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
The only spots on the map that arent lit up in pink or immediate coastline and San Francisco today. As for a chance of thunderstorms that really drops yesterday we had some in the north bay obviously sunday, it woke us up and carried us through the morning. Today we take a step back from that. Just keeping the hot temperatures around todays daytime highs in the 70s 80s at the coast. 90s in triple digits, further inland. Ive got more details on what to expect this afternoon where youre at still to come back to you. All right, lets get back to the big story which are the fires for large wildfires and you can see pictures of all of them here on your screen the burning in the east bay and in the north bay and they were likely sparked by lightning, lets zoom in on the fires and look at them on a map james yes, those begin to the one for this to the south a marsh fire burning near sunil in the regional wilderness area there in Alameda County. Right along santa clara border broke out sunday.
Good morning and thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 morning news. Im Tiffany Justice in for Stefanie Lynn this morning. It is sunday. May 5th. Lets get things started with a look at the weather with dave spahr. Good morning, dave. How are things looking today . Well, tiffany, good morning and good morning, everybody. Looking pretty sweet today. What a difference a day makes. Time chilly, though. But lots of sunshine from beginning to end. So enjoy all of going to have the lunch on the patio and so for them, if they could drag out the heaters for a little bit. But definitely where the sweater. Youll need that. Its a cool start. Well get to that in a bit. Right now. The satellite picture, theres the low thats in our backyard. Still its impact. Of course, in the back side, we dont get much from any of that. But still has a bit of moisture with it now, i dont hate it too much because will need these things in the summer to break the back of the heat spells that we get. There are the