Today, on the air until noon to to over 137,000 acres. Share important wildfire information you need. And it involves roughly 20 fires right now, we want to get you up all the way from down here in to speed on just how much these fires have grown. Santa clara county to the one of the biggest fires in our area right now is the lnu central valley, sunol, and brentwood. Some of those smaller fires are close to having containment, but complex fire in the north bay the big ones, theyre not. And spans and thats why, so far, if you look at the number overall, its only 5 contained. 131,000 acres. Unknown when well get full one pg e worker was killed while containment. Reporting live in san jose, bob redell, nbc bay area news. Trying to help First Responders and 105 structures now bob, thank you very much. One of the main ingredients in destroyed. Welcome back to our expanded all of this is the heat. Meanwhile, the scu lightning lets turn to kari for an update complex fire has grown to midday n
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
Most all sparked by recent lightning. The governor is expected to given up date. We will bring it that News Conference live once it gets underway. We do have team coverage. We are monitoring those evacuations in san mateo and santa cruz. We will have the latest information on the lightning complex fire that has destroyed several homes already near vacaville. Sarah, good afternoon. Reporter cal fire actually just wrapped up a News Conference 30 minutes ago and gave us an up date about the lmu complex. There are several different fires burning across the state. Hellfire has requested 375 fire engines to help with all of the fires burning in california. The lmu lightning complex has limited resources at this point. It is a blades made up of seven different fires. It has burned 72 square miles and five counties including napa, lake, sonoma, solano, and yolo county. 60 fires were started by Lightning Strikes. This led us to this point. 50 structures have been destroyed. 50 have been damaged
Is 22 contained. Thats a very large size. Sadly at least five people have died in that fire. More than 5,000 homes have been cal fire has six Incident Management Teams that are destroyed. The scu lightning complex fire staffed on a rotational basis is one of the largest gro 347,0 yearround. All six cal fire Incident Management Teams have been and is 10 contained deployed statewide. It spans seven counties in addition to that our federal partners also have incident including contra costa county, ala media, santa clara, san management teams that have been deployed throughout california. So everyone is working actively joaquin and stanislaus. To put these fires out as and we want to get you caught up on the czu august lightning quickly as we can. Complex fire thats burning in i want to remind everyone its the san mateo, Santa Cruz County border area. August. Fire season lasts many months. And it has scorched 78,000 acres and typically weve had fires in and is 13 contained. October. We hav
Plus, a manhunt for a marine accused of murder. Officials warn he could be armed and dangerous. Where they think he could be where they think he could be hiding. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Investigators in Southern California are trying to determine a motive in a School Shooting that killed two students. Last Night Community members with students in Santa Clarita held a vigil. Three other students were wounded in yesterdays shootig. The suspected gunman, also a student, is hospitalized in grave condition after shooting himself. Marc liverman is here in new york. Marc, what more do we know about the accused gunman in this case . Reporter well, police say the suspected shooter pulled a gun from his backpack and just started shooting at innocent victims. Whats still unclear, though, is why. Weve got an active shooter at Saugus High School. We need all units to respond. Morning. Ter the chart we ju