people living in inverness park are under mandatory evacuation order.bc 7 news reporter cornell bernard has the latest now. >> reporter: crews digging in and setting backfires to meet the woodward fire, head on, up the ridge. and protect the nearby point ray's visitor center. kevin lawson and his family live near the fire line in inverness park. >> we're the only ones left. but we -- we're packed up, already. >> ingrid lawson says most of her neighbors have packed up and gone, as the fire slowly moves closer to homes. >> it's pretty scary. but got to adapt to it well and make the best of it. >> on inverness rich, these crews strategize a game plan. they are battling unique challenges inside this national park. heavy fog in the morning and stronger winds in the afternoon, helping to move the fire along. >> there are some areas that are very difficult for us to get our crews down into. luckily, we have the support of air resources, and they are doing a wonderful job. >> reporter: fire crews continue to do rapidfire water drops from choppers when visibilit

park, inverness, sea haven and others under warnings. it depends on what the weather does today and they could quickly become evacuation orders. >> use this time to prepare and to have your electronics charged and that you have a plan in place. if we do issue an evacuation order, get out. >> for folks evacuating with no place to go, there is an evacuation center at the marin county civic center. >> reporter: you can get a voucher for a hotel room if you have nowhere else to go. in point reyes, emily turner, kpix5. >>> crews are achieving better containment on the fires burning in wine country. the lnu lightning complex is burning in napa and solano and has consumed nearly 350,000 acres. that's larger than the size of los angeles and is now 27% contained. >> for folks that need help if their homes were destroyed, we are working with three sites and make it a disaster recovery center staffed by fema and 48 hours later, they will be up and running. >> that remains the big story, bad air. a live look at san jose. you can see those hazy skies

people living in inverness park are under mandatory evacuation order.bc 7 news reporter c bernarlastow >> reporter: crews digging in and setting backfires to meet the woodward fire, head on, up the ridge. and protect the nearby point ray's visitor center. kevin lawson and his family live near the fire line in inverness park. >> we're the only ones left. but we -- we're packed up, already. >> ingrid lawson says most of her neighbors have packed up and gone, as the fire slowly moves closer to homes. >> it's pretty scary. but got to adapt to it well and >> on inverness rich, these crews strategize a game plan. they are battling unique challenges inside this national park. heavy fog in the morning and stronger winds in the afternoon, helping to move the fire along. >> there are some areas that are very difficult for us to get our crews down into. luckily, we have the support of air resources, and they are doing a wonderful job. >> reporter: fire crews continue to do rapidfire water drops from choppers when visibility allows. cornell bernard, abc 7 news. >>>

>>n her family inverness park. most residents have packed up and fwon as the woodward fire moves closer to homes. >> it's changed quite a bit. it's pretty scary. but going to adapt to it. >> reporter: we found these crews setting back fires near the point reyes visitors senn toer to meet the approaching fire head on up the ridge. >> it's got retardant on this stuff. >> on inverness ridge, they strategize a game plan. they're battling unique challenges, heavy fog in the morning and stronger winds in the afternoon. helping to move the fire along. >> there are areas that are very difficult for us to get our hand crews on into. luckily, we have the support of air resources and they're doing a wonderful job. >> fire crews continue to do rapid fire water drops from choppers when visibility allows. >> in fact, we saw lots of water drops in the area today on a nearby ridge. these fire crews staging after a long day of firefighting. the lawson family that we -- especially concerned because they lost their home to another. t

there is a mandatory evacuation order for silver hills road and fox drive in inverness park. u.s. forest service crews digging in and setting backfires to meet the woodward fire head on up the ridge and protect the nearby point reyes visitors center. >> i am worried about it. it goes up and down. >> reporter: kevin and his family live near the fireline in inverness park is this we are packed up already. >> reporter: ingrid says most of her neighbors have packed up and gone as the fire moves closer to homes. >> the line has changed quite a bichlt it is scary but we have got to adapt to it well. and make the best of it. >> we have eyes down here looking upgrade. this is division zulu. >> reporter: on the ridge, these crews strategize a game plan. they are battling unique challenges inside this national park. heavy fog in the morning and heavy winds in the afternoon helping to move the fire along. >> there are some areas that are very difficult for to us get our hand crews into. luckily we have the support of errey sources and they are doing a wonderful job. >> reporter: fire crews c

we have one acute hospital in inverness.of these tourist destinations are more than three hours from inverness. we have been absolutely inundated with people that showed no concern for the local population. the act covers everything from the management of dead bodies to the closure of schools in the postponement of parliamentary by—elections. it was passed in just four sitting days, with an air of resigned acceptance, in both commons and the lords. fundamentally, this bill is about buying time. you may not think it, looking at those alarming graphs charting the growth of the disease, but time can help us. with each day that passes, the science is getting better. her majesty's loyal opposition supports this bill. in normal times it would be utterly u na cce pta ble. these are not normal times. and as a result, we are notjust faced with this bill, but we must consider how we as a parliament operate in the weeks and months ahead. parliament then disappeared for an extended easter break. when it returned, it was very different.

we do want to tell you about evacuation warnings for the town of leo, inverness and sea haven. folks living in those areas have been told by officials to have a go bag ready just to case. cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> cornell, thank you. as you can see from those reports, the weather is a huge factor, especially the wind can either blow that smoke away. kristin, i mean, from hour to hour, you really don't know what you're going to get. >> you don't know, and the air quality is still unpredictable, spencer. >> that's true. the wind has been variable but still rather gusty. the other factors are helping, actually, in the area of the woodward fire. it's only 65 degrees, relative humidity 80%. pthat's very, very good for fir containment but the gusts are up to once again, it's not hot in those areas, and the relative humidity is moderate. down in the santa cruz mountains, the area of the csu lightning complex, the wind also gusted 15 miles an hour, but the relative humidity there is up to 71%. nonetheless, as we get further containment of these fires, the weather conditions look m

we have one acute hospital in inverness.rist destinations are more than three hours from inverness. we have been absolutely inundated with people that showed no concern for the local population. the act covers everything from the management of dead bodies to the closure of schools and the postponement of parliamentary by—elections. it was passed in just four sitting days with an air of resigned acceptance in both commons and the lords. fundamentally, this bill is about buying time. you may not think it, looking at those alarming graphs charting the growth of the disease, but time can help us. with each day that passes, the science is getting better. her majesty's loyal opposition supports this bill. in normal times, it would be utterly unacceptable. these are not normal times. and as a result, we are not just faced with this bill, but we must consider how we as a parliament operate in the weeks and months ahead. parliament then disappeared for an extended easter break. when it returned, it was very different. only 50 mps wer

this is burning out toward reye this is for the area south of inverness park. the unpredictable fire behavior led to warnings to the east and west of highway 1. >> if we issue these evacuation warnings, be prepared. please leave. we need the room and the space. we have very limited resources. if we have to make an investment in getting people out, it will take away from our ability to fight those fires. >> officials are using bulldozers, hotshot cruise and much of the area is extremely dense as it has never burned before. >>> the scu lightning complex fire as a largest fire burning in the bay area right now. it grew about six square miles overnight to more than 568 square miles. it's bigger than any california city. cal fire says the top priority is the western front. most of the 20,000 homes and other buildings are at risk. >> people are showing their support for firefighters working to keep everyone safe. this is what it looked like in pleasanton this morning. it's the base camp for the scu lightning complex fire. you see the signs saying thank you for everyt

fox drive in or in way that's south of inverness park. >>now we have chance to learn some more about how each of these fires is spreading tonight. >>and cal fire's christine mcmorrow is on the phone right now. christine welcome. thank you where are we seeing some real progress we're hearing that things were better today. >>things were better today. we are very encouraged by last night the weather that we didn't get a number of lightning strikes that we had been anticipating. we were encouraged that the red flag warning for much of the valley with listed the marine layer coming for the czu complex fire area with very encouraging. so the weather really helped us out a lot today. >>that's all but christine obviously we still have a long ways to go with these fires particularly. the the size and scope of the complex fires. what the best estimate on when we might be able to see you know a whole lot of people go back to their homes. i know we have had some people that have been gradually heading back but what's a ballpark best guess for when we

and warnings are in effect. 90 homes at this point have been evacuated right near the community of inver necessary and evacuation warnings have been issued for both sides of one north of sir francis drake. as of this morning, the woodward fire has burned four square miles and still just 5% contained. flames came within a football field of the bear valley visitor's center at point rays all roads, trails and campgrounds in the national seashore west of highway 1 are closed until further notice. evacuation warnings are in effect for inverness, sea haven and olima and with that we check back in with meteorologist mark tomal. we have seen the containment numbers go up in the bay area. how are we moving forward? look ago head not only today but tomorrow as well. >>> well, mike and gasia, looks like we're trending warmer. thankfully not talking about extreme heat. we're still warming things up as we head towards thursday and into friday. when you think about what's been changing around the fire zones, typically last week we had a very shallow marine layer probably under 1,000 feet that has deep

inverness park nd see haven a previous warning for the area west of highway one between sir francisrake boulevard in the intersection there with highway one. all the way down to bolinas that remains in effect as it's a pretty big area. these are not mandatory evacuation but authorities say people living in the red area should be ready to roll at a moment's notice. >>and we have much more ahead tonight, including cal fire starting to contain the largest complex fire burning here in the bay area scorching more than 274,000 acres >>back to our continuing coverage of the wildfires burning throughout the bay area dozens of them there are in the north bay, the east bay, a south bay as well as some of that mountains in santa cruz and san mateo counties and due to a lack of resources. cal fire is combining the multiple fires into 3 complex fires all of which were sparked by dry lightning. >>it's going take a look at this map you can see exactly where those complex fires are burning right now on your screen altogether they have the scorched more than 500,000 acres not map there. certainly vi

inverness park and see haven a previous warning for the area west of highway one between sir francis drake boulevard the intersection there with highway one down south to bolinas that remains in effect again not mandatory evacuation orders here but these are warnings. authorities say people in the red area should be ready to roll at a moment's notice right now back to this czu august lightning. >>complex fires burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties in total the flames have burned roughly 57,000 acres forced more than 60,000 people to flee their homes and at this hour. the fire. is just a 2% containment at least 97 structures have been destroyed and nearly 25,000 are threatened, we know 2 people have suffered minor injuries and there are more than 1100 personnel fighting this blaze kron four's gayle ong joins us now live from santa cruz county where the growing fires are forcing additional evacuations scale. >>a grant and vicki so as of tonight, evacuations are completed the latest here in scott valley, ryan roughly 12,000 people were ordered to we this area. another up and area

it has shut down the point reyes national seashore. 90 homes have been evacuated near inverness. evacuation warnings were issued for both sides of highway 1 north of sir francis drake in south of laguna creek. so far the woodward park has burned four square miles and only five% contain. flames came within a football field within the bear valley visitors center. the roads, tress and the roads trails west of highway 1 will be closed until further notice. evacuation warnings in effect in inverness, see haven and only my. >> with ask that if we issue these orders, that you leave. we need the room and the space. limited resources and we have to make investment to get people out when it's too late, it will take away from our ability to fight those fires. >>> the woodward fire is hard to put out because of the extremely rough terrain. >>> to get the latest news on the fires including how to help people who are affected by it, go to ktvu.com/wildfires. you can find all the latest developments on containment and the evacuation orders. >>> the spare the air alert in place right now will co

dozens of homes are evacuated near inverness park.>> they added to it with a little more specifics, ifsiren you have an hour to be gone. so we've all cked bags.>> and s continues to drift across the bay area. paul heggen has been tracking the air quality, i call it a deep purple. >> smoke on the water, smoke on the land, smoke all around us. but it has varied a little bit. we will start at 2:00 this afternoon when the worst air quality was over the tri-valley and into the santa clara valley and further down toward the peninsula. as we wind the clock forward you can see a lot of these dots changing color read some improvement in air quality especially for the tri-valley and santa clara valley. but there's also been a few spots where the air quality has deteriorated. there was a brief window where the air quality was okay. tomorrow will be another day where it will fluctuate but the worst air quality we will see is at least unhealthy for sensitive groups. now we can take a look at the fire weather conditions for tomorrow. see if they will be as favorable for the fire crews to get contain

residents who live south of inverness park , fox drive, and northway are told to leave immediately. emergency crews are asking those evacuees to go down first serve branches drake boulevard. evacuation center is open at the marina center. >>> across the state, it has already been an historic wildfire season. currently, more than 7000 buyers scorching more than 1.4 million acres. three of the biggest are right here in the bay area, in the north bay. the lnu complex fire has burned 352,000 acres. five deaths are blamed on that fire. after that is found a body in his home. tonight, the buyer is 25% contained. some residents were able to return home tonight. we are in sonoma county, where some of those evacuation orders have been lifted. >> reporter: checkpoints remain all over sonoma county, for safety reasons. some evacuation orders are getting lifted. some people are getting the go- ahead to go home. with columns of smoke lingering, evacuation orders are lifting in parts of western sonoma county. people are heading home. jane wrapped her dogs and her carpentry gear . >> my chainsaws,

and it has burned about four and half square miles. 90 homes were evacuated near the community of inverness while the evacuate is warnings for parts of c haven. >>> governor newsom said california is still gathering all available resources to handle what he calls, a historic fire season. >> we have 15,000 firefighters working the lines, handlers, dozers, fire engines, every conceivable asset that we have. >>> so far the fires of burned 2000 square miles. that is earning more than the yearly averages from 2014 through 2018. in california still has about three months left in the fire season. >>> years of hard work went up in flames and smoke when as well fires in the santa cruz mountains destroyed a beloved christmas tree farm. the owners of the historic crest ranch in bonnie dune told us they plan to rebuild. >> reporter: above santa cruz, overlooking a smoky boulder creek lies crest ranch, one of the oldest christmas tree farms on the west coast. >> some people look forward to that special family time. it doesn't happen too much anymore in our days. >> reporter: the owner say countless fami

there toward the station at inverness who are living with a lot now. . >> they added to it with a little more specifics. if you hear a siren, you have an hour. to be gone. so we've all packed bags. >> with the stubborn woodward fire burning in the national seashore, even those just outside the evacuation zone were taking precautions today. and then when the evacuation order came from just over here -- >> anna francis has been watching the smoke blow towards relot pack ha an ma'ad bus ant that kind of ing. so i just want to be sure i have enough lead time. >> the a areas that have been evacuated are now secured by the highway patrol and the smoke from the fire blanketed nearby point reyes station today. >> we left november city to avoid the smoke there. and here we are. in more smoke. >> between the smoke and the warning from local authorities, many businesses here just decided to keep the doors closed. >> the whole thing, you know w the covid and everything, it's very sad. you know. but you have to just trust, you know, that it will work out. >> right now take a look. we got have for you

. -- hospitals in inverness.have been absolutely inundated with people that showed no concern for the local population. >> the act covered everything from the management of dead bodies to the closure of schools and the postponement parliamentary by elections. it was passed in four sitting days. >> fundamentally, this bill is about buying time. you may not think it looking at the alarming chart of the growth of the disease, but time can help us. with each day that passes, it's getting better. >> her majesty supports this bill. in normal times it would be utterly unacceptable. these are not normal times. >> we are not just faced with this bill, but we must consider how we, as a parliament, operate in the weeks and months ahead. >> parliament disappeared for an extended easter break. when it returned, it was very different. only 50 mps were allowed in the socially distanced house of commons. others could contribute via videoconferencing. the lord speaker vacated and was self-isolating. >> today, all of our proceedin

just a little bit more so you can see the order and then the warning, the border between the two, inverness park right here. just to the southwest of point reyes station. we'll be watching these in real time. we have an updated list on our website, nbcbayarea.com/evacuations, raj. >> that's good. we should reiterate that. i just got an alert about 90 minutes ago from the peninsula in palo alto hills about the evacuation warning being called off there. we are keeping track of all the latest orders and warnings, including those helpful maps detailing the evacuations. you can see them at nbcbayarea.com. >>> okay. no relief in sight. you're looking at our live traffic cameras across the bay area. you can still see it and smell it in some areas, smoke from the wildfires still impacting our air quality. a spare the air alert which is actually -- was supposed to expire tomorrow now extended through at least friday. chief meteorologist jeff ranieri joins us now with more. jeff, i know you found some relief in the east bay, but other areas like the peninsula pretty much socked in with smoke today. >

dozens of homes are evacuated near inverness park. >> they added to it with a morific you heren, you ve an hour to be gone. so we've all packed bags. >> meanwhile, thieves have stolen valuable gear from one firefighter who traveled all the way from the rockies to help with the woodward wildfire. sarah lee is helping with the fire in marin county and her suv was parked outside her hotel when it was broken into. thousands of dollars worth of equipment stolen. this is the second time someone on her team had their vehicle broken into this week. >>> a berkeley firefighter on the front lines has lost his vacaville farm to the flames. mike shoekin was on duty when he got a text from his son telling him they had to evacuate. his farm was just a few miles you a way but when he got there, the water was cut off so he couldn't do anything. instead, shoekin got to work protecting homes nearby. his farm was nearly destroyed except for the barn and he and his family had been building it for two years. >>> to kenosha in wisconsin now. protesters voice their anger for a third straight night over the

we'll be back to aisha orders are now in effect for silver hills road fox drive in norway, south of inverness park. more information if you like to see a full list just head over to our website kron 4 dot com. thousands of people have been driven from their homes by the wildfire in santa cruz county and to make things even worse. authorities say that criminals are taking advantage of folks of burglarizing baking homes at least 13 people have been arrested on suspicion of looting are planning to loot neighborhoods in santa cruz county. the local sheriff says that more arrests are likely has at least 100 officers are out there patrolling those evacuation zones. some of the arrests came from community tips, including from residents who spotted that suspicious activity on their home security cameras. well to the east right now contra costa county fire officials arrested this man and woman on suspicion of separate arson fires last week. lisa on the on the left was arrested in antioch milan. po pitch on the right was arrested for a car fire. in martinez now both are being held at the county detenti

face coverings are already required at three schools in edinburgh, strathspey and inverness as part of spread of coronavirus. 0ur scotland correspondent alexandra mackenzie reports. peter mills arrived at james gillespie's high school in edinburgh this morning. the memo was sent on friday saying that from today, all adults and pupils must wear face coverings indoors whilst moving around between classes. coverings indoors whilst moving around between classesli coverings indoors whilst moving around between classes. i think it isa around between classes. i think it is a great idea. for the children coming back into school, it has been as shocked with being such a large group of people again, after being in isolation for all this time. it will help them feel a bit safer. in isolation for all this time. it will help them feel a bit safetm reduces the risk of the spread of the coronavirus. there has also been a move towards wearing face masks in two secondary schools in the highlands. they must wear a face covering when moving around the school, using the canteen and all other social areas.

you may remember in february they went missing for 8 days while hiking in the inverness area. a couple in their 70s went for a hike on valentine's day and they got lost in the dark. roughly 400 people searched for them for more than a week before they were found. so so glad to see that they are recovered and they're sitting outside so they're not afraid of the outside, no matter what happened to them. >> staying close to home, enjoying the outdoors. it's really hard to because it's so hot, the humidity making it feel really muggy outside too. when is this going to end. >> yeah, there were times over the weekend, especially it felt maybe more like miami than the bay area. well the humidity is moving out but the heat is not going anywhere. we'll talk more about the excessive heat warning and how long the temperatures will last in our forecast when we come back. >> con artists are ripping their ideas from the headlines and whipping up new schemes to take your money. we'll have three scams to expose next. it's time for the biggest sale of the year on the sleep number 360 smart bed

getting from inverness highway 1 -- they want people to evacuate towards the coast in order to avoid disrupting traffic for firefighters were trying to make sure they can handle those flames. they will be happy to brief people at point waystation. we will go there but in the meantime, we are live in this area. >>> we are going live to the santa cruz mountains where it is going to be another very critical day in that firefight. we are expecting an update from cal fire in about half an hour. this is going to be brought to us from the scotts valley community center. we will bring that to you as the latest comes and. here are the latest statistics on that huge czu lightning complex fires. that has been burning for about a week right now and it has burned 79,000 acres, 13% contained it has been burning in the santa cruz mountains and san mateo counties. 77,000 people have been evacuated and that is not include the newest evacuation warnings in santa clara county, around foothills park to the santa clara county line. also, we are getting a look at the man who allegedly stole firefighters w

. >> we issued an evacuation order last night for three streets located just south of inverness parkt would be silver hills road, fox drive and norm way. the reason was out of an abundance of caution. one, we had a strong smoke column throwing embers in front of itself. that was one area of concern. >> reporter: the fire is threatening more than 1600 structures. it is only 5% contained. additional resources and good weather is helping firefighters make progress. >>> the czu august lightning fire complex has grown overnight but contained in did go up. here is the latest information on this fire. >> reporter: good morning. containment at 17%. it was 13% at this point yesterday. that is an improvement. thsize really, 78,000 acres burned. about 77,000 people remain evacuated because of this fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties. it is too soon for anyone to return home. this is part of the reason why. this is video of downed power lines. this is near wilson gulch. they are showing trees in the area, in danger of falling. that is why officials are urging people to stay way for now. th

the peninsula around bodega bay inverness lots of activity.co, 73 here. 80 in san jose, so we woke up to hot weather. it's going to continue to stay hot, and the possibility of it remaining through the late morning hours and the heat continuing through the week. liz? >> all right, lisa, thank you. >>> "this week with george stephanopolous" is next. >> announcer: "this week" with george sw. >>> historic ticket. >> i'm so proud to stand with you. i do so mindful of all the heroic and ambitious women before me. >> biden chooses kamala harris. >> her story is america's story. >> my mother and father, they came from opposite sides of the world to arrive in america. >> once rivals, now running mates. >> the case against donald trump and mike pence is open and shut. >> i thought she was the meanest, the most horrible, moso s.at >> and on the eve of the democratic convention the battle lines are drawn. >> the choice we make this november is going to decide the

burns west of highway one, earning 2 1/2 square miles. 90 homes were evacuated near the divinity of inverness. there were evacuation warnings for c haven and lima. >>> years of hard work went up in flames, with the wildfires and the santa cruz mountains destroying a beloved christmas tree farm. the owners of the historic crest ranch at bonnie doing told mornings on fox 2 that they plan to rebuild. >>> at the top of been lemon mountain above santa cruz, overlooking a smoky boulder creek, highs crest ranch, one of the oldest christmas tree farms on the west coast. >> summoning people look forward to the special family time. it doesn't happen too much anymore, nowadays. >> the race moran is the owner, making an annual tradition to cut christmas trees here. 45 acres, and 15 varieties have them. this season, uncertain after devastating damage from the czu august lightning complex fires. >> we looked out the driveway, and we saw the flames, the sky had let up. the >> video was taken from the lisa son-in-law, showing flames coming up the hillside. the majority of the christmas trees caught fire. >>

dozens of homes are evacuated near inverness park. >> they added to it with little more specifics. if you hear a siren that goes -- [ sirens ] you have had an hour. to be gone so we've all packed bags. >> the woodward fire is 5% contained as of this morning. >>> and today, governor newsom will give an update on how the state is responding to the fires. you can watch that today at noon on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area. >>> meanwhile, thieves have stolen valuable gear from one firefighter who traveled all the way from the rockies to help with the woodward wildfire. sarah lee parked her suv outside the hotel when it was broken into monday night. in marin county. thousands of dollars worth of equipment was stolen. this is the second time someone on her team had their car broken into this week. >>> i'm anne makovec at the live news desk. let's go live to kenosha, wisconsin right now where it was another violent night in the protests over a police shooting. two people are dead and a third injured in kenosha in a shooting just before midnight. the sheriff told the "new york times"

dozens of homes are evacuated near inverness park. >>> to campaign 2020 now.rump's family took center stage during night two of the republican national convention. first lady melania trump used her speech as a call for national unity. >> i'm here because we need my husband to be our president and commander-in-chief for four more years. he is what is best for our country. >> other highlights include president trump pardoning jon ponder a convicted bank robber turned prisoners' lights activist. viewer also saw the president taking part in a naturalization ceremony. secretary of state mike pompeo addressed the gathering from israel. becoming the first secretary of state to make a convention speech in over 70 years. some democrats believe pompeo's break with tradition may have broken the law as possible violation of the hatch act. it forbids federal employees from taking part in activities while on duty. but the state department says his appearance didn't involve the use of any government resources. vice president mike pence headlines the list of tonight's convent

the mandatory evacuation order is for the area just south of inverness park. thai that fire has burned 2700 acres and is right now only 5% contained. evacuation warnings have been issued for the area on both sides of highway 1 north of sir francis drake ask south of loganetas creek. >> we ask that you be prepared when we issue the orders to evacuate that you leave. we have very limited resources across the state, and if we have to make an investment in getting people out when it's too late, it's a going to take away from our ability to fight those fires, which challenges us. >> officials said the fire area is challenges for firefighters. it is steep with limited access on foot. officials also say it's extremely dense, and is in an area that has not burned before. >>> and we're looking at the tropical pacific, or actually hurricane which came from the tropical pacific. hurricane laura will affect parts of texas and louisiana in the next couple of days. laura has winds at 85 miles an hour. look at the categories. it bumps up to a category 3 right about the time

officials say, 90 homes have been evacuated near the community of inverness. evacuation warnings are in effect for parts of bolinas, see haven and a lima. >>> facebook is stepping up to help victims of the many fires burning across the bay area right now. facebook is contributing half $1 million to a community fundraiser that has already raised $500,000 for fire survivors. the money will go to the red cross to support relief efforts for those impacted by the ccu, ellen you and scu complex fires and other fires in the bay area. officially, facebook chefs and the culinary teams continue to donate hot meals, water and nonperishable food items for evacuees. first responders and volunteers as well. >>> for the latest on fires, including how to help those affected, you can go to ktvu.com/wildfires. there, you can find the latest on containment and evacuation orders. >>> still have tonight, a fifth grade-student class interrupted by corn. coming out at 5:30, house teachers in east bay are responding. >>> nba players taken unprecedented stand. three playoff games post

evacuation orders do remain in effect for sale but feels road fox drive and norway south of inverness park. want to check on our weather now always important when we're talking about these fires in particular this video shot just hours ago by our quad copter for this is in petaluma looking east from sonoma mountain lots of haze still up in the air there even with the growing containment percentage is from the wildfires you can still see why our air quality in a difficult zone, let's check in with our chief meteorologist lawrence is standing by with the latest what they are calling has improved a quite a bit pam, but certainly we're going to continue to see issues of the air quality until we get these fires out we've had more of a westerly component to the wind. >>we're seeing that clear things out especially to the coastline and inside the bay but police fire is continuing to burn the winds in and around those fires just a breeze kicking up they still to 60 miles per hour as you look a little further north we've got some 12 mile an hour winds now dropping off the 4 and atlas peak ther

moisture associated with this, not just dry lightning but as we go into the coast there, you can see inverness, san rafael, penngrove and santa rosa and haelealdsbur it's raining. more thunder and lightning over towards livermore, and as we take you further to the south bay, not to be outdone in the south bay, currently looking at a thunderstorm with lightning in campbell, up through san jose. so as we go through the next several hours, not only have we our heat warnings and excessive heat watch but we're looking at a red flag warning extended through monday. look at the temperatures, 5:00, it's 84 degrees in concord, 82 no novato. we haven't cooled off overnight. this adds to the heat stress. we'll get hotter today and ke vy ch, because the rms, w excessive heat is at the surface, and we're going to continue to see this dome of high pressure overhead. wind gusts to 31 miles an hour here in the city, and that red flag warning through monday, you can see the dangerous heat wave takes us through wednesday. starting out with the clouds, the rain, the lightning, clouds will thin out and look at th

evacuation orders are in effect for silver hills road fox drive and noren way that south of inverness park. >>for more information you can head to our website kron 4 dot com. >>thousands of people have been driven from their homes by the wildfire burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties making things even worse. authorities say criminals are taking advantage by burglarizing vacant home saluting at least 13 people have been arrested on suspicion of looting or planning to lou neighborhoods in santa cruz county. the local sheriff says more arrests are likely is at least 100 deputies are patrolling evacuation zones. some of the arrests came from community tips, including from people who spotted suspicious activity on their home security captors. contra costa county fire officials meanwhile have arrested. this man and woman on suspicion of separate arson issues last week lisa owns on the left was arrested in can milan popovich was on the right he was arrested for a car fire in martinez, both are being held in the county detention facility in martinez and our coverage continues at kron

san francisco, offshore, you can see more rain in point reyes, inverness, over into fairfield, americansouthern marin county, more rain on the way. through tomorrow morning, liz talked about the red flag warning continuing. we're also looking at precipitation chances continuing in the shaded area in blue. we're still looking at another trough that's going to interact with this big dome of high pressure. there's the cloud cover from the golden gate bridge. 60s santa rosa. through 10:00, we are hot. here is noontime, over 100 with the clouds and a several-day heat wave continues. and we'll talk about the extent of it and what you can expect for the rest of your sunday, next. >> all right, lisa, thank you. >>> developing news, fire crews are working to put out a brush fire in mendocino county. take a look at the flames and smoke here. this is off highway 175 near hopland. flames sparked at 6:15 this morning. it's unclear how big this fire is right now but we're keeping an eye on it. we'll bring you any updates as soon as we get them. >>> the summertime coronavirus caseload may have peaked

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inverness park and see of and in addition we did issue an evacuation warning area to the east side ofbasically from sir francis straight us and highway one in a lima south to the mccurdy trail which is near the bolinas why and everything west of bolinas at this time we currently have 20 engines 2 water tenders 3 helicopters 5 and crews. 2 dozers 26 over overhead crew for a total of a 196 personnel at this time i'd like to turn it over to the incident commander bernard spielman. >>morning a lot going on here at the incident today. we have been getting some resources trickling in and starting to help our activities as far as getting some work done. just real quick around the fire's edge. coming off the north coast here. we are looking at doing some indirect lying on the ridge with the within the park we've gotten permission and support for that process we think it's going to be very a successful and we're going to try and work on getting some more direct line and some containment on the north side of the fire. as we come around outside of that the fires burning in some very huge dug for

you can see the lightning strikes about to move in to inverness this morning with the thunderstorm andth in yuba city and chico. enough instability in our atmosphere to fire up the thunder storms. because of that, a red flag warning remains in effect until 11:00 a.m. lightning strikes could lead to new fire also, the extreme heat. excessive at warngs that he ad visories remain star. in eff to the dangerous heat. check it out. triple digit heat for fairfield, concorde, mid- nineties and san jose. 80s around the bay. there we go, saying hot tuesday and wednesday, cooler by the end of the week. lily everyone in the house is online and i can't get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. try 1 gig internet with at&t fiber. you get more bandwidth and hbo max included. so, everyone stays entertained.? year. you kn, if you turn on ysubtget girnet w&tfir a no annualcontract. and now get hbo max included. limited availability in select areas. call 1.877.only.att >>> i'm jamie yuccas in alhambra, california, near los angeles. school is back in session, but the more than 500 students wfr

. >> we issued evacuation order last night for three streets located south of inverness park, silver drive and noren way pick the reason for that was an abundance of caution because we had a strong smoke column that was throwing embers out quite a ways in front of itself and that was one area of concern. >>> in all, the fire threatening 1600 structures and at five% containment. >>> a total of six people died in connection to all the fires currently burning right now and the bay area. three of the victims are part of the same family. 70-year-old mary hint meyer left her napa home tuesday and came across a road block. she knew she went past she would not be allowed back to her home so she turned on to get her 71- year-old boyfriend leo mcdermitt and his 41-year-old son tom picked the planes got closer to her home so they decided to take shelter in their bunker but the fast- moving fire quickly took over. >> they went in there and they hope they could ride it out. firstly, the fire was so intense. she is kind of like everybody's grandma. it didn't matter if you are biologically hers are

the fires burning west of highway one, bring about 400 square miles, 90 homes were evacuated near invernessey were seeing evacuation warnings for parts of see haven and alina. >>> out morning commute. what we see here is not too bad when it comes to the commute. in fact, we have had an improvement here. in the last little bit. 280 san jose looks good. some of the other commute we have been watching have been better. a:80 has been better, the bay bridge is not quite completely cleared but, better than it was. so, looks like this might be cleared in the next half hour that is good news if you are driving into san francisco, the other east bay commute has been relatively quiet. today, thursday morning, we start the day with another round of fog your call today will be a little warmer, at least other warmer compared to yesterday. air quality levels, the smoke and the fire really impacting air quality, current observations, we come in closer and you cannot see moderate levels or nap and vacaville, decent air quality for santa rosa, closer to send rafaela marin county in orange, unhealthy for sen

structure protection group we do have so special son they're a nuisance over engine is reassessing the invernessou may see the folks if you live up there are folks running around up there assessing the structures and and getting a plan in place. yes and when. we need to do also our team has folks who do recall long-term planning. so they'll be looking at plans b and c out here for unsuccessful the fire moves norse. north or east as well so we'll have those backup plans in place too. sort of for the future if we need those so that i want to say. thanks again for welcoming us to a community and we look forward to working with the the we will continue to have 9.30. briefings the 9th or in the morning briefings like we have will continue that schedule just has it as it's been. we can see where it will be up the national website will have information on a wood were fired as well. so that. thanks to turn over to start. morning thank you know, i think i think scott thank the entire team. >>our folks have been out here since tuesday when this fire started so. it's a very welcoming feeling having them al

it has an expanded evacuation order in effect for lima, inverness, and -- and the seizure is closed untilhe woodward fire is burning in tough terrain as well. your support the past couple days have help the efforts to contain the spread there. >>> california is getting much- needed help from fema to fight the fire. the state says the disaster relief grant will allow agencies to be reimbursed for three quarters of the firefighting expenses. that is -- it's made up of 20 different fire scattered about alameda, contra costa and sommer keene and stanislaw counties . it has destroyed five structures and right now only 10% containment. >>> you can stay up to date with all of the wildfire developments by visiting ktvu.com/wildfires. you will find evacuation orders, new fires that have broken out and how to help fire victims as well. >>> a little help from our weather. we've got that nice marine layer, something might be coming in late sunday night that will not be a help at all. rosemary? >> cure. we are worried about a repeat. at least the possibility and risk of thunderstorms and dry lightning

office has a weather warning out, yellow, for scotland through the central suede as we push towards invernessging the east coast and then you can see the next system coming in from the south—west. where you see green and yellow in the chart, we are looking at heavy bursts of rain and the wind will also strengthen. the overnight temperature in plymouth, 17 degrees. what is happening is a low pressure coming in from the atlantic will dominate our weather. this is the front bringing the rain into the south—west overnight. the isobars tell you it will be a windy day. for the rest of the week, it will be windy. the windiest day being on friday when we could have dales in western areas. for tomorrow, we start off on a largely dry note. still this cloud in scotland, one showers, some sunshine coming through. then the rain moves northwards. it is falling on saturated ground so it may lead to some disruption but we also have gusty winds, particularly so in western areas. the trees are in full leaf so you might find some branches strewn on the roads. these are the temperatures, 15 in the north to 22 in