Nearly 340,000 acres. And is 10 contained 5 structures have been destroyed 20,000 others are threatened to First Responders and 2 civilians have been injured. Kron fours dan thorn live for us in Santa Clara County tonight where the su lightning complex continues to spread. In the area around Mount Hamilton, so dan what have you learned tonight. And in this fire is primarily burning right now in the deep rural areas near Mount Hamilton as you head up the lick observatory. Still very smoky and very dangerous for people that are in those areas and thats fire crews out here been asking people to evacuate and not be allowed to head back into these areas if you look at some of the video that we have from earlier today this is a grant ranch park where you can see charred hillsides there. Along with that you can see some flame retardant that was dropped off to prevent this fire from spreading over the last couple of days, nearby homes have been threatened as you can see a lot of dry brush out
Acres tonight we also know that President Trump has approved californias request for a president ial major disaster declaration. This afternoon governor gavin newsom tweeted his gratitude for the president s help writing that, although these are unprecedented times california is resilient. And well get through this. We have Team Coverage on these fires tonight kron fours noelle bellow gayle lot gayle ong and dan thorn on live with the latest on the fires and the damage and our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is in our Weather Center tracking the conditions, lets first go to know well with the very latest on the firefighting efforts in Sonoma County know well whats going on. And sorry just about 5 minutes ago, i watched as several fire trucks just came to zooming down this road, im on west side road in a Dry Creek Valley that is just west of healdsburg and most folks if you live on this road you were ordered to evacuate here west of highway one oh one and now as i mentioned several
The morning thats the way were kicking off this hot day. You can see the humidity, especially in areas like oakland, San Francisco, san jose up to santa rosa. Now hot weather today means advisories in orange heat advisories closer to the coast or inland areas where temperatures will exceed 100 degrees in the evening lows want to be all that cool are under excessive heat warnings through the weekend and into next week as far as skies go you can make out that cloud cover sitting there at the coast couple of offshore sprinkles from that system that has brought us such a humid feel. Todays daytime highs, not the easiest things to look at concord livermore antioch morgan hill napa novato just a few of our areas that will be triple digits this afternoon. Hayward at 97 oakland at 91 degrees today, even parts of San Francisco, tapping into the upper 80s got more on your forecast still to come. James all right, thank you very much john. Lets get out there to help manage the heat wave cooling ce
Building a better bay area, this is abc7 news. Firefighters had their hands full last night due to illegal fireworks, from fires to one crew even having Bottle Rockets shot at its truck as it responded to a call. Im j. R. Stone. Eric thomas has the night off. Im dion lim. Its been no Holiday Weekend for bay area firefighters. They have been racing to keep up with the hundreds of fires in our region, mostly started by illegal fireworks. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard joins us live in san pablo with more on this story. Cornell . Dion, very scary night for firefighters no, professional Fireworks Shows in the bay area last night, but lots of amateur ones, just ask any firefighter. Many started firesis o in san pablo. The firework debris is just feet away. Fireworks lit up the skies over San Francisco on july 4th, but its a show firefighters didnt want to see. Illegal fireworks caused large grass fires like this one near hunters point, and this fire less than a mile away. We were virtua
Arena, but it wont be putting its name on it. Why its trying to send a different message. And our original series, project home. As San Francisco struggles with one of the worst housing crises in the nation, developers are eyeing the western neighborhoods as the new frontier. Good evening, im veronica de la cruz. And im ken bastida. As Susie Steimle reports, some residents are putting up a fight. Reporter in the heart of San Franciscos sunset district, this old Apartment Building on irving street has become the latest flash point in the battle over housing. The new owner converted the first floor parking garage into five new units and is doubling the number of bedrooms on the other floors to make it 41. Were scared hell turn it into a motel. Reporter jim has lived on the block for 25 years. We feel like we have an absentee landlord running part of the neighborhood. Reporter larry and barbara are also long time residents. In those 40 bedrooms, there could be as many as 80 people. If eve