Begin to pick up the pieces your life changes and that you have to face rebuilding. Hello everyone i thank you for joining us at 6 oclock im Catherine Heenan firefighters are making progress on a string of huge wildfires across the bay area. The scu fire complex now the second biggest. In california history burning more than 363,000 acres only 15 contained, followed closely by the l a new complex fires. They burned more than 352,000 acres 27 contained and there is the czu complex a fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties burning nearly 79,000 acres and all together the fires have burned nearly 800,000 acres in just one week. Lets take our first look at the weather conditions and san mateo and Santa Cruz County and then things again continue to get better mabrisa yeah they really are catherine and we are noticing right now temperatures in monterey. 69 degrees so cooler forecast there along the coast, thanks to the return of that marine layer relative humidity up to 68 and wind speeds
Computerized system. The overall view is increasing relative humidity and very strong gusts, 9 to 11 miles per hour. Then moving down to the Santa Cruz Mountains, we have wind gusting to about 13 miles per hour. Relative humidity there is 74 . Again, thats encouraging and the temperatures only 68 degrees. Weather is improving for fire containment, but once again, the air quality is very poor across most of the bay area. We have a spare the air alert in effect for the next three days through friday. Dan and ama. Spencer, thanks very much. Well get to that News Conference as soon as it happens. Well bring it to you. Right now, we want to tell you about the scu lightning complex, the second largest wildfire in the state. Its scorched 363,000 acres, destroyed 20 structures and is threatening another 20,000. This is truly a massive fire burning in the east and south bay. Even beyond. Parts of alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties are all affected. Cal fire put this effort into pers
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In the bay area alone. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken way and i pale more here is a look at the bay area broken down county by county right now Alameda County continues to lead with more than 11,000 cases of covid19 Santa Clara County not far behind with nearly 10,000 cases. Tonight, San Francisco county has more than 6,000 reported cases of the disease and city officials are preparing for a surge in hospitalization to get ahead of the curve these cities building a new temporary hospital to try to free up beds for Covid Patients. The new hospital will open for non Covid Patients who need shortterm medical care or observations kron fours tips aqui joins us now live from. Georgias avenue in the presidio where the new facility will be located taylor. Well the citys Health Director isnt sugarcoating things today. He said we are in a major surge of coronavirus cases. And thats exactly why they are opening this site here to be proactive rather than reactive now. The city says that thi
That involved multiple people thats when the officer then tried to detain those suspects and there was a confrontation and the officer opened fire. Not clear yet this morning what caused the officer to use the gun. The officer sustained an injury to their foot and was taken to the hospital and has also been placed on administrative leave pending the results of the investigation. And we have breaking news from overnight. One person had to be rescued from the fire in San Francisco. Youre taking a look at video from the citizen app it was posted by the San Francisco police Fire Department. The fire broke out about 2 oclock this morning on powell street in the citys north beach neighborhood. Firefighters also has to rescue a dog and the person who was rescued had to be taken to the hospital, no word yet on that persons condition this morning. Well to the south bay now an outbreak has been reported at the elmwood detention facility in milpitas kron fours will tran standing by. With an updat