Contained. 80,000 acres of burned there so far. Cal fire is expected to give an update on the ccu fire any moment now. We are monitoring the briefing and will update you with any new information a bit later in the newscast. In the meantime, progress made by cal fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains may allow for people to return to their homes by early next week. More on that from ktvus jesse gary. Backfiring like they call it is under very specific conditions. We dont just use it for whatever. It is not just a random action. It is a very planned event that we use for the fuel. We bring that fire line to a safe area. Reporter late wednesday, cal fire cruise intentionally lit fires in the missive and make a brush fire, burning portions of santa cruz and san mateo counties. Firefighters are testing the viability, doing multiple controlled burns in the area bounded by l soil road to the south and how low road to the north. We want to contain the fuels between the control line and the main fire
Alameda and contra costa counties is now the second largest fire in california history more than 367,000 acres have burned containment is up to 30 it is followed closely though by the l lightning complex in the north bay which has burned more than 360,000 acres in Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo counties containment their climb to 33 and the czu lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties has burned 81,000 acres with containment reaching 21 altogether these fires have burned more than 800,000 acres, lets start with more details from cal fire on each of these complex fires, the largest one were monitoring. In terms of acreage is the scu lightning complex fire 5 people have been hurt in that fire. So far it spend the least destructive in terms of Property Damage, 20 have been destroyed 6 have been damaged but more than 20,000 structures are still threatened the second largest wildfire burning right now in anchorage and 3rd largest in state history is the lnu lightning c
Oakland near the Oakland Police station. There was a brief confrontation here between demonstrators and police but they are our heavy barricades and the crowd went in different directions. Right now they are in the grand lakes section. We saw some video online from a few weeks ago, fireworks being set off by demonstrators. Police have Just Announced an Unlawful Assembly which is in the precursor for arrests. A clock this evening. Several hundred people began marching through the streets of oakland to protest the shooting of jacob lake in wisconsin. It has been allowed demonstration. No violence, still quite a bit of vandalism. There are folks in the crowd protesting with shovels and other tools and began smashing windows in downtown oakland particularly along clay street. In some cases they even pulled plywood off the windows first and then hacked away at the glass. Most of this crowd were not committing vandalism, we want to make that clear. The anger among the demonstrators is palpab
Stand tonight. Their strike against Racial Injustice. An unprecedented storm about to make a direct hit on the gulf coast. Now at 11 streaming on cbs and bay area, we begin with the breaking news out of oakland. Kpix 5s joe vasquez is live at the scene for us. Reporter im in downtown oakland near the Oakland Police station. There was a brief confrontation here between demonstrators and police but they are our heavy barricades and the crowd went in different directions. Right now they are in the grand lakes section. We saw some video online from a few weeks ago, fireworks being set off by demonstrators. Police have Just Announced an Unlawful Assembly which is in the precursor for arrests. Protests began at around eight a clock this evening. Several hundred people began marching through the streets of oakland to protest the shooting of jacob lake in wisconsin. It has been allowed demonstration. No violence, still quite a bit of vandalism. There are folks in the crowd protesting with shov
Map shows all of the thermal activity from the flames and you can see it there on your screen. This morning. We know that several homes have been destroyed in that area, thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. Kron fours reyna harvey live now in Santa Cruz County she has the latest for us rain little bit more good morning and here in scott valley where thousands of residents were forced to evacuate yesterday, we also know that you see santa cruz, those students and faculty had to evacuate as well know again were going to show you the damage that was done overnight taking you to Boulder Creek and you can see these homes in the area as they go up in flames now we know thousands of residents throughout like you mentioned santa cruz in this area have had to evacuate as the fire continues to grow overnight 48,000 acres this morning structures destroyed about 50 structures that are still currently threatened by this growing fire over 20,000 now yesterday, the First Responders had s