Today. So much smoke and haze. A lot of fire shop on the infrared satellite and a lot will continue. My satellite may not move. I will have to toss it. The system is stuck. Cordelia junction and 238 and bay bridge, where would you like to start . The Cordelia Junction because we have a truck accident on interstate 80 at 680 and that has made a slow traffic coming from fairfield and vacaville mostly fairfield and the backup is not that long and not quite into vacaville pick a big back up there. Slow traffic on highway 4 this morning because of earlier wrecks from pittsburgh into concord. The big 80 at industry pick look at all this slow traffic. This is not typical because of an injury crash there clear at industry. You may want to consider using an alternate route. Get on the freeway in union city and avoid heyward on 880 s. We will begin with breaking news where fastmoving flames near vacaville have burned homes or loose money. There is some injuries as well. The fire vacaville is par
Tonight at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus days after dry lightning swept across the bay area firefighters tonight are still battling dozens of wild fires that started as a result, some of them, burning dangerously out of control tonight, heres a map of where the fires are burning as we speak well start with the scu lightning complex fire that is the biggest grouping of fires of all of them scorching more than a 137,000 acres and contra costa Alameda Santa clara status. Lawson san joaquin counties to the bottom of your screen. You see the seas eu august lightning complex fires, burning in the mountains in san mateo and santa cruz counties destroying homes forcing thousands of people to evacuate their frantically overnight. And finally the lnu lightning complex. Thats burning in large area of the north bay, leveling homes and impacting thousands of People Living in Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo counties these fires are huge and so far those devastating north bay fires have scorched
Coming up. One thing that is helping crews, the weather. Here is a live look from san jose, smoky skies right now, but things could have been much worse. Where the lightning was this morning, it was basically everywhere but the bay area, we had lightning strikes happening in the Central Valley and we had a fair share of lightning strikes happening off the coast. If we watch the last several hours on this you will see the lightning that worked its way through the central vaan up io e th was sierof the worst of the lightning was. Let me bring this back, we are going to go back in time and you will see the lightning reappear on the screen right there. Thats about it. We are going to go to Governor Newsom now with an update on the wildfires and the coronavirus, lets listen in. Good afternoon everybody, i wanted to offer you a situational update on the wildfires here in the state of california and give you a sense of where we are, where weve been, and where we anticipate going over the cour
Me and joe, together. What an awesome responsibility. What an awesome privilege. Night three of the Democratic National convention in the spotlight was on california senator Kamala Harris. The democrats brought in some of their heavy hitters tonight, including nancy pelosi, Hillary Clinton, senator Elizabeth Moran and former president barack obama. But make no mistake, this night was all about Kamala Harris. Our political reporter craig lee now, what is your thoughts on Kamala Harris and did she deliver . Reporter in a word, yes. She told personal stories, she introduced herself as the democratic vp nominee, but most significantly the daughter of immigrants who grew up in the bay area made history tonight. I accept your nomination for Vice President of the United States of america. Reporter california senator Kamala Harris submitting her place in history, accepting the democratic partys Vice President ial nomination. She is the first black woman and for south Asian American to appear o
Ahead of the ball game for the peninsula. But off to conquer little bit behind and some pockets up there in the north bay to 78 by 11 00am by 2 oclock sunny skies and 89 will revisit a couple little 90s going on today. But then after that the night is taking a break and so well have a little flavor may be springlike weather kind of coming up for this weekend and early next week marty back to you sounds good dave thanks. A lot, lets get to our top story this friday morning. The u. S. Has seen a disturbing trend now in new coronavirus infections. On thursday there were more than 37,000 new cases reported and thats a singleday record. According to Johns Hopkins University Hospital there are currently over 9 million cases around the world. And 489,000 deaths. The u. S. Has over 2 million cases and 124,000 people have died from covid19 but over 663,000 have recovered here in the u. S. At least 30 states reported increase in cases, new mexico, arizona and texas are pausing their reopening pl