Today just like yesterday, it is t a company by wind and dncause of the lack of when they al expect aircraft to be up in the air very soon to dump approximately 200,000 gallons of water if not more on the oday, they are making progress not a lot of progress as far as leaps and bounds, but they will take it 17 containment, thats up from 13 containment. What youre looking at right its fog thats not smoke so Good Progress there. But it has een very destructive. The number of homes and structures destroyed has gone up in t overnight hours from approximately 280. 2 now 330 structures and they do expect that number to go up because part of the firefighting process today is try to make inroads into a hard to reach areas which have bridges that have burned wooden bridges, theres fallen trees, theres debris. They hope to clear that get into those areas and count their homes that are still there and destrobut going to go do that and get back up in the r firefighters on the gr about 1400 of them.
In santa rosa, some pockets around these areas actually seeing visibility below a mile look what happens especially after 10 00am fog starts to really burn off and then we have sunshine hazy sunshine will be up for the rest of the day. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with san mateo and alameda each at 58 degrees right now conquered in pittsburgh at 5759. I mean San Francisco youre the 57 currently later today, daytime highs in the 90s for just a few spots 70s for bayside cities and 80s for areas like conquered livermore and san jose. Thats your forecast time for traffic with robin. Thank you john what a difference just one 15 or 20 minutes makes of the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. Its pretty heavy now we went from slowing that spilled out to west grand to now a backup. Thats all the way through the bottom of the maze in fact its spilling over to the 5. 80 west connector. That brings you over to 80 west and up to the bay bridge toll plaza so it is packed not only here.
We also have late word tonight about damage. Cal fire says the bay areas three big fires have burned more than half 1 million acres and destroyed more than 500 structures. The lnu is the secondlargest wildfire in california history, it stretches across five counties and has burned more than 300,000 acres. The good news committed 15 contained. We also learned tonight 480 structures have been destroyed in this fire. The czu fires have burned more than 57,000 acres. Containment is up from 0 percent to 2 . 95 to structures have been destroyed and another 2000 are threatened. And the fire in alameda and santa clara has scorched 275,000 acres and firefighters is a it is 10 contained. Five structures have been destroyed. Team coverage of the fires, we have more on the progress being made in Sonoma County. We also have more on what is happening in santa cruz. First, we taketh our meteorologist with a look at the Current Conditions for firefighters. And fully the moisture levels have been comin
To go back to their homes today. But what they found for many was just utter devastation. For others, evacuation orders and warnings are still in place. Also, help is now available from fema. Victims are being told to register with fema as soon as possible. This is a painful time for so many people. We start with the scu complex fire thats raging across five separate counties. Some of the numbers in, 25 containment, which is good news. In the north bay, the lnu fire, 33 contained. However, five people have died. And last but simply not least, the woodward fire in marin. Its as much smaller. The woodward fire right here, its still growing. And now we should say the last one, the czu fire burning along the coast, nearly 20 contained. One person has died. Were expecting an update in a few minutes. Thank you very much. We are getting some information on the czu complex. Well get to that in a moment. But in the midst of all this destruction from the fires, we have some good news. Hundreds o
Some of them burning dangerously out of control tonight. Here is a map of where those fires are burning at the moment, the u. S. See you a lightning complex that has burned the most scorching more than a 137,000 acres across 5 counties. Then closer to the coast. The seas eu august lightning complex fires, those are burning in the mountains of san mateo and santa cruz counties and finally the l a new lightning complex fires are burning in the north bay, including napa sonoma and solano counties. The lnu lightning complex fire. So far have scorched a combined total of a 131,000 acres imagine that a 105 structures have been destroyed 70 have been damage and right now the entire fire is 0 contained and we want to share with you the evacuation map now for sonoma county, heres a look at the Evacuation Orders and warnings in that county as you can see there anyone living in the red area they are under mandatory Evacuation Orders. The yellow area. Thats under an evacuation warning, which means