on shore flow to the west that s going to push the fire to the east. if that transition comes on saturday and we don t get too much high humidity and we ve got that all important containment, probably a couple more days but we have to remember on this fire we have about an eight-or-nine-mile front that it s burning to on the east. do you have enough firefighters and equipment ready to do the job? we do. we ve had resources come in as far as sacramento to assist. the one thing in california, our ability to move federal, state and local aid resources is unmatched anywhere else in the country. we implement that early and move around to assist communities in need when wildfires are out of control. julie hutchinson, fire battalion chief. thanks for joining us and good
were so many victims at this ceremony in brentwood they treated it like a multicasualty incident. how long will the heat stick around? janice dean is live. we ll see a little bit of improvement as we get through the workweek. for the southwest we re in dangerous heat. take a look at some of the temperatures. these are records across the southwest. 112 in loose vague. fresno, 108. arizona, 103 and this is going to be continuing throughout the day and on shore flow that will bring temperatures down slightly. 106 in las vegas. 101 in yuma, 100 in barstow. it s unbearably hot. then 102 in las vegas.
janice dean is live in the fox edges stream weather center. relief? temperatures are relatively cooler. as adam mentioned on shore flow bringing relative humidities up. also want to point out we re dealing with large wildfires across new mexico as well. zooming into the california fire, temperatures are cooler but dry conditions remain and those gusty winds are going to be possible even though they are on shore flow. that s going to mean firefighters could have some erratic winds that could spread embers,. shepard: shep word of more severe weather in the west. unfortunate story. dealing with the potential for strong storms in some of the same areas. we have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect just outside of oklahoma. oklahoma in towards kansas until 11:00 p.m. local time where we could see strong to severe storms. severe thunderstorm warnings in this area up towards kansas. even parts of the rockies. and we have a tornado warning for parts of north dakota.
incredible. we saw wind gusts in excess to 45 miles per hour yesterday. and that fire just blossomed three times the size of what it was. they just couldn t control it. so the good news is winds are going to shift for the better. and you can see on the satellite radar imagery. they were offshore. you can actually see some of the smoke that was pushed offshore in the last 48 hour loop. but then they are now switching to an onshore flow. that is going to give the moisture from the pacific to move in and the temperatures are going to slowly move downward, which is great news. this is one of the fires that we are talking about. we are seeing the images on the left side of your screen. conditions are going to be improving for the area. temperatures yesterday were in the 80 s, 90 s across the desert southwest because we have got that on shore flow, the temperatures are in the 60 s right now. the humidity is up. we re getting all of that moisture from the pacific. we actually could see some r
firefighters. temperatures 61 degrees. winds are light out of the southeast. and the humidity is up. so this is the news they need to hear. the temperatures are going down. again, because we have that on shore flow bringing all of that pacific moisture in. we actually even have some rain in the first alert forecast for monday. so, this fire just really exploded within just a matter of hours. three times the size in just a matter of hours. the good news is the weather is going to help those firefighters which is great news. and we ll continue to bring you the very latest from the fox extreme weather center. tucker, clayton, alli, back to you. new developments this morning in the boston marathon bombing. we now know how the suspect tamerlan tsarnaev died. you ll remember there was a debate whether he was shot or run over. we also know more about that female d.n.a. that was found on one of the bombs. peter doocy is live in boston with the latest. hi, peter. hi, alisyn. the center of a