Contained. The scu lightning complex fires in the east bay and parts of Santa Clara County or 10 contained. And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula and into Santa Cruz County or 8 contained. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and i pale more fire crews and residents are anxious about the high winds, the thunderstorms and the lightning expected tonight and into the start of the workweek in fact all of us across the bay area are concerned more than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than 2 dozen major fires across the state. Tonight, another death to report the body of a 70 yearold man has been discovered in Santa Cruz County. We have Team Coverage on all 3 major complex fires tonight kron fours noelle bellow gayle ong and dan thorn our live with the latest on the fires and the damage and our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is in our Weather Center tracking the weather conditions tonight, lets go to the biggest fire noelle bellow has the latest on the
Area cities thousands of people doing what they can to try and escape the heat. We have a team of reporters tracking the high temperatures but our coverage begins with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow who has more on the heat advisory, this is a dangerous weather. Yeah, very hot weather out there. We havent seen the heat wave like this all summer long very impressive were going to see this was going to be one for the record books and look at the numbers outside right now a 101 degrees right now in san jose one 03 in morgan hill 106 in livermore one 06 in dublin 94 in alameda 102 degrees in san mateo you dont see get that hot there very often how about 92 on the coastline in pacifica 96 thats going go down as a record in the San Francisco, a 106 in concord one o 9 in fairfield right now a 106 in the napa valley look at the north bay just covered in triple digit heat all around certainly thats a concern heat advisories are up for many spots inside the bay, he warnings are up for m
Our top story tonight, the triple digit heat in the bay area. These are the current temp temperatures right now and you can see its still really hot in some places. Record temperatures were predicted to hit the bay area today and i think we might have had that lets check in with the Golden Gate Bridge. Lawrence my car has a tendency to exaggerate. Said 89 on the Golden Gate Bridge in the 2 oclock hour. Yeah, you know theyre picking up that road. He writes, im not typically where we take our temperatures overnight grassy area. But certainly was hot. No matter how you slice it. High temperatures all around the bay area, heres a nice view the kind of cool you off a little bit toward Half Moon Bay out toward the water beautiful out there now going to be another gorgeous day for happen bay tomorrow, even along the coastline after going to see a little relief from the heat now Something Interesting now weve seen some of that subtropical moisture come to our skies beautiful sunset last night
The workweek more than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than 2 dozen major fires across california and tonight word of another death th of a 70 yearold man has been discovered in Santa Cruz County good evening. Everybody, im pam moore and im ken wayne thanks for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 oclock tonight were monitoring 3 lightning complex fires across the bay area. Heres the latest information on each the largest one burning acl and you complex fires. Those fires spanned napa a Sonoma Solano and lake counties. Tonights theyve grown to more than 347,000 acres and theyre at 21 containment. The s c you lightning complex fires are burning in alameda contra costa and santa clara counties. Theyve expanded to 343,000 acres and or 10 cothe czu august lightning complex fires are burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Theyve gwn to 74,000 acres and are at 8 containment. And the last time that we have this event which was last weekend. There are some significant wind gust
Should be prepared. The shut offs are being ordered by the state of california so pg and he wants everyone to know this is not the Public Safety shutoff switch happened during high fire threat conditions. The outages are due to a combination of the extreme heat that were experiencing and high energy usage. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now to tell us the records that were broken today and how long this hot weather is going to stick around for years, you can imagine all the people trying to turn up their abc today. These temperatures easily, the hottest of the summer so far and records all around the bay area, not just in a few spots we smashed into many places in the San Francisco 95 degrees that is very hot. Downtown San Francisco. Look at oakland, a 101 degrees a 103 in san jose that was a record in san jose, Half Moon Bay right out there on the waters edge 82 a record a 106 scorching heat in napa one 05 in santa rosa. We were done there more records falling redwood ci