Winds now begin to relax in the north bay, not as windy as yesterday that means wildfire smoke from both the august and north complexes in northern called california. Still going make its way our direction but not near as much of it is yesterday still some pockets of pretty bad air both in the east bay and in upper elevations on the peninsula and still under red flag warning for most of the east bay as well as north bay all the way through 08 00pm tonight as low humidity, warm conditions and still breezy conditions exist as far as temperatures go were in the 50s annice mild cool start to the morning really hopefully get a chance to get out there and enjoy our cooler temperatures, im going to be talking more and more of that cooler weather ahead near forecast back to you. The breaking news tmorning, n in plumas imbue counties because of this. Fire. The mayor fly fire. Its not new. But it just they asked laird of overnight. It has already burned more than 8300 acres being struck off field by very strong winds and the new video shows how strong those winds are blowing fire. This is near the city of oroville and its part of the north complex fires which sparks last month. On august 17 yeah that complex of fires has since spread to more than 40,000 acres in total Fire Fighters have the complex about 51 contained, but this morning theyre dealing with this flare up from the strong winds and again the pair fire now spreading towards the area where the camp fire burned in the town of paradise 2 years ago. So folks in that area on edge once again you may people. Early be back home in fresno in home again not there and 1000 feet up in the air surrounded by happy evacuees, a lucky to be plucked from the fire the creek fire in Fresno County having friends and family yesterday, dozens of campers in the Sierra National forest were airlifted to safety. They were stranded at a camp resort near lake edison and they were rescued on a 3rd attempt after heavy smoke delayed the mission. The creek fire has now burned more than a 160,000 acres in fresno and madera counties. The fire is 0 contained its destroyed. Hundreds of structures and still threatens thousands more more than a 1000 firefighters from several states are teaming up to try to tackle the flames. Other guys who lost his home. Is on the staff that is actually doing Damage Assessments. Imagine that. Doing a Damage Assessment. Checking yeah gone. The Damage Assessment your own home calfire confirmed 365 homes and other buildings were destroyed. We dont know the true number though until the conditions are good enough that they can get an accurate count the situation much better here in the bay area with the major fires that are burning now getting nearly fully contained the lnu complex fires now 91 contained. The fire still being held at just more than 375,000 acres, the scu complex firesthe south bays 95 contained with almost 400,000 acres burned but its still being held below that threshold the czu lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties now 82 contained with more than 86,000 acres burned and you can see he woodward fire there at the bottom 95 contained thats that fire burning up the Point Reyes National seashore 4800 acres burned in that fire and of course all these fires combined all throughout the state has caused poor air quality statewide in st satelli imagery. Its a time lapse that shows the smoke from all the fires blanketing much of the state yesterday from sunrise all the way to sundown. Nothing is at least i could keep the windows shut. And you know because it wasnt million degrees out covers reyna harvey is live in has Pleasant Hill with this dance that were doing would you rather bad hair or hot air. Norrie about a choice. Id say neither i dont want either want to be able to sleep at night and be able to breathe fresh air but just like john mentioned it is forecast weve been seeing pockets of that air across the east bay is specifically here in Pleasant Hill, its not that great today and theres actually ash floating through the air its all over my equipment is ive been out here for the past few minutes but were going to show you that air quality map right now this is from purple air dot com and you csee the orange and yellow all across the east bay here in areas of our end and wanted creek and several other cities, the air quality index here in Pleasant Hill right now is in the mid 90s which t especially for people who are exposed for 24 hours or more and if you are especialand you have respiratory issues or asthma is can be really problematic. Now we heard from or east bay are bay area air Quality Management district meteorologist, he breaks down the any talks a little bit about the bad air quality take a listen. But we have to call a spare the air alert for smog which is which is really a mixture usually its couples to come off of the tailpipe exhaust and he call ozone and weve heard ret that of smaug the other thing we have going for us this past wee of smoke thats been in the atmosphere over the past several weeks and those emissions from wildfires to impact smog. So we also have to consider that. Or i im from the forecast looks like the air quality is only expected to get worse over the next few days you also have to take into account. The pollen thats been flooding to the air. So if you allergies like i do its unforgiving the past few days so what can you do about it just suffer no. You can actually take some steps into your own hands by keeping the windows at your house and your car as youre driving closed. If youve been enjoying outdoor exercise just maybe over the next few days come up with some into a routines see to reduce years exposure to this really really bad here but for now reporting out here in Pleasantville Reyna harvey kron 4 news. Thank you ran away. James i forgot the wildcard take bad r hot air or no we are all 3 or all 3 which some families and businesses are dealing with right now, especially up in the north bay this morning with pg es planned power shut off yeah cutting off the electricity because of the high fire threat cover Sarah Stinson is live. In santa rosa. Cant win. Thats not easy living in california specifically here in the north bay because as we know weve had fires up here the smoke audi is already bad and now theres no power they have been without power since monday in them live here on mission boulevard we can see still kind of the repercussions. Theres a stop sign the flashing lights. They have a stop to make sure people stop as they wait for power to return and i can hear a generator in the past in the past in the back there for the walgreen so theyre still waiting for power to be restored here st of downtown santa rosa. 15,000 customers in santa rosa are without the r take a at the map areas are that are dealing wi need turned off power monday night to about a 172,000 customersacross 22 coun sonoma. Now because of weather conditions, the Utility Company said that this posed a high risk of igniting a wildfire now the shutdown of that pg e calls the Public Safety power shutoff prompted by dry conditions and gusts up to 50 miles per hour. So twhat was happening monday nighoclock and then though we have to turn this off so pg e crews are planning to patrol power lines repair damaged equipment and work to restore power to customers once this with conditions have gone better todays the day that they will be doing that and as we know it does take time. But we caught up with pg need to find out just how long it will take we know that restoration can only take place during the Daylight Hours for safety reasons listen the pga explain how they may be able to do it faster than they used to. Where before we would have manually maybe go switch off the line or go turn on the line manually we can do that now remotely with Digital Technology on the line so that all speeds up the process and makes these psa test events much shorter. So thats good news, good to hear that it takes less time it looks like power could be turned on any time between the Daylight Hours of this morning until 9 oclock tonight, so its going to be another long day but as john sabol said its going to be at least a little bit cooler. I think thats probably the hardest thing for people appears they had to deal with some triple digit temperatures with no at smoke i reay feel for everybody up here so well be continuing to cover this up here for you in the north bay covering napa and sonoma counties for now, im live in santa rosa Sarah Stinson kron 4 news. Doesnt that just make you think did we did did the world do something this year like that thats already things conspire thank you very much sara and the outages of power impaing students who are home because of covid 3 of th santa rosa had to cancel Remote Learning because the students and teachers could not logged in. Een a challenge families d i think that we all trying to be understanding and look through really do. Thats all you can online classes at the 3 schools in santa rosa canceled again today that affects more than 2000 students. And on the kron 4 morning ne how a pilot is helping replace more than 7 miles of piping destroyed the czu wildfires in the Santa Cruz Mountains will be into the latest update on that and another north Bay Community looking to get back on track after weeks of wildfire warnings and we are still going to be looking at hazy skies today but improving conditions as faas temperatures go so we can be excited about that at least. Only low 90s for your warmest temperatures inland with 80s for most bayside areas your forecast is ahead. Im tracking your morning commute around the bay area, its picking up out there but not too bad heading into San Francisco. Were checking out the bay bridge so youre a small business, or a big one. You were thriving, but then. Oh. Ah. Okay. Plan, pivot. How do you bounce back . You dont, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. Powered by the largest gig Speed Network in america. But is it secure . Sure its secure. And even if the power goes down, your connection doesnt. So how do i do this . You dont do this. We do this, together. Bounce forward, with comcast business. 5 14 and in Santa Cruz County repairs are underway to fully restore a Water Pipeline damaged by the czu lightning complex fires. Yeah, the only way to get the work done though is by helicopter and weve got kron fours rob fladeboe explng this was Downtown Boulder creek Tuesday Morning as a helicopter airlifted heavy duty replacement pipe to remote job site in the fire zone, a nearby been lowman mountain at the controls was veteran pilot glenn smith whos been fighting wildfires in oregon. You know i guess the filter out of water pipes burn up in the fire. So we were happy to come down. And help them out with but new pipes and we work out here where were from southern cal we were up in oregon fires up there and so then we got the call to come down here now about the heavy duty polyethylene pipe will replace 7. 2 miles of the czu lightning complex fire. Cutting off the water supply to thousands of customers of the cellar and valley water district. More worrisome though was the potential for contamination from the bird pipe leading to a do not drink order says the districts rick rogers, vast majority of our do e in a good good area. We only have a small area of about 500 connections in the higher reaches where fire impacted the water sys tmost ar bottled water is available until the all clear is given. The water is back on now for residents fearing more fire were a little unnerved when they first heard the helicopter flying so low over town, i thought maybe it was of another spot fire or fire all the neighbors are up there going what the hecks going on. I saw the cable on the copter another state game. Must be a bucket on the other and theyre gathering water. The vietnam era huey helicopter made 11 round trips in 52 minutes, pilots smith who has been doing this for 40 more tricky than dumping water on a wildfire giving credit to his ground crew. Easy they had everything done ahead of time even as well prepped the citizens helped us out they evacuate their houses they those close streets off and they have acted all area f otherwise it would a lot more difficult than it was in Boulder Creek rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Lets head to the north bay now where the inverness and silver hills communities county evacuation warnings because of the woodward fire. The flames are isolated right now to Rural Regions along the coast, but the smoke of course is hanging over the entire area for 3 weeks now sideof evacuati while the fire burns along the Point Reyes National seashore. Theyve got a good team in a remote area. The afternoon was smoking a deal with her several weeks maybe even a. Well at this point firefighters are focusing on mopping and suppressing hot spots. Time now is like 17 and i love well just starting and then the thats are still the beginning of the fire season and johns worse its ever been in the smoke is there when are we going to get any least relief from the smoke are the winds going to change at any point was swear by them look i know i know its smoke and its 5 guys. Yeah, the good news is that even though we are still going to have some hazy skies. The next few days. Winds arent going to be a significant and those winds yesterday were just pulling smoke from both the august north complex is right down into the bay which is why it was so yellow and so smoky across the bay area yesterday. As winds relax youre going to see less of that impact but unfortunately with High Pressure still in place theres still going to be at least a hazy impact the upcoming weekend and were already at 25 Straight Days with this peril air er which isly a record across the bay weve never seen a span continuously that long with air quality issues so i know at not eaf us with those breathing conditions. Now the good news in this forecast is at least it is getting cooler, you can see the smoke and also the fog ttled into the east bay. We are seeing the worst of air quality for inland east bay areas as well as our upper elevations on the peninsula pockets of better air from san jose through petaluma and santa rosa this morning. You dont have to drive far though to start to see air quality deteriorate and this hange a lo we continue to see breezy conditions. This High Pressure ridge right here is keeping things just stagnant enough that air quality and pour smoke conditions, the sinking right into the bay. And this low pressure area tories does the reason we have that strong wind from the north yesterday that not only blew smoke into the region, but also has continued to result in high fire danger, especially for the north bay. The good news is winds wont be as windy today but still enough for red flag warnings to remain through the evening tonight for upper elevations in the east bay. All of Solano County and then or upper elevations in marine sonoma and napa counties of the north bay. Todays daytime highs a lot cooler than they have been this is the bright spot if youre hazy forecast, 60s and 70s for san frscor other coastal spots while 80s for most most of our bayside communities burlingame 82 today, foster city, 81 Mountain View at 85, south bay temperatures down into the upper 80s, mostly just think days ago you were in the triple digits. So that is a nice change 80s to 90s as well for the east bay, no le di reach in the triple digits yesterday today only at 95 vacaville at 90 well delay, whoa falling from the 90s yesterday only 79 today. Santa rosa at 86 for your daytime high today. So tomorrow going to be even cooler yet and well continue to cool down on into the rest of the week and into next week too. Thats the plus side of this forecast we will likely still still see some moderate to even hazy spots of air quality through the week into the weekend ahead of us so keep an eye out for that, but overall we are me hasnt been the nicest forecast lately. Robin. All right. Thank you john we are checking in on the commute which is not so bad a couple of trouble spots out there. But well start off with a bridge track were taking a look at 80 into San Francisco, the bay bridge toll plaza traffic picking up a lite bit but still no major delays so right now its an average of 8 minutes coming in and heading over to the fremont street exit, heres 92 and its our busiest bridge. We have a crowd leaving hayward that is no surprise but only 12 minutes from the minutes off to one oh one. And im just getting word of a tree on fire down in the south bay this is impacting traffic southbound 2. 88 mcloughlin and san jose theyve closed the offramp because of that fire there so traffic is backing up just a little bit. No major delays through the scene so just hop off before or after we loughlin avenue and slow traffic on the nimitz thanks to earlier roadworkits heavy southbound living downtown from 9. 82. Fruitvale if you want to get around it just take 5. 80 instead darya back to you thanks a lot robin is 5. 21 and today we remember the victims of the pipeline explosion that rocked a san bruno neighborhood. 10 years ago. Heres video of the fires after the explosions that ripped through the crest more neighborhood killing 8 people a 30 inch natural gas pipeline, owned by pg and e exploded not only were 8 people killed, but dozens were injured and you can see the neighborhood was destroyed. Pg e has since been convicted of multiple felonies and forced to pay millions of dollars the companies in the midst of a 5 year probation that last until 2022. 5. 22 is a time coming up after the break targeting the most vulnerable will tell you how some scammers are looking to take adv