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Fire map continuing north through the rural hills, it will run right into the burn scarred from the complex fire. Any shift in wind direction could easily spell disaster. Katie nielsen joins us with coverage, and there was some change in the air tonight. Diablo wind picked up, moving this fire southwest. Exactly what firefighters did not want to happen. You can see some of the smoke, the reservoir is buried beneath all of that smoke. This is more toward the road with the smoke plumes coming up ,...

Winds start to accelerate. Well talk about how much longer is hot temperatures sticking around. Well look at that and the forecast coming up in 12 minutes. Trying to escape the heat, thousand of people gathered at ocean beach in San Francisco this Holiday Weekend leaving no room for safe social distancing at all and forcing mayor reed to control those crowds. Live in San Francisco, the beach is looking better behind you today, roz plater . Better, a lot of people arrived. These are different cro...

State, many sparked by lightning that will become a concern again today. At least 965 structures destroyed, many of them homes. Heres a quick look at just how widespread these fire zones are. The lnu complex in the north bay, primarily in napa and sonoma counties and spread out among lake county. The czu in san mateo counties. The possible threat of new thunderstorms is a main concern right now for firefighters. Something we are tracking. Lisa, we can we expect this morning . We are looking at b...

Mike, how is it looking right now for whats happening around the bay . Kari, overall things are improving. The trivalley had a couple issues coming into the area. Starting in the south bay north 101. Capital expressway theres a crash involving a couple vehicles one in the middle of 101, some slowing for the sensors right there holding folks up from 680 up to oakland road where we typically see the slowing starting to clear about now. Well track that and also clearing south of 80 through sunol ou...

Hours ago. Firefighters had a chance to go into some of the damage from the fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties yesterday. They have confirmed 440 buildings have been destroyed, including 320 homes. On the northern end of the fire in San Mateo County, it is not spreading. That is good news. Firefighters say they are very confident that the fire will not spread toward Santa Clara County, where evacuation warnings had been issued earlier in the week. There are new Evacuation Orders or warnin...

Just a few moments. And, of course, air quality still a huge concern. Here is a live look at the air quality tracker on our website abc7news. Com. You can see the air is unhealthy and in the south and east bays. Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, august 25th. A lot to get to. But, first, we want to check in with you, mike, to see what our forecast has in store today. We know that will have a big impact on how theyre able to fight these fires. Exactly. We have a mixture of fog and smoke this...

Structures a ton by these flames while you are very close will and theres a lot of smoke be careful. There is a big fire. Right behind me im just surrounded by fires, so its almost like picture. Fire and just go ahead and be on television and this is right there that fire that we showed you at 6. 30 continues to burn and it actually is moving from the left to the right of your screen so its moving closer to the hillside you could see theres some headlights coming down here as well not sure of as...

Heavy military vehicles arrived at the Sonoma County fairgrounds where they will be based. They have been on orders, some of them continuously since early this year with covid. Reporter a third of the citizen soldiers have been a major fires before but all have been trained in camp roberts before coming here. They come none too soon. This is a much welcomed asset, a valuable asset and resource to us here locally. It will be good to get them to work right away. Reporter the cal fire truly needs t...

Contained. 80,000 acres of burned there so far. Cal fire is expected to give an update on the ccu fire any moment now. We are monitoring the briefing and will update you with any new information a bit later in the newscast. In the meantime, progress made by cal fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains may allow for people to return to their homes by early next week. More on that from ktvus jesse gary. Backfiring like they call it is under very specific conditions. We dont just use it for whatever. It is...

Devastation can see in the video homes have burned down businesses a burned down as we know napa is known for wineries but theres a lot of wineries up here its not as close to the heart of napa but more up in napa up in the hills near on highway, one or highway in one 28 in one 21 driving up when windy roads thats where you can see this area as a part of the l a new lightning complex which so far has burned 351,000 acres. Its now 25 contained firefighters have been able to make some Real Progres...