fire is burning up. we're told to from the north north sea east and it's burning away from homes near mount lassen idol berry road again, there are mandatory evacuations underway right now and people who are being told to evacuate to take lucas valley to one o one. but there is a lot of heavy smoke being seen in the area, including along one o one which is slowing down traffic, which could then slow down some of the evacuation that smoke is highly visible all the way from nevado into mill valley. we can see it here from our mount tam cam, though it has diminish just a little bit since we started talking about this at the top of the hour. but there are a lot of local crews that are on the scene right now, including nevado sandra fell, the marine county sheriff's office marine fire. they're all there right now, making sure that this fire continues to burn away from structures. crews are on the ground. there's also air support that's being put on the scene of this blast and fire again, evacuations are now i

all >> janice burns's danny -- >> jerry burns the defense argued, was a victim of coincidence and sloppyn submitted to you. >> after eight days of testimony, their jury got the case. when it goes out to the jury what do you think? >> i mean, we are hoping for the best. if he wasn't guilty, great, we have might at home. if he was guilty, it just meant more work. we're fighting for him. >> gentle was worried for a different reason. she knew that prosecution's case, that dna testing, the genetic genealogy was complicated. dense data. >> i taught fifth grade. i know how hard it is to teach somebody something. you have to repeat it over and over and over again. i'm concerned about that. >> thank you. >> as it turned out, the jury reached a quick verdict. judge hoover read the decision allowed. >> we, the jury, find the defendant jerry lynn burns guilty of the charge of murder in the first degree. >> how did he take it, the verdict? >> i think he was shocked, to. he was very much expecting to come home. >> don, you're in court for the verdict? >> i was surprised at the verdict. i had a hard ti

each new wildfire seems to burn faster and just spread quicker as well. >> it is frightening. our senior investigator reporter digs deeper into a 100-year old practice that some say is fanning new fires across the state. >> flames were the only guiding light from this chinook helicopter looking to rescue more than 200 people trapped in the mammoth pool reservoir 80 miles of the yoems park. the fire cut out all of the roads in the area. >> there's a lot of chaos on the ground. >> this rescue pilot spoke from his current deployment in kuwait with the california army national guard and said the fast moving flames prevented people to escape. >> some burned badly with skin coming off the body. >> why did this wildfire spread so quickly? may have to do with what happened years before the creek fire ignited >> more trees you remove the hotter and faster fires burn. >> this eek oncology he's been studying wildfires for more than two decades and took our investigative unit on a tour of the creek fire and gave us a look at his new research and essentially blamed the u.s. forest service

in the last 24 hours alone, more than 9,000 acres have burned. in all, the fire has burned 42,000 acres since started on september 10. the cause was lightning strikes. >>> wildfires getting larger and more unpredictable. seemingly every year. senior investigative reporter bigad sheban decision into a 100-year-old practice that some say is fanning these fast-moving forest fires across the state. >> reporter: flames were the only guiding light on this shin hook helicopter sweeping in to rescue 200 people at the reservoir 80 miles south of yosemite national park. the creek fire swept through at record speeds. >> there was a lot of chaos on the ground. >> reporter: joseph spoke to us from his current deployment in kuwait. he is with the california army national guard and says the fast-moving flames barely gave anyone time to escape. >> some of the people had been burned badly. skin coming off of the body. >> reporter: why did this wildfire spread so quickly? the answer may have to do with what happened here years before the creek fire ever ignited. >

and burned his eyes. and he called it pollution. fuels, colorado, oil and gas. >> that brown line on the horizon there is small. it was found yesterday in the city and last night it blew out over the ocean in the wind, today it will blow back over the city. more than half of that is caused by automobiles. >> fred jennings is a private consultant with 32 years of experience in the automotive and aerospace fields. he was hired by the general services administration to evaluate a gsa program designed to help find a solution to the automobile pollution problem. >> the brown color is oxides of nitrogen, the smoke is smoke, however, there are things in it that you don't see. one of the things is carbon monoxide. that is a poison that is put out by automobiles. and almost all of it is made by automobiles. there is also unburned hydro carbons in it which react with the oxides of nitrogen and that's what makes her eyes smart. getting rid of that is what the gsa's dual fuel program is trying to do. >> president nix

so again, 30 acres um it burned fast because it's burning uphill, and it's burning in that wild oats,o we'll keep an eye on it for you, mark tomorrow i've been going back and forth on this. and any new information we will give you. um but, of course, any time you get a fire in the bay area and with conditions like we have today, because conditions today are pretty mild, considering you know what we've what we've we've seen. it's cool. it's way cool. it's breezy. it's high humidity. there are the main fires burning right now, and you can see the smoke coming off of those for us. it was a big cool down today that fog really pushed in and with the big fog bank. you get temperatures at the coast just in the fifties, and that's where we stay. the farther the smoke model does something like this, which is what it's been doing it just kind of theirs tonight. tomorrow morning, she's wrapping a little chunk around somewhere around thursday afternoon, and it kind of and really the takeaway from this model, as i take into friday is there is a lot of smoke. in the northern part of the state, and

how many people's homes burned and the burn area. >> but it's they still when they had to evacuate. the only back the side of town. you have to leave the town. so, you know, we had a fire base and people still are able to stay. so it's pretty crazy. seeing everyone. >> really got they shared these beautiful photos of their hometown taken in early august. we have some of the most beautiful landscapes in lake tahoe summit. most beautiful in the world. >> it breaks my heart thinking and seeing pictures of animals running for their lives being separated from like mothers and family. and then breuer and sabrina greener both guest here at the union square hotel in san francisco, which is now a resource for caldor fire evacuees. all you have to do is we ask that you show from the fire evacuation areas and then what we do is we pass on a preferred rate of $75 that includes parking as we figure everyone's going to be i think anything not just us but anything anyone can to help these people out. >> donations for wildfire. evacuees can be dropped off that hands for hope at 5,005 when play driv

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according to his research, that's also where the fire burned most intensely. and here are areas that were logged after previous wildfires. hanson says that overlap shows areas that were logged are three times as likely to burn faster and hotter versus areas left alone. dr. hanson: big, downed logs like this, not only do they soak up and retain large amounts of soil moisture, like giant sponges, but they actually interrupt the flow of the fire across the forest floor. fires come from the ground up, and fires have to hit this and climb over it, and it actually can slow the flames. dr. brandon collins: that is entirely bogus. there's nothing in the scientific literature to support that. bigad: dr. brandon collins is a forest research s capacity as a professor at uc berkeley. he calls hanson's study flawed and maintains, "leaving burned logs in the forest will not slow down future fires." dr. collins: it's actually quite the opposite. the creek fire actually was a great example of that, and we believe that most of what fueled that growth was the dead trees that we

this shows acres burned during the past ten wildfire seasons. in three of the past four years we've broken the record for most acres burned in california history. nearly all scientists agree that climate change is fueling our wildfires. but the question now, are we doing more to lessen the impact? we told you about post-fire logging when burned trees are removed after a wildfire. but new research shows this isn't a good idea. it has actually allow future fires to burn faster and hotter. that's not what we want to hear. let's bring in our senior investigator, bigad shaban. what's the truth? >> we focused on a new study that looks into the creek fire, which is one of the most fastest moving in california history, burning nearly 380,000 acres last year, about 80 miles south of yosemite. let's take you to where the creek fire erupted in big creek canyon which also happens to be an area that was repeatedly logged over the past 25 years. so let's take a look at those areas. here in green are where burned trees were removed after past wildfires. and no

. >> here's a look at just where the fire is burning. the flames are being fueled by some strong winds and they spread about 15,000 acres in just the last 24 hours, the fire remains about 4 miles from the shore of lake tahoe. so far it's burned more than 200, 4,000 acres. and it's just 20% contained. almost 730 buildings have been destroyed, including hundreds of homes. but keep in mind that since the fire started. that doesn't mean they're all burned in tahoe. 35,000 buildings are still threatened. kron 4 has team coverage of the counter fire. tonight. we begin our coverage with chip yost who joins us live now from south lake tahoe checked. >> yeah, good evening. we are in downtown south lake tahoe. the resort area. but what you can see behind me is really the hillsides. the hillsides covered in smoke with. there's a little bit of good news and what we're hearing today. we'll talk about that first show you a map. to give you an idea where we're at compared to where the fire line is that we are in south lake tahoe. if you look at that ma

so it's just not going to burn as readily still burning, but lowered playing links lower spotting potential. most of the trees might survive and that's also is really good for truth, try to take stands to keep houses from burning, but he says the federal government has done more planning than working and overall not enough has been done to the forest areas, including those along. >> the highway 50 corridor. the force that the more remote all that much less work. i think that upper truckee river's have very little work. so, you know, these areas are going to be more 4 straight and be more vulnerable to high severity fire. >> and unfortunately and probably some of that's going to happen. >> steven says his big concern now for the spot fires which are starting with more frequency. thanks to the winds and dry conditions. >> we try to contain a fire. you maybe use the highway or using some of the areas you really feel you have the chance. then you have the amber come over maybe half a mile or mile downwind start another fire. start another one. >> and you're literally running all the time to try

you can see how far this fire has burned. just click on the burn map.t is right there on our home page. >> another bay area city joining san francisco in requiring proof of vaegs to get inside they say starting september 10, customers 12 and older will have to show that they're vaccinated to get into bars, restaurants, clubs, gyms. after that, crowds of more than 1,000 people. the city requiring the people who work in those places be fully vaccinate by october 15th. >> we've now been wearing masks for a year and a half. now a different and first of its kind stanford study explains how well masks actually work and it points to one type of mask as being more effective. >> reporter: despite the different variants, the one constant in fighting covid is wearing a mask. a newly released study from stanford shows how effective they are. researchers studied 600 villagers. they gave information and reminders to wear them and nothing to the other half of the people. the villagers wearing masks, the symptomatic cases were 9% lower than the villages who did not wea

according to his research, that's also where the fire burned most intensely.nd here are areas that were logged after previous wildfires. hanson says that overlap shows areas that were logged are three times as likely to burn faster and hotter versus areas left alone. >> big logs like this, not only do they soak up and retain large amounts of moisture like sponges, but they interrupt the flow of the fire across the forest floor. fires come from the ground up and fires have to hit this and climb over it. that actually can slow the flames. >> that is entirely bogus. there's nothing in the scientific literature to support that. >> reporter: this is a foster research scientist. he works with the forest service, but only spoke to us in his capacity as a professor at uc berkeley. >> the creek fire actually was a great example of that and we believe that most of what fueled that growth was the dead trees that were killed during the drought that proceeded that fire by four or five years. >> there are people watching left scratching their heads thinking how are highly e

here's where the burn is. this is the satellite interpretation of where there's heat spots and you can see the reds. the reds are what you look for, because that's the most recent and what you're seeing here is in the christmas valley area you're seeing so they're not overrunning too much. they're actually moving a little bit towards kirk. way down in here. you can see these reds kind of getting out front. martin newer burns, but in this area up north, you're seeing less new bern so they've maintained it or contained it or stop. called it at any point in such a way that this thing isn't we're not seeing a lot of growth right now, which is which which is great in better conditions coming their way as we head into the next 24 hours, and even beyond that, so he's going to heat up on the weekend, but but the winds that's what this thing is about. the winds have been a problem and the winds are backing way off. bill thank you. new video shows just how much smoke california wildfires are putting out. this is satelli

fortunately, a few more homes burned down now at 544 homes burning down from the caldor fire. now we are seeing really good conditions now it's still very cool outside. it's 44 degrees. i would call that not cool and the wind is calm for now. but unfortunately cal fire says they're expecting to get some intense winds later they said anywhere from 30 to 40 mile per hour wind gusts. and that's concerning because that can really push an amber further. it can push the flames further closer to our beloved south lake tahoe. now crews have done a very good job of holding the fire line above some of the residents here, some of the neighborhoods here like myers and pioneer trail. but that could very well change. so we will we will say on it. we're going to try and drive around once we get a break and see where the fire line is where the fire activity is. >> for now reporting live in myers. sarah stinson, back to you. >> well, sarah, you've got a chance now a couple of days to compare conditions. how does it feel out there this morning. are you more hopeful, more nervous. >> i was feeli

the fire burned extremely fast, extremely hot.evacuation orders expanding into nevada as fire barrels through the dry terrain. burning nearly 200,000 acres in -- and just 18% contained. to give you an idea, you see that incredibly steep hillside there, and all of those trees clustered together on fire at the same time. trees falling over is a huge concern for firefighters. the governor calling the fire the states number one priority as 100-foot flames are burning within miles of the city center. >> need to make sure our firefighters stay safe. still do their jobs, but at no time will you be in front of this thing because you are not going to stop it. keita: volunteer firefighter richard garrity, now recovering in the hospital after suffering burns over 20% of his body. these firefighters have been on the caldor fire for nearly three weeks. our air quality meter is reading at the highest level possible, so these are hazardous conditions. the good news is the red flag warning's expire at the end of the day. as you know, this fight i

they burn it because the penalty for burning the gas, because gas flaring was outlawed in nigeria in is so small, they can even pay in advance. and so paying to burn the gas is cheaper than doing anything else with the gas. the government's talked about eliminating gas flaring in nigeria by 2030. what do you make of this deadline? the nigerian governments have known that gas flaring is an illegal activity and ought not to continue. this is why it was outlawed in 1984. since then, we've had so many deadlines set and failed. theyjust keep shifting the goalposts. and i think government ought to be more serious than it is because this thing is dangerous for the people. it's an economic waste. could a potential solution be to build the infrastructure that would make gas valuable, so turn it into a source of electricity or something that can be used for good? could that be a solution? well, that would be a temporary solution, having infrastructure and then realising the economic value of the gas. it will also reduce the amount of toxic elements that you release to the environment, but the

ace corbin burnes or the brewers bullpen. gabe kepler acknowledge that when asked what it would take to bounce back and when this >> how last night's game back to not that would've been a good step in the right direction. >> but we we knew coming into this serious top 2 starters were going to a real challenge and arms was every bit of that challenge last night. we know that everybody in their rotation >> and we also know that they're both as a real challenge to match up against. >> i'm going to end on a positive note, though pitcher johnny cueto yesterday was scratched from his expected start with flu like symptoms. but today he is feeling much better and the plan is for him to start tonight. first pitch here is at 06:45pm at oracle park grant vicki. >> cases are still buzz in the air. i got this great start. and now the dodgers kind of nipping at their heels in the starting pitching isn't what it it's a long season in baseball. sometimes it's a marathon. what's the vibe there? the ballpark. >> yeah, the fans are still trickl

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we take into the rogue burning man, next.uck the biggest a pandemic low yet, the newest jobless claims report ahead and your life >>> welcome back. give you a live look outside from the salesforce tower camera looking east over the peninsula. >>> prettyman virtual calling it virtual burn. that did not stop thousands from flock into the nevada desert anyway. an alleged livestream out of the annual bring insight shows roseann rhodes of tents and camping vehicles as well as status and dj sims. several social media pages touted what is being called rogue burn. events in the area however with no official event happening they likely will have no formal medical services or proper bathrooms. >>> the in person event canceled lesser you might remember, hundreds of people put on an impromptu burning man style bonfire party at ocean beach. that party angered mayor london breed who called attendees reckless and selfish. >>> we reached out to burning the organizers for comment on the unsanctioned event and have not gotten a response. >>> i

my pants were burned, socks above the shoe line or burned away and as i staggered down the hallway, i'mg and covid 25, 30 yards in this condition. the hallway filling up with smoke, foreman out of the doors and come across me in my relief of knowing i'm about to support bank myself to whatever decisions my comrades in arms on my behalf and the exhaustion of covering 25, 30 yards in this condition, i collapsed in front of roy and the haste to move me, this is not a place to carry and wait for medical care to get to me, we've got to move me because the fire is raising and burning into the hallway. they each grabbed a limb and give the first exertion to pick me up but i don't come with them, they pulled chunks off me and i began yelling and screaming to leave me alone and i know i'm telling them the me there to die. they don't do that. chuck rolled me over on the left-hand side, it's agonizing touching me but the left side of my torso is laying on the floor, he puts his arms underneath me and they grasp each other's hands, shaking hands with my body weight resting on their connected arms a

looking at what's burning and not burning in the sierra.his is a look at our sierra at tahoe camera and we can see the flames here. that's one of the ski lifts and the camera points down at the ground. we are seeing flames kind of coming up the hill there and we'll see how this progresses through the morning. we were hoping that flames would slow down a bit as we've seen so much of our landscape charred. this is a look at how many acres have burned so far this season. it goes year by year. what's about average is 750,000 acres. we've seen over the past several years with climate change a lot more of california burned every single year and then looking at 2020 that was a record season where 4.25 million acres burned. right now we're at 1.8 million. as we continue to see the caldor fire growing very large. we'll start to see some of that smoke coming in. this also coming from the dixie fire into the north bay today. notice how much of the rest of the bay area this afternoon is pretty clear so we're not looking at the smoke returning until lat

the fire was burning up the hill, away from the homes. as you know, there are a lot of homes and subdivisions at the base of this hill. a lot of anxiety for people seeing the smoke across marin county. 101 was a traffic mess, even more than usual. 30 acres have burned. no major damage here. containment is at 80%. up next we're getting close to having a jury. new updates from the trial of theranos founder elizabeth holmes, including a look at how soon the testimony could begin. >>> and the controversial new program in san francisco that actually pays people not to shoot guns. is that really the case? we have answers about the city's new program meant to cut down on gun violence. you're watching nbc bay area news tonight. >>> welcome back to nbc bay area news tonight. we want to get you caught up on some other stories. attorneys are hoping to have a jury seated in a trial tomorrow in the case of elizabeth holmes. a series of investigative reports led to charges of defrauding investors and customers. for the second straight day, the 37-year-

they don't know of any homes that burned even though we saw properties burned around home. so that's one piece of good news. however, with the winds continuing. we asked one fire official what his level of comfort is going forward. we're not comfortable all out here and it's been like that for the last 2 weeks of this fire is shown itself to be very unpredictable. >> and very aggressive as it's moving through this drought stricken heavy timber and a lot of vegetation is so dry and easily ignite abul so moving into the night with the increase winds, the firefighters on the line tonight know they're in for quite a firefight working to protect the structures and keeping this community intact and safe. so it's going to be a busy evening. >> no one issue. firefighters say they've been dealing with with the airdrops. is this. look at the haze. actually, the good news is just in the last 3040, minutes. it's cleared up a little bit up there. but before you could barely see the sun. there was so much small gun smoke and haze above. they said that's been affected them a little bit wi

so that at night time, if the line we can strategic back burning and burning operations between the line, though, is installed. earlier the day. >> and where the fire's front is that can only occur if the conditions line just right between the temperature in the relative. humidity. >> some evacuations warnings and orders have been lifted on the west side of the fire that includes the areas of pollack, pines and omar ranch as for future repopulation is at this point there is no timeline. but crews say they are working fast to get people back in reporting from south lake tahoe. gayle ong kron 4 news. >> the counter fires rampaged through the sierra has slowed a bit, but it's still very much a problem. our grant lotus is live tonight in our newsroom with an update on where the fires burning tonight grant. >> pam and ken, the fire grew by only a little over 600 acres today. well, that's a lot of land to burn through. it's a remarkable improvement from the type of enormous growth that we have been seeing with this caldor fire. i mean, have been thousands and thousands of acres a day. right no

but this fire is burning just north of hawk. hill. >> lots of information that is coming in tonight. we're going to continue to follow all of these fires for you right here on kron 4 and bring you updates as they become available. but we do want to turn now to our 4 zone forecast to talk a little bit about exactly what is fueling these fires right now. >> meteorologist mabrisa rodriguez is in the weather center. good evening to you. hey there, jonathan. just adl. let's take a look at current conditions out there right now in ukiah where that hopkins fire is burning still in the mid 80's out there as we take a look at the current conditions map, you're going to see wind speeds. fortunately in the single digits. but still getting more of that northerly flow net foes warm dry offshore breezes. and that's dropping the relative humidity right now to just 24%. so extremely dry and warm out there. even at this 8 o clock hour. in fact, it was a very hot day inland, especially for our innermost valleys in the east bay warming up into the

it has burned nearly 1 million acres. it's 88% contained. >>> southeast of fresno, firefighters are battling a brand-new fire called the knp complex fire burning in sequoia national park. it was started by lightning last week. the firefighters are wrapping the base of the all-important sequoia tree, and the general sherman tree, the world's largest tree, in protective foil so it doesn't burn out. it's as 0% containment. >>> thousands of people are waking up in the dark in the east bay. parts of contra costa county, richmond and el cerrito, more than 17,000 customers are without power. at least check pg&e crews said they should have power restored by 5:00 this evening. >>> we want to thank everybody that helped clear the shelters yesterday. thousands of pets in the bay area now have forever homes. >> i am here to adopt marcus washington. >> cute little cat. >> he's so handsome and very sweet. >> a cat named after our own marcus washington found his foreover home. the real marcus, 6'5" along with laura garcia were out at be

it's burning towards the left side of your tv screen. that is unfortunately in the direction of south lake tahoe. the fact that this fire has burned over echo summit and into the tahoe basin is unprecedented. cal fire says a fire has never crested the sierra nevada in recorded history. not until this summer. the dixie fire did it first and the caldor fire has burned close to 200,000 acres has done it again behind me. reporting live on echo summit. bob redell, "today in the bay." >> seems like every year we're seeing the first and biggest when it comes to those fires. >> be safe out there, bob. we want to talk about the conditions that do continue in tahoe changing by the minute. meteorologist kari hall keeping busy. bob talked about that expectation that there would be more extreme fire danger. the fire itself starts to create its own weather too. >> it does. usually during the early morning hours we have higher humidity and lighter winds and prime time for the firefighters to really tackle this while conditions are more redictble. unfor

burning here behind me. reporting live here atop the echo summit, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> we can see how dry it is out there as that fire continues to rage on this morning. those conditions out there in lake tahoe are changing by the minute as we saw in bob's report. meteorologist kari hall you have been very busy following all the conditions there. bob was talking about it a little bit but how are conditions looking out there this morning? >> usually the early morning hours are the best time. sad to see that spot where you come around the bend and gets the first view of lake tahoe and now next time we go it's going to look a lot different. all of this land continues to burn and so we have a fire detection at work where it puts yellow boxes where the areas have already burned and the red shows the active fires and the progress that it's making towards the south as well as the east moving closer to south lake tahoe. look at some of these markers here. we mapped it out where we do have active fire a

it's burned 1500 square miles. that's roughly twice the size of all of napa county, and that makes it the second largest fire in california history. the storm that passed through on friday helped by bringing a little bit of rain to the to the fire zone. but as the rainfall drives up, and high winds move in early this week, firefighters are working to keep the edge of the fire from burning structures in the grizzly peak carry yeah. and in southern california authorities have reopened all lanes of i five after firefighters made progress on a wildfire burning in northern l. a county. the route fire started yesterday in mountainous terrain near castaic. it grew to almost 450 acres and is currently 0% contained. no word yet on the cause of the fire. okay yeah, looking at the weather. it cooled off a bit this weekend, then temperatures today warmed up. so you might have noticed a few degrees warming today, and that's how it goes. tomorrow there is the fog along the coast and as we get into this week is going to be intere

founded the bridge fire has burned more than 400 acres that fire that was burning several miles away from the town of auburn, so that town is not under an evacuation warning or order at this time, frank. alright elissa harrington live for us in our newsroom tonight. thank you. thank you. now to the dixie fire. it's now 57% contained. that's up slightly from yesterday. over the last 53 days, the fire has burned 910,008 in five counties. is destroyed, almost 700 homes along with more than 1000 other buildings. three firefighters have been injured. we also learned that over the weekend, a firefighter assigned to the dixie fire died. marcus pacheco was a 30 year, veteran fire officials say he died of an illness last week that was not related to the fire. fire crews in castro valley stopped a house fire from spreading to nearby vegetation today that fire broke out just after six this morning in a remote area on coal canyon road. the flames destroyed the house. it was located on a two lane road with heavy dry brush along both sides. the fire prompted a large response crews from alameda cou

so far 30 acres burned. about 20% coin tantsment. a lot of anxiety for so many people seeing the smoke right now in marin county. people are leaving the area, which is causing a traffic mess. >>> now to our continuing coverage of the caldor fire. a red flag warning is expected to expire at 11:00 tonight. firefighters hoping to get any kind of a break and gain any containment on this fire. it's still marching toward south lake tahoe, containment up slightly to 20% today. 544 homes destroyed. now predicting where the fire is heading can be difficult, but technology being developed right here in silicon valley is trying to make it easier. rob mayeda is here to show us how it works, and it could be a game changer. >> a weather model that can take into account heat energy from these fires and forecast it like a future cast to show us where it's going next. this is the goal of san jose state's weather lab, taking a closer look at the caldor fire and some of the unique behavior they're seeing on this fire and how accurate they can forecast

it's 25% and has burned more than acres.in the town grizzly are returning after than weeks being of their neighborhood after evacuated. heidi how are you? good are you? first seeing each in almost month because the caldera. the lucky ones that their were still. others they lost. unfortunately took this fire bring a lot people together the community, but know grizzly strong it's going remain grizzly, strong and it's going to be stronger than ever. cal fire your flats august 14th. was one of the first to burn new information that acre wildfire marin last. we learning it sparked a lawnmower when blade a that, to the fire that fire started week evacuations in parts of lucas valley in marin would. no one hurt and homes were. the fire chief residents avoid using in the hours spare. the alert remains effect the bay area due to unhealthy, young children, elderly and with problems are being urged to stay inside. the area quality district also everyone avoid if possible. starting sonoma county must proof fully vaccinated covid be test

it's burning it has burned nearly 900,000 acres and is now over 50% contained more than 2100 structuresave been destroyed in that fire alone and the caldor fire appears to be slowing as some of the evacuation orders in south lake tahoe now been downgraded over the course of today. 10's of thousands of homes are still at risk, though. meanwhile, that is happening in just the 3 weeks it's been burning. the fire has destroyed more than 890 structures. >> and has burned more than 214,000 acres containment. meanwhile, now grown to 43%. you're taking a look at exactly where the fire is burning as it continues to inch its way to the nevada state line along with south lake tahoe twice today. different evacuation orders have been downgraded to warnings as crews continue to get the upper hand on the fire. this is a map of the evacuation orders. meanwhile, still in effect tonight. but at the same time, highway 50 the closure. there has been extended because of the fire. it's now from sly park road in pollack, pines to fresh pond. >> and before these evacuation orders were ease. we spoke with the m

the monument fire has been burning for more than a month. more than 180,000 acres have burned it is 37% contained. now to the caldor fire. some people are able to return to their south lake tahoe homes after that fire forced everybody in that city to evacuate last week. the fire is 44% contained tonight, more than 216,000 acres have burned. and according to cal fire, 9 people have been injured and 7 of them. our first responders, although crews are finally starting to make some significant progress against the fire. cal fire officials say that they still have a lot of work ahead of them. >> one finger right down here right bordering of the kirkwood bowl does continue to be a the fire continues to spot outside this this is checked dozer line. but this continues to show us that we're not out of the woods yet. as we're seeing as you move through kirk were long this whole highway 88 corridor. we do continue to have fire pushing every one of these prisoners in here. there are those nice stringers of of timber, the run right to the road here. we'r

they burn uphill. so you know, echo summit, right? they don't go.downhill they don't this only happened a couple times in the history of fire in california. big fire like this. that's gone up. the other time it happened was on the dixie fire when it summited and then dropped down to almanor. so this is a very unusual fire. circumstance and firefighters were able to contain and control something that was very, very unusual for the state of california. so when we come back, we'll look at our conditions. we got a little fire around here. we also have a big story happened on the east coast right now. new jersey, new york. um. they're getting hit hard 3 to 5 inches of rain in an hour there from ida. they're seeing immense flooding. that's a huge story that you're gonna be hearing a lot about tomorrow morning. all right, we'll see in a bit, bill. we'll get another update on that. thank you. all firefighters battling the cal door fire facing another challenge, covid-19. an entire strike team has been forced now to quarantine for two weeks after a firefight

it's burned around 500 homes. but in the last 12 to 24 hours at least in that community, that area where they're getting a spot fires. the fire captain said they haven't lost any homes and is hoping after they went and did more evaluation in the area that that that would hold and they're hoping that holds tonight as well. as you heard him saying, but some caution in those words because of the winds. they just that they know they've got a battle ahead. yeah, let's hope those you know, working in their favor. chip yost are reporting for us. thank you. chip. we know you've been there all day long and into the night. >> appreciate all the work you're doing for us that ship will check back with you as we mentioned earlier in the broadcast. thousands of homes in that area are threatened. >> talking about entire communities really including south lake tahoe that are under evacuation orders for furs and hurricane wayne live for us in the newsroom with a closer look at those evacuation zones ken, what do you see yeah. well

burned it for heat and harnessed his energy and engines and it was dirty and burned his eyes and he called it pollution. [noise] (machine beeps) (machine beeps) that brown line on the horizon and small. it was from yesterday in the city and less night -- in the wind. and rolled back over the city. more than half of that is caused by automobiles. >> fred jennings is a private consultant with 32 years of experience in the automotive and aerospace fields. he was hired by the general services administration to evaluate a gsa program designed to help find a solution to the automobile pollution problem. >> the brown color is oxides of nitrogen. the smoke is smog. but there are things in it you don't see. one of the things is carbon monoxide, that is a poison that is put out by automobiles. almost all of it is made by automobiles. there are hydrocarbons in them which react with the oxides of nitrogen, and that is what makes your eyes -- getting rid of that is wet the gsa's fuel program is trying to. do >> president nixon stated the problem clearly when he said together we have damaged environment

but the fog will burn off pretty quickly by 10 o'clock. we'll be mostly sunny skies throughout the bay area. here's a look at our current temperatures. in the meantime, we're looking at 50's a closer to the ocean 70's out inland right now. satellite and radar shows us that it's dry up and down the state. we do see in other parts of the country getting some showers. if you happen to be traveling out there. here's a look at some of our high temperatures. throughout the rest of the country. as you know, it is a holiday weekend. maybe you're not heading to another state. maybe you're staying in california just heading out south monterey looking at 68 tomorrow out in southern california. warm temperatures as well. we actually have a heat advisory in effect for fresno and some parts of southern california because of high pressure building in our region so high temperatures tomorrow going to be a little warmer in some places in the east bay expected to be triple digits tomorrow. but after a monday will start to cool down a little >> looking good.

so far today 2.25 million acres have burned. remarkably, that is doubled the five-year average, but it's substantially less than we experienced this time last year were over 3 million acres have burned. we are dealing with conditions, consequences of climate change for the likes of which were predicted but a decade or two from today. those challenges are not only vexing but they create opportunities and i know the president will be speaking a lot about those opportunities in the next days and upcoming weeks as he refers to the work he's doing to advance this historic infrastructure package but i want to make a point, mr. president with your indulgence that despite the president of the united states being here i would stipulate the most powerful force on the planet is not even the president of the united states, its mother nature. as others have said chemistry, biology and physics. she bats last into bats a thousand. we are dealing with extremes like we've never dealt with in our state's history including the most extreme weather

they're still burning.nd if unless we get a heavy winter, a regular winter that really dumps snow, cools them down, gets the wood fully saturated, i don't know when they're going to stop burning. that is climate change. cat: mark morales has been overseeing efforts to fight this year's knp complex fire. he says the decades of prescribed burning in the park are paying off. but the sheer number of wildfires that have burned across the west means resources are limited. >> we're trying to figure out where we can go put lines, what resource is needed, whether it's a bulldozer, a hand crew, an engine crew. and so, if you don't have those resources available, you have to decide, where can we go? so you may not be able to put people in the highest-priority areas. cat: given the challenges, morales is proud of his crew's progress battling the fire. but he says the relentless pace takes its toll. mark morales: they have been at this for an extremely long time. and so they're at the, not even at the end of a very long

critics say that makes potential liability not worth it for many controlled burns. governor to sign into law. >>> rob mayeda, the forecast. >> right now watching heat and some wildfire smoke across northern california, some dropped back into the bay area tonight. 56 degrees in san francisco, had patchy low clouds, mist possible for tomorrow morning. low clouds come in. inland, still in the 70s around walnut creek and livermore. still 74. upper 60s in san jose. we have unhealthy for sensitive groups air quality due to particulate matter pollution. smoke has settled in for the morning. spare the air advisory tomorrow for inland east bay and santa clara valley for ground level ozone, the sunshine and fog that interact for the ground level ozone. smoke forecast may also involve the wildfire smoke. winds out of the northwest at times will pull smoke into the bay area. tomorrow morning, skies might have more orange sunrise as the smoke settles. nothing in red or very unhealthy like the sierra, but just enough it's noticeable again with hazy skies at times settling in arou