i'm inmo right thousanow. that is six times the size of san jose. happening very soon an update we're expecting the choppers from firefighters in santa cruz here at the cal fire helibase to county. we'll bring that to you live. resume their air attack on the plus, worries are mounting fire burning several miles south of here. time lapse video from overnight as new lightning threatening. of the fire burning in fremont. only grew 4,000 acres between kari hall is tracking the yesterday morning and 7:00 last lightning strikes. the third hour continues right now. night. we expect more numbers coming up and good morning to you on shortly. over to cierra johnson in the this monday. thank you for starting your morning with us. i'm marcus washington. north bay. >> and i'm laura garcia. >> reporter: yes, good morning. i am live in healdsburg where we'll get to that morning folks here have been on standby commute and roads to avoid in a for the last week, those moment. first, let's check in with kari. these big wildfires started by evacuation warnings issued wednesday because of the wind and now they remain in effect lightning, and now that threat is back? because of wind and additional yes. threats of lightning. it's very unusual to have lightning storms in the bay area 52,000 acres have been burned but a little bit of good news. during the month of august and cal fire says this fire is now 5% contained up from no here we are for the third time this month talking about lightning. containment on friday. so far we haven't seen any folks we spoke with said their lightning strikes and this radar concern is the lightning and the can detect it as it happens and fire jumping the freeway, places a lightning icon on the something in the vicinity last map there.

we're seeing a lot of that over week. residents on high alert hoping the central valley and the that does not happen. we'll pass it back to you in the sierra. we have the best case scenario newsroom. with a little bit of rain and no lightning so far. all right. so hopefully that holds up. thunder, lightning, wind -- something firefighters certainly we do still have that chance as we're seeing some rain in parts keep check on. of the north bay, some light kari hall, how are we looking? showers -- not enough to put out it looks pretty good. the fires, but it will help get we haven't seen any lightning a little bit of keeping it from strikes and our slight chance will be mostly in the north bay. spreading so quickly. it's still going we'll be watching that as we are going into today. inland. we'll continue tot looking for mike, how is it looking right now for the commute? no complaints here, kari. commute? we still have the one crash we'll take any advantage we can have from the weather. looking to the live look, the in sonoma. bay bridge toll plaza, where the restricted past 121 and that metering lights were turned on will be an issue coming from earlier than usual, at 5:30 when the meteringig the middle lanes island. from emeryville you can barely are moving smoothly. make out the bay bridge. hov, of course, always the not fog but soot, smoke, junk in advantage here. take a look at your maps. the air. we're not so worried about the this will be a concern for folks arrow and the backup at the bay with breathing difficulties as bridge. there is a crash eastbound well. >> that's right. getting out of san francisco on make sure you check on your to the lower deck around the elderly neighbors and bring your pets in as well. that will do it for us. skyway. watch out there.

still getting word and it looks >> thanks so much for letting us be a part of your morning today. like everything is moving pretty have a great one. smoothly. the rest of the approach smooth the "today" show is next. on either side of the bay. contra costa county no major problems on the freeways. watch the local closures for the good morning scu area and the santa cruz double trouble >> so, we're going to get, mountains. back to you. >> thanks, mike. basically, a right hook from we're going to continue to marco and a left hook from monitor the fires this morning. at this hour the lnu fire in the laura. >> not one, but two storms north bay has burned more than pois to slam the gulf coast, one right after the other. 347,000 acres destroying and millions from florida to texas, bracing for landfall damaging more than 1,000 al has the latest on where structures. sadly four people have died in they're headed and when. the fire. breaking overnight, protests the fire is 21% contained. erupt in wisconsin after another in the south bay -- in the police shooting caught on camera south bay -- in the south bay the sdu complex fire has grown to nearly 334,000 a black man a black man involved in a acres with 10% containment. domestic dispute, shot evacuation orders are in place for parts of the tri-valley n. santa cruz the czu fire claimed the live of a 70-year-old man near davenport. it has scorched 74,000 acres and

is only 8% contained. more than 160 struc we're expecting to hear from fire officials in santa cruz county. we'll bring you that news conference live when it starts. all right. so let's get beyond the numbers a little bit and talk about what is really important here, the people, the lives at risk. "today in the bay's" bob redell joins us live in livermore. people there are very nervously watching some of these fires, bob. >> reporter: yes. evacuation warnings have been extended to the city borders but not within the city limits themselves. there's no evacuation warnings for people who live in livermore or pleasanton, just the people south of those cities. after sunrise we expect the choppers here at this cal fire helibase to resume their air attack on the scu lightning complex fire burning several

miles south of here. here is time lapse video of that fire burning over mission peak in fremont west of where we're at now. this fire is the third largest in state history, however, only grew 4,000 acres between yesterday morning and 7:00 last night which might sound like a lot but percentage wise it's not, the complex encompasses 20 fires around five counties is almost 334,000 acres, just 10% contained. we expect new numbers to come out later this morning which will show the fire has grown in size. the fire is also threatening over 20,000 structures with new evacuation orders now extended in parts of santa clara county including the eastern part of morgan hill. >> we just packed up everything we have for a few days. >> we packed up our valuables and personal items. we've had plenty of time to decide what to take and what to

leave behind. >> reporter: coming up in about half an hour at 6:30 we will hear from cal fire about the biggest challenges facing firefighters on the front lines of the scu complex fire. bob redell, "today in the bay." 6:05 right now. kari has been telling us we're watching for lightning strikes. right now to the cal fire news conference going on in santa cruz county. let's listen in. just a few things, a quick update on the fire. the fire grew and is now 13% contained. we continue to make good strides to increase that containment. however, there still are 24,300 structures that are threatened around the fire area. we can now confirm 231 structures have been destroyed

throughout santa cruz and san mateo counties. we have a more specific breakdown of that we can get you later this morning. we continue to increase the number of firefighters arriving every day. up to 1,511 firefighters, federal, state, local government including ones from out of state here on this incident. one thing to note is there was an evacuation warning that went out in santa clara county yesterday afternoon. that warning went out in an abundance of caution based on the potential lightning and storms that were forecasted for yesterday. we do not believe there's any imminent threat right now. i just wanted to help clarify that because obviously that's a whole new county by . with that i think time for anop. >> good morning. the past 24 hours, albeit we are in a red flag warning, we've

actually had the opportunity with the weather and that has given us an opportunity for crews to make a lot of great progress throughout the fire. on the north side of the fire, again, a lot of good work up there. you see this line and control line has been established and verified. we have a really good control line on the north end of the fire throughout the entire north and down on the coast some of the fire is burning lighter fuels and with the increase in humidity the fire is actually extinguishing itself. that's good. davenport hasn't seen any movement of the fire. it is still hung up on the ridge top, something that once we get more resources we'll go directly after. we have a good control line protecting that community as well. the south end of the fire we have continued to improve the

control lines. we have this really good control line from highway 1 to highway, the secondary we put in. a little burnout operation in the southern part of the area, and that widened and improved our line tremendously. it created a very good control end of the south primary and secondary so that really puts an excellent protection for santa cruz and uc campus. complete 100% not out of danger but we are confident these lines will hold and do what we need them to do. moving up the fire, the fire still well up on the ridge, still looking pretty good, again. we perceive caution with the weather event as we continue through that with the red flag warning. highway corridor, the thing about that, we've been able to establish some lines and are continuing to establish some lines. are they as robust as we would

like them to be? no. they are primary. they were established very rapidly. we're just kind of doing a technique in which we just try to push the fire, like i said before. so with that it's not the kind of line we would traditionally put in where it's robust, solid, and will hold fire. therefore, with that and due to the topography, very steep, extremely rugged terrain, lots of ravines and canyons and that sort of thing, difficult for us to work in. not where we would like to put our lines. we do with what we're dealt and give it our best shot based on that. we'll work with what we put in the best we can. what we're going to see, we'll have little setbacks here and there, nothing pushing on threatening the community butayr has cleared more, flames and so

forth. that is normal. you'll see that because we have not fully extinguished the fire. heavy fuels, rugged terrain, put the lines in to hold them and establish them will take time. there has to be a bit of patience. we move our resources back there. the material may roll out on the steep terrain, burn back up into the berm itself that will happen. you'll see that. but it's something that we can easily jump upon and start mitigating and keep it from getting further down onto the highway 9 corridor. highway 9 is a good place to stop that and that part of the fire is extinguished. we're going to continue that, that process has been

painstakingly long. it took a lot of time and effort to do it. again, very difficult because of the number of structures that are dispersed throughout the area. a painstaking process, a slow process, but we are continuing to work on that. >> speaking next from the santa cruz county sheriff's office is chief park. >> good morning. in terms of sheriff's activity last night burglar suppression was our priority with welfare checks and checking on different folks as calls came in.

how many calls did we get, ten suspicious people were called in as well as two welfare checks and we sent deputies out on both of those. our missing persons, that count stands at four. when it comes to suspicious people we did make three arrests last night. we'll have 79 total personnel, 33 from our office and, again, i can't speak more highly of our local agencies and agencies over the hill that contributed 46 today. 7 total will be out looking for people that should not be in evacuation areas or looking to prey on people evacuated. last night there were three people or four people rather. three in which we arrested.

two had warrants and were taken to jail, arrested for those warrants, and charged with being in a closed evacuation area as well as a lady seen walking around with a backpack from san francisco, not from the area, and was arrested for being in a closed evacuation area. we also cited a person last night who is from the area but wasn't supposed to be here. he was escorted out. and then i wanted to touch real quickly -- we've gotten a number of calls with regard to the city of santa cruz. they did a prewarning. i believe they went door-to-door. a great thing to be prepared but there's no -- i wanted to reiterate no imminent fire danger right now to the city of santa cruz. and so cal fire has done a great job of securing tha southern border. as long as the weather stays the way it should and conditions stay the way it should there should not be an imminent danger or at least there's not right now to the city of santa cruz.

last week a lot of interest in the wallet stolen from a firefighter. again, i think we're all blown away somebody would actually steal from someone out there trying to help. we have a detective dedicated to the case. if we can find out who did this, that person is going to jail. that's an update on our end. thank you. >> speaking next from the san mateo county sheriff's office. >> good morning. right now no significant changes for san mateo county. however, we did have an incident yesterday where six people did enter a restricted area to check on their property. the end result is they had to be rescued.

they snuck into a restricted area and we had to redirect resources to get the people out. we understand that when people are evacuated they're very anxious and that's why we have law enforcement protecting those areas and keeping them secure 24/7. please help us. if there's a restricted area, do not enter it, because then what happens we have to redirect resources, put those responders in additional risk and you put yourself at risk for injury. other than that we're working very hard around the clock to make sure that you guys are given the information up to date, anything significant you know about it. we're putting information out. you can download our app. thank you. we've had a lot of success, a lot of small winds and they're >> speaking next cal fire

turning into larger wins. incident management team. the ls we're increasing our personnel numbers assigned as well as engines and crews. and we will continue to do that until we have sufficient resources at the incident to mitigate the entire perimeter. obviously mother nature has helped us quite a bit. we had moisture yesterday evening, increased humidity with reduced winds.rod have taken advantage of those opportunities that mother nature has presented us, worked extremely hard developing what we have currently and will continue to progress as long as the conditions remain the same or improve. obviously we're still vigilant to what occurred over the last seven days. what type of weather pattern, winds, drop in humidity. we'll be watching that closely

and will be prepared to be proactive if those conditions resurface during the next week to two weeks so we can be aggressive with maintaining our perimeter and reduce the risk to all the communities in danger and all the infrastructure that is out there. thank you. >> and our final speaker, san mateo and santa cruz chief. >> good morning. it's nice to see we have a little bit of weather being an advantageo actually get some action that is positive as you see the increase with containment is there. i want to just focus a little bit on what the sergeant said. we have people that are still trying to get in to see if their properties are there. both san mateo and santa cruz

counties are working diligently establishing websites to be able to provide the public information on the status of their residence. we have numerous teams of inspectors out there looking at each of the properties, gathering information so that we can get that out to the public as soon as possible through both counties so you can have an idea what you have left or if your property was undamaged. please be patient with us as we get this information out to you. we need to make sure it's safe for our inspectors to get into the areas so they can assess the damage. thank you. >> that concludes the formal speakers. i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> any lightning strikes overnight hours, jonathan? >> yes, i do know there were some down strikes across the northern part of the state. i don't believe it was widespread. and we didn't have any confirmed in our local area in the santa cruz/san mateo unit.

>> can you talk about -- >> cal fire giving an update on the czu complex fire. 78,000 acres burned. 13% contained right now. certainly a long road ahead for the firefighters, laura, as they continue to battle the fire. the good news here is they're getting a little bit of containment talking about the rugged terrain. of course you're familiar with this area here. so many people having to be evacuated and they're warning, too, looters, stay away. they have been making some arrests out there. of course we don't want their focus to be on that, of having to go and arrest people. they need to try to fight the fires. they have crews from throughout the country as well aiding in that. we're going to have live reports coming up in a little bit covering all the fires in the bay area, the evacuation routes and what not when "today in the bay" continues in just a moment. 6:19 right now.

it is 6:22. this is what you're seeing over much of the bay area. not fog but smoky skies. a lot of ash continues to fall. so many people affected by the fires. even if you're not an evacuee living in the bay area you're taking in the smoke, some of the worst in the world right now, very concerning.

kari has a look at our forecast for today. you know what else is so concerning the fires were started by lightning and the threat continued overnight. we are going to be watching out for that this morning. we do see some other factors in play here so we're not seeing as much of the lightning here. the central valley so so far we haven't seen any here but still that chance and we'll be watching out for that. the models are showing that wave of moisture and that rain we're seeing over the north bay will it continue to lift away from the bay area off to the north and then we'll get some drier conditions but we're still once again watching out for all of this energy we have in the atmosphere passing by as we go throughout the rest of the bay and that fog rolls back in which will be some good news for firefighters trying to get more

containment, that higher humidity. but it will track that smoke and we've seen very unhealthy air quality for all of our microclimates but the worst of it right now is over danville where we're seeing numbers at 336. this is a measure of particulate matter in the moisture and is very unhealthy to breathe that in. we reach into the 90s inland. we'll be in the 60s along the coastline. more 90s over the next few days. that humidity will drop after tomorrow and then some hot temperatures going to the end of the week. more of the smoke moving in. san francisco will see temperatures mostly in the 60s throughout the rest of the week as that fog and marine layer returns to the coast. mike, how is it looking for the commute? by comparison, kari, i have some slowing. we do have a crash but no major injuries.

heading on to the lower deck, right at the eighth street on ramp a crash that is affecting the freeway and the backup that's starting back to octavia. out of the city getting on the freeway, at fourth or howard, you're okay getting into observing. from oakland the backup into the bay bridge toll plaza. no problems coming into the contra costa area. better news but stay out of those evacuation areas. back to you. we're in the homestretch of our month long clear the shelters campaign and we're working to find those forever homes for pets. >> that's right. so the pandemic, though, has been posing a little bit of a problem for the shelters animals. chris chmura is here to show us how a north bay shelter is finding homes for cats and kittens nonetheless. >> reporter: sonoma county

animal services cares for more than 3,200 dogs, cats and other animals every year. most are adopted out to new homes but this year is different. the shelter has been closed to the public for months because of the pandemic. prospective pet owners can't visit but the shelter got creative to continue its mission leaning on partnerships with rescue groups and one essential business to keep adoptions going off site. >> we are transferring out long-term dogs that have been here most to other rescue groups and organizations that are able to adopt out. >> reporter: coming up at 6:00 we'll share more about this unique program and how you can participate in our annual clear the shelters effort this year. i'll see you again tonight at 6:00. >> sounds good. up next back to our breaking news. >> here is what our team of reporters has for you coming up. >> reporter: the scu complex only 10% contained. the new evacuation orders in the tri-valley.

>> reporter: and in healdsburg folks still under those evacuation warnings from last week as wind and lightning are concerning this area. >> reporter: and the czu complex fire continues to grow. however, there is some progress on containment, and we have more information about the one gentleman who did not survive the fire. hi. we're glad you came in.

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right now at 6:30, here we go again. thunder and lightning rolling back into northern california making for extreme fire danger. as if firefighters aren't stretched thin enough. your forecast and live team coverage straight ahead as "today in the bay" continues right now. boy, the hits keep coming for the bay area. we have it all covered for you. good morning to you am thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. mike is on the commute, but we have to talk about the hits that keep coming. meteorologist kari hall is tracking what we can expect from the forecast and we do see some lightning on the radar. yes. it's so unusual to have storms like this coming through, but we're seeing another surge of some tropical moisture. but the good thing is at least here in the bay area we haven't had any cloud-to-ground lightning strikes and a little bit of rain with higher humidity. much of the lightning over the central valley and moving to the

central and southern sierra, and so we will still have that chance that we could see some lightning strikes today along with some isolated storms and a red flag warning continues at least until this afternoon along with erratic winds. monitoring all of the weather conditions around the fires. more on that coming up. mike is watching the traffic around the bay area. yeah, kari. not as much of a concern as what you have, but we're looking at the bay bridge toll plaza. metering lights were turned on early, about 5:30. we've had this going on for an hour, no major problems into san francisco. the map will show you the same thing with an getting out of san francisco where we have the traffic alert eastbound 80 at 8. folks leaving 101 and getting onto the lower deck. the rest of the bay moves smoothly. the santa cruz mountains we've seen closures there and an expansive area. back to you. the scu area has forced

evacuations in the south bay and lead to a warning for residents in the east bay. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live for us in livermore. bob, what's the latest going on there? >> reporter: we're here on greenville road where they have this temporary helibase set up and we're within an evacuation warning zone. evacuation warning issued for people who live just south of livermore and pleasanton but not for people who live within the city limits. while the cal fire choppers behind me were able to fly yesterday and saturday and they were able to do water drops on the scu complex several miles south of here air tankers had to be grounded on saturday because of poor visibility caused by lingering smoke. resources are limited. cal fire has just about 90 engines from around seven to eight states to fight the series of fires that has now burned just under 344,000 acres and is

only 10% contained. and here is new video from overnight. take a look at this on your tv screen, a time lapse of the scu complex in fremont west of here. new numbers will show the fire has grown in size. cal fire expects the firefight to go on for a long time because of its sheer size. right now it is the third largest in the state's history. >> we have been messaging we will have to set manageable paces because this is going to be a very long-term incident. >> reporter: while i mentioned an evacuation south of livermore and pleasanton in the south bay particularly in the eastern part of morgan hill, more people were told to evacuate, were ordered and forced to leave. bob redell, "today in the bay." >> i think we all know people who have had to evacuate. we want to check in with cierra

johnson live up in the north bay this morning where people are still in fear of evacuations but at least firefighters are making progress there. >> reporter: good morning. exactly. evacuations are still in effect because of concerns of wind and now lightning. we've been out here for several days now. i know on friday i had a chance to speak with an individual who said his concern is that he just doesn't know what's happening. every time he hears the phone ring he jumps because it could be an evacuation. we're in the main square. things are looking pretty and you have the lights and tents. just a couple miles away is that destruction and those homes that are burned down. we have video of that. at last check this fire called the walbridge fire has burned

52,000 acres here in sonoma county, healdsburg. cal fire says they do believe the fire is 5% contained. that's up from zero percent containment on friday. yesterday into the overnight hours the crews worked to attack the fire from both above and on the ground working to defend some of those homes. the wind made that difficult to do at some points. the evacuation orders were given to residents on the west side of 101. this morning the concern is not only the flames jumping the highway but the lightning. we know the lightning is what sparked all of this. take a listen to someone's concern about what's going on in their community. >> the lightning is the hard part because this all started from lightning strikes last sunday. >> reporter: the school year is disrupted. lnu fire is forcing many to

close. because of evacuations those school districts will all be closed. the businesses, the vineyards, a lot is up in the air. >> cierra mentioned the threat of thunder and lightning. we'll have a look at the forecast. including what a lot of people are talking about, those smoky conditions. kari hall is tracking that up next.

welcome back. 6:39. take a look at this, that smoke from the bay area fires can be seen all the way from space. this is showing nasa the lightning -- or the lingering skies. you can see the smoke taking over the area. it reach the midwest. here is a look at the time lapse video of the smoke from the czu lightning complex fire taken over the weekend. it gives you an idea just how thick the clouds are in the south bay. kari, no doubt seeing this there is another spare the air alert in effect for today? air quality with clouds keeping it trapped near the surface. rain moving through. as it spreads we've seen it

moving away from the bay area. our highest chance still seeing some thunderstorms this morning, so far we've had the best case scenario where we get a little bit of rain and no lightning strikes so far at least here in the bay area. we'll be watching that with more updates. i'll have more on this and what's ahead in a few minutes. all right. pretty day out there. a smooth flow of traffic. better news out of san francisco. take a look at what we've got. the bay bridge backup. no major problems. getting out of san francisco, good news. eastbound 80, that traffic alert has cleared and so have the backups so quickly. again, the only slowing on the map is the bay bridge toll plaza although there's a crash, highway 37 near 121. that may be an issue as you cross over out of vallejo and, of course, we still have those closures. so many of them, the orange signs with the construction barrier, mind those closures.

the czu on the lower left. on the right that scu fire. through vacaville is still open. back to you. coming up on "today in the bay" our fire coverage continues. in fact, we have some all new video of the intense fight crews are up against in the santa cruz mountains. firefighters there just wrapping up a news conference. we'll have a live report straight ahead. > first day of the republican national convention. we'll be talking about w york c. the dow hitting yet another record on the promise of that convalescent plasma. first, something good for to you share amid the ongoing wildfires. communities across the bay area are thanking first responders and firefighters. check out these photos here. it's showing local restaurants donating food to those front line workers.

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welcome back. 6:44 for you this morning. our top story continues to be the wildfires burning across the bay area. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez has been following the story from the santa cruz mountains for days now. kris, i know firefighters are just wrapping up the news conference. talk about some of the information they gave us. >> reporter: the good news is

there has been some progress mostly along the northern borbo czu fire. 78,000 in all is the total right now even though the weather conditions were much more favorable. we can feel the moisture and there is really no wind here. again, there had to be six people rescued overnight. san mateo county sheriff says folks were evacuated and were desperate to get back inside and see whether or not their property was still standing. it's a very dangerous situation, though. here is how cal fire describes it. >> it is highly dangerous in there still. there are trees coming down. we have redwood trees, old growth timber coming across the roadway, and we have infrastructure that needs repair. we have bridges that have failed, old wooden bridges failed that may not appear failed to people. it is not safe. fire may not be directly impacting their structure or property but there are huge

hazards out there. >> reporter: now among the 77,000 evacuees is a member of the "today in the bay" family, shayna john, our editor. you've seen most of her video on mornings. this is what she heard as she and her family were ordered to evacuate their ben lomond home. they hustled to grab whatever they could, family pets, photo albums and headed to santa cruz to sta house since i was 5, 40 years, my mom's house. she isn't with us anymore. she fought for that house. if i lose that house, i don't know what i'll do. it's just my worst fear. it's so scary. all it takes is one wind, changing wind. >> reporter: luckily there was no wind overnight but, still, this is what fire crews are up against as they try to respond

to fire lines and reach the homes. at this point we know 163 homes, businesses and others are destroyed. a lot of law enforcement trying to enforce the roadblocks to keep people safe. folks who are trying to get back in to check on their property but also looters. with nearly a dozen people who were stopped and questioned, some of them arrested for allegedly trying to loot or burglarize homes. one of the victims was a firefighter whose truck was broken into at a fire station while he was out on the fire line. someone stole his wallet and emptied his bank account. for every story there is progress there is something that just adds insult to injury but, again, we're checking on our colleague's home. we do have access to the fire area, so we have been looking around and hopefully everything is going to be okay. kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> very much so. thank you so much, kris.

a quick break from our fire coverage this morning because we need to talk about decision 2020. later today the republican national convention is kicking off in charlotte but over the weekend protesters gathered and police made at least one arrest. although a lot of attention will be on the convention, it's going to be virtual. president trump will appear there in person today to accept his party's nomination. several hundred delegates as well. they insist all in-person events will be safe. >> we tested everybody before they came to charlotte. we have been testing people on site. >> the president is expected to head back to the white house for the rest of the convention. proep testers are vowing to gather every night in charlotte until the convention ends on thursday. well, as we mentioned president trump breaking tradition. he's going to speak every day of the republican convention. >> scott, we've been watching this for a long time now.

usually the president speaks once, and that's typically at the end. well, exactly. it's the big finish, right? the nomination and the keynote speech of any convention. that's what we've always seen in the past with both parties, but, as with everything else, our president is nonconventional and will be speaking every evening. also speaking is nikki haley, he former governor of south to the united nations. once thought of as a potential rival to president trump, even talk about her running against him for the nomination. but it would appear she is fully behind the president. also speaking are the mccloskeys, mark and patricia, facing felony charges of brandishing weapons against black lives matter protesters. president trump announced the authorization from the fda that doctors will be able to use

convalescent or therapeutic plasma for covid-19. they have been using it for more than a century now. it should work. kellyanne conway leaving the white house to spend more time with family. her 15-year-old daughter said on social media she wants to be emancipated from her parents while criticizing her mother's role in the administration. conway serves as an adviser and was trump's campaign manager as he won the election in 2016. the postmaster general will return to capitol hill today. dejoy took questions from a senate committee. today he'll face the house committee. also over the weekend the house voted to further protect him from the post office. more than two dozen republicans joined democrats in passing the bill. we'll be watching what happens in washington and will bring it to you on the midday news and will talk about it on twitter as well. i'm @scottmcgrew. >> thanks, scott. with so much uncertainty we

could use time to catch our breath. maybe this picture will help you out. cal fire tweeted out this video of micah, a trained service dog. they say he is ready to help bring a little calmness and comfort to everyone right now including those brave firefighters working so hard right now. and, you know what, a lot of people don't know the dog sometimes can bring calm and relief especially in a situation like that. those firefighters are working hours on top of hours right now to battle the flames. >> i think it's proven that dogs can lower your blood pressure, which is a very nice thing. >> we all need it right now. kari, we're talking about lightning, the cause of many fires right now. we've seen some in parts of the bay area already. we've seen some lightning strikes but they haven't been in the bay area. they've been off the coast or to

our south or east. we've seen something more favorable, a little bit of rain in parts of santa rosa. look at the lightning strikes over the sierra. that will be a problem. here we do that continues until 5:00 this evening. until that threat of the lightning goes down, we may have some erratic winds. so far we haven't seen any lightning. the air quality is terrible here as we see the smoke drifting in, getting trapped down by the clouds that we have across the bay area and so as the fires continue we're seeing the worst of the air quality over spots like danville and hayward where the air is just really unhealthy. so limit your time outside. as we look at our high

temperatures for today we're reaching into the low 90s through the south county. mid-90s for concord today and upper 90s further to the north. along the coastline and in san francisco we're mostly looking at some 60s here so wide-ranging temperatures continue and after that humidity moves out we'll still see some hot weather for those interior valleys reaching into the 90s especially by the end of the week and then for san francisco mostly some 60s here over the next few days. mike, any major problems for drivers heading out to work? >> potentially, kari, this is in the north bay. let's take this to the screen so you can see westbound highway 36. into sonoma out of vallejo where there's a crash, a major crash, reported damage to a pickup truck but also there may be a truck carrying propane involved as well. so i'm concerned. you see the jam out of vallejo.

the backup at the bay bridge is there. the rest of the bay moves smoothly. 680 has opened another who have who have lane a year ahead of time. back to you. >> thank you, mike. 6:54. happening now a county courthouse in the midwest is now closed after protesters damaged the building. this is in response to a black man who was shot by police officers. happening in kenosha outside of the courthouse about 40 miles south of milwaukee. police say the officers opened fire while responding to a domestic violence call. the man is in serious condition. 6:54 right now. up next on "today theay," the very latest on the fires burning overnight forcing many people out of their homes across the bay area. we'll have a full update for you. you're watching "today in the bay."

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