Contained. The scu lightning complex fires in the east bay and parts of Santa Clara County or 10 contained. And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula and into Santa Cruz County or 8 contained. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and i pale more fire crews and residents are anxious about the high winds, the thunderstorms and the lightning expected tonight and into the start of the workweek in fact all of us across the bay area are concerned more than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than 2 dozen major fires across the state. Tonight, another death to report the body of a 70 yearold man has been discovered in Santa Cruz County. We have Team Coverage on all 3 major complex fires tonight kron fours noelle bellow gayle ong and dan thorn our live with the latest on the fires and the damage and our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is in our Weather Center tracking the weather conditions tonight, lets go to the biggest fire noelle bellow has the latest on the
As you cross the bay bridge this morning. Were mainly in the 50s and well be barely 60 at the coast. So average to a little bit below. A lot warmer weather coming up in the 7 day forecast. Fire crews battling the czu lightning complex are making steady progress after burning more than 81,000 acres. Julian glover is live in Scotts Valley where wont again they will hold a briefing in about an hour. Reporter yeah, they are making progress. And it is slow, methodical, but it is happening. We got an update that the fire is 21 contained, only growing less than 1,000 acres throughout the day on wednesday. Weather once again playing a role in making the firefight a success. To allowed the firefighters to work some controlled burn operations to protect the areas of felton and also ben lomond. But as firefighters make progress, evacuation warnings and orders are slowly being lifted. So good news to the north, Santa Clara County no longer being threatened by the fire. And to the south, uc santa c
Bad air quality and what is ahead for us in the day. We have only seen a few lightning strikes over the bay area. Most of it has been to our east and some of it has been over the pacific but in terms of what we have seen, there are just a few and if we look live at the doppler, it is still raining in the north bay. This is actually good news because those are relatively light showers, just enough to dampen things up around the la yukon complex. There is a light rain through 101. Just to the north of healdsburg, there is a burn scar. It is good to see the light rainfall. We are not seeing any lightning being detected but it is still possible. We are not out of that threat yet. That red flag warning stays in effect until 5 00 this afternoon and if we watch the future cast from where the showers are now, they keep going. We will keep seeing showers until 10 00 this morning in the north bay and some of those could still develop an isolated strike of lightning or provide some gusty downdraf
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
Were seeing a lot of that over week. Residents on high alert hoping the Central Valley and the that does not happen. Well pass it back to you in the sierra. We have the best Case Scenario newsroom. With a little bit of rain and no lightning so far. All right. So hopefully that holds up. Thunder, lightning, wind something firefighters certainly we do still have that chance as were seeing some rain in parts keep check on. Of the north bay, some light kari hall, how are we looking . Showers not enough to put out it looks pretty good. The fires, but it will help get we havent seen any lightning a little bit of keeping it from strikes and our slight chance will be mostly in the north bay. Spreading so quickly. Its still going well be watching that as we are going into today. Inland. Well continue tot looking for mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . No complaints here, kari. Commute . We still have the one crash well take any advantage we can have from the weather. Looking to