Lightning sparked fires. Cal fire at this point has not yet given any specific information on the size or the containment of the fires. Evacuations are underway due to fires along Hennessy Ridge road. As we get more information, we will bring it to you. All of this is happening as a heat wave continues in the bay area. Governor newsom will give an update on the states response to the heat wave as well as the covid pandemic. He signed a proclamation to free up Energy Capacity and reduce the need for Service Disruptions which we saw through the weekend. We will bring you the governors News Conference as soon as it gets underway. We will bring in rosemary with how high the temperatures are going. Another bad day today. The northbay looks like its bullseye for the time being. Temperatures again are expected to be near record breaking. Lets take a look at stormtracker 2. We will zoom in over areas over the northbay. We watched it move from offshore to on shore. You can see all of those ligh
Images of parties and barbecues with family and friends. Traditionally later day is summers last hurrah, marked with good food is family get togethers. People are already starting to make their plans. This labor day well probably be at home. Well probably barbecue. Well definitely go on a hike. Reporter this year city leaders in San Francisco are saying in other holidays in 2020 are any indication, labor day will be a breeding ground for covid19. We continue to see spikes in our numbers as a result of the hole days, and labor day im sure is not going to be any different. Reporter the city launched a Public Service announcement campaign. We can show love by masking up. We can stay six feet apart, and most importantly, ashowed sharing food and drinks. Reporter covid19 is close something traditional labor day lily everyone in the house is online destinations like the beaches and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. In santa cruz and monterey, but try 1 gig internet
Danger. Tom vacar has the latest on what might catch us by surprise. Every time we have an extreme power or extreme heat event, power issues are very likely to arise. We understand that. But thats especially true when coming off a recently very high one. Pg e says in the greater bay region there is no immediate likelihood of a psps event over the hot weekend. A key element for a psps would be a National Weather service declared red flag warning, which the Weather Service said is unlikely over the weekend. But if any wildfire threatens to short out or topple power lines, that could force localized power shutoffs, and in extreme heat, Power Equipment can and does fail, especially sunday and monday. With these tripledigit temperatures, there could be some heatrelated outages in the areas where its 100 degrees or more for a long period of time. So we want our customers to be prepared. Reporter pg e have some cooling centers over the weekend where wanted. These centers will take covid19 rul
Fog and overcast weather to start tuesday. The air quality has been on everyones mine. Smoke from the fires is hovering over much of the bay area. This brings, on the seventh consecutive day of unhealthful air. Doctors warn about the Health Effects of the smoke. This is especially for older people. Cloth and surgical masks dont filter smoke. They are still urging people to wear them because of the pandemic. I was looking here at the apple i used to see the air quality. The air quality is much different in different cities. In oakland, it is much better than it is right now in San Francisco. Right, i live in the east bay. Air quality has been rough. My brother lives up in el cerrito. Things have been better for him there. I always check to see what my parents and siblings are going through. People who have asthma, the elderly, people who have trouble breathing, even on a good day, they are the ones who are required to be careful now. Thats a good time to remember, i mean, about what the
Most all sparked by recent lightning. The governor is expected to given up date. We will bring it that News Conference live once it gets underway. We do have team coverage. We are monitoring those evacuations in san mateo and santa cruz. We will have the latest information on the lightning complex fire that has destroyed several homes already near vacaville. Sarah, good afternoon. Reporter cal fire actually just wrapped up a News Conference 30 minutes ago and gave us an up date about the lmu complex. There are several different fires burning across the state. Hellfire has requested 375 fire engines to help with all of the fires burning in california. The lmu lightning complex has limited resources at this point. It is a blades made up of seven different fires. It has burned 72 square miles and five counties including napa, lake, sonoma, solano, and yolo county. 60 fires were started by Lightning Strikes. This led us to this point. 50 structures have been destroyed. 50 have been damaged