Weve had great coordination, great relationship. I know we come from different sides of the plan it. Reporter the Governors Team thanked the president for federal support, and acknowledged the need for better Vegetation Management and made their case for Climate Changes role. The science is in, and the evidence is several everyone dent that Climate Change is real and that is exacerbating this. If we think its awful about Vegetation Management, were not going to seed together protecting company california. Okay. It will start getting cooler. You just watch. I wish science agreed with you. Well, i dont think science knows, actually. Reporter democrats criticized the president s downplaying of Climate Change, and today joe biden spoke on the issue. Donald trumps climate denial may not have caused these fires and record floods and record hurricanes, but if he gets a second term, these heldish events will continue to become more common. Reporter the president honored 7 members the National Guard who rescued hundreds of campers trapped by the creek fire. Now tomorrow the California Wildfires will be in the National Political spotlight again. California senator and democratic v. P. Nominee Kamala Harris will be in fresno meeting with firefighters. Greg lee, ktvu fox 2 news. Ship now coming from across the opportunity, to fight the fires burning in casualty, oregon, and california. Those fires have burned nearly 3 million acres combined. The creek fire in the Sierra National forest has burned more than 2123,000 acres. The number of dead from the western wildfires has grown to at least 35, and several people are still unaccounted for. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes. In oregon, an estimated 500,000 people have been ordered to evacuate statewide. We now find ourselves one week into this fire event, and without question our state has been pushed to its limits. Its really hard for all of us to wrap our heads around the devastation that these fires have caused, and the pain and the suffering that so many oregonians have endured over the past few days. This timelapse footage shows a Product Launch of smoke rolling across the lake in a central part of california. It shows the rapid spread of one of the fires and a satellite photo from the National WeatherService Shows smoke stretching as far east as michigan. There are currently 17,000 firefighters battling more than two dozen wildfires here in california. Most of them in forest land. At least 82 people have now died from the california fires, and nearly 5,000 structures have been destroyed. Tom vacar joins us live with a closer look at what is happening. Tom . Well, this year, the fires in california have already engulfed 3. 3 million acres. Thats the size of 8 of the 9 bay area counties minorious sonoma, but the fires keep growing and growing and growing. Theres been a longstanding job in the Sierra Nevada that severely weakened tens of millions of trees. That stresses them by taxing and ultimately stopping their ability to take on nourishment, damages their immune systems, and their ability to defend themselves from heat, disease, pin and secretary infestation. The 2012, 2015 drought drouth, killed hundreds of millions of treats. Now those trees are starting to fall. Reporter with temperatures inching ever higher, the bark beetle population into consideration the trees, devastating the forests. All of that adds readily burnable future to future fires. Climate change is compounding the issue. Reporter the u. S. Forest service puts the drought and bark beetle tree death toll at 163 million and increasing. Sudden oak death of fungus has already killed off as many as another 10 Million Trees and continues to thrive. Here in the bay area, we have sudden oak death that is increasing in the bay area. Thats having an impact. Reporter and then throw in the human factors. Careless people starting fires, arsonists, and poor forest and Vegetation Management, which has doubled and tripled the number of trees in california over the last century, now dying at a faster rate. Now we see those trees coming down on the ground. In california, the federal government owns about 48 million acres, just under half of the states total acres. Nonetheless, President Trump has scolded california to rake the forest, to reduce wildfire. Threaten dead state of california, 40 million americans that happen to live here in the state of california to defund our efforts on wildfire suppression, because he said we havent raked enough leaves. You cant make that up. Reporter today newsom doubled down on that. One thing is fundamental, 57 of the land in this state is federal forest land. 3 is california. Reporter what the president does not know or fails to acknowledge is that much of the land that has burn ford years and ask burning right now is, in fact, federal land under federal control, consist lint year over year, the amount of federal lands burned is just about half of all of the total acres burned in the state. Rake the leaves indeed. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. Tom, thank you. Now to a live look outside and the poor air quality all over the bay area. This with a look from our camera pointed toward mount diablo. The bay area air Quality Management district has extended these spare the air alerts through wednesday, making it 30 Straight Days of spare the air alerts. And this is a look now from our roof camera, look at the oakland estuary. You can see right there normally you can see San Francisco in the distance, but you cant right now. Bill martin is here now with a look at when we could see the smoke start to clear out. Bill . It should get a lot better by tomorrow. The winds are going to shift around significantly. Today was a little bit better. You might have noticed it. But we do have significant wind shifts coming up as we head into tomorrow afternoon, and by wednesday, i think were in the clear. This is a significant weather system coming off the coast. Its not going to bring rain us to. It will be rain up in oregon and seattle. But it will flush out the atmosphere at all levels with a big southwest wind. Just a peek at the air quality around the area and the state. Its just bad. No way around it. And it will be a little better tomorrow than today, but still it will be in the unhealthy range for many. And a real quick note on Climate Change and forest management, let me tell you a little something, this has become a political football. Its about forest management, about Climate Change, and its about where people build their homes. People in the old days, you look where the Indian Village were, and you look where the missions were, they didnt build them on ridge lines where they could burn. California has built themselves into this urban rural phase that has made it difficult to manage hours. They history of the state of california is fires. We started putting them out about 100 years ago, so the forests do need to be cleaned up, but Climate Change is also cautioning it. Its all of it together. Ive been around a long time, and hate to see these things get muddled. Yeah, the for es need to burn. Thats what they do, and people need to think about where they build. And its just important to do that. Otherwise were going to and the Climate Change is real, dont kid yourself. Okay. Sorry about that little soapbox. When we come back, well getting you the fiveday forecast. Thank you, bill. Well see you in a little bit. Well, there have been 28 Straight Days of poor air quality here in the bay area. Maureen naylor joins us now with a look at how people are coping and what e saying. Maureen . Well, julie, a lot of people are feeling cooped up, especially those with young children. Thursday is when air Officials Say the air quality could finally improve, but even if that happens, the better air is not expected to last long. For 28 straight day this, bay area has been blanketed by unhealthy air. I dont go outside anymore, because i cant even breathe. Reporter this is what it looked like monday afternoon. Im a cancer surviver, so im affected by it quite a bit. I stay snide most of the time. Reporter smoke from wild willets around california and oregon continues to affect bay area air quality. This is the amount of ash that accumulated on a car in santa rosa monday. San Jose State University closed its campus monday because of the poor air quality. And in San Francisco, the u. S. Citizenship and Immigration ServicesAsylum Office also closed for the same reason. So this is really an unprecedented stretch of bad air quality. Reporter the bay area air quality district monday extended the spare the air alert through wednesday, which will mark 13 Straight Days of unhealthy air. But a new sign of hope. Relief could come with a chance of better air this thursday and friday. We think theres a bit of a weather system coming in over the on or aboutton bring a kind of flow from the west that might clear things out. The x factor is the fact that theres so much smoke over the ocean that we may just be trading smoke for smoke. Reporter at an ace Hardware Store, they have seen runs on n95 masks, air filters, and air purifiers, which start at about 90, saying these go out as soon as they come in. Tuesday we sold at least a dozen, and could have sold more, but we ran out of stock. Reporter air purifiers are in such high demand, theyre having to order more from the midwest and east coast. Weve never sold this many before. And that Hardware Store owners is that all the dirty air can really clog up your a. C. System. We just happened to change our air filter today. And this is a clean air filter, and this is the disgusting thing we pulled out today. And this dirty one was only in our house a few months ago, so you can see what that Hardware Store owner is suggesting people change their air filters now. Okay. You just made me want to run and change all of my air filters. That is an incredible example of just how dirty the air is. Maureen, thanks for that. I hope no one is eating. I apologize. Thanks, julie. No, food example, though, need to clean those filters. [ laughter ] yeah, thank you maureen. Its not exactly school, but its close. The big steps that San Francisco took today that brings the city closer to some sense of normalcy. Also tonight, the gulf coast is bracing for yet another hurricane as salons gains strength. When and where its expect odd make landfall. Plus a story behind this kitten separated from its family during the wildfires near carmel. Police are investigating another homicide in vallejo overnight. As henry lee explains, vallejo Officials Say they need the communities help. Ant 30yearold father of four gunned down need is the market of this valero gas station as police carried on a grim task loved ones gathered if the parking lot. This was a really good person, and loving, and hes going to be missed. It hurts a lot. Reporter it happened sunday night at the gas station in sacramento in valley vista. He was at the atm person when a guy came up and i guess shot him. Reporter he died at the scene. He was a loving father. Always toting. His kids just talk about daddy, like my daddy daddy. Reporter no arrests have been made. A motive unknown. Supply dont know who would have done this or why that i would thai would have done it. Reporter the shooting brings the homicide total in vancouver to 28 this year. Very unfortunate, because i grew up here, and i dont remember it being like this. Reporter this year as in the past, the majority of the victims were black. So it is disproportionately impacting that community, our community. Reporter chief Shawny Williams talked about a new program. People are calling for high visibility, for justice, for the fallen, and we need to provide that as best as we can, and thats what operation peace is about. Reporter the mayor, a retired vallejo officer, had this to say to those causing the violence. You will be brought to justice. Our residents will not tolerate any of you and what you have turned vallejo into. Vallejo police are asking anyone with any information in any of these homicides to give them a call. Henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. Police in hayward are investigating a homicide. It happened around 10 00 last night in the area of santa clara and jackson streets. Police responded to reports of a Traffic Accident and found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No arrests have been made. And no suspect information has been released. Crews are very close to getting full containment on the three major wildfires in the bay area raging for nearly a month. The cbs lightning completion fire burning in the diablo range is now 98 contained with full containment possible by thursday. Containment for the lnu complex fire stands at 97 , and the czu lightning complex fire is 89 under control. To help victims of the czu fire, Santa Cruz County has partnered with fema. It is available both today and tomorrow from 9 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. People applying for disaster aid should be prepared with their Social Security number, as well as insurance and other critical information about Property Damage and losses. Almost 1500 homes and other structures have been destroyed. A kitten that was badly burned in the carmel has just been reunited with his family. Spca rescuers found the kitten on august 25th while checking for animals in the fires evacuation area. The family vape escaped, but the cats were found in their van. All four of the kittens paws were burned. His name is bubs. He stayed with a foster family while an spca vet treated him. Now he is on the mend and back with his owners. Weve been asking veer tuesday help us thank firefighters and First Responders, and were getting a lot of signs of support. This shows 6 and 7yearolds ben and kelly bringing a big sandwich to the firefighters for their lunchtime. You can take a photo of your own sign and then june lloyd it to help us honor First Responders all month long. You can do it by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to ktvu. Com signsofsupport. So were waiting for that air mass shift. And thats going to happen. Its going to start tomorrow. When i say an air mass shift. We just had the smoky air mass over the west coast. That chunk of air is going to be ooh replaced slowly starting tomorrow, and by wednesday should be gone. Now, thats the plan. I know its been dragging on. We have a nice bit of wind at sfo right how, 22 Miles Per Hour at the surface. Okay. So thats tomorrow morning. You see that thats got a general southwesterly trajectory. See that, which way those arrows are going . And then it gets robust on wednesday. That should clear us out. When you look at the model that shows the smoke dispersion, theres no way that is not going to do a massive cleanout. If that wind transpires, and theres no reason to believe it wont. Book this is our south wind producer, that weather system. Its a nicelooking system, too. So the pressure Grade Centers will be such that the winds are going to do a straight on boom like that. And then well see a shift from all of our smoky air to get into this clean april zone. Theyre going to trade spots. Thats the plan. Starts tomorrow. And i think today was a little better, looking at the numbers certainly, and i think wednesday will be significantly better, and i cant tell you how many emails and texts and whatever communications ive had, and its just tough. This is a hard thing on a lot of people, and we havent really i mean, we talk about it, but theres elderly, people who are compromised in their breathing and their respiratory systems, and its scary. I did something yesterday for an hour, and you just can feel, kind of scares you. You think what if i getting some in my lung, get an infection, and this covid thing. Its so important that people feel good about kind of staying indoors and taking it slow, because wednesday is going to come pretty quick, and youre because on your pony doing what you like to do. I think half the day today i spent answering emails, julie, because people were upset. Its upsetting when you cant go outside and breathe the air. It is hard. You have to limit your activities, and all of the Business Owners trying to get people to come and do their outdoor dining. Its just hard on so many different levels. For pets and animals, as well. All right. Coming up, thieves steal a rare car and trailer. Why this case goes beyond your average auto theft. A report tomorrow outlining the steps the walnut Hill Police Department police will take when dealing with someone with Mental Health issues. Plans call for around the clock social Service Crisis response line with contra costa countys Behavioral Health division. Walnut creek policy have also acquired in addition nonlethal options for dealing with people dealing