Evacuations and progress hopefully in the firefight. Joining us on the phone right now for the latest update is Christine Mcmorrow with Calfire Christine can you give us an update or are you starting to gain the upper hand on any of these fires. Hi there yeah, you know we are we did see today with and increased containment on the lnu complex fire that good news, however, you know we did also see increased we are getting more personnel under these fires as fires in other parts of the state week at a better handle on those were moving personnel into these larger in in the north bay and in east areas so that we can and continue to increase those containment lines. What do you attribute the increase in containment the lnu complex that north bay. Fire complex, the containment doubled in about 24 hours which obviously we hadnt seen that sort of. Leap in progress made thus far was it mostly the weather. Well the the weather didnt help us out today and we had a little bit higher relative humid
And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula to percent contained. Thanks for joining us on this friday night. Im Vicki Liviakis that im grant lotus we continue of course to track the 3 lightning complex fire still burning in the bay at this hour. Well start with that czu august lightning complex fire system thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Fires that were burning separately in those 2 counties merged overnight in total. The flames have now burned about 57,000 acres and forced more than 60,000 people to leave their homes at this hour. The fire is just 2 contained at least 97 structures have been destroyed nearly 25,000 others are threatened this evening. 2 people have suffered minor injuries said there are more than 1100 personnel working those fires right now. And we have Team Coverage on the czu or this lightning complex fires are kron fours gayle ong dan thorn they are alive. In Santa Cruz County with the latest on the fires and the damage there and
Local officials discussed efforts of raising awareness of africanamericans. This took place at the annual conference in denver. Good afternoon and welcome. My name is aster liverman here in denver. It is my pleasure and honor to introduce our speaker for this session wholl present aspects beyond the green book african travel. Ranging from a personal colorado stories to sites across the country. To the far left, let me welcome our colorado native, gary jackson who grew up in denver before attending the university of redland and california, he earned his doctorate at boulder. He was assigned to the civil division, district of colorado before entering private practice in 1976. In 1982, he cofounded the firm of demana and jackson, a partnership that continues to the Denver County court bench of january of 2013. Gary has been recognized as a colorados super lawyer. Colorado Bar Association award of merit and among others. In 2018, the institute recognized gary for excellence county court ju
Could not start any better than that. Welcome. Its a cold one out there. I dont have to tell you that. You probably notice yourself. Santa rosa is 35, palo alto is at 38. I think well see more. There are a few clouds coming in, but hey, chill out. Its friday. Thats because its a cool one. Cold morning sun and clouds. Theyll be on the move here. Not as sunny as yesterday. You see those just to the west. But so well start off with the sun, then get some clouds. Most of these are diving a little bit to the south, but its not going to be very warm today. 60s on the highs. All right. Sal is here. Well just say happy friday and i hope its quiet out there. It is mostly quiet out there, steve, which is good. Its nice and light, although there is one spot i do want to tell you about. And theres a ramp closure northbound 85 on the connector ramp to northbound 101 after an overnight deadly crash there. This happened at about two in the morning, but theyre still out there investigating on northbou
Clear a river road between forestville and gurnville after a rainsoaked tree came down, bringing down a power line. And f if theres a if theres a tree down, you cant see the power line. Most likely the power is not off, and theyre still charged, so stay clear, and let pg e and fire personnel take care of it and go home safely. Reporter crews here said they had a busy 24 hours making sure the roads were clear from debris following a rainy, windy storm. I think they need to be safer and cautious of the flash floods, because there is water in forestville this high be, man, scary. Reporter it surged past the 32foot mark, effectively cutting off this neighborhood on drake road. The only way out by boat or high clearance truck. Neighbors say there was a flurry of activity overnight as people made their way to high ground while they still could. Trying to jump out of here really quick. They have that access road by my house, so all night, it was pretty busy. Residents here are tellingmy they