Mike, how is it looking right now for whats happening around the bay . Kari, overall things are improving. The trivalley had a couple issues coming into the area. Starting in the south bay north 101. Capital expressway theres a crash involving a couple vehicles one in the middle of 101, some slowing for the sensors right there holding folks up from 680 up to oakland road where we typically see the slowing starting to clear about now. Well track that and also clearing south of 80 through sunol out of pleasanton, that crash cleared a while ago. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Were going to continue to monitor all of the fires across the bay area. The latest this hour for you. The lnu fires in the north bay have burned more than 356,000 acres. And right now its 27 contained. Five people have died and nearly 1,000 south bay the scu fires are still the biggest in terms of acreage. It has burned nearly 366,000 acres and is 20 contained. Three First Responders have been hurt and 18 structures d
Hours ago. Firefighters had a chance to go into some of the damage from the fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties yesterday. They have confirmed 440 buildings have been destroyed, including 320 homes. On the northern end of the fire in San Mateo County, it is not spreading. That is good news. Firefighters say they are very confident that the fire will not spread toward Santa Clara County, where evacuation warnings had been issued earlier in the week. There are new Evacuation Orders or warnings foot and the counties involved. Near bonnie doon and Boulder Creek, there is a fire that is actively burning. Crews are going into do Damage Assessment, and repair some of the power lines and the infrastructure. That way, eventually people will be able to return home. It is stressful. We are staying at an Extended Stay Hotel with only six other dogs and a cat. 77,000 people were forced to evacuate because of the fire. They cannot return home yet, but they are very anxious to do so. The Santa
Just ripped through here behind me is one of those homes that was impacted by the flames you can see whats left is just the rubble and you know madgen coming home to this no home at all and just having to deal in rebuild from this is just so traumatic, its something you know the north bay has been through and now they have to go through it again because of the ellen new lightning complex over a 1000 structures, including homes like this one have been destroyed all across the law known at a lake in sonoma counties. This area and many others are still under a mandatory Evacuation Order however officials have started lifting and let that order just for the day to let families visit their properties to assess the damage all the while cal fire has gained containment, its now up to 35 contained as robin said earlier, but its grown to just under 370,000 acres now we caught up with a family who is having to deal with rebuilding it theyre going to have to do it at some but a woman told us exact
Now lets focus in on the czu lightning complex fire. You can see the outline on your map its in red. It shows the outline of the fire and you can tell that its spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fire has turned deadly as firefighters discovered the body of a 70 yearold man in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a scotts valley. He has the latest for us well. Marty they just wrapped up the News Conference a little bit more information on that man who died his name not being released. But we do know that he was found near his vehicle in the attempt of leaving the fire so he was trying to rescue himself but overcome, but either the smoke or the flames so he was not inside his home at the time and thats when they believe that he was desperately trying to flee unfortunately he ran out of time and the fires just simply overcame him as far as the condition of the fire still very much burning out of control at this
50s and 60s for your current temperatures across the bay of the right at 60 degrees timber on that a cool 55 right now later on today temperatures about one to 2 degrees different from yesterday, not too much of a change upper 80s return inland with 60s and 70s along the bay and the coast. More on your forecast is just around the corner. Rebecca. All right, im rebecca strong filling in for robin this morning wednesday morning its starting to get busy out there. The bay bridge toll plaza you could see a lot more cars on the roadway here trying to leave early if you can because its only going to continue to grow as we get through the rest of the morning and your drive time the right now under 15 minutes thats pretty good kicking off the 5 oclock hour across the upper deck getting over to fremont street. Thats going to be a nice trip for you so far and still widely traveled here the san mateo bridge looks good. This is just under 15 minutes as well if youre going to be traveling from the