Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us on the firefight will. Marty Scotts Valley good news. I just came to this location and the checkpoints are all gone meaning theyre not stopping people from returning to their homes. In fact only the median authorized personnel for this past week were allowed to come through now if you live in Scotts Valley and you didnt hear the news. You can return to your location, west of us highway 17 so you can do that even though the fires are still burning at this time it has chewed up more than 81,000 acres and they expect that number to go up when we carry that News Conference for you live in about 55 minutes from now. Containment number also has gone up when i was here 24 hours ago they were sitting at around 21 containment. Now its 24 containment, but the fire. Still is giving firefighters a handful of theyre throwing 2000 firefighters as says. Theyre hoping to go back up in the air to do water drops because theres been so much damage that
Probably a good thing here in the winds we are getting a bit on shore which is kind of been the program for a little while well see that heading on into the weekend. As well live shot coming in from timber on there you can see the fog still pretty much firmly in place but its starting to lift elsewhere across the bay. Temperatures are still in the 50s up here the north bay east bay, youre looking at approaching middle 60s, 58 cool degrees for san jose and for comparison, were a little bit warmer in the east bay this morning. Cooler in the north bay. The breakdown for you look at that shot there of the sfo the smoggy look 83 gogos on by high noon at 3 oclock were talking 92 marty. All right dave thanks a lot to start in the east bay this morning, several big stories happening in oakland this week. And that includes demonstrations over the shooting of jacob lake in wisconsin also some businesses will be allowed to reopen starting today and thats big news as well joining us to talk about
Of their own home as they were allowed to return late last night so theyre the First Community to do so the hope is to have areas like felton and the highway 90 corridor to have those areas open sooner than later those of the new places that they were targeting today, theyre throwing 2000 firefighters at this and it is working because the number of acres burned its not exploding, it is sitting right now at 82,540 acres and thats up only a 1000 acres from yesterday containment also up youre sitting now at 26 . Containment but firefighters still have their hands full, its basically a race between them and the fire to get to feel that has not been touched yet. Were going to have to start removing trees. The are unsafe. Weve got potentially take out additional power lines across roadways or in danger structures. So like i said its multiphase when we start pushing forward with the entire mitigation process of this incident and its going to take a while. I mean everyone to be patient. Were w
Store you can see this here but this is not the only business that was damaged overnight you can see here also several buildings were vandalized including cars along with the Alameda County courthouse being set on fire now according to Police Numerous fires were set dozens of windows are broken out in multiple businesses were vandalized nearly 600 people took to the streets to demand justice for blake. And Police Accountability along with fundamental change nationwide now bp also says protesters temporarily shut down traffic on the 5. 80 freeway along with a bar in downtown and to close their 19th street station as city Police Tweeted photos of numerous fires that were set in the downtown area now its really important to note that the protests started peacefully but things escalated as the night went on. Pd says no officers were injured in any of this we also reached out to them to see they have an update on any of the protesters as well any of their injuries. They say several arrests
Businesses around the lake merritt area were vandalized now nearly 700 people took to the streets to demand justice for blake and theyre also asking. For Police Accountability along with fundamental change nationwide. Throughout the country for multiple Police Departments now opd also says protesters temporarily shut down traffic on the i 5. 80. Over on 19th street that station in downtown oakland. It was also closed down now again police are investigating police say no officers were injured, but were still waiting to hear word that one of the protesters were injured, we also are asking for a dollar amount on the damage that was done here in oakland overnight for now reporting here in oakland raider harvey kron 4 news thank you reyna and remember at one of the protests and kenosha wisconsin on tuesday night. Somebody opened fire on the protesters killing 2 people. And injuring a 3rd. We have video of that as were about to tell you. The shooter has turned himself into authorities take a