Im lauren martinez, abc 7 news. And pacifica is also trying to deter people from gathering at the beach by closing beach parking lots there. But visitors unfortunately were not deterred. They parked in the residential areas near the pier and near rockaway beach. A and. A new state of emergency has been issueded in five counties across california because of raging wildfires. The creek fire outside of fresno has now exploded to more than 73,000 acres. And this morning there is still no containment. Here is faith a would you bay. Reporter a new state of emergency in Southern California after a wildfire exploded. Ou ba. Reporter agetherfornteldre. And a terrifying glimpse revealing smoke so thick it blocked the midday sun, ash so thick it now blankets the area like snow. The creek fire consuming entire neighborhoods, the streets unrec 23450 noisable. Over the weekend, hundreds of people surrounded by flames while trying to escape a popular campsite. Coronered unsure if they would survive.
Before. We want to protect the winery and the house and the things that cant be replaced. Though they were ordered to leave by the sheriff the family plans to stick with the property. Jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. We want to show you how quickly fires can grow in heat with just a little bit of wind. You can see it starts and then it really explodes over the next three hours. There are two other significant fires, one in contra costa county. So far it burned more than 1,100 acres and is 0 contained and evacuation orders are in effect. A brush fire in sonoma burned about 1,700 acres there. Ten homes are under mandatory evacuation orders. I want to show you this that was caught on camera in downtown sonoma. The storms cut the temperatures a bit cooler. Places still in the triple digits and if you notice haze in the area, you are not a lone. A lot of smoke in the sky and the air quality is poor right now. Yeah. Unfortunately it is the perfect storm for unhealthy air around the bay are
Rob is tracking all the conditions for us tonight. Rob . Yeah. It was a really amazing sight to see this this morning. Perhaps you woke up like many of us. We began to see these lines of very intense thunderstorms. Severe thunderstorm warnings in literally more than 2,000 lightening strikes around the bay area. We have seen a few showers here offshore. The connection is still there offshore. Just offshore to the south. This location will move to the north as we head into the overnight hours. As we head towards tomorrow morning, we will increase the shower coverage with another chance of thundershowers like you saw today. Same conditions in place tomorrow. The reason why the red flag until 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Wouldnt be surprised to maybe see that expanded a little bit later for north bay. More record breaking heat, too. We could see temperatures as high as 108 degrees tomorrow around livermor. Were talking heat and air quality. Were seeing localized smoke advisorie advisories. Temper
Rob . Yeah. It was a really amazing sight to now wind is picking up autoof the southwest. More thunderstorms could be on see this this morning. The way. I know the radar looks perhaps you woke up like many of relatively quiet. Us. We began to see these lines of but like we saw late last night, very intense thunderstorms. The moisture does have a history severe thunderstorm warnings in of producing some lightening. Literally more than 2,000 we are seeing signs of this out here. This is tropical moisture off to lightening strikes around the bay area. We have seen a few showers here the south moving south to north and from time to time if you look closely, you can see those lightening bolts offshore. It will be heading our way later offshore. The connection is still there on tonight. This is the area were watching. Offshore. Just offshore to the south. We think it will arrive from 3 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow. This location will move to the north as we head into the maybe more of an
Lewis, as well as the latest updates on the fight against coronavirus. First a quick look at the weekend forecast. Here is meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning everyone. Still dealing with some gray sky but inland were clear and today the wide range of temperatures. We can see the fog over the bay but it is sunny and our east bay and the south bay and as we look at the north bay from mouth tam, definitely scattering out the cloud deck. 58 downtown. 64 in oakland. 65 in san jose where it is sunny. And from the hills camera. Compressed marine layer. Low 60s in nevada with the sun and sunny in concord at 65. Through the morning with more sun, more warmth, especially inland. By 4 00 about 089 inland. 80 at the bay. Cool at the coast still and talk about your sunday coming up. Congressman john lewis fought bravely for the Civil Rights Movement and so much more. We look back at the life of the civil rights reporter jorn robert lewis didnt simple fight for it he shaped reporter a sharecropp