Well forcing on top of breaking news at this hour more than 20 fires burning out of control in whats now known as the santa clara unit lightning complex. The flames spreading across 5 different counties from santa clara to alameda. The contra costa, san joaquin and Stanislaus County kron fours dan kerman is live tonight in pleasanton with the very latest on the firefight there dan. Where the cal fire command post in this is where they are staging as they fight the fires throughout this region as you mentioned it is covering many different counties, 25,000 acres charred so far that was as of this morning we still dont have an updated number at this point they were 0 contained again waiting for an updated number there, but they are going to be here for quite some time battling this blaze. Plumes of smoke off in the distance doesnt really tell the story of the santa clara units lightning complex fire. In fact, its at least 20 separate fires divided into 3 zones fire started on sunday prob
landing tonight acaliforniaa is under a state of emergency as wildfires continue to scorch thousands of acres across the state. Many of the firessparked by lightning from severe storms sunday morning. The fires are being fuled by winds record last 30 minutes Evacuation Orders were santa cruz county. Thats in addition to the orders already in place in sonoma san mateo napa alameda and contra costa counties we have a full list of Evacuation Centers is all on our website kron 4 dot com grown for has Live Team Coverage for you this tuesday night, michelle kingston is in Contra Costa County as crews try to get a handle on the deers on fire tale of the sec use in napa county has the hennessy fire continues to grow. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is tracking the threat of smoke moving into the bay area and also the money in his keeping is monitoring the threat of rolling blackouts across our area. Here is a map breaking down the major fires throughout the bay area tonight, the s see you
Temperatures are coming down a little bit but of course youre adding smoke into today. And thats just going make conditions all the worse you can see outside here. This is a picture from up in guerneville sent in from a viewer up there. Greg potter that smoke just being put into the sky around sunset last night you can see those smoke plumes across the bay area and the impact from them very evident. This morning, poor air quality for most parts of the bay are best towards the coastline but even then youre still looking at sinking air and making for some poor air quality there as well so this is not your ideal situation for spending much time outside this wednesday use it as an excuse to stay indoors, stay cool, especially if you have respiratory conditions you dont want to be doing too much. We have fire burning in eastern Contra Costa County still putting up smoke in that region also some fairly breezy conditions through the delta around oakley in brentwood this morning, north bay, mu
Up, Rosalynn Carter. She served as first lady from 1977 to 1981 and shes the author of five books and in 1984, or bestselling memoir first lady from planes was released. Mrs. Carters subsequent book have focused on caregiving Mental Health care. A subject she has championed throughout her life. Now from 2010 years Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach, ending the Mental Health crisis. Thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be here tonight and really neat to see so many peopleinterested in my book. Ive been on a book tour this week area i started on monday and i got the same two questions every time so i thought i would tell you what they were. The first one is how did you get involved in Mental Health . The second one is why did you write the book . So im going to tell you why i got involved in Mental Health. I was campaigningfor jimmy carter. You cant hear me . Im telling you how i got involved with Mental Health issues. I was campaigning for jimmy and
The First School Board meeting wednesday, the same day the district reached a tentative agreement with the Teachers Union the 2 sides have been working for more than a month to reach a deal regarding distancelearning neither are available for an on camera interview but released this joint statement from the superintendent and Oakland Education Association president saying quote. While we do not always agree on the details boat ustr passionate about serving oakland students and families we have worked diligently to reach an agreement dish a Distance Learning for all students members on tuesday Union Officials told kron 4 money is not the issue teachers are concerned about time from packing a full semester down 2 weeks another issue was being able to use retired teachers and substitute stucco teach. The union is requesting no mandated schedules begin before 09 00am or after 02 15pm that allows time for those who are caregivers to parents sequence or children as of wednesday, the district