Wildfire risk of the year. The wind is already picking up at this hour and gusts could reach 70 miles an hour in the highest elevations. Pg e is closely monitoring power lines and any trees that could knock them out. The entire bay area except San Francisco could be in the dark by the end of tonight. The first round of shutoffs are underway in parts of napa and sonoma counties. In less than an hour residents in marin could lose power and the shutoffs are expected to sweep across a large portion of the east bay and the peninsula. The threat of powerful gusts once the sun goes down. Yeah. The wind is already picking up and our red flag warning is already in effect. I guess well go to darren first. Paul, i know youll focus heavily on the red flag warning. In fact, i could do that first. The red flag warning has been extended. It start tonight and it will take us through the remainder of this evening and into tuesday. Read the details on the bottom lefthand corner. Extreme fire weather bay
I know a lot of you are going stir crazy, and i will include myself in that. Julian glover is live with more on this. Reporter ad add me to that tally. Yeah, 28 days of the spare the air alert. And it is starting to get to some folks. Lingering wildfire smoke giving the west coast some of the worst air quality in the entire world according to experts. And at a time when getting outside has really been one of the only reliefs during the pandemic. But some Outdoor Activities this weekend were shut down like the oakland zoo and tours of alcatr alcatraz. It caught people off guard. Without masks, we can feel that the air is not healthy. So very disappointed. It is very dangerous to be out in 24 kind of air. So be so have a mask if you have to be outside. And to filter this kind of matter, you really need an n95. And we hate for this to be the impression that tourists good getting of the bay area. We want to point out as the doctor mentioned, if you do have to go outside, make sure that you
When its made with love, its made to be shared. News at 6. A deadly natural disasters. Batter the u. S. From coast to coast in the bay area lightning sparked wildfires that have killed 7 people are still burning tonight. Firefighters say the scope of damage is historic the number of fires that we had such a short amount of time in the way theyve burned as is pretty parallel in my career on the gulf coast lower slams ashore as a category 4 hurricane killing 4 people and leveling entire neighborhoods. Another night of unrest in america protests turn violent in oakland as nationwide outrage grows over the Police Shooting of jacob blake and the sports world postponing games once again in solidarity with racial justice. Thank you so much for joining us tonight on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman were tracking 3 major crises in america tonight. Unrest has turned destructive during a bay area protest. A deadly hurricane has slammed the southeast. But first we want to turn to the 3 wildfire
News stations, youre watching kron 4 news at 9. And its hard to look at. And i know that were going to have to start going through things and. You know coming up here and at and working a little bit but its sad its hard to come. Now at 9 as firefighters start to gain control of the 3 large wildfire complex is burning in the bay area evacuees are returning to find whats been left behind good evening. Im ken wayne and im pale more firefighters acknowledge the scope of the damage is historic but. Containment of these fires is growing cal fire says the scu lightning complex fires. Parts of the east bay and south bay or 35 contained tonight. The czu lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties now 24 contained and the l in new lightning complex fires in the north bay are now 35 contained. The lnu lightning complex fire has ripped through hundreds of homes and displaced scores of families from fourstaters sackey is in vacaville where one family has lost everything from the ln
Tearing through parts of texas and louisiana, killing at least 4 people damaging property and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 5 im Justine Waldman at this hour were tracking the 3 large wildfires burning in the bay area. The good news right now crews are making progress cal fire says the scu lightning complex fires in parts of the east and south bay, or 35 contained. The czu august lightning complex fires in san mateo and Santa Cruz County are now 21 contained and the l a new lightning complex fires in the north bay are now 33 contained. We will begin our coverage there where the fires have burned more than 368,000 acres across napa Solano Sonoma lake and yolo counties while firefighters continue to make progress in sonoma county. The wall bridge fire continues to burn above healdsburg and guerneville and even when the fire is put out that does not mean that evacuees will be able to return immediate