For several neighborhoods up in Sonoma County. And we actually have a live camera there it is right there thats from mount jackson, its point at wes right at the fire you can see the smoke and the haze thats coming from the fire and firefighters do say that theyve stopped the forward progress of that fire. And more breaking news to to our south militarily military helicopters are also attempting to rescue more than 60 people that have been trapped. In the creek fire. Thats that one in Fresno County, youre looking at some of the latest video this will be their 3rd attempt to get to those hikers the rescues had to be called off last night because of what you see on your screen. The smoke just became too heavy for the helicopter pilots. We actually have a picture of the hikers you see them right there all gather around there are sheltering at the vermilion valley camping resort thats at lake and his son. They have volunteers out there helping them making sure that theyre fed and stay hydr
Live camera to from Mount Jackson points to the west here you can see the smoke coming off the fires, theyre filling the valleys and also overhead firefighters do say that they have stopped the forward progress of the fire so at least theyve been able to accomplish that. Speaking of the fires more breaking news to our south military helicopters are attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire burning in Fresno County. Now today will be their 3rd attempt to try and get these hikers out the rescue operation had to be called off last night because as you can see in this video the smoke just got too heavy and too dense for the helicopter crews. We have a picture of the hikers they seem to be doing in fact this photograph shows you theyre all hunker down right now at the vermilion. Campers and lake edison volunteers are helping them stay fed and hydrated as they wait to be rescued again theyre in good spirits for now because they are still a little bit of ways
Definitely smoggy as we look at San Francisco thorn ais morning. And you see all the areas of unhealthy air. In the monitoday monitory monir have some cleaner air coming. And i think that you could extend the spare the air to saturday and i think that sunday will be the better day and ill show you the smoke forecast coming up next. At the live desk, auge is b. Is iamly just int 3,00 t Ammonium Nitrate exploded just one month ago. 190 people were killed and did you thousands more injured. And this is a live look at the scene. The site of the new fire is creating panic in the area. It is not clear yet what is burning. Well bring you more as information comes in. And now well talk more about that amazing and somewhat scary orange hazy sky that we saw all day yesterday. You are looking at droneview 7 captures this video from iconic landmarks. And Amy Hollyfield is live in the east bay this morning with all the reaction to this hopefully not common sight. Reporter and what did it do to your
Vicki liviakis Jonathan Mccall in tonight for a grant lotus Mother Nature putting on quite a show this morning. As severe storms brought lightning to the bay area along with a few showers as well. This is just one of many videos sent to us my you are loyal kron 4 viewers today. Yeah beautiful sight, a little concerning when it comes to lightning strikes and fires. A major concern fastmoving storms yeah they could lead to a risk of dry lightning which could start those wildfires in just a few hours ago pg e reported that there will be no rolling blackouts this evening thats the good news, those blackouts of course would have impacted San Francisco, san mateo and contra costa counties for more on the red flag warning and the continued heat wave we want to bring in our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez what a weekend. Yeah and were not over just yet with all this active weather in fact tracking some popup thunderstorms tonight during the overnight hours impacting your monday morning commute
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