There is a lot we move through morning. The allen you lightning comples maof seven neighboring Law Enforcement agencies throughout the bay area have come to our aid, to different fires, so far it has the help of folks here in the county, to knock on doors and burned 50 square miles, and is zero percent contained. Literally go home to homeis a s putting that in perspective, that is the size of the entire city of vallejo. There are several Evacuation Orders in napa, sonoma, and solano counties. One that obviously, residents there, members of our office also live in this area. It is extremely important to heed these Evacuation Orders if you receive them over the phone. Obviously, we want to maintain public safety. We want to keep everyone safe the latest Evacuation Order is for all of soler hills and through this thing, this is something that we are in the gibson canyon road. Evacuations are in effect for early stages have. Other Pleasant Valley road, and we will be absolutely committed connecting streets, and all of to providing every resource at english shows. Our office has to bear to make people who lived west of blue sure that we can give as much ridge road, and north of cherry notice as we possibly can. Glen road highway 128 should also evacuate. The Fairfield Police department is monitoring the fire and set up an advisory for residents to be prepared if necessary. Thank you, a few final one of the fires and the notes about the incident complex called the nsc fire itself, we can confirm that moves towards atlas peak, soda there are structures that have canyon, silverado island tennis been destroyed. We dont know the number yet, el dorado area overnight. That will be an ongoing count. There will be a Damage Inspection Team that has to if you are in the area, fire come through behind the fire in order to assess what the damage Officials Say monitor the situation and leave if you do has been. Not feel safe. We spoke to one woman who evacuated from Pleasant Valley road in the area and she says she does not know what she will be coming back to you. More than anything, we are worried about our animals. I have everything notes, for the people that are traveling through the area, there are multiple road closures and the county at the moment, for that we ask people, if you dont need to be in the ducks, pigs, horses and turkeys with rabbits. County, dumpy and santa cruz i carry i guarantee the county and south due to the fact that people are trying to evacuate. Rabbits would be dead. We have anticipated that we will need to call for they dont handle stress well. Additional evacuations. If everyone can ensure that they stay in tune to the social media accounts, a type i Incident Management Team will if you take a look at your be transitioning command of the screen, there are Evacuation Centers that are set up across incident, due to the complexity the Community Church in napa, of the incident, a 53 person Specialized Team will be coming in, and again, we are just one the mcbrien senior center, the Cultural Center and the vacaville skate center. All of of multiple large major fires that are burning across the these are in vacaville. Animals can be brought to the state right now. It really is incumbent upon all californians at this point to animal shelter, fairgrounds, Solano County fairgrounds or put safety first. Solano county animal shelter. If evacuees are heading to any of the evacuation shelters, it you have been listening to is asked that you bring a mask a News Conference from and practice social distancing. California fire, we have a major fire situation right now. Here is a brief update of the lightning complex fires, lets go over to the coast, including 22 fires right now in both san mateo and santa cruz counties, the winds picked up Evacuation Orders are in yesterday. The fire escalated overnight, effect, that is an parts of san mateo and santa cruz counties. That is all because of a separate group of fires that earning 10,000 acres. There have been 22,000 people was started by lightning who have been evacuated. Strikes. These fires have now all can more evacuations are expected. The flames are heading southeast now, several structures have been damaged, burned or destroyed and thousands of buildings are in find to burn 7500 acres, and the path of the flames this morning. The flyers are now zero percent contained. Parts of dearborn park,creek, a they are having very little success in trying to contain the fires that, and one of the things that cal fire said, they have a lack of resources, it is hurting them. Community area have been evacuated. Pescadero high school and the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium have been opened as relief shelters. California fire is going to hold a News Conference at any they dont even have resources to put on the fire lines right moment, and when that happens, now, we heard that from california fire. We will keep following this, this is a major fire situation in california. We will take it live and bring we have mornings on fox 2s it to you. Allie rasmus on the story, she in the meantime our coverage of will bring us an update later the wildfire continues this hour. Throughout the morning. We will be here on air and still ahead, the democratic online, and we are sending out breaking news alerts and updates a, 24 hours a day. National Convention Continues the app is available for apple tonight, and you will see it right here on ktvu, and we will and on apple and android show you what joe biden and, s have plans today. You have the power of operating systems. A very busy monday, we are going to go right to steve paulson. We have so much to tell you. Steve . David you interrupt me for mornings on fox 2 newscasts. You have the power to know breaking news, i stepped outside, i can see smoke and everywhere that you go, when you download the ktvu news app. Experience the ultimate sports hub. Smell smoke at my location. I am sure that many of you will also have that today. Ashes being reported from michael polansky. There are just so many fires that are going on right now i do not have good news for inland areas. We are not getting a roaring west wing. There is statewide fire after fire. Lets go back to breaking news. We are breaking in, getting a live update from california fire, lets listen in. This is the 6 am Media Briefing for the august lightning complexes, if you could turn off any cell phones, take your conversations outside while we conduct this breathing. Here with me as the unit chief larkin, from the santa cruz unit, as well as the chief Deputy Deputy chief for the siena cruise county Sheriffs Department chief clark. I just want to bring everyone up to speed. The august lightning complex is a complex of 22 fires spanning where you can find games, news and highlights. San mateo and Santa Cruz County, sparked by the lightning that had come through all in one place, right on your tv. Over the weekend. Last night we had saw a major the xfinity sports zone. Increase in fire activity use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Through san mateo and santa cruz counties, and we saw several of the fires merging together, and essentially making a significant run into follow the teams you love. Santa cruz county. And, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. We can confirm that overnight the fire activity increased and so youll never miss an update. With the xfinity sports zone everybody wins. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Consumed 10,000 acres. We have conducted significant evacuation of 22,000 people, click, call or visit a store for details. Between San Mateo County and Santa Cruz County combined. The fire itself is heading in the south easterly direction, from the San Mateo County line into the Santa Cruz County and a southeasterly direction, and we do have communities that are out in front of this fire at this time. With that in mind, 6000 structures have been asked to evacuate throughout the entire fire area, and this is a very joe biden is officially the active timber fire that is democratic nominee for president , today, biden will burning into counties with a deliver a pretaped remarket to serious threat to both public the hispanic and black caucus safety, and for structures that meetings. Are out in front of it. He will join the Virtual Meeting there are Evacuation Centers with a delegation from set up in san mateo and santa wisconsin. Tonight, democrats are gearing up to hear from, harris who cruz counties, there are law will accept the nomination for enforcement officers in the Vice President , barack obama area conducting evacuations. Will be one of the future attended over to unit chief larkin who will say a few words. Speakers. Good morning, to reiterate there will be continuing coverage of the Democratic National convention, the speakers will be shown uninterrupted, on ktvu and we will have similar coverage for the Republican National what the chief has stated, the Convention Next week. Lightning complex started on sunday around 3 am, and we have been working diligently to try to with the resources that we have, contain the fires and have had little success at this President Trump is touring time due to the fuel moisture, some of the battleground states this week, as the democrats hold their national convention. President trump went to yuma, arizona yesterday talking about the fuels that are burning, the immigration and border terrain that we are fighting the fires in is steep and security, telling his supporters that they have an important choice to make in difficult and the sheer lack of november. Resources available due to statewide activity has hampered efforts significantly. As the chief said, late this election that we are going into is the most important election in the history of our country. Yesterday afternoon, we experienced an increase in winds, that had created a tomorrow, the president will go to joe bidens hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. Situation where we were having longrange spotting throughout the southern and of the fires that are burning in San Mateo County. The longrange spotting had caused significant increase in fire activity, in the northern part of the county, near the upper end of the boulder creek, forcing us into a situation where we would have to order evacuations and many eight major pro sports communities. Teams are offering home venues to the super Voting Centers in november and the Golden State Warriors could soon join the list. The teams had spoke up after election authorities across the country said they were looking the chief deputy clark will speak a little bit more about for large spaces to use for the evacuations. Safe inperson voting. I will speak a little bit more those officials from the election supercenter project about the sheer lack of want to find 25 or more facilities that they would be resources statewide, and how that has hampered activity. Able to use as regional Voting Centers so people can have a right now, we are in the place of it if they dont feel safe going to local polling position we have no places. Lets check what is resources to put on the line today. We will be double shifting our happening on the roads. Sal, you have been busy this morning . How does a look . Resources that are currently on the line. This is a significant safety we have been. We have been dave and claudine. We have slow traffic out of their already at the bay bridge toll plaza. We will go there first. Lets show to you. Traffic is going to be backing up a little bit. It is backed up not quite to the maze, but this is a 1015 minute delay with no major issues once you make it onto the span. If you are driving on interstate 880, it looks good and we have not seen a lot of slow traffic a couple of moderate things, but we dont have the slowing on highway four. We have slowing on 37, as we leave vallejo. You can see it there. San jose still has well, it is dark here but san jose has slow traffic, and a little bit of congestion here on northbound 101. Southbound and northbound, it looks all right on 680. That spring stephen. I stepped outside, and i can definitely smell smoke. It is kind of reminding me about what we had a couple years back, when the bay area was covered with smoke from the fires that were up north . Theres a lot of smoke in San Francisco, it does not matter where you are. Even in my location, i can see it and smell it. Likewise for you too. It is so much, it is statewide. We are covered in it. The satellite picture shows the santa cruz mountains, and san mateo, showing up on infrared satellite. That is how intense it is. I am sure that others see it as well. The northwind at hawkeye, atlas peak, northwest, miles per her. It will be hot with the humidity. The wind is not that strong, but it is northerly and northwesterly. The temperatures are going to be very hot today. 50 in lima valley. Cool there. Is 63 and 67 for napa and american canyon. San anselmo is 66. In the santa cruz mountains, 67 degrees. Scotts valley, 72 degrees. Morgan hill, san martino, low 70s. Ben loman, the hunter, porter creek, and feldman have a northwest breeze that is driving the weather to the southeast. They talk about that, it is moving southeast. That makes sense. Very dry and humid conditions. Taco bell, 83 degrees. Davis, i wish it was stronger, but it is not. There is really nothing that is positive year for inland areas. There is the cost and the bay. I will get nudged out of the picture starting tomorrow, slowly, does not mean it will collapse but it will begin. That will allow cool weather to spelling. It is happening near oakland, they have been trending down but inland temperatures are 90s and 100s. There are signs that cooling will kicking in unless you are very far inland. We will take that for the early part of the weekend. You might want to think twice before you had to the beach for labor day weekend. We will talk about the county that is planning to close the beaches to stop the spread of the coronavirus. A uber and left are scrambling to provide Service Without making drivers employees. The new option that they consider ahead of tomorrows deadline. I always thought that was a personal question. Who is your daddy . Is he rich like me . 1960s . Whatever. You could ask questions like that. Is he rich like me . I dont know about that. The zombies. The time of the season. It is a question by a request. Send me a song. Facebook, twitter, instagram, use your hashtag, ktvu. Okay guys, lets send it over to dave. Can we do that . Okay. I am i have i have lost my computer. 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The National Guard is also mobilizing to help local agencies with emergency operations. Happening today, the states power grid operator wants everyone, all of us to conserve electricity again in order to avoid rolling blackouts. They issued a flex alert, that extremely high temperatures are in the forecast for a big part of the state today. People and businesses should cut back on power, they did that enough yesterday to avoid a blackout. There are still several places that are in the dark, without power including neighborhoods in livermore that have had several Power Outages. Some of them lasted four hours since the weekend. There are some frustrated people, people that are not getting work done, schoolwork done. Is it maintenance or a lack of upgrades . 100 degrees is normal for the city of livermore. Pg e utilites says he has caused women to fail, they say they understand how hard it is when customers lose power and that is especially true during a heat wave. Pg e utilites set up a website to see if you would lose power if rolling blackouts takes place today. You can check it out, just go to our website, www. Ktvu. Com, and you can look for web links. New this morning, San Francisco police are now investigating a homicide in the city, poli, in the tenderloin district. We know that San Francisco police have been on the scene sense 2 30 am this morning, if you have information, you are asked to contact San Francisco police. The Police Department also wants your help to find a veteran who went missing more than one week ago. His name is abraham salazar. He has been missing since august 10. His sister says she last talk to him the night before he had disappeared, he called her saying that she felt sick. He was going to be picked up in San Francisco, but she later found out that he refused to go to the hospital and had not been heard from sense. Now the family is concerned about his wellbeing. At best, he had a stroke and maybe he does not remember who he is. He asked very impulsively. If he is thirsty or hungry, he might take something from a store, perhaps, as a survival mechanism. Abraham suffers from a traumatic brain injury and has early stages of dementia. Alexandra says he has never taken off like this before. He frequently loves visiting the library and the golden gate park. We are continuing to follow breaking news for you this morning, we have several wildfires that are burning in several bay area counties. We will be bringing you a live report in just minutes. Evacuations are now underway. Good morning to you, it is august 18, i am claudine wong. Pam cook is off today. I am dave clark. Claudine and steve, i can smell the smoke in the air outside of our studios. It is a very there are lots of fires. The air quality how is the forecast . Maybe we could see a drop in the inland temperatures. There is a northerly breeze were temperatures that are in the 100s again for those at length today. The fires are so intense, they show up with infrared satellite, but there are many that are showing up. Many active fires all over the state. That is why there is so much smoke and haze. This is not fog, this is smoke. 72 degrees. It is a hazy, humid and hot day away from the coast. High clouds. Smoke. Ash is being reported falling in San Francisco. A few high clouds. They will be focused to the north, but with so much haze and smoke it will be a tough day. Lets get over to south, maybe with the smoke or haze, or maybe , theres something you want to get you . The bay bridge is the typical commute now. We have slowing at the toll plaza that we can show you. That is the commute in the bay area right now if youre trying to get across the bridge, into San Francisco. This is the busiest commute in the area. There are no other slow commutes, but we will keep watching as this is the time that things began to pick up so to speak. Lets go back to the headlines. There is an immediate Evacuation Order and effect for Santa Cruz County, there is a group of wildfires, and they are burning in San Mateo County. We are joined by mornings on fox 2s allie rasmus. Listening to the press conference that we heard, it does not make you feel hopeful that we are coming out of this and anyway. It makes you feel like we are in the it. That is the tone of the news briefing that was wrapped up hours ago. Reporter fires in Santa Cruz County, it is being called the cz august lightning complex, because it started by lightning. 22 different fires sunday night, and overnight, california fire says that the smaller fires had emerged into one big fire that was moving in a southeasterly direction into Santa Cruz County. It prompted the evacuation of 22,000 people in santa cruz and San Mateo County. The fire has burned 10,000 acres. Cal fire confirms that structures, like homes have been destroyed but they do not know how many. The train that we are fighting the fire in his steep and difficult, the sheer lack of Resources Available due to statewide activity has hampered our efforts significantly. The latest Evacuation Order was issued at 5 20 am this morning, including pine road. Other Evacuation Orders include homes along empire road from felton, pine flat road, and bonnie down, they should all evacuate immediately, this encompasses 22,000 people and santa cruz, and San Mateo County in the neighborhoods and San Mateo County, last night that had to evacuate including the neighborhoods of south skyline boulevard. Redwood state park, the Community Hearts area, middleton track area, and there were also two firefighters who were injured yesterday fighting the fire. The Santa Cruz County fairgrounds have been set up as an evacuation center. California fire firefighters warned that evacuations throughout the morning are likely, because of the fire. We will continue to follow the latest developments on the august lightning complex fire, a fire in santa cruz and San Mateo County prompting the evacuation of 22,000 people. Reporting live, allie rasmus, mornings on fox 2. In the north bay, we have more breaking news. A destructive wildfire, let show you a live picture of the hennessy fire. Again, this is life. Anna c fire. It is destroying Property North of vacaville along Pleasant Valley road. The vacaville Fire District says that the fire had jumped the road and evacuations are in effect. The Solano CountySheriffs Office says that People Living west of blue ridge road to highway 505, and north of cherry glen road, north of highway 128 must evacuate. The Evacuation Order is a meaning that theres an immediate threat to life. It did not look like it was going to get to us. It came over the hill over there, and within only 30 minutes, it was on top of us. We started doing everything that we could, cutting fire lines, loading up all of the dogs and the cats that we could catch. Lightning started the fire. It is zero percent contained. Authorities are grouping this fire as part of a much bigger lightning complex fire for both the napa and sonoma counties. It is including the hennessy fire, the gamble fire, they have burned about 32,000 acres. That is 50 square miles. It is zero percent contained. Areas around highway 128 have been evacuated. During the night in Solano County, homes west of vacaville were evacuated including those who live south of gates canyon road to highway 80. Additionally, three homes or outbuildings were destroyed. At this point, california fire has said that many more homes are now in danger. An Evacuation Order is in place for a fire in marin county, called the woodward fire. It has turned more than 700 acres so far, at point race. It started yesterday afternoon, near the seashore. Smoke could be seen across marin, San Francisco and the east bay. Crew say the area is difficult to access, but no structures have been damaged and no injuries have been reported. Lightning and suspected of causing a fire, but we should be learning more from fire officials later this morning. Cal fire is working a fire at mendocino county, called the creek fire. It has burned 200 acres, and one structure was destroyed. The fire is at highway 162 and short creek road and that town of cobol low and is five percent contained so far. The coverage of the wildfires continues throughout this morning, we will be here, on air, and online and on the news application. We will send updates 24 hours a day. It is available for both apple and android operating systems. The Golden State Killer will be confronted again today by victims and family members of the Golden State Killer in a courtroom. A judge is now due to sentence Joseph Dangelo at the end of this week. The Crime Reporter henry lee tells us some of the emotional moments that took place in the courtroom. This is for him. I know he cannot look at me. The survivors denounced the serial rapist and killer, many recounting the words that he inflicted on them decades ago. I was hit several times on the head before being tied up, gagged and blindfolded. He pleaded guilty to 13 murders and kidnappings and admitted to dozens of race, the Police Officer was linked to the crime spree through dna and a family tree. Relatives we gave him. Many did not. He is an evil monster. He has no soul. He was a cunning manipulative sociopath. At three different times that night, i thought i was going to die. He would leave his victim shaking and fright while he went to the kitchen in order to eat, only to return and then the abuse and vileness would start all over again. San Jose State University will be the latest to welcome students back to a virtual classroom. Instruction begins under the modified campus plan which is phase 2 and a reopening strategy. Classes are being held online and you have essential staff reporting to campus. Most Staff Members are being encouraged to work from home. Today, public and private Elementary Schools will be able to submit applications to allow in person instruction. School districts will be asked to detail how they safely conduct inperson classes while preventing the spread of covid 19. Applications will go to the Contra Costa County office of education where they are reviewed and then sent to county health services. Is bay area students get ready to go back to school, everyone is planning on remote learning. That is now a problem for families that do not have the necessary tools. A new study shows that 12 percent of San Francisco families do not have highspeed internet, and 15 percent do not have a computer a goal is to get computers to thousands of families in need. 2500 computers, can you imagine . That is the families that have been able to reach out. Can you just imagine the other families that are out there that do not have a way to communicate, and say i need a computer, and access to the internet. Many Companies Including uber are donating computers because they say that many of their computers are not being used during the pandemic. We want to remind you and remind your family and sing, check out the School Survival guide, it is for parents and students. It has everything from your School DistrictSchool Year Plan in order to help with Digital Tools and even free educational videos. It is all available on our website, www. Ktvu. Com, and the ktvu news app. Lets talk about our weather. Steve the, you can hear the fire officials talk about not having enough resources. Fire crews go on double shifts. Youre hoping they can get a break but it will be a long day in front of them. Serial contained. A rugged territory. It is up in the mountains and the hills. It is really hot. It is not cooling off. That is a problem. 70s and 80s in these locations. I will show you these coming up. There are so many fires, i am focusing on the napa one in the santa cruz mountains. You can see that they show up on satellite imagery. That is how intense the fires are. The higher clouds are thinning out. A lot of them over mendocino county, the airflow and the higher elevation, theres no doubt about it. North or northeast, you can just follow the line. Sonoma mountain road, and they speak, all 4 miles an hour. 16 percent humidity. 83 degrees. Now, some of these, they dont update all the time or something happens to them. 49 degrees at lima valley. It is coolness that is trying to work its way into the bay. That is for sure. 72 at boulder creek. The bonnie doing site is not reporting, i will try to put it in there. Theres nothing to report. The information, i dont think the lohman temperature is right, but the humidity is safer boulder creek, landau, everyone else has a northeast at 70s. A lot of the temperatures of the Society Three fairfield, 70 at san jose. 61 and the city. 60 at the oakland airport. That is the coolest they have been in a long time. The excess if youd morning, high fire condition. Smoke all over the place. Ash. Even from the marin county fires, some of the ashes making it into San Francisco. There are reports there, we are trying to figure out where it is coming from. We have something to watch, genevieve. It will weaken us because parallel to the coast. By saturday into sunday, some of the moisture will be working its way up here again. We will have another round of thunderstorms, as we had to send and monday, not until then. It looks a little cooler, the cost and the bay. There are cooler lows. Quilling will take place, more likely thursday, friday, and hold steady going into the weekend. The motto of the Postal Service is including delivering mail through snow rain and heat. You may want to add operational changes. But the postmaster general now says could have a large impact on mailin ballots. Adding totals tolls while reducing the speed limit, we will tell you the reason behind these proposals. Switching to Online Learning is hard for families, and we will find out how many parents have gone into debt. Welcome back, i number revenue coronavirus cases in california are trending down. California this morning has now more than 638,000 confirmed virus cases. 11,500 people have now died from the virus, and 10,000 virus tests have been conducted. The number of hospitalizations and admissions to intensive care have gone up. Santa clara county has the largest coronavirus testing site in northern california, this is a highcapacity testing site, located at the county fair ground, providing up to 5000 tests daily. Walk up and drive through testing is by appointment only. One of the most important tools to get us out is testing. Testing. Testing. You know, we invite everyone who needs a test, either because you have the symptoms, because you have been in contact with someone, or simply because you are doing activities that you think might put you at risk. Health officials plan to use the space for flu shots and eventually tran nine vaccinations. State health Officials Say that they are jumpstarting preparations for flu season area we are working with the Healthcare Partners to increase the sites and the availability of where the vaccine would be available, and making sure that we have no risk with supply, we are really just trying to increase penetration of the flu vaccine so that we might actually reduce the number of people that are going the doctor said that the same protective measures that we use for covid19, like Wearing Masks and social distancing will reduce the spread of the flu, hopefully easing the burden on clinics and hospitals. Thousands of workers in Sonoma County have new hope if they contract covid19. Supervisors approved a plan to require most employers to grant 80 hours of paid sick leave to employees that were infected by coronavirus. The paid leave would also apply effient you set the facility to care for a child or a Senior Family member, with a school or Caregiving Center being closed because of the virus. The ordinance applies to employees that 12,000 businesses, and unincorporated parts. They pushed against the law, saying that they cannot afford that much paid leave, especially after many of them are closed for months. Many beaches in Santa Cruz County will be closed over the labor day weekend. Supervisors had approved closing the beaches in the unincorporated parts of the county, from 5 00 saturday morning through 5 00 monday evening during the holiday weekend. No one would be allowed to sit on the beaches except late saturday and sunday afternoons. You would also be allowed to cross the sand to go swimming or surfing at any time. The sidewalks and the trails near the beach will be staying open the entire weekend. Today, a virtual public hearing will be held, happening this afternoon by the california highspeed rail authority. The monthly meeting is going to be focusing on environmental reports, on the traffic track between san jose and San Francisco to get passengers from san jose, and a trip it takes 30 minutes, todays meeting starts at 3 00. Bay area tolls will be in the future, the metropolitan commission is exploring the idea of charging a toll on all three ways where there are multiple transit options. The chronicle reported that the commission has outlined a plan to also lower the speed limit to 55 on the freeways for safety concerns. This is all going to be a topic of conversation, part of a proposal to meet a 19 percent reduction in greenhouse admissions, the year 2050 as required by state law. All right. Sal is back, watching our community. He has been busy on the roads this morning. Sal . We have problems. When the road his wife, sometimes you get crashes that are severe. We have a crash at the Cordelia Junction on westbound 80, at the interchange if youre driving from fairfield to make the cut, 680, there is an accident there and traffic is unexpectedly slow. Normally it is not that slow. We had slow traffic coming out of pittsburgh. A broken down car on the way getting into concord. On that that surprise you. We have traffic that will be affected by the injury accident in hayward southbound. This is causing a lot of slow traffic coming in from 238, down to union city. Dont let this get you by surprise. The bay bridge is now backed up all the way to mays. We have a backup there as well. Theres a lot going on on this morning here, it is not even 6 00. Lets bring steve in. We have a lot going on weatherwise. I would like to say it is going to be cooler inland. He looks cooler for the coast at bay. There are upper 40s and low 50s. That is not something that we have seen for six days, but there are so many fires. The smoke, ash and hazes and the forecast. Theres too much with fire activity. Theres not a lot of good news for these locations where the firefighters are dealing with really really tough conditions today. The starting napa county, theres a northerly breach. Four hennessy road south, i just updated this, the humidity is now 11 percent. Theres barely a breeze. It is north and it is 84 degrees. 104 degrees today. Nappies at 63 degrees. That is a little bit cooler. The santa cruz mountains, 60s and 70s. Boulder creek is at 72. Even around san jose, lots of 60s. The wind is predominantly northwest throughout boulder creek, the hunter, and panama, and i will make it tough. Temperatures are in the 60s and 70s. It is going to be very dry and humid, away from the coast. A lot of smoke and ash and the forecast today, this will be six days in a row. It looks like it is raining there. That is the fire signature coming in from the fire and lightning complex. We have to watch genevieve as it falls apart and by late saturday into sunday, here is the moisture that will work its way. The forecast model backed off a little bit but it is dragging moisture across. Lets hope we dont get another round of thunderstorms and lightning. That is the last thing that we need now. I would be late in the week that it happened. 70s, 80s, close to the bay. They will take the drop tomorrow and friday. On a lighter note, we are months away from girl scout cookie season. There is a new flavor to tell you about. Coming up and the next hour, what inspired the new cookie called toastyay . Superfast internet. Its a beautiful thing. Superfast internet with an xfinity flex 4k streaming device included . Even beautifuler. And now flex also comes with peacock. Ooh la la. This rare bird lets you stream tons of movies, shows, news, sports and more. And with flex, its all at your beck and call. Show me parks and rec see . The best really did get better magnificent. 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I dont know if you are getting it in your area but we are advised to keep windows and doors closed. I can smell it and i can see it. Steve, you have a lot to see little bit but i can feel a little west went. I can feel a hint of a seabreeze and it should pick up. Inland will still be pretty hot