From 11 other states, including as far away as kansas, texas, and montana. The czu lightning complex fire in Santa Cruz County and San Mateo County has now burned 78,000 acres and containment is only at 13 . 176 homes have been destroyed. Cal fire says in San Mateo County, the fire is no longer moving toward lahonda, lolamar, or pescadaa, or moving east to santa clara county. A 79yearold man died, possibly trying to flee the fire in davenport. Four other people are unaccounted for. The deadly lnu lightning complex fire continues to burn through several counties in the north bay. Five people have been killed by the fires there. Three in napa county and two in solano county. According to cal fire, this complex has burned about 547 square miles and is 22 contained. 871 structures have been destroyed. 234 others have been damaged, and more than 30,000 are still threatened. The scu lightning complex fire has grown to more than 347,000 acres. It is burning across 7 counties and is only 10 co
Bring it to you live. In the meantime, we want to go to bill martin, our chief meteorologist, to talk about the weather conditions, and they are getting at least a little bit of good news here, bill. Yeah, a little bit of good news. Yeah, my camera is a little off balance. Ill tell you watt, let me fix this right now. Yeah, hat should be better. The air quality is pure right now. But the fires are still mainly terrain driven. The weather is not really driving these fires. Its really about so many fires having started, and cal fire not having enough resources to respond to almost 13,000 lightning strikes. So with over 350 fires in that first string. So were seeing good containment each day, and thats how its going to continue. And now i think weve got a live press conference. Just wanted to bring everybody up to speed, after the weather came through yesterday, and we found ourselves here getting wet last night, over the courts of the evening, across california, the cal fire confirmed th
Area. So heres a look at the numbers right now for the past 3 days, the total number of deaths in the bay area remained at 390 that was for saturday sunday and monday. So today we now have a total number of deaths at 404. 2 of those deaths are coming from Santa Clara County 3 are in Alameda County and 9 of those deaths are coming from san mateo county. We spoke to a doctor this afternoon who told us that it is important to continue to stay safe and follow the cdc guidelines as the bay area begins face 2 of reopening. Were going to see this kind cuts to a loan thats surge not completely smooth water probably for the next several months or even a year are potentially more that its disease is not to just disappear and go it will get better to get a little bit worse, so i dont think im whitney. Look for it at this point to a point where its almost need us and we just need to maintain vigilance of people along the way. San Mateo County Health officers want to remind everyone if the numbers
Need to to back up because the numbers are telling us that we have. The problem we can do that that would be and we hope that doesnt happen, but we know we can. So the doctor also said that we will continue to see what she called an smooth waters with the numbers for the next few months or even a year. She said that people still need to remain vigilant. And heres a look at the coronavirus cases and deaths in the bay area Alameda County is now reporting 65 new cases today and Contra Costa County has 37 new cases in all there are more than 11,000 cases and 404 people have died from covid19 in the bay area as always you can find the complete breakdown by county and city on our website kron 4 dot com. A day after San Francisco entered face to allowing retailers to open for curbside pickup. The citys Health Director says it could be at least another 2 to 4 weeks before the city can move further into phase 2 and that is concerning for local restaurants, which are included in till phase 3. Th
Further into phase 2. So lets take a look at the changes here are the businesses that can reopen retail stores, including shopping malls and swap meets dinein restaurants and schools can reopen thats affected though starting on june 1st governor gavin, newsome was in napa county on monday and he listed off the new criteria that he said should allow 53 of the states 58 counties to move ahead and napa county applied for the second time to move forward saying that it meets the new criteria for opening sooner and the state has now approved it. The new types of businesses that can reopen must comply with the states requirements for disinfecting surfaces rules for face coverings and physical distancing and must be able to show customers and employees that the establishment has reduced the risk of the spread of coronavirus plus also pose some sort of sign about the new protocols at the entrance. The county that was still waiting for guidance from the state about whether summer camps can start