Nearly 340,000 acres. And is 10 contained 5 structures have been destroyed 20,000 others are threatened to First Responders and 2 civilians have been injured. Kron fours dan thorn live for us in Santa Clara County tonight where the su lightning complex continues to spread. In the area around Mount Hamilton, so dan what have you learned tonight. And in this fire is primarily burning right now in the deep rural areas near Mount Hamilton as you head up the lick observatory. Still very smoky and very dangerous for people that are in those areas and thats fire crews out here been asking people to evacuate and not be allowed to head back into these areas if you look at some of the video that we have from earlier today this is a grant ranch park where you can see charred hillsides there. Along with that you can see some flame retardant that was dropped off to prevent this fire from spreading over the last couple of days, nearby homes have been threatened as you can see a lot of dry brush out
More americans are going to die of coronavirus by september and 12 states including california have seen hospitalizations from covid19 go up since memorial day. Plus theres been at least a 10 increase in week to week cases reported in 19 states, one of the south is largest parks set to reopen in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic. So social distancing mask is going to be a key thing you have to remember if youre going to going out to Alum Rock Park that kron fours will tran is standing by live for us. With the latest on this and what you need to know will. Just open up the gates and look at that you got a first few people just aching to come through. This has been shut down for the past couple of months. But now its up and lets talk to some people man youve been waiting for a while now your thoughts on this park finally reopened just excited, its just that. Its opening a star at the relief over that. I said really said what did you do in the meantime when it was unavailable running
Emergency funding to prepare and Speed Development of a vaccine, though capitol hill critics say its not nearly enough. Too late, anemic. Hopefully, we can make up for the loss of time. Reporter the senates top democrat calling for 8. 5 billion. They shouldnt be saying this is terrible, President Trump isnt asking for enough money, how stupid a thing to say. Reporter President Trump jabbing at democrats while calling for unity to protect the country from a potentially dangerous outbreak. And the president went on to say that if Congress Wants to give the administration more money to fight the virus they will take it, saying they will spend whatever is necessary to contain the coronavirus. Raj, back to you. A lot happening in that news conference, the president along with the Health Officials urging schools across the nation to have a plan. Nbc bay areas robert handa joins us in san jose with how dozens of School Districts are preparing. Robert . Reporter well, yes, every day it becomes
Youre actually looking at calm conditions so winds are definitely spotty as of this point some areas are nice and calm like concord while map and fairfield just to the north are looking at some breezier conditions now with winds pushing offshore today and still plenty of dry tinder out there dry grasses and dry brush. High fire danger exists today. We saw a red flag warnings taking effect earlier this morning at 04 00am and they will lead us on to the rest of the day eventually into tomorrow morning, the highest a fire danger exists for the north bay where as james will tell you in just a moment we are seeing the greatest potential of Power Outages. But there are also red flag warning still in effect our upper elevations in the east bay such as right above oaklands down into the blows and then up above walnut creek in concord as well your current temperatures, those are in the 40s and 50s a touch cooler than yesterday was that this time the at 48 right now berkeley in concord at 5747 d
Cyber attack, the ran some aware attack crippled parts or all of the Asian Art Museum foundations computers. As you said, that system is now up and running. The city of San Francisco, city hall told us today that they do have protocols in place so if there is a cyber aware attack, well, they can actually isolate it and respond quickly to it. The ran some aware attack in may raised alarms here at city hall. It has rielle straighted the conversation at city hall as to whether were prepared, whether we have the right pro foe toe calls in place. Aaron peskin believes the city is staying ahead of the hackers. We are prepared for cyber attacks. We are prepared for ransom aware attacks. City administrator naomi kelly told us the city has developed a comprehensive Cyber Security program. We are assessing our systems. Were doing routine monitoring, risk assessments. Were updating software on a regular basis. Reporter it was the citys i. T. Security experts that helped restore the museums paraly