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The area. Marin county fire crews say current temperature 65 degrees three fires ignited in the area in the area, winds are calm but fog is building around the above Indian Valley college. Coastline including in areas like santa cruz and monterey. They may have been intentionally set. This is the view from a wildfire camera. You can see helicopters circling santa cruz down to less than a half mile of visibility. Here is what were tracking, heading into this afternoon, yoefrn hea which is why that red flag overhead, you can see the warning is now in effect. Flights. The flames are under control but investigators are continuing to it might not look like much right now on satellite radar, look for someone suspected of but if you notice just starting the fires who is also approaching to our south is a considered to be armed and dangerous. Low pressure system. Now back to the massive fires burning across the bay thats whats going to kic ....
Nearly 340,000 acres. And is 10 contained 5 structures have been destroyed 20,000 others are threatened to First Responders and 2 civilians have been injured. Kron fours dan thorn live for us in Santa Clara County tonight where the su lightning complex continues to spread. In the area around Mount Hamilton, so dan what have you learned tonight. And in this fire is primarily burning right now in the deep rural areas near Mount Hamilton as you head up the lick observatory. Still very smoky and very dangerous for people that are in those areas and thats fire crews out here been asking people to evacuate and not be allowed to head back into these areas if you look at some of the video that we have from earlier today this is a grant ranch park where you can see cha ....
We also have Anoushah Rasta with outside healdsburg. Us tonight. Just before nightfall we watched but heres cal now to explain h thats right. These fires have been so as had flared off of mountain destructive, turning homes into view ranch road. Ash and rubble, and a helicopter made several water the lightning then caused those drops and ground crews mobilized grown considerably in the last flames. Heavy equipment to cut fire the lightning that hit the area that first night on lines. Saturday evening into sunday owner microen says this evening morning, it struck in multiple is actually less dramatic than places throughout the unit, both the last couple days. In san mateo and santa cruz yesterday and the day before, counties. Those fires obviously just grew we had dc10s and 747s flying from the locations they were at and then were winddriven in 200 feet over the vineyard kind of that southeasterly level. Reporter still hes well awa ....
Acres tonight we also know that President Trump has approved californias request for a president ial major disaster declaration. This afternoon governor gavin newsom tweeted his gratitude for the president s help writing that, although these are unprecedented times california is resilient. And well get through this. We have Team Coverage on these fires tonight kron fours noelle bellow gayle lot gayle ong and dan thorn on live with the latest on the fires and the damage and our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is in our Weather Center tracking the conditions, lets first go to know well with the very latest on the firefighting efforts in Sonoma County know well whats going on. And sorry just about 5 minutes ag ....
Tomorrow. A lot of businesses here in the east bay are still closed but tomorrow morning the new rules say some of them can reopen. For some of them, its just in the nick of time. They just picked up their first load of Fresh Flowers in weeks. Theyre excited that the stayathome orders will allow their floral arts store in lafayette to be open for business in time for mothers day. For us, mothers day is actually the busiest week of the year. Its busier than valentines because everybody has a mom. Reporter its good timing for other activities as well. Skate parks can reopen and tennis can once again be played. Although the order forbids multiple people touching the ball so it will be interesting to see how that works. And with the good weather, even rusty golfers will be thrilled to get back on the greens and play the maddening game they love so much. It will take time to get back in to it and to really be able to hit the ball and th ....