Our wildfire coverage continues tonight with the deadly north complex fire burning in butte yuba and plumas counties that fire has killed at least 10 people including a 16 yearold boy. Kay recede joins us now from oroville in butte county was the latest k. Its smoking out here but search and rescue crews often face tougher conditions conditions. They train for. As the smoke and flames from the north complex continue to make their way through butte lewis and yuba counties, driving more and more families out the search and rescue team of the Butte County Sheriffs Office are heading in and the hopes of finding the many who remain missing and theyre theyre literally putting themselves in extreme has some of the areas that they were evacuating. Were just minutes away from being overrun by fire. Dennis schmidt is a member of the all volunteer organization. He says theyre all volunteer staff have faced some of the most challenging terrain in this wildfire. The biggest challenge is it just hap
Images of parties and barbecues with family and friends. Traditionally later day is summers last hurrah, marked with good food is family get togethers. People are already starting to make their plans. This labor day well probably be at home. Well probably barbecue. Well definitely go on a hike. Reporter this year city leaders in San Francisco are saying in other holidays in 2020 are any indication, labor day will be a breeding ground for covid19. We continue to see spikes in our numbers as a result of the hole days, and labor day im sure is not going to be any different. Reporter the city launched a Public Service announcement campaign. We can show love by masking up. We can stay six feet apart, and most importantly, ashowed sharing food and drinks. Reporter covid19 is close something traditional labor day lily everyone in the house is online destinations like the beaches and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. In santa cruz and monterey, but try 1 gig internet
Yesterday 104 people died. Far fewer than the 178 the day before. At this hour we topped 60,000 cases in the bay area. Alameda county continues to be the hot spot. You can see it on on the map. Meanwhile a lot of people headed to delores park as doctors keep a close eye on a dangerous stitituation situation. People seem divided about whether its really safe there. Especially im not judgmental but i do wish when we were walking out with other people that they would see for elderly people its dangerous that theyre not Wearing Masks. They take daily walks around their neighborhood park. It just so happens thats delores park. An outdoor hot spot in San Francisco. He sounded the alarm on the number of people not Wearing Masks within their social circles at delores park a week ago and he says not much has changed. It seemed to be more crowded yesterday with music but specifically around covid19 the circles were, people were trying to stay in the circles. This was someone that we spotted not
Pg e is preparing for power shut off this fire season, but they vow that this year will be different. California Public Utilities commission and pg e will hold a meeting this morning on the companys preparedness for the upcoming shut off. The press democrat report says pg e will cut the number of customers to lose power down by onethird because it made smaller sectors in the electrical grid. Many states grappling with covid cases and businesses struggling to stay afloat, the medical community is forging ahead on their search for a vaccine. Today in the bay Cierra Johnson is live in San Francisco to explain where researchers are in that search. Cierra, how can they be a part of it . Yeah, definitely. Were going to have more information and as those researchers are working to find that vaccine that uses that type of technaology, that new Type O Technology theyre looking for a group of people to go forward with the study. Africanamericans and latinos this call for participants being made
But is important for children and families. He ended with a threat. May cut off funding if not open. And just yesterday, he said, quote, my view is the schools should open. He this thing is going away. It will go away like things go away and my view is that schools should be open. The president views the decision about how to reopen schools as a political dispute about his own reelection. And to paraphrase his press secretary, he is refusing to let science stand in the way. I fundamentally disagree with that approach. Schools must reopen based on science and the safety of our children and teachers, notf politics and wishful thinking. I do agree with the president that schools are critically important for children and families. My first job after i graduated from college was as a High School History teacher. My wife was a school librarian. At this time of year, i remember the anticipation as the start of school would come into focus. Two of my grandchildren are schoolage, and i know the