With the National Guard about providing reinforcements as an already devastating wildfire season. Threatens to get even worse. The scu fire complex is the second largest fire in state history. Scorching now more than 365,000 acres containment is up to 20 . Its followed closely in size historically and currently by the lnu complex fire which has burned more than 356,000 acres in the north bay that complex is 27 contained and then theres the czu complex in the Santa Cruz Mountains thats burned. But 80,000 acres and containment has grown to 19 altogether these local fires have burned about 800,000 acres in just over a week all right, lets get a closer look at each of those major we start off with the scu lightning complex and. Contra costa Alameda Santa clara, san joaquin and stanislaus counties more than 365,000 acres have been scorched in the fires are 20 contained tonight, 5 people have been injured 3 1st responders and 2 others more than 20,000 structures are threatened. Now that lnu
In decades. Cal fire says that more than 400 structures have been. Burned to the ground 32 are looking at damage. Converse Taylor Bisacky is live for us in Scotts Valley to bring us up to date. Whats the latest taylor. The key here in Scotts Valley were seeing a lot of Emergency Personnel a lot of First Responders coming and going but some of that action starts about 11 miles west of here. I travel towards that area today and eventually landed in bonny doon and this is what youll see a shot some video from earlier and making my way over that way youll see a lot of dark plumes of smoke coming from the mountains and as i headed towards that direction. I eventually had felt an empire road where flames are still active. Theres many hot spots on both sides of the road so it makes it a little unnerving driving through that area you also would see a lot of fallen trees thankfully. I did see plenty of firefighters nearby the watching over that area now through the flames and smoke erode youll
Tumlin will talk about this, but last week we did have a press event with supervisors peskin and preston announcing that we will be delaying our fare increases. Obviously when we were voting upon that fare increase, we could not have understood the magnitude of what was before us and not to mention we didnt really have a path forward in being able to fund the operations, so i want to thank you supervisors peskin and preston for working with us to come up with solutions which i cannot tell you what they are today. But to look at how we can fill those funding gaps which primarily effect us in year two of the budget cycle, not so much in year one. That will be coming back to us in the future. And also with that we will not be having a Charter Amendment related to sfmta. Thank director tumlin for his work in working with the supervisors, and just say it was a pleasure to be there to represent the board last week at kirkland lard. And with that, i will turn it on to the next item. All right
Live news desk. Breaking news overnight, the west nile virus confirmed. The Santa Clara County district will now be spraying treatments in part of the area a later this week. The positive tests from mosquitoes in part of the zip code 95035. They are going to be spraying the area with chemicals from a truck starting late thursday night. The Vector Control district started to leave door hangers, notice if iing people of the planned treatment and giving notice on social media and county alert systems, and they said theres no need for people to relocate during the treatments, and they said its safe. The treatment has been approved by state and federal regulators, and obviously nothing that we want to be worrying about right now in the midst of the the two viruses ha similar symptoms as well. Back to you. Something else to Pay Attention to. Thank you, ann. The San Jose Council will be discussing their crowd control policy. Kiet do with more. Reporter its been a week and a half since the mas
The marine layer in the bay and temperatures are chilly in santa rosa but in San Francisco it is 45 degrees. Good morning to san jose. The wind is calm and it is not dramatic but it will bring some moisture. We have got zero visibility right now in can aleta. Be careful if youre going there. On the upside, we have some moisture in the area and during fire season, that is a very good thing especially considering we have High Pressure blocking any rain from coming in. That is going to be across the next 5 to 7 days but we have a little patchy fog and sunny skies today. We are in the low 70s and low 80s today for our temperatures. I will send it back to you. Here we are. I am looking at the morning commute and i am looking at the Richmond Bridge and you can see traffic is going to be moving a little slower and these lanes have had no major problems and the traffic is going to be okay. There is a little slow traffic. There we go. It is slow around the macarthur maze. There have been no maj