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Grant lotus. And im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 the highly unusual sight all across the bay area skies. Its just better. All people are talking about today indeed taking a live look outside right now across the bay from the bay bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge. The san mateo bridge to the richmond sandra fell bridge. It looks normal right now, but all day. It was just about as dark run for chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow begins our Team Coverage explaining. What weve been witnessing in how long the skies could stay like this lawrence whats going on yet let my entire life here in california have never seen a day like today wake up to the orange skies and certainly. Was concern looking at the maps though you can see where it came from not the more fires locally but number we have the paradise fire a few years back that but all the smoke in the bay area will now weve got another fire near theyre called the bear fire. Weve also got the august complex and t
Today just like yesterday, it is t a company by wind and dncause of the lack of when they al expect aircraft to be up in the air very soon to dump approximately 200,000 gallons of water if not more on the oday, they are making progress not a lot of progress as far as leaps and bounds, but they will take it 17 containment, thats up from 13 containment. What youre looking at right its fog thats not smoke so Good Progress there. But it has een very destructive. The number of homes and structures destroyed has gone up in t overnight hours from approximately 280. 2 now 330 structures and they do expect that number to go up because part of the firefighting process today is try to make inroads into a hard to reach areas which have bridges that have burned wooden bridges, theres fallen trees, theres debris. They hope to clear that get into those areas and count their homes that are still there and destrobut going to go do that and get back up in the r firefighters on the gr about 1400 of them.
Central valley like high temperatures is what will experience there up to the up to northern Solano County so temperatures today right now were in the 60s mild a pleasant weve got 50s up here the north bay 56 San Francisco in 62 for san jose for comparison sake actually this morning most of the bay areas a little cooler than it was this time from yesterday. Whats going on for today is we have a little bit of interference from some tropical leftover moisture as a result of that that is kind of lane the warmup we have were keeping it basically sunny to mostly sunny, tossing about a few clouds in their Late Afternoon but look at that at 96 already at 1 oclock still building. And well have some clouds overnight into tomorrow morning and after all that said and done how goes back to the warmup face when put this all together for you coming up in a bit robin sounds good. Thank you dave. Now to another story that were following for you this morning. Governor newsom says california may be turn