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
The front lines in the overnight hours thankfully they get to rest a little bit as theyre throwing as much as they possibly can at this fire 1500 firefighters with more firefighters on the way from out of state. This fire they are making progress we did learn from a News Conference earlier this morning that containment numbers now sitting at 13 containment and that is up from 8 in the overnight hours, however the acreage did go up from 74. To 78,000 and the number of homes or structures destroyed sitting at 231. Destroyed or damaged were talking about that going up and up especially since the fires are happening in a remote rugged area thats. Hard to get to for the firefighters, but we do know that the one fatality that one man who did die that he was trying to leave the area because he was not found inside his home instead he was found near his car. So that leads investigators to believe that he was trying to flee the area that was simply overcome by the flames or the smoke as far as
Areas surrounding us. This red flag warning is going to happen on efforts of any of these incidents. The red flag warning goes into Effect Tomorrow morning due to possibility of thunderstorms and lightning. Good evening. Im cristina rendon. Theres a major disaster declaration from President Trump freeing up federal resources for firefighters. It comes as firefighters are battling three of the complexes. The fire fight is particularly focused in Sonoma County as fires get closer to the dry creek region and the lower russian river. The National Guard is bringing in a drone to help provide visuals when its too smoky for aircraft. To the east there are new evacuation warns in Alameda County. An alert was sent to fremont residents in the mission road area and south of the livermore city limits. The complex of 20 fires has gone to the 3rd largest in the states history. Reporter and calfire announced that more structures have been destroyed with the count now at 115. That fire has burned 67,0
But, i will not be able to get that chance soon, it sounds like, because Yosemite National park is reversing course and extending one of its campground closures, and this is because of the recent spike of coronavirus cases in california. Park officials have started to reopen some campgrounds earlier this month. They were closed for 2 1 2 months during the pandemic. Reservations between now and july have been canceled and the park has already cut back the number of visitors by about half welcome to the 9, along with gasia, i am sal, and mike is currently off with some computer issues. But gasia, have you been to yosemite . And are you itching to go . Oh, i have been several times in the summer and winter. I was not thinking about going before the pandemic hit, but now i am so hungry for the Great Outdoors that absolutely we would take a trip to yosemite. We are also working to find and appreciate the beauty and nature all around us, even within a couple miles of our home. I am happy to
Businesses are starting to bounce back. Similar to that. Look at that. I mean, that is a huge fog bank. All the way up and down the coast. So with that in mind, highs will be below average to near average. He will be above, they will be above livermore and san jose. Lets start with lafayette, steve, but we will get to the toll plaza. Dont worry, because we like to look at it here. Starting with highway 24 first. And take a look at it from walnut creek to oakland. The traffic right through lafayette looks very good. There have been no issues. Also looking good, the approach to the richmond sand san rafael bridge. The toll plaza meanwhile, seems to be Getting Better by the moment. Congestion should be gone by 8 00. As you look at interstate 80, that traffic here near hagan berger wrote was good. 7 01. Lets go back to the headlines. We are following developing strength in pleasanton, where authorities are searching for a chase started in san jose after 12 30 this morning. The car crashed