Been devastating to see those homes lost in this fire right behind me they are carrying out their morning to briefing to you have agencies from across the bay area here to help put out this fire. But i enjoy life right now with captain saw lopez is with the San Mateo County Sheriffs Office you know, lets talk about how its been for your department in the most important thing you want people to now so were currently working with cal fire in communicating with our residents in the south coast area thats been affected and many of those areas or rural and steep. So when we do issue a i suggest that everybody listens to those warnings you pack up your things and be ready to evacuate if those mandatory evacuation notices come out what have you seen anyone or people trying to stay back and not wanting to leave their houses and if that is happening. What do they need to do so those are some of the challenges we have experience at in the last 48 several deputies have interacting with residents
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look south this morning. Good morning everyone, it is wednesday, september 2nd. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning. Mary lee is standing by with your forecast this morning. And mary, you noticed its a bit cooler out there this morning. A bit breezy too. It is. Yeah, tracking that onshore flow. And its the reason why were going to see slightly cooler temperatures than normal. As we head through our afternoon. And with it, with that ocean breeze kicking in for us, were looking at better air quality this morning. At least many locations moderate air quality as we start off our day and thats the yellow dots there but still some spots parts of the north bay dealing with unhealthy air. Were going to go even longer t rtunsoheres a hazy look with o Mount Hamilton camera from the lick observatory. In effect today with spare the air extended into tomorrow and l
Now. They include the scu lightning complex, and also the czu august lightning complex in santa cruz. And in the north bay, crews say that they are having a really toughim getting to this wildfire in the Point Reyes National seashore. It grew from 15 to 700 acres yesterday. Smoke from the fire now drifting in to west marin and it is not threatening any homes at this point, but some trails are closed. In the east bay, the deer zone fire complex burning on the east side of mt. Diablo is still out of control. There are Evacuation Orders for march and territory roads all the way to the alameda douncoun line. Governor newsom has declared an emergency because of all the wildfires across the tn 30 wild burning throughout california at this point. The governor is planning to give an update at noon on the states response to the wildfires, the heat wave and of course covid19. Well bring to you live on abc 7 and abc7news. Com. The fires are causing some road closures as you can imagine. Jobina fo
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from Solano County right now as you can see unfortunately, a house on fire. New evacuation orders just issued as numerous wildfires burn in several bay area counties this morning. Good morning everyone, its wednesday, august 19th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. This morning, wildfires rning in several locations across the area. Are forcing more evacuations. And blackening the bay area with unhealthy air. All the details on the fires in just a moment. But first straight to mary lee for all the latest on the heat and the air quality. Yeah, len and michelle, firefighters will be up against the heat once again. So extreme heat continues. We are not done yet with our heat wave. Looking at excessive heat warnings that remain in effect today due to the dangerous heat. Now lets show you our temperatures. So looking at mid 70s in San Francisco. 83 in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and 102 for concord. So 8 to 15 deg
If you cant see it, then you can probably smell it. This map warns people in the areas marked purpleha tt health effects. And as you can see, we have so much to share with you this morning. A lot going on. We want to start with the forecast and check in with mike. That air quatylind mean those are major things tha. Yeah, those are the two things thatl affect us the ilmo negatively t whe next sevel days. Lets start into the air quality because even if the fires arent directly affecting you, they will indirectly affecthe it is the smoke, tasting the smoke, or breathing the see it from half bay toward mn palo alto, up around napa, vacaville, also in fairfield some of the biggest cities right current have toxic airk aidt te thankfullyand this,ntns, the winds are fairly light. But around fairfield and vacaville, you can see that they are blowing from southwest to tortheastur and that is a little bit faster than it has been. And that will pick up the next couple days also as the seabreeze co