Areas surrounding us. This red flag warning is going to happen on efforts of any of these incidents. The red flag warning goes into Effect Tomorrow morning due to possibility of thunderstorms and lightning. Good evening. Im cristina rendon. Theres a major disaster declaration from President Trump freeing up federal resources for firefighters. It comes as firefighters are battling three of the complexes. The fire fight is particularly focused in Sonoma County as fires get closer to the dry creek region and the lower russian river. The National Guard is bringing in a drone to help provide visuals when its too smoky for aircraft. To the east there are new evacuation warns in Alameda County. An alert was sent to fremont residents in the mission road area and south of the livermore city limits. The complex of 20 fires has gone to the 3rd largest in the states history. Reporter and calfire announced that more structures have been destroyed with the count now at 115. That fire has burned 67,0
The scu in santa clara, alameda, and contra costa counties, the czu in san mateo and Santa Cruz County, and the lnu, which started in sonoma and napa county and burned into solano, lake, and yolo county. There is a complex that has scorched more than 124,000 acres, twice the size of oakland. The biggest wildfire last year burned over 77,000 acres , the kincade fire in Sonoma County. Now to the impact on the roads. We have Team Coverage all morning. We will begin with keit do in the mountains, where a News Conference is about to begin. We are coming to you live. We are having some technical difficulties with him but he is talking about some new mandatory evacuations and he is waiting for a News Conference to have or we will find out more information about the Santa Cruz County fire and the evacuations going on there check out with kid in a moment. Now, some people are packed up and going to safety. The entire city is under an evacuation warning. This video shows authorities on standby i
But Half Moon Bay noticeably cooler about 10 degrees cooler than downtown San Francisco at 63 degrees on account of a cool sea breeze, but overall still tracking double digit warming out there right now for your thursday night very hot and dry conditions heading our way in fact getting a sneak peek of this heat wave that doesnt officially start until friday morning were going to be under a heat advisory for most coastal areas away from the San Francisco peninsula coastline and widespread excessive heat warnings in effect for inland areas tracking triple digit heat with temperatures as high as a 108 degrees but even along the coast and along the bay 80s and 90s so not really going to get some relief there. And im also keeping an eye on a spare the air alert going into effect on friday with the peak of the heat wave the key on friday, but still going to remain warm all weekend long back to you alright recent out of the north bay where firefighters are on alert over high heat to happening
Meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez meibrys e u and tracking of this heat wave, whats the latest hey there catherine and this is just a sneak peek of whats to come because the heat wave wont officially begin until friday morning. All the way through wednesday night so it has been upgraded from an excessive heat watch 20 excessive heat warning away from the coast and away from the bay area coastline going to track a heat advisory and already seeing extremely warm to hot temperatures not just along the coast but far inland valleys as well, triple digit heat right now in antioch in livermore a 101 degrees about 15 degrees above average today nearly 40 degrees warmer than the coats happen beginning that cool sea breeze influence. Youre in the mid 60s, but downtown San Francisco, right now in the upper 70s still tracking double digit warming out there right now very warm air mass and its only going to get harder from here because we could see widespread triple digit heat as you make your way in
Joining us. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im Catherine Heenan for grant lotus tonight pg and e is urging customers to conserve electricity during peak hours because of the high heat because of the predicted demand. They say they will not initiate a Public Safety power shutoff kron fours michelle kingston is live for us tonight with more on plans for the rest of the fire season. During these hot summer day michelle. Catherine it is hot out here and it is only going to get hotter pg and e is staging crews and equipment throughout the bay area over the next few days. So pg e is preparing for Power Outages and we want our customers to prepare for possible Power Outages as well if power goes out over the next few days pacific gas and electric says its because of the increase in electricity usage over the bay area and not because of a Public Safety power shutoff the Electric Company is sending out more crews and equipment to handle any possible outages during the extreme heat. Theyre also