Valley where behind me fire personnel just wrapped up their meeting and they said their priority for today like it was in the days pass is saving lives out here now people have made that easy for them in a lot of people have evacuated thousands in fact added some of not wanted to leave their homes and as a result of that you seen a lot of the fire personnel have to use their resources to rescue people we also know there are at least looking into one missing persons case so again a lot happening out here as the fire continues to burn you mentioned it was at 50,000 acres and it continues growing right now they still dont have containment on this fire more than 60,000 people have had to leave their homes as a result of the growing flames out here now we said in for a press conference where they updated us on their efforts for today take a listen. We continue through the evacuation city a scotts again i mentioned yesterday that the population that area about 12,000 people. So were nearly d
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
Close to this map here in the excessive heat watch we expect to become warning officially going into Effect Tomorrow because were going to negotiate through some clouds late today tonight and tomorrow morning. There you see the coverage over the east bay hills santa clara, bally included in this and Solano County and that is well those temperatures easily mid 90s onward to the first decade of 100 it looks like one 05 very possible with that lets break it down for you here with the sunrise over the east bay hills 90 to a 12 by 3 99. Calling a partly cloudy theres some of that tropical stuff i was mentioning thats going to be thrown into our skies warm corporate that in the forecast coming up in a bit robin. Thank you dave announced another big story that were following for you this morning. Governor newsom says california may be turning a corner in its fight against the coronavirus but he says that that progress could disappear if people do not remain vigilant. Lets check in with kron f
Cooler out towards the coast. More details in your forecast are still to come back to you darya thanks a lot with the heat it was just what weve been seeing with wildfires. This is dangerous for big fires are burning across. The bay area in the east bay and the north bay right now. And they were likely sparked by the lightning. So we added that to what weve been through and as john said its going to let up a little bit its still going to be hot really worried about when to when it comes to fire james yeah, absolutely so lets lay the groundwork the scene for you. We have the marsh fire thats the farthest one to the south were tracking right now in Alameda County right there in the sun all regional wilderness was aboard a Santa Clara County that fires continue to burn out of control burn out of control the deer zone fires burning on the east side of mount diablo just east of clayton sparked all yesterday and continues to rage in the north bay we have a pair of fires there as well the hen
Yeah, thousands of students reported to class virtually but teachers. And their union and the district are all still trying to hash out what the plan is going to be for Distance Learning even though online instruction as daryn mentioned begins this morning. Gayle ong takes a look at whats going on. On monday thousands of students with the Oakland Unified School district will report to class virtually in the zoom call usd spokesperson john sasaki had little to say about specific teaching plans, partly because the district is still in negotiations with labor partners the beginning of year so important for teachers to ponder students yet another stunts to get to know their backgrounds and the things they deal with outside of school. And they cant do that now because we are all this is sort of the Teachers Union and district have been negotiating logistics teachers are asking for a reduced schedule working 5 hours a day the Oakland Education Association posted their proposal on facebook as