From 11 other states, including as far away as kansas, texas, and montana. The czu lightning complex fire in Santa Cruz County and San Mateo County has now burned 78,000 acres and containment is only at 13 . 176 homes have been destroyed. Cal fire says in San Mateo County, the fire is no longer moving toward lahonda, lolamar, or pescadaa, or moving east to santa clara county. A 79yearold man died, possibly trying to flee the fire in davenport. Four other people are unaccounted for. The deadly lnu lightning complex fire continues to burn through several counties in the north bay. Five people have been killed by the fires there. Three in napa county and two in solano county. According to cal fire, this complex has burned about 547 square miles and is 22 contained. 871 structures have been destroyed. 234 others have been damaged, and more than 30,000 are still threatened. The scu lightning complex fire has grown to more than 347,000 acres. It is burning across 7 counties and is only 10 contained. A dozen buildings have been destroyed, thousands are still threatened. This afternoon, cal fire officials updated People Living near the evacuation zones of the massive scu complex fires. Tom vacar joins us now live with an update. Tom . In this story, youre going to learn something thats a very new twist about evacuations, as we move forward. But as one cal fire chief told me, he says that these fires are very much like running a marathon, and we still have a long, long way to go. Cal fire says it got lucky last night on the scu fire. Very lucky. We were actually aided by the fact that the lightning strikes did not come in the way we expected them toy yesterday, only having started one Additional Fire last night. Reporter but the fire still remains a monster as it grows in two dangerous directions. Our number one priority for this fire will remain this entire western front along within what we call the calaveras zone. A large part of our priority right now is to stop any further southerly movement of the fire. Reporter we drove in Stanislaus County along mines road to livermore, crossing a major southern portion of the scu fire footprint. Much of what we saw was scorched earth of an extremely sparsely populated mountain wilderness. However, we were somewhat surprised to see a number of Still Standing homes and structures that had a lot of well trimmed and clean areas surrounding them. Outbuildings not so well cared for were taken by the fire. We also saw repnants of the firefight that went on here, such as this track of retardant laid down by an aerial tanker. Because folks on delporto road take defensive space very seriously, and the firefighters worked hard, it looks like many of these people will have homes to gotten home to. This childrens playground was virtually untouched. But the park did suffer the loss of the rangers home, a barn, and a small cottage. We frequent lip encountered groups of fire trucks stand big to go on patrol for hot spots. Other troops went to the steep terrain to put hot spots out. A crew from torens used their waiting time and location to take scope rapell training. And there can never, ever be too much training. We are essential living in a mega fire era. Reporter and said chief hess, evacuations will now come earlier. Were going to have to evacuate people more often, and more people. Reporter in remember, the traditionally worst two months of mega fires is still ahead of us, september and october. So youre going to have more evacuations, there are going to be larger evacuations, and very likely, they will last longer. Otherwise, these mega fires present a real and present danger, almost from the beginning. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. I know youre talking about evacuations, tom. In that presser, did they say anything about shelters, and their capacity, given now that we are in the age of covid and people have to social distance . Reporter no, its one of those things where a lot of people are making do, a lot of people are going to friends, and a lot of people are camping out. Weve seen a lot of camping oust going on. So i think that its not something that is, you know, completely thought through. Theyre doing the best they can. But theres only so much space available. But i think as we move on in this, theyre going to have a much better idea. Remember, all of this really just came up about a week ago in an explosive way, and nobody expecting in like this to happen. They knew we would have big fires, but didnt know we would have these lightningdriven mega fires, but now we know the winds are coming the next two months, and that is going to be mega. And they are stretched then right now. Tom, thank you. Lets bring in bill. Thankfully that red flag warning was canceled earlier today. Yeah, yeah, things went pretty well for cal fire last night. We were worried about the thunderstorms, but it was pretty clear by yesterday morning that these storms didnt have the or pack the punch that they did last sunday, and thats what everyone was worried about. Theres lots of fires out there now. Air quality less than mag negative isnt. This is live chopper two, or sky fox. Its heading to the santa cruz fire, as we always monitor that area. There is a spare the air alert out for the whole area. When you get out in the morning, if youre an Early Morning jogger or walker, that smoke wants to silt right down on the ground when it is cool, right . The spoke smoke is right down by where you breathe with that in . Tuesday and wednesday morning, think youll see more of this. Theres the smoke were talking about, or the haze and the par tick lat matter that will linger through wednesday. Back in the Santa Cruz Mountains, these are terrain driven fires, so there is a lot of tough area to get to, so they are really having to basically let some areas burn that they cant get to, because theres not a lot of roads, so its terrain or topically driven terrains are tough. The air has cleared enough now in the Santa Cruz Mountains that cal fire is able to attack that fire from the air. The cal fire, san mateo, Santa Cruz Unit posted this video this afternoon. As you can see, it shows helicopter after helicopter flying in to fill up a bucket of water in that lake. The full clip is two minutes long. During that two minutes, four helicopters are seen filling up with water and flying off to make another drop. Jesse gary joins us in santa cruz tonight where the weather continues are helping fire crews increase containment lines there. Jesse . Reporter julie, good evening to you. A red flag warning issued over the weekend has just been expired here in santa cruz. Thats because of the favorable wind conditions. A large firefighter contingent here around the u. C. Santa cruz campus. That means this area is no longer in direct threat of the flames. But you can see there is still smoke floating over the Santa Cruz Mountains, over the towns along the highway 9 corridor, so crews are using an old technique in hopes of making continued gains in the firefighting effort. Just north of felton, firefighters are taking advantage of cool are temperatures and higher humidity to make gains against the czu august lightning complex fire. The weather is cooperating with our efforts to get those containment lines around those communities that are involved. Reporter firefighters are using fire to fight the 78,000 acre fire, burning potential file fuel before spreading flames reach this site some burn everything. The difficult task in an operation like this, burning the vegetation on the grind, but preventing the flames from going up into the trees. If that happens, the flames could jump the fire lines and make conditions worse. Reporter czu is growing in size, but so is containment. Containment went up to 13 overnight. We have a good handle on the north end of the fire, and down on the coast, some of the fire is actually selfmitigating, as the fire is actually effect ting wishing itself. Reporter so far more than 24,000 structures inner danger of burning, and over 200 have been destroyed in santa cruz and san mateo counties. Pg e crews are patrolling areas for treeing in danger of tomming, and taking utility utility lines to the ground. Its a painstaking process. Its a slow process, but we are continually working on that. Our crews are making advances every day to making that more safe, and getting the Community Back on its feet. Reporter and a lot of people in the community are wondering about when these evacuation orders could be lifted. We have no word on that as yet. Could be another week, possibly, at the longest, maybe a little beyond that, as well, but to definitive word on when they will lift the evacuation orders. You heard julie mention earlier about the aerial drops they are using here in Santa Cruz County. Theyve been doing that, hitting hot spots with the helicopters all day, and that has also aided the effort in Getting Better containment and knocking out these flames, but they have a long way to go. Back to you. Yeah, it was nice to see the air clear just enough for those helicopters and air tankers to get up and fight the flames again. Jesse, thank you. Joining us is daniel from cal fire. Daniel, how stretched right now are firefighters . They must be absolutely exhausted. Well, you have to remember that while this lightning siege has been occurring for just over a week, you know, the week prior, we had several major fires down in southern california, so many of our firefighters have been battling fires down south, have been immediately diverted up here to northern california. See owe so they have been on duty for weeks at a time, though we are bringing new crews from other states. I know him is on the way, but is that enough, or do you still need more . Well, we have brought in about 100 fire engines from a number of the western states. We have several hundred additional orders for more assistance. We have activated the National Guard. Not only using helicopter, several of their c130er craft have been relatetro fitted into air tankers, but we have bells using some of their guard troops as fire crews we trained earlier the year. So were using an all of the above approach right now. And we have to. Some of these firefighters have been on the lines for weeks as a time, as i mentioned, and it is nice, though, to have just a little bit more favorable weather, not only to allow us to build our containment, but also a lot easy inventory fight fire than it was when we had 115degree temperatures. Thousands of buildings threatened in the santa cruz area in the czu fire, and according to the cal fire website, 77,000 supreme been evacuated. How long do you think it might be until they are allowed back into their homes . Its too early to estimate, though we have been able to downgrade a number of the evacuation orders in santa clara county, just on the other side of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Weve been able to reduce those down to evacuation warnings. And on a number of the fire front, weve been able to allow people to get back home. So as we do make more progress, we are working to get homeowners back to their homes, as soon as its safely possible. Is the coronavirus affecting firefighting efforts at all . Covid19 is affecting us, just like its affecting all californians. Weve been planning for this, though, for many, many months. Weve been looking on how to change our tactics, so that we can ensure that wire keeping our employees safe, our firefighters safe, the residents that we protect safe, as well. And so weve made some modifications to how we operate. But we still fight fires the traditional way we do it, but, again, it does have minimal impacts, but not an impact that were going to see in fighting the fire. Well, great job out there by all of the thousands and thousands of firefighters on the front lines. Daniel, we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight. Thank you. Thanks. So they went in there, just hoping they could ride it out. Unfortunately, the fire was so intense. The number of lives lost in the massive fires burning around the bay area is rising. Coming up at 5 30, we speak with a family who rothstein three loved ones in the flames. Zoom had problems for hour this morning. Why the outage affected people who werent even on the Video Conferencing app. And day after day, the skies over the bay area are filled with smoke. Coming up, the longterm impact of this unhealthy air. And when i come back, well look at the potential for some air quality improvement. Also, temperature increase. Well let you know what the timing is on that when i see you next. 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. This is what it looked like in walnut creek within the past hour. From this camera near the 680 highway 24 interchange, its hard to make out mount cubs there in the distance. Reporter a curtain of smoke hovered of the entire bay area again monday, but worse in the east pay near pleasanton. The bad news is, this is the 6th consecutive day and counting of unhealthy air from the wildfires. The spare the air alert has been extended until at least wednesday. The more you are exposed to this, the more it stresses the body. Reporter dr. Ron vero works at a Medical Center in oakland. It take a toll on, as we expect, those most vulnerable. The older people, younger people who maybe havent developed their immune system yet. Were talking about young babies, and then of course those who have chronic medical conditions. Reporter at hayward hardware, owner jim wheeler said he is having little success replacing some items. Its unprecedented that we wouldnt have access these every day items that weve had access for in the 15 years ive been doing this. Reporter the store sold out of respirators in days, air Filtration Systems popular because of covid are also out of stock, and n95 masks . Forget about it. First responders have needed them because of the pandemic. If i call somebody and i ask for an n95 mask, the answer is not no, the answer is hell no. We dont have it. Reporter much of the problem the timing of the current fires. Traditionally, they is come in the fall when supply can usually meet demand. No one predicted this, that we would be needing them for the fires as early as mid august, or late august, and were total economy is completely unprepared for that. Reporter doctors saw the cloth and surgical masks most people are wearing do not felter smoke, but they are urging people to wear them in public. But youre going to see more people coughing, which means theyre going to be put be more of their saliva and dropletting into the air. That just speaks why its all the more important to be masking. Reporter two years ago, the bay area endured 14 Straight Days of unhealthy air because of the campfire. The medical advice is to stay indoors and keep the windows closed until the smoke clears. Julie . Rob roth reporting live for us tonight. Rob, things. And were in sky fox 2 right now, were heading to the Santa Cruz Mountains, but really highlighting the air quality, and im looking at this picture live like you are, so were just picking it up as we go. Not quite there to the Santa Cruz Mountains. Were not quite to our destination, the big fire there out by bonnie down in davenport. I think to note here oh, lahonda . Thats where were heading to. See how this smoke is lying down. Its dropping down, its flattening out. As it gets cooler tonight, that smoke just lays down even more so on the hills and in the valleys, so that Early Mornings are nasty for air quality. Around the bay area and in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Weve had some of the worst air quality weve seen in a long time. I definitely like this shot. One other thing you can see, if you look off to the right, youre going to see some fog. I wish i could point it out to you guys. That curve jade showing some marine layer. Thats been a roll helpful component to the firefighters, right . Because youre bringing in cooler air, and humidity is increased, and that has mass live helped in the firefight. Lets look at the air quality for tomorrow. Unhealthy air in the south and east bay. A spare the air day for everybody tomorrow, but it will be worse in the south and east bay tomorrow, especially in the Early Morning hours, as i pointed out. When we return, well look at the forecast and look at the winds. Because once we get ourselves a good strong westerly wind, well start blowing this stuff out, but just know that this smoke in idaho, montana, and wyoming. Our california fires are impacting a good portion of the united states. So its not just us. So air quality, gradually Getting Better. Spare the air day goes away on wednesday. But until then, get used to it, and just try not to exert yourself too much, because if this type of smoke, as the doctor pointed out. Okay. Ill see you pack here with the fiveday. Thanks, bill. Its official, the gop made donald trump their candidate for president today. Up next, its night one of a scaled down Republican National convention. And coming up new at 6 00, dozens of inmates in california prisons have died of the coronavirus, and now families are getting a financial shock when they lay their loved ones to rest. And details on the new rapid coronavirus testing site opened today at San Francisco international airport. Those stories and more coming up at 6 00. The president today made a visit to charlotte, north carolina, the site of the extremely scaled down Republican National convention, that will go mostly virtual tonight. Greg lee with what weve seen so far, and what is next. Greg . Frank, what we knee officer sure is President Trump is expected to speak or appear at every night of this convention. Tonight well find out how republicans plan to counter last weeks highly produced dnc. We as a state want to bring forth our delegates 172 for donald trump. Reporter california cast its votes en route to republicans formally renominating President Donald Trump as the partys president ial candidate. The president made a trip to charlotte, north carolina, for day one of the scaled down Republican National convention, addressing the 336 delegates there in person. We have to win. Our country is counting on it. This is the biggest. This is it. Our country can go in a horrible, horrible direction, or in an even greater direction. Reporter in a wide ranging nearly hourlong speech, the president again attacked vote by mail, accused the democrats of using covid to steal the election without evidence, and touted the economy and the administrations response to the coronavirus. A new a. P. Poll Shows Approval of his handling of the pandemic has dropped to 31 . The president also went after his november opponents. On this basis, an incredible base. Everybody here is going to vote. We have a tremendous base. They dont. They have no enthusiasm for their candidate. Reporter democratic president ial nominee joe biden and his v. P. Nominee, senator kamala harris, did their first joint interview as a ticket. Biden responding to trumps attacks on himself meantle fitness. Watch me. Mr. President , watch me. Look at us both. What we say, what we do, what we control, what we know, what kind of shape were in. Come on. Reporter Vice President mike pence also made a surprise visit to the convention this morning. The economy is on the ballot law and order is on the ballot reporter Republican NationalCommittee Member from Orange County sean steele said expect a different tone for the Republican National convention than the Democratic National convention. I think it will be about hope and opportunity. President trump also released his second term agenda this morning. Now, if terms of counter programming, the bidenharris ticket announced more than two dozen former republican lawmakers have endorsed them november. Greg, thank you. The list of dead and missing is going up when it comes to the wildfires. Coming up next, well hear from a family who lost 3 loved ones to the flames. Also, some are comparing it to noahs ark, animals being taken to the cal palace to be safe during the fires. Well take you inside coming up. Also, a possible new treatment for covid19 patients, but some concern about how its being used. Great day on the lake it is. Lunch is cookin and i saved a bunch of money on my boat insurance with geico. Fellas, can it get any better than this . Whoa my old hairstyle grew back. So did mine. [80s music] what . I was an 80s kid. It only gets better when you switch and save with geico. The scu lightning complex fire continues to burn tonight across 7 counties. It has grown to more than 347,000 acres, and is only 10 contained. The complex covers mainly rural areas of santa clara, alameda, contra costa, san joaquin, stanislaus, merced, and san benito counties. Flames in the east bay counties are mainly under control. 12 buildings have been destroyed, and thousands are still threatened. Fire crews are making progress against the czu fear that has now fire is now 13 contained. The fire is not moving east towards santa clara county. However, the fire has turned deadly. A 70yearold man, possibly trying to flee the fire in davenport died. Four other people are unaccounted for. And five people have been killed in the lnu lightning complex fire. Three people in napa county, and two in solano county. The fire complex covers those two counties, as well as sonoma, lake, and yolo counties. About 547 square miles have burned, and right now that fire is 22 contained. The death toll from these devastating fires continues to rise. In napa, the lnu lightning complex killed three members of the same family. Henry lee spoke to a relative today, and joins us with their heartbreaking story. Henry . Reporter well, julie, theres been one death in Santa Cruz County, like frank mentioned, but the bulk have been at the north bay, and thats where this family is struggling to deal with three deaths. Mary of napa lost her life after trying to save her disabled boyfriend leo and his son tom. She left her home and came across a roadblock. She knew they werent going to let her go back, which meant that leo and tom were not going to be able to leave. Reporter she said her grandmother made the fateful decision to go back to her home. The flames made it impossible to leave by car. So the three sought refuge in a bunker. So they went in there, kind of just hoping they could ride it out. Unfortunately, the fire was so intense. Reporter within moments, three lives were lost, including the familys matriarch. She is kind of like everybodys grandma. Didnt mart if youre biologically hers or not. She was really sorry she was really warm and welcoming and open to everybody. Reporter her boyfriend of seven years used a while chair, and friends said he could be occur mondayenly, but was endearing. He was kind of a roughly old man, but he wanted everybody to do good. His son tom also lost his life. Always happy, always a smile on his face. Reporter another person was killed the meyer. Our condolence, go out to this family. That makes a total of five individuals related to this incident that have perished. Reporter the identity of the victims from solano and Santa Cruz County have not been identified. In Santa Cruz County, they are also working a four missing persons case there. Henry, thank you for that report. The cal pallais in daly city is an evacuation site for long animals that have been evacuated from the czu lightning complex fire. Volunteers are working around the clock make sure that livestock and other animals are safe. Cristina rendon said the cal palace is a saving grace for ranch owners. Reporter some call it a modernday noahs ark, not from flood, but from fire. Laura mccain and her family have been ranchers in woodside for 40 years taking in rescues like these three llamas. The czu wildfire evacuation a first. We have 70 goats, three law mass, nine horses, and one barn cat. You wonder how am i going to get 70 goats out, you know, before the fire gets here. Reporter rumply two dozen volunteers answered the cal. The saltalamacchia Large Animal Evacuation Group has helped move more than 1400 animals to shelter since last week. We have a lot of volunteers out there work their hearts out. Reporter . Im very happy at how calm these horses are. I couldnt expect better from what the situation is. Reporter the Peninsula Humane Society is tracking intake. Making sure that we know how many animals we have, who is coming, they are coming from, and if the animals have any specific special needs, like they only eat certain foods or take certain medications opinion. Reporter chicken, sheep, peacocks, and, yes, yous, are here, with space for hundreds more. The first guest, a horse named pumpkin and a donkey named trouble. Bought in as a pair, and now friends, saved from the threat of the fire. As long as they need to stay here, well be here for them. Cant thank them enough. You just dont want to think about the goats and the law mass and the horses burning up in a fire. You dont want to think about it happening, and then you dont want to beg for help, but you know you cant do it yourself. Reporter this is one of 17 fair grounds in california currently being used as a Fire Investigation site. Cristina rendon, ktvu fox 2 news. The state Supreme Court today overturned the death sentence for scott peter son in the murder of his pregnant wife lacey. The court also00 held the conviction for the murder. Investigators safer he killed her and dumped her body in the stains bay in 2002. The court said the trial judge made significant errors by dismissing jurors during the punishment phase of the trial who said they disgrade with the Death Penalty. Imagine if you had all jurors who said i gray with the Death Penalty. Youre going to get a more conservative jury, and that affects the verdict in the case. So you want those people on the jury, so you get a fair jury, and were talking about taking a persons life here. The court says Stanislaus County prosecutors can try again for the same sentence if they wish. Although Michael Cardoza said thats unlikely with the Death Penalty on hold here in california. Outrage over another police shooting. Tonight, wisconsins governor is deploying the National Guard because of expected protests. Also ahead, American Workers and kids in school are already totally reliant on zoom calls to make it all work. Coming up next, today we saw the Ripple Effect of a zoom outage, what it can have. vo i have the best job in the world. I get to remind people of their grandmothers conchitas. Give the little kids cookies. And celebrate birthdays with all our neighbors. Hopefully, well be part of this community for many, many more years. Zoom, the conferencing system that so many are relying on especially during this pandemic reported problems for hours thus morning. Christien castro with a look at what happened and the Ripple Effect that follows an outage on one of the most widely used video platforms. Reporter with the global pandemic, zoom the way many of us are getting to school or work. The Video Conferencing giant reported shortly before 6 00 a. M. Monday morning, that users were able to visit the zoom website. Tech analyst larry magan said zoom and video platforms like have it become increasingly popular in the last few years, but weve become more reliant on it during the pandemic. A lot of kids are backing school, and by school, i mean theyre back online and school. Monday morning, people go to work, and these days when you go to work, many of us go to work via zoom. Reporter problems persisted for about four and a half hours. Zoom reporting that the problem was fixed by 10 10. The problems seem to be with authentication, which puts an extra demand on the platform, having to carry both the calls and verifying everyones identity. My guess is it may have had to do with a lot of traffic, combined with that need for authentication and the two together just created this issue. Odonnell said the problems highlight how reliant American Workers and students have become on Video Conferencing, and how an outage can affect those not using zoom. Maybes the parents had a meeting on webex while the kids were in a zoom class, yet in the zoom class goes down, they have to go over there to help them out. There is that Ripple Effect. With widespread use, experts say this sun likely to be the last outage. Were becoming more dependent, though they are increasing capacity. So those will always clash to some degree. But my guess this is is not going to be the last outage that were talking about on systems. Our tech experts agree now that weve seen the capabilities of these Video Conference platforms like zoom, we can expect them to remain in use even after the pandemic is over. In San Francisco, christian castro, ktvu fox 2 news. Still ahead, the Wisconsin Attorney general speaks out after another police shooting. Details about the investigation coming up. Also, a one, two punch to the gulf coast. Tracking two Tropical Storms making their way through the gulf of mexico. And we are tracking the air quality around here, as well as those fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the warmth, the temperatures. Well be back with your forecast in the five day in just a minute. Wisconsins governor has summoned National Guard to head off another round of violent protests in kenosha after the pleat shooting of a black man last night. This comes after protesters set carrs on fire, smashed windows, and clashed with officers in riot gear. Hour role is to be to be an independent investigating agency. Reporter attorney general josh kaul is speaking out on the officerinvolved shoot that has captured the nation. Outside the presence conference, tensions were high. The door to the kenosha Public Safety building broken off. Officers in riot gear were called in. Our goal is to move swiftly with this investigation, but we will only do sue so to the extent it is consistent with protecting the integrity of this investigation. Reporter the officer involved shooting unportfolioded around 5 00 p. M. Sunday. Jacob blake is seen in the viral video. About 7 gunshots are fired towards blake. The attorney general did not answer questions on whether police found a weapon on blake or how many officers were involved in the shooting. People in the neighborhood said that blake was trying to stop a fight and are demanding justice. We ask for a thorough investigation from the Wisconsin Department of justice all of you, you have see the now viral video, but always they want to tell black folks what our lying eyes did not see reporter the mayor is issuing a second curfew. Out heart goes out to jacob blake family, but the commitment i make to everyone is justice will be served, people will be held responsible for their axes, and we will know the truth. The storms marco and laura are moving toward the gulf coast threatening louisiana and miss mission with high wind and potentially devastating storm surge. Marco is expected to arrive first, followed by laura less than 48 hours later. The storage has already hit the caribbean, leaving more than a dozen people dead. The National Hurricane center said that laura could make landfall in the u. S. As a hurricane by wednesday. Were not going to have that short window of time, 12 to 18 hours, to try to do search and rescue and so forth ahead of laura. Laura and marco are expected to bring storm surges as high as four feet in some areas, state officials are urging people to use public shelters as a last resort, due to social distancing and indoor capacity guidelines. Yeah, and Tropical Storm laura looks as though it could be a category 2 hurricane as it moves onshore later this week in louisiana, and that would be the onetwo punch louisiana doesnt need, especially western louisiana. Big rainfall accumulations as marco goes through and laura follow lease few days later. So well be watching that closely. Around here, its all about air quality issues, and weve got em. These are the current winds. At the surface, theyre pretty help perform the smoke has gotten pretty far up above the surface winds, so a lot of that smoke is lingering, but the Surface Areas are being blend some pretty decent winds off the coast. Youre probably noticing a little better air quality, especially if San Francisco, and problem in novato, as well, but still areas like san jose and livermore, clayton, walnut creek, air quality not good at all, and in the morning, as i mentioned, i have a couple of friends who do workout coaches, things like that, and theyre going out in the mornings when the smoke is the worst. Thats when theyre usually doing their boot camp, whatever it is. And late night, Early Morning is when the smoke settles town and is at its absolute worst. So be prepared for that tomorrow morning and also again on wednesday morning. There is the fog along the coast. 89 see that. Thats been very helpful for the firefighters. This is the current temperature map. You can see a little bit bit of a sea breeze, cant you . Temperatures general lay little cooler today than yesterday. Not a ton, but a little bit, but that green is what i like to see. When croix see these this green, youre representing a sea breeze, and that is clearing thary to some extent. Air off of the Water Surface much cleaner than the air around those fires. Hopefully by wednesday and thursday well start to see a better air quality for everybody. But this isnt just the bay area. Were seeing smoke intocolorado, idaho, reno. Theres the fog. Doesnt show the smoke very well here, but a little bit of gray for smoke, but you see the temperatures a lot like today. So forecast hes for all of your bay area cities. Again, i think you can all you know, cal fire is kind of getting a handle on these fires. I think we can awful i want to say breathe easy, but the smoke makes it hard. 13,000 lightning strikes. 300 fires started that initial day, initial 24 hours, and then to get to this point a week later with the lightning storms potential for last night and the day before. So i wouldnt say dodged a bullet, but were coming through here seeing some light at the end of the tunnel, which make mess real happy, and i think cal fire and most of you as well. So that air quality is the last thing to go. Well get that straightened out here soon enough. All right, bill, well check back in with you in a little bit. Thank you. The government gives the green light to a new treatment for the coronavirus. We will have the details coming up next. Hey, my twitter is blowing up dear jack box, bring back the spicy chicken strips, still waiting for the spicy chicken strips, so many about spicy chicken strips. Wow, i hear you. So im bringing back my juicy 100 allwhite meat spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99 allwhite meat spicy chicken strips combo want restand schools . Pen . Want the economy to get back on track . Youre not alone. And you can help make it happen. Stay 6 feet apart. Wash your hands. Wear a mask every time you leave your home. 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Scientists at the university of hong kong claim they have evidence of someone being reinfected with the coronavirus. They say genetic tests show man returning to hong kong from a trip to spain in midaugust had a different strain of the coronavirus than he had back in march. The 33yearold man had mild symptoms the first time, and none during his second infection. Scientists say his first infection may have helped prevent serious illness. Experts say the case shows the need to continue social distancing and other prevention measures. Some medical experts are now voicing concerns over the fdas decision to authorize the emergency use of plasma therapy on covid19 patients. They say the treatment is untested and possibly dangerous. Reporter the coronavirus outbreak has killed more than 170,000 americans, but there could be help on the way for the most acute cases. President trump announced sunday the fda has given emergency authorization to use plasma therapy on covid patients, but some worry about the lack of clinical trials, pointing out the therapy can have serious side effects. Convalescent plasma is still experimental, and it should continue to be evaluated in well designed clinical trials. Reporter meanwhile, the virus continues to spread, though more slowly in recent days. Florida and texas join california now in topping 600,000 cases. As the governors of those states move ahead with reopening plans, including bringing thousands of students back into the classrooms this week. Normally you see a lot more people outside playing on the fields and stuff, and you just walk on by, theres, like, no traffic. Reporter restrictions are also easing here in new york where Governor Andrew Cuomo said gyms could robe opening as soon as today, but there are also new cases in nursing homes, where more than 6,000 new yorkers have died so far. We have a caution flag, and were focusing on it, and trying to understand exactly what has happened. Reporter and the Trump Administration reportedly announcing new rules this week for nursing homes, requiring them to not only test for covid 19, but also to publicly report it. The nfl says they have cleared 77 players who apparently had false positive coronavirus tests over the weekend. According to the leagues testing partner, all 77 samples were processed at the same lab in new jersey. After an investigation, the lab said they were most likely false positive results, caused by contamination during test preparation. Each player was retested several times, and all of those tests came back negative. The nfl released their latest round of testing this afternoon, saying theyve run 23,000 tests on players, and that there were zero confirmed positive tests. More than 1,000 structures have been destroyed by two of the three big wildfires raging in the bay area. But todays favorite weather conditions did allow firefighters to gain some ground. Whether its cooperating with our efforts to get those containment lines around those communities . The reprieve from the weather has many people breathing a sigh of relief tonight. The red flag warning has expired, but fire crews still have a Herculean Task ahead of them. Here is what we know at this hour. Wildfires have burned approximately 1. 4 million acres in california. 10 new fires started in just the last 24 hours because of lightning. Cal fire says right now they have 14,000 firefighters on the fire lines. 96 of cal fire engines are working on active fires. Now, one of those major fires is the czu complex wildfire, and it turned deadly after deputies found the body of a man near his burned home. Sky fox was overhead late this afternoon. The fire is burning along the san mateo Santa Cruz County line. Its at about 78,000 acres, and is only 13 contained. Thats up from 8 overnight. 200 structures have been destroyed, mostly in the Santa Cruz Mountains. 24,000 homes are still in danger. A cal fire News Conference on the czu fire is just about to get under way in scotts valley. As soon a