Happening right now, thousands of pg e customers are still in the dark this morning. And the power might not be back on until tonight. So here is a look at the outage map. Pg e cut the power in nearly two dozen counties across the state, august because of the high fire danger. The purple triangles indicate those Public Safety power shutoffs. Calistoga is one place that is impacted. The mayor says the shutoff was a necessary step because of the threat of high winds. At one point, there were half a Million People in the dark statewide. Crews will be working to restore power once the sun comes up. High winds and dangerous heat are making it difficult for firefighters battling dozens of fires across california right now. And i really want you to Pay Attention to this number. So far wildfires have burned about 2. 3 million acres in comparison to this same time last year. And this same time last year, just during a press conference yesterday, Governor Newsom said that he has had it with Clim
Quick look at the weather. Good morning, liz. We have a lot of stratus out there, the low clouds as we look at live doppler 7. Youll notice up into the north bay weve got the fog. S also along the peninsula there and thats going to setup a pretty good sea breeze. 3 to 4 miles Half Moon Bay. The airport is reporting fog and hazy conditions in livermore. The worst air quality right now through 7 00 is up in the north bay. Going through 2 00 it lifts further north, so were looking at slightly better air quality, we get into that afternoon sea breeze and those winds continue to push the smoke up into the north bay throughout the afternoon, the overnight hours. And your sunday is going to feature some warmer air and some lighter winds. Still with a spare the air alert both days. Weve got the unhealthy air along the Central Coast and bay today and our had inland east bay as well as tomorrow. 60s and weve got 70s and 80s arriving by 1 00. Inland well make it to about 90. Pretty good weather f
Get as it relates to the czu complex fires as the santa cruz, San Mateo County fires and this is a live picture from. The podium there where we expect cal fire officials to speak momentarily. So this News Conference was scheduled to get underway the top of the hour. So were probably moments away from that happening, well keep an eye on the shot and the minute they come there to the microphone to give us the very latest will jump back to our live coverage but right now lets cover the lnu complex fire which is in the north bay. This map shows you the area burned around sonoma napa and solano counties kron fours sara stinson is live in napa county with a closer look at the damage to homes and other property sarah. The devastation is hard to see with your own eyes and i hope by us being live here you can really get a good idea of how awful the hennessy fire has been ripping through napa county salon a county here alive above Lake Berryessa in this Highlands Community look at this this is a
Quality right through the east bay peninsula portions of the north bay. Look at where we are north of santa rosa is close to normal lives to be talking about that. Fortunately a bad pocket of air right around Mountain View, san Mateo Fremont and hayward this morning and that will likely be changing gradually through the day so keep an eye on that as you enjoy what will otherwise be really nice temperatures. 50s and 60s for current numbers, it is a cool start to what will be a comfortable afternoon with highs at or warmest only in the upper 80s thats your forecast robin also that your way all right thank you john back to our new hot spot on southbound 6 ad lots of heavy traffic rolling south which is a commute direction. Leaving alamo heading into danville its an injury accident. Its blocking the right lane south 6. 80 after stone valley and since its causing so much of a backup. Theyve opened those express lanes to everyone so you dont have to worry about that. Meanwhile a Traffic Aler
Evacuations and progress hopefully in the firefight. Joining us on the phone right now for the latest update is Christine Mcmorrow with Calfire Christine can you give us an update or are you starting to gain the upper hand on any of these fires. Hi there yeah, you know we are we did see today with and increased containment on the lnu complex fire that good news, however, you know we did also see increased we are getting more personnel under these fires as fires in other parts of the state week at a better handle on those were moving personnel into these larger in in the north bay and in east areas so that we can and continue to increase those containment lines. What do you attribute the increase in containment the lnu complex that north bay. Fire complex, the containment doubled in about 24 hours which obviously we hadnt seen that sort of. Leap in progress made thus far was it mostly the weather. Well the the weather didnt help us out today and we had a little bit higher relative humid