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
Lightning sparked fires. Cal fire at this point has not yet given any specific information on the size or the containment of the fires. Evacuations are underway due to fires along Hennessy Ridge road. As we get more information, we will bring it to you. All of this is happening as a heat wave continues in the bay area. Governor newsom will give an update on the states response to the heat wave as well as the covid pandemic. He signed a proclamation to free up Energy Capacity and reduce the need for Service Disruptions which we saw through the weekend. We will bring you the governors News Conference as soon as it gets underway. We will bring in rosemary with how high the temperatures are going. Another bad day today. The northbay looks like its bullseye for the time being. Temperatures again are expected to be near record breaking. Lets take a look at stormtracker 2. We will zoom in over areas over the northbay. We watched it move from offshore to on shore. You can see all of those ligh
Strikes. Look at that picture. Now, lets go back for 24 hours or so to sunday night, and look at this. Now, this is something ive never seen before in the bay area. Okay. Here comes the first wave. This is what woke you up, right . Strike, strike, strike, strike. A little bit of a break, and then a second wave, equally as strong in not stronger, 6 00 a. M. Wait, im not done. And then you keep going. 7 00 a. M. These are lined strikes, many cloudtoground, and then you get into sunday morning . Look at this. Okay. Then we get into the afternoon. It brakes off a little bit. Not bad. Get a little bit of a break. Thunderstorms die down, and then next wave comes through. That started late last night early this morning, and youll see this. Ive never seen backtoback storms like this. Here comes the next wave, next wave, and next wave. Look at this. So no wonder we have spot fires. No wonder cal fire is returning around just crazy out there. That has to do with all of the spot fires. Now, we ar
Lightningsparked fires. One is he hennessy fire, and by midafternoon, it had already consumed 750 acres, according to a spokesman for cal fire. While cal fire isnt a cant say for certain it, too, was caused by a strike from the key, the flames did start during a storm. An Evacuation Order has been issued. Theres 20 residents, but theres a number of residents below that Hennessy Ridge road. Reporter it affects those who live at Hennessy Ridge road and sage canyon road from childs pope valley rode to lower childs road. Close by neighborhoods are also under evacuation warnings, standing by just in case. As of right now, we do have resources on these fires, and then using those aircraft with weather permits. Reporter the other blaze, the gam fire at no, sirville road is in a much more rural nare at the north end of lake vari esa. An Evacuation Center was set up. We stop bid. No one had take then county up yet on the offer to use it as a structure. Trying to grapple with this fire and make
Crystal clear. We failed to predict and plan the shortages and thats simply unacceptable. Youre frustrated and irate governor newsome demands an investigation. Into weekend power shut off his millions of californians had to deal with sweltering heat. Governor said that the agency failed to properly. Brace for the Current Energy shortage in subsequent power disruptions. Leaders from cal iso though firing back saying they constantly warn the Public Utilities commission that power shutoffs could happen saying the situation could have been avoided. The regulatory authorities how the grid operates. People to do a lot of Different Things i guess what i have to do a better job of making our voices heard through all of that. The Public Utilities commission has not responded today. The governor also signed a proclamation allowing utilities and other energy users to use backup thats amid a record heat wave that is scorching the state this was the first time cal iso ordered rolling blackouts in s