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The morning very welcome calm winds in these areas. Welcome relief from poor air quality late yesterday you notice skies really clearing out you could think that deep in marine layer for that the help to push in clean things up a bit. This isnt necessarily going to stay this way through the day so do enjoy are Clear Conditions this morning, a haze is expected again this afternoon, especially for inland areas. 60s 70s, 80s and just a few 90s in the forecast today. One of our warm spots at 91 degrees lot cooler than you have been well conquered in livermore settling down into the upper 80s for areas like san jose its mid 80s 70s for oakland state time high. Back to you james all right, thank you very much john. We are seeing a significant jump in containment numbers with regard to the wildfires burning across the bay area in fact fire crews have been battling the flames for over a week now. And they have made progress cal fire say ....
That what we saw over the first couple of hours, the first couple of days look at this that fog is a wonderful they will take it every time because it cools things down it brings moisture to the area rises the humidity. A raises the humidity and that is helping firefighters take to the air that they plan to drop another 256,000 gallons of water down to the fire. Still 19 containment so that did not go up. As far as the acreage its 80,138 acres and that is only about a 1000 more than it was yesterday at this time. And the reason why its not exploding because theyre doing controlled burns and that is taking the field away from the fire which of course is still churning through santa cruz and san mateo counties but it is not fatal no new fatalities to report in terms of the fire. I can tell you with these great conditions. They have so far down to one 0. 6 million gallons of water down to the flames. Heres cal fire talking about their success. Past couple days weve been able to make a sig ....
Not a case was report and they trusted 67 of the clients and none came back positive. On august 6th ut doctor and saying he wasnt on board with even the states cutting people outdoor policy because he had seen quote no evidence end quote, that salons were spreading this as fast as other businesses were in allowed to remain or reopen and to have them lumped in with bars and restaurants is always seemed just misguided. One salon and perhaps this person will be on the phone but one salon in San Francisco, who also owns a shop in austin, texas that has been open, reports over, this is maybe two weeks ago, a week ago, about 3100 clients in zero reported cases. I know my time suppose. Fair enough. Thank you. Great. Commissioners, i believe that is all. Let me go. Theres another hand but i believe give me one second to try. I believe thats all. Press the button to raise your hand. I do not see any. I will raise two questions. On your last ....
Kron fours will tran is there live at the Cal Fire Base Camp in scott valley with more well. Actually we just got an update from cal fire unfortunately you talked about the structures and the damage we do know now its now 538 structures and that involves either barns or homes that have been destroyed so that number has gone up, but they say theyre not surprised by that especially with having investigators going into burned areas and now going through the neighborhoods and county feast your eyes on this james and area that is not smoke thats fog and theyre so happy to see fog because it brings moisture to the area it cools things down. And it allows firefighters to get a bit of a break once the fog lifts it will be sunny again and they expect to have the aircraft back up in the air in the aircraft has been wonderful for the firefighting efforts in fact theyve increased the gallons every day as far as gallons dropped to the fire ....
The meeting comes to order, the august 19th, rescheduled budget and appropriations meeting. Im sandra lee fewer and joined by the Committee Members, supervisors walton and mandelman and ronen and norman yee. Our clerk is miss linda wong. I thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. And also, supervisor walton will be joining us a little later. Can we have a motion to excuse him for the first beginning part of the meeting. So moved. Chair fewer thank you very much, can i have a second, please. Second. Chair fewer could i have a roll call vote please. Clerk yes, on the motion. [roll call] there are four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements. Clerk due to the covid19 health emergency, the City Employees and the board of supervisors legislative and the committee room, and the members will be participating in a meeting remotely. Thi ....