Cal fire said the fire has grown to 2500 acres. At this point still 0 contained. More than 2000 homes are threatened and thousands are under mandatory evacuation orders. We want to give you a live look. Our photographer is on the silverado trail in st. Helena, just south of where the glass fire started. You can see the flames burning in the distance. The fire started at about 5 00 this morning along north fork Crystal Springs road and Crystal Springs road near the community of anglin, north of saint helena. Greg liggins have the latest on the glass fire. Azenith smith will tell us how firefighters are preparing for even more fires. First we go to our meteorologist, kyla grogan for more. It is difficult as we go into tonight. We have another event coming our way. Another push of offshore wind that will make fire spread quick we. There is a loop of satellite from earlier today. You can see the august complex fire sending smoke. Also the glass fire. Rolling into that one, we will show you
Beginning to come down in the highest elevations of our north bay, where we have our red flag warning throughout the morning hours. Live doppler 7 picking up on what will be moving into the bay in the next several days, cooling us off. Above a thousand feet anywhere from flat winds to 20 miles an hour. The upper level winds out of the north are beginning to calm down, through the next several hours, you can see we dont have the bright colors on the map, which is some good news. Air quality it is moderate for most except bad in vacaville. The orange there and some green, better in San Francisco and concord. Thats going to change. We think the worst air quality will be in our inland east bay and north bay. So the temperatures in the upper elevations still warm, 77. Relative humidity still dry at 14 . The winds are light and we will look for temperatures five to ten degrees cooler today in our inland valleys, going to take us to about 90 degrees. By noontime in the 80s there. Mid70s aroun
Forward and get kids back to school as soon as it is safe to do so. Reporter some transitional kindergarten through sixth grade good resume in midseptember. Middle schools mid october, high schools in november. The city laying out a timeline for indoor businesses to resume. Hotels, Outdoor Movies and religious gatherings may begin in midseptember but with limited capacity. Barbers and hairdressers held a rally at city hall, health and safetya top priority for them. They are still on when Indoor Personal Services can resume. I need to feed my kids. Barbers need to feed their families. My heart breaks for anyone thats had to shut down and you guys that are struggling through this. Reporter some hair salons and Indoor Personal Services may resume at the end of september. We can move our nail salons, barber shots and massages by the end of this month, indoors. Which is incredible. If we continue at the pace we are now. Reporter an important caveat. The mayor and Health Leaders say the date
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And also tonight the reopening of businesses and several local counties. Lets start with the latest on the wildfires. New video from inside of the burn zone on the czu complex fire. Up against lots of flames. But many of the big redwoods are still standing. Containment now stands at 26 . In the last hour cal fire lifted more Evacuation Orders on the eastern edge of the fire. Were tracking two other massive fairs. The scu and it stands at 35 containment and the lnu complex in the north bay, containment stands at 35 as well. Well get back to our fire coverage in a moment. But we want to explain the new rules when it comes to the coronavirus. Today the governor introduced a new tier system when businesses can reopen. Here is how it works. It is a lot to digest. Each county is assigned to one of the four tiers. It is color coated. They are based on the rate of new cases and the Positivity Rate. You could see here the criteria each county needs to meet. They have to stay in the tier for thr