Marin county is forcing new evacuation orders tonight. The rush to get out. This is our third scare here in the last three years. At the same time, people forced out by the flames return home for the first time tonight. Stories of heroism, how one man ended up saving his neighbors homes. I am happy that people get to go homes. We begin with that breaking news out of marin county. Good evening. The woodward fire is now threatening three dozen homes. Residents who live south of Inverness Park , fox drive, and northway are told to leave immediately. Emergency crews are asking those evacuees to go down first serve branches drake boulevard. Evacuation center is open at the marina center. Across the state, it has already been an historic wildfire season. Currently, more than 7000 buyers scorching more than 1. 4 million acres. Three of the biggest are right here in the bay area, in the north bay. The lnu complex fire has burned 352,000 acres. Five deaths are blamed on that fire. After that is found a body in his home. Tonight, the buyer is 25 contained. Some residents were able to return home tonight. We are in Sonoma County, where some of those evacuation orders have been lifted. Reporter checkpoints remain all over Sonoma County, for safety reasons. Some evacuation orders are getting lifted. Some people are getting the go ahead to go home. With columns of smoke lingering, evacuation orders are lifting in parts of western Sonoma County. People are heading home. Jane wrapped her dogs and her carpentry gear. My chainsaws, my tools, that is it. I do not bring gloves. Reporter she cannot wait to get home. She does not know how long she might to stay. I am thinking about moving. I lost a lot of stuff in the flood. Now, i might lose it all in the fire. I am getting too old for this. Reporter at one cafc this is meatloaf. This was out of peoples gardens. Reporter they have been pumping out meals for firefighters and Law Enforcement on the front line. Even though the cone owners, and their entire staff had to evacuate. For me, it has been satisfying. Very rewarding. Reporter the lifting of evacuation orders feels like a weight lifted after worrying over the ridgeline, wind and flames four days. I think it is a turning point. We were just starting to get back to normal from covid. And then the fire hit. This is our third scare here. It has been unnerving. Reporter one natural disasters and pushing forward each day, even a slight change can feel like a victory. That was good news for us. Reporter the fire near jenner is 96 contained. The warpage fire has less containment. There are still evacuation orders standing in that area. More progress in Santa Cruz County and southern San Mateo County. More than 1600 firefighters continued to battle the czu complex. Today, the big help from the sky. Six helicopters dropped 200,000 gallons of water on those fires. Still, 276 structures have been destroyed. Thousands remained friends. About 10 homes on buddy d1 road are standing tonight. That is thanks to one man who borrowed a friends old firetruck last sunday and dousing the flames. Was the only piece of equipment that was up here for two days, which was scary. I have never ran a fire engine or pot fires before. I am happy that people get to go home. You can hear the emotion in his voice. Firefighters making progress on the fires on south and east day. We learned the scu complex fires are about 15 contained. The fires covered more than 360,000 acres, running across five different counties. Firefighters say that thanks to a shift in the wind they were able to steer those the flames away from some neighborhoods. Evacuation orders were downgraded in santa clara county. Now to our meteorologist, who is tracking our air quality. Still a lot of smoke out there. Hoping things are improving. It will gradually improve. It will fluctuate from time to time as winds shift. Saw that this evening, the untoward reese help to stir the atmosphere. Not just horizontally, but vertically. That does matter. Dispersing the particles further in the atmosphere. We are starting to see the orange and red dots and in Santa Clara Valley as the wind has been coming. Those smoke particles are settling back into the belly. It collects like a bowl. Overall, this is a better looking airquality map that a few hours ago. The airquality will be an issue for the next several days. Unhealthy air quality levels anticipated, especially for east and south bay. Around the bay, the untoward reese will kick in earlier and help to stir the atmosphere again, and dispersed the particular in the air. Still, if you suffer from breathing difficulties you have a tough time for several days. The air alert continues through wednesday. We will track tomorrows weather conditions. That is in a few minutes. Kpix 5 is part to be partnering with the red cross in a virtual telethon or fire relief. You can donate right now by calling the number on your screen. 1855848give. You can head to our website, kpix. Com. We are standing by, life, at the Evacuation Center at the fairgrounds with some updated numbers as we approach the half Million Dollar march. I am so led to see the bay area step up, as it always does to help their neighbors, friends, and family. This is good to see. Reporter really proud of what people have done. As you say, these are bay Area Neighbors helping neighbors. These are Bay Area Companies that are helping their neighbors and customers. We are not talking hundreds of people, or thousands of people we are talking tens of thousands of people affected by the hundreds of wildfires running across the state of california right now. Some of the biggest fires are burning right here in the bay area, as you have been talking about. Yes, people have been generous. Companies have been generous. Initially what we have raised so far. It started at 4 30 this morning. We are up to 292,690 dollars. I am really happy to announce that within the last hour, wells fargo is saying it is donating 150,000 to the red cross wildfire relief effort. In fact, earlier, wells fargo representative talked about that very donation. Hello, i am with wells fargo. We are happy to donate 150,000 to the American Red Cross to help families impacted by the wildfires. Please join us in supporting. Every dollar makes a difference. Reporter we have a little time left. We are not done. Our grand total so far is 442,619. The red cross representatives here at the Sonoma County fairgrounds, are a couple hundred people are sheltered inside in this building. The red cross is saying that they need the money more than ever because of what has happened with the pandemic. Theyre having to provide Hotel Vouchers to more people. Theyre having to buy more meals. They cannot bring them here to feed them. Messiness year after year, affecting people in the bay area. We are so happy to help out with this telethon. Is a big success. We are not done. No we are not. You can still donate through sunday, august 30th. No donation is too small. 1, 5, whatever you have got. Called the number on your screen, 1855848give. You can head to kpix. Com. On the campaign 2020, republicans kicked off their national convention. Weight report, Race Relations was a major theme tonight. Reporter that is right. So was law and order with the republican featured speakers tonight, arguing the country would be less safe if President Trump loses the white house. And also arguing something we have heard before, saying democrats have moved to far left. Faith in me. Troops a senator capped off the Opening Night with a stark warning. Make no mistake, joe biden and Kamala Harris want a cultural revolution, a fundamentally different america. If we let them, they will turn our country into a socialist utopia. Reporter the South Carolina senator accused bidens policies of hurting africanamericans. Back in 1994, but it led the charge on a crime bill to put millions of black americans behind bars. President trumps criminal Justice Reform law fixed many of the disparities biden created. Reporter one of the harshest attacks come from a georgia democratic. The Democratic Party does not want lack people to leave the mental plantation. Reporter President Trump will be featured each night, including one in appearance with frontline workers. These are the incredible workers that helped so much with the covid. We can caught many Different Things from china virus. I do not want to go through the names because some people may get insulted. Reporter Donald Trump Jr also focused on china, while attacking joe biden former u. N. Ambassador accused biden of being weak on iran and north korea. The former force lady of San Francisco, former wife of gavin newsom, kimberly, gave a dark picture of california in her emotional speech tonight. She gave one of the most fiery speeches tonight. She went straight after california. Remarks, then, if you want to see the future socialist country look at california, accusing democrats of turning the state into a land of discarded heroin meters and riots in the streets and blackouts in homes. I have reached out to the state Democratic Party for a response. We are still waiting for a word back. Coming up, economic all out from the pandemic. Sending you numbers showing how many San Francisco businesses have closed for good. A search for the man wanted for stealing from a firefighter tonight, more than half of all storefront businesses in San Francisco have shut down. Kpix 5 has the new numbers showing the ongoing toll from this pandemic. Reporter like every restaurant in the city, this has to serve out doors, and with social distancing but, they are still open, even though the owner says they are not making any money. Nobody that i know is making any money. Amazon is. Trip the pandemic has made it very challenging, but he is determined to keep the workers in his restaurant employed. We are barely making ends meet. Whatever savings we have, we are trying to put it back into the business. Reporter it is now a minority in San Francisco. A new survey shows only 46 of storefront businesses in the city that were open at the beginning of the pandemic are still operating. That is 1200 storefront still in business, 1300 closed. There are a lot of reasons. If fitness studio, you can open. Your retail space you could open we might have decided that theyre not is enough that traffic or enough customer base. Reporter the chamber says the unemployment numbers are also through the roof. San franciscos unlimited claims or at 193,000. That is four times the claims filed during the Great Recession. What is unique is that during the Great Recession we know we had to do. X the housing market. People were rehiring. Now, most of these unemployment claims are until we get the pub crisis under control we cannot get these folks back to work. Reporter the chamber is concentrating on an unusual effort helping businesses close , with no end in the pandemic insight. Help may be coming. Governor newsom says that he plans to release the Opening Guidelines this week for counties that fall off of the states watch list. Napa, santa cruz, are the counties in our area that have been removed over the last 10 days. San franciscos real service is shutting down. This is after restarting just three days ago. Officials say they discovered two major problems that will force the agency to stop rail service for the next several weeks. All real lines will be replaced by bus service. Authorities need your help identifying a man accused of stealing a firefighters wallet. This happened while the firefighter was out risking his life, battling the czu lightning complex in the santa cruz mountains. Detective say this guy broke into the firefighters vehicle, used one of the stolen credit cards at a shell gas station, and a safeway. We continue in Santa Cruz County. Californias oldest statenow un the visitor center, nearly a century old, burned to the ground. The iconic red wood trail, home to some of the oldest trees in california, is impassable. The fires have forced 200 parks in the greater bay area to close, including all San Mateo County parks. Most people, their circumference involves what air they are breathing right now. A lot of it is not that great. Occasionally you will get a rake from the poor air quality. We will start by focusing on the fire weather conditions. The wind speed and the relative humidity for tomorrow. We start off with fable winds. That is okay for fire crews to do with that. Is a go through the day, the wind will pick up. We will be onshore, which means it contains moisture. And the guests, and the highest is indicated will not be that strong. The direction will be consistent and predictable for the fire crews. Imagine it tunneling through the golden gate. He goes into the valleys of the north and south and east bay. Same thing for any other gap alone that coast. It spreads out. The strongest winds only gusting to 2025 miles per hour. As long as the direction is consistent they can account for that, especially if the wind contains moisture, which it will. The relative humidity levels for tomorrow is not bad for late august. We are talking 35, even close to 50 for a lot of inland portions, which is high for this time of year. It is not perfect but it did not got better in the month of august. Will be moisture working for the inlet. Future cast indicating low cloud cover is burning across the bay as we head through the rest of tonight. Of course that backs up to the coast and that is when the smoke settles back down. It will not be perfect weather but any improvement to air quality conditions and fire weather conditions, we will take it. Temperatures are still all over the place. 58 to 56. Those differences will even out as we head through the rest of the night. The fog spreads inland and we will end up by the low 60s. Temperatures tomorrow will still be warm, to even hot. They will be close to what is normal for this time of year. Along the coast, mid 60s. Mid to upper 80s in a few spots touching 80 in the center clear valley. It is not ridiculously hot. Temperatures for the tri valley, upper 80s and low 90s. Dormer spots are on the east side. Around the bay, not too bad. Low to mid 70s. A little warmer for the north bay. Most temperatures in the low to mid 80s. Hotter weather as you head north. 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