Get as it relates to the czu complex fires as the santa cruz, San Mateo County fires and this is a live picture from. The podium there where we expect cal fire officials to speak momentarily. So this News Conference was scheduled to get underway the top of the hour. So were probably moments away from that happening, well keep an eye on the shot and the minute they come there to the microphone to give us the very latest will jump back to our live coverage but right now lets cover the lnu complex fire which is in the north bay. This map shows you the area burned around sonoma napa and solano counties kron fours sara stinson is live in napa county with a closer look at the damage to homes and other property sarah. The devastation is hard to see with your own eyes and i hope by us being live here you can really get a good idea of how awful the hennessy fire has been ripping through napa county salon a county here alive above Lake Berryessa in this Highlands Community look at this this is a
Im on 152 east pacheco path. You can get an idea of where this is. Behind me here is the new front line of this fire. You can see them about an hour ago attacking it from the air, dropping water and fire retardant. Lets show you some video that we shot just a little while ago. You can see flames shooting up the steep terrain. The cal fire has expanded to 2,000 acres with 20 containment and the blaze began yesterday afternoon on cruz road. Then the wind whipped it up and 25 homes had to be evacuated. We have also learned that late into the night there was a massive effort to round up and evacuate horses and cattle and exotic animals from the fire zone. But then the fire moved so quickly, were told the ranchers were running out of time and options. They were just going ahead and just opening their gates and cutting their fences because what are you supposed to do when that fire was moving so fast . I think when it grew, when it went from 600 acres to 1,000 acres like that. Reporter now,
Home order saying that students could return to their classrooms as soon as this july. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 5 im justine waltman now no official decision has been made on schools but newsome says an earlier school year maybe need to make up for the learning loss and brain drain that took over when schools closed in midmarch this is just one of many steps the state of california will take to reopen its economy. State Health Officials say will happen in 4 different stages. Our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains. We believe we do have a framework that we can achieve and we can achieve together under the current stay at home order california is currently in phase. One state Health Officials say california will move into stage 2 in a matter of weeks allowing employees in occupations that low risk of spreading covid19 with physical distancing to go back to work like retail and manufacturers the state will also begin opening up p
Officials say it will be happening in 4 stages. Capitol Bureau Reporter Ashley Zavala breaks them down for us. Those 4 stages go from allowing the lowest risk to highest risk activity while the governor and his administration laid out this plan they say how soon california moves through each phase will vary. We believe we do have a framework that we can achieve and we can achieve together under the current stay at home order california is currently in phase. One state Health Officials say california will move into stage 2 in a matter of weeks allowing employees in occupations that low risk of spreading covid19 with physical distancing to go back to work like retail and manufacturers the state will also begin opening up public spaces like beaches and parks along with School Programs and child care facilities childcare is Economic Development childcare is foundational to getting people back to work stage 3 allows those in highrisk jobs to go back to work such as personal care salons and
Us. Im can why im palmore Governor Newsome today outlined a 4 phase process to returning from the stay at home order adding that the first steps are just weeks away. This as coronavirus cases in the United States surpassed a milestone today, the 1 million mark on april the 10th there were 500,000 cases that number has doubled in the past 18 days across the nation. The virus has also killed more than 58,000 people across the country thousands more americans are projected to die because some states are starting to reopen some think too early. A new model project 74,000 americans will lose their lives to the virus by august. That projection is by the university of washington and it shows an increase in deaths because people in some states are going out again and spreading the virus. Thats also causing longer peaks of the virus deaths in some states. Last week this model projected 67,000 deaths so the project a death toll has gone up by 7,000 here in california there are more than 46,000 c