Lnu complex in the north bay is up 5 from yesterday to 27 understand. The scu nightling complex in the east and south base is 15 . And the czu complex is up to 17 containment. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Although the progress is encouraging the widespread wildfires are still taking a very dramatic toll. Many people evacuated from the czu fires are trying to determine if their homes are still standing. The good news is that cal fire late today lifted evacuation warnings for santa clara county. Abc news is live just south of the fires in davenport. Reporter we spoke with so many families today who dont know if their homes are still there, if their family heirlooms are there or if they will have a commune to come home to. Those stories are a reality for many families forced from their homes. We spoke the many of them east of where we are right now where many of the hot spots are still burning. Want to point out. Notice the haze stretching into the santa cruz mountains. It is significantly better than what it was in this area 48 hours. Earlier today we drove through bonny doon into davenport where we saw the steep rugged terrain fire crews are dealing with. Shot spots lining swanton creek road where most of this neighborhood was destroyed. All thats viz sbl burnt down homes next to downed power lines. This family barely made it out in time. We were on adrenaline, sort of like in survival mode. It is really sinking in now. All our neighbors lost their homes. I am in a book club and three people have lost their homes. Reporter cal fire have advised people to stay out of the area. The couples home is an example of that. Large redwoods have fallen into the middle of their road. We drove into the steep terrain east of us. When there is positive news, we certainly want to share it with you. Not only is this cooler air helping the with fire fight, but it is also much easier to breathe than it was 48 in those areas that were hit the hardest. Certainly heart breaking for those people struggling to determine if they will have somewhere to come home to. We spoke to a woman in bonny doon who was told her entire neighborhood was destroyed, including her home but she didnt want to believe it because it is just so heart breaking. She wants to see it with her own ice. It is really a struggling time. Certainly, the Recovery Process is a long road ahead. Live in davenport, stephanie sierra abc7 news. It certainly is, thank you stephanie. The scu lightning complex burned 336,000 acres making it the second large nest california history. It is massive. It covers seven kourns including alameda and contra costa in the bay area. 27 structures are currently threatened by the flames. It has already destroyed 20 structures and damaged six others. The lnu there was an update later. 5,000 residents in Sonoma County remain under a Evacuation Order. The county has three reentry stations today. The woodward fire in western marin county is now 2,739 acres burned and 5 contained. A long way to go there. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard is on the life fire lines live tonight with what is happening. Cornell. Reporter dan, heavy smoke in the area right now. Winds have certainly picked up making this fire come alive just in the last couple of hours. The fire burning on other side of those trees on a ridge not far from the point reyes investor center, where we are. Crews are trying to stop the fire. There is a mandatory Evacuation Order for silver hills road and fox drive in Inverness Park. U. S. Forest Service Crews digging in and setting backfires to meet the woodward fire head on up the ridge and protect the nearby point reyes visitors center. I am worried about it. It goes up and down. Reporter kevin and his family live near the fireline in Inverness Park is this we are packed up already. Reporter ingrid says most of her neighbors have packed up and gone as the fire moves closer to homes. The line has changed quite a bichlt it is scary but we have got to adapt to it well. And make the best of it. We have eyes down here looking upgrade. This is division zulu. Reporter on the ridge, these crews strategize a game plan. They are battling unique challenges inside this national park. Heavy fog in the morning and heavy winds in the afternoon helping to move the fire along. There are some areas that are very difficult for to us get our hand crews into. Luckily we have the support of errey sources and they are doing a wonderful job. Reporter fire crews continue to do rapid fire water drops from choppers when visibility allows. Right now the visibility is not good. But we can hear the choppers making water drops not far from where we are right now. Just in the last hour, we have counted at least 25 water drops, certainly good news. There is a evacuation warning in effect now for the towns of owe li lima, inverns and sea haven. Officials say folks living in those areas should have a go back ready just in case. Abc7 Cornell Barnard. In napa county residents of a burned Mobile Home Park called Spanish Villa have not yet seen the damage. As nbc 7 newss Wayne Freedman explains, destruction is everywhere. Reporter a reunion this morning in the court yard of a hotel. We have each other. Reporter along with memories of what used to be a quiet modest life in the spanish flat mobile villa near lake berryessa. Space 21 represents 40 years this womans life. Never thought it would happen. I thought we would be able to go back home. That they would save it. But not this time. Reporter residents had received warnings two days of them. But it seemed at the time that the blaze was still a long way off. Everything is gone. Reporter heres how it looked after those frantic few minutes after the hennessey fire advanced. Dan davenport had gone door to got back once i got beyond the bridges i saw mush rim clouds and i knew everything was gone. 47 of 50 homes burned. Now the hardest part. Most residents here did not have insurance. Not even those who owned their units. The red cross says they can stay at the hotel as long as they need. For michelle and others, that may be a while. I dont know. I dont know. Reporter now one last poignant fact. The night that fire destroyed michelles life, it was her 63rd birthday. From napa county, Wayne Freedman, abc7 news. With the wildfires affecting our local air quality so significantly many who work outside are really having a tough time. That includes postal carriers. Chris nguyen is in south bay with more on the efforts under way now to protect them. Reporter you have likely heard the unofficial motto of the United States postal service, neither rain, nor snowe nor sleet nor hale shall keep the postmen from their local rounds. Smoke can be added to the list as wildfires continue to burn. But there are concerns as mail carriers work up to 12 hours outside in a day. Within an hour we can see an increase in ambulance calls for respiratory and cardiac problems. Reporter most mail trucks have a window that remains open for carriers to have easy access to mailboxes. The wife of a south bay postal worker wrote us to saying there are no indoor restaurants open where they can go to get releaf during a leverage period. Our government is trying to protect fire firefighters but nobody is looking out for our postal workers. Abc spoke to usps officials who said they received n 95 masks for all postal carriers who ask for them. Another order has been placed. It is good news. They take pride in the job they do. They want to continue providing the best service they cant the dmended enough for dealing with what they are dealing with right now. Reporter their health top of minds as these carriers seek protection from the smoke. Abc7 news. A spare the air alert has been extended because of the fires. You see the smokey skies from this live look in solano county. We will have more on that next. Plus kids and coronavirus. Why San Francisco is not testing minors for covid. And the democrats turned it into a lands of discarded heroin needles and parks. Gavin newsoms exwife paints california as a hell hole for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub . Grubhubs gonna reward you for that with a 5 off perk. doorbell rings [crowd] grubhub fireworks exploding good news for Alameda County. Starting friday, Alameda County residents can begin cutting their hair and getting their nails done, at least in an outdoor seth. Barbershops nail salons and beauty salons can reopen and people can go to water parks and outdoor swimming pools. Getting tested for covid19 just got harder. Abc7 news explains. Reporter get tested San Francisco is service free of charge allowing people to get tested for covid19. The embarcadero and soma test sites require that a patient be 18 and older. The website also feature as state of california testing site for children. It states clearly that minors under 18 can be tested at city college. We were directed to the Student Health center but found that it had been closed without a reason. The San Francisco Health Department told us that site has been moved to treasure island. We know that the cdc does not recommend widespread testing at schools calling it costly and impractical because it doesnt necessarily reduce the risk of infection. It is less clear what a positive covid test means, especially in a younger kid. Reporter a new study if Childrens Hospital shows there is a way to calculate the risk of infection among children. Researchers tested 33,000 children in 28 hospitals nationwide. About 0. 65 of them tested positive. Using that data and a mathematical equation they are now able to estimate the number of infected students who might be in a classroom. This doctor from the pediatric decision at ucsf painted a scenario with 30 students in a classroom. The rate at which you have asymptomatic kids with the infection is 1 , there is actually about a 30 chance at least one kid in that group of 30 will have asymptomatic infection. Reporter that information may help schools determine whether it is safe for students to return. In San Francisco, lyanne melendez. Hi, everyone. Lets take a look at a live picture from our san jose 87 picture. The shark tank is barely visible because of heavy smoke. The smoke has been fluctuating throughout the day. If you were with us last night the smoke got blown away. Air quality began to improve. Now it is back downhill again. A spare the air alert has been extended through friday now. Poor to unhealthy air quality during that time period. Saturday looks mod rare air quality, perhaps a slight shift in wind. Fog along the shore line. That helped along with the sea breeze to keep temperatures down. Winds come from the west in San Francisco at 21 miles per hour. That may help improve thing for parts of the bay area. I want to show you the lnu lightning complex fire conditions. It is cooler today, which has helped the firefighters. Winds are coming up a little bit. This is our typical sea breeze for this time of year. Around the woodward fire it is cool, humid is up to 90 and the wind is out of the south which is good because it transfers moist air into the area. Winds are out of the west southwest near the czu lightning complex fire. At 15. And humidity standing at 74 . San jose, livermore, oakland, unhealthy, poor air quality from concord to fapa. One last stop. A combination of good to poor and unhealthy along the mendocino coast. East bay hills, cant see mount diablo because the smoke is thick. Half moon bay, 61 degrees. 88 in concord. 84 in livermore. The breeze certainly helping to mix thing out a bit. Overnight tonight the fog will fill back in. We may see spotty drizzle tomorrow morning. Fog pulls back to the coastline in the afternoon then just hangs around. Our typical pattern this time of the year. Temperatures in the morning, low 50s to upper 60s. Expect hazy conditions. In the afternoon the hayes and smoke lingers. Numbers close to today, mid 60s to low 90s. Heres your accuweather sevenday forecast. Minor warming thursday. Then it hooetsds heats up inland. Friday, upper 90s. Then it turns cooler as we head into the weekend. Dan and ama . Thanks sandhya. Gavin newsoms exwire uses california as a cautionary tale at the Republican National convention. Did the if you warrant to see the socialist biden harris for our country, just take a look at california. It is a place of immense wealth. Immeasurable innovation, an immaculate environment. And the democrats turned it into a land of discarded heroin needles and parks, riots in streets, and blackouts in homes. That was former San Francisco first Lady Kimberly with a fiery speech at the Republican National Convention Last night. Abc news contributor phil matier is here to talk about it. Fiery to say the least. Kimberly gill foil has never been shy about expressing herself. She is a San Francisco native, a californian. She was basically talking about a lot of the things that you and i have been reporting about on the streets of San Francisco and other areas of california, the homeless, the open use of drugs. Issues about where they are going as a society. All of these things she laid out, clearly in a negative way. It is one thing if you or i or somebody within california talks about it this way. But it doesnt necessarily feel comfortable especially for democrats when it is shot back in their faces through the republican convention. As i said kimberly knows what she is talking about. She was a former prosecutor here at the San Francisco district attorneys office. Before she met and married then supervisor gavin newsom who went on to become mayor. She has been active in the area a long time. Although more recently she was building her telephones career and began dating trump jr. And in the process became one of the biggest fundraisers for the trump reelection drive. Some of the fundraisers included visits to San Francisco which spark controversy. It is interesting to note while the controversy rages between the democrats, the state of california or the state california is in, kimberly, and such, her presence with the trump family might actually be one of the reasons that california is getting, well a good shake from the white house. Listen to gavin newsom talking about his relationship with donald trump when cameras arent on him. I maintain a strong personal relationship with the Vice President w the president. And i can only say this. And i say this on many many occasions. There is not one phone call that i have made to the president where he hasnt quickly responded. Speaking of phone calls, gavin and kimberly maintain ties, this is a political family story arc political soap opera story, one thats going from San Francisco to the National Stage once again. Phil we have 20 or 30 seconds, if you can. One wonders, was there a little bit of a shot at her exhusband in that comment, a. And b, it will certainly resonate with Donald Trumps base. Will it help any democrats who may be on the fence . It depends on where you are looking at it, dan. This convention is aimed not so much at centers but is reinforcing the base. Kimberly took a shot at gavin newsom. I have been around him as well privately. Shes not afraid to say what she thinks. And she definitely likes the attention. It was a shot last night, to be sure. Phil, thanks very much. Saying thank you to firefighters. It has definitely become a thing. You will see how next. An army family who is always at the ready. So when they got a little surprise. Two . They didnt panic. They got a bigger car for their soontobebigger family. After shopping around for insurance, they called usaa who helped find the right coverage for them and even some muchneeded savings. That was the easy part. Usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it easy. vo i have the best job in thee world. Ay liz and mike need it i get to remind people of their grandmothers conchitas. Give the little kids cookies. And celebrate birthdays with all our neighbors. Hopefully, well be part of this community for many, many more years. 6 00, we will take you live to cal fires even update. Plus the latest up to the minute information on all of the wildfires burning. Also, the growing concern for the actually elk inside point race, not far from the woodward fire. Firefighters look into the conditions advocates say are putting the herd at risk. Plus no customers in there. Routine police work. Or racial profiling . The Early Morning confrontation in tiberon that has a Business Owner crying foul. And the whole thing is captured on videotape. You will be able to judge for yourself. All coming up tonight at 6 00. Hope you will join us then. Finally here tonight, ama, Fire Fighters are feeling the love . They are, dan. Well deserved. Calfire posted these images saying crews working on the czu fire are tired but every time they stop they get childrens letters, flowers, and thank yous on their engine. They appreciate the outpouring. This morning people cheered and held signs for First Responders as crews left to go to work. That is so sweet. And the words vaca stgs arebl gratitude do a lot to boost morale. There you see that vacastrong. Great appreciation for your Fire Fighters, working so hard. I am dan ashley. Im ama daetz. For all of us here, thank you fo tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. Hurricane laura gaining strength, about to slam into the u. S. , potentially as a major category 3 hurricane. The deadly hurricane taking aim at texas and louisiana. Expected to make landfall tomorrow as that cat 3. Winds up to 115 miles per hour. States of emergency already in place tonight. Massive evacuations under way for more than 500,000 people. Meteorologist rob marciano in the storm zone with the newest timing and track tonight. New images of the Police Shooting of jacob blake. What it shows beforehand. The family tonight saying blake was shot seven times in the back. Reaching into his suv, his three young sons in the backseat. His parents emotional today, saying their son is now paralyzed from the waist down. And the family now pleading for an end to the violent protests
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