Milestone, u. S. Deaths topped a new milestone as new york city closes schools again. Germanys finance minister tells bloomberg taming the virus is critical. E. U. Leaders will attend make a veto that threatens from hungary and poland. France says nations could be cut out of the rescue plan all together. Chinasy pledge, president xi jinping says the nation wont engage in decoupling, saying its policy of opening up wont waver. It comes after the u. S. And the u. K. Called for beijing to honor its commitments on hong kong, citing serious concern. Its just gone 6 00 a. M. In london, 7 00 a. M. In germany. Bad news coming, 11,000 jobs to be cut from the business. Of justlow the estimate over 30 billion. No room for a dividend this year. The banks dividend has been restrained. You think about it, this is a disastrous year for steel. The future is unclear. We are grappling with rolling lockdowns and interruptions around the world. Recovering, but the reality of europe and the United States i
At this ominous sky over the dry creek valley. You have a little bit of everything. You have blue sky, heavy smoke, youve got the sun trying to peek through and you have the clouds continuing to move to the southeast. Inside the burn zone, it is not pretty. We just returned from there a few hours ago. Were driving carefully up mill creek road in Sonoma County through a burn state that this morning seemed benign when compared with what must have been the hell that roared through here last night. It breaks my heart. This is my backyard. This is the fire that weve been worrying about for decades around here. Reporter thats the healdsburg fire chief describing the wadgfire. This afternoon he toured the browned out burn zone with supervisor james gore who usually has answers for. Does anyone have any answers for how many houses burned here . No. There are people throwing around estimates, 15 to 20 but nobody knows right now. There are no confirms numbers. Reporter but everyone knew to worry
Reporter 48,000 people have been evacuated so far between santa cruz and san mateo counties. As you mentioned, this fire exploding to nearly 50,000 acres, 0 contained. Coming up in a couple hour, we expect to get an up date from cal fire as to the status of the fire so far. They have been telling us about some of their challenges in fighting the fire, this low relative humidity, insaysab ina terrain and of course the limited julian glover, abc 7 news. As he mentioned, not only there in santa cruz, but fires are burning across the entire bay area this morning. And this map kind of gives you a sense of how widespread the emergency is. Many fires are burning in five counties, there are widespread evacuations. The lnu lightning complex in the north bay has caused the stuildings have been destroyed, dozens damaged. These fires have burned 131,000 acres with 0 containment. Cal fire says the winds are a huge threat as we head into the weekend. Now lets go to the south bay, the scu fire, it is
Dirty air when the sun comes up. 55 santa rosa, 52 by the delta. And we are looking at relative humidity anywhere from 89 to 100 . So right now the air quality is worse in the east bay, but a little better in san jose and redwood city where you have you the fog. So temperatures will steadily climb through the 70s and 80s around the bay topping off into the 90s today inland. Were talking about still temperatures above average, but not as hot as we had been since the heat wave last week. Now well start in the north bay and that is because the major focus of the lnu complex fire is happening with the walbridge fire. That is getting dangerously close to the town of healdsburg. Residents are being washed they shou warned they should be prepared to leave. Amy hollyfield is live. Reporter and were on mill creek road which is evacuated. But they left behind a sign letting them know that there is water at their home if they need it. And now check out this video sho shot overnight, this is a hom
Skies as severe storms rolled through the bay area a lot of folks getting an Early Morning wakeup call. This is one of the many videos flooding our newsroom from you or kron 4 viewers, thank you so much for all of it. You can see more pictures and videos on our website thats kron 4 dot com if you have something called the shows hey guess what we want to see it as well all you have to do go to the website click on the the reported tab which is under the about us tab right there on our home screen. And we could be seeing more lightning strikes into tomorrow, the National Weather service is extending the red flag warning until monday morning at 11 00am and but to the bay area of course is under this warning with a red flag warning comes an increased risk of wildfires that could start near where that dry hits. And those lightning strikes the spark a number of fires across the area in Santa Clara County the marsh fire which is a total of 3 fires has burned more than 850 acres. Back away shu