Good afternoon. We are expecting an update from the governor on our heat wave and energy concerns. First, lets get right to mary lee. Yes, i am still tracking thunderstorms with numerous lightning strikes on High Definition doppler. So, zooming in, catching heavy downpours as well as the lightning strikes arf cloverdal you can see several lightning strikes up near willis. With those thunderstorms pushing through. Even though the red flag warning has expired, there is still a very high fire danger due to the lightning strikes as well as how dry everything is. We will continue with all of these heat advisories for the bay area due to the dangerous heat. Temperatures are climbing there the rest of the afternoon. Triple digit heat for fairfield. We are looking at the 80s around the bay. 89 for oakland. We are looking at the chance to see a few more thunderstorms this afternoon. Things should quiet down through this evening. At least by thursday we will cool it down a bit with onshore flow.
Lightning sparked fires. Cal fire at this point has not yet given any specific information on the size or the containment of the fires. Evacuations are underway due to fires along Hennessy Ridge road. As we get more information, we will bring it to you. All of this is happening as a heat wave continues in the bay area. Governor newsom will give an update on the states response to the heat wave as well as the covid pandemic. He signed a proclamation to free up Energy Capacity and reduce the need for Service Disruptions which we saw through the weekend. We will bring you the governors News Conference as soon as it gets underway. We will bring in rosemary with how high the temperatures are going. Another bad day today. The northbay looks like its bullseye for the time being. Temperatures again are expected to be near record breaking. Lets take a look at stormtracker 2. We will zoom in over areas over the northbay. We watched it move from offshore to on shore. You can see all of those ligh
Temperatures are coming down a little bit but of course youre adding smoke into today. And thats just going make conditions all the worse you can see outside here. This is a picture from up in guerneville sent in from a viewer up there. Greg potter that smoke just being put into the sky around sunset last night you can see those smoke plumes across the bay area and the impact from them very evident. This morning, poor air quality for most parts of the bay are best towards the coastline but even then youre still looking at sinking air and making for some poor air quality there as well so this is not your ideal situation for spending much time outside this wednesday use it as an excuse to stay indoors, stay cool, especially if you have respiratory conditions you dont want to be doing too much. We have fire burning in eastern Contra Costa County still putting up smoke in that region also some fairly breezy conditions through the delta around oakley in brentwood this morning, north bay, mu
Wave and a pandemic. We will bring that to you live when he begins. First, a snapshot of the fires around the bay area right now. Cal fire is grouping them into a few named complexes. Each one made up of several fires spanning several counties. We have Team Coverage from the fire lines, tracking the latest evacuations and updating the latest weather conditions. Evacuations underway right now in napa county near the lightning complex fire. People on monticello road, hope valley road, Aetna Springs road, budd canyon road, and daines creek road are all being asked to grab what they can and leave. Hadestroyed or damaged about 100 homes so far. It has burned more than 46,000 acres, almost the size of the city of oakland and still no progress on containment. In vacaville, do evacuation orders along shelton lane and Browns Valley road. Cal fire just giving an update on the firefight within the last hour. Right , we ainfive counties. What that means is cooperation. By cooperation, he means get
Is burning in a large area of the north bay. Leveling homes and impacting thousands of People Living in Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo counties and the woodward fire that is burning in the Point Reyes National seashore area of marine county. And so far those devastating north bay fires have scorched a combined 215,000 acres and 4 people have died 3 in napa county one in Solano County. 480 structures have been destroyed. These numbers were just updated and they have really jumped 125 other structures have been damaged tonight more than 30,000 structures are still threatened. And right now the entire complex in the north bay is 0 contained. And tonight, were learning all Evacuation Orders have been lifted in vacaville with the exception of south of fort hill drivein west of alamo drive from monte vista avenue to interstate 80 was michelle kingston is in vacaville with what conditions are like. Well theres not much activity here outside the eu lead his community center. This is the only