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Bring it to you live. In the meantime, we want to go to bill martin, our chief meteorologist, to talk about the weather conditions, and they are getting at least a little bit of good news here, bill. Yeah, a little bit of good news. Yeah, my camera is a little off balance. Ill tell you watt, let me fix this right now. Yeah, hat should be better. The air quality is pure right now. But the fires are still mainly terrain driven. The weather is not really driving these fires. Its really about so many fires having started, and cal fire not having enough resources to respond to almost 13,000 lightning strikes. So with over 350 fires in that first string. So were seeing good containment each day, and thats how its going to continue. And now i think weve got a live press conference. Just wanted to bring everybody up to speed, after the weather came through yesterday, and we found ourselves here getting wet last night, over the courts of the evening, across california, the cal fire confirmed th ....
Coming up. One thing that is helping crews, the weather. Here is a live look from san jose, smoky skies right now, but things could have been much worse. Where the lightning was this morning, it was basically everywhere but the bay area, we had lightning strikes happening in the Central Valley and we had a fair share of lightning strikes happening off the coast. If we watch the last several hours on this you will see the lightning that worked its way through the central vaan up io e th was sierof the worst of the lightning was. Let me bring this back, we are going to go back in time and you will see the lightning reappear on the screen right there. Thats about it. We are going to go to Governor Newsom now with an update on the wildfires and the coronavirus, lets listen in. Good afternoon everybody, i wanted to offer you a situational update on the wildfires here in the state ....
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Rage. As firefighters throughout the region fight the blaze with air tankers, helicopers and other resources brought in not just from across the state. But from adjoining states. Capt john mancini Santa Monica Fire department right now we are just kind of checking out the area really getting an idea of where the defendable place is going to be for us in the event that the wind shift and this fire pushes down on us. As you can see its kind of lazy right now but the wind is expected to change. 5000 people have been evacuated many of which are in the mariposa area. There were still some people left behind as of late this afternoon,there will still some residents left behind. Its a crazy thought. Town has been here forever. Coming down like that you worry about it getting close to town so its scary. Weve had other fires around that not this bad. If we get a fast wind change then things can be a lot different around here. Officials ....
Rage. As firefighters throughout the region fight the blaze with air tankers, helicopers and other resources brought in not just from across the state. But from adjoining states. Capt john mancini Santa Monica Fire department right now we are just kind of checking out the area really getting an idea of where the defendable place is going to be for us in the event that the wind shift and this fire pushes down on us. As you can see its kind of lazy right now but the wind is expected to change. 5000 people have been evacuated many of which are in the mariposa area. There were still some people left behind as of late this afternoon,there will still some residents left behind. Its a crazy thought. Town has been here forever. Coming down like that you worry about it getting close to town so its scary. Weve had other fires around that not this bad. If we get a fast wind change then things can be a lot different around here. Officials ....