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Fight the wildfires. In august i approved a major disaster declaration for california. I approved, i think, gavin, about 40 stafford act declarations, so very quickly, because we want to get this thing taken care of including Fire Management assistance grants to help multiple states stop the fires. More than 28,000 firefighterrers and First Responders are combating the fires in california, oregon and washington. Over 230 soldiers are fighting the august complex fire, and thats the largest fire i...

Latest out of the walbridge fire burning in Sonoma County right now it flared up overnight and what youre seeing on your screen is time lapse video. What we saw burning before the sun came up new evacuation orders in effect right now for several neighborhoods in Sonoma County. And we actually have a live camera from Mount Jackson check this out, its pointed west right at the fire. You can see all the smoke earlier we saw flames to firefighters are still out there. They say that they have stopped...

In the video you can see that the gunman just walks up to the deputies were sitting in a patrol car and opens fire without warning or us the Sheriffs Department put it without being provoked one male and one female deputy were hit multiple times. Theyre said to be in Critical Condition right now and undergoing surgery. Once again this happened in the city of compton, this evening. That area where theyre at is a metro station of the metro station there in los angeles where those officers were par...

Live camera to from Mount Jackson points to the west here you can see the smoke coming off the fires, theyre filling the valleys and also overhead firefighters do say that they have stopped the forward progress of the fire so at least theyve been able to accomplish that. Speaking of the fires more breaking news to our south military helicopters are attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire burning in Fresno County. Now today will be their 3rd attempt to try and g...

Its a little hazy out there and it is all across the bay area. Air quality suffering now for the north bay, the east bay and the south bay with pour conditions in all these areas again you are immediately going to notice that smell smoke as you wake up this morning. Its going to be the first thing thats changed from yesterday as far as what you do notice skies are dry all across the region and we do have relatively calm winds for most areas this is the positive factor here we have wildfires burn...

As we talked about yesterday, theres a lot of busyness on the map and i want to really quickly review some of the things we talked about yesterday. Remembering ten days ago, 18 to 20 different fires. You can see on the map, identifiers where all the fires were. All of these separate fires have been contained and no longer pose any threat. Several fires burned together adds we talked about. We had split that into two separate zones. Those separate zones now split or have joined together into one ...

So a lot of people that live here theyve lost their food and they have lost a lot of other things since the blackout but pg e tells me that theyre still looking into this issue whether it was heat related or caused by something else. As many prepared for planned rolling blackouts. When neighborhoods power went out sooner and the rest with no warning it just went out. And then we got a message that said of the power has gone out. And then we got the one that said were doing rolling blackouts but ...

Be blocking out the view as you do make your way into work. Current temperatures are in the 60s and 70s and for any aac at least the 80s to kick off this morning. Concord in livermore low 70s for you we have a nice little steady breeze pushing in so we are cooling off this evening, a nice touch to that. A hot weather that weve had otherwise look at these heat advisories, excessive heat warnings now in effect on the peninsula to for areas of San Mateo County San Francisco county. The only area th...

We have gotten through the overnight hours and the period with the potential for the most lightning there we have had a few Lightning Strikes across the bay area but not a lot. Most of it was in the Central Valley and the pacific. There is still rain. Look at the showers. Actually, there is more good news because it has been light rain. But when you start to get into the bands of yellow and orange, and into mendocino, that is an example of this lightning. That potential will stay with us until 1...

Shortly. Similar questions have been raised about outbreaks of schools and when they can reopen. Is there a standard on when they will know, or will schools have the ability to keep them private . I expect full transparency. We put out our guidelines. I encourage anyone watching that is interested in looking at the guidelines we put out for Public Education to go to the site and look at the protocols and processes that we have put forth for over 1000 districts in the state as it relates to monit...