If you cant see it, then you can probably smell it. This map warns people in the areas marked purpleha tt health effects. And as you can see, we have so much to share with you this morning. A lot going on. We want to start with the forecast and check in with mike. That air quatylind mean those are major things tha. Yeah, those are the two things thatl affect us the ilmo negatively t whe next sevel days. Lets start into the air quality because even if the fires arent directly affecting you, they will indirectly affecthe it is the smoke, tasting the smoke, or breathing the see it from half bay toward mn palo alto, up around napa, vacaville, also in fairfield some of the biggest cities right current have toxic airk aidt te thankfullyand this,ntns, the winds are fairly light. But around fairfield and vacaville, you can see that they are blowing from southwest to tortheastur and that is a little bit faster than it has been. And that will pick up the next couple days also as the seabreeze co
Address new concerns about the pandemic fight in this counoat. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. The governor of wisconsin summoning the National Guard after violent protests broke out. Protesters set cars on fire and clashed with officers in riot gear after the shooting of jacob blake. Shot in the back seven times. This was not an accident. This wasnt bad police work. This felt like a vendetta. The Republican National committee nominated President Trump for a second term. If you want to really drive them crazy you say 12 more years. This is now hurricane laura. And laura is doing exactly what it a onetwo punc se punore ockout. Desuctive wildfires continue to burn through parts of california. Thousands forced to evacuate. Were deploying every resource at our disposal. Every resource. Californias highest court overturned the Death Penalty for Scott Peterson convicted of murdering his wife in 2002. All that. Off the coast of greece, a little girl right here wa
Bay, or 35 contained the czu august lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties are now 26 contained and then the l in you lightning complex fires in the north bay or 35 contained. Were going to start this morning by focus seen at the of on the czu lightning complex fire thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. The gray area on on the map on your screen shows the areas that have burned thus far in kron fours will tran reporting for us live at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest on this firefight well. Mardy us talk about whats being burned so far the acreage has gone up slightly though as far as the acre numbers and theyre happy about that because its not exploding so they just wrapped up a News Conference the acres. Now sunday, 82,540 acres thats about a 1000 more than yesterday, its not exploding exponentially so there are starting to turn the corner a little bit on this fire, although they still have a lot of ways to go. Robin
In the terms of fresh firefighters, theyre stretched thin, but they are making a lot of progress 17 can tame and thats up from 13 and good news to pass along they hope to make significant inroads in the fire over the next several days because the conditions look really good meaning winds are down humidity is up and that means they can launch their aircraft once again which yesterday they did for the First Time Since the fire started more than a week ago and they were able to drop 200,000 gallons of water down to the flames. They hope to do as much if not more today unfortunately because the fires are still burning in a lot of times theyre in rugged hard to reach areas that the new number to pass along this morning. 330. Thats the number of structures are homes destroyed thats up from around 280 yesterday so the fire has been destructive although not as deadly. No fatalities in the overnight hours, no major injuries as far as evacuations people. 77,000 people have been told to evacuate
Of their own home as they were allowed to return late last night so theyre the First Community to do so the hope is to have areas like felton and the highway 90 corridor to have those areas open sooner than later those of the new places that they were targeting today, theyre throwing 2000 firefighters at this and it is working because the number of acres burned its not exploding, it is sitting right now at 82,540 acres and thats up only a 1000 acres from yesterday containment also up youre sitting now at 26 . Containment but firefighters still have their hands full, its basically a race between them and the fire to get to feel that has not been touched yet. Were going to have to start removing trees. The are unsafe. Weve got potentially take out additional power lines across roadways or in danger structures. So like i said its multiphase when we start pushing forward with the entire mitigation process of this incident and its going to take a while. I mean everyone to be patient. Were w