Is much larger. You can see it over my shoulder. The hen see fire is moving. It didnt have air support today. Those resources had to go to other areas that need the help even more. First came the smoke. Then a few licks of flames. Then they served notice. After a quiet note, this would be a day for moving and moving fast. Neil and his wife kathleen knew all about that firsthand. Looked down at the window and theres a small area of fire. It was rapidly increasing in size. They live a few yards from the Lightning Strike that started all this. It was thunder and lightning all evening. It really got loud. What had been one fire yesterday became three this morning. With the gamble fire and now the 155. Yesterday toward the end of the day, 155 and gamble were a couple hundred acres. Overnight they yue to 4,500 and 5,000, respectively. From 60 known line strikes yesterday. There are all little spots, smoking up there. Even some trees in the crotch at the bottom where they come out of ground. There are little flames there. Reporter little flames that with a puff of wind can turn into big ones. One big complication. No air support to fight the flames. It was all diverted. The fires burned to the wild lands unabated. What had been a line of flames barreled down the mountain. For a while they threatened but never did cut off highway 128. Firefighters could do little more than watch and monitor. And that just one small drama among many today in a state that feels inundated by flames. A few moments ago, we mentioned the evacuation orders. Let me give you the information less than an hour ago. In the community of circle oaks, to Wooden Valley road. In theate las peak area from bubbly wells pet cemetery and from loma vista road. All those areas now under mandatory evacuations as the fires continue to move. Wayne freedman. Abc7 news. Now tom breaking news in San Mateo County. Near la honda and sam Mcdonald Park are closed because of the flames. An evacuation warning has been issued, meaning people may have to flee their homes at any moment. Luz pena is live on the scene there. Luz in. Reporter yeah. Weve spoken to several residents who are now packing up and gearing up to evacuate. You can see the flames raging right behind us. The white smoke expanding through the ridge. You can see flames raging as they approach a community of 200 to 300 people. Were flying over the fire. You can see the flames and pagd throughout the area. Cal fire confirmed, this fire is directly imtwo major communities. Loma mar. It is presumed it started sunday morning. Firefighters responded to 22 fires throughout this region. Many residents have been documenting the size of the blaze since sunday. Heres one of the residents, thomas marks. Judging by that, at least twice from last night, a little more than that. And that is substantially larger. Reporter 60 homes, their power went out around 2 30 a. M. On sunday and they just got it back around 2 15 today. This community is pretty tight knit. Theyve been communicating through radio. Theyre trying to stay connected and tell each other to evacuate. Theyre not feeling safe around here. We spoke to several who had their kids in their cars gearing up to get out of the area. Luz pena. Abc7 news. Thank you so much. Were just looking at all that smoke rising behind you. Air quality already bad with spare the air. Lets check in with Spencer Christian and take clos mentio increase in particulate matter because of the extended heat wave. We had a spare the air today and now we have it extended until tomorrow because we have the smoke from the fires. So we expect the air quality in the inland east bay and the santa clara valley. That could change with more smoke billowing into the atmosphere. Lets get a look at the conditions. Our computers have been a little slow. You can see in the area of the fire near la honda, dangerously low, the wind is generally light there. Even though it is up to sixmilesperhour. The smoke is basically lifting directly upward. Meanwhile, in the north bay, those two fires, relative humidity, 23 with 11mileperhour gusts so the winds there is a little stronger. Also stronger gusts in the fire, near st. Helena with gusts to 17 miles an hour. Even with the resultly brisk wind breezes around the bay area. Ill give you a look at surface winds. It is quite breezy generally. The winds is coming out of various directions. Breezy and variable. The smoke is going to continue to lift into the area and drag the air quality down so long as those fires are burning. Ill have more later. All right. Thank you. Evacuation orders remain in place for the deer zone fire on the east side in contra costa county. It is one of several fires sparked. People who live along marsh creek have been told to leave. This fire has burned more than 1,400 acres. The river fire has grown to more than 4,000 acres. Six buildings have been destroyed and evacuation orders are still in effect. Four firefighters have been hurt. The injuries are due to the intense heat wave that has been gripping california. Cal fire said lightning sparked sunday morning. It is 10 contained. Now to coronavirus and our effort to build a better bay area and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Obviously a huge issue today. Dr. Anthony fauci, the face of the federal governments virus response team, gave an update for an event from San Franciscos Commonwealth Club and he said wave long way to go before we can get the infection rates down. Dr. Anthony fauci said right now, the highest priority for the United States is to successfully develop more than one vaccine for covid19. Which i think will be essential if we really want to put a durable end to this pandemic. Before there is a vaccine, he said the problem is getting the whole country to in fact what he described as a uniform consistent way before we can open up the economy. The Biggest Issue is that the United States is a big country. Not just geographically but also in terms of demographics. You cant look at the United States just as a whole when there are so many areas having different experiences. He says the widean howvid19 also makes it hard for people to understand just how severe the pandemic really is. He said 40 of people infected have no symptoms while others are sick for a few days or weeks. Yet others are hospitalized. So you dont have a uniform threat or a uniform concern and anxiety in the population. He described the coronavirus as a moving target. He said the assumption in if he can and march have changed from new research in july and august which also adds to much of the countrys scepticism. He warns Research Shows longer recovery times and medical reports of individuals who have recovered but who now suffer from cardiovascular problems or neurological abnormalities. There were things we didnt imagine. This idea, if it doesnt kill you are, youre okay. Were going on start modifying that a fair amount. In San Francisco, abc7 news. Community leaders in San Franciscos china town expressing concern over a report in spike in covid19 cases at single room occupancy buildings there. From june 3 into august 13th, we increased more than ten times. So if you follow this theory in the future, we dont know. We are looking at this. The numbers come following an investigation of the single room occupancy groups by a local chinese newspaper. Leaders are calling on the city to provide more funning and engagement with the community to help battle the virus. Weve reached out to the Health Department but have yet to hear back. Each us have had to cope with the pandemic in our own way. Part of our focus building a better bay area, david louie outlines who is coping well and who is not. Orter lk a ofid19 is generatial split on e are coping. The vast majority of covid19 deaths have been among seniors. Yet a National Survey conducted by Edwards Jones and age wave says twice as many young people say theyre not coping well with the pandemic compared to their elders. 24 of genz and millennials. Bay area psychologist and jaren, the uncertainty of a job path, of the gig economy. Flying through your life without certain benefits. The absence of savings. Seniors said theyre more worried about alzheimers than getting infected with covid19. Those in their teens through their 30s say the pandemic has caused a Mental Health decline. 37 among genz, 27 of millennials, 15 of the boomers and 8 of the silent generation. We dont realize that some of the most valuable assets you have within yourself are maturity, wisdom, and most definitely resilience. 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Reporter this national day of action, a response to reason cuts announced by the newly announced postmaster louis dejoy. In my entire career, first class parcels have never been delayed. This is totally unusual. It is against our contract. Im hearing from our members mail is being left unworked. Sitting on the work room floors. Reporter just moments before the conference, they said this statement. A void any appearance, i am suspending all changes. There will be no change in retail hours. No removal of blue boxes. No Mail Processing facilities closed and approved overtime continues. I dont frankly trust the postmaster general, what em, if hes sincere about it, it means the bully has backed off. Reporter President Trump has been critical of the financial woes of the Postal Service and has repeatedly kauft out on its delivery of the ballot votes. To expect the u. S. He Postal Service to deliver an election in 80 days or so is just i dont understand the pale. Reporter the house is yet to return on saturday to vote on the 25 billion legislation. Pelosi expressed her confidence to deliver the vote but says the if you saiding is men to be a life line. Trump says pelosi is just playing games with this. I dont think there was a political aspect tis e republi i ntivm any reason to ere he t office. Reporter abc7 news. Time now for consumer news. When i hear refunds, my ears perk up. Michael finney is here to talk more about the refunds. This is really a restitution to about 4,000, 4,500 Small Businesses being ripped off. The federal trade commission is the one sending out the checks. This is very good news. They said telemarketers called Small Businesses, claiming to be on behalf of google. The business would be delisted if a field is not paid. Now the businesses will receive about 160 each in restitution. Weve been spending more money on our homes during the pandemic. Of that on do it yourself projects. Homes at Home Depot Stores were up 25 with the company racking in more than 38 billion last quarter. Thats nearly 8 billion more than the same quarter last year. Now, some of that money certainly came from those federal stimulus checks. A lot of it was saved for a rainy day. About onethird put the checks, 15 mostly spent the money. Many people who did spent their money said it wasnt on big ticket items or anything fun. It was on food and personal care. People were not messing around with this money. They were treating it very, very seriously. As they should. Thank you. Weve been spending more money at home during the pandemic, right . Yeah. It seems like a lot of people are. Thats for sure. Lets move on. A stage two power emergency declared today. Yeah. That means that rotating Power Outages are imminent this afternoon. The California Independent system operators are asking that you conserve now to try to relieve any stress on the grid. We have a serious situation, especially with a flex alert in effect until 10 00 tonight. And everybody is just hoping they can survive the heat. Lets get to Spencer Christian. Weve got the excessive heat warning, the terms ofs around triple digits and fires raging. It is a combination of events thats not good for any of us. It is all the bad weather news. We start with live doppler 7. We move to the 24hour temperature change. It is warmer today just with everywhere. 7 warmer in novato. 10 degrees warmer in San Francisco. 6 degrees warmer and breezy all around the bay area. But it is not cooling things down. Look at this view looking northward from sutro tower, lifting into the air and contributing to poorer air quality. 95, redwood city, 104, gilroy, 68 at half moon bay. From the goligoski, loop at the smoke. Theyre clouds of smoke. And look at how hot it is in the northeast north and the east. Only 92 in napa. Thats the cool spot. 103 in fairfield. 106 in concord. 104 in livermore. The view from mt. Tam. Now we can see the smoke there the San Mateo County fires. Weve got hazardous conditions. Brief relief on thursday and a little cooldown. It wont last very long. Hot weather will return. An excessive heat warning remains in effect for the entire bay area until 9 00 tomorrow night. A high risk of heatrelated illness. The heat warning will expire at 8 00 tonight. Lets look at our air quarl. Today is a spare the air day. Tomorrow as well. It could change as more smoke billows into the atmosphere. A very, very shallow bit of a marine layer that will havertfl. No significant cooling influence on us. Lets take a look at overnight conditions. Low temperatures will be mainly in the mid 60s to low 70s. So another mild day. Mur 80s around the bayshore line. Not as high as today. Where we had highs of 104, tomorrow, 99 to2. It will me frie nt digit readings starting on saturday. We have many more days of hot weather coming our way. Weve been warned. Thank you. 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Together, we can save energy and money. Try closing your shades during the day. Setting your ac to 78 or higher. Or cooling off with a fan when you can. United we are always stronger. Stay well, california, and keep it golden. Abc7 news is committed to building a better bay area. One of the pillars were focusing on is the economy and what changes mean for your family. Home sales in the bay area tip to accelerate. There are actually far fewer homes listed for sale but prices are skyrocketing in some parts of the east bay by as much as 22 . Interest rates so low, driving a lot of that. Heres leslie brinkley. Reporter real estate prices are zooming up in the east bay despite a continued lack in dan last night with nine offers, all over the asking price. I got two buyers under contract. Both had to compete with six offers. A colleague of mine had final. Reporter what is behind it 2019 to july 2020. Down 47 in danville. 62 in hayward. Down 70 in clayton. Thats fueling price increases year over year. Up 6 to 9 through 880 corridor. Up 18 in el cerrito and 22 in Pleasant Hill according to the association of realtors. The suburbs are still the draw yards. We lived in the marina district. I found that there were probably four moving trucks a day. Two to four. We just kept a running tally. Reporter this family traded for a home in alamo. Theyre certainly more flexible with t