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Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow about those fire dangers. Lawrence yeah, this kind of leading right into that right we have some extreme heat over these last couple of days and. These were some kind of records around the bay area that you rarely see but here we go a 112 today are recorded in Livermore Napa coming 111 also a record one 10 record in santa rosa richmond, how about that inside the bexar 107 degrees. A 107 also in redwood city and a 106 degrees in canfield and were not done there weve got more records 96 that was a record in oakland today, San FranciscoInternational Airport 97 degrees a record in gilroy 112 degrees but all around the bay area. Extremely hot conditions and this comes on a day where we had extremely hot weather just yesterday. The on ....
Down. Moments ago we saw this. Widespread destruction. This is near big basin in Santa Cruz County. And this is what it looks like for many of our mountain communities. Look down below. You could see those cars and those homes charred and destroyed. So far six people have died across our region. Over the weekend that czu fire claims the live of a 70yearold man near davenport. There is good news. As of right now the red flag warning for the bay area has been lifted. That means no more dangerous fire weather is in the immediate forecast. Also Evacuation Orders are beginning to scale back in santa clara. Some neighborhoods have been downgraded from Evacuation Orders to evacuation warnings. More on that in just a minute. Now our team is on the ground, across the region, covering the flames, covering all of the widespr ....
Just ripped through here behind me is one of those homes that was impacted by the flames you can see whats left is just the rubble and you know madgen coming home to this no home at all and just having to deal in rebuild from this is just so traumatic, its something you know the north bay has been through and now they have to go through it again because of the ellen new lightning complex over a 1000 structures, including homes like this one have been destroyed all across the law known at a lake in sonoma counties. This area and many others are still under a mandatory Evacuation Order however officials have started lifting and let that order just for the day to let families visit their properties to assess the damage all the while cal fire has gained containment, its now up to 35 contained as robin said earlier, but its grown to just under 370,000 acres now we caught up with a family who is having to deal with rebuilding it theyr ....
Map shows all of the thermal activity from the flames and you can see it there on your screen. This morning. We know that several homes have been destroyed in that area, thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. Kron fours reyna harvey live now in Santa Cruz County she has the latest for us rain little bit more good morning and here in scott valley where thousands of residents were forced to evacuate yesterday, we also know that you see santa cruz, those students and faculty had to evacuate as well know again were going to show you the damage that was done overnight taking you to Boulder Creek and you can see these homes in the area as they go up in flames now we know thousands of residents throughout like you mentioned santa cruz in this area have had to evacuate as the fire continues to grow overnight 48,000 acres this morning structures destroyed about 50 structu ....