A speech ro speech roateep ro. So its a tough fight in there. A fight evolving situation. As far as the evacuees are concerned, theyre getting out of here. Theyre going to the Cross Walk Community church in napa. They are getting information there. So this fire continues to burn, sparked by lightning. Were hoping we dont get wind, and cal fire, as of now, is still saying zero containment. Were hoping that changes sometime soon. From napa county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. Wayne, let me ask you about the evacuees for a minute. Better safe than sorry. Anyone decided not to evacuate . Reporter dan, im sorry for the threesecond delay, but that has to do with where were at in our signal. Yes, there are people in there who have stayed. Most of them have left. If you go through the area and look at the gates, there are these tags, they say evacuate. We saw chp going in there, knocking on doors, making sure people were gone. I saw two people who stayed behind. The owner of the house, trying to
A safe way to bring kids back into the classroom. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Ucsf compiled a report that may ab virus spreading in the classroom. Abc 7 News Reporter Leann Melendez takes it one step at a time. We know children have less severe symptoms than adults. Inside my nose are receptors and thats how the virus gets into my body and children do not produce receptors as frequently as i do. Pl is n d for the ing her zoom disease to get in, and there is no or limited disease in elementary age students and thats why were seeing that pattern. Kids have smaller lungs so when they sneeze or cough they dont spread the particles as far as High School Students or adults do. Another interesting fact is that size does matter. Kids are shorter and that would mean they wouldnt fill the room. Perhaps the most important point that ucsf want to make that mak, physical distancing and ventilation are key to curbing the spread of the virus. Take for example, this high school in israel as seen in t
Dangerous heatwave continues until next wednesday for inland areas. Heat advisory until 9 00 p. M. Tonight for the bay shoreline. Heat illnesses are possible. The risk is high. Be careful. Live doppler 7 showing you no fog. What we have been dealing with is tropical moisture, which has added to the humidity, and thats made it even more uncomfortable. Ill let you know how long this heatwave will last and whats changing for this weekend, coming right up. Okay, sandhya, thank you. All right there are several Power Outages in the bay area, affecting at least 10,000 customers, including some large ones on the peninsula and the south bay. There are also two large outages in concord and martinez that were affecting 4,000 customers at one point. Power has been restored to some of those people. Now we just got this video our newsroom not long ago, showing a melted mess on Begonia Court in martinez, where one of these large Power Outages is going on. Contra costa fire says a transformer box in f
Computerized system. The overall view is increasing relative humidity and very strong gusts, 9 to 11 miles per hour. Then moving down to the Santa Cruz Mountains, we have wind gusting to about 13 miles per hour. Relative humidity there is 74 . Again, thats encouraging and the temperatures only 68 degrees. Weather is improving for fire containment, but once again, the air quality is very poor across most of the bay area. We have a spare the air alert in effect for the next three days through friday. Dan and ama. Spencer, thanks very much. Well get to that News Conference as soon as it happens. Well bring it to you. Right now, we want to tell you about the scu lightning complex, the second largest wildfire in the state. Its scorched 363,000 acres, destroyed 20 structures and is threatening another 20,000. This is truly a massive fire burning in the east and south bay. Even beyond. Parts of alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties are all affected. Cal fire put this effort into pers
Road. Theres an Evacuation Order for the Paradise Valley neighborhood on the east side of 80. We have our j. R. Stone on the phone with us right now. J. R. , where are you and what are you seeing . Reporter well, i am in the Rolling Hills neighborhood right now, and it is a neighborhood that has been evacuated. Im going to get back into up. From where i am, and i know youll be able to see some of my video of what it looked like when i came in on i80, you could actually see smoke from some of the hilltops and see flames near the area near travis boulevard. That is the video that youll be able to see on the screen in one moment. Thats a very busy section of fairfield. But where i am now is in that Rolling Hills neighborhood. Im looking at normal homes on the block. Then you look above at the hilltop and im seeing that hilltop right now and it is charred black and there are small flames with a lot of smoke. Coming into this section, there was this long line of cars just trying to get out