Afternoon. Theyre in santa clara. Today the team did practice in the midst of the smoke. They say they can practice and be out there if the air quality is below 200. Right now as a point of reference its 199. The nfl says it will make a decision by tomorrow. Its been quite a week and likely going to be quite a weekend. Heres what it looked like today across the bay area. The smoke so thick it looks like really heavy fog but as we know its not. For comparison heres what it looked like yesterday on all these same cameras. A lot more yellow, a lot more orange before were seeing all that gray today. And we all remember wednesday the orange skies that felt like we were simply on another planet. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. I know its hard to forecast this with the smoke, but what are you seeing in the next 48 hours . Were seeing that unhealthy to very unhealthy air is going to remain with us based on all the information i have right now. There are some changes ahead t
Was on fire. Reporter thats andy immel standing in the photo surrounded by whats left of the home he built over 42 years. H nifds gandline. Nd tdher, j s big cry. Before that it was we dont know, maybe. We kept hope. Reporter but on that morning that the immels were still hoping, this is what was happening in their neighborhood and all over boulder creek. By morning it was all rubble. The bits and pieces that make a home completely charred. This street, fallen leaf drive, completely devastated. Still there were streets that prove just how unfair a fire can be. Her burned to eground. That just goes to show that we dont have the resources on it that we would normally. If this were a normal situation where, say, this were only one or two fires within the state, we would have more resources here. Reporter cal fire crews stretched thin, dealing with this kind of work. Spot fires that are smoldering slight change in weather conditions. You dont really grasp what it really means to be in that
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
And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula to percent contained. Thanks for joining us on this friday night. Im Vicki Liviakis that im grant lotus we continue of course to track the 3 lightning complex fire still burning in the bay at this hour. Well start with that czu august lightning complex fire system thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Fires that were burning separately in those 2 counties merged overnight in total. The flames have now burned about 57,000 acres and forced more than 60,000 people to leave their homes at this hour. The fire is just 2 contained at least 97 structures have been destroyed nearly 25,000 others are threatened this evening. 2 people have suffered minor injuries said there are more than 1100 personnel working those fires right now. And we have Team Coverage on the czu or this lightning complex fires are kron fours gayle ong dan thorn they are alive. In Santa Cruz County with the latest on the fires and the damage there and
This is near la handa and right terrorized women in the bay area and beyond in the 1970s and 80s. Joseph deangelo also took off now it is 0 emoke napa, solano his mask today in the courtroom and had a breach meief message sonoma counties. Thousands have been evacuated from their homes and this fire victims. Judge Michael Bowman handed has proven itself deadly. Down the harshest penalty four people have lost their lives to this fire. Possible, 11 consecutive life lets begin in the north bay, sentences and no chance of the big collection of fires parole for the golden state called the lnu complex fire. Killer. The survivors have spoken it has turned, as we said, very, clearly. The defendant deserves no mercy. Very deadly. Were going to take you now to [ applause ] i think he got exactly what cal fire, which has just started he deserved with one exception, which is that he needs to be in its Evening Press conference. General population becau lets listen in. Reporter jennifer carroll, for