That are coming to assist. Firefighters are working really hard, trying to stay hydrated, just trying to get this fire out. Were a little concerned about the road. We are trying to keep people safe. Reporter i know you guys have said there were ten fires that started overnight because of potential Lightning Strikes. How are you dealing with that in terms of staffing and in addition to all the fires we have going on right now . Lightning expected again tonight . Absolutely this morning i started at 5 00 a. M. With these fires here in the area. But we anticipated the red flag warning. And also the local governments, we did staff firefighters ahead of time. So we have some units that are ready to go and our resources got spread thin. We were in action quick. Any concerns about tonight if we will see more of these wildfires started by lightning . Absolutely. You know, the thunderstorms are unpredictable. We dont know unprecedented times with the weather. If you see some smoke or flames make sure to call 911. Just let people know the sooner we could get eyes on the fire the quicker it could go out. Thank you so much for helping everyone stay informed about all of this. We appreciate your time. So again these fires are about 850 acres, zero containment. Welch creek road here, there are mandatory evacuations affecting about ten homes. Now what firefighters are saying these are very dry flashy fuels. Very unpredictable conditions overnight tonight, but they say they have enough firefighters here, about 400 from across the bay area. Theyre hoping to get it contained before any fires will start again overnight due to the mornings. A lot of this is heating up. Katie nielsen, kpix 5. We will be talking about those Lightning Strikes. A fire is forcing evacuations near mt. Toro in monterey county. Its 10 contained at this hour. Here is the reason for the fire and many other fires erupted across the bay area tonight. And hundreds of bolts that were streaming across the bay area tonight. Jolting plenty of people out of their beds. Darren telling us it looks like a repeat performance tonight. Darren, what do you see . You know whats interesting . It could almost be an exact repeat. In terms of timing and perhaps in terms of intensity. Both of those are too difficult to get specific on and say its going to exactly replay. However, if you look at the ingredients, it looks likely. First of all there is highdef doppler. All the lightning is happening now over here in the sierra, its august. You get lightning storms here all the time. It is very rare to see them in the bay area. Now watch what happens as we go for the wider view. You see that complex ofdes . Weg the morning. By the time we would get to 6 45, youre going to e another line come right into the bay area. Same timing, same ingredients, it could be a similar show. So get your cameras ready. It was quite the show this morning and we could get another one tomorrow. Much more than just the show. The red flag warning, which was going to expire today at 11 00 in the morning now has to be extended, we are still in this. Red flag warning does not extend until 11 00 tomorrow morning. Let me show you the view right now from the camera weve got on top of the Salesforce Tower looking down to the south, which is the direction most of those fires are putting smoke into the air. You cant miss it. Look at all that haze. Just to show you another view. This one from above the trivalley, the camera that sits above, you can see the layer thats trapped. Thats smoke, and weve got enough getting into the atmosphere now that theres an air quality advisory for the whole bay area tomorrow. Were not done with the heatwave. We have to talk about that as well. Ill go over all of it in the rest of the hour and the complete forecast. But for now to you. Thanks, darren. Lightning strikes and fresh fires all over the bay area. Kpix john ramos in the foothills where people woke up finding flames. Reporter with all the heat over the last few days, theres been talk about possible electrical outages. Mother nature decided to show us what real electricity los like. When the sun came out over mt. Diablo this morning, the sky was a magnificent shade of orange. That was just the backdrop for the real show. The lightning began at 3 00 a. M. And continued for hours. Each strike followed by a tera to 15 cos anshook mes below. Susanna thompson and tony adams were directly under the storm at this house on marsh creek road. They were close enough to actually hear and feel the bolts of lightning. Sort of like a tesla coil, when you hear the movies as it is coming through, and then the hair on your arms stand up because the whole air is just energized. Reporter around 6 00 a. M. The strikes began hitting the ground. It first started a fire on this ridge above Briones Valley road. Soon other fires began. This one along marsh creek road, another on hilltop nearby. But the big one started at 8 00. Susanna is the one who called it in. We were watching strikes all around. You watch, did it go all the way to the ground or is it just an air strike . And then that was a ground strike, so you wait to see if there was smoke and there was in two places. Reporter the round fire is in the round valley regional preserve east of mt. Diablo. It is rugged terrain, so firefighters are working from fourwheel drive vehicles and air tankers are dropping fire retardants from above. This one in the park is actually real remote. Theres an open preserve, so no structures up inside there. Reporter they like to keep it in that area, but as the days wear on the fires intensity seems to grow. Shes keeping an eye on it from her home and says it is the second time this year lightning has sparked a e preserve, which she says just proves the old adage. Twice in a summer now in the same, on the same parcel, lightning did strike twice. Reporter in east contra costa county, e hn moras, plume those fires so impressive, you could see it all across the bay. About 60 miles away. So many fires broke out in so many places. As darren mentioned an air quality advisory is posted for the greater bay area, and it will be in effect through tomorrow. Tens of thousands of pg e customers lost power as a result of those Lightning Strikes. The utility has been working all day to repair damaged lines. The utility says more rolling blackouts are likely this evening because of the heat. In fact as statewide flex alert will be in effect from 3 00 to 0 p. M. Every day through wednesday, pg e told us today it cant predict who may be affected until cal iso tells us exactly how many megawatts it needs to take offline. But it does try to take certain factors into account to minimize the impact. Its a challenging thing because what we do want to take into account as much as possible. What areas may be cooler for example. We dont want to take on anymore customers necessary either. Were looking to identify the blocks that will add up to the exact number of the customers that are needed and also we will need to take a look at who has been taking over, to do the best that we can to make sure they were not also taken out on saturday. Reporter here are a few ways to help save power and keep your a c at 78 or above at your home and at least 85 if youre away. If possible turn it off and go with the fan instead. Keep drapes and blinds closed and save large appliance use for afte00 p. Wewise b proberinsae s will topple tree limbs. On to parked cars. Kpix live. Anybody hurt in this . Reporter a lot of mess, but good news no reported injuries that we know of, but we understand three cars, at least three cars were damaged by the down tree limbs. This was one of those spots. Crews just left to clean up the spot and theyre gone moving on to the next location where they need to clean up. Thunder, lightning, and rain. In the middle of the bay area heatwave. That is all i can say. Reporter the strong winds woke me up this morning. Taken around 3 30. It was a lightning show near twin peaks s ty dc and exciting. Reporter the high winds will cause a lot of problems in the ci the excelsior to the filmore, tree limbs falling onto the sidewalks. Some landing in the middle of the street. Witnesses heard loud crackling sounds before these large limbs fell onto persia avenue around 8 30 in the morning. But they covered a parked car. No one inside. I said thank you god. This big branch fell and damaged the muni power line at mcallister and fillmore streets. Before it was chopped up, mcallister street and forced muni to reroute buses. A block over on steiner, the wilson surveyed the damage on their suv. The whole top is crushed in here. Neighbors, they share photos at the branches that would land on their suvs. It was around 2 30 and a huge crash, boom with lights. Its a great family car. So it will be tough. Reporter many down tree limbs were left unattended. They will try to get to each spot as quickly as they can and there are simply too many reports. Its unheard of, a thunderstorm, San Francisco in the middle of august. Well, i wouldnt say its unheard of, but it has happened before. In this instance, you know the damage that you have seen with trees being uprooted. I have the entire trees, mostly the kind of thing with the smaller limbs, things like that. Eah. Most of the reports in San Francisco where tree limbs were coming down. The ground is still pretty dry and not a whole lot of moisture in the ground, so we are not seeing large trees being uprooted, but we did see a couple of very small trees that would topple over. What we saw today, mostly like this where the tree limbs were coming down. That started about 4 00 in the morning and the winds from it is what woke everybody up. Then the thunder and the lightning, but i can show you what they did come down. Reporting live. I appreciate it. Juliette, weve been showing you a lot of fork lightning from the storm, but have you heard of ball lightning . Its amazing, ive been seeing the pictures now. If it really is ball lightning, such a rare phenomenon. E viewer caught it on s. Camera. Fraud behind bars. Nearly two dozen suspects accused of scamming unemployment money from their bay area jail cells. A birds eye view of what it is like to brush a california fire from the air. Thank you for sending in so many great photos and videos our way to social media. We will certainly be showing them throughout the news cast. If you want to see more tag kpix in twitter. You can also sign new video out of Southern California will put you in the crew member seat of the new helicopter. Spent the day dropping water over the wildland fires to get bulldozers on the ground more time to dig containment lines. Back here in the bay area investigators busted an unemployment fraud ring that was apparently operating out of the San Mateo County jail. We told you the scammers would result in more than 250,000 in fraudulent payments. So far, 21 suspects have been identified. And they were busted when they were overheard talking about the fake claims. Several suspects who were not serving time were also arrested. And the ferries will be shuttled tours back to alcatraz. For now your experience on thbe some of their most notorious criminals will stay closed. They will have reduced capacity to comply with the state guidelines. But the tickets will start at 40 with still availability for some tours tomorrow. For the countybycounty list of whats open and not just visit our website on kpix. Com. And also happening tomorrow, students in San Francisco will be logging onto their online classrooms for the first day of school as part of the districts agreement with the union. All students will have no less than 120 minutes of instruction daily and teachers will provide a series of selfpaced assignments. Other big districts including mt. Diablo will also head back tomorrow. For more details on whats happening in your School District just head to kpix. Com backtoschool. All right, take a look at this video don shared with us from last nights storm. Theres a phenomena, ultra rare known as ball lightning. Im just looking at it. If that is an example, your guess is as good as mine, but they could not explain the phenomenon and other than the fact it looks like a ball of lightning. But it will need to leave that smell, in all the years where she been doing weather. I have never seen that example, have you . No. Were skeptical, are you . Yes. And i mean there is a growing consensus that it is a legitimate thing in the scientific community, but not a lot of verifiable image. If you have stuff, it could have been ball lightning, who knows, but jimmy carter saw a ufo in 1969. But i dont know. Lets get into the forecast and take a look at highdef doppler with me, showing off to the east over the sierra, and that is where it should be tomorrow where it is coming back for us. If we take a look at the forecast on the big picture, you can see we did this at the top of the newscast, which looks to be an exact replay of what happened for us this morning, but i just want to go over a couple of things before we come back to this. While we do have a chance for thunderstorms again tomorrow, lets not overlook the fact that we still have a heatwave going on. First and foremost, heat warnings and advisories, lets break this up into the two important notions that we need to discuss. The first one is the excessive heat warning and the significant risk of the heat related illness until 9 00 on wednesday. Still got a while to go with this and that is centered over here. So walnut creek, concord, san ramon, liver mother posted. Youre in it. That is where we will be doing the 107, well show you the numbers in the seven day. If youre in the immediate bay a heat advisory instead of the significant risk. You will have a risk of the something to take seriously. Now that one will expire at 9 00 tonight. Likely going to get picked up again over the next few days. If you look at the big picture, all the clouds that are streaming our way is just a small piece of what happened with a break up hurricane Tropical Storm down here. Do you see that . The leftovers of Tropical Storm. That got pulled up our way. If youre going to get thunderstorms in the bay area and in august, youve got to have a whole bunch of things come together. You couldnt see it, but you see the counterclockwise spin. Right there weve got an area of low pressure and a weak one sitting off the coast. But the dominating factor is the big area of High Pressure over here spinning everything clockwise. Now look what happens between the two and a very strong tug in that atmosphere that was able to reach down into the sub tropics and pull in all this humidity, feels like youre in hawaii when you step outside right now. Of course, thats the fuel for the thunderstorms. But the timing on it tomorrow should shift, but it looks like it will be identical to what we did today and it could be just as widespread. Stay on top of this forecast with us and well have much more coverage between now and through the morning tomorrow with mary more on that in a second. As far as daytime highs tomorrow, back in the mid90s. 75 in santa clara and 95 in santa clara. 94 in redwood city. Hayward youre going up to 91. Numbers will go back up to 108 in concord. 104 for liver mother. 105 for walnut creek. Brentwood, youre going to 108 tomorrow. Well see the number at berkeley at 87. San rafael 97, and santa rosa 99. The sevenday forecast, you can see that spread through the first half of this week. As unusual as it is to get the thunderstorms and the lightning show that we have, it is also unusual for us to get such a prolong stretch of heat. We still need to get through the next few days. Mary will be in tomorrow morning, tracking whatever thunderstorms there are. And gianna will be on the road, letting you know what it looks like where they will go straight through 7 00. Ill be back with more. For now dennis, over to you. The former 49er will make an unbelievable return to the practice field. And that thunder youre talking about, darren, at oracle, it was the as the as ninth inning comeback to beat the giants. No need for that today. Now how about a ninerun inning for the Oakland Athletics . Giants with a sense of the cutout to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the police. 10 oakland. Now the bottom two, the line drive, second home run of the year to tie it up by one. He scores from the first and he will reach third on the error. The bottom of the inninggets jammed, drops them down the left field line. Crawford will score to tie the game. This is such a weird hit ball, but he thought it popped it up. And that is one that he would need to replace that starter and the first throw, matched into left field and the tworun shot for oakland. Now later in the inning, 62 will crush one to the top of the left field bleacher, thats a threerun home run, five runs batted in the game. Marcus semien will get in there, caps off the ninerun inning for the as. Crushing the giants 153 to finish off an oakland sweep. They had nine home runs, scored 30 runs, and theyre 166. The best record in baseball. We havent been the fastest starters, but its good to see them. No doubt about that to keep it going, where did he go from here . How do you move on . And to very quickly address the issues, to talk about what we could do better to work on our process and then to have a short memory. And that is my favorite story of the weekend. They cleared to return the football. Celebrating with his lytoon the practice rse 20 a long road back from a broken leg requiring 17 surgeries and an infection that would nearly cost him his life. How great is that . Im so happy for him. I know hes real tough. He didnt want it to end the way that it did with the leg and so now hes back. Flames are looking to take over a commanding lead. But calgary leading in front of the net. Now guess who will be there. The former shark will score to tie it up with 12 seconds left and they gave little joe a hat trick for the game. And they even up the series at two games a piece. Running the track and the road course for the first time ever. Chase elliott hands them off for their Third Straight road course win, the second victory of the victory. Where nobody has tested positive for the coronavirus. Thats good to hear. Dennis coming up in the next half hour and an update on the brush fire that is setting up the huge plume of smoke near milpitas. I just heard a loud boom there. That just fell. And plus the storm will become a little too close for comfort in the east bay. And House Speaker nancy pelosi will cut them short for congress to address a big problem at the post office. Its coming up. Now at 6 30 three lightning sparked brush fires burning across santa clara and alameda county, now forcing evacuations. Theyre calling it collectively, the marsh fire. Tonight its proving to be a challenging fire fight. The flam