When solar is nonexistent. The entire west is competing for supplies going into these hot periods. This is the event that happens every 10 years or so. This is another statewide heat event. Reporter we will have had two such events in less than a month, are we seeing a Climate Change event or is it too early to tell . We need time to build up the history to see if there is a positive trend wise for events like this. Reporter beaches in these counties will be close. San francisco, sonoma and sam matteo county, beaches will be open except for pacific up. Air quality will be a problem in many areas. We are extending the spare the air alerts. Saturday and into the Labor Day Weekend with smoke situation still very much present. How to cool down . Pg e said it will operate cooling centers throughout the affected area. Thats the entire service area. Tom, you offered easy tips for all of us to do this coming weekend. We appreciate that. Thank you. New numbers for coronavirus. 5000 new cases we
Well forcing on top of breaking news at this hour more than 20 fires burning out of control in whats now known as the santa clara unit lightning complex. The flames spreading across 5 different counties from santa clara to alameda. The contra costa, san joaquin and Stanislaus County kron fours dan kerman is live tonight in pleasanton with the very latest on the firefight there dan. Where the cal fire command post in this is where they are staging as they fight the fires throughout this region as you mentioned it is covering many different counties, 25,000 acres charred so far that was as of this morning we still dont have an updated number at this point they were 0 contained again waiting for an updated number there, but they are going to be here for quite some time battling this blaze. Plumes of smoke off in the distance doesnt really tell the story of the santa clara units lightning complex fire. In fact, its at least 20 separate fires divided into 3 zones fire started on sunday prob
From 11 other states, including as far away as kansas, texas, and montana. The czu lightning complex fire in Santa Cruz County and San Mateo County has now burned 78,000 acres and containment is only at 13 . 176 homes have been destroyed. Cal fire says in San Mateo County, the fire is no longer moving toward lahonda, lolamar, or pescadaa, or moving east to santa clara county. A 79yearold man died, possibly trying to flee the fire in davenport. Four other people are unaccounted for. The deadly lnu lightning complex fire continues to burn through several counties in the north bay. Five people have been killed by the fires there. Three in napa county and two in solano county. According to cal fire, this complex has burned about 547 square miles and is 22 contained. 871 structures have been destroyed. 234 others have been damaged, and more than 30,000 are still threatened. The scu lightning complex fire has grown to more than 347,000 acres. It is burning across 7 counties and is only 10 co
Bring it to you live. In the meantime, we want to go to bill martin, our chief meteorologist, to talk about the weather conditions, and they are getting at least a little bit of good news here, bill. Yeah, a little bit of good news. Yeah, my camera is a little off balance. Ill tell you watt, let me fix this right now. Yeah, hat should be better. The air quality is pure right now. But the fires are still mainly terrain driven. The weather is not really driving these fires. Its really about so many fires having started, and cal fire not having enough resources to respond to almost 13,000 lightning strikes. So with over 350 fires in that first string. So were seeing good containment each day, and thats how its going to continue. And now i think weve got a live press conference. Just wanted to bring everybody up to speed, after the weather came through yesterday, and we found ourselves here getting wet last night, over the courts of the evening, across california, the cal fire confirmed th
Steve talking about improvements. At least it seems that way, rosemary. We had the disturbance that moved through over california and it brought a mix to the atmosphere and helped to clear things out a little bit. The onshore breeze will continue over the next few days, and hopefully that will help to continue to push some of the smoke away from the bay area and further in land. We have a spare the air alert in place and the hazy skies are expected to remain. Morning clouds followed by afternoon sunshine, at least away from the coast, this morning starting with fog along the coastline. Temperatures are expected to cool. I will have a look at Current Conditions and what to expect for the afternoon coming up in a little bit. It is 5 00,. Lets check the highways. Right now, we have traffic that is doing pretty well around the bay area. I want to put up the fire closure map as you approach santa cruz. Boulder creek there are several areas, outlined in purple, still shut down. Highway 17 is