3 a slow news stations. And breaking news happening right now protests erupting in the east bay over the shooting of jacob blake by police in kenosha wisconsin. Good evening, im ken wayne and im pam moore. Blake shooting has sparked protests across several cities in the nation kron fours Ella Sogomonian is live in our newsroom right now with more on the demonstrations happening in oakland tonight l a. Mccann hundreds of people have taken to the streets already in just the last hour or so in response to similar what we saw last time with the killing of george floyd except this time, theyre chanting the name take a flake. This is video courtesy of dennis pres bravo on the ground in open right now as they make their way down broadway and hes reporting broken windows and fireworks allegedly shot at police. Jacob blake is a man who was shot by officers in kenosha wisconsin this weekend and just outside his car which his children were sitting in the 29 yearold is now recovering in the hospit
Pollutants and smoke in the air coastal areas, some of your best well looking at east and south facing some unhealthy spots to kick off this thursday. Winds right now nice and calm for the most part and temperatures in the 50s and 60s so through the jacket on as you venture outside it is cool and it does have a brisk feel to it as youre getting out there later today expect comfortable conditions with highs in the 60s for San Francisco low 70s in oakland and some 80s in san jose. Back to you james all right, thank you very much john. Back to the fires now crews are making progress on 3 major fires burning across the bay area according to cal fire the lnu lightning complex fires up in the north bay are now 33 contained. The scu lightning complex fires in parts of the east bay and south bay is now 30 contained and the czu august lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties is now 21 contained. Now good news out of the santa cruz area we have you see santa cruz lifting now i
Bay this afternoon. Mid 60s along the coast. Were starting off the day because of that onshore flow, that better air quality as well as foggy conditions and even some patchy drizzle along the coast ride around the bay this morning. Well talk about a little bit of a change for tomorrow. Details on that coming up. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and the latest on the slow ride on altamont pass. Supercommuters out of tracy getting on to 580 and as you work towards that north flynn exit. Thats the bulk of the delays this morning. As you head along into the altamont pass, 38 minute drive time westbound 580, 205 over to et good ough in both directiore just a little busy south of there on 680 through the sunol grade. We are monitoring these brake lights along the nimitz freeway. South 880 still struggle this morning. Slow from 92 all the way down to fremont boulevard to clear an accident right at that exit. Developing in oakland, cleanup is underway this morning after protests
Are going to do everything we can to protect it. Getting word, another wild fire is burning nearby . Thats right, the gamble fire is off of knoxville road west of berks somewhere around 375 acres right now as of 1 00 this afternoon. It has 0 containment so a couple of different hotspots burning from the Lightning Storm here in napa county this afternoon. The trouble can be traced back to this ind yon see the ou clouds in this timelapse. Lets get to paul heggen tracking these Lightning Storms as well as this extreme heat. Paul . The fire crews are going to be battling over the next several days as a continuation of the heat wave even as the Stormy Weather pattern quiets down. These heat indices are the feels like temperature, the equivalent to the wind chill. Its officially 89, the feels like tempter in napa itself north the purple shading indicates plenty of heat indices around or above 100 degrees. Tomorrow is going to be another day of extreme heat. Temperatures from 12 to 17 degrees
Of rolling blackouts to ease demand on the states electrical grid. Its all happening amid days of long heat wave that is also fueling a number of wildfires more than a dozen active wildfires are currently burning across the golden state, including several in here right here in the bay area that have prompted evacuation warnings. Tonight we have Live Team Coverage of the ongoing heat wave in the impacts from it Ashley Zavala is live in sacramento with the governor with what the governor is now demanding in light of those blackouts kron fours dan kerman though joins us live from the east bay on the deers own fires but first kron 4 meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is tracking the dangerous conditions now fueling these blazes or so. Hi there. Jonathan yeah lets take a look at stormtracker 4 plenty of thunderstorms rolling through parts of ukiah in clear lake right now we do have a red flag warning so high fire danger in effect right now for lake and mendocino counties but for us here in the