right to the breaking news this morning. situation across the bay area getting a lot worse for firefighters already stretched thin. this map shows you where the fires are now burning. in the bay area and santa cruz county. governor newsom declaring a state of emergency as some 30 fires are now burning across california. "today in the bay's" cierra johnson live in vacaville where the fires exploded and spread overnight. pretty active there. >> reporter: good morning. yeah. it is extremely active. since you came to us last you can tell that fire spread. i'll step out of the way to see that smoke has shifted and you can see that fire eating up that vegetation up over the hill. depending where you are when you woke up this morning you probably smelled smoke. i woke up 2:00 in the city and my apartment smelled like smoke and in the hallway of the building. 80 east you can see the smoke in

the air and from the freeway you can see the flames. we are at cherry glen and pleasant valley road and chp blocking that intersection only letting law enforcement, first responders in to try to prohibit that traffic to do their job. for hours folks have been working to evacuate, preparing to evacuate from this fire. earlier you heard from one of our own discussing how stressful it is. he said he could see the flames from his home and began taking photos of the belongings, photos of the home in case to document the damage. good advice in this vacaville area. may be best to prepare or get a plan together to leave. when we were here we were actually parked next to a car of a gentleman and his dog. they left their home seeking higher ground. take a listen to what some of these folks are going through as they prepare to leave this area.

>> been through fires before. i've never evacuated before but -- >> why this time? >> because it was -- it was coming hard and coming fast and winds were probably about 45 miles per hour. >> reporter: and i can tell you out here now it is extremely smoky and there is a lot of ash. several cars covered completely by ash but behind me that fire moving quite quickly. we'll provide updates for you. cierra johnson for "today in the bay." >> all right. thank you for the update. here's a look at the fires from the pg&e wild fire cameras. this is time lapse from mount vaca overnight. it nearly looks at one point that the camera damaged by the flames. you will see it come up here as that fire just rages over the mountain. this is that connect solano and napa counties there.

>> just how intense the fire is. one of the hundreds of people under evacuation orders is our own here. we spoke with photographer robbie beasom after highway patrol told him it was a good idea to evacuate and feels fortunate with the time to prepare but what he saw on the fire loons last night some were not so lucky. >> probably filmed like unfortunately like four or five homes going up in flames. >> wow. >> people just scrambling to get out, loading horses, wildlife running everywhere. it was just -- the firefighters are doing the best they can but it's just everywhere. >> you heard him there talking about the firefighters. kari hall is monitoring the conditions out there. kari, it is the intense heat from the fire and the temperatures to face in the area are really hot out there today. >> yeah. it has been so hot across the bay area.

and so, we have -- we are just watching that video of that camera overtaken by the flames in mount vaca. this is very close to where that camera is currently so itut bot vaca and this is a live view right now of a picture just captured. if you are in those areas where you need to leave or you're being told to leave or you can see the flames make sure you're ready to leave. grab that emergency kit that you should already have gathered, have the important papers, a change of clothes and maybe food, water and medication and of course all of the people in the house as well as your pets and enough of the pet food for next several days. the air quality is just horrible because of the smoke coming in, seeing ash falling across the bay area from san francisco down to the south bay. and so as we go through today make sure you're wearing your mask throughout the day,

whatever mask you have been wearing is better than nothing when the air quality is that bad. mike, how's it looking for the morning drive? >> kari, as far as the morning drive goes, it is great but portions because of the fires that you can't go. 128 up in the north bay behind me, marked red on the map. that section over toward atlas and then 121 parts. if you oar not in the area obviously get out. stay out of the area. if you have been evacuated stay away. over in vacaville, chp noting the fire very close to i-80 and concerned about to close parts of that highway or 505. laura, we have much more fire activity. back to you. >> there are so many fires, 30 in fact, right now akrosds tcro area. the santa cruz mountains, a fire

there exploded last night an enthat's where we find "today in the bay" kris sanchez just arrived at an evacuation center. what can you tell us so far? >> reporter: hi there, laura. on my way from san jose here to scotts valley, two more warnings on my phenomenon of evacuations in this area. this is the incident command base camp where cal fire will update the fire fight and the evacuation orders. at 6:00 this morning and we know what they have been dealing with all night. nearly 400 firefighters are battling the blaze, ripping through the ridges between santa cruz and san mateo counties, fires sparked by lightning a few days ago, the czu august lightning complex fire for your reference. about 4:45 this morning the new evacuations ordered for south skyline boulevard, middleton track area, and the evacuation

center is at pescadero high school. this is on top of the folks force out of the home overnight some of whom did not know that the fire was so close because they're in communities with limited cell service and very big trees. >> we are so deep in the redwoods you can't see the smoke that much. you can see up but not across. >> reporter: hopefully the folks ordered to evacuate around 10:00 lak night know that. that's the big basin fire protection district. the air is heavy with smoke here. we know that it's a difficult fire fight because of the high heat and because of the rocky ridges here and will continue this morning. we'll talk with cal fire just over there coming up at 6:00. hopefully they will have good news but there's no wind which is something that we really

dread to see in situations like this one. we'll bring you an update. kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> all right. certainly check back with you. thank you so much. meantime a viewer sent us this video from austin creek where firefighters say two fires have burned more than 500 acres. these are fires believed to be part of the larger complex of fires in sonoma county. here's a map of that location to give you a better understanding. west of gurnesville. now despite the threat of rolling power outages, the bay area was spared but it's bringing attention to wind and solar power. they say it's not without the draw backs and in southern california it didn't help when the demand is at its peak. here's a uc berkeley professor. >> the fact is renewables are

great. wind and solar. they are super cheap these days. they are very green. but they are not controllable. entirely. >> on monday governor newsom signed an executive order to free up additional power capacity following the last week's rolling blackouts and calling for an investigation as to certain customers not given adequate warning. >> get weather alerts to the phone with the nbc bay area app. you can also get the latest on the fires and evacuations under way. it is free to download. now to decision 2020. it is official. democrats have nominated joe biden as their candidate for the president at the democratic national convention. and tonight we're going to hear from his running mate california u.s. senator kamala harris. former president obama and house speaker nancy pelosi are also set to speak. "today in the bay's" tracie potts reports on what to expect. >> vice president joe biden has

been nominated. >> thank you very, very much from the bottom of my heart! >> reporter: joe biden accepting the party's nomination backed by the number one supporter. >> i have always understood why he did it. he does it for you. >> reporter: another republican endorsement. >> he will restore american leadership and the moral authority. >> reporter: biden saluted by the party faithful. >> joe biden must be our next president. >> reporter: and its rising stars. >> this isn't just about defeeting donald trump. we are in this to win for america. >> reporter: this virtual convention outlining the fight. >> racial injustice, colonization, misogyny and home phobia. >> if you want a president that defines the job as watching tv hours a day and zapping people on social media he's your man. >> when this president goes overseas it isn't a goodwill mission but a blooper reel. >> donald trump has quit on you. we need a president with

dignity, integrity. >> reporter: president trump campaigning in arizona. >> biden's campaign has turned into a cult for open border and other zealots. >> reporter: the president claiming he's vindicated by a senate report that found no evidence the campaign conspired with russia. tracie potts, nbc news. back to the breaking news right now, this is a live look at napa county wildfires in vacaville this morning. the evacuations are on pleasant valley road. this is near that fire is right now, several of the homes have burned. evacuees suffered injuries because of the fire and keep monitoring that. now kari hall with the forecast throughout the bay area and certainly the air quality is not good right now. >> not good. when you combine that with the heat we know all of this air is trapped near the surface and makes that air quality worse and then see the temperatures reaching into the 80s today for

highs over 100 degrees in the inland east bay and not seeing as many highs over 100 degrees for the north bay but it's still hot so that excessive heat warning continues for the inland areas. we'll talk about slightly cooler weather in the forecast coming up, laura. travelers beware. still ahead, what you need to know now if you're still considering an upcoming getaway to hawaii. it seems like we're living in the craziest of days, doesn't it? somehow the stock market continues to make new records. you are watching "today in the bay." experience the ultimate sports hub.

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5:14. we take a look at the wind speeds this morning with numerous fires this morning, this is live video of the fire near vacaville. the lnu complex fire we see sparked by the lightning strikes a couple of days ago is causing this to really spread. we will have an update on this and more coming up in a few minutes. good morning. very happy wednesday to you. you know, if you had told me a year ago that i would be hunkered down in my home and every time i had to leave my home i had to wear a mask yet at the same time the stock markets would hit new records there is

no way i could have possibly believed you. not only will the s&p 500 open this morning at a new record, so, too, will the nasdaq. let's take a look at the numbers. the stock market is not the economy, the economy is not the stock market. broader economy nod doing well at all in a recession but those numbers are undeniable. it would be easy for us to throw up the hands and say that this makes no sense but when you dive into the numbers you do see that some things do make sense. airline stocks are way down and home friendly services, things like amazon and target and lowe's and netflix, those stocks are way up. to that you can add the fed which is making money very easy to get and a lot of it. in fact, working on the way it changes, it deals with inflation to make sure there's lots of cash flow. we get the minutes from the latest fed meeting today.

this afternoon. i know this sounds boring but to economists and investors it's super interesting because it's the fed that is keeping our economic lights on. the senate intelligence committee released its fifth and final volume of the report on the trump campaign and russia. we'll talk more about it with politics but detailed how russia interfered. nbc's andrea mitchell asked facebook's cheryl sandburg about the responsiblies in the face of the disinformation campaign. >> what we missed in 2016 we completely missed it. that's on us. the fbi missed it. homeland security missed it. was a new form of state interference. not hacking in but writing fake stuff to try to influence the electorate. we didn't know what that was in 2016 but now we do. >> you can watch that on msnbc. a reminder that today may be the last day that you can take a uber or a lyft. as of tomorrow the companies say

they may suspend service because of california's a.b. 5. >> oh well. >> that's okay. i'm not going anywhere but staying home and watching netflix these days. listen to this. what do you think about this, guys? why not take a chance and test a new shuffle button? it is located on the profile screen for netflix. click it and then hope it plays something you like. netflix says that the feature takes into account shows you watched before and those saved to the list. it is like when somebody else has the remote control, though, right? >> yeah. >> controls the radio in the car. >> yeah. i don't know how i like that one. >> watch out if the kids are with you and you don't know what will show up so be careful. >> maybe go to the kids profile. >> yeah. >> there you go. >> you know, i wish we could shuffle this forecast we have been having and the temperatures, oh, they have been up there, kari.

>> it comes down but not as much as we'd like but as we look at when's happening across the bay area with the fires burning we have the really intense flames. it was picked up on radar over the santa cruz mountains. we loop it. the past few hours. the ash picked up in the radar and being brought over to the south bay and waking up this morning to a koecoating of cash the cars and in san francisco. we can see the smoke in the air before the sun rises this morning. very unhealthy air quality. make sure you wear a mask all day and starting to feel a little sick you may need it inside the building even at home as we are going to see unhealthy air quality throughout today, numbers that have been really very high as the smoke continues to drift through so that matter in the air combined with the heat will make a lot of people not feel very well looking at the temperatures throughout

today. it is going to be another hot one and the excessive heat warning continues inland. already at noon the low 90s and the south bay and mid-90s east bay going into the middle of the day we'll see the temperatures reaching into the triple digits for spots like antioch and concord and still looking at the very warm weather and not much of a cool down as we go into tonight and expect more smoke today as well as tomorrow and our temperatures that will go from 100 degrees to the low 90s. we do have some more heat in the forecast into next week and san francisco will drop back to the low 70s which will be a relief, at least a very light ocean breeze picking up. heading to you, mike, watching the commute, how's it looking right now? >> the commute itself is fine, kari. the note is because of the fires we have of access cut off. look at green sensors with the speeds all around the bay but notice the bottom left side,

highway 1, not as extensive as it looks on the map but it is an issue because there is limited access there. highway 9 as well because between highway 9 where it says boulder creek and highway 1 is fire in the area. czu fire. the complex that kris sanchez was reporting. no closures for freeways over in mor dan territory and contra costa county but north bay with vacaville is hazard sign. 128, 121. we have that fire going on there. be careful. no problems toward the bay bridge. the toll plaza there is just fine. back to you. >> all right. good to hear something is fine out there. thank you so much. following a lot of breaking news for you. we have a live look from vacaville this morning. some people there injured as thac they have been trying to

evacuate. homes have been burned and heading back to the scene for a live report at 5:30. plus, nbc bay area responds. >> phd call student has a health emergency of his on and learns how frustrating hospital billing can be. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura. nbc bay area responds to him next.

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5:24 this morning. a live look right here. this is the fire spreading in napa county to vacaville. there's been evacuations. we'll monitor the story in the morning. here's chris chmura with nbc bay area responds. >> good wednesday morning. when steven lamb is a doctor he'll have sympathy for a patient whose bill goes haywire. last year he had to go to the e.r. and when discharged the hospital billed him $550 for a deposit and told him they'd reimburse him when the insurance paid. but after six months of back and forth with the hospital steven still hadn't gotten the deposit back. he told us i aspire to become a compassionate and caring hospitalist physician and i'm disappointed in how the health care system is treating me as a consumer. the hospital took a look and then steven got a check for

$550. if you're canned to pay a depositive it for a procedure, cruise a credit card. make sure you get a printed receipt that states you are due a refund after your insurance pays. keep it and keep tabs. then if the hospital doesn't keep its word you can dispute the charge with your credit card company. that step will probably get the attention of the hospital finance department and hopefully trigger a refund. have a great wednesday. it is official. no sandy tours. out of state visitors without enduring the mandatory 14-day quarantine test. tourists would have been required to show a negative test result. major league baseball is starting to believe the -- like the idea of bubbles, may not be so bad after all. >> not doing trips in the season why not in the most important

time of the year with a billion dollars at stake? >> well, early to start talking postseason and what "usa today" insider is doing. he said some outbreaks might make the bubble idea more appealing. neither baseball or hockey have new cases in the bubble. breaking news this morning, fast-moving fires expand across the bay area. >> from santa cruz to solano county, live pictures of vacaville this morning. we have live team coverage on the fire fights going on. also going to explain what you need to know of evacuating during an ongoing pandemic. smoke is impacting almost everyone in the bay area. the current conditions and how to protect yourself. we'll be right back.

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a look at the current situation already stretched thin for so many firefighters. this map shows you the fires are burning across the bay area and santa cruz county and the governor declaring a state of emergency with some 30 fires burning across california. "today in the bay's" cierra johnson live in vacaville this morning where homes are destroyed and hundreds vautded and people injured trying to leave the home. >> reporter: exactly. if you're just waking up with us i'm sure you can smell the smoke where you are. we are at cherry glen and pleasant valley intersection here in vacaville. the fire seems to have shifted so we don't have the same vantage point adds we did earlier but in the last hour it was glowinger and you could see the orange and coming in from the city on 80 east you could see that glow from the freeway and also smell that smoke. this morning many folks in the city, i know i did, could smell

the smoke in their own home miles away from where this is burning and folks working to evacuate. we had a photographer here in town for hours just getting those stories of folks wanting to evacuate, loading up their cars. the photographer himself actually was preparing to evacuate but take a listen to what one woman, her experience preparing to leave town and how it got a little dangerous. >> so my husband was driving the car and it burnt -- he got burnt and had to leave the car and it blew up so i was walking down by myself and me and i lost my sho. but i >> reporter: and this morning there were reports of several ambulances called because of people being injured and burned because of this fire. right now these are some of the folks to sit next to, they evacuated their home and they're

in the parking lot and behind that fire still burning but not as bright as it was the last hour because it's burned through some of that hill. those flames still very active here in vacaville. i'm cierra johnson for "today in the bay." >> causing destruction in the path. thank you. we have one of our photographers who lives in that area robbie beasom joining us by phone. are you there? >> yes. good morning. >> good morning. you were told to be on stand by. do you have an update? >> not as of now. they just said they recommend everyone be ready to leave at a moment's notice. and it advice. i think there's a handful of people here. >> from where you live can you see the flames in the distance? >> i can't see flames themselves but i see like the orange glow.

chp told us that it's probably three or four blocks from our neighborhood. but it's moving at a southwest direction. >> and so, as you are evacuating, a lot of people -- some people have places to go, family members and things like that but have they told you anyplace to go for safety or do you have a designated that you and your family are going? >> they haven't told us a place to go and very brief driving down the street. we have planned, have a planned spot down the street that's an open parking lot and if that's packed we'll go to another parking lot further down i-80. >> we hear about the evacuations and what does a family go through in the moment having to collect everything in your home that you want to save if that fire potentially comes to your home? >> yeah. it is really surreal walking through your house looking at

what you prepare to take with you. you might not see again. i'm just lucky that i had the time to do it. i know people tonight didn't have that time. >> i know like you were saying a lot of people didn't have that time and you were working overnight and you saw a lot of these flames, some of the homes destroyed by the fire. talk to us about what you saw last night. >> yeah. last night it was pretty crazy out there on pleasant valley road. there was flames. the road, the car. a couple homes went up in flames. it just seemed like the fire moved extremely fast from like 12:00 to where it is now covered a lot of ground. >> we know -- look. robbie beasom, we are having our thoughts and prayers with you and your family and the neighbors out there in that area. >> appreciate it. have a great morning. >> you, too.

boy, it is really tough. the weather's so hot and now these fires and they can even create their own weather systems, as well. >> yeah. we were just talking about how we haven't had much wind but the vegetation is very dry and they can actually form clouds that go up high in the atmosphere. you get tornadoes that develop out of these systems and also the winds that they generate drawing in the energy and so this was a part of that complex that was over parts of napa county, spread over mt. vaca and we have cameras there. so we are watching for the possible conditions as it moves into vacaville that the fire is spreading rapidly. you can see the flames, smell the smoke. be prepared to leave. make sure you grab that emergency kit, the important papers, changes of clothes and

food and medications for you and your pets. we'll talk about the air quality but mike getting you around some of the routes trying to evacuate. >> the north bay. we have the morgan territory and the fremont hills. stay with me looking at the slowing for san jose and 84. typical spots taking the map full to screen. the lower left where it's closed. i got word of a closure officially highway 1 to santa cruz. do avoid highway 1 and you have to because it's closed in most of that portion due to a brush fire and i excuse me is the czu complex fire between highway 9 and highway that's right. there's so many fires that are burning and want to get to this breaking news for you overnight. hundreds of homes under evacuation orders in the santa

cruz mountains. fire exploded in size there last night. kris sanchez live at an evacuation center in scotts valley. you think about people having to evacuate during a pandemic, kris. >> reporter: during a pandemic and certainly in the dark. it was a rough drive from san jose to santa cruz county here where i am this morning. during that time, i got two different evacuation alerts for more people here that are living in this fire zone areaer and some of those areas are pretty rocky terrain and getting no notification. nearly 400 firefighters battling the blaze ripping through the ridges between santa cruz and san mateo counties and fire is called the czu august lightning complex fire to keep track. 4:15 this morning new evacuations were ordered for

south skyline boulevard, russian ridge open space, middleton tract area, portola redwoods state park and the evacuation center open at pescadero high school and the folks forced out overnight some didn't know the fire is so close in communities with limited cell service and big trees. >> you can't see the smoke that much because you can see up but you can't see across. >> reporter: so much of the boulder creek fire protection center under evacuation orders, seem to be expanding into the bonnie dune area and much of northern santa cruz county. that terrain is very difficult. the heat is very high but fortunately at this point we haven't seen much wind and that is definitely a break out here. cal fire is going to update the fire fight and the evacuation

order conditions right here at the incident command center at 6:00. in scott's valley, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." bay area wildfires have people wondering how do you evacuate safely in a pandemic? experts say make sure you try to social distance as much as you can, ware tears the masks even indoors. the red cross is also trying to help out. >> if sheltering is needed we are finding hotels and putting folks in hotels. we are providing food differently than we normally would. we are not doing buffet style but contained food. >> good time right now to check the three-day go bag to make sure that you have the hand sanitizer and masks and if you go to the shelter wash your hands regularly and avoid high touch areas. also disinfect the areas that

you are in frequently. all right. meteorologist kari hall with a look at what to expect. >> yeah. we have some really hot weather in the forecast today again. as we are going to see temperatures coming down, still some drifts of smoke coming in. we will have a look at the air quality next. plus a major investigation out of the senate shows further evidence of russian interference. we'll look at that in which cans and balances when "today in the bay" continues. live view once again as we

continue to follow this fire that started in napa county due to the lightning strikes and is now spreading into solano county. this is racing rapidly off towards the east and monitoring this as we see more homes in the area that may be in the line of firefighter wildfires. as we are going to have hot temperatures today and drifts of smoke. expect the temperatures to already be in the low 90s at noon and tracking the hot weather, the air quality and those fires coming up in a few minutes. >> talking about that air quality, truly affecting people in the bay area. you can see pretty much every part of the bay area experiencing an affect from the fires. you can probably smell it stepping outside. the wildfires of course making the air quality poor in the bay area. "today in the bay's" bob rydell

live for us in alan rock neighborhood and i'm not too far from that area and this morning i could smell that smoke inside my house. >> reporter: yeah. you can see what's going on above the ridge from us. you can see the flashing lights those are firefighters that are putting out a fire that we are able to see 30, 45 minutes ago but that fire as you know gone over the ridge or they have it suppressed part of the lightning complex fire of several fires extending all the way north to brentwood, sunol and alan rock park. here's a photo from earlier of that fire burning and you can smell the smoke a little bit down here on the valley floor, especially heavy this morning on the sunol grade and fremont north of here which is why today is a spare the air day. you might also notice a lot of ash. it is on my patio furniture in

east bay. a viewer sent us a video of ash falling. the air is not healthy to breathe. the bay area air quality management district says seniors, children and people with respiratory and health issues should really be careful today to avoid the outdoors. >> if anybody does smell smoke we do recommend that residents protect themselves by avoiding exposure so that's staying inside with your windows and doors closed. we also recommend putting your air conditioning on circulate if possible and checking with the city and county for cooling centers if it is too hot to stay indoors in your own home. >> reporter: the bay area air quality management district says relief may come on thursday, tomorrow, depends on fire containment. that lightning complex fire you can see over my shoulder on the ridge is burning here in santa .

right now only 4% contained according to cal fire. bob redell, "today in the bay." >> our firefighters throughout the state having a tough run right now and in southern california, they're still battling that massive fire in l.a. county and following this. it's the lake fire and it is now burned more than 20,000 acres, destroying at least 12 buildings. 40% contained now. evacuation orders however remain in effect for people in that area. thousands in fact were without power in l.a. county. tough one for those people last night with rolling outages there. new overnight for you, a string of earthquakes rattled the northern california town of willits. first just after 5:30 p.m. and in total eight between 2.8 and 4.2.

there are no reports of any damage. this morning, a new bipartisan senate report reinforces the conclusion gnat russians interfered with the 2016 election but the intention of getting president trump elected. >> those groups said that trump did not come collude with russians in that plan. >> that's correct. there was no coordination but it says the trump campaign was well aware of who they were dealing with and, remember, this is a bipartisan republicans and democrats committee report that concluded that. trump campaign manager paul manafort gets the worst of it as the documents certain as a member of russian intelligence. even turning over polling data to help the russians figure out where to target the efforts and the dishonesty in the

surveillance of carter page but concludes he was worth surveilling as he made several trips to russia and was evasive about it saying, quote, the committee assesses that page's previous ties to russian intelligence officers coupled with his russian travel justified the fbi's concern about page. now, president trump has said that the report vindicates him but the report does conclude the russians were actively helping, the campaign knew it and in two of the cases the campaign workers were in contarussian in. president trump sportsnet time in arizona yesterday talking about the wall and proposing people traveling between mexico and the united states pay a fee in order to pay for it. he also criticized michelle obama's convention speech saying pretaped and out of date and points out she understated the number of people dead from coronavirus. she says more than 150,000 in

the speech, by the time it aired that number had gone up by tens of thousands. >> you listen to michelle obama's speech which was obsolete by the time it got there. she taped it. no, no. she taped the speech. it was obsolete. >> the number of deds americans currently is 172,000. 1,177 died yesterday. president trump's acceptance speech for his convention will take place live on the white house grounds a week from tomorrow. we're covering what's happening in the white house and we talk about it on twitter. you can find me there. >> thank you, scott. 5:40 for you this morning and new video of an on-court altercation of alameda county and the president of the toronto raptors, this happened at oracle arena last year in the nba finals. deputy alan strictland filed a

federal lawsuit claiming that the coach was the aggressor and punched him in the face. raptors are counter suing and gave us access to this body camera footage. they say that the deputy falsified details about that altercation. continuing our coronavirus coverage now, big step for san diego county which is now off the governor's watch list. but health leaders say they're not out of the woods just yetter and businesses cannot reopen indoor services. a salon owner said it's frustrating. >> i have nurses as clients, i have like -- i'm getting the information and trying to do the best that we can and i feel really confident we will be okay. we just want to open. >> she says to stay afloat she is offering virtual consultation and selling products like makeup

online. south lake tay hoe is latest city to approve fines for a mask violation so council somebodies approve an emergency order yesterday taking effect friday and anyone caught not wearing that mask will be hit with a $100 fine. we are of course following the breaking news for you this morning as fire explode in size overnight. you can see where a police officer there has set up an area as they have been telling people to evacuate even putting people on alert that they could evacuate at any moment's notice. napa county wildfire spread into vacaville. those evacuations on pleasant valley road we saw those flames earlier this morning, intense. some homes destroyed by the fire and those evacuating have suffered some burns, one woman described seeing a car blow up as a scary, busy morning for us out there. now a look at what to expect from that forecast today

because, kari, it is not playing well with firefighters as they're already dealing with the intense heat of the fire and the intense temperatures. >> we have had such high temperatures. we know that the fuel is very dry and with the new fire burning over the santa cruz mountains overnight the flames and the heat was so intense picked up on the radar and that may even be ash that's being streamed into parts of the south bay from san jose over close to fremont so we are going to continue to have unhealthy air quality today as those fires continue to spread, very little con and thement this morning and you may need to wear your mask inside the home. whatever mask you have been wearing may do better than not wearing a mask at all as we see the air quality very unhealthy from san francisco over toward the east bay, seeing the highest numbers in san mateo which, of course, is closest to that lightning complex fire and then

for the south bay, south county, numbers that are very high with that unhealthy matter in the air due to what's burned in the wildfires. looking at the high temperatures for today, it is still hot reaching into the upper 90s for san jose. triple digits for the south county and not seeing as many highs over 100 degrees for much of the east bay but still going to have that hot weather as we continue that excessive heat warning for today and then heading to the peninsula looking at temperatures there in the low 90s for palo alto and then for san francisco just enough of a breeze to keep the temperatures in the 70s. for the north bay we are going to see highs into the 90s. we have this large area of high pressure that's causing record breaki breaking temperatures in the region. we may be drawing in some more tropical moisture by the end of the forecast which, of course, is what sparked a lot of those

wildfires with the lightning saturday and sunday mornings so that's something to watch for next week as the temperatures go back up and not seeing much of a dip in temperatures. 93 degrees will be a relief to the kind of weather we just had and then in san francisco there will be some slight cooling here as our high temperatures come back to the mid-70s. we'll be watching that. mike, how's it looking for the morning commute? >> the commute's building and we have complications by the multiple fires. a second. i want to show you this area, the arrow. shows west 80 approaching the split there. we have a big rig in a crash and may be a couple lanes blocked and slowing on the sensors there. into fairfield and cordelia. vacaville, may be this other fire and we already know that 128 and 121 have restrictions

for traffic. if you don't have to go in the area stay out of that portion of the north bay with that fire activity. morgan territory doesn't have the affect on the freeway but a crash south 680. i'll talk about the bay bridge in a second and show you the bigger view with the rest of the bay. the freeways are moving well except for highway 1 lower left-hand corner closed off south of pescadero. now the live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. the build is happening. no metering lights but likely turning on as we speak. >> thank you, mike. typhoon higos drenching hong kong overnight. the rain and high seas battered the coast. local warning systems classified bad weather warnings to 10 and this was designated a 9.

blew trees over on highways and caused no major damage moving out of hong kong gradually weakening. we have a lot more to cover for you this morning here on "today in the bay" including those fires when we return.

right now at 6:00, breaking news overnight, a wall of flames

from the fires burning in napa county moving into neighboring solano county destroying homes. multiple people have burn injuries. a third hour of "today in the bay" continues right now. good wednesday morning. thank you for joining us. i'm marcus washington. >> i'm laura garcia. very busy overnight with all these fires exploding. "today in the bay's" cierra johnson joins us live from vacaville right now where the fires took off and so did the people. many forced to evacuate. >> reporter: good morning. exactly. behind me you can't see the flames as brightly as you have been able to in the l