Area. Both towers of the Golden Gate Bridge are visible today as we move it to moderate air quality. Thank you for joining us at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia the smoke from the wildfires have choked our skies and theyve now reached the other side of the country in this picture. You can see how the smoke has been distributed across the United States. The National Weather service says the smoke was caught in a jet stream and was carried across the u. S. And into the east coast want to check in on condition this hour with our meteorologist dave spahr dave is this a better air that were seeing or is it going to be changing again as weve seen in the last few days, whats got a little better you pointed out and it will continue that trend it looks like as we get later on during the week with the promise front. How about this live shot to this but looking good all of this afternoon out of Half Moon Bay doesnt look very inviting shadows been a little darker more stark going on for today. Now we do have
Be early and more often folks have been experiencing this california the last couple of years. Good evening, everyone, im Catherine Heenan in for Vicki Liviakis tonight, im grant lotus thank you for being with us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 oclock fire Officials Say theyre cautiously optimistic tonight after dodging a major Lightning Storm and we begin with an overview of the 3 major lightning complex fires that are burning in the bay have been for about a week now 5 people have died in the lnu lightning complex thats burning in solano napa sonoma lake end yolo countys 5 people have been injured meanwhile and the scu lightning complex thats in contra costa. And Alameda Santa clara as well among others we have also learned that fires there have scorched. More than 360,000 acres making it. The second largest in california state history in terms of acreage more than 351,000 acres meanwhile have in the north bay making the l a new fire the 3rd largest in california history. And its easy y
Mountain and this is what has been vacaville and it was bring to the northwest and so its closing in pretty quickly. Thats why people are quickly having to flee their homes covers will tran is there this morning and will we moved to vacaville because things change so fast. Whats going on right now. Well right now im off a highway 80 off a cheery glenn exit and you can see over my Left Shoulder jeans and yuri of the fire along the ridgeline these people these poor people have been up all night watching the fire get closer and closer to their homes and then. Just a short time ago they got the knock at the door from the Sheriffs Department take get out. This is obviously a very busy street as far as people hopping on to highway 80 instead it has turned into a parking lot with a lot of evacuees at this location just pulled over sitting in the back of the pickup truck. Just helplessly watching the fire get closer and closer to their homes. This whole area jeans and area. It is just glowing
Structures a ton by these flames while you are very close will and theres a lot of smoke be careful. There is a big fire. Right behind me im just surrounded by fires, so its almost like picture. Fire and just go ahead and be on television and this is right there that fire that we showed you at 6. 30 continues to burn and it actually is moving from the left to the right of your screen so its moving closer to the hillside you could see theres some headlights coming down here as well not sure of as a firefighter or even a resident, leaving the syria, its gotten darker. Ficker smoke from the last time that you saw me im on Pleasant Valley road and well just walk down here just a try our very best to put you in the pocket where im currently located so you can see it at home and feel the desperation and how bad things are its reaching new vegetation every second and look at this james darya look at the smoke blowing from the right to the left side of your screen thick black smoke. We actuall
Its not like a neighborhood that you see obviously in San Francisco, but there are homes, there are lots of ranches and right now many of them went up in flames, we showed it to you all morning on the kron 00 04am morning news, this pg any right there off in the distance of their part of the response team. They said that they did energize d energize i should say de energize most of the lines if not all of the lines we have not heard of any transformers exploding at this particular point way off in the distance, those are neighborhoods in actually told us to stay at this location. Just in power. The poll comes down and we could be trapped because a lot of these power poles went up in flames as well so they told us they dont want to run in there to save us if necessary so were going to stay right here. But look at that james story off in the distance as well, black smoke and ive been telling viewers for a long time black smoke basically means is reached new feel new material so its burni