Now forced to relive a painful past and a grim warning of whats ahead. We still have months to go for fire season. Talking about chaotic Evacuations Homes destroyed and fire spreading unchecked but for 10s of thousands of people. Fire fatigue is setting in thank you for joining us at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im tahernia and 4 vicki liviakis. Heres where we stand tonight, the glass fire burning in napa and sonoma counties has charred at least 42,000 acres and remains at 0 containment. Cal fire says 80 homes have been destroyed including 28 in Sonoma County and 52 in napa county more than a 1000 structures remain threatened. And the Sonoma County, the city of santa rosa has also suffered immense fire damage. Many homes have been damaged or completely burned to the ground thats where we find kron fours morning. Kelly tonight what is the situation out there how are things tonight. Well great ill tell you that the weather is definitely improving out here for firefighters in fac
Move because of evacuations im darya folsom and im James Fletcher lets get right to the map lay out the scenario that were seeing this morning with fires burning down near santa cruz in eastern Contra Costa County out there near mount diablo in a course in the north bay as were seeing here the live pictures at a salon a county with the fire that is now prompting evacuations in fact a bill this morning, lets go live to will tran very close to one of the fire lines that they are working on trying to keep people out and people safe as we see properties go up in flames. Well. Were talking about farmland thats going up in flames right now and this one is getting a little too dangerous even for us and we want to bring you to the scene it is chewing up the land its marching down closer and closer to in the intersection them at Pleasant Valley road and sherry glen road. And you can clearly see it is going unimpeded because theyre not being stopped by the firefighters at all they have other thi
Dangerous and record setting heat in areas today. Lightning strikes kaugtd on camera by the california highway patrol. Thunderstorms are expected to be strongest in north bay. A wildfire in st. Helena started around the wildfires. Its been so strange. And power knocked out in mill valley. A bolt hit power lines. You can see pg and e responding, and a salon owner says they were working with clients outside when it happened. We got so scared but five seconds later, the big line happening again. Sop we move everybody inside. We heard like an explosion, and it was a small one and a big one like a bomb. Mother nature is mad because something is going on here. Rough weather. That is what is going on. Pg and e reports power has been restored. Thank you for joining us, those issues are not enough, more than 3 million homes statewide could have their power shut off. If that total is reached, it would be the largest shut off in state history. I know that its going to be highly disruptive to peop
Saying that we have smoke. Its an interesting start to a brandnew day. Rosemary, we have been talking about this all morning. It is not going away. Good morning dave and gasia. The air quality over the peninsula looks moderate at the moment. Unhealthy in the inner east bay and south bay and also the eastern edge where fires are burning. As we get into the afternoon, we are not expecting any improvement. There is a look at the estuary. You can see cloud cover there indicating whether changes that are already underway. Here is a look at what we are expecting for the afternoon. Poor air quality with an onshore breeze coming in and will improve things in some areas. That will cool us down and bring up our relative humidity. It will also increase our wind, which could be a challenge for firefighters. When i come back, i will have what you can expect. How are those highways doing this morning . It is crowded at the bay bridge toll plaza. Right now i can see it, and you can see it too. If you
50s and 60s in santa rosa and san jose. Morning fog with cool lows with some errors in the upper 40s. Warming to hot with an onshore breeze. The fog will retreat slowly for some. Thunderstorms over the mountains. And temperatures, if you like the last couple of days, not much change. Near average. Highway 17 s. , you want to focus on that first . We are looking at that. I was 17. And looking at other commutes but first we will look at the bay bridge. But yes, we will get to hide something. I want to remind people that the bay bridge does have a backup in case you have not seen it. See mentioned i was 17. In case you havent heard, there was an overturned truck stop on something at the summit. Northbound traffic has also slowed. Bigger problem force up on something. We will update that all morning long until they clear. Lets get back to the headlines. Arthritis put out a fire in pittsburgh and rescued one person after regards went up in flames overnight. It happened at 245 on crestview d