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Hour in the Higher Elevations. We have a dry cold front pushing through, kicking up the winds. We have a red flag warning in effect now all the way until 8 00 on wednesday due to these a dry and gusty offshore winds. There is low relative humidity values for the north bay mountains and east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains today into tomorrow morning and we have a wind advisory that will be in effect for the north bay mountains for today, at a possible chance of downed trees and power lines. I...

From the flames and the smoke the fire thats still burning. Firefighters do say that they have stopped before progress on this fire. So again more breaking news that military helicopters now attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire thats the one burning down in fresno county. This is a 3rd attempt now to get those hikers the rescuers had to be called or the rescues had to be called off last night because of the heavy smoke that was blocking visibility. Very scar...

Advisories or excessive heat warnings but still looking at temperatures soaring in the afternoon. Lets get to our red flag warning. It is in effect until 8 00 on wednesday for areas highlighted in red, so that is for the north bay mountains and east bay hills and we are watching the winds. They are gusting up to 60 to 61 miles an hour in Higher Elevations this morning. It is a big concern for bius an also low relative humidity values. A wind advisory for the north bay mountains until 11 00 tonig...

School districts is helping student offenders instead of arresting them. How this approach is transforming kids lives. First, heres todays eye open opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. The situation that we have right now is a lifethreatening situation. This came through like a jet plane really. This thing continues to grow exponentially. Dozens of wildfires threatening the west. Record heat. One day, snow the next. Denver, youll probably set a record at 29 degrees. Im worried if we have a real...

Down. Moments ago we saw this. Widespread destruction. This is near big basin in Santa Cruz County. And this is what it looks like for many of our mountain communities. Look down below. You could see those cars and those homes charred and destroyed. So far six people have died across our region. Over the weekend that czu fire claims the live of a 70yearold man near davenport. There is good news. As of right now the red flag warning for the bay area has been lifted. That means no more dangerous f...

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...

Areas biggest fires. Tonight we start in the north bay where the l a nelightning complex fire is that is the deadliest and most destructive fire here the bay. It remains a serious threat tonight once again it exploded today in size having now burned more than 300,000 acres in Sonoma Solano napa lake and yolo counties. Tonight, we know 5 people died in that fire for more have been injured during the fire fight almost 500 structures have been destroyed 125 others damaged and more than 30,000 other...

Evacuations and progress hopefully in the firefight. Joining us on the phone right now for the latest update is Christine Mcmorrow with Calfire Christine can you give us an update or are you starting to gain the upper hand on any of these fires. Hi there yeah, you know we are we did see today with and increased containment on the lnu complex fire that good news, however, you know we did also see increased we are getting more personnel under these fires as fires in other parts of the state week a...

And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula to percent contained. Thanks for joining us on this friday night. Im Vicki Liviakis that im grant lotus we continue of course to track the 3 lightning complex fire still burning in the bay at this hour. Well start with that czu august lightning complex fire system thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Fires that were burning separately in those 2 counties merged overnight in total. The flames have now burned about 57,000 a...

Have to pull the water and get down there and put the darn thing out. Reporter cal fire has warned time and time again that residents staying behind or returning to an evacuation zone is not just illegal but also puts the firefighters in harms way if they have to stage a rescue. We know six people had to be rescued on on sunday. The number of homes destroyed could increase drasticlly as the survey crews make their way out there to survey the land and get a better look at the destruction left beh...