Visits to the respiratory urgent care center. Now at 10 wildfires continue to rage up and down the west coast leading to some of the worst air quality on the planet. Right now right here in the bay area, thank you for joining us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis a thick blanket of smoke has been hovering over the bay area for days now making it. Hard to breathe unhealthy to be outside. This is what many people experienced today. And unfortunately that smoke is expected to linger right on through the weekend chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us live as we went from orange on wednesday to gray worse today and the air quality really deteriorated as the week progressed, yeah, you know all that smoke from up above all the orange skies. That all makes down to the surface down thats where we sit we dont have a real way to get out of town unless were to get a storm. Good wind event to start to mix that out were not even seeing the heating that we normally see
Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Raging wildfires up and down the west coast. In fact its so bad that some of the worst air quality on the planet is right here in the bay area. I think blanket of smoke continues to hover over the bay area making it tough to breathe. And im healthy to stay outside. Good morning. Everybody, thank you so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news, set saturday September Marty gonzales unfortunately that smokes expected to linger throughout the weekend. It is yet another spare the air day for the bay area, the 26th in a row. We want to get more from days far on that and look at the forecast heidi a good morning marty good morning it looks like were getting a little bit of sleight thinning of the smoke at least happening a lot of air quality the service is going to be lousy all weekend still continuing. With some improvement as we get into early next week because of some other factors are going to help out with the sky conditions to again this g
You need to be doing should be just fine as you are getting out there. Right now temperatures are coolest nears the coast and up in the north bay 60s for most of our inland areas, some of our warmer spots with pittsburgh at 63 livermore dublin and conquered all at 62 to start this morning. Skies are generally clear the further inland you get with some of the low fog near the coastline do watch out for hayes in our inland valleys though, as we still do have some smoke coming up from wildfires. Nice calm winds around our north bay fires this morning as well as what were seeing in the south bay, some really calm winds in the vicinity there so that is definitely good news. The best news that weve got this morning as air quality is at least starting things off on a really good know we are looking at moderate with little impact poor air quality near the coastline and through the east bay, some of our worst stuff is still up in the north part of the Central Valley and now to the sierra foothi
Contained and the czu august lightning complex fires burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Now 19 contained calfire seeing cooler weather and extra resources coming from outside the bay area has certainly helped crews gain some ground on these fires and weve got Team Coverage of the czu lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties. And you can take a look here at the map and it shows you the areas burned by that fire or complex of fires which has destroyed more than 440 homes and other structures kron fours will tran is live now at the Cal Fire Base Camp in Scotts Valley with the latest well. No i can tell you the conditions are favorable for firefighters at this particular time it is cold, its still smoky. And yes, the fires are still burning but slowly its not chewing through all of that dry vegetation that we saw over the fast the first couple of days of this fire, lets get right to the video it is tearing through parts of Santa Cruz County including bonny doo
State, many sparked by lightning that will become a concern again today. At least 965 structures destroyed, many of them homes. Heres a quick look at just how widespread these fire zones are. The lnu complex in the north bay, primarily in napa and sonoma counties and spread out among lake county. The czu in san mateo counties. The possible threat of new thunderstorms is a main concern right now for firefighters. Something we are tracking. Lisa, we can we expect this morning . We are looking at better possibility of that tonight into monday and under a red flag warning right now and we have fog dense along the coast but the view of mt. Tam shows the colors and the air quality is better for most of you this morning. That will be changing into those winds throughout the afternoon. 60 in mountain view. 57 in San Francisco. This is the east bay where you can see the gray sky here and some of the smoke and poor air quality with you. 53 santa rosa. 59 in napa. Cooler temperatures, higher rela