Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us on the firefight will. Marty Scotts Valley good news. I just came to this location and the checkpoints are all gone meaning theyre not stopping people from returning to their homes. In fact only the median authorized personnel for this past week were allowed to come through now if you live in Scotts Valley and you didnt hear the news. You can return to your location, west of us highway 17 so you can do that even though the fires are still burning at this time it has chewed up more than 81,000 acres and they expect that number to go up when we carry that News Conference for you live in about 55 minutes from now. Containment number also has gone up when i was here 24 hours ago they were sitting at around 21 containment. Now its 24 containment, but the fire. Still is giving firefighters a handful of theyre throwing 2000 firefighters as says. Theyre hoping to go back up in the air to do water drops because theres been so much damage that
Except along the immediate coast a little bit sluggish there bay Area Temperatures checking into some 50s and some 60s at this hour antioch at 64 got 50 up to santa rosa how about that almost like falllike feeling there 60 meanwhile for san jose but for comparison sake, its a little cooler up here in the north bay milder off to the east bay and the south bay for the lowdown today, what fog gets taken care of we going to mostly sunny or while hazy skies at least 61 by 08 00am by 11 were talking 77. Now little bit of a warmup is expected for this weekend but were going to another heat spike and drying out into early next week, well look at that forecast coming up in a bit robin. Sounds good. Thank you dave. Thats firefighters start to gain control of the 3 large wildfires burning in the bay area. Evacuees are returning to find what damage has been left behind Fire Fighters acknowledge the scope of the damage is historic. But containment of these fires is growing. Now according to calfire
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,
Probably a good thing here in the winds we are getting a bit on shore which is kind of been the program for a little while well see that heading on into the weekend. As well live shot coming in from timber on there you can see the fog still pretty much firmly in place but its starting to lift elsewhere across the bay. Temperatures are still in the 50s up here the north bay east bay, youre looking at approaching middle 60s, 58 cool degrees for san jose and for comparison, were a little bit warmer in the east bay this morning. Cooler in the north bay. The breakdown for you look at that shot there of the sfo the smoggy look 83 gogos on by high noon at 3 oclock were talking 92 marty. All right dave thanks a lot to start in the east bay this morning, several big stories happening in oakland this week. And that includes demonstrations over the shooting of jacob lake in wisconsin also some businesses will be allowed to reopen starting today and thats big news as well joining us to talk about