Temperatures are coming down a little bit but of course youre adding smoke into today. And thats just going make conditions all the worse you can see outside here. This is a picture from up in guerneville sent in from a viewer up there. Greg potter that smoke just being put into the sky around sunset last night you can see those smoke plumes across the bay area and the impact from them very evident. This morning, poor air quality for most parts of the bay are best towards the coastline but even then youre still looking at sinking air and making for some poor air quality there as well so this is not your ideal situation for spending much time outside this wednesday use it as an excuse to stay indoors, stay cool, especially if you have respiratory conditions you dont want to be doing too much. We have fire burning in eastern Contra Costa County still putting up smoke in that region also some fairly breezy conditions through the delta around oakley in brentwood this morning, north bay, multiple fires, burning, especially in northern ap a county where we are seeing some increased winds into the later part of the day today, youll notice wind speeds picking up into the finish of your wednesday. Also right around Santa Cruz County another fire burning thats putting up smoke on into the south bay. So smoke and heat today were already off to a warm start to this morning look at pittsburgh at 82 right now fairfield at 76 conquered double in livermore solid 70s for you 60s elsewhere in the bay area so a warm start to what still will be a hot day ahead of us triple digit heat remains for some inland cities. Bayside cities, mostly in the 80s james. All right, thank you very much john so lets begin by getting you updated on the latest with fires, california, the entire state under a state of emergency right now as wildfires continue to scorched thousands of acres from the north a Northern California all the way down to the l a area here in the bay area as you see on your screen. We have a number of wildfires that have forced thousands of families to evacuate into the sweltering heat while were dealing with this pandemic so things have gone from bad to worse for a lot of folks and these are just pictures of some of the fires burning right now that are burning in napa contra costa, san mateo and marion counties, lets get into some more detail for you lets begin in the north bay yesterday we talked about the hennessy in the gamble fires. Well a lot more have broken out since then. And so cal fire sort of combined them all together and are just referencing all of them as the l a new lightning complex, its comprised of all the large fires that have popped up in napa and sonoma counties which includes as i hennessy in the gamble fire added to the list now is what theyre calling the 1510 fire. The spanish fire the markley fire the 13 for the 1116 fires all of these together now come up combining to make this complex of fires which has burned over 32,000 acres so far containment is at 0 . The hennessy fire in napa county course the largest weve been talking about that it exploded to 10,000 acres yesterday alone and already 3 structures have burned to the ground. Officials say the underbrush is really whats making it hard to fight the fire because. Hand crews are having such a tough time cutting through it and getting those lines that they like to cut into the hillside to stop the advance of the fire. Well be tracking their progress today. Speaking of which we have some breaking news regarding the l a new complex fire there in the north bay. Its now forced evacuations in vacaville thats new information for you this morning. These Evacuation Orders are for everybody on Pleasant Valley road. And all connecting roads. We have crews on the way there to the l a new complex fire get you more details on that. In live reports as they become available to stay tuned to the kron 00 04am morning news throughout the morning. Firefighters are also working to contain whats called the 4, 6, fire thats in marin county in fact were in county fire tweeted out some chopper video of smoke billowing into the air. Heres that for you. You can see this is out the Point Reyes National seashore right there adjacent to the woodwork trail. Firefighters say no structures are currently threatened so they dont have any Evacuation Orders in place. But his 15 acres in size right now and given the rugged terrain and the difficulty fighting this fire. Theyre worried its going to grow probably substantially before they can get a handle on it. Flames are also forcing people to evacuate their homes in san mateo and santa cruz counties all of those fires now cal fire has combined to call the seas eu lightning complex fires are burning in the mountains. And it right at this 0 containment that fire has burned over 75 acres, 7500 acres so far. It started yesterday or started sunday, it was all part of that Lightning Storm that we saw sunday morning, sparking fires all around the bay area for these fires to First Responders apparently have been hurt theyre being treated. Some 1200 structures are currently threatened. And several evacuations in San Mateo County communities are in place in fact we have a full list of those Evacuation Orders. On our website kron 4 dot com, not just for their but for all of the bay area so if youre concerned there might be an Evacuation Order in your community go to kron 4 dot com double check that. Meanwhile in the east bay, we have 4 separate fires making up the deer zone fires, theyre burning in east Contra Costa County. This complex of fires at this point is 0 contained. Again lightning sparked from sunday. Look at the in this video here. Its incredible mandatory evacuations remain in effect for about a 150 homes on the northeast side of mount diablo and firefighters there are also as they are everywhere else struggling with the hot temperatures the rough terrain and they say its spreading at an awfully dangerous rate. So theyre desperate to try to head it off before it starts to impact more communities. Happening today. We are expecting to get a better idea on what triggered some of the rolling outages over the weekend. This comes after Governor Newsom ordered an investigation with kron fours Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala reporting. And a cooling center in californias capital city many are trying to beat the heat tuesday marked the 5th day in a week long stretch of extreme temperatures sizzling the state and overwhelming the electrical grid were going to start i seen the stress on the system with an investigation under way into the latest round of rolling blackouts the governor says more are inevitable as the state is expected to peak at 50,000 megawatts of power tuesday and 47,000 wednesday governor Gavin Newsoms administration is investigating regulators failure to predict and plan for the shortages, especially amid a pandemic when everyone is encouraged to work learn and ultimately stay inside the states Largest Electric company pg e said the California Independent system operator also known as cal, iso given a 10 minute notice to shut down power to hundreds of thousands of customers over the weekend guy so has yet to comment on pg es claims but the agency says this could have been avoided had the Public Utilities commission listen to their constant warnings of an Energy Shortfall meanwhile, the Public Utilities Commission Says demand for electricity right now is not out of the ordinary but it will work with other agencies to figure out what happened we are committed the long haul i did the carbon ice or economy. What we refer to as low carbon green growth, were not going to back away from that. But we cannot do without focusing come and certainly on the issue of reliability. And the partnerships between cal iso. Partnerships in the california pc, the California Energy commission are foundational some lawmakers say regardless of how regulators respond to the investigation the responsibility ultimately falls on the governor and previous administrations, Assemblyman Jim Patterson is the vice chair of the Assembly Utilities and energy committee. The 5th largest economy on the planet or grant is off the firms of failure and its not the rich and found him not because we have hot days because we have a political. And 2 governors who have said that a large scale high drama on natural gas and nuclear. Im going to be off the table. The governor says preliminary results from the investigation will be on his desk by wednesday at the latest in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Well 5 fire crews are also working to contain the river fire thats burning out in Monterey County that in salinas has burned more than 4500 acres only about 7 contained right now, but it too was sparked sunday during those lightning strikes that we saw early in the morning for firefighters had to be treated for heat related injuries. At least 6 structures have been destroyed with 1500 others still threatened this morning. Other headlines now a homeless man is charged with starting a wildfire thats burned more than 4,000 acres in southern california. Prosecutors say that those men plan to see a started the ranch fire last week that fire sparked near the San Gabriel Mountains in la county is still burning this morning. It prompted mandatory evacuations and his 19 contained close to 500 firefighters are working right now on those fire lines. Well take a break its 4. 39 lots more news to get to this morning, including the latest with the giants. Theyre coming back to San Francisco for game 3 of their series tonight. Well have highlights from game 2 just ahead. And heres a quick live look outside we have a camera along the embarcadero with not low being lit up by the lights of the city, but instead the smoke, its hanging over the bay, well be right back. All right we are back at 4. 42 want to get over to the Weather Center get the all important Weather Forecast with john talking about temperatures air quality all of that as were dealing with these wildfires. John yeah hold another factor added into what has been less than ideal conditions lately and that is the smoke that is now settling into the bay area today. Almost an eerie looking scene from above berkeley you can see how the smoke is made for an orange glow over the city all the way up to San Francisco. Familiar territory, weve seen smoke settle into the bay area before and youre getting flashbacks to that as youre waking up and smelling stepping outside this morning. You can see the skies are nice and dry across the region. This ridge of High Pressure which is shaping up results in sinking air across the bay, not only does that make things hot but also especially hazy as any sort of smoke plume suttles right back down and then filters out across the region and not Strong Enough winds to a pushed it out overnight so its really sitting with us this morning. So we make our way through the day today you will eventually notice, wind speeds picking up that is not good news for these wildfires that are burning all across the bay from the northeast to south bay today. We will see dry conditions into tomorrow and slightly cooler temperatures and a bit of good news here in a deepening marine layer come thursday that will at least results and foggy conditions near the coastline and the slightly cooler forecast for inland areas as for today or last day with widespread excessive heat warnings all across the region. You can see those lighting up in for all areas with the exception of the bay side in coastal areas, 60s and 70s for San Francisco today, thats a little cooler than where we have been as for the rest of the bay, youre also noticing temperatures suddenly cooler today, not a big drop so were still hot with 90s in areas like san carlos in mountain view. Even a triple digit down in morgan hill right at 100 degrees, san jose falls from 99 yesterday to 94 today. Well 80s from fremont to hayward youre out of the triple digits in the tri valley and back into the upper 90s walnut creek and danville right at a 100 degrees today oakland at 83 north bay temperatures still some of our hottest young bill in the vicinity of north napa wildfires. Right at a 100 degrees today. So weve still got some searing heat. Especially in some of those areas that are most vulnerable to fire right now, santa rosa at 96 for the high. Tomorrows temperatures will be noticeably cooler especially near the bay and the coast. Were some fog tries to push right in inland areas will also be just a few degrees cooler dropping on average into the mid 90s were will stay through the weekend. James, all right. Thank you very much john. Heres a quick look at some bay area bridges as we look at traffic around the bay bay bridge this morning looking pretty good here for 45. No delay whatsoever. As you make your way westbound on 80 from oakland in the San Francisco. So so far its looking pretty good. The Golden Gate Bridge, lets see the view here from our live camera again just 3 cars heading southbound i want to one of the San Francisco. So the lanes are wide open for you if youre heading out here momentarily to head for marine county in the San Francisco and the Richmond Sandra fell bridge also looking pretty good to just one said headlights there on west bound 5. 80 from richmond out towards marin county. So so far so good chp lot relatively quiet right now. Well keep you updated the things change throughout the morning. Ok lets get back to some headlines here, San Francisco police are searching for 4 people caught on video vandalizing a school with graffiti hate graffiti as a matter of fact in here you can see video from july 24th is at San Franciscos kz v Armenian School on brotherhood way in the video you can see there the man jumping the fence and then they begin damaging the school with messages of hate on that night the vandals left the scene in whats described as a white suv believed to be heading southbound on interstate 2. 80. You can help police with any information please do so. Meanwhile happening today, public and private Elementary Schools in Contra Costa County can apply to allow in person teaching on their campuses county leaders will begin issuing a Public Health waiver to eligible Elementary Schools. Governor gavin newsom first allow the waivers back in july but the county didnt begin accepting waiver applications immediately due to the high number of coronavirus cases they were seeing in the county at the time. Elsewhere in the east bay, new computers have arrived for students for Distance Learning in oakland, but the actual number of new computers are still far short of the number of students who actually need them. Kron 4 says he cant do it has the story. Hundreds of students and their families but the line that stretched down international boulevard to receive the first wave of new chromebooks distributed the Oakland Unified School usd spokesperson john sasaki so is right to try to neighborhood about so no 300 out of 25,000 there was a lot to go we got some in and we actually were here early enough to to actually start 2 weeks in advance so whats the hold up for the remaining 24,700 electronic devices. He says the district ordered 25,000 chromebooks in june and the reason they couldnt have ordered than any solar this simple. Yeah we had to raise money for snow was 12 Million Dollars and yeah so yet we can order them and so weve got the money and course you know if were going to be 5,000 computers. How many districts across the 100 businesses across country and even around the world are doing pretty much the same thing so there is a Russian Computers that going to bring america. Unlike these lower as you see being exchanged the students will get to hold on to the new chromebooks. Open undivided chromebooks that they get to keep for the entirety of their educational career that being said how does the Oakland Unified School district this as the first full week of Distance Learning is take a little time though reading used to its were getting up to and were excited that you know the kids are getting more constitute more work, its Just Computers and so we know more and more kids are getting online and you know its its going take a little getting used to this question about it. In addition to receiving the chromebooks families needing wife i received hotspot devices as usda officials anticipate to have all 25,000 chromebooks distributed to students by mid to late september Haaziq Madyun kron 4 news. Lets turn to bay area sports. Now first baseball were going to be with the giants theyre coming back to San Francisco tonight for game 3 of their series against the angels game 2 went their way yesterday Pablo Sandoval at the plate hitting this tee ball to right field. This was in the second and that was good for a 2 run home run giving the giants the lead and then in the 5th brandons belch doubling in 2 runs to stretch the lead even further in fact giants would win this when 8 to 2 trott thats the final first pitch for tonights game at oracle is at 6. 45 meantime, the oakland as, and they suffered a blowout loss to the diamondbacks in arizona they couldnt get anything going bats were cold defense. Not all that effect in fact they allow the diamondbacks to score 10 runs left final was 10 to one obviously arizona with the win. Hes will come home tonight as well theyll play the dbacks again at the coliseum first pitch scheduled for 6 40s of both area, baseball teams back at home tonight. Now to football the niners, well theyre going to be in need of some help on offense after finding themselves. Down some key receivers jalen hurd as we reported out for the season with a torn acl deebo samuel hes got that fracture in his left foot that hes dealing with superstar tight end George Kittle probably going to be a big target for jimmy g in the games ahead, but receivers like dante pettis theyre going to step up their game. It has been coming along, you know its i its very encouraging just the eye that is a county that is playing with competitiveness days bringing its you love to see that and i just want to stay here keep the wrong and so i think our whole group those as a receiving corps has done a really good job so far. The Season Opener for the niners is sunday september 13th against the Arizona Cardinals meantime got to talk about the raiders theyre doing their work indoors in suburban las vegas. The team hoping for great performances from the rookie class. 2 were picked in the first round this year one of those picks was henry ruggs the 3rd a receiver at an alabama quarterback derek carr giving rugs they praise in practice. Hes now for 2 guy but dont let dont let it just the violence of his roots in a strong place for you the man can run also so. And give us a dynamic correction again. I love dropping back if you watch any tall guy or those kind of guys i love just throwing it up and give an inch and 1, one chances and is that kind of guy. And the raiders will be kicking off their season as well on sunday, the 13th in september against the carolina panthers. All right, heres a quick live look outside as we take a quick break lots more news to get to our live look here at San Francisco international airport. And you can kind of make out in the glow of the lights from the airport, the low smoke. Overhead thats going to be a big thing were all going to be dealing with even for folks in San Francisco that have nothing to do with the wildfires. The smoke was really blanketing the air yesterday were going to share some video from ocean beach of just how easy it was and just as an example of the air quality all dealing with today, well be r and were back at 4. 54, lets just get a quick update on the forecast from john weve got much more detail, one coming up the top of the hour. But for any of the 4 of those that need to get a quick little dose of the weather john what can we expect the a little refresher on the heat that we will still have today its not going to be as hot as we have been but still a little too warm for most of us Golden Gate Bridge under some hazy skies as will the rest of the bay area be today. So we hot and smoky day ahead of us. Daytime highs little cooler at the coast in just a couple of degrees cooler for inland areas, youre still seeing a few triple digits on the map like unconquered antioch down through morgan hill, falling back into the 90s though for areas like livermore and napa now down to 98 degrees. San jose also just a touch cooler than yesterday falling to 94 today, 70s in San Francisco and low 80s today in oakland back to you james all right john thank you, well take a quick break but coming up next. California is under a state of emergency right now as wildfires continue to burn. Of the bay area not spared obviously we have Team Coverage coming up next in on your screen just the bills of the stories well be covering in terms of the wildfires and they should they run the gamut napa county Contra Costa County San Mateo County. And marine county lots to discuss and john as i mentioned well have a more detailed look at that forecast and well ask if theres any relief on the horizon as far as he can see. Im not optimistic that well find out kron 4 morning news at 5 will begin in just a few moments, stay with us. Ps works more important than ever. We hear Older Americans loud and clear, and thats why we fight for what they and their families need. Access to healthcare, affordable prescription drugs, opportunities to save for the future, ending age discrimination. A healthy, financially secure, fulfilling life. Thats what aarp fights for because thats what everyone deserves. Join us in fighting for whats right. Frias local news stations. California is under a state of emergency right now as wildfires are burning thousands of acres across the bay area. These are just some of the fires burning right now in napa san mateo marin and contra costa and alameda counties. Thousands of families have been forced to flee their homes. Good morning. Im darya folsom and im james fletcher. Lots to talk about on this wednesday weve got Weather Office is going to be a big concern for not only you but for firefighters as well. Lets take a look at the map and show you where all these fires are burning right now weve got widespread coverage here at the bottom of your screen. The season lightning complex fire. Thats the one burning in the mountains of san mateo and santa cruz counties and just to be clear so many fires have popped up that theyre starting to group them all together and these complex of fires. So as we slide the map further up youll see theres the scu lightning complex thats burning in the east bay that consists of fires burning in Contra Costa County alameda and santa clara counties, those the deer. Fires that we saw yesterday in the north bay, a number of fires in sonoma and napa counties include the hennessy fire the gamble fire. The hennessy being the largest of the the 2 of those, but again that a whole series of fires now been grouped into a giant complex as well weve got Team Coverage this morning of the fires. First of all theres the Sonoma County fire thats where weve Sarah Stinson weve also got will tran for
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