Survival. When youre in it, youre fighting it. Youre not going to give up. The bay area man who risked his life to save his home, doing something firefighters tell you not to do. From the flames to the air quality and the weather, we have a lot to get to tonight. Lets sta ng in the bay area. Tonight progress on the front lines. We begin our Team Coverage withn san mateo and santa cruz counties. Cal fire says two things are helping them tonight. Reporter yeah, and there is some progress luckily on this fire. They say, one, the weather is providing some good visibility because, two, the good thing, their helicopters can finally drop some water, make some real progress. Today alone they dropped 200,000 gallons of water on the flames up in the mountains. One fire chief is expressing some caution, saying he believes theyll be fighting these flames for quite some time. Tonight on the front lines, Santa Cruz County firefighters dousing the truck of a redwood tree to save it and keep the fire
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
Fire otheir progress, but say they dealt with issues on the east side of the fires throughout the afternoon yesterday. 7 00 last night, the lnu lightning complex has burned nearly 550 square miles, and is 25 contained. 908 buildings are destroyed. 248 are damage. More than 30,000 are threatened. Six people have died including a pge worker. Theres a lot of work to be done. Any evacuation orders remain in place. If you get to go back to your property, there is a reentry point set up for those who live within the myers fire zone in sonoma county. Its not required to check in, but it could be helpful. We are going to stop here because cal fire is about to start a News Conference with an update to the czu morning complex. My name is jonathan. And deputy chief. A quick reminder, if you could mute your telephones and take conversations outside the press conference area it would be appreciated. Please keep your masks on when not speaking. A quick update. 6 00 this morning, this incident is 78,
This morning. It doesnt have anything to do with the moisture we had yesterday pick these clouds coming in from the coast. Nifty six in the santa rosa now. 58 in San Francisco. Low 60s and oakland and livermore. The marine layer is at 1200 feet. Inland cities waking up with sunshine but many of us have cloud cover and drier air and cooler down by 5 degrees in most areas. It has to do with the onshore breeze that is blowing all the way through the delta this morning. When it comes to the fog, visibility is tough along the coastline. Half moon bay reporting less than a quarter of a mile but everyone else looking okay. Look at whats going on with the added relative humidity, the fog is back. A bit of an onshore flow going on as well. Right there at the czu complex fire, we got great humidity. Temperatures are good and the winds are light. Getting into the afternoon for air quality, unhealthy for sensitive groups. North bay in the San Francisco coastline and through the center bay and east
That moved through the bay area. Thankfully, we did not see the thunder and lightning we were concerned about. I was over areas of the north bay that actually had lou sky overhead. It was a nice change. We will continue with the hazy sky. Once we become a little more stable, we are likely to see smoke return as fires continue to burn on all sides of the bay area. We are giving you a look at the temperatures, clear skies in place. Many of us are cooler. We are in the upper 50s in San Francisco. 66 in livermore, san jose at 64. Seminaries along the coastline are joan joined by dense fog this morning. We will show you the rest of the extended forecast coming up in just a little bit. It is 4 00 on the dot. Lets say good morning to sal. Hi, sal. Hello. We have traffic doing well around the bay area. It looks good at the bay bridge. If you are driving into San Francisco, the traffic is moving along very nicely. There have been no major issues on interstate 880 in oakland. I like what we see