Alameda and contra costa counties is now the second largest fire in california history more than 367,000 acres have burned containment is up to 30 it is followed closely though by the l lightning complex in the north bay which has burned more than 360,000 acres in Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo counties containment their climb to 33 and the czu lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties has burned 81,000 acres with containment reaching 21 altogether these fires have burned more than 800,000 acres, lets start with more details from cal fire on each of these complex fires, the largest one were monitoring. In terms of acreage is the scu lightning complex fire 5 people have been hurt in that fire. So far it spend the least destructive in terms of Property Damage, 20 have been destroyed 6 have been damaged but more than 20,000 structures are still threatened the second largest wildfire burning right now in anchorage and 3rd largest in state history is the lnu lightning c
Transit and sanitation will continue. So your garbage will be picked up. Police officers will be out there on the front line. Our fire safety officials and others. Also Grocery Stores and pharmacies and banks and gas stations will remain open. An astounding clampdown on life as we know it here in the bay area. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. Im julie haener. The coronavirus is changing everyday life, where we go, if we work, the things we buy, things education, person to person interactions and financial stability. On wall street today stocks took another blow over fears of a recession. The dow plunged more than 12 , nearly 3,000 points, its largest point drop ever. Nasdaq fell 970 and the s p lost 324. Emergency action by the fed to lower Interest Rates and buy treasuries and mortgagebacked securities was not enough to stop the slide. Tonight Governor Newsom went on facebook to announce a number of new measures to help people in california get through this crisis includin
Youre actually looking at calm conditions so winds are definitely spotty as of this point some areas are nice and calm like concord while map and fairfield just to the north are looking at some breezier conditions now with winds pushing offshore today and still plenty of dry tinder out there dry grasses and dry brush. High fire danger exists today. We saw a red flag warnings taking effect earlier this morning at 04 00am and they will lead us on to the rest of the day eventually into tomorrow morning, the highest a fire danger exists for the north bay where as james will tell you in just a moment we are seeing the greatest potential of Power Outages. But there are also red flag warning still in effect our upper elevations in the east bay such as right above oaklands down into the blows and then up above walnut creek in concord as well your current temperatures, those are in the 40s and 50s a touch cooler than yesterday was that this time the at 48 right now berkeley in concord at 5747 d
Will carry that live here on kpix5. We will get latest on the king cake par. These are the latest evacuations. You can see the perimeter outlined in red and the surrounding areas in peak including healdsburg and windsor , both under mandatory evacuations now. Officials extended the warning zone shown in blue all the way to the coast this afternoon. Lets take a live look at the fire in Sonoma County. It has burned over 25,000 acres so far. That is half the size of oakland. Containment is at 10 . Close to 50 structures have been destroyed and more than 23,000 other structures are threatened and now all hands are on deck for this fire. Officials say there are 1300 firefighters on the ground. We have team coverage. We will begin with katie nielsen. She is live in downtown healdsburg. Katie, are you in the evacuation zone . Reporter we are right now. We are on the square in downtown healdsburg. Normally on saturday afternoon it would be packed but right now its a ghost town because as of 4
Pg e turns off because of the dangerous winds headed for our region. We begin with an urging warning from authorities, the winds could gust 80 miles an hour. I am andre senior. I am alayna gomez. Firefighters worked to get the upper hand on the kincade fire, it is burning out of control. The latest numbers, cal fire said it has burned nearly 26,000 acres and the fire is only 11 contained. Authorities say 77 structures have been destroyed, that includes 31 homes. The spike in the number of people forced to leave their homes or businesses. Earlier today, 44,000 people were under Evacuation Orders which affected the residents of windsor and healdsburg. Mark essex said another 100,000 people under the Evacuation Order, that brings the total ,0 people in these communities are ordered to leave. We have Team Coverage of the fire. Tonight wind event, meteorologist, mark tamayo monitoring the conditions. We go live to an evacuation shelter. Greg talked to thousands of people evacuated. Reporter