Getting ready to give us an update in just a few minut czu burning south of San Francisco, so we are waiting on that. And while we do were going to check in with meteorologist lisa argen. Whats happening right now, lisa . Good morning, liz. Yesterday we had a nice welldefined marine layer. This morning not the case. Its pretty diffuse and looking at a layer of smoke over the bay area. Decreasing visibility at the shore. That 4 to 5 mile visibility from the smoke over from livermore to san jose where the air quality is unhealthy for sensitive groups there. Elsewhere, moderate around the bay. And looking at that to change today as that smoke layer continues to shift as we get our windsg nrom t oday. Up ingaleis 7 a hennessy f 73 degrees with very light winds. As we to vacaville temperatures in the upper 60s, winds light and down over in la honda around 70 degrees and light wind. High pressure is Building Back in and with that weve got a high fire weather watch with critical fire danger f
About to collide with coronavirus overwhelming hospitals. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight on kron 4 news at 5 im Justine Waldman and we have lots of news to get to tonight. Well start with the wildfires that are still burning around the bay area and threatening thousands of homes. The czu lightning complex fires have now burned more than 80,000 acres in the mountains of santa cruz and san mateo counties more than 500 structures have been destroyed 51 damaged. One person has died. Containment did go up slightly overnight us now at 19 . Many structures are still threatened and there are several Evacuation Orders in place and for more right now we go to kron fours rob fladeboe he joins us now live from felton which is about 7 miles from santa cruz. He has the very latest on the firefight good evening drop. Good evening just seen thats right out here in the Santa Cruz Mountains once again firefighters are quite literally a fighting fire with fire as you say i am here in felto
This is near la handa and right terrorized women in the bay area and beyond in the 1970s and 80s. Joseph deangelo also took off now it is 0 emoke napa, solano his mask today in the courtroom and had a breach meief message sonoma counties. Thousands have been evacuated from their homes and this fire victims. Judge Michael Bowman handed has proven itself deadly. Down the harshest penalty four people have lost their lives to this fire. Possible, 11 consecutive life lets begin in the north bay, sentences and no chance of the big collection of fires parole for the golden state called the lnu complex fire. Killer. The survivors have spoken it has turned, as we said, very, clearly. The defendant deserves no mercy. Very deadly. Were going to take you now to [ applause ] i think he got exactly what cal fire, which has just started he deserved with one exception, which is that he needs to be in its Evening Press conference. General population becau lets listen in. Reporter jennifer carroll, for
Moderate conditions in yellow for most of the east bay and peninsula and then good conditions once you head north of petaluma up to santa rosa. So its definitely a mixed bag this morning as far as what were talking about some of us sitting a little bit nicer than others. A lot like we have the past couple days right now temperatures are in the 50s and 60s low clouds overhead business as usual weve been this way the past few mornings were keeping the nice conditions around as we will into the afternoon to daytime highs, nice and moderate with highs at their warmest only in the upper 80s to add one low 90. Vacaville Hayward Fremont in the 70s will 60s up the coast. I am talking a lot hotter of weather just around the corner stay with us for that rob. All right. Thank you lets check in on your morning commute for those of you heading out there getting ready to roll around the bay area this morning. Oh im so sorry thats a graphic thats actually left over from yesterday i should have delete
Of our spots in the low 60s right now. Later today expect 70s 80s for most of the bay, to still to come. Back to you robin. All right, thank you john now, lets check in on traffic. Its definitely busier out there check out the line now at the bay bridge plaza. It was not like this just 15 minutes ago now we have a big backup spilling 80s slowly stretching out to west grand. So make sure you get out there early since we have more folks rolling in 14 minutes and growing from the bottom of the maze off to the fremont street exit, heres a little trouble spot on the peninsula. If you travel from the south bay heading to the peninsular towards San Francisco heads up for this overturn northbound one oh one at hillsdale still blocking one lane. So you see the traffic stacking up theyre approaching the scene and checking your drive on 5. 80 that looks good no problems for 6 ad the name its a tad bit slow 23 minutes from to 38 to 37. All right now to one of our big stories this morning. The styl