Across 420,000 acres and that is about 14 times the size of San Francisco and they are still having no containment. It is daunting, it is overwhelming. It is out of control and it is out of anybodys control. We are covering all angles of this massive fire battle including the unhealthy air and the impact as people escape. Lets look at the mountains, where an update is about to began. We are coming to you from the incident command post in the city of Scotts Valley and they have a map that shows significant it has expanded in size overnight. We will get the exact numbers once the press conference gets started. Where we are standing, this is west of highway 17 and we are in the mandatory Evacuation Order area. It will give you a better sense. Look at this map it shows you how big of an area were talking about. The orient shaded in red is a la honda to the north. Skyway 17 to the east and down to santa cruz campus and then the only thing stopping it was the Pacific Ocean to the west. At la
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look west this morning. Good morning everyone. It is thursday, august 13th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning. Grad to have you with us this morning. Lets get a check of weather now with mary lee. Good morning, mary. Good morning to you len and michelle. And we are looking at temperatures on the rise even warmer compared to yesterday. Really going to heat up by the end of the week. Heres a live look with our Salesforce Tower camera. As we look north across the golden gate bridge. And many of us waking up to clear skies as we kick off a new day here. Now lets show you our daytime highs. So we are going to warm up as we head through our day. So looking at those temperatures that are going to be above average for this time of year. Five to ten degrees above average. 72 in San Francisco. 79 in oakland and 89 in san jose. And upper 90s for concord. So four to 11
I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Lets get to meteorologist mary lee with the hot forecast. Here we go, we are looking at our extreme heat continuing for us today and with it, with those daytime highs, likely tying or breaking records. We have some cooling centers open. Santa rosa will have them from 11 00 to 7 00 four people trying to get some relief from the heat at Rincon Valley library and the Salvation Army senior center. If you do go out there, you will need to wear your mask as well as social distance. In santa rosa, highs are in the triple digits. It is 104 in concord and around the bay, low to mid 80s. 80 for San Francisco and 86 for oakland. Because of this extreme heat, excessive heat warnings remain in effect due to this persistent and dangerous heat and it remains in effect not just for today but actually through 9 00 wednesday. So we are still looking at the heat and going to cool down a little bit. Temperatures will be slightly erdeils up in just a bit firefighters a
Live interaction. Getting to know their students. It will be a different experience. [ inaudible ] the first few weeks will be spent opening students and families, assessing skills, and virtual home visits to guide parents for distance learning. The district says it is trying to address the digital divide. They are trying to provide 25,000 computers to students in need. They have distributed about 13,000 so far. In oakland, kenny choi, kpix 5. As we mentioned, School Starts monday in oakland. They are the only bay area district mandating that teachers, educators teach from empty classrooms. San francisco unified begins classes on august 17th. A tentative agreement requires each educator to give two hours of live online instruction a day. And for details on your schools district learning plan, though to kpix. Com back to school. Today we finally got an explanation and an apology from the state Health Secretary for californias undercounting of coronavirus cases. We apologize. You deserve
Reporter with the heat wave moving in, covid19 has added a new layer of complexity to escaping the triple digit heat and sunrise bistro and catering in walnut creek spent 12,000 getting their patio and parking lot ready for Outdoor Dining only to add another cost today. This is a mr. To keep the diners school. We have 12 popup canopies to help with the heat and we did add the water misters and we hope for the best. Reporter at the contra costa employment and Human Services department got a cooling center with water and snacks available for people without airconditioning and today that requires a mask and only has room for 11 people. We covid19 we had 52 seats inside plus our outside area. Reporter sandy is worried about seniors and the homeless. The Senior Cooling Centers in the malls and shops for people go to get away like starbucks and mcdonalds, those are closed for access, so people could come here and sit. Reporter this comes increasing fire danger leading the Public Utility Comm