The czu august lightning complex fire has burned 50,000 acres in san mateo and Santa Cruz Mountains homes have been destroyed some 64,000 people have been forced to evacuate from that fire. Now lets zoom in a little closer to the czu lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Take a look at this map on your screen. The red shows the thermal activities from the flames and we do know this morning that several homes have been destroyed as i mentioned 64,000 people have been forced to evacuate from those fires kron fours reyna harvey live now in Santa Cruz County she has the latest for us reyna. Rd fire officials tell me the families that were evacuated will not be able to return to their homes for several weeks because they are continuing to fight this fire that is growing in the mountains and they have no containment on it so spoke to some of the residents who wore leaving yesterday many of them who had to grab their personal items in their animals and personal documen
The front lines in the overnight hours thankfully they get to rest a little bit as theyre throwing as much as they possibly can at this fire 1500 firefighters with more firefighters on the way from out of state. This fire they are making progress we did learn from a News Conference earlier this morning that containment numbers now sitting at 13 containment and that is up from 8 in the overnight hours, however the acreage did go up from 74. To 78,000 and the number of homes or structures destroyed sitting at 231. Destroyed or damaged were talking about that going up and up especially since the fires are happening in a remote rugged area thats. Hard to get to for the firefighters, but we do know that the one fatality that one man who did die that he was trying to leave the area because he was not found inside his home instead he was found near his car. So that leads investigators to believe that he was trying to flee the area that was simply overcome by the flames or the smoke as far as
Change weve had already lower 70s, lining up the east bay shoreline 75 for antioch 60s up to the north bay 69 for san jose were talking about 60s all over the board here with 50s just last hour so were starting to move now, lets compare now 24 hours ago. Yeah, everybody is in the yellow everybody is ahead of where we were this time yesterday and if you just work all even just last hour, the bay area immediately and points to the west were trailing so we really caught up quickly. Drier sometimes does that too and we have lots of solar heating of the suns getting a higher in the sky. Now right now as we hold this conversation at that excessive heat watch it will probably be upgraded to a warning later on today this kicks into effect in any case by tomorrow afternoon with us all this weekend now were talking about coverage in the east bay thats over the east bay hills Santa Clara County you can see getting involved in this in the south bay, sometimes they dont always get. Included in this
Hotter temperatures all in all that means excessive heat warnings in effect for areas in pink here thats our inland areas across the day temperatures in excess of a 100 degrees for these areas and also looking at warm overnight lows. Orange areas on the map those areas in the 90s for daytime highs today. Still seeing some cloud cover still feeling that humidity as youre stepping outside less and less of that to the afternoon as our daytime highs eventually pushed upwards on up into the triple digits for antioch livermore concord morgan hill nap and nevado 90s for most of the rest of the bay. Ive got more on your forecast still ahead daria. Lets keep this going and to our Team Coverage now lets head out to will tran talking about where you can cool off. And the bay area in pleasanton right now. Well. There are many locations all over the bay area for those who dont have airconditioning and many apartments they dont come with a ciso if thats you help is on the way there is a cooling cent
The one behind me sherman school. An example because these schools are in county thats on the governors watch list and now those schools can apply for this were application as well. But they may have to jump through a few more hoops than the other schools. Theyre going to have to have major discussions like public hearings with parents other schools in the county and county Health Officers to see if its a good idea to reopen for in person classes when schools apply for the waiver they have to develop plans for Health Screenings you can see some of the protocols on your screen Contact Tracing physical distancing testing Face Coverings will be required inside schools. The state says schools will need to implement a protocol of an outbreak occurs. And make sure to switch back to Distance Learning and have a plan to switch back to Distance Learning if need be once the waiver application is sent in the state will review decide if an Elementary School should reopen. Officials also gave an up