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Degrees warmer. Then at the same time yesterday so do enjoy this mild start. Im talking more in your forecast ahead. Rob, thank you john were off to a pretty good started traffic to its very quiet out there with no major issues a live look westbound 92, this is your drive out of hayward over to the peninsula. And you know its a little busy right here on the flat section thats completely normal so no problems just picking up and quickly so were looking at 12 minutes off to one o one were checking in on 80 your trip into San Francisco moving well looking good. No problems so far so easy 7 minutes off to one oh one or 2 the to downtown San Francisco and they were checking in on one oh one out of san jose to menlo park thats 26 minutes. The highway for all smooth and at the limit will check more traffic coming up in a bit back to you. Thanks a lot rob. And our top story parts of the bay area are having to roll back on reopening because covid is on the rise and we showed you this map yester
More than a 157,000 acres which is contra costa Alameda Santa clara status, la and san joaquin counties and then if you look to the south at the bottom of the map. Thats the c august lightning complex fire it is from 48,000 acres in san mateo and santa cruz counties homes just completely destroyed thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. Well now were going to focus on the czu lightning complex fires burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Take a look at this map all the red shows the thermal activities from the flames now we do know this morning that several homes have been destroyed 64,000 people have been forced to evacuate from both of those counties kron fours reyna harvey now live in Santa Cruz County she has the latest for us you know this fire has been devastating for a lot of the families thousands of people who had to evacuate right here in scott valley right behind you were going to show you theyre having their meeting this is the First Responders that have be
Now lets focus in on the czu lightning complex fire. You can see the outline on your map its in red. It shows the outline of the fire and you can tell that its spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fire has turned deadly as firefighters discovered the body of a 70 yearold man in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a scotts valley. He has the latest for us well. Marty they just wrapped up the News Conference a little bit more information on that man who died his name not being released. But we do know that he was found near his vehicle in the attempt of leaving the fire so he was trying to rescue himself but overcome, but either the smoke or the flames so he was not inside his home at the time and thats when they believe that he was desperately trying to flee unfortunately he ran out of time and the fires just simply overcame him as far as the condition of the fire still very much burning out of control at this
This period. Its a very short window but still looking out with that red flag warning temperatures were in the upper 50s and portions of the east bay shoreline in even inland too, but 64 oakland, got 64 nap with some 50s up there the north bay 59 for san jose but again back to this red flag warning officially you can see in Solano County and it will be with us until thursday about 1 oclock but still will be backing off of a dry atmosphere which will show you later on 79 what 11 oclock it too. Word 87 some locations may scratch up there into the lower 90s today but more of them expected tomorrow back to you. All right dave, thanks a lot happening today a solemn morning in the south bay as friends and family. Well be honoring fallen officer Sergeant Damon gutzwiller his Memorial Service will be taking place this morning the cub real college an app toss kron fours will tran joins us live in santa cruz for more on the fallen officers percent procession thats supposed to start this hour rig