Mike, how is it looking right now for whats happening around the bay . Kari, overall things are improving. The trivalley had a couple issues coming into the area. Starting in the south bay north 101. Capital expressway theres a crash involving a couple vehicles one in the middle of 101, some slowing for the sensors right there holding folks up from 680 up to oakland road where we typically see the slowing starting to clear about now. Well track that and also clearing south of 80 through sunol out of pleasanton, that crash cleared a while ago. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Were going to continue to monitor all of the fires across the bay area. The latest this hour for you. The lnu fires in the north bay have burned more than 356,000 acres. And right now its 27 contained. Five people have died and nearly 1,000 south bay the scu fires are still the biggest in terms of acreage. It has burned nearly 366,000 acres and is 20 contained. Three First Responders have been hurt and 18 structures d
Hours ago. Firefighters had a chance to go into some of the damage from the fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties yesterday. They have confirmed 440 buildings have been destroyed, including 320 homes. On the northern end of the fire in San Mateo County, it is not spreading. That is good news. Firefighters say they are very confident that the fire will not spread toward Santa Clara County, where evacuation warnings had been issued earlier in the week. There are new Evacuation Orders or warnings foot and the counties involved. Near bonnie doon and Boulder Creek, there is a fire that is actively burning. Crews are going into do Damage Assessment, and repair some of the power lines and the infrastructure. That way, eventually people will be able to return home. It is stressful. We are staying at an Extended Stay Hotel with only six other dogs and a cat. 77,000 people were forced to evacuate because of the fire. They cannot return home yet, but they are very anxious to do so. The Santa
Biggest challenge for crews on fires, alyssa is standing by the front lines today. Or because a little birdie told me you wanted them back 90s, better than triple digits. Santa rosa right around 90. With information on the lnu really bad. San francisco, 73 degrees. Get my spicy chicken strips combo san jose, in the upper 80s and lighting fire complex burning for only 5. 99. Mid90s for morgan hill and gilroy. In sonoma, napa county. We go here is a look ahead. Hazy of course, that will probably be the repeating theme each and every day through the weekend, you will see right to allie, she is temperatures, they cool off today, kind of stabilizing monitoring the fire burning in santa cruz in San Mateo County friday and could warm up a little bit by saturday, so and new Evacuation Orders are temperatures inland in the mid now in effect. To upper 90s by saturday, and then as we head towards sunday, these high clouds represent or symbolize a bit of uncertainty, that is right, the most there
A coat this morning. Its a little chilly. I was thinking the same thing. Good morning to you all. Lets bring in rosemary to talk about this. I forgot what that chill in the air felt like until this morning. It is so weird. And my cold . I am glad to see but its a definite change in the weather. Yes. You need socks this morning, for sure. We are a little bit cooler and we will be cooler for today but it wont last. We start a warmup tomorrow and it is a warming trend that will last for a few days and may be several days. For today, the deeper green layer is out there. A bit of an onshore breeze this afternoon. Temptress coming down by a few degrees. I will have a better look at the Current Conditions and what to expect for the afternoon and will look at the rest of the weekend coming up in a bit. Truck protests continue around the bay area after the Police Shooting of jake it jacob blake in kenosha, wisconsin. Demonstration dancers are calling to an end to Police Brutality. How san joses
Cars back on its tracks. Good evening. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus thank you for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight once again a dense layer of smoke from dozens of wildfires. They darken the skies around the bay area again today, this is a live look at the bay bridge. Those lights really illuminating just how smoky and hazy it is once again. Yeah well the orange glow from yesterday is mostly gone the poor air quality sure isnt. We kick off our kron 4 Team Coverage with the latest air quality checked around the bay from chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow lawrence yeah thats kind of the irony we dont have that orange glow today, theres less smoke in our atmosphere, but the smoke that youre next all the way down to the surface and the spore quality out there right now and you can see out toward sfo you see the lights out there you see the haze that smoke down below as a small continue just to flow around the bay area and it is bad in some p