A speech ro speech roateep ro. So its a tough fight in there. A fight evolving situation. As far as the evacuees are concerned, theyre getting out of here. Theyre going to the Cross Walk Community church in napa. They are getting information there. So this fire continues to burn, sparked by lightning. Were hoping we dont get wind, and cal fire, as of now, is still saying zero containment. Were hoping that changes sometime soon. From napa county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. Wayne, let me ask you about the evacuees for a minute. Better safe than sorry. Anyone decided not to evacuate . Reporter dan, im sorry for the threesecond delay, but that has to do with where were at in our signal. Yes, there are people in there who have stayed. Most of them have left. If you go through the area and look at the gates, there are these tags, they say evacuate. We saw chp going in there, knocking on doors, making sure people were gone. I saw two people who stayed behind. The owner of the house, trying to
Lnu complex in the north bay is up 5 from yesterday to 27 understand. The scu nightling complex in the east and south base is 15 . And the czu complex is up to 17 containment. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Although the progress is encouraging the widespread wildfires are still taking a very dramatic toll. Many people evacuated from the czu fires are trying to determine if their homes are still standing. The good news is that cal fire late today lifted evacuation warnings for santa clara county. Abc news is live just south of the fires in davenport. Reporter we spoke with so many families today who dont know if their homes are still there, if their family heirlooms are there or if they will have a commune to come home to. Those stories are a reality for many families forced from their homes. We spoke the many of them east of where we are right now where many of the hot spots are still burning. Want to point out. Notice the haze stretching into the santa cruz mountains. It is s
Computerized system. The overall view is increasing relative humidity and very strong gusts, 9 to 11 miles per hour. Then moving down to the Santa Cruz Mountains, we have wind gusting to about 13 miles per hour. Relative humidity there is 74 . Again, thats encouraging and the temperatures only 68 degrees. Weather is improving for fire containment, but once again, the air quality is very poor across most of the bay area. We have a spare the air alert in effect for the next three days through friday. Dan and ama. Spencer, thanks very much. Well get to that News Conference as soon as it happens. Well bring it to you. Right now, we want to tell you about the scu lightning complex, the second largest wildfire in the state. Its scorched 363,000 acres, destroyed 20 structures and is threatening another 20,000. This is truly a massive fire burning in the east and south bay. Even beyond. Parts of alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties are all affected. Cal fire put this effort into pers
Ration their electricity, too. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Im dan arbery. Im ama daetz. Lets get right to meteorologist sandhya patel. Yeah, dan and ama, this dangerous heat wave will last for days and lets check out the temperatures already in the triple digits and 103 in fairfield, and 101 brentwood and liver more. 94 in santa rosa and 94 in san jose. We have a number of warnings and its covering most of the bay area and this is an excessive heat warning and 11 00 p. M. Tomorrow until 9 00 p. M. Wednesday and the east bay and the Santa Clara Valley and parts of the north bay will be under an increased risk of heat illnesses and upper 50s upper 90s to the mid100s, excuse me. We also have the lake and mendocino counties up to 103 degrees and it is going for the bay shoreline and the north bay 11 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. Tomorrow. This is something that could be very taxing on your body. Add to the mix, we have leftovers from once hurricane a elida. Thank you, sandhya and when
They were so short on staffing, that no one could go into his room in order to give him the phone. So we would call, the phone would ring and ring. We would call the nurses station, it would ring for 20, 25 minutes until we would give up. Reporter according to an analysis of payroll data, gateway care and rehab senter is one of 25 nursing facilities that failed to meet staffing standards more than 500 times at the end of last year, the most in the bay area. To put that in perspective, 21 of those facilities have registered nurses that failed to report any hours. Its unclear if they didnt show up for work or other reasons. People that came to work they had between 25, 30 patients that they were attending to. Reporter abc 7 reached out to the facility but has yet to hear back. The iteam obtained Text Messages from the owners in april. One said we needily need silenced staff. But gateways Staffing Shortage was a problem well before april. The facility failed to meet the states minimum sta