Open overnight, some of us didnt get much relief from the heat really if anything just put some bad air into our homes. 80s at the coast 90s by the bay and yep youre seeing it there triple digits, one 10 today again in livermore in antioch concord at one o 9 Napa Santa Rosa san jose just to name a few other spots that will be solidly in the triple digits today now with temperatures this hot you can see why so much of the bays yet again under excessive heat warnings through 09 00pm tonight that includes these pink areas on the peninsula down into the south bay where we will be solidly in the triple digits. Same for those of us on the east bay triple digits inland 90s for bayside cities like oakland and richmond while antioch brentwood Discovery Bay above 110 degrees in these areas. Fairfield and vacaville also at a 110 above and with such dangerous heat check on your neighbors, check on some of your older relatives who may be even more vulnerable to the heat make sure that theyve got a
Prosecute you to the full extent of the law. Thank you for joining us, three massive wildfires are burning across the bay area. They have scorched over 1100 square miles nearly 7 times the size of san jose. Flames are forcing new evacuation orders this evening. Right now firefighters are bracing for dry lightning and gusty winds that could ignite new fires. The biggest fire is the l and you lightning complex burning in the north bay. More than 500 square miles have been scorched, and containment is at 17 . Katie nielsen is in the Dry Creek Valley area and what are ns l this is actually the calm before the storm, literally and figuratively. The winds have not really picked up yet, we are not seeing any of those thunderheads but we are seeing a lot of these helicopters, this is the national guard, a blackhawk helicopter with what they call a bambi bucket. A 600 60 gallon bucket pulling water out of this pond in the dry creek area then taking off, headed back into the fire lines on the ot
Have been downgraded to warnings and while calm conditions helped firefighters make some progress overnight a red flag warning is in effect, bay area wide through tomorrow afternoon. We want to get to darren peck. The thunderstorm complex sitting off the coast right now, take a look at the High Definition doppler, its a complicated picture. You see a big mass of a thunderstorm of the coast of san mateo county, that is not actually there. The Weather Service has set this radar to its most sensitive so we can pick up the leading edge of the storms. That is clutter, not rain. But here is a Lightning Strike and it is moving, all of this stuff is stationary. The stuff that is moving is the wave of scattered thunderstorms that will get here later tonight. Over the next few hours, look down here. We have a few more coming up the coast so unfortunately we are still on schedule, the forecast is not changed a whole lot. Tonight through tomorrow morning is our highest concern, a 40 chance for iso
Good morning to you and thank you for joining us and welcome to mornings on 2. Im dave clark. Good morning, im pam cook. Monday morning, august 24th. So nice to be back with you dave clark. Welcome back from vacation pam cook. Thank you. Thank you. And rosemary is here for steve today. And boy, i hope we will get some relief for the firefighters and everybody around the bay area. It has been hot and windy and smoky. Oh gosh. I know pam. Good morning to you. Welcome back. And yes, i think moving forward we are going to see temperatures come down a little bit more. The marine layer will continue to deepen so that is a bit of news that is good. This morning getting a few scattered showers. Not much accumulation. But we welcome any kind of rain. We do not want to see the thunder and the lightning. So far it has been really really quiet. Here is a look at stormtrac are to where you can see we have some white shower activity. We will start right around the bay bridge where we might have a fe
Santa cruz county. Lets zoom in now on the czu lightning complex fire. You take a look at this map on your screen. The red line shows the outline of the fire and it has grown so much you can see that spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fires turned deadly a 70 yearold man was found the body of 7 yearold man was found in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live this morning at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a Scotts Valley. He has the latest will. Marty so far right now as of the update yesterday at around 11 oclock last night 74,000 acres have burned for this fire. We do know that at least 131 structures have gone up in flames with many others damaged. We expect a News Conference in one hour from now they have thousands of firefighters spread throughout california. The moving forward the biggest challenge will be the resources heading to this location. Yes, very dry very smoky. But the good news is i did not see any Lightning Strikes thats the fe