Mike, how is it looking right now for whats happening around the bay . Kari, overall things are improving. The trivalley had a couple issues coming into the area. Starting in the south bay north 101. Capital expressway theres a crash involving a couple vehicles one in the middle of 101, some slowing for the sensors right there holding folks up from 680 up to oakland road where we typically see the slowing starting to clear about now. Well track that and also clearing south of 80 through sunol out of pleasanton, that crash cleared a while ago. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Were going to continue to monitor all of the fires across the bay area. The latest this hour for you. The lnu fires in the north bay have burned more than 356,000 acres. And right now its 27 contained. Five people have died and nearly 1,000 south bay the scu fires are still the biggest in terms of acreage. It has burned nearly 366,000 acres and is 20 contained. Three First Responders have been hurt and 18 structures destroyed. In santa cruz and san mateo counties the czu complex fires burned nearly 80,000 acres, 19 contained, 443 structures destroyed. As we mentioned any moment now were expecting another update from cal fire it looks like theyre setting up right now and approaching the podium. So lets go ahead and listen in. Well, good morning. This is the 6 00 a. M. Press conference for the czu complex. My name is jonathan cox, Santa Cruz Unit and line officer on the incident. As always if you could mute your telephones and any devices you have and take any conversations away from the press conference area and we ask you keep your mask on at all times. We will have a moment at the end to ask questions of all the representatives up here as well as time for oneonone conversations after the conference is over. Just a quick update this morning for the 6 00 numbers, the czu lightning complex is now 80,137 acres in size. We are staying at 19 containment, and there are still 24,000plus structures that are threatened by the incident. Unfortunately this morning we can confirm there are now 538 structures that have been destroyed in this fire, 11 of which in san mateo, 527 of those structures destroyed are in Santa Cruz County. There is a website as chief deputy clark mentioned last night for Santa Cruz County has put where and what those addresses are online. As of this morning we have 1,697 personnel assigned to the incident and for an overview and update on what the actual operations going on out in the field Cal Fire Incident Management Team three section chief. Good morning. The past couple of days weve been able to make significant progress on our firefight. Weve been able to establish more lines and improve those lines we have established and getting another day closer to extinguishing this fire. As you can see on the maps we have some black lines. That signifies that we have the fire extinguished, were holding it, have lines established around it, and we feel very confident that has been secured. And, again, thats up there in an area that is critical so we didnt have any spread to the northeast and threatening santa clara county. We buttoned that up. Thats in a patrol type status. In the north zone again we do have some active flame on the ridge. We do have lines established, as you can see on the map, and we are slowly letting it creep down as part of our strategy so we can get in and fully extinguish the fire. I anticipate in the next couple of days we should be successful in that endeavor and put more black on the map. Moving down we are continuing with some full extinguishment of the fire throughout the western portion of the fire. In davenport with our infrastructure looking at reenergizing that power today if not sooner. And then, again, our lines above that community and taking advantage of the weather to start full extinguishment of any sort of fire sitting above that community. Down to the south, again, our control lines are holding to the south as well as the secondary line and we do have really good protection for the community of santa cruz and the uc campus. Moving up the corridor, weve been able to get more control lines up above on the fire. Were continuing to work and improve that. We have a good line and extinguished the fire above felton. Todays operation has been critical. Theyve been prepping and working on this the past two days really and what we have a plan on doing is later this afternoon, lines constructeded. We have the preparations in place to do a burn operation which will bring the fire up to the part thats hung up on the ridge top that will eliminate that issue and what that will do is create a very nice barrier so the fire around the community of felton. That will then button up that part of the fire above felton so that is excellent news. It will take a couple days to continue to mop up, pick up the hot spots and render that safe and get our Utility Companies in there to do their job. As we finish that well be moving up to ben lomond and that line will come to the south end of ben lomond that will protect the bottom end of ben lomond as we continue to progress. Up above ben lomond we are continuing to work diligently up there. A lot of resources fromaliligen line, again, very difficult terrain and working among a number of structures and were going to have a lot of success in the coming days looking at trying to get that completed just like in the other communities. Were marching north and preparing as we go ahead of time and implementing that strategy. Painstaking process, a lot of homes in there, working around all those homes getting control lines put in, extinguishing the fire structures and the big thing is opening the roads into the interior of the fire with all the trees that have come down, the power lines and so forth, weve been able to establish a group thats gone in starting yesterday, getting deep into some of these road systems. Some are more work than others. That group working and doing that with county roads and a variety of other agencies to get in and once we get in we render it safe getting the Utility Companies in behind us so they can start repairing and putting back that infrastructure. Were doing the same thing on highway 236 working with caltrans and doing the same kind of operation so we can start opening that and getting interior to the other areas. Our section teams can get in and doing their jobs so we can get that taken care of as well. So its a multifaceted effort as part of this extinguishment process. From our air program the air is looking very favorable with the weather. Were going to be flying our aircraft. The past few days weve topped out the amount of hours we canfully our airaircraft, dropp more and more water the yesterday from six copters 256,000 gallons in one day. Thats pretty significant. Were timing out our aircraft. Thats significant. Every day were seeing more and more. Thats in support of our Ground Troops taking care of hot spots and so forth. Our copters have dropped over 1. 6 million gallons of water since the beginning of this event. Were using all the tools we have available to us to work on extinguishing the fire and getting everybodys lives back to normal. Thank you. Speaking next from the Santa Cruz CountySheriffs Office is chief deputy chris clark. Well, good morning. In terms of some positive news, again, continuing with the theme of not a lot of people running around, the same situation last night, thankfully, as the night before and yesterday. Again, going into now our Third Operational period without an arrest and even last night we had no citations. Were seeing a lot of people that are really doing what were asking them to do and staying out of those areas. You just heard the chief mention getting those resources in to repair the roads, to repair power lines and things like that which are obviously pieces of the plan to repopulate areas. Last night at the last press conference 66 officers making sure everything is safe. Again, were going to continue that today with 70 deputies and officers. Our allied partners inside and 20 mutual aid from over the hill. Last night we responded to 14 calls for service, six welfare checks, and eight suspicious people. Unfortunately, last night, though, we did get a welfare check for a 63yearold woman who was last spoken to on monday. Friends talked to hermon d mond evening. We went out to her home and, unfortunately, found her deceased. We believe Natural Causes at this point caused her death. No signs of foul play. No suspicion anyone did anything to her or caused her death. A welfare check for someone who had this person evacuated from the area in Boulder Creek. They had done what we asked them to do. They left the area. Was staying with a friend up until monday. They left some time monday evening. Their friend called us during the night last night to say they hadnt heard from them, because there was a conversation this person wanted to be back, try to sneak back into the evacuated area to their home. Right now were actively looking for that person to find out where they are and make sure theyre okay. Just to reiterate a couple things. One, we want to get you back home. We really do. There are dangers to sneaking back in to the evacuated area. You just dont know you may not know the terrain. You may not know the area. You could get lost and we want to help you, but what it does is it divides our resources in the sense that were going to send people to find you. In this case thats exactly what were going to do, and thats okay, too, we want to make sure this person is okay. I just want to discourage people from doing that so it doesnt divide our resources. If we find this person i will definitely let you know. Thats what were doing right now. On another piece of that if, again, if you havent heard from a friend and thats how these two calls came in i would encourage you if you havent heard from someone and you think they remained in the evacuated area or potentially were returning, please give us a call at our dispatch number 8314711121. Give us a call and well do exactly what we did last night. We do security checks on homes to make sure nobody is breaking in. But at the same time we want to make sure people are safe and accounted for. If you havent heard from a friend, definitely give us a call. And then lastly, just to touch on the website you heard chief cox mention and i mentioned it last night, we can completely understand you would want to know the status of your house if you think its in a fire damaged area. I wanted to reiterate that website, santacruzcounty Fire RecoveryDamage Assessment map. Asps. It will give you information, put your address in there and it will tell you whether or not your house has been damaged, if its okay, or hopefully not destroyed. Thank you. Up next from the San Mateo CountySheriffs Office is detective sweeney. Good morning. No changes from San Mateo County but thank you to everyone who has donated diapers, formula and school supplies. For those of you interested in helping out in other ways you can make financial donations as well as the red cross. We want to say how grateful we are for all the support wearing seeing from the Community Whether its online messages or a couple restaurants have donated food including alices restaurant up on skyline and 84. And its just incredibly motivating. Our First Responders and support staff see these messages and comments, signs out in the community, and we cant tell you how much it means to us right now, so thank you very much for all of that support and gratitude. Its heard and felt. Speaking next on behalf of all of the agencies and unified command is Cal Fire Incident Management Team three ic billy. Good morning. Obviously yesterday we had Great Success out on the line. We had clean air, able to fly our aircraft. Our folks were able to get in there and develop some perimeter control around this. There was a lot of smoke production in the air that was very visible from the highway 17 corridor. When we get clean air like that and the fire is slowly moving down the slope, in and around behind the structures of felton and ben lomond, its very visible from this area. Obviously we have a lot of firefighting forces on the ground and today you heard the operational plan. Were going to be doing some burning operations to control that fire on our terms. Were going to be working diligently to secure the line over the next 24 to 48 hours and bring that down very safely and slowly into what were going to consider perimeter control protecting these communities and blocking that off. With that said when the smoke starts to clear all the residents get very restless about trying to get back in and wanting to know when the evacuation orders and warnings will be lifted. Were going to be working with our counterparts and Law Enforcement agencies to develop a Strategic Plan to start bringing folks in. Weve already started to identify areas that we can potentially start looking at, lifting some evacuation orders and evacuation warnings. So please be patient. Its a process. Were going to work through it. Obviously our biggest concern when we start bringing folks back in and lifting some of the orders is making sure we build a good, Strong Foundation for all those residents meaning that we have good roadways for them to travel on. We have secured all the utilities and make sure its safe and make sure we have water for them so they have the essential necessities to live with. Thats the pieces were going to continue to work on, identifying those, fixing any issues and getting these folks back to normalcy as soon as possible. Thank you. And our final speaker this morning from the local cal fire unit it ian larkin. Good morning. As you see were starting to make some progress though its slow and methodical it is happening. For those that are using the website for Santa Cruz County to determine if your property has sustained any damage or has been destroyed, i just want to make a preface to take note our damage inspection is still ongoing and it has not fully been completed yet. Because your house may not be represented on that map as having damage or being destroyed, as the damage inspection continues to move forward, those numbers may increase, and well represent those properties that are added to that each day. Be mindful because its not there today doesnt mean it wont be there tomorrow. For those who need assistance theres a couple areas that i may give you right now that can be of assistance to you and thats you can go to the disaster assistance. Gov website. And there are some resources there for folks that are in need and, also, you can download the fema app from the android and apple platforms. Once again thats the fema app. If you dont have the ability to download that application you can call fema directly and thats 1800621fema. 1800621fema. And theres some assistance there. For those who may have Small Businesses that need assistance you can also go to the Small Business administration, thats the Small Business administration and the resources are available to you to help you with that effort. Once again the troops on the ground and the Incident Management Team here along with our cooperating agencies, the Sheriff Department and Santa Cruz County are working diligently and as quickly as possible to make the environment as safe as possible to repopulatereas that are so please bear with us as we move through this. Were moving as fast as we can and were going to do our best to get this wrapped up and get you back home soon. Thank you. And there you have it. Thats the update from the czu complex fire where were learning that it is now more than 80,000 acres burning with 19 containment, still about 24,000 structures threatened by that fire. But they have been telling us that the weather conditions have been working and their benefit theyve been able to fly over aircraft to help fly from above. Also, theyre planning to do some wn they can create a line to stop that fire from spreading but still very active fire and theyre continuing to do all they can to put that fire out and allow people to return to their homes. Of course well keep monitoring that press conference and bring you any more updates that we have here on today in the bay as well as on nbcbayarea. Com. Laura . Well, good morning and a very happy wednesday to you as we take a look at some of the other news making news this morning. Big trouble over at American Airlines which says it may have to shed as many as 40,000 jobs as fewer of us think it is safe to fly. 19,000 of those would come through layoffs, the rest through early retirement and buyout packages. The company says it needs more help from the federal government. Its taken more than 5 billion in grants under the coronavirus relev bill now that c. A. R. E. S. Act was passed back in march. Scientists at the time warned us, but many of us hoped, that by this time we would be okay and clearly we are not. Certainly not when it comes to air travel. So the nasdaq, the s p 500 both broke records again yesterday, once again closing at alltime highs. The dow fell slightly as shares in apple fell. Sales are strong but thats part of the problem, its selling things faster than they can get them in. The big shortage laptops and computers. People snapping up laptops for work and school. Those chrome books harder to get. Freezers, people limiting the number of times they go to the Grocery Store and xboxes. We spend that much more time indoors. Laura, you posted that picture of your triplets all gathered around the Kitchen Table with three laptops so everything for you times throw. Oh, yeah, big time. The wifi around here at 8 00 gets a little sketchy. I bet it does. Its a very busy household like so many in the bay area. Pe time is in the house b