Santa cruz county. Lets zoom in now on the czu lightning complex fire. You take a look at this map on your screen. The red line shows the outline of the fire and it has grown so much you can see that spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fires turned deadly a 70 yearold man was found the body of 7 yearold man was found in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live this morning at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a Scotts Valley. He has the latest will. Marty so far right now as of the update yesterday at around 11 oclock last night 74,000 acres have burned for this fire. We do know that at least 131 structures have gone up in flames with many others damaged. We expect a News Conference in one hour from now they have thousands of firefighters spread throughout california. The moving forward the biggest challenge will be the resources heading to this location. Yes, very dry very smoky. But the good news is i did not see any Lightning Strikes thats the fe
Santa cruz county. And any minute now were expecting an update from cal fire on the czu complex fires that are burning in santa cruz and san mateo counties and well have it for you live when it happens. Well meanwhile, lets start with the l in new complex fire. Thats burning in the north bay right now check out this map that shows you where the complex fires are burning which is in sonoma napa and solano counties so far at least 4 people have died and 4 others have been injured, lets check in with kron 4 Sarah Stinson who is in Sonoma County where the fire is threatening homes, sarah. They robin the on live here on West Dry Creek road just west of healdsburg where its still very dark outside a lot of times with these fires cal fire as the way till sunrise is to really see what theyre working with after a long day of battling the flames take a look at what they were doing yesterday and probably into the night to try and combat the flames and stop them from spreading to nearby communitie
Central valley like high temperatures is what will experience there up to the up to northern Solano County so temperatures today right now were in the 60s mild a pleasant weve got 50s up here the north bay 56 San Francisco in 62 for san jose for comparison sake actually this morning most of the bay areas a little cooler than it was this time from yesterday. Whats going on for today is we have a little bit of interference from some tropical leftover moisture as a result of that that is kind of lane the warmup we have were keeping it basically sunny to mostly sunny, tossing about a few clouds in their Late Afternoon but look at that at 96 already at 1 oclock still building. And well have some clouds overnight into tomorrow morning and after all that said and done how goes back to the warmup face when put this all together for you coming up in a bit robin sounds good. Thank you dave. Now to another story that were following for you this morning. Governor newsom says california may be turn
At this point is at least in the bay areas excessive heat watch for is an excessive heat warning already for the Central Valley and points south we expect to get an upgrade this afternoon to warning category as well. This is whats going on though this he excessive heat watch goes east of the east bay hills and in the south bay to sometimes the Santa Clara Valley is not included in all this this go around it is and then up the Solano County youre in this as well with temperatures 95. Well beyond the triple digits. All right breaking it down for you today, 87 by 11 by 2 oclock at 98 noting some of those scattered clouds in there which actually may shave off a couple quick other critical degrees. Partially because of some tropical moisture bubbling up from the south this kind of a side know what this all together for you to cut your forecast coming up. It sounds good. Thank you dave. Another big story that were following for you this morning governor newsome says that california may be tu
Now lets focus in on the czu lightning complex fire. You can see the outline on your map its in red. It shows the outline of the fire and you can tell that its spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fire has turned deadly as firefighters discovered the body of a 70 yearold man in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a scotts valley. He has the latest for us well. Marty they just wrapped up the News Conference a little bit more information on that man who died his name not being released. But we do know that he was found near his vehicle in the attempt of leaving the fire so he was trying to rescue himself but overcome, but either the smoke or the flames so he was not inside his home at the time and thats when they believe that he was desperately trying to flee unfortunately he ran out of time and the fires just simply overcame him as far as the condition of the fire still very much burning out of control at this