Our hands in the air and enjoy the ride. There is nothing else we can do. They also permitted the opening of museums, zoos and will be theaters. Now at 11, the extreme heat is over but now there is even santa cruz also moved into more smoke. Tonight, how long is this going the red tier today. And the Tiburon Police chief to last . Its horrible, we Just Announced he is leaving. Are just waiting. Thousands in the bay area still in the dark. Chief Michael Cronin is retiring after 12 years, the news comes after this confrontation between a police but Small Businesses are officer and black business feeling especially powerless and what pg e said a few hours owner. The officer questioned the man inside his own store and ago. Santa clara county gets the news its been waiting for but some parents are saying enough demanded to see that he did already. Its just not cutting it, its not indeed on the store. The town manager said the chief working. Taking a live look outside, now at 11 and had beti
But Small Businesses are feeling especially powerless and what pg e said a few hours ago. Santa clara county gets the news its been waiting for but some parents are saying enough already. Its just not cutting it, its not working. Taking a live look outside, now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area. The fog has rolled in with a vengeance tonight. There was so much smoke out there you couldnt even see the sunset tonight from San Francisco. Paul heggen is here, and the marine layer is coming in now, finally, is it doing any good at all . It does improve the air quality where it makes its way inland. But of course that will not be the entire bay area. You can see making its way across the bay but still that air trapped in place in the tri valley and Santa Clara Valley as well. This will be the challenge we face over the next several days, getting the atmosphere to mix around enough to disperse all the smoke in the air. Its pretty deep in the atmosphere right now. Air quality tomorrow, trou
Showing the homes damaged or destroyed in the czu lightning complex fire. The color coded map focuses on santa cruz county. So if you look here, what red means is that that home has been destroyed. Orange, yellow and blue means damage. Green shows undamaged homes. The black circle means the address is confirmed but if there is a white circle around the home, that means that that address has to be verified. You can find a link to this map on our website on abc7news. Com. The largest fire in the region is the scu lightning complex fire and it spans seven counties including alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties. It is 20 contained. And firefighters are making Good Progress though against it with major help from aerial water drops. This was the scene we saw during our 4 00 newscast as helicopters loaded up on water before taking off to do a drop near neighbors had to evacuate several times. That was all on fire, mission peak was all on fire. So you were basically surrounded by fla
Steve talking about improvements. At least it seems that way, rosemary. We had the disturbance that moved through over california and it brought a mix to the atmosphere and helped to clear things out a little bit. The onshore breeze will continue over the next few days, and hopefully that will help to continue to push some of the smoke away from the bay area and further in land. We have a spare the air alert in place and the hazy skies are expected to remain. Morning clouds followed by afternoon sunshine, at least away from the coast, this morning starting with fog along the coastline. Temperatures are expected to cool. I will have a look at Current Conditions and what to expect for the afternoon coming up in a little bit. It is 5 00,. Lets check the highways. Right now, we have traffic that is doing pretty well around the bay area. I want to put up the fire closure map as you approach santa cruz. Boulder creek there are several areas, outlined in purple, still shut down. Highway 17 is
Fire otheir progress, but say they dealt with issues on the east side of the fires throughout the afternoon yesterday. 7 00 last night, the lnu lightning complex has burned nearly 550 square miles, and is 25 contained. 908 buildings are destroyed. 248 are damage. More than 30,000 are threatened. Six people have died including a pge worker. Theres a lot of work to be done. Any evacuation orders remain in place. If you get to go back to your property, there is a reentry point set up for those who live within the myers fire zone in sonoma county. Its not required to check in, but it could be helpful. We are going to stop here because cal fire is about to start a News Conference with an update to the czu morning complex. My name is jonathan. And deputy chief. A quick reminder, if you could mute your telephones and take conversations outside the press conference area it would be appreciated. Please keep your masks on when not speaking. A quick update. 6 00 this morning, this incident is 78,