Been devastating to see those homes lost in this fire right behind me they are carrying out their morning to briefing to you have agencies from across the bay area here to help put out this fire. But i enjoy life right now with captain saw lopez is with the San Mateo County Sheriffs Office you know, lets talk about how its been for your department in the most important thing you want people to now so were currently working with cal fire in communicating with our residents in the south coast area thats been affected and many of those areas or rural and steep. So when we do issue a i suggest that everybody listens to those warnings you pack up your things and be ready to evacuate if those mandatory evacuation notices come out what have you seen anyone or people trying to stay back and not wanting to leave their houses and if that is happening. What do they need to do so those are some of the challenges we have experience at in the last 48 several deputies have interacting with residents
Neighbor, there were long lines going out of the neighbor because of the mandatory evacuations. I want to go off into the distance. First you can see the homes right here. Then we look at the hillsides. We are at the western portion of i80. You go see the hill sides that are charred black from the flames that have torn through this area. They are under a mandatory evacuation. Some of them are still here. I want to pan back out. There are other things i want to show you. It is pretty quiet here. When we go on to above that roof and on to that hill top, you can see where some of those air tankers dropped that fire retardant. I want to throw it right now to some of the sound we have from some of the folks living in this area on what it has been like in the last 24 hours. At some point, if we feel its not safe, we will definitely depart. But like i am, we havell. Weve been saying all day, if the winds are on our side, we have a chance. With all the emotional tension, it was definitely chal
Coverage in the l a new lightning complex fires have now burned more than 46,000 acres overnight. These fires have destroyed at least 50 structures threatening dozens more theres 0 containment. The flames are and solano napa and sonoma counties right now and cal fire has hundreds of personnel on the scene trying to protect as many homes as possible. Mandatory evacuations have been issued for several neighborhoods. Well go over some of them right now this includes rockville road. Sassoon valley road Gordon Valley road Wooden Valley road clayton road. A man casts corner shelton lane northwest Browns Valley road. Also west of blue ridge road to 5 05 and north of cherry glen road. The highway one 28 and it is important also know that 80 is shut between fairfield and vacaville between cherry glen road and air base parkway weve covered that a few times here well get more information on that to you as soon as new information comes in. Now tonight, there are multiple evacuation orders also in
Some of the coastal valleys are starting to fill up and you can see it right along the peninsula coast. But you can see the nearly full moon about to set. It will come back at 8 47 this evening and it will be full. And we are mirld thare milder te yesterday. The breezes will start at 9 00 this morning. And it will go until 9 00 this evening. Well take a look at measurable drizzle coming up in the 7 day forecast. And here are the top covid19 headlines in the bay area and across california this morning. Today is the second day that many San Mateo County businesses where closed. This follows the county being on the states watch list for an increase in cases for three straight days. Hayward will have a testing site at sky west golf course opening at 9 00 this morning. And Governor Newsom will employ a live briefing at noon. And we are focusing on education. Closings Digital Divide is now more important than ever. And Julian Glover is live with what san jose is doing to help those kids. Rep
Learning is more robust than before. Reporter the announcement comes amid a surge in covid19 cases statewide and despite a push to reopen schools the top teacher said now isnt the time. I do think that if school had to be open tomorrow, [ inaudible ] and that is a ecision that i think is a good improve, San Francisco schools hope to offer a gradual hybrid type of inperson and Distance Learning combination for some. Sumptter is a stayathome mom and knows it may be harder for other families. Her kids school adapted to Online Learning which looks like it is going to stick around. It went well. It was just tedious. Reporter united educators of San Francisco said it is important to Work Together to make sure that Distance Learning it the best that it could be. Meantime details of how the district plans to work are expected by the end of the month. In San Francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area. In san jose theyre asking the parents for input. San jose unified is reviewing the results of a P