The morning very welcome calm winds in these areas. Welcome relief from poor air quality late yesterday you notice skies really clearing out you could think that deep in marine layer for that the help to push in clean things up a bit. This isnt necessarily going to stay this way through the day so do enjoy are Clear Conditions this morning, a haze is expected again this afternoon, especially for inland areas. 60s 70s, 80s and just a few 90s in the forecast today. One of our warm spots at 91 degrees lot cooler than you have been well conquered in livermore settling down into the upper 80s for areas like san jose its mid 80s 70s for oakland state time high. Back to you james all right, thank you very much john. We are seeing a significant jump in containment numbers with regard to the wildfires burning across the bay area in fact fire crews have been battling the flames for over a week now. And they have made progress cal fire says the lnu lightning complex fire in the north bay is now 2
Areas biggest fires. Tonight we start in the north bay where the l a nelightning complex fire is that is the deadliest and most destructive fire here the bay. It remains a serious threat tonight once again it exploded today in size having now burned more than 300,000 acres in Sonoma Solano napa lake and yolo counties. Tonight, we know 5 people died in that fire for more have been injured during the fire fight almost 500 structures have been destroyed 125 others damaged and more than 30,000 others are threatened tonight still a bit of good news at this hour cal fires now reporting 15 containment. Thats more than double what it was this morning. When the most impacted communities in Sonoma County is Healdsburg Kron fours dan kerman reports about the challenges fire crews are facing there. Right now the fire is progressing from mill creek to the Sweetwater Springs road area that south southeast. Firefighters trying to get a handle on things before those Early Morning hours when the fire h
To hot weather expected although not quite as hot as we were early in the week. Temperatures similar to yesterday after taking a little fall. Temperatures around antioch in the upper 90s. Pacifica and Half Moon Bay in the mid to upper 60s. The cloud and fog is back. What to expect for this afternoon, coming up. Lets check on the highways now. Good morning. We have traffic doing very well. I want to talk about the east bay where we still have slow traffic that wont go away, it seems. Theyre clearing a crash that was a hitandrun at south 81 near whipple in that house traffic going slow. Otherwise, San Francisco had a stalled vehicle in an earlier accident that excluded. And traffic into San Francisco from east bay looks okay. No problems on the Richmond Bridge this morning and on 880 in oakland, this traffic is moving along very nicely. Brick newsprint more destruction caused by the walbridge buyer, part of the bigger lmu complex fires in the north bay. This video from this morning showi
Wires from the czu lightning complex and relieve left townsend Santa Cruz County unrecognizable in some cases kron fours Maureen Kelly shows us. This drone video shows some of the destruction in the town of bonny doon where homes have been flattened to piles of ash. And debris charred remains of metal frames appliances and cars somewhat recognizable in the aftermath. Cal fire says that the 330 structures burned so far in the czu lightning complex fires at least 200 were peoples homes and its a total thats expected to rise as they continue to take stock of the damage smoke could be seen rising in several spots off the mountain. But now the weather is less of an obstacle for firefighters, there is a. Losing battle that we had a fight with that the beginning but now that the weather has more on our side cooler but the higher humidity, the visibility has also improved allowing for more air support but also the winds have turned in their favor where the winds are helping actually pushed the
With the National Guard about providing reinforcements as an already devastating wildfire season. Threatens to get even worse. The scu fire complex is the second largest fire in state history. Scorching now more than 365,000 acres containment is up to 20 . Its followed closely in size historically and currently by the lnu complex fire which has burned more than 356,000 acres in the north bay that complex is 27 contained and then theres the czu complex in the Santa Cruz Mountains thats burned. But 80,000 acres and containment has grown to 19 altogether these local fires have burned about 800,000 acres in just over a week all right, lets get a closer look at each of those major we start off with the scu lightning complex and. Contra costa Alameda Santa clara, san joaquin and stanislaus counties more than 365,000 acres have been scorched in the fires are 20 contained tonight, 5 people have been injured 3 1st responders and 2 others more than 20,000 structures are threatened. Now that lnu