Ago, and they torched an area greater than the size of rhode island. In the north bay, the lmu lightning complex is proveding to be challenging for firefighters tonight. Sky 7 was overhead the wall bridge fire near water springs road in Sonoma County this afternoon. You can see the difficult terrain crews are facing. So far the lnu lightning complex, containment is rising and currently at 25 . So its a bitten couraging here tonight. Abc7 News Reporter j. R. Stone is following the story and joins us live from healdsburg tonight. J. R. , what does it look like tonight . Reporter dan and ama ama it is much more humid than it had been. Winds have died down in this location. Those firefighters out there tell me that is helping with the fire fight. Still, though, you can see directly behind me the c. H. P. Officer still has this area closed off. We are only around one or two miles from heavy smoke and a fire. Flames shooting into the air monday evening in the hills northwest of healdsburg ne
A very good Tuesday Morning to you. Thank you for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike is keeping us up to date on traffic this morning. First meteorologist kari hall with a look at the forecast for us. Kari, how is it looking for us today . Just smoky again today. As we get a live look outside in walnut creek, we can even see it at nighttime. As we go into today those temperatures are going to be not even much of a factor today. Well be breathing in a lot of smoke, not spending much time out there. Our temperatures will rise into the mid70s at 7 00 reaching into the upper 80s and low 90s. Youll notice that it will be slightly cooler today compared to the past couple of days. Ill have more on that and also whats ahead coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking as Early Morning commuters head out the door . Youre talking about the view, chp said at midnight there was fog at the Golden Gate Bridge and gave an advisory. Look now at the glowing lights. You c
More than 500,000 acres across northern and central california. Firefighters are battling main fires whilcontending with high wind and difficult terrain. At least five people have now died. In santa cruz and san mateo le have been ordered to e64,000 evacuate. The air quality in the bay area is now among the worst the world. The Northern California wildfires expected to burn for several more days. And possibly wks. Visit kqed. Org for uptodate airality maps and evacuation information. Earlier today postmaster general lewito joy stify before senate lawmakers. He was called to answer for controversial changes to the Postal Service. Changes which have led to widespread delays and warnings that mailin ballots may not award on time to be counted for the november eleion. Those changes would be suspended until after the election. Also this week a Bipartisan Group released a report saying that russia interfered to help donald trump when. Thidreport also out extensive contact between Trump Campa
Obscenities complaining with the stayathome order. Letters were sent anonymously but linked to him through fingerprints. One said youre done, its over, say goodbye. And possible connection to the bugaloo boys extremist group. Another member is charged with killing santa cruz sheriffs deputy and federal officer in june. That connection was made based on linking the language and symbols used in multiple letters. Reporter documents indicate he sent letters taunting the deputys widow and seizing more than 100 firearms, ammunition and explosive at home last week. Attorney pointed out the weapons are not part of the pending charges and says theres no evidence of bugaloo connection or violence. Allegations he used words to harm someone, words alone are not violent. Reporter being held without bail, expected to plea tomorrow. Robert handa, nbc bay area news. This is week three of wildfires across the bay area. Get you caught up on the numbers. Smallest fire, czu complex burning along the coast
Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us on the firefight will. Marty Scotts Valley good news. I just came to this location and the checkpoints are all gone meaning theyre not stopping people from returning to their homes. In fact only the median authorized personnel for this past week were allowed to come through now if you live in Scotts Valley and you didnt hear the news. You can return to your location, west of us highway 17 so you can do that even though the fires are still burning at this time it has chewed up more than 81,000 acres and they expect that number to go up when we carry that News Conference for you live in about 55 minutes from now. Containment number also has gone up when i was here 24 hours ago they were sitting at around 21 containment. Now its 24 containment, but the fire. Still is giving firefighters a handful of theyre throwing 2000 firefighters as says. Theyre hoping to go back up in the air to do water drops because theres been so much damage that