That is myers starting to move down along the coast. We are not done yet, the it is a busy morning. Thousands of acres burn across woodward fire in marin county several bay area counties, is also sending in plumes of homes have been destroyed. People are forced to evacuate, smoke, ive been looking at the and the weather is not letting up. It is like we dont know where to start. San mateo coast, you can see the smoke looking all the way lets dive right into it, down the peninsula, then, of course, look at all the smoke we are going to start in the north bay where we have seen thats boring right there, and several structures go up in now, you get into santa cruz flames, residents say they had very little time to react, as the fire spread so quickly. This is all part of the l and county and into the santa cruz you lightning complex fire, we mountains, the smoke is blowing toward san jose, you can see it right there. We have unbelievable amounts of smoke getting caught up in the have been following the story all morning long, and, were north wind, that is continuing talking about tens of thousands of acres just in this complex of fires. For the day. There is a signed of the wind that is right, it has been a chaotic morning. Solano county is being hit hard blowing in different directions, you can see how by that lightning complex. Smoky it is, livermore is already 80 degrees, its another day near 100, hazy and smoky skies, ash has been reported for san jose there are more mandatory evacuations, but residents need there are hints of a little to be aware of this and solano west wing. You can see, also county. Rockville road, sassoon valley road, Golden Valley road, Wooden Valley road, clayton road, shelton lane, and north and west Browns Valley road. Hercules with the northwest, we if youre watching this, and need the westerly wind and higher humidity to come in, that is blowing smoke in the other direction i think, until you live inimmediately. That time, tonight or tomorrow we deal with a lot of smoke and haze king will fall apart and we have life pictures to share with you. Her photographer is on English Hills road, this area has been evacuated but is telling us that earlier two homes burned to the ground. You can see the charred remains, calling tropical clouds, the last thing we need are more thunderstorms, we need to watch out for that late into the weekend and early next week we have highs today and another 100 degree day. It looks cooler and its cooler for all as we go into friday. And how dark the sky is they cant get here soon enough. Are. Definitely a devastating scene on English Hills road. This is in the vaca valley area. As a 7 00 this morning, the lightning complex has burned 72 the states power grid operator square miles and ze50 have been is calling on everyone to conserve electricity again, so that will have to wire rolling blackouts. Yesterday, people in businesses damaged. The fire chief said that upwards of 3000 homes in the north end of town are did enough to conserve enough electricity to avoid outages in the bay area. Threatened. Now, more on other power problems that are happening the complex is made up of seven around the bay area. Joke at fires. California fire says it happen by lightning strike, and for people up and heard. The high of tuesdays triple digit heat in livermore, sean in addition to the new evacuation orders that we had was charging his phone in his just shared, there are several car, keeping his elder deed dog other orders in napa, sonoma cool after the power went out and solano counties. For the third day in a row. There are frustrated people here, people who are not getting work done. Reporter since early sunday, he and his neighbors on the citys Northwest Side have these are some of them. Been dealing with intermittent in Solano County, soler hills, outages, lasting for several hours. Gibson canyon road, Pleasant Valley road and connecting states, with all of english this is forcing them to leave their homes, during the hills are being told to leave. Pandemic to seek relief. And napa county the fire moved towards the atlas peak soda canyon silverado islands areas overnight. You are jumping into anything with air conditioning, if you are in any of the areas, your car, costco, target. Reporter seans neighbor, fire Officials Say leave if you do not feel safe. We spoke to one man who explained a chaotic situation 11yearold brea, is worried around his home, and good news about school. That he is able to walk away with. I cant log into my school the fire was coming in and account my teacher keeps asking burning all around us. It burned around the property here and burned our barn down. Me to see my classes but i cant, its really hard. We saved a bunch of stuff out reporter pg e cited of the barn but we lost a bunch equipment failure, whats also as well. The important thing was saving frustrating is some residence in livermore are not dealing house, saving the pets, and nobody got hurt. With unannounced outages, they were notified they could be there are Evacuation Centers subject to rolling blackouts. Set up at the crosswalk, the luckily , known of those were triggered on tuesday night, mcbride senior center, and the back of l skate center in vacaville. They noted high Wind Energy Production and consumer conservation kept electricity flowing. Fairmont and sierra elementary schools, and Joseph NelsonCommunity Centers are now Evacuation Centers. The last time this type of power outage happened, it was two decades ago. Reporter roll in outages are rare, too early to tell if this weeks issues were caused animals can be brought to the by poor planning by and napa county animal shelter. Operators. The Sonoma County fairgrounds, we understand its extremely Solano County fairgrounds or Solano County animal shelter. Frustrating and, we want to it is important for you to pay make sure that we keep our attention to the evacuation customers asked energized. Orders. More evacuation orders could be reporter they set up a tool where customers can type in issued. Their address and see if there the Fairfield Police department and the vacaville Police Department have put residence on alert, that they may need to evacuate at a moments notice. Area was scheduled for a rotating outage, should it be it is very important to get necessary in another part of your bags ready to go. Thank you, we are also livermore, this resident was without power for four days, relying on a generator and now demanding answers. Is it poor design or poor maintenance or lack of up100 d keeping an eye on the wildfire that is spreading across Northern California and the ongoing heatwave. City of livermore. It is only helping the fires grow. Issues a statewide happening today and tomorrow, the golden state killer, joseph dangelo, will emergency is a heatwave with here for more victims who assigned their attacks. Low humidity and high winds can send you to fuel more than two dozen wildfires across the these survivors have provided victim impact statements in court describing how they state. The move by the governor is an effort to secure outofstate firefighting help as state resources are stretched thin. Terrorize them decades ago. Dangelo pleaded guilty in june to 13 murders and dozens of rapes. Some survivors and we have low temperatures, low relative humiditys, it is relatives of victim say that they have forgiven him, but making this a very challenging others say they wish he would feel the pain he inflicted on some of his victims. He admitted that he cause all of the suffering and misery to so many victims over the past 40 years but he is an evil monster with no soul. Fight. But the thousands are under evacuation orders, including where the hennessy fire continues to burn out of control. At three different times i the fire caused by lightning has caused 10,000 acres to burn. Evacuations were also ordered for the scu lightning complex fires at the Santa Clara County thought i was going to die. I line. The fires burned 35,000 acres. We will see additional structures destroyed. We are seeing a lot of extreme sang jesus loves me in my head fire behavior, rapid rates of spread. Explosive growth. As i waited. 40 Million People in the i to die. Western United States are now under an excessive heat warning facing triple digit the Police Officer was linked temperatures. To the the attacks and through the heatwave puts stress on the dna he will formally be sentenced to multiple sentences electrical system of the state. Of life in prison. The power grid operator pleaded with residents to conserve coming up on mornings on 2, energy in order to avoid rotating blackouts. Offering help to parents of the heated stinging my eyes. You are like wrapped up in an oven. Reporter the weather is supposed to cool down, but the students struggling with distancelearning this year. Weather service warms a good warmup again this weekend. How the Science Center is stepping up to help in todays in los angeles, jeff paul, School Survival guide. [narrator] did you just reward yourself mornings on fox 2. Our coverage of the wildfire continue on air and online and on our ktvu news app. We are sending breaking alerts 24 hours a day. It is available for apple and android operating systems. Steve, as we heard the firefighters say, he was talking about low humidity and hot temperatures with winds. Awful for firefighters. For spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub . Rewarded get a free delivery perk when you order. I would agree, today, there are signs for the next 2436 [group] grubhub. Hours we will have a west wind and fog coming back. It will help. Today will be a tough day. There are so many of fires and the smoke is filtering and for everyone. West of hillsboro, that is the walbridge fire. You can track that smoke as it goes over santa rosa. This also the myers fire by jenner, right along bodega bay. Of course, the hennessy fire. Look at the smoke drifting over vacaville, to antioch, brentwood, and contra costa county. The walbridge take that as much can. Look at the temperatures. 11 percent humidity. It is not good firefighting conditions. The wind is not strong but it is northeast. Had a couple fires as well, the woodlake fire in marin county and multiple fires in santa cruz and san mateo. All of the smoke over san jose and theres a tremendous amount of smoke and haze in the air drifting from northwest to dove exfoliating body polish. Southeast, that is the direction of the fire, wherein lets do this wow, its very creamy. For a lot of fire activity it feels like youre really polishing your skin. Today. Real quick, on the fire im silky and smooth dove exfoliating body polish. Conditions, it is not very exfoliates and nourishes. Good. Northwind, northeast, low humidity. Tough for firefighters. Steve, okay, we will get more directions from officials and Sonoma County, theyre holding a newslightning sparked wildfires, lets listen for the latest. We are going to feel, that before we go to our supervisors for insight on the front lines, chris said, he is going to take a few questions. What i would like you to do is a Sacramento County private to raise your hand if you have School Phases thousands of dollars in fines after public a question and i will call on Health Officials deemed its in violation of covid19 orders, you. Then we can so, i believe Stephanie Nguyen caught up with some frustrated parents of students. Does anyone have any we are trying to abide by the law, were not trying to defy the governor. Questions . Took this parent speaking up in i will start with Daniel Defense of the capital trujillo. Christian school, deemed by daniel . County Health Leaders to be in violation of state covid19 health guidelinesocols with har carl, you may need to unmute. School, before she drops off her kids. No fever, do we . Reporter such as filling out a health survey, social distancing stickers and signs are displayed clearly outside of classroom doors. We believe are doing everything in then some. Reporter ahead of the school showed us classroom set up with limited physical distance seating. Can someone Unmute DanielHand Sanitizer is set up in or . Every quarter. There the only school in the entire county in sacramento okay. Why dont we try got it. County that is doing this, that is open. Reporter under state okay, daniel . Guidelines, and Person Instruction is not allowed for counties o for grades six through 12, it does create opportunities for kids to meet in person, in pods of thank you, chris, it is good to talk to you. One of the questions that we 10 to 12 people. Want to ask is about the today the county issued a notice to the school to close potential evacuation shelters. Or face possible fines of up to 1000 per day. We know about the areas of its important to remember information and resources, but where do we stand on an actual the reason that we are doing this. Shelter for evacuees . We are looking to establish we are not doing this to punish the school. Were doing this to keep the pandemic from getting worse. A shelter initially at the Sonoma County fairgrounds. We expect that to be open this morning. That will limit the number of folks, we are set to ensure covid19 protections are in place. If individuals report as being covid19 positive, or, if they have one or more symptoms of covid19, they will be redirected to an alternate location, and they will not go they benefit with more structure. To the shelter. For a limited there are families that were crying out for this. As schools across the country continue to debate the number of vulnerable weather to open the classrooms individuals, we are referring them to individual hotel rooms. For students this academic year, some educators in the bay area offer up unique options. Will it be just the ones shelter there at the fairgrounds, or will others be added . We may add others. Green schoolyards america has launched a nationwide initiative to encourage schools to head outside. Teachers and students gather we are assessing the number of individuals that are seeking shelter. We are encouraged for the under tensor canopies for lunch number of folks that were able and recess. They have to adjust to take care of themselves, and for weather and they will the residence that are reaching switch to Online Learning or go inside and wear masks. Out and helping those that are millions of bay area families are about your have started the new school year we are going to assess the with distancelearning. Demand at this point and open some parents are struggling to teach their children at home. Additional shelters as needed during the day, as well as a partnership with the city and one of my favorite spots is the community organizations. Throwing open its virtual doors thank you. And, saying that it can make thank you, pat, lets go to julie johnson. Learning a lot more interesting. Hi, good morning. A big question on many peoples minds, is where the aircraft . Given the remote location of good morning. The fires, what do you guys know about that . Good morning. I marty looking for ways to at this time, california get my boys off of their devices, tearing at a screen fire has assigned one can just be miserable. We have provided a new helicopter and one tanker to the fire. We do not expect to see a significant increase in number, online resource that you can due to the large number of find on the website, called the other fires that are currently in other parts of the state. Learning launchpad. Its basically a kind of hands especially ones that are close in, and currently impacting on stem activities that the developed areas like solano kids can do at home, with stuff county. From their home. So, you dont have to go out and buy a bunch of supplies that we try to make it simple. Does that seem i guess we also offer families a variety of virtual programming, what concerns does that bring to you given how you are trying so, you can enjoy Facebook Live to anticipate where the fire will go and how it will be event on the weekly moving today . The book of this fire is either a remote and rural area. Basis. Theres not a significant number of infrastructure that house from to 9 00, virtual te is immediately at risk right viewing and then attribute. Now. If they are secondguessing what to do with the aircraft. What i love about these it is not like last year when activities is they are spelled out, step by step it takes a we had saw a huge wealth of resources that were spilling into the accounting, because the immediate threat it is a few pieces of white bread and ziploc bags, you can find out statewide issue that we are how germy your house is, things that children can do on their own without apparent right over their shoulder. Dealing with in terms of allocations of the resources. It is what it is. Yeah, thank you. Exactly, we try to make it super easy and family fun and friendly for everyone. We are also providing virtual field trips for teachers, so, okay, thank you, lets go to hopefully the teachers find jeannie. Stem resources to activate classrooms through zoom. Doing an excellent job of hi, can i get an update on how many people are under evacuation orders . Giving children handson how many are under warnings to education and fun. Evacuate . I cannot wait to be back up the hills and in touch all the vast majority of the county is under an evacuation order. This includes the western those delicious things you have for us. Reach. We are looking at population any idea when it might open to the public . We are planning for a grand reopening that when we can get all of our family and friends back to cheval. Were gonna be excited about bringing everyone back and we and that area alone, somewhere between eight and 12,000 individuals. This does not include visitors and tourists, or campers. We dont have that number. Are in the midst of covid like everyone else, so we are doing our best from home. We are looking at excess of i hear you. 10,000 individuals, the with this pandemic have evacuation warning areas are two smaller areas that have about 2000 people that live in those areas. You talked with parents or School Districts outside of the bay area . We are part of a giant network of Science Centers across the country. Okay, lets go to carl vandenberg. We have been working with other carl . Science centers and museums to collaborate and talk about whats going on in their area of the country. We hope that the virtual programming, live science shows we are having, Facebook Live, are reaching a broader audience and not just the region but across the country and especially around the new space renaissance thats happening. Hi everyone, i had a question about the extent of people are super excited about the fire, i now, supervisor talking about space. Gordon, he put out information about mcrae ridge road to the absolutely. If you had to highlight one south, and mill creek road to activity that is at this more the north. California fire is not offered is making or the astronaut training . Providers, is that the best what would you like to highlight so people can go information that you have right learn more . I think one of the fun ones that i love is the make your own now . I would add chris that we received a verbal report that the fire has entered on the rope, we talk so much about southern boundary, the northern mars and the space launches, theres a ton of activity about lars and marching in landing and kids can make their own rover, even out of candy. It is really fun. I love it. I can confirm that, i was at like i said before, i have the Russian RiverFire District headquarters, they were experiencing under castanet area and that is now in the driven on a number of field trips and cant wait for that frog pond area, up on the day to come back, enter then we Northern Edge there. Have to do it online. To the north, best estimates . Thank you so much for joining us from the cheval science and. Thank you and thank you for having us. Of course, lets get you to the resources, its all part of ktvus distancelearning toolkit our best estimate up to this point, the concern is not right now, it is where the from emotional support, for parents and students, to fall district is. At noon today, and into the district plans for every bay afternoon, the winds will switch over to a western wind, Area School District you will and that is the danger area for it coming back over the ridge find the School Survival guide, to millcreek and the other rich with resources when you go evacuation, like sweetwater to ktvu. Com and hit the springs, and the other areas. Schools tab. Coming up, making getting a think you all, very much. Lets go to mara arianna. Covid19 test easy. A new brand of athome testing kits and how they work, up next. First of all, i would like to ask you if you can answer in spanish . [ speaking in spanish ] the very latest of the fires burning in Sonoma County, the director of emergency management, a bleak picture of what is happening in the north bay. It is affecting thousands and thousands of people. We learned that the Sonoma County fairgrounds should be set up to serve as a shelter by sometime this morning. This is happening during the pandemic some people say that they are covid19 positive were screened and found to have coronavirus will be directed towards another shelter. The impact of the lightning sparked wildfires and Sonoma County is immense. Where the vast majority of Sonoma County is under evacuation orders were recommendations, 10,000 people were told to leave their homes. We had officials discussed the fact that it is not like last year. Officials said there is no wealth of firefighting resources flooding into the north bay and ordered up at the fires because if you have looked at a map of california and where the major fires are burning, it is up and down the state. What is happening in the bay area is certainly nothing special compared to what is happening in southern california. Resources are thin. It is not the same as last year. We heard the comment saying it is what it is. The men and women on the fire lines are doing the best work. They are getting help from an air attack, but not like what we have seen in years past. We will stand up off what is happening and bring you the information we get throughout mornings on fox 2. We can keep you uptodate online, and on the ktvu news app 247. A being called the scu lightning complex, the first fires were here in the east bay starting early sunday morning, and that is when lightning hit eastern alameda county. Claudine wong is monitoring the situation and that part of the bay area. Bring us the latest from california fire, if you wish. We got an update, every morning we are waiting to see other night went, it was a tough night when you are talking about these fires. The scu lightning complex fire has things that are developing at this hour. Evacuations are underway, and there are potentially more coming. There it is on your screen. 80,000 acres burned. It is five percent contained. Before the updated numbers, it was four percent contained. They have made progress. Officials say new coronavirus cases are trending down in california. 1403 structures are threatened. This morning there are more the good news is that nothing has been destroyed or damaged. Than 638,000 confirmed cases of as you can see, there were a the virus. More than 11,500 people have died. The state says 10 million tests lot of structures and the fires have been conducted, however path. This is a massive fire, it the hospital a since and icu started sunday night. Incidents have risen almost he said it is 20 separate fires. They broke it into three zones, the canyon zone, and, these are anyone can take a covid19 test now, there are new athome test produced by t clinical diagnostics lab. I spoke with the companys chief in santa clara, alameda, san joaquin and lost stennis officer and found out how they counties. When you talk about the terrain, like where the fire is work. Burning, california fire says we have severe systems and its a competitively convenient that some of this is burning, terrain with little to no fire option. Some more able to mail a kit history. What does that mean . Directly to someones home and , after the activate the kit there is a lot i feel the burden. If you look at the hillside, it you answer a few questions is moving up there and there is online. They can do a simple nasal swab a lot for it to overtake. California fire says they saw a so, i think when we first lot of spread and medium started testing, a lot of spotting, it happens when the wind blows. The containment lines, all of them are barely tested. People were concerned about the deep nasal swab, which was a bit uncomfortable and not easy to administer, certainly not they want to hold the number and increase it. Today they will scout access points, there are easy to self administer, but this is easy to do. Do it at home, it takes a few seconds. And then we did the kit back through fedex and, 24 hours later the results are available online. Thats huge, because a lot of people have anecdotally, weve heard, people get a test but then it takes them so long to get it, the speed of which are tested coming back is going to be a big advantage. So the turnaround time is important. Greater than 90 of results are available within 24 hours. We do dropping the sample off. That counts into the turnaround time. Thats what we see, three days, five days, Horror Stories of 7 to 10 days. You think this would reach people who otherwise would not of been tested . I think the short answer is yes. The cities and the counties and music maladies have done a spectacular job of setting up testing. They drive through the walk ups, but still, theres a shortage of appointment, it can be difficult to get an appointment, difficult in general to get access to testing. I think in that case its a wonderful opportunity. There is no shortage or appointment i do it on your own time. I think the convenience and the accessibility having a lot more people that historically do not have testing i will be able to get testing. If theres another emergency or pandemic like this, will we be better prepared . Yes. This has affected our country, its tested our Healthcare System in laboratories. We are 11 we are just doing a small part in this pandemic, but it has tested all of us. Theres been an amazing amount of response. Labs are working together, the cdc, the fda, they deserve a lot of applause, they have , a lot of redtape. Theyve made easier and faster for us to get products and i think weve learned a lot from this i certainly think that should this ever happen again, which hopefully not anytime soon, that our country will be much more prepared. The cost of the test is 119 the fda has allowed the athome testing kits under an emergency right now, we could all use some comforting words, use authorization. So here it goes melty, melty, tasty, grilly, juicy, sizzle. Still following dozens of fires burning in and around the bay area that we will start with mmm, that should feel better. The sourdough patty melt is back. The ellen you lightning complex make it a combo meal for just 5. 99. Fire in north bay, it has melty, melty. Forced mandatory evacuations and burned at least 46,000 acres across napa and parts of Solano Countys. Structures have b theres also the mplex promptin evacuation of close to 22,000 people in both san mateo and santa cruz counties, that one is burned at least 10,000 acres. And east and beyond the scu has burned 85,000 acres across five counties and in marin, the woodward fire has burned 800 acres, stressful moments for bay area communities and firefighters battling out to knock the fires down. We want you to know that coverage will continue of the fires, burning across the bay area online and on our website ktvu. Com and on the ktvu news app. We do have governor newsoms News Conference scheduled for noon, that is still ago. You can watch that right here on ktvu fox 2. And, you know, we knew the fires would come during the pandemic. Then, we and packed with my toasted sourdough bread. Freshly grilled onions, 100 beef. Had lightning strikes in here we go. And two slices of melted cheese. All that with fries and a drink for only 5. 99 its just a very difficult time for so many out there right now. Woah, is there an echo in here . Yes cam ward about air get my sourdough patty melt combo, quality, especially for seniors back on my menu for 5. 99. And people with compromised immune systems. So, obviously, if it serves you to stay in the house, do so. We continue to cover this, all day long. Absolutely. I just cant forget about the people in south bay and livermore who had their power out, not because the utilities to shut it off but because of malfunctioning equipment. They are left without electricity, there is no acn temperatures are in the triple digits its dangerous. Do whatever you can to keep safe. Send a text to your parents. Thank you for joining us. The new shift his online now, Wendy Williams is next. New york city, its the Wendy Williams show. Now, heres wendy [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] wendy hi thank you for watching our show everyone in those areas has been ordered to evacuate and as of overnight they should be out because if not, their life is in danger. Cal fire said all adjacent neighborhoods should be prepared to leave at a moments notice, because the fire is moving that direction. When you see the fire you run. Dont be stupid, dont be brave or anything else, just get your animals and get your stuff. All of your stuff is replaceable. My daughters best friends i kids and animals stay, they in an rv and driving down this way. Then, my friend who lives close to brookdale, because they evacuated all the way to brookdale, she came over at midnight last night and she is staying downstairs with her cats. I hope it would never happen to us. Weve been very lucky with all the fires that happened, it is really scary. The area is under mandatory evacuation and pescadero county creek, south skyline boulevard, but toler redwood state park, middleton tract area, as well. The fairgrounds in watsonville have been set up as an evacuation area. And we are at pescadero high school. Anyone going to the should be mask or Face Covering and practicing physical distancing because of covert concerns. Cal fire says the resources fighting the fire have been constrained, not only because there are files across the state and resources are thin, but this fire has been difficult to do airdrops, and they drop some flame retardant on the fire because of heavy smoke, that is reducing visibility but firefighters on the front lines are being told they have to work double shifts on this fire. Allie rasmus with fox 2 news. The airdrops are so critical in the battle to fight the flames. We returned to Steve Paulson guy had the windows cracked overnight. I woke up to the smell of smoke and im a good 40 miles from the hennessey fire in napa county. I could see the wall of orange. How quickly things