Will that lead to the reopening of more businesses . From ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. Good morning, thank you for joining us. I am dave clark. I am pam cook. It is wednesday, august 26. Mark tamayo is in for steve paulson. Mark, you said it is hard to predict air quality. I can imagine. Yesterday, we had clear blue skies, then smoke rolled in. It is one of those things. I look outside and see not much smoke. It is quite a gift. Its a break from the smoke filled skies. Nothing is permanent, especially with these conditions. There is great news. It has been cleared out as a result of the spare the air alert. This has been extended through friday. It has been extended into your friday forecast. Here is the plan, this morning. Into the afternoon hours, hazy sunshine is on track to reach low 60s to 70s. The hotspot is near 90 degrees. Santa rosa, 54, san jose, 64, fairfield, a bit of a breeze. Here is the camera looking out towards sfo. We have patchy clouds out there. There are
I was happy to welcome you back. It is always good to see you. I have to point out that you are golfing on vacation. Pam cook had a hole in one. Her first holeinone. I had to shut that out to everybody. I am always proud of you. You did it. Congratulations. It was fun. Along the coast of oregon. It was a nice way to get away. Plenty of space. Golf is one of the things on the market, i know that youre a surfer. You can do that in social distance. Right . Absolutely, when youre stressed and stuck inside, it is great to get outside and enjoy the outdoors without the crowd. Congratulations to you, pam. Hopefully more great accomplishments in the future for you. Weatherwise, we are tracking patchy fog out there. Right around the bay, heres the plan this morning. Mid50s to 60s into the afternoon hours. Hazy sunshine, temperatures are in the 60s to the 80s around 90 degrees. They are quality, actually okay this morning. Were showing you the current numbers out there. 50s and 60s. Heres a came
Hours ago. Firefighters had a chance to go into some of the damage from the fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties yesterday. They have confirmed 440 buildings have been destroyed, including 320 homes. On the northern end of the fire in San Mateo County, it is not spreading. That is good news. Firefighters say they are very confident that the fire will not spread toward Santa Clara County, where evacuation warnings had been issued earlier in the week. There are new Evacuation Orders or warnings foot and the counties involved. Near bonnie doon and Boulder Creek, there is a fire that is actively burning. Crews are going into do Damage Assessment, and repair some of the power lines and the infrastructure. That way, eventually people will be able to return home. It is stressful. We are staying at an Extended Stay Hotel with only six other dogs and a cat. 77,000 people were forced to evacuate because of the fire. They cannot return home yet, but they are very anxious to do so. The Santa
Because of the extremely rough warmer compared to yesterday. Terrain in the air. Heres a live camera looking at for the latest news on all fires and including how to help sfo where some fog is in place. Those affected, go to ktvu. Com whoppers. There is the latest development the airquality sensors, most of these current observations are actually not too bad. And Evacuation Orders. We are showing you more greens and yellows indicating good air the spare the air alert in quality or moderate levels. Place now will continue through definitely an improvement friday. That has many people looking compared to yesterday. Remember, thus spare the air for ways to deal with the smoke alert continues through friday. In the air from wildfires pick the smoke levels have hit unhealthy levels in many areas but even moderate smoke can be current number is 50s and 60s health risk experts say there to start out today. Are things you can do to help deal with the unhealthy air. Here is the plan the semi, t
Department said they were following up on several reports of missing people in the fire zones. More than 77,000 other people are still evacuated from their homes. They are spread out around the county. Jesse gary joins us from one of the Evacuation Centers at cabrio college. Jesse . Reporter frank, good afternoon to you. To a man, woman, and child, there is one fourletter word that carries with it a combination of hope, anticipation, and frustration. That word is home. For the evacuation people here with a destination, a universal destination that is cloaked in questions and uncertainty. Is it ever gonna end . You know, i want to go home. Reporter Boulder Creek evacuee Barbara Andrews echos sentiments shared many of the people chased from their homes by the czu mega fire. Santa cruz county has set up near lay dozen evacuation sites for families, their pets, and their animals. Since that first night, weve expanded considerably. Weve gotten a lot of good infrastructure going on here. Wer