Department said they were following up on several reports of missing people in the fire zones. More than 77,000 other people are still evacuated from their homes. They are spread out around the county. Jesse gary joins us from one of the Evacuation Centers at cabrio college. Jesse . Reporter frank, good afternoon to you. To a man, woman, and child, there is one fourletter word that carries with it a combination of hope, anticipation, and frustration. That word is home. For the evacuation people here with a destination, a universal destination that is cloaked in questions and uncertainty. Is it ever gonna end . You know, i want to go home. Reporter Boulder Creek evacuee Barbara Andrews echos sentiments shared many of the people chased from their homes by the czu mega fire. Santa cruz county has set up near lay dozen evacuation sites for families, their pets, and their animals. Since that first night, weve expanded considerably. Weve gotten a lot of good infrastructure going on here. Wer
Alert oh, no. All right. So theres a delay. Youll hear me and then i hear her and thats where the disconnect happens. Microclimate weather alert. Right now look at that. Bright and early, already in the 70s down in san jose. 72 degrees. And there sapphire weather watch now in place in addition to the heat warnings. The reason for this is because we still have that High Pressure thats whats keeping you hot and dry. Now we have instability in the air to our south that could have the potential tore developing showers and thunderstorms. Accompanying with it, dry lightning. Any time we talk about dry lining with the dry brush out there that means dry fuel and that has a big factor when it comes to wildfires starting and spreading. As far as the heat warning goes this came went into effect for the red, the areas you see red is a heat warning. For areas in orange it is a heat advisory. So that went into effect since yesterday and expected to remain in place through next wednesday. So into the
Naturalization ceremony on night two of the Republican National convention. The first lady delivered the keynotes each. And my husband you have a president it will not stop fighting for you and your families. I see how hard he works each day and night and despite the unprecedented attacks from the media and opposition, he will not give up. In fact, if you tell him it cannot be done he just works harder. We will have more from the convention, coming up. First, we want to bring you the latest on the wildfires. It has been another productive day for fire crews and now some evacuees in napa and sonoma counties are being allowed to return home. Heres where we stand on the three major fires. The scu lightning complex fire is the largest in the state. It is burning in seven counties from the diablo ranch in the east bay to the Central Valley and it has now burned 363,000 acres. Cal fire says that as of tonight it is only 15 contained. Me czu lightning complex fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains
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
Nearby Business Owners upset. They were appalled and that it was very, very bad and negative for their businesses. Reporter the president of the north beach Business Association, and a Business Owner himself, says cause of concern started coming in a couple of days ago. The restaurant messages are a mix of italian and english. Political, provocative and polarizing. Some of the things hes saying, clinton, obama, i cant believe this stuff. Reporter one message austins the gender of former first Lady Michelle obama. Another suggest a race war is coming, while another causes San Francisco a cesspool. Thats just a sample. It doesnt represent this neighborhood, nor the commercial district, north beach commercial district in any way, shape or form. In terms, in terms of what he projected on the window. Reporter restaurant workers in north beach is a the place was owned by giovanni zanka. We cannot reach them for common. And man is she knows the owner says he was upset about losing his busines