Im raj mathai. Covid but for flu season. Ago. We might lose this and im jessica mcgarry. Town. To get a sense of the what we refer to as the helping firefighters to push twindemic of flu and covid intensity, just before it burned stop three huge clusters of season to provide guarantees in terms of turnaround times for wildfires. Results and ultimately to drive the flames have killed at least seven people, burned nearly 1300 up, so critical three additional homes and other buildings and down the cost for everybody. Cameras have been installed to prompted evacuation orders that this is exactly what the federal still impact an estimated detect new fires and flareups. Government should be doing. Ucsf, professors explain why 170,000 people. Were going to have full team this year, more than ever, coverage on these fires people should be getting the flu throughout the newscast. Wow, thats a quick start. Were going to have to start now we want to take you to our pulling resources. Vaccine. Primary reason for it really is that whole decision vaccination is to other top story. Nba playoffs have been put stress on the Health Care System on hold. Mat rick as the country enters a possible players are boycotting in matrix of what to do. Reporter when not on the fire line, this firefighter is third wave of covid19. Protest of the shooting of jacob expanding testing, the governor says, isnt just a blake. Blake is the black man shown on providing chainsaws and tools benefit for the sick. Its also key to reopening more from a Hardware Store he owns. Businesses across the state. In San Francisco, christy smith, today, firefighters have video being shot seven times by nbc bay area news. Spent the day putting out hot police in the back. As we know, most bay area that happened over the weekend spots. Students are distance learning. In milwaukee, wisconsin. This has been a Community Today the Milwaukee Bucks didnt effort, dropping off their small Santa Clara County will allow one School District to reopen take the court for the playoff game against the orlando magic. Sidebyside vehicles like the for some inperson learning. One you see behind me and say this led to several other teams take it. Use it to fight the fire. The moreland School District in boycotting as well, including we dont care if it burned up. West san jose will be allowed to offer limited inperson classes. Lakers and rockets. Firefighters tell me those all three playoff games tonight vehicles were invaluable, classes will be for elementary postponed. Lebron james tweeting, quote, we helping them get into Remote School kids with learning disabilities and for students demand change. Sick of it. Its not just the nba. Areas and save homes. Who cannot learn effectively frankly, they say, they could Milwaukee Brewers will not play use more of those vehicles. Reporting live in ben loman. Through distance learning. The district says it plans to space out desks six feet apart. Tonight. Other teams could do the same. Brewers were supposed to play kids will also be in the same the reds. Thank you. Groups all day so there will be this was video from their own talking about hot spots and no meking of any kind. Game last night. Giants are supposed to play the turning now to decision dodgers this evening. We reached out to the team but evacuations. Chris chmura has a wide angled 2020, night three of the have yet to hear back. Republican National Convention focus on military and first gabe kapler, very vocal about view. Whats different than what youre doing right now . Responders. Tonight it will be vice racial and social equity, said a map that our digital Team President mike pence giving the the team will discuss the issue and the players and coaching put together. We have these red dots, which staff will have to make a decision collectively. Are from sensors in place. Campaign no word on the as rangers game fiercely defends the white house, insisting none of the events held bb at taxpayer supposed to start in an hour in look at these huge fire expense. Texas. Reporter baltimores ft. We saw the players leave the mchenry, birth place of the star perimeters. From lake sonoma down to santa field which means that game could be boycotted. Cruz, thats 150mile drive, spangled banner, serving as a with us now is our friend and backdrop for night three of the republican National Convention. Give or take. Vice president mike pence taking colleague at nbc sports bay tremendous amount of our area. Neighbors are dealing with this right now. Center stage for a program monte, have you ever seen lnu fire. I want to zoom in a little bit Something Like this, that the focused on the military and and talk about the woodward fire magnitude, being done in the national security. Sports world . Last night, it was the white house used for Convention Events no, i have not. Going back to my Early Childhood when we saw tommy smith and in west marin. From a naturalization ceremony cal fire says they are working toy first lady melania trumps on dealing with the southeast and north sides of the fire, keynote address, moves that carlos protest on the medal break with longstanding stand in 1968, what that meant specifically working with tradition. These are important symbols to people and how they were treated in the aftermath. Of the american state and they that was 52 years ago. Mockup where a backseat warning belong to all of us. The white house is not a and now here we are, half a partisan resident. Its the peoples residents. Century later, were seeing some of the same things that they remains in place. Reporter in a speech from were protesting against. The rose garden, the first lady the injustices, the inequality. Striking a different tone from her husband, addressing racial now to the rest of the lnu fire. Tensions and seeking to reframe and just this past week, jacob we have sonoma and napa here. President trumps image. Blake killing in wisconsin, and total honesty is what we, as sonoma, we have flareups here. I think players and coaches in citizens, deserve from our the nba, for sure, in late july, president. Whether you like it or not, you always know what hes thinking. We havent seen as many the first lady also offering okay, were going to have some so slogans, paint black lives condolences to the victims of flareups on this side right here. Covid19 and comfort to the matter on the courts and were nonetheless we do still have going to have slogans on our many evacuation warnings and nation. I know many people are back and sayings on our back. Anxious, and some feel helpless. Orders in place for sonoma i want you to know, you are not county. Napa county, the situation today this is not really making a up near the county line, lots of alone. Reporter the first ladys difference, and they feel like they have to do something. Those red flareups that cal acknowledgement different from i applaud them for their facing many other convention speakers. Fire is dealing with. A top economic adviser spoke of a priority over something bigger looking to the south you can see the pandemic in the past tense. Than basketball, even if it is its pretty clear just a handful the playoffs that they all want it was awful. Of those red dots down here. Health and Economic Impacts were thats good news for napa and to play in. Tragic. Reporter joe bidens today was not the time to play a Campaign Calling President Trumps rnc an alternate reality basketball game. Is there a path forward, is there a pln or is this happening st. Helena. And accusing the party of nonetheless evacuation warnings downplaying the ongoing crisis. All in real time . Remain in place just to the its all in real time right now. Its obviously going to affect other sports. In washington, alice barr, nbc well see where it goes, east. Lets move to the south. Baseball and football. News. What do you need to know to bask ball is in solidarity. Cast your ballot during this czu fire. All three games were canceled san mateo counties here. Pandemic . An interactive plan your vote and we dont know about tomorrow tool. You can find the listening on our website, nbcbayarea. Com. Yet. I dont think they know. Players are talking. Red spots up to the north as bizarre story involving san coaches are talking. Front offices are talking. Well as one to the southeast. Jose sharks captain logan the good news is that in between all this dialogue about how to we only see a handful of red couture. He said he was sucker punched in deal with this because right spots right here. Toronto last night because he now, the problem is that they calfire is working on this one. Talked about voting for the dont want to play. Its been a surprise here and republican party. The problem is that their heart is not in playing the game right there and particularly couture tweeted about it last now. They want to see something destructive as maryann was just night, saying he was sucker happen. Its not like well, if we dont punched after he mentioned play well get overnight, donald trump. He since tweeted about it again mentioning. Sweeping change. No, thats not realistic. Evacuation warnings, evacuation and said things were taken out its not going to happen. Of context. Orders for much of this region. He adds, he doesnt support okay, now im willing to play a President Trump and apologized lets go to scu fire, santa to the sharks and his family. Basketball game which means a sharks released a statement lot to our franchise but right saying theyre thankful that now, today, in the heat of this clara county. A concentration of the north and south ends of the perimeter of couture wasnt seriously hurt moment, theyre not up to doing and denounced physical attacks it. I totally understand. The scu fires. Or abuse on anyone no matter its happening in that part of the country. Morgan hill down here, san jose what. I say over there. He is a canadian citizen and here in the bay area, richard here. Sherman with the 49ers, steph earlier we had seen evacuation cannot vote in the u. S. Curry with the warriors, what orders and warnings to the east election. Meteorologist jeff ranieri, can happen here . Will the 49ers take the field of morgan hill. Those remain in place. This week at practice . Well, i think the nfl is its were seeing fewer flareups. Today is the first time i walked outside and it didnt smell like barbecue all over the bay area. Own beast and its run by people it was nice to be able to nonetheless there are some down breathe in some fresh air. Much higher than the players. To the south as well as to the the nba is more of a north. Ill get you an update on air so if you live anywhere near any quality and taking you down to of these red circles, its the fire lines forecast in six players coaches collaboration, front offices and league. Minutes. Imperative to head to our picking up strength in the nba is a little different. Website. Gulf coast when hurricane laura well see where it goes. Look for the various information well see if they are actually is set to hit the including helpful maps detailing listening. If its up to the players in the the evacuations and check out louisiana texas border. Nfl, its very possible you the perimeters on could see some changes there, too. We dont know that because it is the nfl. As we said this is happening in real time. Nbcbayarea. Com evacuations. Whats being said right now at thank you, chris. Very comprehensive. 4 00 on wednesday could change at 8 00 wednesday night, or up next, calling it bizarre. Certainly by 4 00 on thursday. The move the cdc just made that has Santa Clara Countys top so right now, things are really Health Official perplexed. Fluid. I think its going to be that way for a few hours, maybe a few how will the flu season be days because this is the moment right now that people are affected by the pandemic . Seizing. They understand that have been in this position right now. Im chief meteorologist jeff its been about three months. Ranieri. Forecast on the fire lines, plus weve seen sweeping the very latest on the air demonstrations around not just quality and much better news the country but the world. Headed our way in about six minutes. And i think that is resonating with a lot of people. Before it was a black problem. Now its a human problem. Insurance experts are when they see a man leaning on predicting many people of the his neck for 8 46, they realize houses burning down this week the gravity of how wrong that will not have adequate Insurance Coverage to fully rebuild. Most homeowner policies is. A man gets shot in the back basically auto renew and do not seven times, unarmed man getting keep pace with rising construction costs. Do the math. In his car . The nba is not taking it. Talk to your Insurance Agent and go to our website for tips to i think a lot of other people avoid underinsurance surprise. Wont be taking it, too. Its a heavy night in amer a america. Its been a heavy year already. Monte, thank you for your time this evening. All right, raj. Weve seen athletes protest in a variety of ways. Colin capper knick first started protesting in the bay area. This image, iconic, 1968 summer olympics, san jose state students tommy smith and john carlos raised their fist on the medal stand for black power and the human rights movement. What youre looking at here is the statue that stands to this day on the campus at san jose state. Lets get back to our wildfire coverage. Lets first start with the lnu complex in the north bay. Want to get back to our coverage of the protests in more than 357,000 acres have been burned. Wisconsin and the boycotts at this juncture its 33 across the country in the sports world. Giants and dodgers continue to contained. Five people have died and discuss about calling off their game tonight. This is a live look at oracle thousands of structures destroyed. East in the south bay, scu fire park where the game is scheduled to start in a couple of hours is still the biggest in terms of this all follows the Police Shooting of jacob blake, a black acreage, burning 366,000 acres. Man. It calls after the nba called its 25 contained. Off its playoff games tonight. Five people, including three first responders, have been nba boycotting. A lot of baseball teams are hurt. 31 structures destroyed. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, investigators say a second boycott i person has died in connection boycotting. The shooting itself sparked with the czu fire. Off protests in kenosha, 30 officials now say 63yearold miles south of milwaukee. Theyre expecting new protests woman was found dead inside the fire zone. Six people remain missing. Tonight. More information about the Police Shooting of jacob blake. This fire has burned at least Wisconsin Attorney general says 80,000 acres and is 19 it started with a call from a woman who said her boyfriend was contained. At her home and he wasnt 538 structures have been supposed to be. The attorney general says police tried to arrest blake and tased destroyed. As fires continue, crews battle the czu fire, theyre making him, but it did not work. Progress. Video shows blake Walking Around were getting a better idea of his car and opening the drivers how many homes have been lost. Were getting a better sense of side door. Authorities say an officer held how much worse it could have on to blakes shirt and fired been if not for hundreds of volunteers and technology as his gun seven times in his back. Well. Wisconsin Police Officers dont nbc bay area wear body cameras so body cam this is a big teal from footage is not available. The officer who shot blake was a doctors to politicians. Sevenyear veteran of the nearly everyone has harsh words department. For the new, more lenient as protests turned deadly testing fwied lines released overnight. Two people were shot and killed. Today by the cdc. A third was injured. Local officials blame the change teenager is now in custody in on the trump administration, connection with that shooting. Putting pressure on the cdc. In a quickly organized news hurricane laura continues to conference, dr. Sarah cody, strengthen and churn in the gulf. These pictures are from the Public Health officer for Santa International space station. Clara county made it clear that the county will not be following time to prepare and for people those new cdc guidelines. To evacuate along the gulf coast is just about over. Cdc now says people without set to make land fall at the texas louisiana border symptoms do not need to get overnight, somehow in the early tested even if theyve been in morning. Direct contact with someone who its a powerful category 4 has the virus. Hurricane. I actually didnt believe it, the National Hurricane center says it will bring catastrophic for it seemed entirely bizarre, in that it undercuts our very damage, unsurvivable storm surge. In some areas it may be two basic tenets of how we control stories high. Here is nbcs Chris Pallone with an infectious disease. She did not mince her words. More. Reporter as the hours pass, Governor Newsom also speaking warnings about hurricane laura are becoming more dire. About these new guidelines, people need to heed the saying the state of california warnings theyve been given and will not follow the cdc to evacuate. Guidelines as well. Dr. Anthony fauci said he was in reporter governors of louisiana and texas warning 20 surgery when the decision was made and was not part of the cdc Million People potentially in the storms path take this seriously. The hurricane is going to be discussion. Infectious disease experts say the new guidelines are quite severe, very powerful sending the wrong message. Winds with a strong impact. Infectious disease specialist at reporter the National Hurricane center warns of ucsf, dr. Hong, you just heard catastrophic wind damage where lauras eye makes landfall, now dr. Sara cody say she was projected to be at the completely, you know, perplexed louisiana texas border after midnight. The bigger concern is what the when she saw these new Hurricane Center says guidelines. Im guessing you must have unsurvivable storm surge. Thought exactly the same way. Not just at the coach but jessica, thanks for having me potentially reaching 30 miles inland. To think there would be a on. This really took me out of left wall of water two stories high coming onshore is very difficult feel. It really surprised and shocked me. All along for the last six for most to conceive. Months youve been treating that is what is going to happen. Covid patients. The mayor of port arthur, for the last six months you have been on the show stressing over texas, expecting the worst. And over again the need for more catastrophic damages. Testing. Weve been talking abo tith asy we are anticipating loss of Walking Around dont life. Ive been through harvey. I decided to get on out of here. Even know have it and are spreading it. Reporter the time to prepare this seems contemporary rary to is over. Laura is almost here. Jeff ranieri back with us. Everything that weve been talking about and the guidelines that medical professionals have talk about whats happening and been putting out there. Then, of course, our forecast yeah, thats so true. Here at home, jeff. Im really worry ied and signal yes. Just as we heard, that storm surge is the number one threat. Youre not going to be able to to people not to take it that outrun 10 to 20foot wall of seriously if you dont have any water thats headed with that landfall. Symptoms. Covid19 is different from other if you have friends or family in infections that you start the area, just wanted to spreading even before you get reiterate, weve got the graphic sick. Right, exactly. Up here. What do you feel is at this it is a category 4 hurricane. Juncture, why the cdc is making winds of 150 miles an hour possible at landfall and really such a change. There are many people coming out port arthur, texas, thats going and saying this is politics over to be the bullseye of this. Health. Were getting close to an election. Family or friends in and around we have an administration that doesnt want to deal with the that area that live near the covid crisis as we see it. Coastline, make sure you let is that where you stand in the them know if theyre taking it hospital today . Is that how you feel . Lightly, by any means, they need you know, i heard the saying to evacuate. Again, near port arthur, texas. Once, jessica, that this rain, 6 to 20 inches. Flooding, a huge, huge threat. Of course, those wind gusts at exemplifies that. Land fall of 150 miles per hour. On sunday who thought you would more at nbcbayarea. Com. Have a press conference on lets bring it back to our convalescent plasma, which severe weather, the air quality. Good news today, it has gotten a doesnt really change anything . We always had it available for lot better. Fog at the coastline. Patients. Its about 2 1 2 days of that it just is a way for me that fog building. This is all coming this week. Its really helping to act like a big fan and push the smoke off early relief of the vaccine toward the east. Thinking about the future when youll notice on my map here, its not even ready. Areas in green, good air moving forward, were ending quality. Areas in yellow, moderate. Summer. Were going to be going into all of our inland locations now fall and then flu season. If we have this new guidelines reading with moderate air quality. We are able to breathe. That say less testing, is that definitely a lot easier. What we should be doing, going if we get higher containment on into flu season or should the the fires overnight, we will emphasis continue to be on more continue to see these much testing . Completely counterintuitive better pictures like were seeing over livermore right now. To what we are feeling on the ground level. But we are still likely going to we should have much more testing. Were thinking of testing not teeter into the unhealthy range a few times tomorrow for the with holding testing. North bay, east bay and south bay. Overall numbers are lowering. So its much more testing and well keep uptodate on that. Different strategiesdemic of in lets bring you to the fires. North bay, south bay and santa cruz fires. Weve been tracking this for you for days now. Covid19. Thank you for all you do on the front lines every day in the the north bay, good news is only hospital. 5,000 acres of growth. Thank you. That is a big, big plus for us. Thank you. Lets turn our attention to it shows the firefighters are getting a better handle on chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. At least from our perspective, humidity at 25 . 2,000 acres. Firefighters are getting a handle on this as well. It was more breathable today, jeff. Yeah, it really was. The weather has helped out the tomorrow, 87, gusts of 20. Firefighters dramatically. For the Santa Cruz Mountains, its helping to keer oclear out 2,000 acres of growth. And some of the hot spots right there on the southern side. Of smoke from across the area. Look at this humidity tomorrow, the three different fires we up to 48 . Have been tracking. Thats that lowlevel moisture theres a lot on this page. Coming from the fog thats well go over each and every one aiding in this battle. Of these fires and the conditions were seeing. Temperatures will be cool by the it is helping firefighters. Coast and then hot inland. First off, weve had cooler 65 in San Francisco. Temperatures. Go out to antioch, 90. Weve had increased humidity and the winds are not that gusty. Go down to morgan hill. Were at 86. 10 to 20 miles an hour. Right up here on the north bay extended forecast in San Francisco, 60s as we head right on the lnu complex, ive through this upcoming weekend with some of that morning fog rolling back in. Highlighted 5,000 acres of growth. That is so much smaller than we inland valleys will stay in the had over the past several days. 90s as we head through the next several days. Again, in a 24hour period only right now with that fog, this 5,000 acres growth. Thats due to those cooler could be the chance that conditions. Tomorrow we have 91 on this firefighters have to make additional progress over the next 12 hours. Probably some of the best news fire. 25 humidity. Weve had in days, right . And wind gusts of only 20 miles for sure. Thanks, jeff. An hour. Were back in a moment. Down to the south bay also an update regarding the boycotts holding with 80s tomorrow. Across the sports world, wind gusts of 20 and this fire including whats happening in our own backyard with giants and has only seen 2,000 acres dodgers at oracle park. Stay with us. Growth. So also some good news on that. Over to the Santa Cruz Mountains only 2,000 acres growth on this fire. Were keeping 70s tomorrow. Look at that humidity. 48 . Thats added moisture in the lower levels of the atmosphere. That will also help firefighters. Great news on the fire lines, thanks in part, to the fog. The fog is thick at the coast line. You can see it on the lefthand side of the screen. Thats basically helping to take lily everyone in the house is online that smoke and take it off to and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. The east. So, everyone stays entertained. We are at good levels in mill so i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . Valley, San Francisco and you know, if you turn on your subtitles. Oakland, moderate in concord. Thats almost reading. Still unhealthy in livermore and get 1 gig internet with at t fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. San jose. What a dramatic improvement. As we move through tomorrow, no annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Beaches and the coast will have limited availability in select areas. Good air quality, moderate for call 1. 877. Only. Att the bay and likely will teeter into the east bay, south bay. If the fire containment continues to get better over the next 12 hours, the air quality will, of course, improve. Ive got another look at whats happening with the fire lines, fire forecast. Well have that in about six minutes and the full sevenday forecast in about 20 minutes. Thank you, jeff. Were back in a moment with breaking news with giants and dodgers at oracle park. We want to continue our breaking news. Live look at oracle park where the giants got off the field 30 minutes ago. We are learning players have decided to boycott tonights game. Still no official word from the giants or dodgers. Response to b blake, the black man who was shot in milwaukee a couple of days ago. Well ten to track this story on air and online. We want to end on something good, involving something fluffy, which, of course, is good. Finding new homes from pets were getting help from some palo alto teen. Clearing the shelters to raise the money for the group pets in need. Sign up, do the run wherever you are and send a picture to us for the event. Running platform, this friday and next monday. Do it even on a treadmill. You can track your steps around the house, over the weekend as well. Entry fee is 10. It will help those cute little guys there. Enter nbcbayarea. Com cleartheshelters. Should we adopt . We talk about it all year. Well be back to update you with whats going on around the country with breaking news and, of course, all the updates in the bay area. I want to talk about Something Else you should rethink, your wildfire home insurance. Many of the people whose houses are burning down this week. Most homeowner policy basically auto renew. Talk to your Insurance Agent and go to our website. Boycott in the sports world, all nba games are postponed as players protest the shooting of jacob blake. From our exclusive ballpark cam where the giants were on the field but then got off the field about 20 minutes ago. No sign of any giants or dodgers at the moment. Players are meeting, as we speak, and might join this growing boycott. Mariners and padres deciding to boycott their game. Well continue to track this story on air and online. Stay with us. Up next at 4 30, doubling the States Coronavirus testing, new billion dollar deal announced by Governor Newsom and what he had to say about the current downward trends on the pandemic. Vice president s night. What we can expect when mike pence addresses the republican National Convention. Great day on the lake it is. Lunch is cookin and i saved a bunch of money on my boat insurance with geico. Fellas, can it get any better than this . Whoa my old hairstyle grew back. So did mine. [80s music] what . I was an 80s kid. It only gets better when you switch and save with geico. Theyre hot. Theyre intense, you know. And you do what you can to try to save as many houses as you can. When i come home, the fire, the smoke is right there. So, like, confusing. I think people feel a sense of relief, but its cautious relief. The news at 5 00 begins now. The latest from the front lines of the fire in a moment. First were tracking breaking news. The giants and dodgers game could be canceled, raj. All part of a nationwide boycott in the sports world, something weve never really experienced. Take a live look now at oracle park. Some of the players, some of the Los Angeles Dodgers upper left part of your screen, they are on the field. The giants were also on the field about 45 minutes ago, but they left the field. The players are meeting, and we expect they will soon announce if theyre boycotting tonights game. That would essentially mean a postponement of the game. This move follows the nba which called off all of its games tonight following the Police Shooting of jacob blake, a black man who was shot a few days ago. The nba players start this had right now, 4 30. Boycott. Its now bleeding into the fire crews making headway across baseball world. Well find out if it will affect the bay area. Cooler temperatures and calm the nfl. Winds are helping stop three in just the past hour, new details about that shooting over huge clusters of wildfires. The weekend in wisconsin that this is the news weve been left the 29yearold paralyzed, waiting for, for more than a week. According to his family. So far, flames have burned the Wisconsin Attorney general nearly 1400 homes and said it all started with a call from a woman, saying her structures. Evacuation orders are still in boyfriend was at her home and he effect for nearly 170,000 wasnt supposed to be. During that incident, the people. Take a look at the map weve attorney general says police been dealing with now for so tried to arrest blake and many days. The largest is the scu complex tasered him but it didnt work. Fire east of the san jose foothills in the lower right part of your screen. The deadliest is the lnu fire in the north bay, where five people have died and then the czu fire remains a concern, lower left the officer who shot blake part of your screen. Lnu fire, encouraging news was a 70year veteran of the and progress there in the fight department. Oakland is aware of the plan to contain the fire. Demonstration in downtown thats the one in the north bay. Its a massive collection of fires, now 33 contained after oakland wech oakland. Well be following that story as nearly 365,000 acres charred. Well. Lets switch gears again and get back on fire duty. Crews are focusing their efforts firefighters are getting on the in lake county as they hope to keep the fire from making its ground on several fires across way into calistoga and the bay area. Containment is growing by the middletown. In other parts that were threatened by the fire, more hour for the remainder fires we evacuees are being allowed to are watching including the lnu return home. Theres a lot of work thats being done, and i know that all of you are growing concerned about the time that it takes and can you get back into your home and when will the smoke clear . I assure you that every resource vaebl to us is working tirelessly. They are exhausted is what they are. As of now, lnu fire is the Third Largest in californias history. Czu fire in santa cruz and san mateo fires continues to slow down. Good news. The fire is now nearly 20 contained. 500 homes and businesses have been burned and that number will surely rise. A felton woman reported missing by friends was found dead inside of her home but died of natural causes. Law enforcement is reminding people to follow evacuation orders. We want to get you back home. We really do. There are dangers to sneaking back into the area. We are expecting updates 90 minutes from now. Just yesterday calfire dropped 260,000 gallons of water on this fire. Crews are still working to get the upper hand on the scu fire in the south bay. Lighting back fires on the northwest flank, thats in or near the sunol regional wilderness preserve. If youre in fremont or sun dol and see flames or smoke dont be alarmed. Near or around mt. Hamilton that will be done this evening. Its now 25 contained, up from 20 last night. If you look at the map where we have black line on this fire, thats where the personhat area no way fire from here is going to here. We want to see more and more black. If you compare this map to yesterday theres a lot more black on here. Were happy about that. Firefighters are battling that blaze with more help on the way. Cooler weather in the marine layer helping firefighters battle the woodward fire. Its difficult to attack the flames by air because theres low visibility. This is the fire burning in the Point Reyes National seashore, 5 contained with roughly 3,000 acres burned. Homes and businesses remain under evacuation order. Lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. This is what weve been waiting for the past week and a half, jeff. Are we on the right track here when it comes to our air quality . I think most certainly. You know, its all due to that fog in the coastline. We have two days in a row helping to bring out the air. Right now getting this headway is so extremely important. This first graphic im starting off right now, i wanted to put it into perspective the actual fire danger. These are the same numbers firefighters use to rate the fire danger. So its on a scale. Fire burn index is 75 tonight. Thats a big drop from where weve been lately. Were still considered to be in the high category as you can see right here, but tomorrow it drops to 47, which is considered moderate. And that, again, is due to the fog we have at the coastline, increased moisture and winds that do not look too gusty. That is good news. Of course, weve had just so many acres burned, over 747,000 acres across the bay area burned. Temperatures right now in the 70s and 80s, that is great news for the firefighters. Take a closer look at the temperatures. Well bring you right down to the fire lines and well give you everything you need to know about the next seven days in 15 minutes. See you shortly. Statewide emergency. 700,000 fires are burning right now in the last 24 hours alone, the state has reported an additional 50 new fires. 1. 3 million acres have burned. Destroying hundreds of structures and homes, thousands of people evacuated. Governor newsom says the state is working hard to make sure there are enough shelters and hotels and motels for the evacuees. Of the roughly 4,000 ev have the vast majority of in hotel rooms
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