Skies today in san jose. The skies werent as orange there, but you can still see the thick of smoke around the city. Even at 12 30 this afternoon. Tom vacar is live in beauty county with the latest on the north complex fear that has for thuses of people to evacuate. We begin, though, with Cristina Rendon for a closer look at todays weird weather. Cristina in. Reporter well, julie, weird is right. Its still raining ash here in my backyard. The Patio Furniture is still covered in ash. It was the difference, he, this morning of that or an sky. It felt like night in the middle of the day. My wife said its yellow. Would say its more orange. Reporter wednesday felt like we woke up on a different planet, mars perhaps, or a world filled with falling ash . It looks like nighttime. Its insane. Reporter angela was a bit disoriented when her alarm went off. I woke up this morning and it was a really eerie feeling. I felt like did i mess up . Is it nighttime . Whats going on. Its disorienting. Feel
All over the real estate were behind this morning complements of that fog look at the Coverage Area even in the inland areas were seeing the fog cutting down of visibility levels so little careful in the area roads this morning. By 1 oclock or so its hovering along the coast there as you was notice is going to be slow clearing at the beaches of looks like today coming back with force it looks like. Again tomorrow morning so back to somewhat normal see a little bit. A check in area winds. Theyre fairly calm Single Digits and they pick up a little bit as you head up the Contra Costa County a little bit alright for today, were talking about turning mostly sunny 6676 by 11 of course will be the continuation of smoke and there are no major winds or rain to really mix this out a check of your more of your forecast coming up in a bit robin. Thank you dave. Major wildfires across the bay area are burning hundreds of acres cal fire says ling you lightning complex fires in the north bay is now 2
One of the biggest fires is in the north bay. It spans napa, sonoma, and solano counties. Lets get to nbc bay areas cierra johnson. This is where the Evacuation Orders have just been issued. And i know youve been with us since early this morning. How have things changed . Reporter yes. Good morning. Since the suns come up, weve really been able to get a better feel for just how dangerous this fire was. At last check it was 46,000 acres that this fire caused by lightning a couple days ago has burned through earlier this morning before the Evacuation Order was even put into place, folks were leaving because of just how bad things were. This is a cattle ranch im on. And you can see bales of hay just going up in flames. Entire homes were destroyed. 50 structures in all is the latest count that were burned. Right now families were working to get their animals out. 100 acres and they were looking to make entire houses burned to the ground. We have video from English Hills road and canalo roa
Good. 50s on the temperatures. Not much has changed until at least tomorrow. Sunday some inland temperatures will jump back into the 100 degree category. Until then, as far as the eye can see in the pacific, upand down it is fog city. Morning fog and smoke and haze. 60s to mainly 80s. Most locations are running below average for september 1. Over to sal. Usually things pick up around the 6 00 our. Are we seeing that . It has picked up. Absolutely. We see some tell by looking at these pictures. Interstate 80 looks good from the carquinez bridge to the maze. When you get to the maze, there is slow traffic at the maze at the bay bridge toll plaza. Is pretty robust although it is moving through at a normal pace. No major issues here. Traffic in the east bay is getting more crowded. Happening today. President trump flies to kenosha, wisconsin, where there have been protests and violence since the Police Shooting of jacob blake. Sara zendehnam is here with the details and not everybody in wi
About to collide with coronavirus overwhelming hospitals. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight on kron 4 news at 5 im Justine Waldman and we have lots of news to get to tonight. Well start with the wildfires that are still burning around the bay area and threatening thousands of homes. The czu lightning complex fires have now burned more than 80,000 acres in the mountains of santa cruz and san mateo counties more than 500 structures have been destroyed 51 damaged. One person has died. Containment did go up slightly overnight us now at 19 . Many structures are still threatened and there are several Evacuation Orders in place and for more right now we go to kron fours rob fladeboe he joins us now live from felton which is about 7 miles from santa cruz. He has the very latest on the firefight good evening drop. Good evening just seen thats right out here in the Santa Cruz Mountains once again firefighters are quite literally a fighting fire with fire as you say i am here in felto