Frias local news stations. We are essentially living in a megafire youre a massive wildfires in the bay area breaking records fires in the north and east bay is now the second and 3rd largest in state history ive lived here all my life. Never seen a fire like this in this area, firefighters hope to gain ground on the flames after a break in the weather but cal fire warning mega fires and mass evacuations. Might be the new norm, its going to be early and more often folks have been experiencing this california the last couple of years. Thank you for joining us everyone at 6 oclock im Catherine Heenan the wildfires burning across the bay area they are making history tonight. The lnu complex now the second biggest fire on record for california burning 350,000 acres and it is only 22 contained, followed very closely by the scu fire complex. Its from 347,000 acres only 10 contained and then there is the czu complex in san mateo and santa cruz fires a santa cruz counties all together those fi
That moved into the bay area from the south, the remnants of what was a tropical storm. So humidity is up, but we still have conditions that are not so great for firefighting. Let me give you a look at conditions near the czu lightning complex right now, going down to the Santa Cruz Mountains. Relative humidity is up. Thats good news. 74 . Dont mind that wind reading there. Our computers are not accurately recording the actual current steady wind right now. But the gusts are accurate. Gusts up to 17 miles an hour right now in the area of the czu lightning complex. Here in gaurnville, its 81 degrees. Relative humidity at 41 . Gusts only 4 miles per hour, so very light wind there. And near the hennessee temperature, relative humidity at 30 and the gusts at 8 miles per hour. So some improvement in the weather in the north bay. In the south bay we could use more help the wind and temperature. Ama . All right, spencer, thank you. Officials in lake county are holding a Virtual Community meet
Down. Moments ago we saw this. Widespread destruction. This is near big basin in Santa Cruz County. And this is what it looks like for many of our mountain communities. Look down below. You could see those cars and those homes charred and destroyed. So far six people have died across our region. Over the weekend that czu fire claims the live of a 70yearold man near davenport. There is good news. As of right now the red flag warning for the bay area has been lifted. That means no more dangerous fire weather is in the immediate forecast. Also Evacuation Orders are beginning to scale back in santa clara. Some neighborhoods have been downgraded from Evacuation Orders to evacuation warnings. More on that in just a minute. Now our team is on the ground, across the region, covering the flames, covering all of the widespread damage and the weather conditions. Cal fire is starting their nightly press conference, lets listen in on czu fire fire. If you could mute your telephones and keep your ma
Bring it to you live. In the meantime, we want to go to bill martin, our chief meteorologist, to talk about the weather conditions, and they are getting at least a little bit of good news here, bill. Yeah, a little bit of good news. Yeah, my camera is a little off balance. Ill tell you watt, let me fix this right now. Yeah, hat should be better. The air quality is pure right now. But the fires are still mainly terrain driven. The weather is not really driving these fires. Its really about so many fires having started, and cal fire not having enough resources to respond to almost 13,000 lightning strikes. So with over 350 fires in that first string. So were seeing good containment each day, and thats how its going to continue. And now i think weve got a live press conference. Just wanted to bring everybody up to speed, after the weather came through yesterday, and we found ourselves here getting wet last night, over the courts of the evening, across california, the cal fire confirmed th
It is my privilege to introduce jim bridenstine. Jim . Thank you, jim thank you bob, our highest priority is and has been bob and doug, and a couple of days ago we had too much electricity in the atmosphere, and the challenge there is not that we were in a lightning storm, the challenge is that a launchgood in fact trigger lightning could in fact trigger lightning and the rocket could become a lightning bolt. We had these parameters set ahead of time, both nasa and the spacex teams knew what the parameters were. There were limitations i should say. The limitations were exceeded and that put us in a position to delay the launch. Though,this is certain, we will launch american astronauts on american rockets, from american soil and we will priorityh the absolute being the safety of our astronauts. I am very proud of the nasa team, proud of the spacex team. A lot of the comments that i had in the interviews ahead of time where, are you going to feel undue pressure, because of all of the at