North of gilroy its 15 contained. And then theres the park fire which was sparked late saturday night in morgan hill and its burned 340 acres. The good news is 70 contained and all evacuations were lifted in morgan hill but lets go back to the other fire because that one still has evacuations in place in gilroy and kron fours will tran has been monitoring whats going on there will house the fire fight going. The firefight continues and will continue for the next several days in fact the wind is starting to pick up the just had to change a shift. Now that the sun is clearly above us we can clearly see what it did to this hillside in what the firefighters try to do to make sure that the fire did not spread look at that red on the hillside thats the retardant that was dropped from the air drops yesterday this a good chance they could do it again its still smoldering. This is can ya to road this is an area where they preemptively evacuated people. This is not like a neighborhood they used to seeing home after home after home so its sparse but nonetheless they did tell people to get out of year and because of that perhaps thats the reason why so far we have not seen any fatalities or any major injuries at this time of the fire continues to move along the ridge in fact when we got here at around 5 oclock this morning. The fire was very prominent along the hillside still burning in a rugged area thats quite difficult for the firefighters to get to their using a lot of firefighters on the ground with pick axes and shovels just to clear some of the area so the fire would not continue to move unabated. Yesterday because as fire spread so quickly that they had to use air drops they took to the air dropped it and even then the fire was still so stubborn that he continues to move this morning along this area moving closer to one 52 to structures were destroyed from this fire not sure if theyre out houses or barns or homes. But nonetheless to structures were destroyed. They had a change or shift theyre bringing in firefighters from all over the bay areas part of cal fires mutual aid and they say they hope to get this fire containment wise up a little bit more today. This is a window of opportunity because its not extremely windy at this time, but they do expect a gust to be a always present throughout this long battle and if youre wondering how this fire started we just dont know at this time firefighters usually tackle that once they get an upper hand on the fire back to you. All right thanks for that update. Now lets go over to the other fired one near morgan hill. And they are looking to see if that was sparked by fireworks neighbors heard loud booms going off just before the fire broke out. About 10 oclock last night we heard some fireworks going off and after them. Maybe half an hour after that we heard. Sirens going down it just kept going off no one you know for a lot to me because people were trying to celebrate in. Unfortunately things bad things happen when youre doing a dry area like and now you can see up on the hill there. And you can still see some smoldering going on up on the hill. Easton road in morgan hill remains closed except for local traffic. Some neighbors in hayward not only have to deal with illegal fireworks but also sideshows take a look. For the first theyre watching anything could happen. This is a video that shows the site at the corner of florida and miami streets. In hayward the person who shot the video said the fireworks and the sideshows went on until about. 2 in the morning. And take a look at the morning after an antioch look at the mess from illegal fireworks left behind in a parking lot of lone tree elementary school. And when somebody posted this mess on facebook they see the broom somebody came out, but 20 volunteers actually went and clean it up. There were more than 67 fires in Contra Costa County over the Holiday Weekend. They think at least a dozen of them were caused by illegal fireworks and one of those fires threaten more than 20 homes in pittsburgh. Kron fours taylor, the sacking has the story. Last night it was in my experience of 15 years by far the lows. The most extreme use of illegal fireworks under stage. It was just incredible on the 4th of july. The legal fireworks in Contra Costa County spark more fires in 5 hours. What firefighters typically see throughout an entire summer months contra costa fire captain george lang says the department put out 67 fires from 07 00pm to midnight, including this large one near oak hills in south would drives in pittsburgh just really dangerous, especially because were so busy. We didnt have a number of units that we would normally action fire at one point the fire threat in 20 homes nearby, but firefighters managed to save and protect all 20 meanwhile, 2 homes on chris park circle in any opera burning from another fire but were later saved by fire crews. Captain lang says all the illegal firework activity pretty strain on the resources saturday night were down to sending a single engine who are most call. Where we would normally have a pool alarm senate which would be depending on the alarm fortunes of the truck that she is we have just one unit responded to fire set that tone from down or well, no homes were lost there were several injuries are unknown at least 3 injuries to a mother father were none of the first you lost that fireworks. And thats just the initial round lang says the use of illegal fireworks started earlier this year at the beginning of june. Well its not clear if the fireworks will continue after the holiday langhornes neighbors to be prepared. We want people to do their Education Management good there weve done in the space. Completed before the for the joint simply because of the number of fires that occurred before 2 people 5 of the 6 to 7 fires saturday night fireworks caused at least 16 of them on the rest are still being investigated and Taylor Bisacky reporting kron 4 happening now police are investigating what looks like a kidnapping that happened in vallejo people saw a woman being hit by a man and then he shoved her into the back of a car. Yesterday afternoon near the area of rotary way and cad loney lane and this is a picture of the car that took off with her in it its an older model silver infiniti sedan and if we zoom in you can see the license plates who made a graphic with that theyre looking for this car with a plate. The temporary plates a to d m and 2, 8, 4, gunfire in San Francisco takes the life of a 6 yearold boy. The shooting happened. The night of july 4th in the bayview on english street paramedics rushed to the scene. They tried to help him, but the boy later died at the hospital, another person was also shot and wounded. Nobodys been arrested. California once again sets a new record for the most coronavirus cases in our state a single day. We saw 11,786 infections reported yesterday so the total now. It is 264 at 6,681 cases and you can see more than 6300 people have died of covid statewide here in the bay area. Its close to 600 people who have died of covid state leaders across the country in different states are sending mixed messages about wearing a mask and socially distancing. A whitney wild explains. Were not on the same page there is not unity in the you know in our community or any community right now state by state county by county or even city by city. Each coming up with their own rules or lack thereof on how to combat the coronavirus and many feel the pressure mounting with cases surging over the last couple of weeks to record highs. We had to beg to be able to implement masking orders local leaders say a lack of federal mandates on measures like masks creates challenges making their jobs to for mixed messaging from the white house including this statement from the president saturday night. Now we have. Tested almost 40 million people. By so doing we showcases. 99 of which are totally harmless. Thats not true. According to the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention. It estimates that 35 of cases are asymptomatic but not even the commissioner of the u. S. Food and Drug Administration was willing to admit the president s claims were inaccurate totally support the cdc. So im not going to get into whos right and whos wrong otyers argue thats exactly the problem we need a National Strategy were only as strong as our weakest link right now as we went through how we cannot afford to go through hella gain in washington, im whitney wild. Because of the numbers that weve been seeing with coronavirus on the rise in california and the bay area moraine county has decided to reverse course. And not allow you to eat inside restaurants at least for another 3 weeks. They have pulled or suspended the Indoor Dining that they just started allowing. But they said you know that because of the outbreak and the increasing numbers they dont want to do it so its back to Outdoor Dining only marine county has seen an increase in covid cases also from a san quintin the prison added to the number of cases in marin county. And now were in county has been added to the States Coronavirus watch list which includes solano contra costa and santa clara counties. In the bay area and many counties in the southland thats where covid is really bad. Still ahead, another controversial Catholic Priest goes down this time in our State Capitol. Hearts have a power to connect us and to make us feel things and to keep us inspired to keep us going. Well hear from the bay area woman who is inspiring a lot of people with a virtual concert. And outside today, daytime highs just a touch cooler than yesterday as were still going to be warm with upper 80s for some 9. 14 right now and i was teas and you james about getting so were putting his grill together that he wanted to use of real life its not like it was the heavy lifting. It was just that the kneeling. Like hes a 100 years old hes yeah it may take 3 hours of you loved understand this is not going to be a catcher anytime soon yeah probably not, but it sounds like you could have a nice little grill out yeah the grill can say go out there use it again and again to any of you guys because look at the sunshine you cant miss this one. A Beautiful Day ahead of us berkeley looks great blue skies all the way out to the coast and all the way inland too. You add in the fact will be just a little bit cooler than we have been and thats just the cherry on top of today really not really looking at any fog some low lying cloud cover right over San Bruno Mountain right now but youre still getting sunshine making its way through those low clouds down to the south bay, mount morgan hill in there are 2 fires in your vicinity burning in the hills just to your east right around pacheco pass that one above gilroy winds in these 2 cities fairly calm when she had a little higher winds are at 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour right now similar to where youre seeing them right along the coastline and do expect winds to be picking up even further later on today with gusts of up to 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour for coastal in north bay areas, well be a little bit calmer for south and east bay neighbors, but a breezy one for your monday nonetheless, which does increase your risk of high fire danger as for tomorrow winds will calm down as this jet stream an onshore flow. Relax is just a little bit. Temperatures will remain relatively cool in the coming days though thanks to you due to this dip in the jet stream. Thats going to keep us nice and cool for this time of year still warm just cooler than average 60s at the coast 70s right alongside the shore of the bay foster city 73. Palo alto youll be at 74 today with the south bay in the upper 70s to low 80s that the yesterdays 90s for sure the spay daytime highs also out of the 90s livermore only a 81 while hayward and oakland only in the low 70s. Concord are warm spot for the east bay 86 while the north bay, some temperatures even warmer than that vacaville or loan spot in the 90s. Well santa rosa, 85 mill valley, a comfortable 74. Now tomorrow and wednesday will be your coolest days in london, this forecast after that temperature show signs of warming come thursday and friday and by saturday and sunday of the upcoming weekend. Its back to the 90s we go daria. Thanks a lot john 9. 16 right now and a pair of friends in the bay area raise money to help promote equality for all americans and they did it with a virtual benefit concert. Kron fours lsi the money and cohosted the event and has some of the highlights. Its amazing what art can do on sunday had the opportunity to cohost a free virtual benefit concert with artists from across the United States. They volunteer their time from 9 in the morning to 9 at night to help raise money for the n double acp Legal Defense fund we have broadway singers and poets and spoke with one of the events organizers shes a bay area local from san carlos about the inspiration behind this crosscultural effort to provide Legal Defense and education against racial first learned about the murder of george floyd by the police on the heels of. So many other murders of black men and women particular, but just the general disrespect of black and brown bodies in our nation. And i was moved to take action. To support a huge change this time for a huge change and i feel the ground for thats changes things are really shifting like. More. People are starting to care and i want to harness that energy but also for myself i just wanted to do something. Im a singer. And a voice teacher and so i thought well i can put on a concert. Thats why i know how to do. So i reached out to katie shepherd my friend here in san carlos and fellow voice teacher and i said you know, lets put on a little concert. And she said yes and she said actually lets make it a really big concert lets take a 12 hours long. Lets think think. By famous from broadway and we can to expand and every step of the way that we have been putting this together. Said yes volunteering to performing and its all for free. This is all done by volunteers every penny has gone. To the n double acp Legal Defense fund or to the artist directly none of the organizers are receiving any compensation for this and that is and i think the reason everybody said yes these people feel like they want to take action they want to be part of the solution. So we created this nationwide multi Racial Coalition of people to put on this event and we did it in a month. Mine lands on too few happy words, dont know if hearing is theyre dark and haunting not the most miles this week to inspire one berks. In 7th grade he said that the cell the nucleus and mitochondria. Learn where freedom lives. I found the north star on the scene here at cpac i got my maps counted the money might change her. I. Was so exit at basically once the broadcast started i actually started weeping for joy because i was like wow, this is happening there all these people are saying yes there are it is beautiful. The people that we saw on the screen today. All to a person. So much beauty and passion. And commitment to there is. Just an amazing experience from hip, hop to perform ill come early ring the bells songs to operate we jazz we had every john are represented it was such a wonderful experience of course Classical Music thats why do. So we anyway it just amazing to see this like groundswell of support and talent come out. And i so i cried several times this morning for joy to see this actually come to girl the work it is so true that the United States is precious little investment to the arts and yes, i think all of us who have could still turn a place for months know how much were sustained by are connections to the artists do you know if you are accessing electronic to the arts really sustains us and keeps us happy. And one of the things about. The arts is the arts have a power to connect us and to make us feel things. And to keep us inspired and to keep us going because sometimes this because this fight this hard this is a long struggle. This is 400 plus years of oppression that were working on and doing and its not going to happen overnight. We need each other. We need the arts we need our to we need to listen to artists feel inspired by them support them and also respects how much artists give to us as a society its its a its essential to how we make it through the day on so many days. Amen to that and you can contribute at voices in action concert dot com. Well be back with more in just a few minutes at 9. 22. Theres a peek at what youre looking at if youre headed to the the ball court in maryland is now home to a mural honoring brianna taylor, the kentucky emt who was shot and killed by Police Officers during a botched raid, Sean Streicher shows us how Community Members brought the mural to life. If you drive pretty quickly its a mural of monumental proportions start with they just the feel like its time to stand as a communities then we can do it you are and why not this is that we have this really speaking about they is no platform tax for justice a 7,000 square foot painting of brianna taylor, a 26 yearold woman whose death sparked outrage. When she was shot and killed by police in her apartment in louisville, kentucky, public art is a tool to express community and social change the artwork was made possible by organizations like future history now the banneker douglas museum. And the Maryland Commission on africanamerican history and culture with this mural. We hope to involve the year and this Pivotal Moment in history in a very peaceful and actively want to get the wrong. It was designed by muralist Jeff Huntington in a way that the team of volunteers regardless of their art background could bring it to life. Were putting many small abstract pieces together to create one larger realistic peace with the end result being so big they say youll be able to see it from outer space making its message hard to miss Community Members from annapolis to kentucky to germany to south africa. We all want an end to systemic racism and police brutality.