Were seeing a lot of that over week. Residents on high alert hoping the Central Valley and the that does not happen. Well pass it back to you in the sierra. We have the best Case Scenario newsroom. With a little bit of rain and no lightning so far. All right. So hopefully that holds up. Thunder, lightning, wind something firefighters certainly we do still have that chance as were seeing some rain in parts keep check on. Of the north bay, some light kari hall, how are we looking . Showers not enough to put out it looks pretty good. The fires, but it will help get we havent seen any lightning a little bit of keeping it from strikes and our slight chance will be mostly in the north bay. Spreading so quickly. Its still going well be watching that as we are going into today. Inland. Well continue tot looking for mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . No complaints here, kari. Commute . We still have the one crash well take any advantage we can have from the weather. Looking to the live look, the in sonoma. Bay bridge toll plaza, where the restricted past 121 and that metering lights were turned on will be an issue coming from earlier than usual, at 5 30 when the meteringig the middle lanes island. From emeryville you can barely are moving smoothly. Make out the bay bridge. Hov, of course, always the not fog but soot, smoke, junk in advantage here. Take a look at your maps. The air. Were not so worried about the this will be a concern for folks arrow and the backup at the bay with breathing difficulties as bridge. There is a crash eastbound well. Thats right. Getting out of San Francisco on make sure you check on your to the lower deck around the elderly neighbors and bring your pets in as well. That will do it for us. Skyway. Watch out there. Still getting word and it looks thanks so much for letting us be a part of your morning today. Like everything is moving pretty have a great one. Smoothly. The rest of the approach smooth the today show is next. On either side of the bay. Contra costa county no major problems on the freeways. Watch the local closures for the good morning scu area and the santa cruz double trouble so, were going to get, mountains. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Basically, a right hook from were going to continue to marco and a left hook from monitor the fires this morning. At this hour the lnu fire in the laura. Not one, but two storms north bay has burned more than pois to slam the gulf coast, one right after the other. 347,000 acres destroying and millions from florida to texas, bracing for landfall damaging more than 1,000 al has the latest on where structures. Sadly four people have died in theyre headed and when. The fire. Breaking overnight, protests the fire is 21 contained. Erupt in wisconsin after another in the south bay in the Police Shooting caught on camera south bay in the south bay the sdu complex fire has grown to nearly 334,000 a black man a black man involved in a acres with 10 containment. Domestic dispute, shot evacuation orders are in place for parts of the trivalley n. Santa cruz the czu fire claimed the live of a 70yearold man near davenport. It has scorched 74,000 acres and is only 8 contained. More than 160 struc were expecting to hear from fire officials in Santa Cruz County. Well bring you that News Conference live when it starts. All right. So lets get beyond the numbers a little bit and talk about what is really important here, the people, the lives at risk. Today in the bays bob redell joins us live in livermore. People there are very nervously watching some of these fires, bob. Reporter yes. Evacuation warnings have been extended to the city borders but not within the city limits themselves. Theres no evacuation warnings for people who live in livermore or pleasanton, just the people south of those cities. After sunrise we expect the choppers here at this cal fire helibase to resume their air attack on the scu lightning complex fire burning several miles south of here. Here is time lapse video of that fire burning over mission peak in fremont west of where were at now. This fire is the Third Largest in state history, however, only grew 4,000 acres between yesterday morning and 7 00 last night which might sound like a lot but percentage wise its not, the complex encompasses 20 fires around five counties is almost 334,000 acres, just 10 contained. We expect new numbers to come out later this morning which will show the fire has grown in size. The fire is also threatening over 20,000 structures with new evacuation orders now extended in parts of Santa Clara County including the eastern part of morgan hill. We just packed up everything we have for a few days. We packed up our valuables and personal items. Weve had plenty of time to decide what to take and what to leave behind. Reporter coming up in about half an hour at 6 30 we will hear from cal fire about the Biggest Challenges facing firefighters on the front lines of the scu complex fire. Bob redell, today in the bay. 6 05 right now. Kari has been telling us were watching for lightning strikes. Right now to the cal fire News Conference going on in Santa Cruz County. Lets listen in. Just a few things, a quick update on the fire. The fire grew and is now 13 contained. We continue to make good strides to increase that containment. However, there still are 24,300 structures that are threatened around the fire area. We can now confirm 231 structures have been destroyed throughout santa cruz and san mateo counties. We have a more specific breakdown of that we can get you later this morning. We continue to increase the number of firefighters arriving every day. Up to 1,511 firefighters, federal, state, local government including ones from out of state here on this incident. One thing to note is there was an evacuation warning that went out in Santa Clara County yesterday afternoon. That warning went out in an abundance of caution based on the potential lightning and storms that were forecasted for yesterday. We do not believe theres any imminent threat right now. I just wanted to help clarify that because obviously thats a whole new county by. With that i think time for anop. Good morning. The past 24 hours, albeit we are in a red flag warning, weve actually had the opportunity with the weather and that has given us an opportunity for crews to make a lot of great progress throughout the fire. On the north side of the fire, again, a lot of good work up there. You see this line and control line has been established and verified. We have a really good control line on the north end of the fire throughout the entire north and down on the coast some of the fire is burning lighter fuels and with the increase in humidity the fire is actually extinguishing itself. Thats good. Davenport hasnt seen any movement of the fire. It is still hung up on the ridge top, something that once we get more resources well go directly after. We have a good control line protecting that community as well. The south end of the fire we have continued to improve the control lines. We have this really good control line from highway 1 to highway, the secondary we put in. A little burnout operation in the southern part of the area, and that widened and improved our line tremendously. It created a very good control end of the south primary and secondary so that really puts an excellent protection for santa cruz and uc campus. Complete 100 not out of danger but we are confident these lines will hold and do what we need them to do. Moving up the fire, the fire still well up on the ridge, still looking pretty good, again. We perceive caution with the weather event as we continue through that with the red flag warning. Highway corridor, the thing about that, weve been able to establish some lines and are continuing to establish some lines. Are they as robust as we would like them to be . No. They are primary. They were established very rapidly. Were just kind of doing a technique in which we just try to push the fire, like i said before. So with that its not the kind of line we would traditionally put in where its robust, solid, and will hold fire. Therefore, with that and due to the topography, very steep, extremely rugged terrain, lots of ravines and canyons and that sort of thing, difficult for us to work in. Not where we would like to put our lines. We do with what were dealt and give it our best shot based on that. Well work with what we put in the best we can. What were going to see, well have little setbacks here and there, nothing pushing on threatening the community butayr has cleared more, flames and so forth. That is normal. Youll see that because we have not fully extinguished the fire. Heavy fuels, rugged terrain, put the lines in to hold them and establish them will take time. There has to be a bit of patience. We move our resources back there. The material may roll out on the steep terrain, burn back up into the berm itself that will happen. Youll see that. But its something that we can easily jump upon and start mitigating and keep it from getting further down onto the highway 9 corridor. Highway 9 is a good place to stop that and that part of the fire is extinguished. Were going to continue that, that process has been painstakingly long. It took a lot of time and effort to do it. Again, very difficult because of the number of structures that are dispersed throughout the area. A painstaking process, a slow process, but we are continuing to work on that. Speaking next from the Santa Cruz CountySheriffs Office is chief park. Good morning. In terms of sheriffs activity last night burglar suppression was our priority with welfare checks and checking on different folks as calls came in. How many calls did we get, ten suspicious people were called in as well as two welfare checks and we sent deputies out on both of those. Our missing persons, that count stands at four. When it comes to suspicious people we did make three arrests last night. Well have 79 total personnel, 33 from our office and, again, i cant speak more highly of our local agencies and agencies over the hill that contributed 46 today. 7 total will be out looking for people that should not be in evacuation areas or looking to prey on people evacuated. Last night there were three people or four people rather. Three in which we arrested. Two had warrants and were taken to jail, arrested for those warrants, and charged with being in a closed evacuation area as well as a lady seen Walking Around with a backpack from San Francisco, not from the area, and was arrested for being in a closed evacuation area. We also cited a person last night who is from the area but wasnt supposed to be here. He was escorted out. And then i wanted to touch real quickly weve gotten a number of calls with regard to the city of santa cruz. They did a prewarning. I believe they went doortodoor. A great thing to be prepared but theres no i wanted to reiterate no imminent fire danger right now to the city of santa cruz. And so cal fire has done a great job of securing tha southern border. As long as the weather stays the way it should and conditions stay the way it should there should not be an imminent danger or at least theres not right now to the city of santa cruz. Last week a lot of interest in the wallet stolen from a firefighter. Again, i think were all blown away somebody would actually steal from someone out there trying to help. We have a detective dedicated to the case. If we can find out who did this, that person is going to jail. Thats an update on our end. Thank you. Speaking next from the San Mateo CountySheriffs Office. Good morning. Right now no significant changes for San Mateo County. However, we did have an incident yesterday where six people did enter a restricted area to check on their property. The end result is they had to be rescued. They snuck into a restricted area and we had to redirect resources to get the people out. We understand that when people are evacuated theyre very anxious and thats why we have Law Enforcement protecting those areas and keeping them secure 24 7. Please help us. If theres a restricted area, do not enter it, because then what happens we have to redirect resources, put those responders in additional risk and you put yourself at risk for injury. Other than that were working very hard around the clock to make sure that you guys are given the information up to date, anything significant you know about it. Were putting information out. You can download our app. Thank you. Weve had a lot of success, a lot of small winds and theyre speaking next cal fire turning into larger wins. Incident management team. The ls were increasing our personnel numbers assigned as well as engines and crews. And we will continue to do that until we have sufficient resources at the incident to mitigate the entire perimeter. Obviously Mother Nature has helped us quite a bit. We had moisture yesterday evening, increased humidity with reduced winds. Rod have taken advantage of those opportunities that Mother Nature has presented us, worked extremely hard developing what we have currently and will continue to progress as long as the conditions remain the same or improve. Obviously were still vigilant to what occurred over the last seven days. What type of weather pattern, winds, drop in humidity. Well be watching that closely and will be prepared to be proactive if those conditions resurface during the next week to two weeks so we can be aggressive with maintaining our perimeter and reduce the risk to all the communities in danger and all the infrastructure that is out there. Thank you. And our final speaker, san mateo and santa cruz chief. Good morning. Its nice to see we have a little bit of weather being an advantageo actually get some action that is positive as you see the increase with containment is there. I want to just focus a little bit on what the sergeant said. We have people that are still trying to get in to see if their properties are there. Both san mateo and santa cruz counties are working diligently establishing websites to be able to provide the Public Information on the status of their residence. We have numerous teams of inspectors out there looking at each of the properties, gathering information so that we can get that out to the public as soon as possible through both counties so you can have an idea what you have left or if your property was undamaged. Please be patient with us as we get this information out to you. We need to make sure its safe for our inspectors to get into the areas so they can assess the damage. Thank you. That concludes the formal speakers. Im happy to answer any questions that you may have. Any lightning strikes overnight hours, jonathan . Yes, i do know there were some down strikes across the northern part of the state. I dont believe it was widespread. And we didnt have any confirmed in our local area in the Santa Cruz San Mateo unit. Can you talk about cal fire giving an update on the czu complex fire. 78,000 acres burned. 13 contained right now. Certainly a long road ahead for the firefighters, laura, as they continue to battle the fire. The good news here is theyre getting a little bit of containment talking about the rugged terrain. Of course youre familiar with this area here. So many people having to be evacuated and theyre warning, too, looters, stay away. They have been making some arrests out there. Of course we dont want their focus to be on that, of having to go and arrest people. They need to try to fight the fires. They have crews from throughout the country as well aiding in that. Were going to have live reports coming up in a little bit covering all the fires in the bay area, the evacuation routes and what not when today in the bay continues in just a moment. 6 19 right now. It is 6 22. This is what youre seeing over much of the bay area. Not fog but smoky skies. A lot of ash continues to fall. So many people affected by the fires. Even if youre not an evacuee living in the bay area youre taking in the smoke, some of the worst in the world right now, very concerning. Kari has a look at our forecast for today. You know what else is so concerning the fires were started by lightning and the threat continued overnight. We are going to be watching out for that this morning. We do see some other factors in play here so were not seeing as much of the lightning here. The Central Valley so so far we havent seen any here but still that chance and well be watching out for that. The models are showing that wave of moisture and that rain were seeing over the north bay will it continue to lift away from the bay area off to the north and then well get some drier conditions but were still once again watching out for all of this energy we have in the atmosphere passing by as we go throughout the rest of the bay and that fog rolls back in which will be some good news for firefighters trying to get more containment, that higher humidity. But it will track that smoke and weve seen very unhealthy air quality for all of our microclimates but the worst of it right now is over danville where were seeing numbers at 336. This is a measure of particulate matter in the moisture and is very unhealthy to breathe that in. We reach into the 90s inland. Well be in the 60s along the coastline. More 90s over the next few days. That humidity will drop after tomorrow and then some hot temperatures going to the end of the week. More of the smoke moving in. San francisco will see temperatures mostly in the 60s throughout the rest of the week as that fog and marine layer returns to the coast. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . By comparison, kari, i have some slowing. We do have a crash but no major injuries. Heading on to the lower deck, right at the eighth street on ramp a crash that is affecting the freeway and the backup thats starting back to octavia. Out of the city getting on the freeway, at fourth or howard, youre okay getting into observing. From oakland the backup into the bay bridge toll plaza. No problems coming into the contra costa area. Better news but stay out of those evacuation areas. Back to you. Were in the homestretch of our month long clear the Shelters Campaign and were working to find those forever homes for pets. Thats right. So the pandemic, though, has been posing a little bit of a problem for the shelters animals. Chris chmura is here to show us how a north bay shelt