That moved through the bay area. Thankfully, we did not see the thunder and lightning we were concerned about. I was over areas of the north bay that actually had lou sky overhead. It was a nice change. We will continue with the hazy sky. Once we become a little more stable, we are likely to see smoke return as fires continue to burn on all sides of the bay area. We are giving you a look at the temperatures, clear skies in place. Many of us are cooler. We are in the upper 50s in San Francisco. 66 in livermore, san jose at 64. Seminaries along the coastline are joan joined by dense fog this morning. We will show you the rest of the extended forecast coming up in just a little bit. It is 4 00 on the dot. Lets say good morning to sal. Hi, sal. Hello. We have traffic doing well around the bay area. It looks good at the bay bridge. If you are driving into San Francisco, the traffic is moving along very nicely. There have been no major issues on interstate 880 in oakland. I like what we see for the Early Morning commute. We are off to a good start. Lets get back to the headlines. Thank you, sal. Topping the news this morning, the largest set of fires, the scu lightning complex, now, evacuation orders have been reduced for some counties, down from mandatory to warnings. That includes areas east of highway 101 all the way to metcalf road. The scu fires have burned many square miles. It is 15 contained. The fires stretch across seven counties, including contra costa and Santa Clara County. The cz you lightning fires to the west cover 123 square miles of san mateo and santa cruz counties. This morning at 6 00, cal fire will hold a daily news conference. They hope todays weather will be just as helpful to them as it was yesterday. Pilots were able to fly more. They were able to drop more water and fire retardant because of the clearing. The cz you fire is 13 contained. We left with the clothes on our back. We grabbed a couple pieces of clothing. I did take some of my animals out at the time. 600 evacuees are sheltered at the fairgrounds in whortonsville. They are helping rescue animals, including these miniature horses. So far, 276 homes have been destroyed. 16 firefighters are now battling the flames on the ground and in the air. With the weather that we had, it really led us to get in there and do a lot of good work. It was the best day yet. We were able to drop 200,000 gallons throughout the day in Fire Suppression activities. Authorities have recovered and identified a man who died in the fire over the weekend, 73yearold thad jones, a vietnam war veteran. His body was found on a trail near his van. Deputies believe he tried but could not escape those flames. Firefighters in the north bay are continuing to make progress against the l. A. Lightning complex fire. It is 25 contained. It has burned 550 square miles. Six people have died in the fires, including a pg e worker. There are seven fires in the ellen you complex fires running in sonoma, solano, lake countys. 71 buildings have been destroyed. There have been massive evacuations. Later today, firefighters will hold a news briefing, giving us an update on the ellen you complex fires. As the containment grows, many evacuees in Sonoma County and parts of the north bay are being allowed to go back home. Many evacuation orders in the area are now downgraded to warnings. The yellow part on the map youre looking at shows the evacuation warnings. The red area is for mandatory evacuations. Many of the evacuees in these fires are going back home. They are finding nothing. Almost everything they own is gone. Rubble, yeah, nothing survived. This was the scene as bob and his wife came back to a pile of debris that used to be their home in vacaville. Their friends and neighbors are helping with food, clothing and other items. These donations are bringing some people to tears. Growing up here was absolutely amazing. Just im sorry. He lost his home in the napa county area. He showed us that this video of the fire that destroyed his home. Governor newsom says the state is deploying all available resources to battle fires across the bay area, including mutual aid from crews in Southern California. Santa cruz, youre saying the same thing from many Southern California engines coming out from every department of the state. Instate mutual aid is providing more than 2800 crews and 709 engines to help firefighters in their own jury instructions. 11 states are sending crews and equipment from as far away as montana and kansas. A spare the air alert continues today. It is extended through tomorrow. Smoke from the fires is hovering over the bay area, ringing on the seventh day of unhealthy air in many parts. Doctors warn about potential Health Effects of the smoke, especially for older people and those with weakened immune systems. The longer you are exposed to this, the more it is stressing the body, the more problems we can expect to see. The smoke is so bad, stores are selling out of air Filtration Systems and n95 masks. Doctors say and surgical masks dont filter smoke, but they are still urging people to wear them in public because of covid 19. Stay uptodate, visit the ktvu. Com wildfires website. That is where you will find the reports on orders, new fires that have broken out, and how you can help the fire victims. The time is for an 08. Day two of the Republican National convention is about to begin. Melania trump is expected to speak from the white house rose garden to cap off the night. Last night, republicans fiercely defended president trump, describing him as a great and caring leader. Ktvus political porter, greg lee, has more on that. Reporter day one of the Republican National convention featured staunchest supporters. A large portion was dedicated to defending the response to covid19, a target of democrats last week. Trump moved mountains to save lives. Thank you president trump. Reporter the handling of the coronavirus has dropped to 31 . The president made appearances in prerecorded videos, including one with frontline workers of the pandemic. I am here, tonight, to tell you that supporting the republican ticket gives you the best chance reporter there were plenty of attacks i bidens in california. These radicals are not content with marching in the streets. They want to walk the halls of congress. They want to take over. They want power. This is joe bidens party. Reporter the mccloskeys face felony charges. Earlier in the day, former republicans formally nominated trump. Our country can go in a horrible, horrible direction. Together, they will unite america and heal america. Reporter in counterprogramming, they did their first interview as a ticket. Biden was responding to attacks on mental 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 we are in, come on. Reporter Melania Trump and mike pompeo are expected to speak. Greg lee, ktvu, fox 2 news. Make sure you stay here for complete coverage of the Republican National convention through thursday. We will have live updates beginning at 4 00 p. M. Then, starting at 7 00 p. M. , we will bring you uninterrupted coverage here on ktvu or ktvu plus. It is a busy time. 4 10 is the time. Lets check in with rosemary on the weather. A lot of us are very concerned about the fires, number one, and hopefully, the weather is going to cooperate and help the firefighters again, but also, the Health Quality which is so tough on everyone. You are right, good morning to you pam and dave. As we mentioned a moment ago, parts of the bay area yesterday had a disturbance roll through to break up some of the hazy sky. We are in and around the bay area. We do have patchy fog. The marine layer depth is 200 feet. It has pushed into the bay. Take a look over to areas of the Sacramento Valley. We still have a little bit of moisture struggling to move out of the state. For us, we saw the red flag warning expire a little bit sooner than expected yesterday. That concern for thunderstorms rolled out of the area. Here is a look at temperatures. It is 50 degrees in San Francisco, Half Moon Bay is reporting fog. The inner east bay is starting out from 6 00 to 5 00. We have clear skies down from yesterday morning. The humidity is lower. It is down by three over livermore. When it comes to the wind and onshore breeze, gusting to 28 miles per hour. We do have cool air moving into the bay area. It is helping to push some of that smoke further inland, away from us. Although, the wind also helps to spread the fire and pham fan the flames, as we know. Heres a look at the fog when it comes to visibility, it is down a quarter mile or so. We are seeing it just inside the bay. For most folks, getting out onto the roadways, visibility is okay. The air quality remains status quo. It is unhealthy for some groups. Thats San Francisco and along the coastline, unhealthy for the inner east bay and south bay. When i come back, ill have a look at your afternoon highs and what you can expect for your bay area weekend. Back to you. Protests overnight in several cities, coming up, an update on the investigation in kenosha, wisconsin where an africanamerican man was shot in the back by police. We have y zoom suddenly went out, causing a Ripple Effect for American Workers and schoolchildren as a demand for videoconferencing is at an all time high. You have the power of two newscasts at night, the 10 00 and 11 00 news. 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Dont start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. Visit enbrel. Com to see how your joint damage could progress. Enbrel fda approved for over 20 years. Welcome back to mornings on 2, it is 4 15. More protests on the streets of wisconsin, following a shooting of an unarmed black man. Black lives matter hundreds of streets people took to the streets of kenosha. Neighbors say jacob blake was trying to get into a car when police shot him multiple times. Overnight, protesters smashed windows and broke into businesses. More than 100 Wisconsin National guard troops were sent to kenosha overnight. No folks will be making their voices heard in communities across wisconsin. Every person should be able to make their voice heard. They should report on these calls to action without fear of being unsafe. Lake is in critical condition. Two of the officers involved have been placed on administrative leave. Dozens of protesters in Downtown Los Angeles marched against police shootings. The demonstration stayed peaceful. They marched from city hall to police headquarters. They were protesting the shooting of jacob blake. They were also protesting for a man who was fatally shot during a traffic stop. Police in portland, oregon declared a riot. Fires were set outside the union headquarters. There are reports Police Arrived minutes after protesters set the fires. Police made several arrests when protesters would not clear the area. Teargas was used to try to get them to move. An image of Breonna Taylor will appear on the September Issue of vanity fair. The magazine wants to highlight her life and her death. This 26yearold woman killed by police while she was in her own home, the special issue is entitled, the great fire. It features a painting of Breonna Taylor by a niche arrow. She is the same artist who painted former first lady, michelle obama. Happening today, the attorney general of california will announce settlements with two School District over claims of administered discrimination. They involve discrimination based on race and disabilities. We have no other details yet. The School Districts involved are orville elementary and high School Districts in butte county, and barstow unified in San Bernardino county. That announcement comes at 11 00 this morning. Today is the start of the new school year for 2 more districts in the east bay, the Livermore Valley joint unified district will hold remote classes starting this morning. District Officials Say they hope to move to hybrid classes in the next few weeks when students would split their time between in person classes and virtual learning. That cannot happen until reports on Coronavirus Infections in livermore and Alameda County improve. Students, teachers and staff are also starting the new school year today. Students will be receiving removed instruction only. Some of that will be live instruction through electronics. Some can be through online recorded channels. The board of education will also meet, starting at 6 30 tonight. So far, zoom is operating normally this morning, after a massive outage yesterday. People who wanted to use them could not get onto the website. Once in it, they cannot get to webinars or meetings. The problem started before 6 00 in the morning. It lasted more than four hours. Bob odonnell says the problem seemed to come from the authentication process. Systems are being built to make them more resilient. They are becoming more dependent. Those will always clash to some degree. Hopefully, they will be more reliable. My guess is, this will not be the last outage we are talking about. He points out that after we are back in school, people are likely to use videoconferencing more often than we did before the pandemic. That is for sure. Pam, rosemary, the weather coming in, for me, it was less smoky. It appeared to be a little bit cooler. That is not bad. You are right on target. Temperatures are cooler in most areas. Hello, pam as well. We are looking at seasonal average numbers as we look through the rest of the week. As we get into the weekend, temperatures are expected to be slightly warmer. Look at the view and the radar. We are seeing just a little bit of moisture. It is still trying to exit northern california. This is moving through the Sacramento Valley and working its way towards the sierra. If you move a little bit closer, we are not picking up on much in the way of lightning. I do see some right in there, auburn in the last hour or so. It is a quiet one for us. We expect it to remain that way. We have afternoon sunshine and temperatures right where we should be. Here is a look at lunchtime. We will be mostly cloudy along the coastline. There is a slowing day over the north bay. As we get into the afternoon, we are looking at partly cloudy skies around the bay and inland. The air quality will gradually improve. We saw improvement yesterday. I am hoping to keep some blue sky out there as the onshore breeze continue it is 56 over santa rosa right now. It is 58 to start your morning in San Francisco. As we showed you at the top of the hour, these temperatures are a few degrees cooler from where we were. Here is a view of what you can expect for the afternoon, upper 70s for the lunch hour, low to mid 80s are expected for the second part of the day. That is a goodlooking day. Meanwhile, santa rosa will go to 84. That is right about average for this time of year. We have low 70s expected in oakland. 90 is the afternoon high in livermore. Hopefully, these weather conditions will help the firefighters who are trying to get a handle on these fires. The temperature will not budge a whole lot for the next few days, again, slightly warmer for the weekend, details are coming up in just a little bit. Thank you, rosemary. The time is 4 22. A family needs your help identifying the hit and run driver who killed a father of three. Still ahead, the evidence that could lead to an arrest. Plus, a rapid covid testing site, we will tell you who is eligible for the test that provides results in minutes. Viola because the fight isnt over yet. Lecrae you will see me choose to protect my community by wearing a face covering. Nicole and even with my face covered. Victor you will see me. Marcus as a son. Victor as a man with a neverquit attitude. Lala as a fighter for change. Marcus join me in wearing a face covering. Kirk to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Lecrae because this is one small act of kindness. Victor that has the power to make a big difference. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Happening today, muni rail service is shut down again only three days after service resumed. Parts of the overhead wires failed. Also, someone in the control center tested positive for covid19. So, rail service will be down for several weeks. The metro system resumed on saturday after being down for 5 months because of the pandemic. Buses will again replace rail services. Some delays are possible. Today, we will get an update on covid19. Dr. Mark deli will host a live video conference, talking about the latest case numbers and californias response to the pandemic. The update will be streamed on the department of Public Health youtube account at noon. Sfo is the first to host a Rapid Testing site. They are teaming up with Dignity Health and go Health Urgent care to test workers. Results from a nasal swab test will be back in about 13 minutes. The Officials Say they want to make sure tests are going smoothly before they expand the tests to travelers. Officials say the Rapid Testing is very important, as the Airline Industry is slowly recovering. Workers at two bay area hospitals are taking part in a statewide rally to support a bill that would provide essential workers with ppe that they need. Now, healthcare workers at kaiser, walnut creek and camino hospital are joining workers in nine other cities to raise awareness. The bill would require state and Health Providers to stockpile equipment that they need at pandemic levels. The walnut creek rally starts at noon. In mountain view, it starts at 1 00 this afternoon. Today, Santa Clara County supervisors will vote on an extension for a measure designed to protect renters during the pandemic. The rent Eviction Moratorium was enacted during the early days of the Coronavirus Crisis back in march. It was set to expire next week. Today, the board will decide how long protections will remain in place for those who cannot pay their rent or mortgage due to financial losses tied to the pandemic. Members of the Berkeley City Council will join tenants Rights Groups to outline their plan to provide financial protections to uc Berkeley Students during the pandemic. The goal is to help the growing number of students who are falling behind in their rent due to the pandemic. The details will be revealed during a noontime news conference. Right now, it is 4 27. Some people are being led back into their homes as new areas are under evacuation warnings this morning. Still ahead, the progress being made against fires burning in the north bay. The effort to help animals who were in the wildfires, we will take you there and show you the temporary home. 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 is it the juicy 100 allwhite meat . Or because you can spice them up or cool them down . Or because a little birdie told me you wanted them back really bad. Get my spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99. Closing in on the neighborhood, all you could see was a glow through the trees. The home of a firefighter is gone. How the community is pitching in to help as wildfires tear through south bay neighborhoods. Fires have claimed more lives. How family members are remembering those who died as crews try to regain control of several fires that are still burning. From ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. Morning, thank you for joining us. I am dave clark. I am pam cook. Thank you for waking up with us on tuesday morning. It is august 25th. Dave, i know you said you felt the air