Behalf of the charleston, columbia and greenville, South Carolina chapters of the society, i am delighted to welcome you to our event today. We are excited to be hosting senator graham and a moment. Good afternoon and welcome. A couple of brief housekeeping announcements and we will get right down to what we are here for. First, we have a pride for cle credit in South Carolina. If you would like credit for attending this event, i ask you submit a record of your attendance. Use the q a function and send a message that will be viewable only by me has your name and South Carolina bar number. About halfway through, i will ask you to do it again to make sure you are still with us. And at the conclusion, i will ask you one last time. I also want to very briefly preview a couple of upcoming events. Next week on thursday at 2 00, we will be having a virtual roundtable between three attorneys general. Texas andlina, nebraska. Its going to be a fun event and i would love to see you there. The we
The wildfires continue to expand across the bay area with the level of destruction growing. Some firefighting crews are facing added danger with residents that are refusing to move. If youre in the area and dont need to be there, please leave. Tens of thousands of homes in danger in the north bay with one fire in particular posing the biggest threat. The fires in the area creating other setbacks for struggling bay area business. It is 6 00 on this saturday, august 22nd. Good morning. I am emily turner. I am devin fehely and lets get to our meteorologist darren peck. We have smoke and hazy skies. The colors are pretty but weki unhealthy air quality bay area wide. The te prettwarm for this time of the day. Typical 57 in San Francisco with marine layer along the coast. We have to shift the focus from talking about temperatures as we zero in on the airquality. Look at all the orange and red dots on your screen right now. That tells you it is unhealthy for sensitive groups, and flat out unh
Lnu complex in the north bay is up 5 from yesterday to 27 understand. The scu nightling complex in the east and south base is 15 . And the czu complex is up to 17 containment. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Although the progress is encouraging the widespread wildfires are still taking a very dramatic toll. Many people evacuated from the czu fires are trying to determine if their homes are still standing. The good news is that cal fire late today lifted evacuation warnings for santa clara county. Abc news is live just south of the fires in davenport. Reporter we spoke with so many families today who dont know if their homes are still there, if their family heirlooms are there or if they will have a commune to come home to. Those stories are a reality for many families forced from their homes. We spoke the many of them east of where we are right now where many of the hot spots are still burning. Want to point out. Notice the haze stretching into the santa cruz mountains. It is s
With the National Guard about providing reinforcements as an already devastating wildfire season. Threatens to get even worse. The scu fire complex is the second largest fire in state history. Scorching now more than 365,000 acres containment is up to 20 . Its followed closely in size historically and currently by the lnu complex fire which has burned more than 356,000 acres in the north bay that complex is 27 contained and then theres the czu complex in the Santa Cruz Mountains thats burned. But 80,000 acres and containment has grown to 19 altogether these local fires have burned about 800,000 acres in just over a week all right, lets get a closer look at each of those major we start off with the scu lightning complex and. Contra costa Alameda Santa clara, san joaquin and stanislaus counties more than 365,000 acres have been scorched in the fires are 20 contained tonight, 5 people have been injured 3 1st responders and 2 others more than 20,000 structures are threatened. Now that lnu
In decades. Cal fire says that more than 400 structures have been. Burned to the ground 32 are looking at damage. Converse Taylor Bisacky is live for us in Scotts Valley to bring us up to date. Whats the latest taylor. The key here in Scotts Valley were seeing a lot of Emergency Personnel a lot of First Responders coming and going but some of that action starts about 11 miles west of here. I travel towards that area today and eventually landed in bonny doon and this is what youll see a shot some video from earlier and making my way over that way youll see a lot of dark plumes of smoke coming from the mountains and as i headed towards that direction. I eventually had felt an empire road where flames are still active. Theres many hot spots on both sides of the road so it makes it a little unnerving driving through that area you also would see a lot of fallen trees thankfully. I did see plenty of firefighters nearby the watching over that area now through the flames and smoke erode youll