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Hours ago. Firefighters had a chance to go into some of the damage from the fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties yesterday. They have confirmed 440 buildings have been destroyed, including 320 homes. On the northern end of the fire in San Mateo County, it is not spreading. That is good news. Firefighters say they are very confident that the fire will not spread toward Santa Clara County, where evacuation warnings had been issued earlier in the week. There are new Evacuation Orders or warnings foot and the counties involved. Near bonnie doon and Boulder Creek, there is a fire that is actively burning. Crews are going into do Damage Assessment, and repair some of the power lines and the infrastructure. That way, eventually people will be able to return home. It is stressful. We are staying at an Extended Stay Hotel with only six other dogs and a cat. 77,000 people were forced to evacuate because of the fire. They cannot return home yet, but they are very anxious to do so. The Santa Cruz County Sheriffs Office said that two people that were reported missing have been found safe. There are still five people who lived in the evacuated areas of Santa Cruz County that are unaccounted for. Says detectives are looking for them. As we report, the fire claimed the life of a man who was fleeing his home as the fire had approached. Any minute now, calfire will give us an update on what had happened with this fire. We are expecting the feeding to begin shortly. When it does, we will bring it to you live, on mornings on fox 2. Reporting live, allie rasmus, mornings on fox 2. More help is on the way to battle the lnu complex fire. 250 National Guard members will arrive in the next few days, and they will join the 2200 firefighting personnel are currently on the front lines. The fires have destroyed or damaged at 1200 homes, and out holdings, earning nearly 50 all right sorry, lets stop right here and go to the live news conference, and get an update. Turnoff telephones, take any conversations away from the press conference area. We ask that you keep your mascot at all times during the press conference. We will have a moment at the end for you to ask questions of the representatives appear as well as time for oneonone conversations after the conference is over. A quick update this morning for the 6 00 numbers, the lightning complex is now 8137 acres in size. We are staying at 19 percent containment. There are still 24,000 structures that are threatened by the incident. Unfortunately, we can confirm that there are now 538 structures that have been destroyed in this fire. 11 of which are in san mateo there is a website, as chief deputy clerk mentioned, the Santa Cruz County ha showing pe what the addresses are online. As of this morning, 1697 personnel are assigned to the incident. For an overview and update on what the operation that is going on out in the field, calfire section chief mark burton. Good morning. The past couple of days, we have been able to make significant progress on the firefight. We have been able to establish more lines and improve the lines that we have established. We are getting another day closer to extinguishing this fire. As you can see, on the map we have some black lines. They signify that the fire is extinguished, and we are holding it. We have lines established around it. We feel very confident that that area has been secured. That is what we call the fish and cough. It is an area that is critical, so that if we had spread to the northeast, threatening Santa Clara County, we have buttoned that up. That is a patrol. Moving along the northern zone, again, we have some flame on the ridge. We have lines established as you can see on the map. We are letting that fire creeped out as part of our strategy so that we can get an and fcix thing was that fire. I anticipate within the next few days, with the weather that we are expecting that we should be successful in that endeavor and put some black lines on the map. Moving down, if we can continue with some full extinguishment of the fire throughout the western portion. The community of davenport. We are looking at, with the infrastructure, looking at reenergizing that with power today, hopefully soon. Again, lines are being held above the community, and taking advantage of the weather in order to start the full extinguishment of any sort of fire that is sitting above the community. Down to the south, again, the control line sold to the south, as well as the secondary line, so, we have a really good amount of protection for the community of santa cruz, and the uc campus. Moving up the quarter, which has been a challenge for us, with the communities of davenport, and over here, we have been able to get market control lines that are up above, on the fire. We are continuing to work and improve this. We have good line, we are blackening the line in a sting watching the fire above a good portion of felton. Todays operation has been critical. They have been working on this for the past two days, really, and what we have a plan on doing is later this afternoon and early in the evening we will have lines that are constructed with preparations and place to do a burn operation, which will bring the fire up to the fire that is at the ridge top area and it will eliminate that issue, and what it will do is create a very nice barrier, for the community of felton. It will but not that part of the fire by felton. That is excellent news. It will take a couple days, but once we do that we warm up. We will take out the hotspots and to render that safe and get the Utility Companies and there to do their job. As we finish that, will be moving towards ben loman and that line will come to the south. That line will protect the bottom of ben loman as we progress. Up above that area and into Boulder Creek we continue to work diligently up there. We had a lot of resources about the border creek, fromr allied they are working diligently. It is very difficult terrain. There working among a number of structures. Will have success in the coming days and we are looking at trying to get this completed like we are in the other communities. We are marching north and preparing as we go ahead of time, with many of the operations, and the strategy. Bonnie dune is looking really good. A lot of homes are there. We are working around the homes and getting the control lines put in. The big thing is opening the roads into the interior of the fire, with all the trees that have come down the power lines and so forth, we have been able to establish a group that is gone in, since yesterday and getting deep into the road systems. Some are more work than others. The group is working and doing that, we are working with county rats and a variety of other agencies to get in and once we get in, we render it safe and get the Utility Companies and behind us so that they can start repairing and putting back the infrastructure. We are doing the same thing on highway 236, doing the same operation. We can start opening that and get interior open to other areas. Once the Damage Inspection Team can get in, they can do their job so that we can get that taken care of as well. It is a multifaceted effort as part of the extinguishing process. From our air program, the air is looking favorable with the weather. We will be flying our aircraft. The past few days we have talked about the amount of hours we could fly and our aircraft. Every day we dropped more and more water. As of yesterday, there were 256,000 gallons of water dropped in one day. That is significant. We timeout the aircraft that is significant. Every day we see more and more and the support of Ground Troops that are taking care of hotspots and so forth. Our helicopters have dropped 1. 6 million gallons of water since the beginning of this event. We are using all of the tools that we have available to us, in order to work on a sting watching the fire and getting everybodys li normal. Thank you. Speaking next, is chief deputy chris clark. Good morning, in terms of positive news, continuing with the theme of not a lot of people running around. The same situation last night, thankfully, as there was the night before. Again, our third operation without an arrest. Last night we had no citations. We are seeing a lot of people that are really doing what we are asking them to do and staying out of the areas, as you just heard the chief mentioned, we are getting the resources and to prepare the roads and prepare powerlines and things like that which are pieces of the plan in order to repopulate those areas and make sure that that happens quickly. As i mentioned, at the last press conference, 56 officers were running around last night and making sure that everything is safe. We will continue that today with 70 deputies, 30 of them from our agency, 20 from inside the county with the allied partners from different agencies inside Santa Cruz County. Mutual aid from over the hill. Last night we responded to 14 calls for service. Six welfare checks. I will touch on those. Eight suspicious people. Last night we got a welfare check. It was a welfare check for a 63 yearold woman was last spoken to on monday. Her friend had last talk women evening, had not heard from her. She had called us and we went out to her home in felton and unfortunately she was deceased. We believe that it was Natural Causes at this point, causing her death. There were no sounds of foul play or anything like that that would give a suspicion that anybody did anything to her or caused her death. Nonetheless, it is a sad note as far as that is concerned. Secondly, a welfare check for someone who had potentially this person had evacuated from the area, in Boulder Creek. They did what we had asked them to do. They left the area. What we are seeing is that they were staying with a friend until monday. So, they left sometime monday evening. Their friend called us, during the night last night to say that they had not heard from them, theres a conversation that this person wanted to sneak back into the evacuated area, to their home. We are actively looking for that person to find out where they are, and make sure that they are okay. I would reiterate a couple of things, one is that we want to get you back home. We really do. There are dangers to sneaking back into the evacuated area, you know, you just dont know. You might not know the train. You may not know the area. You can get lost, and then, we really want to help you. What it does is it divides our resources and the sense that we are going to send people to find you, and in this case that is exactly what we are going to do. That is okay. We want to make sure you are okay but i want to discourage people from doing that. You know . That way it does not divide our resources. If you find a person, i will let you know. That is what we are doing right now. On another piece of that information, again, if you have not heard from a friend thats how these calls came in. I would encourage you if you think that they remain in the evacuated area, returning, give us a call. Four 8314711121. Give us a call. We will do exactly what we had done last night. We do security checks on homes to make sure that no one is breaking in. We also want to make sure that people are safe and accounted for. If you have not heard from a friend, give us a call. Lastly, just to touch on the website that you heard chief cox dimension. You know, we can completely understand that you want to know the status of your house, if it is in a fire damaged area. I want to radiate the website, Santa Cruz County for Fire Recovery. You can go to the Damage Assessment map. That is Santa Cruz County Fire Recovery Damage Assessment map. It will give you information, if you put your address and there. I will tell you if your house has been damaged, or if it is okay or hopefully not destroyed. Thank you. From the San Mateo County Sheriffs Office, mikes white. Good morning, no changes for San Mateo County. We want to say thank you to everyone who donated diapers, baby from li and School Supplies at the event center. For those of you that are interested in helping out another ways you can make financial donations to pescadero as well as the red cross. We also want to say how grateful we are for all of the support that we see from the community, whether it is online messages are a couple of restaurants that have donated food including alices restaurant on skyline and 84th. It is incredibly motivating. The First Responders and the support staff see these messages and these comments and we see signs out in the community. We cannot tell you how much it means to us. Thank you for all of the supporting gratitude. It is heard and it is felt. Speaking next on behalf of the agencies and unified command is Management Team three. Good morning. Obviously, yesterday, we had Great Success out on the line. We had clean air and we were able to fly our aircraft. Folks were able to get in there and develop a limiter control. There was a lot of a lot of the smoke production and the air it was very visible from the highway 17 4. When we get clean out like that, and it is visible, the fire is just slowly moving down the slope. And and behind around the structures of felton, it is very visible from this area. Obviously we have firefighting forces on the ground. Today, you are the operational plan. We are going to be doing this later this afternoon, earning operations to control the fire on our terms. We will work diligently to secure the liner the next 2448 hours. We will bring that down very safely and slowly into what we would consider the primary control that would protect the communities. With that said, obviously, when the smoke starts to clear, all of the residents will be getting very restless about trying to get back into their home, wanting to know when the Evacuation Orders and warnings will be lifted. We will work with our counterparts in the Law Enforcement agencies to develop a Strategic Plan to bring folks in. We have already started to identify areas that we would be able to potentially start looking out for the thing Evacuation Orders and moving them to evacuation warnings. Please be patient. It is a process. Obviously, the biggest concern is when we start bringing folks back in. Lifting some of the waters. We need to make sure that we build a good Strong Foundation for all of the residence, meaning that we have good roadways for them to travel on and secured all the utilities and making sure it is safe. We need to make sure that we have product for them so that they have the essential necessities to live with. Those are the pieces that we will continue to work on. Identifying those. Fixing issues. Getting these folks back to a sense of normal as soon as possible. Thank you. All right, our final speaker from the local calfire unit, ian larkin. Good morning. As you have seen, we are starting to make progress. It is slow and methodical, but it is happening. For those of you that are using the website for Santa Cruz County in order to determine if your property has sustained damage or has been destroyed, i would like to make a preface to take note that our damage inspection is still ongoing and it has not been completed yet. Because your house may not be represented on the map as having damage were being destroyed, the damage inspection continues to move forward and the numbers may increase. They will represent properties that are added to that each day. Be mindful that just because it is not there today does not mean that it will not be there tomorrow. For the folks that have sustained damage or need assistance, there are a few areas that i will give you right now that i can be of assistance to you. You can go to the disaster assistance. Government website. That is disaster assistance. Gov. There are resources there for folks that are in need. Also, download our fema app from the android and apple platforms. Once again, that is at the map. If you dont have the ability to download that application, call fema directly and that is at one 800 621 fema. One 861 fema. There is a lot of assistance there. For those that have Small Businesses, that need assistance, you can go to the Small Business administration, the Small Business administration, there are Resources Available to you to help you with that effort. Once again, for the troops on the ground and the incident Management Team that is here along with our cooperating agencies, and the Sheriff Department from Santa Cruz County, working diligently and as quickly as possible to make the environment as safe as possible f that are affected. So, please bear with us. We are moving through this and we are moving as fast as we can. We will do our best to get this wrapped up and get you guys back home. Yeah. All right, we have been listening life into a calfire news conference. Heres a brief recap of what they said. Mostly positive news. The flames are still out there, and there are still problems. 80,000 acres have burned. It is 90 percent contained. 538 buildings have been destroyed it, and they e. A lot of it is thanks to the Better Weather. Cooler temperatures. Better humidity. They plan to fly more planes today. If there is one thing that was saturday pointed out, they found the body of a 63yearold woman. The woman was found during a welfare check. It appears that she died of Natural Causes. Again, that is the very latest from calfire. We will get more updates from them and bring it to you as soon as we can. Pam . Thank you, dave, classes start today for more than 15,000 students that attended uc berkeley. We will show you what class will be like this fall. The state could rollback the Renewable Energy guidelines because of the threat of blackouts. 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During your weather, in for steve, mark tamayo is here. I was outside a moment ago and it feels good outside. Dave, i was going ask you, i miss working with you. Do you still go out for your morning walk . Yes, i am your assistant. I am helping you. I always embrace that information, dave. Thank you so much. Talking about low clouds this morning, in terms of the weather around the fire sounds, we show you the forecast model. The headline is that we expect more of a breeze out of the west. The winds could be around 1525 Miles Per Hour. We have the song that is being kept near the coastline. On our live camera, we look out towards sfo. Solid and overcast. In terms of air quality that qu moderate air quality. You cannot see the orange in santa cruz, unhealthy for sensitive groups. This note is moving around but this morning we are off to a good start. The spare the air alert continues through friday. Current numbers are in the 50s and 60s with concord at 61. San francisco is 56 degrees. Today it will be warmer, we will have a close look at your forecasted highs and check in with sal, who is standing by with an update on the roads. Good morning to you, sal. We had a nice looking update on the roads, as a matter of fact, if you are leaving the house soon i would be able to show you that traffic is going to be doing okay. There is a backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. There is a backup here which is not unexpected. This is a 1015 minute delay before you make it into San Francisco. Speaking of San Francisco, the other side of the bay is looking good on 101. 280 into the downtown area, lets go back to the headlines. More evacuees at the bay area wildfires are being allowed to go back home. The biggest progress is made in the north bay. Many of the evacuees in Sonoma County are starting to return to their homes, and mornings on fox 2s Frank Mallicoat joins us with an update. Good morning, frank. We have more good news, firefighters are about to get much needed help , in ay, battling the lnu complex 250 National Guard troops well now arrived today and tomorrow to join the 2200 firefighters that are already in the field. They will help out on the fire line and provide Logistic Support for calfire. The ellen you fires have destroyed or damaged 1200 homes and outbuildings and burned 557 square miles in sonoma lake and napa counties. The fire is currently bigger than the entire city of los angeles. This will be a long firefight, a long period of time where there will be smoke in the air. Conditions are in our favor. We will maximize them well weve got them. In Sonoma County, most of the evacuees are allowed back home. 5000 people are still under a mandatory Evacuation Order. Yesterday, 40,000 people were under an Evacuation Order or warning. 90 percent are now back home. The mobile home parks are among areas wiped out by the lnu fires. 40 mobile homes were incinerated. It was horrendous. What we were seeing this you know . Fire, everywhere. It was just it was incredible. And la county, firefighters are conducting what is known as the backfiring operations. They shot players at ale so flames burn up the hill rather than down the slope or it as an open field run towards the community of middletown. 54 1 2 thousand acres have burned and the walbridge fire and sonoma. 300,000 acres have burned and napa, solano and lake counties. Containment right now is that 27 percent, but that number is likely to go up very shortly. Calfire is going to have an update in a half an hour. We will share those numbers with you coming up at 7 30 am. That is the latest, Frank Mallicoat, mornings on fox 2. This is day 10 of the fire fight against the scu lightning complex fires. It is burning in seven counties between the diablo range and the east bay, and the central valley. 572 square miles it is 20 percent contained. The weather is actually better. It is cooler. The humidity is high. It is actually helping firefighters. Firefighters and the santa cruz sounds are continuing to make progss it grew one square mile in the past 12 hours, 125 square miles now. It is 19 percent contained, and calfire says that the Better Weather is helping them. We have been able to establish more lines and improve the lines that we have established. We are getting another day closer to extinguishing this fire. As you can see we have some black lines. What those signifiers that we have the fire extinguished. We are holding it. We have lines established around it. We feel very confident that the area has been secured. More homes have burned in Santa Cruz County. 10 homes in southern San Mateo County have also burned. There are no new evacuation warnings in san mateo or santa cruz counties. Firefighters kept the flames from getting near the Santa Clara County line. For the latest news on the fires, including helping people who have been affected, go to www. Ktvu. Com, you can get the latest developments on containment and the Evacuation Orders. In kenosha, wisconsin, two people were killed and one person was hurt in and street protest. The shooting may have come from a group of armed men who are protecting businesses. There is video of one man shooting at protesters and walking towards police with his hands in the air. The gun was strapped across his chest. This happened during the third night of protests and kenosha since the Police Shooting of it jacob lake. It jacob lakes family and lawyers say that he is paralyzed from the waist down, and it will take a miracle for him to ever walk again. Blake was shot in the back by police at least seven times on sunday. This is why officers that were responding to a Domestic Violence call. There have been violent protests with local businesses being damaged and jacob lakes mother asked people to protest peacefully. If jacob knew what was going on as far as that goes, the violence and the destruction he would be very displeased. Police say that they are still investigating jacob lakes a shooting, and the officers involved have been placed on administrative leave. One half Million People in louisiana and texas have been told to evacuate immediately. Hurricane laura is getting stronger and closer to land. Forecasters now say that laura could become a category four hurricane, with the possibility of lifethreatening storm surges. The pandemic is changing how people are asked to evacuate. Officials have told everyone to stay with family, or in a hotel if you can. Only use a shelter as a last resort. They are doing a mandatory evacuation. We are planning on going if they call for it. Across texas and louisiana, the locals are making final preparations and filling up sandbags and stocking up on the essentials, boarding up windows. Hurricane laura is expected to make landfall late tonight, or early tomorrow. I want to show you timelapse a video of hurricane laura. This was posted on twitter by a Hurricane Hunter for the National Oceanic administration. It shows a plane flying into the hurricane. It passed through sunrise as well. Thats a check in with a mark tamayo. I know you keep an eye on these things any idea for most of us, for us to get an idea of this compared to katrina . Has for is a category four storm, this is potentially the storm surge, in the extreme level. We are watching out for that. This storm will likely continue to strengthen, pam and dave, over the next few hours. In fact, the welldefined i like a train a few years ago, you can see the test images where it went away. You can see this was a one or two hours ago. This will reappear. That is a good sign that the storm will strengthen. A category four storm with winds of 130 miles an hour. Katrina, it really rapidly intensified and the golf. It weekend to just a bit. Just prior to landfall. The storm is strengthening a bit right now with winds at 115 miles an hour. Later on today, around 10 00 our time, we will talk about a category four storm. You can see that this wishes of towards the north, somewhere between the texas and louisiana border, and that will be the case later on tonight into tomorrow morning. Hurricane warnings are obviously posted in all the areas in red. As we come in closer, the storm surge, that is huge. 1015 feet. To give you a better idea of what a 1015 foot storm surge would look like in terms of property damage, here is the essence surge. The wind is pushing a mass of water inland, possibly up to 30 miles and then. This is what a 12 foot storm surge could look like for this twostory house. This will be a big concern later on today. For us in the bay area, patchy morning fog. Mild to warm. 60s all the way to the lower 90s. Here is a live camera towards sfl where you can see solid and overcast here. The fog is doing its thing near the coast and near portions of the bay. The current numbers are in the 50s and the lower 60s. Highs this afternoon, most areas will be warmer compared to yesterday. The clouds will clear back to near the coastline, into the afternoon hours. San jose will be at 84. Livermore will be at 89 and senator will be at 78 degrees. Heres a look ahead, your five day warmer, that is that line here. We are not talking about any extreme heat. The temperatures in the and with the upper 90s. We will have minor quilling as we head towards the weekend. The nfl season starts in two weeks from now. The plan by the 49ers for letting fans into levi stadium for their home opener. The new covid19 guidelines from the cdc about what you should do if you come in contact with someone who has coronavirus. And the next hour, a church in the south bay is fine for of violating Health Restrictions during the pandemic. We will break down the hefty bill and tell you how the pastor is responding. Just a reminder, make sure you join us at this friday for our final zip trip of the summer. We are crisscrossing the bay area to see how pandemic affects local sports and physical fitness this coming friday, at 9 am right here on mornings on fox 2. 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 with flex, its all at your beck and 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. Welcome back to mornings on fox 2, interstate 680 in walnut creek has reopened after three people were killed and a deadly crash. It happened before 11 00 last night on 680 northbound, near the north main street offramp. Chp is still investigating. New, traffic is back to normal in the westbound lanes of the 580 through the ultima pass. Earlier this morning a big rig hot fire before flynn road, north, outside of livermore. We have not heard about any injuries. The westbound lanes reopened completely about 5 45 am this morning. A funeral for the prison guard from san quentin who died from the coronavirus will be held later this morning. The funeral for Sergeant Gilbert blanco will be at the bay area mortuary in san jose. Family members and friends will be part of the procession and will be at the funeral, but the ceremony will be limited because of covid19. He will then be laid to rest in fremont at the irvington cemetery. He was the first worker at san quentin prison to die from the coronavirus. The cdc says many people that ive been exposed to covid 19 through close contact with someone who later had tested positive do not necessarily need to test if they are not experiencing symptoms. Experts expressed concern about this revised guideline from the cdc, noting that people without symptoms can still pass the virus to others, and in fact are responsible for a large share of transmissions. The number of coronavirus cases are trending down, encouraging news. There are still concerns over reopening more businesses. Small Business Owners rallied in front of San Francisco city hall, frustrated about the economic told that the pandemic is taking on them. A professor said that reopening last may had showed that californians were not committed to taking precautions to stop the spread of the virus. The reason it did not is because people were not social distancing and were not wearing masks. Theres nothing magical about stopping the pandemic. We know exactly what we would have to do. It is just getting people to do it. San francisco Business Owners say they want Public Officials to give more clear directives about what Health Measures might allow them to reopen safely. The state auditor says that californians getting 71 billion in federal money related to the pandemic, creating a high risk of waste, fraud and abuse. The auditor said that california has trouble managing federal money in the past, so she is invoking a state law that allows her to monitor spending of 18 state agencies. Half the money is what this he will borrow from the federal government to play unemployment benefits. 10 billion is for medical, seeing an roman crowd during the pandemic. For fall semester at uc berkeley begetting today, most of the classes are online. Large lecture style classes will be online, but smaller groups may have a chance to meet in person. University Officials Say that safety protocols are being followed. They are also giving students and staff easy access to tools by way of their app, including daily symptoms screeners and, and oncampus covid19 testing options. Today, the San Jose Earthquakes go back to regular season action, continuing the winning ways that they showed during the mls is back tournament. San jose is going for the first home win of the year, as they host the Portland Timbers tonight. The quakes did better than expected in a tournament in orlando, and tonights match begins at 7 30 p. M. , but fans are not allowed in the stadium. However, you are allowed to a viewing party right outside the stadium. You can see the action on the scoreboard from the safety of your c that is pretty cool. Hey drivein movie. The oakland as and the giants won. Sal. Youre keeping an eye on traffic, and this therapy air alert so people will not drive a lot today. It it is a spare the air alert. Most commutes are doing okay. The bay bridge has some slowing, i can show it to you here. You can see traffic is moving along very well, until you get to the toll plaza that you see slowing. Also, we are looking at San Francisco. It looks okay if youre driving on 1010280. 280 and san jose is off to a good start. We have been relatively quies b dealing in for steve. Good mondaymotoo extreme, we are not talking about extreme heat from last week, right . There are no excessive heat warnings. A quick up date on the fire forecast, as you can see here we show you the wind and the projected fog. This is a good forecast for today. You will notice the wind speeds pickup, the brighter colors will indicate stronger winds that could be on the order of 25 Miles Per Hour is afternoon. Around the fire zone, lnu fire complex, temperatures cooled off overnight. That is great news. It has been a nice trend over the past couple of days. The same deal for the walbridge fire with coleman here. In fact, 100 percent relative humidity area and we had cloud cover right around the area. The woodward fire, winds will pick up this afternoon. That would be a challenge. Temperatures right now are in the 50s and the same can be said for the scu lightning complex, temperatures around 70 degrees. Here is a live camera that is looking towards sfo this morning with low clouds and fog. The clouds are doing their thing. The current numbers are in the 50s and 60s. As you heard, we have the spare the air alert that has been extended to friday. I will say the airquality centers have been showing some improvement. We had a little bit of a woman forecast to, on thursday into friday. Today, i am not sure what has changed, but slightly warmer compared to yesterday. The clouds will gradually clear back to the coastline. Temperatures are on track to reach the upper 80s to low 90s and very it 70s and 80s around the bay, and the beaches, mainly in the 60s. Heres a look at head, bumping the numbers as we had to thursday and friday. It should be one of the hottest days of the week. Thankfully not excessively hot. Cabbages are trending up in the short term. All right, the impact of wildfires around the state are not limited to just humans. At 8 00, we have a University Team that is treating animals that are burned by the flames. A community has seen a lot of deadly and devastating wildfires. In the next hour, we have how the complex fire threatens the county town of middleton. First, how long the sf mta will keep rail Service Shutdown as they deal with to problems that cause trains to stop running this week. Awesome internet. Its more than just fast. It keeps all your devices running smoothly. With builtin security that protects your kids. No matter what theyre up to. It protects your info. And gives you 24 7 peace of mind. That if its connected, its protected. Even that that petcamera thingy. [ whines ] can your internet do that . Xfinity xfi can because its. Simple, easy, awesome. [ barking ] good morning. Mornings on 2. Nice pictures of the estuary. Here we are with the cars, you might think. If you havent watch this video, you owe it to yourself. Anna, thank you for the request. That came in off instagram. Some of the young kids, they use instagram. You can use facebook, twitter or instagram. Use ktvu. Lets go back to dave clark. Thank you. It is 6 56 am. Africas napoleon free, according to the world health organization. Officials have been trying to eliminate polio from africa since 1996. Delving almost 9 billion vaccines. The last case of polio was diagnosed four years ago but the w. H. O. Wanted to make sure it was really eradicated before they made this announcement. Afghanistan and pakistan are the only countries that have polio circulating. In some young children, polio can cause pareto paralysis and lead to death. There is no cure, new treatment. Which is why the vaccine is so important. Former San Francisco supervisor melia cohen said she feels a great sense of responsibility after being appointed to the citys police commission. Supervisors made it a unanimous vote last night. Coleman is chair of the state board of equalization right now. San Francisco Mayor london breed recommended her and said shes a critical voice to help make the system more equitable and just. When the nfl resumes play just over two weeks from now, there wont be any fancy stadiums for games in california. Yesterday the 49ers, the la rams, and the chargers said their first home game of the season will be played in empty stadiums. The 49ers hope fans will be able back soon. Is this point but i understand. A lot of adjustments adjustments how everyone has to make. I understand that not going to be that fun work we love the fans as they pump you up and you hear the noise. Some teams have guidelines. The indianapolis coat thats be at their home opener. The Miami Dolphins will allow 13,000 fans for their first home game. Here at home, muni metro in San Francisco still shut down today because of two problems. Muni trains started operating on saturday for the First Time Since april but monday the sf mta said there are two problems. Overhead power lines failed and an employee in the Management Center tested positive for covid19. Muni metro shutdowns are expected to continue for two weeks. A mess of what barbara i the Santa Cruz Mountains is still threatening homes this month at the latest on containment efforts and the one thing that cal fire says is helping the crews gain control. Plus as smoke continues to blanket the bay area, find out what you can do to help keep the smoke from getting inside your home and your car. Also, hurricane laura is gaining strength in the gulf of mexico. Whats making the evacuation effort even more difficult as millions of people are bracing for the storm. This is mornings on 2. It is 7 00. Its wednesday. Welcome to the middle of the week. It is august 26. How is the air around your house . The air is clean thats why have this little window open. And it is comfortable because for the first time, we slept without fans going last night. You can thank mark for that. Hes in charge of the weather today. How are we looking . I rumor all those times we complain about the fog but this is one of those days where we can actuallyhelping out the fire crews as well