Tonight kron fours closely monitoring the spread of the glass fires burning in the north bay and at this hour, the wild fire has burned more than 48,000 acres, it is at 2 containment joining us now via zoom islington much off with cal fire when thanks for being here again tonight what can you tell us about the conditions right now and. What firefighters are up against as we brace for the red flag. And one has been pretty good the past couple of days of firefighters have been making progress on and obviously able to get 2 containment out of been working really hard today. Particular because we are expecting those reflect a kick in early for afternoon bringing got the win put that. So the take away we we were listening in at a press conference earlier with cal fire what i did here was that we are bracing for really bad couple of days. In terms of the weather who. Who is in the bulls which community are you most worried about. You know its probably most likely going to the communities on
143 homes have been destroyed more than 26,000 structures are still threatened calfire post same this video on twitter today and you can see smoke filling the napa county sky near the Robert Louis Stevenson state park flames from the glass fire have devoured swaths of brush and trees as we mentioned a red flag warning has been issued as the weather is expected to take a turn for the worse. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here to begin our coverage tonight, yeah guys a little bit of a break the last couple of days we see more of a westerly wind that has been carrying with it. Some of that moisture right off the ocean to bring up the humidity slow down the fire, but also pushed the fire different directions. These some of the winds around the fire now you can see fairly light. For the better part of the day now beginning to pick up a little bit the very conditions you can see some of those winds now 11 miles an hour saying lena 10 miles an hour outlets peak 10 miles an hour in
Contract the coronavirus and over an eightweek period. Hes saying thank you for joining us, everyone, im Catherine Heenan the governor is stressing californias need for help in this pandemic again were waiting for an update from his side. As News Conference said he is set to speak that could happen any time we will bring it to you live when it does but first kron on site Ashley Zavala is following the story for us tonight. She is live in sacramento and ashley. I had to look twice that is a chilling projection. Of multiple times to make sure that what i was seeing was correct. Governor Gavin Newsome in that letter urging President Trump to deploy a floating hospital essentially with the usns mercy here to california to handle what hes expecting an influx of coronavirus patients. In his letter to the president the governor warned the state projects 56 of californias population will be infected with the virus within a 2 month period he estimates thats 25. 5 Million People use im formally
Scene that weve been witnessing all over the bay area all week long. Good evening, thanks for joining us on kron 4 news at 8 im ken way and i pale more the reason behind the governors order is to help practice social distancing it is something that we are doing right here at kron 4 to do our part to prevent the spread of coronavirus and we encourage all of you to do the same. Worldwide there are more than 242,000 confirmed coronavirus cases more than 9800 people have died as a result. Here in the us are there more than 13,000 cases and a 176 deaths in california there are 952 confirmed cases with 18 deaths but earlier today. Governor newsome predicted more than half of california will contract coronavirus over an 8 week period. And that concern is what led the governors and to his announcement a grant lodes is here now is what governor had to say for all means the rest of the state now is going to be doing starting midnight tonight. What most of the bay area has been doing since midnig
Grant lotus indeed it is and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us tonight governor newsome says that hes confident. The residents will abide by the order and that social pressure well encourage people to do the right thing, lets hope so the statewide shelter at home order is a directive. Many counties have of course already been following weve been doing in most of the bay area since monday night. Grocery stores statewide will remain open essential supplies will still be available per for people who need them food can be picked up take out style and restaurants. Kids can play outside, although youll see more and more playgrounds closing weve already seen that here in the bay. We have learned tonight that the National Guard will be delivering medical and other necessary supplies to make up for lost volunteers and anxiety issues that people are having folks some of them, especially if youre older or have existing issues just do not want to go outside do not want to go to the Grocery S