Reporter her husband is a may n may not nans working. We dont need anything. Lets go. Reporter with fire suddenly everywhere, they realized the lake was their only escape. They grabbed their three dogs and took to the water. All i could imagine it the flames getting us. Thats how fast it was moving. It was really scary. I dont want to die this way. Reporter they called 911 and met a sheriff deputy on the other side of lake. Shes grateful her Little Family survived. The fire destroyed the store and some of the boats. It could have been so much worse. Im thankful we got out. I got my babies out. Reporter kathy is still feeling so much anxiety about what happened. They are evacuated now and have been staying in a hotel in napa in in t city of napa. Shes not sure if she wants to return and continue living near the lake after what they went through. The latest update on the lnu complex fire. More than 370 acres burned. Five people sadly died. As for evacuations, how mountain road, the White Cottage to pope valley road and 8th grade from White College to pope valley road still under evacuation orders. Some evacuation warnings have been lifted. Further south now, the czu fire 20 containment. More people are being allowed to return. Many people who evacuated say the damage doesnt surprise them considering what they saw as they were leaving. I barely got down the hill because smoke and the ash was so bad, i could barely drive and see. Coming back into those zones, the repopulation slowly is expanding those zones so more people are moving back in. This is in santa cruz and san mateshl mateo counties. All the green are the areas where people can return to the homes. That includes mount herman and parts of eastern big creek road. The portion in red big basin and Boulder Creek are areas still too dangerous to reopen. Still a lot of haze in the air today thanks in part to the wildfires. Lets take the conditions from our cameras. We under a spare the air alert until sunday. Chief meteorologist joins us. How bad is the air quality, jefjef jeff . Its moderate to unhealthy. We saw the wind switch a little bit. The fog took break as it usually does in the afternoon and the smoke kind of one out. As we bring you into that forecast, you can see a live look to the south and heres the layer of fog thats overSan Francisco and all of this gray up above. Thats the smoke thats been moving in. Let me give you another Vantage Point and you can see what were dealing with. All the fires in the north bay that he with have talked about even though containment numbers are up. Its coming from the north off to the south. 10 to 20 miles an hour. Its pushing a lot of the smoke from the north bay fires down here throughout the bay area. Current air quality does have everybody, at least most of us in the yellow which is moderate. Most unhealthy air over palo alto. Youre getting smoke from the fire to the north and the Santa Cruz Mountains fire is coming up from the south. You get sandwiches in between. Thats why you have the worst air quality. In about ten minutes well talk about hotter air ahead. Well give you the forecast on the fire line in ten minutes. Thank you, jeff. Our coverage continues in a few minutes well check in on how the fire is going against the scu. Thats the one burning in the east bay and south bay as well as two other big fires burning. Well get back to our fire coverage in a few moments. We want to explain the new rules when it comes to the coronavirus. The governor introduced a new tier system that replaces the state watch list. This will dn businesses can reopen. Theres a on here. Well take you through the main bullet points. Each county is assigned to one of these four tiers. They are based on two items. The rate of new cases and the positivity rate. The dark purple is widespread. Thats the most restrictive. Yellow is minimal. Thats the least restrictive. What does this mean for businesses . Counties classified as widespread will have to keep most nonessential businesses closed. If counties are in the red substantial tier, those restrictions ease ever so slight i will. Look at the next two. The counties numbers improve, they move move into a less restriktsir restrictive tier. That means more can open. You see all San Francisco and napa are highlighted in purple. In order to move forward, counties have to meet the next tiers criteria for two weeks in a row. In numbers get worse, counties will be assigned a more restrictive t to the best of my recollection tier. It will take a will the of looking a t the website and analyzing to figure out the different tiers especially if youre small business. Today if San Francisco the city announced it will join other counties in allowing more businesses to reopen. Less than an hour later a lot of confusion after the state made its announcement. Its been a lot of confusion for several weeks now. Reporter i spoke with a barbershop ordinary reason, salon owner and other Business Owners and they are skeptical with how Something Like this might work in San Francisco. The mayor says she understands adjustments will need to be made and the city is working to help. She also said that nothing changes here today in the city based on the states new system. Were finally able to allow some businesses to open to do out door services. Reporter mayor london breed explained very soon haircuts and man cures in San Francisco can happen as long as they happen out doors. Hair salons, barbershops, nail salons and out door gyms are allowed to move forward. Reporter facials are still banned and tattoo shops remain open. Its not ideal for us. For a lot of businesses in San Francisco considering their location. Some of us say some not hygienic scenario if we were to work outside. Reporter he already spent hundreds of dollars to open with recautions when the city extended closures months ago. I dont know what to believe anymore. Reporter the governor announced a new tiered system for reopening moving away from the watch list. That system appeared to suggest a lot more could reopen in San Francisco. You have four tiers, four colors. They attach to specific capac y capacity. Reporter the mayor said the city is reviewing the system and how it affects future reopening but said changes are still subject to decisions by local health officials. Reporter businesses could be part of the shared Spaces Program which would allow them to operate in spaces like the sidewalk. Out door personal Services Expected to start up on tuesday with outdoor gyms and Outdoor Fitness centers expected to reopen the follow week. Thank you. We are trying to get our heads around this. If you want more information about the governors new reopening plan and how it impacts your Small Businesses or favorite businesses go to nbcbayarea. Com. On the anniversary of dr. Martin luther famous speech, his son and name sake standing, still demanding change. The progress we celebrated name is in peril yet again. The event taking on fresh urgency after the Police Shooting of jacob blake. The officer, white. Blake, unarmed. Blake now paralyzed from the waist down. His father joined the demonstration. Every black person in the United States is going to stand up. Were tired. You are jents calls for equality echoing again on the National Mall and across the nation. That march was in washington but the impact is being felt nationwide, including here in the bay area. In oakland people spoke out for housing, against unequal treatment at the hands of police officers. Reporter the rally was earlier today outside oakland city hall. Trying to get the attention of those inside while setting the stage for another rally later tonight. The march and rally was timed to match up with the massive march in washington. Listen to the people who live here. Reporter the message in both places was the same. Today is the day that is the anniversary of the speech that Martin Luther king gave. Today is the day we should be marching. We should making our voices heard. Reporter voices heard on issues of housing, income and racial inequality and racial abuse and violence at the hands of police. Focusing on the Police Shooting of jacob blake in wisconsin. If it was a white man walking back to his car, he would have o his bed. What is he going to do . Run away. Reporter demanding those in power do more. We all have objectives that we want out of our city and systems and they are not getting met. Reporter with local leaders promising changes. We heard every one loud and clear. We are working in terms of what role, what responsibilitys the Police Department will have in the near future. Theres already a great move being made. Are rp were told another rally is set to start somewhere around 7 00 tonight. Live in oakland, scott budman s, nbc bay area news. Up next, hes going home. Well check with our own gar vin thomas. Wouchb the thousands of evacuees who is now moving back in. Hotter weather ahead. Were tracking that and the air quality, coming up in about seven mips. While thousands of families are still displaced and evacuated from their homes, a lot of other people are being allowed to go back home. That includes our own garvin thomas. Last week he shared the steps he took to keep his home safe as he was evacuated with his family because of the fire. Tonight he shares what he did when he got back home. The roadblocks are down and were able to return home for first time in more than week. Were grateful that the house is still standing. We have friends that werent so lucky. Theres steps we took and you can take once you get home to begin to clean up. First of all, there is ash over everything. The experts say less is more with this. Dont grab for the leaf blow r because that will put it all back up in the air. Sweeping is better an and you can bag it and put pit in the trash. If you turned off your gas, contact pg e to safely turn it back on and relight pilot lights. They have extra crews in the area to help you do just that. Reporter inside the house, if youre lucky, a smoky smell is all you have to deal with and in that gas, vinegar and baking soda are your best friend. Use vinegar and warm water to wipe down your hard surfaces. A cup of vinegar in a load of laundry will help get rid of smoet smell in clothing. Baking soda can be sprinkled and vacuum off. Bowls of baking soda can be placed around the home to absorb odors. Gar vin, most important, pow are you and the kids doing in i know it must be a relief. How are the dkids doing . Do they feel safe again . I think they do. We kept them really in the loop the entire time about how the house was doing. How fire was doing. It got about three miles away from where we lived. By the time we were returning, they knew everything was safe. It was no problem to get back. As we rolled up they were thrilled to be home. We are thrilled that you are safe and sound in your home, you and the kids and cameron and everything. Thank you for all you did during this time as well. He looks relieved. Nice to have him back home. Parts of the south and east bay, the scu fire continues to grow. Cal fire did have positive news. Conditions are working in their favor. Well ask jeff about that as well. Thats the small airport there in the community. Its been a helpful airstrip. Cal fire is using it to fill up op retardant for air drops. 370,000 acres. Its the biggest of the three fires burning in the bay area. Containment is at 35 . About 20,000 homes are threatened. 48 structures destroyed. Lets check in with one of the relatively small fires. This is the wood ward county in marin county. Flames are threatening more than 1600 structures. Evhave not changed since monday. Theres the fire complex north of us. Its now 18 contained. What are you seeing they they are also seeing . Were seeing the increase humidity at the lower levels. We had the bank of fog at the coastline. Thats good news. No extreme wind coming our way. That will also help. Temperatures cool off a couple of degrees tomorrow. Its kicking up the wind quite a bit. Thats the one exception on the wind thats make it harder there for firefighters. We are looking at temperatures dropping a few degrees. Wind gusts steady at 10. Weather will be helping. Were lickly going to push back in the unhealthy category. All in the unhealthy. Coasts will be fluk watsing into the moderate. If we get more containment, those numbers could be better. The mask wearing and the smoke outside might have you wearing that n95 mask. Temperatures will be in the upper 50s and low 60s. A bit cool to start. 54 here in San Francisco with some of that fog and for the north bay a mix of clouds and also smoke. Numbers will will cooling off a few degrees. 98 in clear lake. We have the classic bay area temperature scenario here. San francisco at 62 and our beaches in the 60s. Not too bad tomorrow. Lets move things into whats happening next week. I want to focus in on this because it looks like a twoday event of some much hotter weather for us. We have High Pressure that is keeping the storm track way off to the north. No unusual storm systems moving in from the typical storm track. Off to the south we get this surge of heat pushing over the bay area. Still in San Francisco, this will bring us some 70s back once we hit monday, tuesday and wednesday. For the inland valley, were see numbers going back up into the upper 90s. Right now a two day event. You can see monday, 96, tuesday, 97. If you have some free time, you still want to do anything and you want the best clean air, the beaches could be your spot. Halfmoon bay, were looking at some 70s next week. I know we all got a lot going on but thats kind of the spot i would be in if i didnt have to work next week for maybe a little bit. Maybe a little road trip. Are you inviting me somewhere . Is that what im hearing . Lets go. Thanks, jeff. Should we have some fun now . Some more fun. We got don here. Well meet him. Hes a snuggle monster. Talk about mans best friend. Fst the if theres a time to adopt, its now. I have the details coming up. Wow. All this month we worked with animal shelters around the bay area the find forever homes. This weekend is the main event. We have details about how you adopt and some friends for us to see. Reporter this is my favorite event. Im so excited and pumped. Well do a specially distanced interview. Hes five years old. Theres a couple of things to keep in mind. You have to wear your mask. Im bring in jeff. Hes kexecutive director. Tell us what we can expect. Were so excited for this adopt event tomorrow. We have two things going on. A Wellness Clinic starting at 9 00 a. M. For vaccine and at 10 00 a. M. , adoptions. Mostly kittens. Every one will have really good time tomorrow. If you want to know more about don, what sort of family he might be good for and his adoption profile you can check out their website. They will have the complete details on that. Im going to find a way to snuggle. You have to work up to it. Thats a gorgeous dog. Oh, my gosh. Beautiful. We have some good news for a cat named raj. Raj was at the Sonoma County animal services. The same for a cat named jessica. Shes gorgeous. Look at those eyes. Beautiful eyes. You can learn more about adopt and other ways to help the shelter pets around the bay area at nbcbayarea. Com cleartheshelters. Did you adopt jessica . 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Health experts say this is where most out breaks occur in big Group Gatherings when theres no mask become worn. Keep your parties to zoom or two or three people. Thats what we all got to do. Thats going to do it for us. Well be back at 6 00. Lester holt is next. Tonight, thousands converging in the Nations Capital that protest racial injustice, the massive gathering on the 57th anniversary of the march on washington, capping off a summer of protests across america. Among the speakers on the mall, the families of george floyd and jacob blake. And blakes father outraged his son was shackled to a hospital bed after an officers bullets left him paralyzed. The breaking development late today in the names of the two other officers revealed. Its on, President Trump rallying tonight in a key battleground after accepting the gop nomination the president calling joe biden the destroyer of
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