Contained and the czu august lightning complex fires burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Now 19 contained calfire seeing cooler weather and extra resources coming from outside the bay area has certainly helped crews gain some ground on these fires and weve got Team Coverage of the czu lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties. And you can take a look here at the map and it shows you the areas burned by that fire or complex of fires which has destroyed more than 440 homes and other structures kron fours will tran is live now at the Cal Fire Base Camp in Scotts Valley with the latest well. No i can tell you the conditions are favorable for firefighters at this particular time it is cold, its still smoky. And yes, the fires are still burning but slowly its not chewing through all of that dry vegetation that we saw over the fast the first couple of days of this fire, lets get right to the video it is tearing through parts of Santa Cruz County including bonny doo
Streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live out at the city of san jose. Good morning everyone, it is wednesday, august 26th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning. First up on this wednesday morning, a check of our forecast. Mary lee standing by with that. Mary, good morning. Good morning to you len and michelle. And we are looking at unfortunately, another day of hazy and smoky skies. Now this morning, its not quite as bad as what we have seen even yesterday morning in comparison here. So those green and orange colors, yellow colors at least indicating that good to moderate air quality. But if you can see still some dots of red and purple and that indicates unhealthy air quality in spots for the north bay and portions of the south bay. And east bay. So because of the unhealthy air, the smoky and hazy skies, we have a spare the air alert in effect once again for today. And it has actually been extended through friday. So we are still looking at that smoke through the
And we are looking out for our health which is at risk we all know because of this pandemic. Coronavirus has claimed 164 lives on wednesday according to the latest report from the state. And that is still higher than average. But the number of new cases is still below average and the number of people in the hospital continues to drop. The test Positivity Rate has gone down to 5 and that is a really important benchmark for counties to move forward with reopening plans. I dont owe anyone an apology. Mrs. Pelosi owes the entire country an apology. New developments, the owner of the salon you see here where House Speaker nancy pelosi got her hair done says that it wasnt a setup. And the stylist who shampooed pelosi as well as other stylists who work there have quit. Here is kate larsen. Nobody set up mrs. Pelosi. Reporter erica kious says she doesnt owe anyone an apology after she released video of nancy pelosi in her salon getting her hair done. Indoor Salon Services are against San Franc
Taking you live met look at the beautiful bay bridge this friday morning from our camera on Treasure Island. We have another spare the air alert today as a heat wave sets in for the Holiday Weekend. Good morning, thank you for starting your day with us. I am anne makovec. I am len keise. Happy friday. Lets get a check of the weather with meteorologist mary lee and we are expecting high temperatures over this Holiday Weekend. We are looking at extreme heat for the Holiday Weekend. We want to watch temperatures climb and also we are tracking the smoke. We still have that spare the air alert extended all the way through saturday. We are looking at the unhealthy air for portions of the north bay and right around the bay, so there is a spare the air alert in effect, extended through saturday, likely beyond that as well. The strong rage is in place. The daytime highs are right around where we should be for this time of year but we will stay hot through the weekend with excessive heat warning
See the fire like. It was coming and it not only reach her property off gibson canyon road it burned all the way up to the house we appreciate our home now the first hours back stephanie spent doing Little Things she took for granted before like planting grateful. She recently invested in Fire Protection by barked in iraq its low maintenance. I did that with my stimulus checks sadly, not every home here survived like this one on steiger hill road. Im told that the couple that lives here is still alive but their home burned to the ground i just feel for all people lost everything all their animals their possessions stuff gerri bob settled back into his home on sunday it is untouched because hes hurting his house you can see right there. The fire isnt that far from where were at so we got lucky, so did linda stroh meyer who first feared her home was destroyed only to later through a firefighter that is not the case but i am devastated week, not every team we all cried remember van and we