And that crew is picking up or the diablo range as our should be picking up right now. That is the slower drive. Temperatures have been in the 60s and 70s. We still have closures for mike, we have more people highway 9 and highway 1 over evacuating this there because of the fire where kris is monitoring and also more closures. Updates on the overall lols should stay out of the areas hi situation, laura. Thats right. Its been a very busy overnight and a very busy morning. Your map. We have reporters covering it all. Were talking about the area as you saw fires throughout the bay mt. Hamilton road and alum rock area and Cierra Johnson is covering what is going on in vacaville and we know a pg e worker has died and kris sanchez is covering what is going on in we look at closures for highway santa cruz county. Lets start out with bob redell 9 and the freeways you see on in san jose and weve been the map, though, theyre all in the greens for your commute. Talking about the evacuations the north bay, the good news is that took place in alum rock that i80 reopened about 8 00 there and you can see this fire p. M. Last night. We havent had any further growing, bob. Actually, its hard to see closures but that fire still in the area, marcus. With the light around us, but hand it right back to you. You can see t gfoot hills espec thank you. It is a jam packed morning here. We have you covered on every end of the bay area. Hamilton or you could earlier. Kris sanchez in santa cruz the scu lightning complex. County and bob redell in san jose and we want to begin with extending from east and north bay and sunol and here into Santa Clara County and take a Cierra Johnson. Grim news from there this look from our downtown camera morning. Yes, good morning. Grim news, in fact we have located in downtown san jose and learned that a worker with pg e you can see the glow as the fire has been killed helping those moves its way along the roadway firefighters in this fire out in and mt. Hamilton where its burning and appears to now have vacaville which is soloa solawn moved to perhaps the back side. Also want to show you of mt. Ha. This was shot from the firefighters from san luis county. Obispo. One of many Fire Departments on the side of the freeway, you called in to help the local can see when the fire jumped the firefighters put these fires freeway are still burning. Its such a surreal sight. Out. The slo firefighters were since weve been standing here, weve seen some of those embers spread creating smaller pockets protecting structures but when you look at that video, i want of fire and that gives you an idea of how bad things are in you to Pay Attention to how steep that terrain is. This community. Now, we do have some video that one thing cal train has been saying is very difficult. We gathered in the overnight hours. You can see things are rough this terrain is steep and inaccessible and also a number here. Sacramento and according t of areas where theres no previous fire history. The fuel there and theyre old fire, this fire is zero percent and more established and theyre contained and burned about dry. Very dry, which makesfor combus 120,000 acres for that napa and solano counties. Kari was mentioning earlier you fires. The current numbers are that the fire has burned through over 100 can smell the smoke throughout or, excuse me, 102,000 acres. The bay and i still smelled it just 5 contained. When i woke up in the city. Youll recall 36 hours ago and how powerful the fires are and reporting on the scu lightning how strong those winds are. The entire town near this area fire complex, lightning complex, is on notes for evacuation. They have not pulled the 25,000 acres have burned. Trigger, but folks are preparing to leave, if they need to. You can see the thing has quadrupled in size. Reporting live here in san jose, bob redell today in the bay. Take a listen to what one woman had to say about these fires santa cruz and San Mateo County thousands of people are raging through her community. The fire was roared. Sleeping in their cars at a friends home or familys home. It was you could hear trees this is after being ordered out of their home because of the czu fire zone. Falling. It was the scariest thing i have unfortunately, some of those homes have been destroyed. Ever been in. Kris sanchez is live this morning in scots valley. Where the latest has been thats something we noticed when we were out here yesterday. Happening. Fire does have a sound. You get the latest information on what happened overnight, we heard a lot of crackling and a lot of animals screeching in kris. Well, hi, marcus. Fear and a lot of trees just well get an update from cal randomly snapping as ewoo wewe fire santa cruz at 6 00 this morning and bob was talking driving through vacaville the about the reinforcements from hot spots in the middle of the other Fire Departments. Freeway an indication of how hot these fires are. We are seeing Law Enforcement they are receiving some assistance from firefighters reinforcement. From San Francisco and have been oakland pd and weve seen officers from the santa cruz out here to help knock down that blaze. We also heard the workers from Sheriff Department and alameda pg e are spraying those poles Sheriff Department and they are now going to assist with evacuations and road closures. So, some other assistance coming with fire retardant to help them to this area, as well. Not fall and snap. But we know that the fire it is good to take caution. Doesnt care whos here. Its just hopping from spot to were live in vacaville, cierra spot. Tossing embers into the sky and johnson, today in the bay. Landing on communities. Thanks so much for that update. This is what happened in bonny one of many fires burning in doon. Many of those structures that santa cruz and san mateo you see burning there in the counties meantime, tens of video, those are homes. Thousands of people are sleeping they are Single Family homes and people will not have any place in their cars. To return to. Theyre maybe at a friend or this is the 10,000 block of familys home if they can find empire grade road. Its also empire grade road near one after being ordered out of vices road. The czu fire zone. Cars, other structures also engulfed and we can confirm that today in the bay kris sanchez as of midnight the count was 20 joins us live in scots Valley Structures destroyed. With the overnight fire fight 22,000 people are still under that happened there. Evacuation orders. It would be so nice if they we talked with people who drove could make some progress on out on their own early. This, but real ea tough we talked with other folks who conditions, kris. Drove out. One man who drove out until his you heard Cierra Johnson the car caught fire. Set fires and same thing coming through the woods and, described here. One fire captain said embers the man, it was really scary. Size of a Chocolate Chip Cookie i thought i was going to die. That were up and over and i thought it was the end and i was going to get cooked. Setting other fires. Thats how a lot of smaller spot he told us he suddenly felt fires are starting that are threatening home. Something in the glove compartment exploding and he we want to show you what happened overnight in bonny doon knew he had to get out of his some people will not be able to go back home when this is all over. Car and hike out and he had his little rabbit with him and countless homes burning there. Picked up by a firefighter and 10,000 block of empire grade rescued that way. Road and also empire grade road a lot of folks avoiding shelters saying it is better to stay in near vices road. Their cars or friends or family cars, other structures also or hotels just because they want to avoid contracting covid on engulfed. As of about midnight, wetures t top of all of this. All areas west of 17 are on evacuation warnings. Includes homes that were burned. If youre there, be ready. 22,000 people under evacuation Evacuation Centers are open at orders and one property manager who chose to stay after the fairgrounds. Evacuating everybody else. He says hes going to do fire this is a critical warning not to wait and because cal fire assessment damage for pg e and says that this fire is still very erratic and spot fires are cdf. Popping up where those embers ive been through way worst are falling and also we know things in my life. So far this is nothing. You cant even hear or see that the cal fire cant fly the flames at this point. Fire, meaning they cant get a yeah. I wouldnt say im not worried, really good picture of how big im certainly worried. It is and how farn what directi. That its going to get down here into the valley and if it hits so, if you get that warning or the valley and locks everybody if you get that order to in, all the houses are gone, for sure. Evacuate, just do it. So, thats what youre in scotts valley, kris sanchez, talking about. That person is not even a today in the bay. Professional cal fire telling us you have to heed the warning. This is really erratic fire thank you very much. Speaking of trying to get a better picture of. Behavior and all areas west of look at this time lapsed video 17 are on evacuation warnings. From overnight showing the flames spreading so quickly. Even people not out of their homes yet are being warned to they approached pg es camera up at bonny doon. Have that threeday go bag ready to go. In fact, like many of the we talked with some folks who cameras that weve seen out drove out in their own cars. We caught up with one man who there, it looks like the flames completely destroyed them. Drove out until his car caught breaking news for you this fire. He got out of his car and then morning, pg e now confirming to tried to hike out of the danger us that one of their workers has zone until he was picked up by a died while assisting in the fire firefighter. So, definitely, if you get a surrounding vacaville. That utility says that it warning to evacuate, do that so you dont find yourself in a happened when that worker was trying to help first responders. Similar situation. There are two Evacuation Centers its believed to be the first death of this fire fight. Open for this particular fire. The Santa Clara County right now we want to go live to Cierra Johnson live in vacaville fairgrounds in watsonville and also the Civic Auditorium in this morning. Santa cruz. Cierra . Good morning. But because of covid, a lot of very sad news and speaks to how dangerous the situation is. Folks are choosing to stay in i heard kris mentioning some of their cars with their animals those embers spreading and and friends and family going to making those hot spots. Thats exactly what we have here hotels because they dont want on 80 on the westbound side and to risk one disaster on top of another one. Kris sanchez, today in the weve seen these hot spots just continue to travel along that bay. It is quite amazing. This is all happening, as you median. This after last night the fire mentioned, right in the middle jumped from the west side to the of the pandemic. Thank you for the latest, kris. East side of this freeway. Now, the fire has been raging for days now and the folks here cal fire posting it to still working to evacuate. Twitter, this is actually the we have some video from the view from inside the helicopter overnight hours. Flying over the empire grade in this incredible scene there Boulder Creek in santa cruz really just a fire storm in vacaville. We learned there are about 170 county. The fire that kris was just talking about. Structures that were destroyed flames burning up trees. Because of that fire. This is what firefighters are up 50 more were damaged. Against. Want to give you another aerial at last count, 120,000 acres view from over uc santa cruz. Throughout napa, solano and cal this video taken by jack ocalaghan. Shows that really eerie orange glow over the santa cruz fire saying this is at 0 mountains. And all that glow in the south bay was visible, as well. Containment. Take a listen to what one family in fact, if youre waking up that did have to evacuate had to this morning in the south bay, you may be seeing flames in the say about this entire situation. Its just terrible. What else is going to be next hills above san jose, as well. A lot of ash in the air. This year . Want to check in with bob its terrible. But we also think theyre lucky. Redell. He is live in alan people who lose their house and had no time to get out. We had an hour. So, just if youre out here, rock. The smoke and the ash is so please use caution. Thick. If youre looking towards mt. You can see those spots in the hamilton, you might be able to middle of the freeway still see that glow. Burning. An indication of just how bad we were able to see it until maybe 30, 45 minutes ago. Things are out here. There is a little relief coming we believe that fire is now in the form of firefighters from San Francisco. Burning on the back side. You can certainly see it from theyre coming in to help fight downtown san jose if youre near that fire, but as chrkris the upper tall building. Were looking east towards mt. Mentioned, it doesnt matter who comes to fight the fire. Hamilton and you should be able we all need to be aware. To see at least one large area that is glowing on top of the pg e is in the area spraying mountain. Those poles down with the fire that forces one of several retardant to prevent things falling down. Fires, 20 of them that are part a big effort solano of this scu complex fire that erous scene. Till a very, very was labeled by cal fire. Were live near vacaville, started by that Lightning Storm sunday morning, this past Cierra Johnson. Sunday. You have fires burning here in live look outside for you right now. If youve been out there, you Santa Clara County as you head north in the sunol area and the know that weather is not preserve and even further north cooperating as far as the air in brentwood and farther east in quality out there. That smoke and ash we have seen. The Central Valley in san a major presence across the bay joaquin county. Right now the acreage is at area now because of all the 105,000 acres. Fires. We want to look at the air district air quality map. You can see there just about yesterday it was at 85,000 and everywhere in brown indicating the day before that, 25,000. The poorest air quality. A lot of growth in that fire here in the bay area, and, unfortunately, only 5 meteorologist kari hall monitoring that and weve really contained. Now, cal fire called in a lot of seen a lot of those areas and we have poor air quality. Really unhealthy. Mutual aide including from down yeah, it was so bad south in san luis obispo. Yesterday. And we are still looking at some unhealthy air quality for today. They put out on twitter. As we look at these numbers, we this is a fire crew on top of are seeing measures how much of mt. Hamilton. That particulate matter and what you could see them protecting some Historic Structures. Is tossed in the air due to that we know that the fire has burned smoke and how does it affect up there. You . If youre sensitive, if you have we know the observatory is up there and we dont know how breathing problems, if youre close it came to the observatory but i know it came close to some seeing the yellow or orange where you are, its really going Historic Structures that are to affect you. Close to the observatory based but then when it starts to get to the unhealthy range where on the fact that im looking at this video and ive been up it make you start to feel there and it looks familiar to me. We dont have any reports of sick if you have prolonged structure damage and any of these fires that are part of the exposure to this. Limit your time outside anywhere from san rafael to the east bay scu lightning comflplex which i down to the south bay especially in the south bay today. Great news. A number of homes threatened and well talk about the temperatures were expecting. Evacuations in effect in the thats coming up in a few east bay hills. Minutes. Mike, what is happening out there on the roads . Go on our website for a list of well, kari, were seeing which roads homeowners are being changes for the commute and also asked to leave. The continued closures because reporting live in san jose, bob of the fire zone. Lets take you out for a live redell. Look for san jose. It really looks like the this is right on schedule as we threat of rolling blackouts has look at your map. Now passed. For the fourth straight day, ive circled at the bottom of yesterday that grid held and your screen. To the east, the fire glowing in last night pg e tweeting out thanks to customers for ndire was talking about an additional distraction conserving. Although no flex alert today, people are being asked to save and the crew yet has not cleared energy as much as possible there, yet. Especially from 3 00 to 10 00 theyre a little late. P. M. All right, thank you very everyone across the bay area much, mike. Being impacted from the smoke 5 42 right now. And haze from those fires. You know, the bay area isnt the i want you to take a look at the only place in california with satellite photo taken by nasa. Major fire fight on its hands. Take a look at that. Crews in Southern California thick plumes of smoke over the still taking on a very big fire. Weve been watching it. Entire state and much of it in its been burning since last the bay area. Week. Spare the air alert is in place coming up next, the latest on the progress. Until sunday. Well bring you kari hall in washington this morning, because the air quality not so President Trump wants to take great right now. New action against iran based on not at all. The Iran Nuclear Agreement that weve seen some very poor air we left. Well take a look when today in quality anywhere from san rafael the bay continues. Over towards the east bay down to the peninsula, as well, as much of the south bay. The south bay is where we have the worst of the air quality right now with numbers at 160 and make sure youre limiting your ti