas should be prepared to have their belongings packed and ready to leave at a moments notice. This fire burned about 10,000 acres so far. 0 contain p3 fibers have been injured but they are expected to recover. The cal fire confirm some structures have been destroyed by this pair. They dont know yet how many. Firefighters and emergency officials warned that more evacuations are likely to day. Is the fire itself is headed in a southeasterly direction. Headed from San Mateo County line into Santa Cruz County and a southeasterly direction. We do have communities out in front of this fire at this time. In San Mateo County, the areas under mandatory Evacuation Orders include Dearborn Park, Pescadero Creek county park. And also south skyline woman near highway 9. Russian bridge open space. A large swath of neighborhoods in San Mateo County as well. Santa cruz fairgrounds is in an Evacuation Center along with the Pescadero High School in id fighting this fire the fires ac street, but with this particular five there is such heavy smoke that they cant get their aircraft in to drop smoke retardant on the flames yet. They also mentioned that firefighters because resources are thin, firefighters will have to work double shifts on the fire lines. We want to go live north of vacaville. A house is on fire. Here is a live picture. Look at the middle of your screen. This is north of vacaville with a house burning from the lightning complex fires. You are seeing this Burning House on English Hills road halfway between vacaville and winters. It is very intense. We dont know if anyone is inside. Again, these are live pictures we wanted to to bring this to you. Our cameras are trying to be as many places as possible. And there is more breaking news and the north bay, destructive wildfires picked this video from earl this morning of the hennessey fire burning homes along Pleasant Valley road north of vacaville. The fire jumped the road and evacuations are in effect. The Solano County shares say People Living west of blue ridge road to highway 50 fight and north of cherry glen road to ohio highway 128 have to get out of there. There is an immediate threat to life. The flames will get to us and then it came over the hill and within 30 minutes it was on top of us. So we just started doing everything we could cutting fire lines. Loading up all the pets we could catch. Lightning started this fire and it is their present content. Authorities are gripping this fire as part of the much bigger lightning complex fire for napa and sonoma counties and it includes the hennessey fire and the gamble fires that have burned more than 46,000 acres or 72 square miles. It is 0 contain. About 50 homes or outbuildings have been destroyed. During the night in Solano County, homes west of vacaville were integrated including People Living south of the gates canyon road to highway 80. An evacuation warning in place for a new fire in marin county called the woodward fire. It has burned more than 700 acres so far ray is. Marin county fire said it started yesterday afternhe wood smoke could be seen francisco c parts of the east bay yesterday. Chris say the area is difficult to access. No structures damaged and no injuries reported. Lightning has been suspected to have causes far but we do expect to learn more from fire officials later this morning. We will bring that new information to you. The coverage of the wildfires continues on air come online and through the ktvu news app. Breaking news alerts are being sent around the clock. The ktvu news app is available on apple and android. Today and tomorrow, a Golden State Killer Joseph Dangelo will be listening and hearing from more victims who survived his attacks. One by and one by one this week the survivors have been giving impact victim impact statements describing how he terrorized them decades ago. Dangelo pleaded guilty in june to 13 murders and dozens of. Some of the survivors and family members of victims say they have forgiving him but others wish he will fill the pain he inflicted on them. He admitted that he cause all the suffering and misery to so many victims over the past 40 years. He truly is an evil monster. A cunning many social path. At three different times that night i thought i was going to die. Icing jesus loves meto die. Deangelo, the former police officer, who was linked to those attacks through dna. He will be formally sentence on friday for several sentences of life in prison. Officials say that new covid19 cases are trending down in california. This morning there are more than 638,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. More than 11,500 people have died. The state ted 10 main tests have been conducted but hospitalizations and icu admissions are on the rise. Santa clara county is one of the largest covid19 test sites in Northern Company paid a high capacity test site is located at the county fairgrounds. It will provide up to 5000 test per day. Right now walk up and drive through testing is by appointment only. One of the most important tools is to get us out is testing. We invite everyone who needs a test either because you have symptoms, because you have been in contact with someone, or because you are doing activities that you think might put you at risk. Health officials plan to use this space for fall flu shots and eventually covid19 vaccinations. Many beaches in Santa Cruz County will be closed foof the county from 5 pm saturday morning through 5 00 monday evening during the holiday weekend. No one will be allowed to sit on the beaches except late saturday and sunday afternoons. But you will be allowed to cross the sand to go swimming or something at any time. Sidewalks and the trails near the beach will say open the entire weekend. We have several major wildfires burning around the bay area. The weather conditions are not getting much better. A little bit coast and baby but not inland. May be tomorrow. But it is very warm still. Some inland heirs and the 80s and a northerly direction. A lot of smoke and haze coming down. The hair clouds have cleared out. We lose that and no threat of thunderstorm activity. Everything is, out of the northwest. If you go up a couple thousand feet along marin county and napa county, you get a northerly direction. Higher elevations for napa county to Solano County, add degree temperatures with a northeast wind. Temperatures in the mid 60s already in napa. Although the valley at 51. There are some cooler conditions for a you. Santa cruz at 64. Upper 60s in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Felton that goes from the northwest to a lot of smoke and ash not a delta breeze yet. We need to see a west southwest later today or tomorrow when we start to get that. Nothing going on good inland but it will start to improve tomorrow. Genevieve who is a category 3 will move off the coast but will fall apart off the Southern California coast by saturday and sunday. We need to watch that with moisture moving in sunday monday. Cooler coast and bay, 70s and 80s. Still ahead come after more than a week of criticism, the postmaster general is responding to complaints. 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Sub specs are acc spray painting racist and hateful graffiti on the walls of the school with messages such as you will pay and other comments. If you recognize the suspects or the vehicle, call San Francisco police. A new survey is that showing more than one third of americans plaintiff vote by mail in the november president ial election. A survey by the Democracy Fund found that 37 of risen voters plan to vote by mail in the november election. 40 of boaters who plan to vote for joe biden plaintiff vote by mail. While 23 of boaters who support President Trump plan to vote by mail. The postmaster gender said he will hold off on any operational changes of the Postal Service until after the election. There have been a lot of criticism of the changes made by the new postmaster general that caused mail delivery delays. And would interfere with the delivery of mail and ballots or the november election. Bay area members of Congress Held News Conferences yesterday at local post offices. 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The citibank is to get the money back but Brigade Capital is refusing to return 175 mentos. A judge blocked a brigade from doing anything with the money while a lawsuit between citigroup and brigade plays out in court. The first harry potter movie is a big hit once again. Harry potter and the sorcerers stone sold more than 13 million of tickets in china that pushed its gross ticket sales past 1,000,000,000. 20 years after it was first in theaters. Suitors are not releasing new movies because of pendulum, theater owners and countries where they considered safe to go to the movies are showing older films. Lets look at the roads now. We will start up een a tough north in fairfield at the Cordelia Junction and all these homes are taking been. American canyon. People are looking for ways to get around appeared careful to cordillera we had two crashes slow traffic on highway 12 heading over to 29. Slow traffic on highway 4 from pittsburgh to concord. Even 242 and 680 are getting slower today. We have seen more slow traffic there. 880 between san lorenzo and heyward down toward union city, i would not recommend that stretch. Foresight, you can get on mission or use another road. If you get on the freeway after union city it should be okay heading south. Bay bridge had a minor crash at the toll plaza but its not that long or causing congestion. Still a little condition at the toll plaza 880 looks okay. We have hazy skies and that is because of the smoke from all the fires. We will talk more about that, lets go to steve. Truck very hazy skies across the board. Most every shot where you can see it in there and everywhere im looking, i see that there is a lot of fires in the state. A northerly direction on a lots of wind coming in. And the buyer activity is pushing northwest to southeast for most. When we have some infers and the north, we get a northerly direction and we will get some of this in here. When you go up a couple thousands feet everything is out of the north. Going along northwest. Temperatures 60s and 70s and cooler coast and bay. Santa rosa at 59. The city is at 61. Oakland airport at 62. Excessive heat warnings in the inland areas. Very dry, hazy with high fire conditions with the smoke and ash. In fairfield its a little cooler though. There are signs that it will be cooler today for some under hazy, smoky skies. Not expecting much of a seabreeze but it may kick in later. Temperatures temperatures heading down on the coast. One more hot day for those away from the coast but all signs are pointing toward a down on thursday and continuing into friday and saturday. We are staying on top of the breaking news in the north bay where several fires forced new evacuations over net. The leaders the latest on the firefights. And joe biden is officially the democratic nominee for president. 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The Golden State Warriors it with a new court order to pay 49 million that the team owed to oracle arena in oakland after the warriors moved to San Francisco. The warriors have been battling with the oakland Alameda County Coliseum Authority over who would pay off the debt from upgrades at what is now called the oakland arena. An arbitrator and a lower court judge ruled in the Appellate Courts favor throwing at the warriors argument that they no longer had to pay it after they left for san camera video showing in Alameda County sheriffs deputy pushing the teams president. That video was released yesterday as part of a counter lawsuit against alan strickland. The Deputy Sheriff who filed the lawsuit earlier this year against the mba. Ktvu obtained new video of that confrontation from last years nba finals. A fan described what he saw when you jerry walked onto the court after the raptors beat the warriors. He went to stop him and put his arm on his chest and the gentleman pushed his arm away and the policeman then shoved the gentleman in the gentleman shoved the policeman back. Strickland sued and claimed his injury will lead to some permanent disability. But the other lawyers said that strickland used unnecessary and excessive force. Caught on camera, look at this video of a mountain line. Hes sitting by strain in evergreen, colorado. It was taken by a trail camera that caught them outlining getting a drink from that little water. A nice peaceful picture on this busy morning. We do have breaking news this morning. Wildfires running from northwest vacaville south to Santa Cruz County exploding overnight. Live with the new evacuation was just issued and the firefight underwent. As those fires continue to grow, california now under a state of emergency. What is being called in to help firefighters out there on the front lines. Several places in the east bay are still in the dark after rolling blackouts from the weekend. What pg e said cause those outages. Good morning. It is wednesday, august 19. When you peek out the window, you think its overcast but not where i am living. A cloud of smoke drifted south. We are covered in it now. Truck same thing here in the east bay i opened the window for a crack and smelled smoke and quickly shut it is bad and several major fires burning in the bay area. Steve tells us theres a tiny bit of relief in some parts but not a big cooldown that we were hoping for. Truck may be tomorrow. Coast and bay are cooling down a little bit. Inland temperatures will still be in the 90s and 100s. But there is smoke and haze everywhere. A northerly direction northwest to southeast. There is so many fires. The higher clouds are gone. So it wont be as humid. All this fire activity is bad. Be very careful towards 128 and vacaville. A north wind their. Temperatures in the 80s in the Higher Elevations. Very tough fire finding for the hennessey fire and all the fires inland even in the Santa Cruz Mountains. 60s and 70s with ash falling in San Francisco. And vacaville, 79 with an east wind. That is not good. That will make it really tough and a lot deck which is cleared now is being replaced by the haa break breeze for some but for many it will be another day where temperatures are above average a special inland. Turning down though in the coast and bay. Because of all the slow traffic on 80 westbank, heading up from fearful to the Cordelia Junction, because of an early crash involving a big rig. Also a second crash in this area has been affected by. We hope that a lot of the lanes have been cleared that things will even out. You can see 37 is also slow heading west toward sears point. Highway 4 through bay point is slow. And then getting onto 880, driving from san lorenzo to heyward and heading south, that has been very slow. A bridge improving on the way to San Francisco. Breakinear vacaville. Flames are burning homes. We learned there are injuries as a group of northbay wildfires exploded in size overnight. We are live with an update. Reporter as of 7 am, the lmu lightning complex burned 72 square miles and is 0 contain. We have a photographer in Solano County and he does have his camera up so we can get a live picture of what this fire looks like now. He is on English Hills row which is between vacaville and winters. You can see there is thick black smoke billowing from what was a structure, possibly home. We dont know exactly. He sent us a picture 20 minutes ago and it was a picture of what appeared to be a home on fire and this is what is left. There are cars on that property and flames still coming up from whatever was burning. Also that thick black smoke on English Hills road. The lmu lightning complex group about 22 square miles overnight and continues to threaten homes. 50 structures have been destroyed and 50 more damage while 1900 are threatened. The fire chief said upwards of 3000 homes in the north end of the vacaville are threatened as well. This complex is made up of the seven fires. Hellfire said it started by lightning and four people have been hurt. We dont know the extent of those injuries are cal fire said air resources are stretched thin because of multiple fires throughout the region. Several Evacuation Orders in napa, solano and Sonoma County. Solano county also are solar hills, Pleasant Valley road and connected streets and also all of English Hills are being told to leave. People living with of Browns Valley parkway, fruitville and north orchards and west of blue ridge road 250 505 n. Of terry glenn road to highway 128 should also evacuate. Or Evacuation Orders could be issued. The fairfield and Vacaville Police department sent out advisories for residents and to be prepared to leave if necessary. In napa county, the fire moved toward the atlas peak, soda candy, several ohioans areas overnight. If youre in any of these errors, fire Officials Say leave if you dont feel safe. We spoke to one man and vacaville who said he is staying on his property to keep an eye on things while his wife backed up. The wife left and grabbed the pets and all the important papers out of the safe. And pictures that were irreplaceable. Reporter there are Evacuation Centers set up at Crosswalk Community church in napa. The mcbride senior center. And Vacaville Skate Center in vacaville we also know that hayden, fairmont and sierra vista Elementary Schools in vacaville are now Evacuation Centers. Animals can be brought to the napa county animal shelter, Sonoma County fairgrounds, Solano County fairgrounds over Solano County animal shelter. If in a vacuum he does go to one of the shelters, they ask that they wear a mask and practice social distance. There are several fires burning around the bay area prompting new mandatory evacuations. In northwestern Sonoma County, the 13 4 fire is now called the walbridge fire for this tripled in size overnight to 1500 acres. Of Evacuation Orders went out to committees including grenville, gender, and other parts north of the Russian River. Containment burns west of healdsburg. It has definitely grown. You can see billowing smoke now and the breeze is pulling it toward us. I thought it was going the other way but the way the winds keep changing back and forth, its just a scary. Smoke from the fire is now over central Sonoma County. Gray ash has been falling on highway 101. To the coast for an update of fires burning in parts of san mateo and santa cruz counties. Our calling this the cz you complex fire. The fire grew from 7500 to 10,000 acres, 22,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. Last night we saw a major increase in fire activity throughout both of san mateo and santa cruz counties. We saw several of the fires merge together. Essential it made a significant run into Santa Cruz County. We can confirm overnight that the fire activities increased and consumed at least 10,000 acres we conducted significant evacuations of over 22,000 people between San Mateo County and santa cruz counties combined. The fire itself is headed in a southeasterly direction. Attended from the San Mateo County line down into Santa Cruz County in a southeasterly direction. We do have committees out in front of this bar at this time. With that in mind, over 6000 structures have been asked to evacuate the out the entire fire area. This is a very active timber fire burning in two counties with a serious threat to both Public Safety and for structures out in front of it. Cal fire says properties have been destroyed and possibly homes but it is too early to determine the specific number of houses that have burned in this particular fire. Pescadero high school and the santa cruz auto tear auditorium are being used as shelters. Our coverage continues throughout the day here on air and online and on the ktvl news app. We are sending out breaking news alerts 24 hours a day. This is available on apple and android systems. Today, a noon News Conference by Governor Newsom where he will discuss the natural disasters and Health Crisis facing our state. We will bring this to you at the new newscast but he will update the public on the Emergency Response to California Wildfires as well as the states power supply and how it is handling the ongoing heat wave. All of this is happening in the middle of a covid19 pandemic so we will hear from the governor today live a noon. California is under a state of immensity because of offers per the governor said the declaration provides more resources to put out the fires while offering additional help to affected communities. The california National Guard is being mobilized to help local agencies with emergency operations. Today the state is asking all of us to conserve electricity again so that there are no rolling blackouts moving forward. Cal iso issued a flex alert as more hot temperatures are forecast for a large portion of the state to date are people and businesses did cut back their power usage enough yesterday to avoid blackouts but several places are still on the dark including livermore neighborhoods that had several Power Outages lasting for hours at a time since the weekend. There are some frustrated people and people that are not getting work done and no schoolwork done. Support design or poor maintenance or some kind of lack of upgrades because 100 degrees are normal for the city of livermore. P jenny said the heat wave has caused equipment failure and a spokesman said that the utility understands how difficult it is when power is lost but also says that thats especially true during a heat wave. Pg e set up a website to see if you will lose power if rolling blackouts occur. Go to our website and look for it under web links. A traumatic so many difficult things converging all at once. Steve, we are looking for a change in the weather. I think it was yesterday afternoon when livermore was one of four with a west wind at 25 maspero. Miles per hour. Under the bill. Six days in a row for some inland areas that will be near 100 again or over. We had a lot of 104 two 108 essay. Relentless heat. There are signs that we will start to cool down work every things coming out of the northwest or out of the north northeast. All of these fires are driving smoke over many locations in the bay area. Everywhere im linking, im seeing smoke and haze. Hennessy road south at 1400 feet is still 84 degrees with 11 emitted. A high in the 100s to date. The hennessy fire made an unbelievable fast move toward winters and vacaville on. Temperatures are in the 80s with humidity at 14 . A northerly direction with a bad direction. 72 in napa. In the Santa Cruz Mountains its a northerly breeze. Felton has a northwest. Thats what the captain was talking about driving that far from northwest to southeast. Cooler on the santa cruz coast but upper 60s and 70s ever us. Mary warm, hot conditions inland. Is and smoke with temperatures near 100 again today. The good news it looks like we are starting to pick up some cooling at the coast and bay. Tomorrow it may kick in. 70s, 80s and 90s and one more day of 100s and then signs of a more west southwest trees with higher committee. I hope so. Today will still be tough for firefighting. It looks cool as we head toward the end of the in Person Learning to Online Learning during the pandemic has been financially hard for so many families. Coming up, how many parents now say they have gone into debt. Fires in the north bay and there are also wildfires in the east bay. The latest on efforts to contain these as evacuations continue on this wednesday morning. Weve always made quality furnishings for the many people. And when we sell many of them, we make them more affordable. To us, that just makes sense. Ikea. Make the dream yours. More than a dozen fires burning across the bait area. One particular area officials are, on the scu lightning complex fire took these fires started early sunday morning when lightning hit eastern alameda and contra costa counties. Heres the latest from cal fire on this fire. Reporter good morning. In the last hour complex fire a information that we wanted to share with you. Things are still very serious right now in terms of how this is developing. Lets look at the numbers so you can get a good idea of where this situation is. Evacuations are underway and more potential comic. The numbers on the screen. 85,000 acres burned. Only five descent contain. About 1400 structures threatened but nothing has been dissed worried or damaged yet. This is a massive fire about 20 separate fires they have broken into three zones. Canyon zone, calaveras zone and dears on spread across several counties. When you look at the terrain that fire crews are doing with, cal fire said some of this is terrain with little to no fire history. That means there is a lot of fuel to burn for this fire to go through because it has not earned before. Thats why you are seeing the spread. Overnight they saw the spread with the medium spotting that happens when the wind picks up embers and moves them to other places. All containment lines were tested. Only 5 containment now. Crews will scout for Access Points today because some of these errors are hard to reach. If they will try to make structures their priority and making sure they try to protect those 1400 structures. That means that residents will have Evacuation Orders in effect. All of Morgan Territory and the marsh creep creek mobile home park. In santa clara 130 highway to the santa clara line. West of San Antonio Valley road. East of Three Springs road and Mount Hampton road. There is an Evacuation Center on younger evidence at the center clara county Sheriffs Office. Multiple road closures in the area and more neighborhoods in alameda and santa clara counties under evacuation warnings which mean they need to be ready to go at any time. This is a developing situation with a lot of weather and crews are stretched very thin. We will continue to update this for you. We are beginning to see some clogged roads for evacuations may be and also because of some accidents out there. We have seen some improvement in Solano County on interstate 80 heading out to 680 where there was a truck accident earlier. There is slow traffic on highway 12 getting over 229 and on 37. 37 is slow getting out of the lay hope. Highway 4 is slow over the hill over the bay point area to concord. If youre looking at the east bay, most of the east bay is okay. 880 is recovering after earlier trouble on 880 near heyward work we still have slowing from 230 down to 92. Highway 24 looks okay. A lot of smoke in these pictures. At the bay bridge looks like it has been improved now as we drive toward San Francisco. Speaking of the weather and the smoke, lets go to steve. If you know your weather, you have your favorite website. Look at the california visible satellite. You can see there is an amazing amount of smoke showing up there. That is what we sing with a lot of reports of ash falling as well. There is just so many fires and is so numerous that everything is coming out of the north. Is driving a lot of smoke but especially from the Santa Cruz Mountains. That fire is dragging across tremendous amounts of snow mocha so no break today. We were talking about brentwood at 79 degrees. 80s on some temperatures with humidities in the teens. Not a good day for many firefighting unless you are near the coast. A cooler pattern there. Also into Santa Clara County with 84 degrees. 14 humidity the wind speeds are not high but it will still be hot. Not as humid but hot and very dry. 60s and 70s to the 80s with hazy skies for all. Continued hot inland and cooling in the coast and debate. Bigtime going tomorrow but conversely its not kicking into the delta yet. Vacaville went east and at 82 degrees now. Strong northwind coming in there. Not much help for firefighting. Tomorrow i do and thursday i dimly do. Here are the remains of genevieve moving north over the next couple of days. It will be on the Southern California coast on sunday and hopefully doesnt bring thunderstorms and lightning up to us. We need to watch that as we head to early next week. Significant cooling on the way toward the end of the week and then it will level it off on the weekend. A School District and families grapple with the question of when and how to get children back in the classroom safely, some teachers are proposing Something Different when it comes to Online Learning. That unique alternative, an expert and a major stone in the tech world and what apple has accomplished despite the pandemic and worldwide shutdowns. Apple is the first u. S. , and he with a market value of the 2 trillion. Apple shares gained nearly 60 percent this year as the company overcame the shutdown to factories in china and the closure of its stores amid the covid19 pandemic. Todays news comes two years after apple became the First Company to reach the market value of one turn dollars. 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Stay with ktvu this evening for continuing coverage of the dnc are the main speakers will be shown on era i never entered her imprint at 7 pm. Coverage next week of the rebel, National Convention as well. Truck still to come, and update on the breaking news. While five years burning south to santa cruz,. And the new Evacuation Orders. Also powerful and emotional statements from the victims of the Golden State Killer. What they said as the judge gets ready to hand down the sentence. Burned overnight as a cluster of authors got bigger. We are live with the latest on the wildfires in san mateo and santa cruz counties and around the bay area. Also, one of the largest covid 19 test site in Northern California is in the south bay. How many thousands of tests will be provided every day. And what you need to get one. It is now a third one aim. A very busy morning pete i woke up and i did not smell smoke but i knew what was going on as soon as i cracked the window, i smelled it. Alltoofamiliar for us in the beer air. You knew it was coming. Maybe in october or september this is a little bit early but we had nd and now we have 100,000 acres on are in and around the bay area. We are looking for good news when it comes to temperatures. Tomorrow and thursday and friday for sure we will have some relief. There were 7000 lightning strikes late saturday into monday statewide. That will do it. Unfortunately there is a possibility of this happening again late sunday and monday from another system which might bring in tropical clutch. Hopefully not. We need to watch that. There is just so much smoke and haze in the air. I could smell and walked out front and smelled it. There is too many active buyers and everything is coming out of the north. The hennessey fire made a huge push overnight toward vacaville pick thats how humid it is but no, how low the humidity is. And how that time pictures are so high. High fire conditions continue with the smoke and ash reports even in San Francisco. Excessive heat warning for inland areas for one more day. We cant get around it. Highs trending down coast and bay. One more hot date inland but it does look cooler for all. We need higher humidity. We will check cordele yet because right now we have some slow traffic in fairfield. However the Cordelia Junction has improved. So has some of the traffic around their. 37 is still slow heading toward huge point. Highway 4 is improving as well. Some improvement as this 8 00 our wares on. Interstate 880 slowing down but much better than it was on the way down to heyward. Silken belly has not been a fact improvement at the bay bridge. This morning cal fire said People Living near a fire in the san mateo and santa crews county coast should have more evacuations this morning. We are monitoring this changing situation. Lets get the very latest. We are falling what is been called the cz you lightning complex fire. Started out as a series of 22 different lightning sparked fires on sunday but overnight this fire grew and many smaller fires merged into one and cal fire said several structures have already burned in san mateo and Santa Cruz County as a result of these fires took the latest Evacuation Orders issued early this morning. A total of 22,000 people since yesterday who are now under mandatory vacation orders per the latest neighborhoods included in those orders are waterman loop, Boulder Creek golf course, bonnie doon ice cream grade roads including pine flat roads south in Santa Cruz County. Cal fire said all neighborhoods adjacent to bonnie doon in the san lorenzo valley should be prepared to leave at a moments notice because the fire is moving in their direction. They are under an evacuation warning me which means be prepared to leave. This cluster of fires has burned 10,000 acres in san mateo and Santa Cruz County. Three firefighters have been injured fighting it but they are expected to recover. Confirms that some structures and possible homes have been destroyed. A woman in Scotts Valley opened her home from a friend playing the fire unit. My daughters best friends had to find a place to stay. They threw their animals and kids in their rv and driving down this way and then my friend who lives close to brookdale be caused they evacuated all the way to brookdale. She came over at midnight last night so she is staying downstairs at my house with her cats. I was hoped it would never happen to s that have happened in the last few years. It is really scary. The train is steep and difficult and they share lack of Resources Available due to state light activity has hampered our effort significantly. The areas under mandatory Evacuation Orders in san mateo to include the Dearborn Park neighborhood. Pescadero creek county park. Also south skyline boulevard near highway 9, portola redwood state park. Russian ridge open space. Santa cruz county fairgrounds has been set up as an Evacuation Center. And santa matteo county the Pescadero High School is evacuation tempered cal fire said the resources fighting the fire have been constrained. Not just because of all the fires happening across the state. There are resources being diverted all throughout california but also on this particular, there is such heavy smoke that they cant get their aircraft into drop fire retardant on the flames. That is hamper the fire continues to move in a southeasterly direction from San Mateo County further into Santa Cruz County. Five friends will work double shifts on these fire lines. Breaking news. A destructive fire burning in the north bay pick here are pictures taken from earlier this morning of one fire that is part of the lmu lightning complex fires. These are burning in napa, napa and solano and sonoma counties. North of vacaville. Vacaville Fire District said the fire jumped to this road and evacuations are now in effect. The Solano County Sheriffs Office say that people working west of blue ridge road to highway 505 and north of terry glenn road 21 28, must evacuate now. They announce the Evacuation Order means immediate threat to life. It came over the hill and within 30 minutes it was on top of us. So we just are doing everything we could, cutting fire minds and loading up all the dogs and cats that we could catch. Some firefighters out there say they are just overwhelmed by the intensity and the spread of the lightning sparked fires with containment at this point at 0 . The lmu lightning complex fires involve eight fires including hennessey, gamble and the walbridge buyers combined. They burned more than 46,000 acres or 72 square miles. Containment at 0 , 50 homes destroyed so far and another 1900 threatened. An evacuation warning is in place for a new fire in marin county. This one is called the woodward fire pickett has burned more than 700 acre so far at point reyes. Bring county fire said it started district of noon near the water trail. Smoke could be seen across marin county, San Francisco and parts of the east bay yesterday. Crews say the area is difficult to access. No injuries or structures damaged. Lightning is suspected to cause a star but we will learn more from fire officials later this morning. We will bring that info to you. Our coverage of the wildfires continues 24 7. On the air come ktvu. Com and the ktvu news at. Is available for apple and android operating systems. Today and tomorrow, Joseph Dangelo will hear more from his victims who survived his attacks. One by one, all this week, the survivors have provided victim impact statement in court describing how dangelo terrorized them decades ago. Dangelo pleaded guilty in june to 13 murders and dozens of. While some survivors of relatives of victims have forgiven him, others wish he on them. The former Police Officers was linked through the tech through dna and will be formally sentenced on friday to multiple sentences of life in prison. Officials say the number of new covid19 cases is trending down in california. This morning there are more than 638,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus interstate. More than 11,500 people died. The state said 10 million tests have been conducted. Hospitalizations and icu admissions are on the rise pick now to the south bay where Santa Clara County has one of the largest covid19 test sites in all of Northern California. A highcapacity test site is located at the county fairgrounds. It will provide 5000 tests per day. Right now walk up and drive through testing is by appointment only. Thousands of worker and Sonoma County will get financial help if they contract covid19. Supervisors approved a plan to require most employers to grant 80 hours of paid sick leave to employees infected with c virus. If they have to care for a child or Senior Family member when a school or caregiving facility close because of ours. The ordinance applies to workers at about 12,000 businesses in unincorporated hearts of Sonoma County. Small Business Owners pushed against the law saying they cannot afford that much paid leaned as are some of them have been close for months. Weather is hampering the firefight and dangerous for those people who have breathing conditions. Very hot and smoke. And maybe theres no electricity. Truck i am showing you some satellite images now that the smoke is visible and there is a tremendous amount from multiple fires. The one west of healdsburg as it goes down only to petaluma and even into San Francisco. Look at the hennessey fire. Over winters, vacaville and look at that smoke drifting over parts of vallejo as well. The fire and Sonoma County, there is too much warm air law. 81 degrees. 11 humidity northwest at 10. To the Santa Cruz Mountains, watch out for this fire as well. The san mateo with smoke drifting across san jose. Even out to the valley. A tremendous amount of smoke so that will be with us for a couple of days until we get a more west southwest trees but right now its northwest across the board. North in the sonoma mountains. Atlas peak road, 88 degrees with a northeast at 11. Thats why the hennessey fire exploded overnight. The temperatures are so warm with north wind and humidity is really low. I75 in napa. American canyon at 70. If these closer to the coast. Tough for firefighting conditions today but it looks cooler coast and bay. Temperatures running in the heat category with very little help. High fire conditions with smoke and ash. Hazy conditions and still hot inland for one more day. Smoke and haze but we will get fog coming in from monterey and coming down the coast. A tough day inland with 90s and 100. By tomorrow, the high gets moved out and it will open the door for cooling. Cooling for all on friday and carry that into center. Offering a reset roadmap to the nations response to the pandemic. Still to come, the social me of american medical colleges talks about limiting the spread of the spirit and still had come after more than on the upcoming election. Superfast internet. Its a beautiful thing. Superfast internet with an xfinity flex 4k streaming device included . Even beautifuler. And now flex also comes with peacock. Ooh la la. This rare bird lets you stream tons of movies, shows, news, sports and more. And withand call. Show me parks and rec see . The best really did get better magnificent. Switch to xfinity internet and get a flex 4k streaming device with peacock premium included for no additional cost. As schools across the country debate on whether driven for in person classes, some local educators are offering different options. A nationwide initiative to encourage schools to head outside. Teachers and since gather under tensile canopies for class, lunch, and recessed. If they have to adjust for weather they go inside and wear masks. One advocate said that the benefits go well beyond helping to stop the spread of covid19. The experience with kids that are outside and when they are really immersed in nature and understanding how our planet works, they are much more grounded. Holding class outside is less expensive than overhauling a traditional indoor classroom for the concept about her learning was used during the spanish flu and tb epidemics. For many things, new financial concerns are only adding to the stress of Remote Learning during the pandemic made a new survey says half of parents spec to spend more on School Supplies this year compared to last. A third say they dont feel financially prepared to pay for Distance Learning pick one course at their to take on on debt. Food as a nafta provide breakfast and lunch for the children. Many children from low income families normally get free or reduced cost meals at school. Some districts are still providing that service through food pickups at school sites. New for survey Shows One Third of americans intend to vote by mail in the upcoming november election. The survey done by the Democracy Fund found that 37 of registered voters say they are likely to vote by mail in the election. 40 of voters who say they plan to vote for biden said they are likely to boat by millwall 23 are backing President Trump say they will use mail and ballots. The postmaster general now says he will hold off on any more operational changes at the post office after the accident. Criticism that changes were made caused delays in mail delivery and would interfere with the Timely Delivery of mail and balance for the election. Bay area members of Congress Held News Conferences yesterday at post offices including the House Speaker nancy pelosi, calling for an investigation of the postmaster generals plans. I dont trust the postmaster general and what he said and if hes sincere about it, it means the bully has backed off. The postmaster general said the changes he made at the Postal Service are aimed at saving money. Two dollars and cents, you may have to pay more to ship some items this holiday season. Fedex has announced it will add a surcharge to certain Home Deliveries and packages that it hands off to the u. S. Postal service prophetic that the extra fee is to help the company continue to provide customers with the best possible service during this challenging time. The residential Delivery Charge on expressing Ground Services runs through november and mediator. The first harry potter movies a big hit again. Harry potter and the sorcerers stone sold 13 million of tickets in china that pushed its gross ticket sales passed 1 billion nearly 20 years after it was originally released in theaters. Since suitors are not releasing new movies, theater owners in countries where it is considered safe to go to the movies are showing old movies that were popular the first time around. Truck it has been a while since ive actually gone to a movie theater. Also it has been a wild since ive dumped on the road and committed to wowe look. Truck we are looking better. Ro then things started tearing up. Looking at the east bay where we had a rough commute into heyward because of earlier issues. That is getting better. Bay bridge commute has improved quite a bit in the east bay commute seems better than it was. Lets bring steve back in with todays weather. Lets look at the satellite images. You can get a good idea of the smoke that is being generated by all these fires. You can see how this is traveling along the 10 one quarter. And then right over the bay. Look at the smoke toward the back of bill. Even over to antioch. And in the west marin fire, the woodworth. That is dragging west of San Francisco going into the san mateo coast. Coming in for Sonoma County and goes over oakland, San Francisco and down to the palazzo to the bay and heading toward the santa clara valley. In the Santa Cruz Mountains you can see the smoke drifting in. It will be a very hazy, smoke day. The airflow at 2000 feet is out of the north. No way around it. In the ccu lightning complex via, i see a northerly breeze with temperatures at 60s and 70s for everybody. It is cooler near the coast. Look at the temperatures already with campbell at 73. It will be very hot with tough firefighting conditions. 70s and 80s but cooler coast and bay. The fog will make a little push south and north. It will make a bigger factor later tonight into tomorrow. Hazy smoky skies with continuing heat inlet. Multiple signs of smoke and haze of the coast. Fog is beginning to form and it will play into the weather. Next sunday medic, the remains of genevieve which is a category 3 moving up the coast will fall apart. Hence that some of that mister could work its way toward us and we will see. The model has backed up a little bit as we dont want more lightning or thunderstorms here. 70s and aiding still with one more day of 100 inlets. Significant cooling. Heading into thursday and friday. Coming up on the nine, offering to help parents and students were struggling with Distance Learning. In minutes, one of my Favorite Places to go. The space and Science Center stepping inversely to help it we will talk more about todays servo or survival guide. If you havent done this, now is a perfect time. You can get the Morning Headlines delivered right to you when you sign up for the new ktvu newsletter. Go to ktvu. Com email and sign up for this daily service. The California Highspeed Rail Authority will hold a public hearing this afternoon, the monthly Virtual Meeting will focus on the environmental report, on the track located between san jose and San Francisco. There could be bay area tolls down the road, the metropolitan Transportation Commission is exploring the idea of charging a toll on all freeways where there are multiple transit options. According to the chronicle, the commission outlines a plan to lower the speed limit to 55 on freeways for safety concerns. All of this is part of a proposal to help meet a 19 percent reduction in Greenhouse Gas emissions by the year 2050 as required by state law. The giants will continue against the Los Angeles Angels tonight, mike had a big game yesterday in the giants win over the angels, making a diving catch to and the second inning. He had a sixth home run, the most of the giants this season. The giants 182. Todays game starts at 6 45 p. M. Lets say that again. Giants one,2. A court is ordering the Golden State Warriors to pay 49 million they owe after the team packed up and left oakland to San Francisco. The lawyers and the Oakland Alameda Coliseum Authority have been going back and forth over who is going to pay off the debt from upgrades to what is called the oakland arena. A lower court judge has ruled in the Appellate Courts favor just missing the lawyers argument that they no longer had to pay after leaving for San Francisco. The Toronto Raptors released body cam video showing a deputy pushing the teen president area the video was released yesterday as part of a counter lawsuit against alan strickland, a deputy who filed a federal lawsuit against the National Basketball association. We also obtained video of the scuffle, if and describing what he saw when he tried to walk on the court after the raptor fight. He went to stop him, put his arm on his chest, the gentleman pushed his arm away and the policeman, the sheriff then shoved the gentleman, and the gentleman shoved the policeman back. S injury will result in permanent disability. Firefighters are working very hard into the Daylight Hours to put out wildfires that are burning across the bay area, from solano to Santa Cruz County. We have the latest Evacuation Orders in place and to the progress that emergency crews have made so far. California is under a state of emergency to to the fires, we have the way that they are gaining the upper hand over the flames. The democratic National Convention formally nominates joe biden as their nominee, we will have a recap of the Convention Last night and look at what is coming ahead, tonight