State. We have Team Coverage across the bay area. Fires are flaring and evacuations are underway as we speak. One of the most destructionive fireses is in sonoma county. 50 structures there have been damaged so far. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony live in vacaville with more on the situation. Laura . Reporter well, hi. I can tell you from what weve seen, that number will go much higher. This house behind me in the English Hills area, a very recent casualty. This home started burning right about 2 00. A beautiful twostory home on top of a hill. We can see it go up. The roof was on fire. And within less than two hours, really, this is all thats left of it. This is a harrowing night for the folks who live in this neighborhood. Were in northwest vacaville. Im told by the neighbors around 3 30 in the morning, they started to get the calls via loud speaker. The warning that there was an imminent threat to their lives. We had a go list dug up last night, fortunately. We grabbed everything an
Counties. Sc fire is in the east bay in three areas calledded the canyon zone, calaveras zone and the deer zone. If youre wonders what the action hims stand for. Its the region tasked with fighting. Csu is the santa clara. As you can imagine theres a number of evacuations in all of these numbers. The czu is 22 fires merged together. Its posing a serious threat to homes and public safety. Thousands have been evacuated. To northwestern Sonoma County, the lat os the walbridge fire, evacuation orders for 15,000 people in that area. This includes guerneville, jenner and other areas north of the russian river. It has burned 1500acres and zero percent contained and expected to be bigger. Were looking at the potential for the fire to expand in new directions as the winds rise in speed and shift direction from the southerly to easterly direction. Smoke from that fire is hacking offing central Sonoma County. Jesse gary is monitoring the evacuationed on the san mateo and santa cruz border. We get
Decided not to play their game with orlando in protest of the Police Shooting of jacob blake on sunday. Despite the overwhelming plea for change there has been no action, so our focus today cannot be on basketball. Like dominos, teams began calling off games. Three Major League Baseball games, including tonights giants dodgers contest postponed. The wnba and Major League Soccer also postponing play. I dont think it should require athletes needing to boycott playoff games to remind us black lives matter and that Police Brutality is unacceptable. This is its clear theyre committed to pressuring team owners, politicians and police to make real changes. Its amazing. Why while we keep loving this country and the country is not loving back. Tennis star naomi osaka is bowing out of her match, tweeting, before i am an athlete, i am a black woman, and as a black woman, i feel there are much more important matters at hand that need immediate attention rather than watching me play tennis. The que
With fog. We have limited visibility down to about four miles. Around the coastline a couple of low clouds as well and fog in through santa cruz,h. Down to m. As far as your microclimate highs for the afternoon a few degrees warmer in through inland areas. Daytime highs for the south bay will be in the 80s so sunny but, again, youre going to see a lot noon which zy, orange glows is why that spare the airlert will remain in place today. Heal. Righ are seeing good to moderate. Here is the forecast for the next 24 hours when it comes to that air quality. The north bay down to Santa Clara Valley a slight sea breeze so ill tell you how that might change heading into the afternoon. Well see you in about 15 minutes for your full forecast. Thanks so much. In oakland overnight its not just protests and police clashes, theres now a renewed concern about voter suppression. So did the u. S. Postal service remove mail drop boxes because of violent demonstrations or otherwise . This was the scene af
Thousands cases to go unreported. The state is still trying to go through that backlog. The governor has called a News Conference for tomorrow at noon. You can watch it live right here at nbc bay area. Our other top story, the bay area going back to school, but not like any of us remember it. Most students will begin the year learning at home. Tonight, families were out doing some lastminute back to School Shopping. The new normal theyre learn sglg a lot of families headed to this target tonight for back to School Shopping. But there is less focus on clothes and more focus on buying computers and chargers. She and her two sons are headed into target for their annual back to School Shopping pi pilgrima pilgrimage. They came out with pencils and this shirt. His mom says she definitely spent less last year. Last year i got way more notebooks, binders. Now everything is on zoom or computer. Thats not necessary. And there is not need to invest in new jeans or pants for her sons if no one is