Heavy military vehicles arrived at the Sonoma County fairgrounds where they will be based. They have been on orders, some of them continuously since early this year with covid. Reporter a third of the citizen soldiers have been a major fires before but all have been trained in camp roberts before coming here. They come none too soon. This is a much welcomed asset, a valuable asset and resource to us here locally. It will be good to get them to work right away. Reporter the cal fire truly needs this help. Obviously the season is already very busy and so we fill the gaps that cal fire doesnt have with resources for reporter these trips will have a very handson approach to provide a wide variety of critical functions, including write up on the fire line. Our mission here is to help the cal fire inside command gain the fire fermenters and how to allocate resources, callout evacuations and key people on the front safe. Reporter other units already at the fires for the last several months or
Contained. 80,000 acres of burned there so far. Cal fire is expected to give an update on the ccu fire any moment now. We are monitoring the briefing and will update you with any new information a bit later in the newscast. In the meantime, progress made by cal fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains may allow for people to return to their homes by early next week. More on that from ktvus jesse gary. Backfiring like they call it is under very specific conditions. We dont just use it for whatever. It is not just a random action. It is a very planned event that we use for the fuel. We bring that fire line to a safe area. Reporter late wednesday, cal fire cruise intentionally lit fires in the missive and make a brush fire, burning portions of santa cruz and san mateo counties. Firefighters are testing the viability, doing multiple controlled burns in the area bounded by l soil road to the south and how low road to the north. We want to contain the fuels between the control line and the main fire
Freedom to see Americans Strike each other down. We will have law and order on the streets of this country for every american. The Vice President speaking from baltimores historic fort mchenry, he wont be safe in joe bidens america. The Vice President told the National Audience that President Trump has followed through on his pledge to make America Great again and he asked voters to give them four more years. Our political reporter greg lee is here. Tell us what Vice President talked about tonight. Reporter the Vice President hit a number of issues. Chief among them, reinforcing the campaigns theme of law and order. I humbly accept your nomination to run and serve as Vice President of the united states. Reporter Vice President mike pence officially accepted his partys nomination on night three of the Republican National convention. Pence praised the president s response to the coronavirus, touting the economy, Foreign Policy in support of the military. President trump has been fighting
We still have fog. It is going to get erodedyou ca a united against violence rally was held outside of the upper house. Organizers say it is important to keep the antiviolence message alive because programs aimed at reducing violence are shut down because of social it is not as breezy as distancing requirements. Yesterday. President trump says the u. S. Is moving close torus vacc there is more sun. It is warmer today. We have 50s and 60s on the temps. It is 63 degrees. At the white house, he says the now, there is still a raise, government has an agreement with madera. Per the agreement, they will remember, it was 40 miles an manufacture 100 million doses hour in fairfield. It is only 24 right now. Of its vaccine. Sunshine kicks in. Amateurs will warm up after a cool down from yesterday. Announced two weeks ago it they will be near average to a started phase three of its experimental vaccine. Little above. All right. We are investing in the it is 4 01. Development and manufacture of le
By the weekend. We could have someone hundreds inland then. Maybe tropical clouds coming in. Today we start off with low clouds and livermore has even reported clouds pick thats a good push on the fog. Warming begins today. Breezy but not as witty as yesterday. More sunshine and temperatures will bump up after yesterdays call them. 50s and 60s this morning. Still an onshore breeze for most but not nearly as windy as it states that we had best of 35 miles per hour. Fog in morning and son in the afternoon. Temperatures are bumping up. I want to show you that the bay bridge is crowded as you might expect for this time of the morning. It is backed up for a 1015 minute delay. It may start clearing up. I can see signs that some of the reps are clearing so that could be good news. No problems on the san mateo bridge as you drive this morning through the area. If youre driving in the silken valley, northbound 280 traffic looks good as you drive up to highway 17. No problems on 101 or 85 either