That are coming to assist. Firefighters are working really hard, trying to stay hydrated, just trying to get this fire out. Were a little concerned about the road. We are trying to keep people safe. Reporter i know you guys have said there were ten fires that started overnight because of potential Lightning Strikes. How are you dealing with that in terms of staffing and in addition to all the fires we have going on right now . Lightning expected again tonight . Absolutely this morning i started at 5 00 a. M. With these fires here in the area. But we anticipated the red flag warning. And also the local governments, we did staff firefighters ahead of time. So we have some units that are ready to go and our resources got spread thin. We were in action quick. Any concerns about tonight if we will see more of these wildfires started by lightning . Absolutely. You know, the thunderstorms are unpredictable. We dont know unprecedented times with the weather. If you see some smoke or flames mak
Vicki liviakis Jonathan Mccall in tonight for a grant lotus Mother Nature putting on quite a show this morning. As severe storms brought lightning to the bay area along with a few showers as well. This is just one of many videos sent to us my you are loyal kron 4 viewers today. Yeah beautiful sight, a little concerning when it comes to lightning strikes and fires. A major concern fastmoving storms yeah they could lead to a risk of dry lightning which could start those wildfires in just a few hours ago pg e reported that there will be no rolling blackouts this evening thats the good news, those blackouts of course would have impacted San Francisco, san mateo and contra costa counties for more on the red flag warning and the continued heat wave we want to bring in our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez what a weekend. Yeah and were not over just yet with all this active weather in fact tracking some popup thunderstorms tonight during the overnight hours impacting your monday morning commute
Skies as severe storms rolled through the bay area a lot of folks getting an Early Morning wakeup call. This is one of the many videos flooding our newsroom from you or kron 4 viewers, thank you so much for all of it. You can see more pictures and videos on our website thats kron 4 dot com if you have something called the shows hey guess what we want to see it as well all you have to do go to the website click on the the reported tab which is under the about us tab right there on our home screen. And we could be seeing more lightning strikes into tomorrow, the National Weather service is extending the red flag warning until monday morning at 11 00am and but to the bay area of course is under this warning with a red flag warning comes an increased risk of wildfires that could start near where that dry hits. And those lightning strikes the spark a number of fires across the area in Santa Clara County the marsh fire which is a total of 3 fires has burned more than 850 acres. Back away shu
Their proposal for more on that proposal we want to turn now to kron fours Justine Waldman who has the latest for us now from the newsroom justine will cain today white house chief of staff mark meadows and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin met to put the final touches on that 1 trillion dollars relief bill Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is expected to bring it forward monday afternoon. Both newton and meadow say they want a less ambitious plan that includes stopgap measures like Unemployment Insurance and education funding. But Senate Republicans are poised to pose more way of doing direct payments war Small Business loans and tax incentives for rehiring mission will now share with us. What his focus is for this new proposal. The bill will be introduced monday and were prepared to act quickly this is all about kids in jobs. This is our focus and we want to make sure something gets passed quickly so that we deal with the unemployment and all the other issues paycheck protection
That fog. Temperatures somewhat mild in the east bay we got 66 off antioch 64 conquered in livermore east bay shoreline in about 60 with those 50s up to the north bay. But the north bay you can see peninsula in the east bay shoreline all little touch cooler today. We saw from yesterday at this time breaking your day down were about 62 come atm by 11 at 76, were going to revisit those 90s a pretty good the inland valleys going on this afternoon and maybe lingering into tomorrow, but a slight cool down by midweek morning the sounds good. Thank you dave were continuing to track the coronavirus all across the bay area. And currently there are over 46,000 cases and over 740 deaths were seeing the most cases in Alameda County with over 10,000 infections. But the virus has been deadliest in the south bay Santa Clara County which has 184 deaths for full breakdown of the cases by county and by city you can always find that list on our website just head over to kron 4 dot com. Well santa cruz is