Begin to pick up the pieces your life changes and that you have to face rebuilding. Hello everyone i thank you for joining us at 6 oclock im Catherine Heenan firefighters are making progress on a string of huge wildfires across the bay area. The scu fire complex now the second biggest. In california history burning more than 363,000 acres only 15 contained, followed closely by the l a new complex fires. They burned more than 352,000 acres 27 contained and there is the czu complex a fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties burning nearly 79,000 acres and all together the fires have burned nearly 800,000 acres in just one week. Lets take our first look at the weather conditions and san mateo and Santa Cruz County and then things again continue to get better mabrisa yeah they really are catherine and we are noticing right now temperatures in monterey. 69 degrees so cooler forecast there along the coast, thanks to the return of that marine layer relative humidity up to 68 and wind speeds
Front lines tomorrow. And, at the same time, the weather is cooperating, pitching in with cooler temperatures and higher humidity. The Better Weather is helping firefighters with containment. Right now, the scu lightning complex is 20 contained. The czu lightning complex in santa cruz and san mateo counties is 19 contained and the lnu lightning complex in the north bay is 27 contained. Firefighters made steady progress on the lnu lightning complex. Sky 7 was over vacaville, earlier this evening. This is damage on oak canyon lane. At least 978 structures have been destroyed. More than 356,000, containment. Cal fire shifted a lot of its focus to lake countys middle town, Hidden Valley lake and lower lake. Its an area thats been hit multiple times in several years. And this report for us a short time ago. Flames shooting into the smoky air along the hillside of butts canyon road southeast of middletown. A site that is one of the main fire focuses for cal fire. I honestly expected cal fire
A little fog in oakland. Not much. Santa rosa 53. Embarcadero headed northeast with a northwest at three. 55 degrees. Not that bad. West southwest oakland, Berkeley Hills. New pekin mount diablo do north at 2143. Mount diablo with gusts almost up to 50. Not in fact real are warmer. San jose cooler. This is wind driven. A little bit of breeze. A dry air mass and it will be sunny today. Over to sal now on a monday. Anything you want to get to . Still pretty quiet out there. We dont have a lot going on. Im looking at what we see and it looks pretty good. The toll. That plaza looking good. Driving into San Francisco this week i dont. We will get a big crowd. We are getting closer to the holiday and i think some people are taking time off right now its off to a good start. Lets go back to the headlines. Topping our news, happening today the man suspected of being the Golden State Killer is expected to plead guilty to several charges. In exchange 74 yearold Joseph Dangelo would avoid the Dea
As we go in closer, weve got rain along the coast, sea ranch, cloverdale. Further to the east, clear lake, looking at some rain. Hidden valley lake and more thunderstorms out towards i5. To the south, very quiet. This could change throughout the day. Mt. Tam, look at the fog. Low to mid 60s out there. Gilroy, 57, though. Calm picture here from the roof camera with cloudy skies and a few glimpses of sunlight there. 59, santa rosa, petaluma with low 60s, concord and livermore. Were mild today due to those winds. Area of low pressure in the vicinity today to keep the winds breezy. Chance of showers with us. You can see even the thunderstorm. Activity will be in the Higher Elevations. It will be dying back throughout the afternoon. It will cool us off today, though. 60s and 70s. Well talk about a much quieter sunday and a warmer week ahead. Liz . Lisa, thank you. Well continue to follow the protests in the east and south bay over the death of george floyd. He is the man who died in Minneap
Suv rolled over coming to a rest on its wheels. Three passengers inside died in the woman was taken to the hospital, where she died a short time later. One of the passengers was actually rejected and her remains were found a short distance away. A fifth passenger had minor injuries and the driver was taken away in handcuffs. The male driver was placed under arrest. Traffic is being diverted onto cottle road and we expect this to open up again at 8 am this morning. And south ends a, kpix 5. I want to show you a map on 85. If you want to take 85, take 101 or 280 if you are coming out of this area. If youre in the south bay, you have options. There are a lot of workarounds highlighted on our maps. You can use cott or to blossom hills. That will get you towards 101 and as i mentioned, it is a good alternate to 85 and then you can take 85 from Mountain View where it connects from one toone. You will get past that area or you can use to 80 and connected towards 101 in the south bay. Tracking