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
Weve gotten some fog thats come in its fairly thin, however, not really thick thick fog that were dealing with this morning all right, heres we got going on hopes hopes that matt graphic should be in there. Excuse me its jumping off its thing on a second. This but wasnt set up and one 2nd. Heres the image i want to show you. Berkeley here. Yeah, this is u c berkeley and you can see a little bit away some of that haze thats there. This is whats left over from the fog we had from overnight and now thats pretty much cleared out or will pretty quickly. We do have a bit of that on shore when thats in place out of the northwest as you will notice that will be with us through the day today. Temperatures in the 50s and the 60s as what we got going on 69 antioch 66 for concord theres interesting pattern here we actually have better cooling happening in land that we do around the bay. Well we have a bit more fog and moisture around that actually supported temperatures overnight a little bit. The
A speech ro speech roateep ro. So its a tough fight in there. A fight evolving situation. As far as the evacuees are concerned, theyre getting out of here. Theyre going to the Cross Walk Community church in napa. They are getting information there. So this fire continues to burn, sparked by lightning. Were hoping we dont get wind, and cal fire, as of now, is still saying zero containment. Were hoping that changes sometime soon. From napa county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. Wayne, let me ask you about the evacuees for a minute. Better safe than sorry. Anyone decided not to evacuate . Reporter dan, im sorry for the threesecond delay, but that has to do with where were at in our signal. Yes, there are people in there who have stayed. Most of them have left. If you go through the area and look at the gates, there are these tags, they say evacuate. We saw chp going in there, knocking on doors, making sure people were gone. I saw two people who stayed behind. The owner of the house, trying to
Noticed the humid feel to yesterday thats helped to keep temperatures a little warmer during our overnight hours areas like antioch still already close to 80 degrees to start this morning. Not a whole lot of overnight early from our inland areas from that heat yesterday, this sets us up for temperatures quickly rising today, look at how humid it is in San Francisco oakland and other areas like novato in santa rosa thats that muggy feel that get as youre stepping outside and that only adds to the impact that this heat does have on us today now pink areas on the map right here these are excessive heat warnings with temperatures not falling much during overnight hours you dont get that relief and then youve also got those hot hot daytime highs in the triple digits in these pink areas. The u. S. That extreme warning also heat advisories in orange for places like the immediate coastline of the bay in the north bay itself as well as the peninsula due to that heat that will be gripping the ba
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