And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula to percent contained. Thanks for joining us on this friday night. Im Vicki Liviakis that im grant lotus we continue of course to track the 3 lightning complex fire still burning in the bay at this hour. Well start with that czu august lightning complex fire system thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Fires that were burning separately in those 2 counties merged overnight in total. The flames have now burned about 57,000 acres and forced more than 60,000 people to leave their homes at this hour. The fire is just 2 contained at least 97 structures have been destroyed nearly 25,000 others are threatened this evening. 2 people have suffered minor injuries said there are more than 1100 personnel working those fires right now. And we have Team Coverage on the czu or this lightning complex fires are kron fours gayle ong dan thorn they are alive. In Santa Cruz County with the latest on the fires and the damage there and
Talking about changes leading to the election day. What they will now do before the november elections. From ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. Thank you for joining us. Welcome to mornings on 2. I am dave clark. I am claudine wong, in for pam cook. It is august 19th. We have a lot to talk about in terms of weather. It has been a long few days. Meteorologist Steve Paulson is watching it for us. Good morning. The inland will still be hot. This is day six of temperatures near 100 degrees. A lot of the Higher Elevations from the lightning complex fire , santa cruz, san mateo, that grew rapidly and vertically. That is how intense that is. There are so many fires. There is a lot of haze. We are looking for temperatures, again, warm if you are inland. We have 60s for some. The city and oakland are getting ready for hazy, humid, hot. We have 90s and 100s inland. We are seeing a few high clouds to the north. Overall, it will be a hot day away from the coast. Tomorrow might have hints of c
There is a lot we move through morning. The allen you lightning comples maof seven neighboring Law Enforcement agencies throughout the bay area have come to our aid, to different fires, so far it has the help of folks here in the county, to knock on doors and burned 50 square miles, and is zero percent contained. Literally go home to homeis a s putting that in perspective, that is the size of the entire city of vallejo. There are several Evacuation Orders in napa, sonoma, and solano counties. One that obviously, residents there, members of our office also live in this area. It is extremely important to heed these Evacuation Orders if you receive them over the phone. Obviously, we want to maintain public safety. We want to keep everyone safe the latest Evacuation Order is for all of soler hills and through this thing, this is something that we are in the gibson canyon road. Evacuations are in effect for early stages have. Other Pleasant Valley road, and we will be absolutely committed c
Meteorologist kari hall with that beautiful sun rise behind you. Bright sun rise in San Francisco this morning as we get a look at the bay bridge. Not so much fog as we start out on this monday morning. As we head to the north bay a lot of red here as we get ready for the red flag warning once again, high winds picking up with low humidity along with gusty winds. Ill talk more about this and what it means, that red flag warning coming up. Any new issues coming up for drivers . Unexpected at the bay bridge. Take a look today. Now we have metering lights turned on at 5 54. There was a quick build. No problems on the approach or the span. Back to you. We heard kari just mention this, happening right now hot and windy, dry conditions. Today in the bays jackie ward is live for us. What are firefighters telling everyone to do . Reporter its the dry conditions you were talking about with the weather and the use of fireworks that can make a deadly combination this time of year, of course, with
You so much for with waking up weather in the bay area, wait a day or drive your car five with us. Miles. You will find something. Thats right. Thanks for joining us this we are going to talk about our morning. Stay with us for a special forecast today as it starts out a little gray, just like program, greg lee will have the yesterday, good morning, rosemary. Good morning. We are a mix of sun and clouds latest news tonight. This money. Partly cloudy in some areas, we will be back at 10 00 and mostly cloudy and it others. 11 00. We have the latest news any temperatures and conditions are time on the ktvu news app. Expected to be very similar, have a great day. That means we will call for his thanks for joining us. Partly cloudy skies today. When i come back, well check in on current conditions, a warmup in the extended forecast coming up. Happening today, a vigil is planned for a sergeant with the Santa Cruz County Sheriffs Office who was killed in line of duty. This all happened yester