Is really the one spot that bore the brunt of the storm. Reporter absolutely. We heard the noise coming in around 1 00. It was pitch black when hurricane what exactly happened in lake charles, louisiana. Laura making landfall early thursday as a category 4 hurricane. The storm sustained winds of up to 150 miles per hour, bringing the threat of storm surge and tornadoes. Lake charles, louisiana also taking a direct hit from laura as the storm weekend. High winds shook buildings and knocked down trees. It is pretty devastating. Reporter thursday morning heavy flooding could be seen across the northwest gulf coast. Areas some 40 miles inland could be affected by days. More than half a Million People were asked to evacuate, but some stayed behind. Officers are coming to work early and planning on working late. Reporter laura is moving further north. Tornadoes, tree damage, and Power Outages remain a concern. Hundreds of thousands are without power. Red cross units have been deployed to help with rebuilding efforts. We have been providing, you know, quite literally beds and a roof to those that have evacuated and displaced from the homes. Reporter rebuilding efforts are certainly needed here. You can take a look at what is next. This was ripped off straight here. Another piece of it maybe 100 yards from our hotel room. Cleanup definitely happening today. The National Weather service there says be safe. Know what you are doing because it is still a danger even though today it is a gorgeous, sunny day. Mike . No time for sightseeing for sure. The population, 80,000 rate where you are at. I am curious if you yourself are seeing both or high water vehicles searching for people or residents there that decided to ride out the storm . Reporter in lake charles we have an added problem, mike. There was a chemical fire about 2 or 3 miles away from us. There was a chlorine leak there. They have been monitoring that through. I10 was closed for a period of time. You can see some of the cleanup happening at our own hotel. Lower numbers than we thought, but still water rescues are underway in different parts of the state as well as texas. It does seem like more damage has been caused by the wind this time around than the water. Caroline, thank you. Wildfires out west. We are taking you live as the Sheriffs Department is giving you an update on what is happening with a fire burning in santa clara county. Lets listen in together. Evacuees can check online to determine if their home is accessible by going to the following website. Www. Smcgov. Org smcwildfire recovery we will have this information on our website as well for those who didnt catch at. You can also call 211. Evacuees temporarily housed in hotels should not checkout until confirming that their house or address is listed in this zone. Assistance can be found in all of your lobbies through the american red cross. For large animal assistance, please call laura and robin could mosey at 6504500520. We apologize for any miscommunications over the past 24 hours. We have been working diligently to make sure you got home as quickly and safely as possible. We try to get these orders in place as quickly as we could after receiving them from fire. In summary, as of noon the general areas of law honda and pescadero are now open. Due to continued fire operations in the other areas, the other orders are still in effect. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done there and we are working diligently with the county to assess repairs and make sure the infrastructures are in place for those residents to make a reserve home as well. We will let you know when other areas not listed here today are safe to return home. Again, thank you so much for your patience and cooperation. I will now take any questions. We are listening in as the Sheriffs Department is giving an update on the cz you complex fire. It is already about 127 square miles. It is about 21 contained. We know 646 buildings have been destroyed in this fire. Not exactly how many of those are homes. There is a map available. I will give it to you here and we will link it on ktvu. Com under web links. It is smcgov. Org smcwildfire recovery. You can find out if your home has been impacted by these fires burning. Some homeowners are getting relief being allowed back into the areas. Likely many more will have to stay where they are sheltering because of the wildfire threat that still continues. Good to be able to bring you this update. To the north bay we go. The lightning complex fire continues to burn. It is burning into a sixth county area. It has grown to 367,000 acres. It is 33 contained. That is a good number compared to where we are at the last few days. It grew 7600 acres overnight and is the while largest wildfire burning in the state right now. It has damaged at 1300 homes and structures in sonoma, blake, and yolo county. While there still may be smoke in the air in some areas and you woke up this morning and maybe your area was clear, it is important for you to have a plan to be prepared. As i have said here every day, you need to be ready. We have probably another few more months of peak wildland fire season. Six people have died in this fire. Four others have been injured. Today some evacuated from the fire are allowed to return home in a phase reentry process. People are first required to visit the countys Reentry Center located at the Mission Church in vacaville. There are some changes to bring you about the lightning fires. They are at 576 square miles in area. Containment grew from 30 to 35 . Authorities are alerting people they may see large columns of smoke and it will likely be coming from these controlled burns. Now to oakland where police are condemning the action of protesters last night after a march that started downtown oakland turned destructive and led to vandalism. As allie rasmus explains, the situation changed dramatically. Reporter sweeping up broken glass and boarding up windows, dozens of businesses picked up the pieces after a night of damage. It started off with 200 people peacefully marching in support of the black lives matter movement, calling for justice for jacob blake. About an hour later, by 8 00, Oakland Police said the crowd had grown to about 800 people. The crowd made their way down broadway toward the Oakland Police department. People marching were met by police in riot gear. In this video, it doesnt appear Police Used Tear Gas on the crowd. Police issued this morning at the barricades. Violence will not be tolerated. Reporter by 9 45, agitators in the crowd try to set fire to a business before the Fire Department put it out. By 11 00, they closed businesses and the fire station. Their focus and target was destruction and damage, breaking windows and lighting fires. We know most of our downtown buildings are boarded up and in some cases protesters ripped the plywood off to set fires. There was nothing peaceful about last night. Their intentions were deliberate to cause damage. Protesters walked down to the grand avenue offramp. Several people were arrested. Police say no protesters or Police Officers were injured. Allie rasmus, ktvu fox 2 news. How sports teams are banding together to stand against Racial Injustice following the shooting of jacob blake in wisconsin. Air quality starting to improve. We will have your full forecast including what firefighters are facing out there right now on the front lines. You have the power to know before you go with mornings on fox 2. Download the ktvu fox 2 news app. This is my body of proof. Proof i can fight moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. 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Games have been postponed. Also last night, the dodgers game was postponed. With more on what lies ahead check in with frank mallicoat. Nba players have voted to keep playing, mike. It is obviously a very emotional issue. Players were not comfortable taking the court tonight for those three playoff games. The game is scheduled tonight in orlando. They have all been postponed. Lets take a look at those games. Nuggets, jazz, clippers, all of those games will be rescheduled for another day while the league and players sort through this. They hope to resume the playoffs on friday. This all started yesterday when the Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court against the orlando magic. This is all in protest of the shooting of jacob blake. The magic followed informal poll to cancel the season, but the games will go on tomorrow. As for the bucks, they stand united. When we take the court representing milwaukee and wisconsin, we are expected to play at a high level. We hold each other accountable. We hold ourselves to that standard. In this moment, we are demanding the same from lawmakers and lawenforcement. We are calling for justice for jacob blake and demand all held accountable. A number of other leagues joined the protest, including majorleague baseball. Many games were postponed yesterday, including the dodgers game in oracle. They said they would opt out and not play the both teams decided it was best to postpone the game. Giants outfielder believes it was the right thing to do. People are starting to learn they can use their voices. There are ways to make change as athletes. I think that is something that is really cool because we have been given a special platform for guys to speak up and to use their platform is inspiring and hopeful. The giants and dodgers are playing a seven inning doubleheader today to make up for yesterdays postpone. The giants, by the way, are currently on a sevengame win streak, taking on the dodgers. We are just getting word espn right now is reporting that game is likely being postponed due to the protests along with the phillies National Game as well. That is the very latest. I am frank mallicoat, ktvu fox 2 news. All right, frank, thank you for that. Lets turn to bay area weather. It has been a bit of wilde weather over the last few days with fires here and a hurricane there. I wanted to start with what is happening here today. If you are like me and you got to open your windows, we have seen the air quality improving a little bit. You can see with the exception of san jose, ty good. We have not seen this many fran oakland, concorde, also livermore is yellow. A little bit of smoke hanging out there. Near santa cruz that is where we have a little bit of smoke this afternoon. You can see over the last couple of hours we started to see this retreat and in its place we are actually getting blue skies and sunshine. As we take a live luck here in oakland looking toward San Francisco, 59 degrees in San Francisco right now. The two in santa rosa. Livermore we are warming up a little bit. I wanted to take a tour of the weather and where these fires are. Look at the humidity level here. 100 humidity. That is our marine layer helping out firefighters. If we head a little further to the north, 100 humidity. Temperatures are in e under 10 miles per hour. As we head a little further to the east and we get to the east and north of napa, humidity is dropping a little bit. They dont get as much of the influence there of the marine layer. Again, notice the wind there. 8 or 9 miles per hour. That is not too bad. Again, you notice martin road there, 92 humidity. Firefighting conditions have been good in the last 24 hours. We will continue to see that throughout the day today. 65 in San Francisco. A little warmer than yesterday. 89 in concorde. As we move a little further south, about 80 in redwood city. Not extreme heat, but a little bit of warmth. Santa rosa, you will be right where you should be this time of year with 84. San francisco, a little cooler because of the lingering clouds of the coast. Low 70s in oakland. About 81 in san jose. Taking it all together and looking at your extended forecast, we will see an warm up. They will cool down slightly on saturday. We will watch that marine layer. We had quite a marine layer presence. That will compact as we get into saturday and sunday. Temperatures are staying steady. I will be back in a little bit and we will have an update on the former hurricane laura. Thank you. Still to come this noontime, a new report is ouica unemployment claims last week . The impact right here in california. Covid19 continues to take a toll on parts of the economy. The Labor Department reports 1 Million People filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. That is down 98,000 from the week before. The number of people filing new applications has been volatile. This many businesses have closed due to the pandemic reopened and had to shut down again. The overall Unemployment Rate remains at 10. 2 . In the meantime, one in five californians filed for unemployment last week. This is often more than 19,000 claims just a week before. Since the covid19 pandemic began in march, nearly 8 million California Workers have filed for firsttime unemployment claims. The salesforce is cutting 1000 jobs. Bloomberg Business News reports the San Francisco based company will eliminate positions including sales and customer support. Reports indicate 165 jobs in San Francisco will be cut. A Company Spokesperson says salesforce shifting resources for continued growth. This news comes as salesforce announced for the first time quarterly revenues top 5 billion. The ceo of tik tok is stepping down from his job. Kevin meyer did announce his resignation yesterday in an email to employees. This comes as the video sharing app faces enormous backlash from President Trump who claims it is being used as a spy tool. The president has threatened to ban the app. Tik tok hired meyer, a former disney executive. Coronavirus in california. We may be on the backside of the curve but cases are being reported still everyday. According to the latest numbers out of Johns Hopkins university, there are more than 687,000 cases statewide that have been reported. That is an increase of 5000 cases compared to the same time yesterday. More than 12,000 people have died from covid19 in the state. Right here in the bay area, there are nearly 82,000 cases and nearly 1100 people have died. Starting tomorrow, Alameda County will start to roll back some of their covid19 restrictions specifically in the county. Hotels will be open to the public, not just to essential workers. Hair and nailbusiness outsidere wineries can offer outdoor tastings even if they do not serve food. For us, we have to get our staff back and get them trained up. We have new protocols in place. I dont know how we would get our hydraulic chairs downstairs or how we would set up and not block the entire walkway. And on a busy street, it is not feasible for us. And one other issue businesses will have to deal with when they set up shop outside, smoke from the wildfires in the bay area. Even if they are allowed to open tomorrow, some businesses are likely to wait until the air quality is much better. Still to come at noon, destruction along the gulf coast. We will have the latest on hurricane laura after it makes landfall overnight. Try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. Try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. Cleanup is underway this afternoon following a demonstration in oakland in support of jacob blake, the unarmed black man that was shot in the back by police in wisconsin. Last night this all started as a peaceful rally and march with about 700 individuals. They were met by barricades and officers in riot gear once they reached Oakland Police headquarters. Some of the crowd ventured off from the march and broke store windows and set fires. One was set right outside of the entrance of the alan beatty Alameda County courthouse. Several people were arrested. There were no reports of any protesters or Police Officers who were injured. Protests in kenosha, wisconsin are continuing but they were peaceful last night after two people were killed before. Reporter protesters hit the streets of kenosha for a fourth straight night but this time there was little to no violence. No reports of riots or looting. The demonstration started after police shot 29yearold jacob blake in the back at least seven times. Community leaders say they will keep up the pressure until they start to see real change. It is the same old same old. It is always the same conversation and that is what we have to stop. Reporter it was a stark contrast from tuesday night when two people were shot and killed and another injured by a suspected militia member. The suspected gunman is in custody after being captured on video opening fire with a semi automatic rifle. The shootings prompted the governor to double the number of National Guard members here. The people of this community deserve to have the opportunity to read and ultimately to work to heal this community. Reporter meanwhile investigations are moving forward. The state department of justice said officials found a knife in the car blake was trying to enter, but there is no way to tell if he was