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 others are threatened tonight still a bit of good news at this hour cal fires now reporting 15 containment. Thats more than double what it was this morning. When the most impacted communities in Sonoma County is Healdsburg Kron fours dan kerman reports about the challenges fire crews are facing there. Right now the fire is progressing from mill creek to the Sweetwater Springs road area that south southeast. Firefighters trying to get a handle on things before those Early Morning hours when the fire h
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from Solano County right now as you can see unfortunately, a house on fire. New evacuation orders just issued as numerous wildfires burn in several bay area counties this morning. Good morning everyone, its wednesday, august 19th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. This morning, wildfires rning in several locations across the area. Are forcing more evacuations. And blackening the bay area with unhealthy air. All the details on the fires in just a moment. But first straight to mary lee for all the latest on the heat and the air quality. Yeah, len and michelle, firefighters will be up against the heat once again. So extreme heat continues. We are not done yet with our heat wave. Looking at excessive heat warnings that remain in effect today due to the dangerous heat. Now lets show you our temperatures. So looking at mid 70s in San Francisco. 83 in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and 102 for concord. So 8 to 15 deg
Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us on the firefight will. Marty Scotts Valley good news. I just came to this location and the checkpoints are all gone meaning theyre not stopping people from returning to their homes. In fact only the median authorized personnel for this past week were allowed to come through now if you live in Scotts Valley and you didnt hear the news. You can return to your location, west of us highway 17 so you can do that even though the fires are still burning at this time it has chewed up more than 81,000 acres and they expect that number to go up when we carry that News Conference for you live in about 55 minutes from now. Containment number also has gone up when i was here 24 hours ago they were sitting at around 21 containment. Now its 24 containment, but the fire. Still is giving firefighters a handful of theyre throwing 2000 firefighters as says. Theyre hoping to go back up in the air to do water drops because theres been so much damage that
Mountain and this is what has been vacaville and it was bring to the northwest and so its closing in pretty quickly. Thats why people are quickly having to flee their homes covers will tran is there this morning and will we moved to vacaville because things change so fast. Whats going on right now. Well right now im off a highway 80 off a cheery glenn exit and you can see over my Left Shoulder jeans and yuri of the fire along the ridgeline these people these poor people have been up all night watching the fire get closer and closer to their homes and then. Just a short time ago they got the knock at the door from the Sheriffs Department take get out. This is obviously a very busy street as far as people hopping on to highway 80 instead it has turned into a parking lot with a lot of evacuees at this location just pulled over sitting in the back of the pickup truck. Just helplessly watching the fire get closer and closer to their homes. This whole area jeans and area. It is just glowing
Exclusive. A Bay Area College teacher accused of repeatedly threatening dr. Sara cody in the midst of this pandemic. Now, we have more inside information on a story that we broke on our 5 00 newscast. A south Bay College Instructor is accused of sending threatening letters to dr. Cody. This comes as Health Directors across the country are getting threatened and harassed to the point of quitting. This teacher may also be linked to a violent rightwing extremist group. Nbc bay areas ian cull explains how the man was caught. Reporter tonight, 55yearold alanvy aran go is being held without bail, accused of sending 24 threatening letters full of profanity and vulgar terms to the Santa Clara County health officer, dr. Sara cody, expressing his disgust with the and threatening as time went on. At one bloody revolution. One letter finished with you are done. Indica its over. Say goodbye. While all were anonymous. Detectives say they linked them to the man via fingerprints. Investigators also ma