speaking of tamarack come of the tamarack fire got a downpour on it today. a lot of heavy rain there. big concern for mudslides and debris flows off that at this point, but also more lightning. but that's in the sierra. we come back in, what's the last four hours and see that week line of showers that marched its way up 101. it wasn't enough to measure but it was enough people noticed, and it was just the very beginnings. here is what we are waiting for. that's the reason why we're talking about this for thunderstorms. there's a lot more energy and a lot more fuel in the moisture, in terms of what the thunderstorms would need to get developed down here. let's take it from live satellite and radar, put into the high-resolution forecast model, take that line of showers over the southern sierra now, play that forward, and that works its way over the sierra for much of tonight. but watch tomorrow, right here. that's what we are waiting for. that's the midnight through about 11:00 time frame tomorrow. let's watch that again. come in for a closer look, closer to h

it is the tamarack fire. it has burned more than 21,000 acres and more than 100 firefighters are rushing to contain the flames. the fire was to 6600 acres and has nearly tripled in size since then. only three homes are reported to have been destroyed. evacuation orders are in the town of markleeville. these photos are from lake tahoe with the big cloud of smoke at the north shore. >>> and the dixie fire in butte county has spread to more than 39 square miles in the feather river canyon area near paradise, which was decimated by the camp fire in 2018. evacuations are underweight in a wilderness recreation area and a warning for residents. california says the blaze is 5% contained. >>> foot traffic is way down in chinatown this weekend and it may have to do with two recent attacks against asians. >> reporter: even before these two latest robberies, oakland chinatown turns into a ghost town after 5:00. some restaurants will stay open, but most places are closed after 5:00. that's because a lot of shoppers don't

the tamarack fire in the southern sierra remains out of control. crews say the tamarack fire is moving quickly and has scorched so far more than 101 square miles. water drops like this one are part of the assault on the fire burning on the california/nevada border. several homes have been lost to the flames. nevada's governor has declared a state of emergency for one county in the fire's path. a couple who is prepared to evacuate are also members of the fire protection district. >> so once we got our own family settled, we would make sure that we had our radios and all the thing that is we needed to respond to any medical emergencies or fires in our community. >> the tamarack fire started as a lightning strike on july 4th and is just 4% contained. crews expect to get full containment august 31st. now to the northwest of that fire, the largest wildfire in the state continues its burn. the dixie fire now threatens thousands of homes and businesses, mostly along lake almanor's west shore in plumas county. there are 14 mandatory evacuation zones, and a

poor guy is on the road to recovery after he was injured in the tamarack fire. a resident found the bear in their yards contacted the lake tahoe wildlife care center and the poor combat burns on the bottoms of its paws and legs. you see it being taken care of here was treated at the wildlife center and we'll be there until it's fully recovered. the tamarack fire started burning on july 4th and is one of nearly 2 dozen blazes sparked by lightning strikes right now on kron, 4 dot com. we have tips for fire season just scan that qr code on your screen. get grab your phone's camera hold up that will give you information how to create defensible space at home. there's also evacuation checklists to check out and general wildfire preparedness tips. for now. that's off. can catherine, back to you. all right. thank you very much. grant to our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow is here with more on the situation with the fires in just looking at a live camera. >> in lake tahoe. there are no big fires burning near the lake, but it is buried under this mookie can hardly se

mainly over the dixie and tamarack fires.s we head into sunday, the pinks, which is heavier smoke, in the upper parts of the atmosphere starts to drift in our direction. near the surface, the highest concentration of smoke will still remain at least through saturday evening in that general vicinity. by sunday, things could look very different. i'll be back with a complete look at the forecast coming up. >>> welcome news for thousands waiting for jobless relief. the new edd policy to speed up benefits. >>> new details on the sweeping internet outage today. >>> and $20,000 for a garbage ca? san francisco considers a pricey solution on a growing program. >>> all of that coming up ahead. >>> i'm anthony, mr. anderson if you're nasty. >> hi, my love. my daughter coming >>> a major announcement from the employment development department tonight. it affects hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers waiting a long time for their benefits. >> it's been pending for a month now. >> reporter: kim lives in sacramento and has been unempl

you can see, firefighters are facing a tough situation as they throw everything they have at the tamarackire, near lake tahoe. the fire is now 90 square miles and 4% contained. >> footage from firefighters shows wins whipping up a fire world as the fire spread into nevada this week. reporter victor park says crews are struggling to get control of the fire sparked by lightning on july 4th. >> reporter: an inferno of stubbornness. >> the extreme fire behavior meant it was definitely going to be a difficult time. and, in some cases, a firefight. >> reporter: although authorities say crews have been able to hold flames on the east side of the tamarack fire, firefighters say they are threatened by the conditions. >> it has been hard to access the fire. >> firefighters on the front lines of the dixie fire spotted these flames, saying they might be the beginning of a completely new fire. the dixie fire is 18% contained, but has jumped in size, increasing by more than a third to more than 221 square miles. >>> in the east abc7 was in oakland chinatown where there was a report of an armed robbery

the tamarack fire is one of the smaller was at this point. we have kind of gotten into the heart of the season which brings me to the most important point of the conversation. there is a fire with a concern for us here at home tomorrow in the bay area. a red flag warning has been issued for the mountains surrounding the bay area in effect from sunday afternoon through monday. we have a 20% chance tomorrow or dried lightning. kind of a typical summer pattern for us. i will explain it all coming up with a complete forecast and we will look ahead to the seven- day as well in a few minutes. >>> is more on the fire watch for you can see a plume of smoke rising from the mountains. that is the dixie fence in butte county that has burned more than 39 square miles. this is in the air the river canyon area near paradise. you remember paradise itself was decimated by the campfire in 2018. he killed 85 people. and one resident told us what the worst part is about the new place. >> i think the worst part about it is you are ready to move i your stuff, and

wildfire coverage right now and governors from california nevada today toward devastation from the tamarack fire. that fire began here in california and then burned into western nevada. >> fire officials are saying that is now 59% contained as crews make slow and steady progress force. ashley zavala explains the urgent message right now from both governors. >> after touring the devastation here in gardnerville, nevada, california governor gavin newsome and nevada governor steve sisolak have a plea to the federal government. and then we've got this money. >> hundreds of thousands of acres of land to predict we need more body is bodies -hat we need more support in order to be effective in doing so. what we've got has been great and we could not ask more of the men or women that have been out here fighting it. but we need more governors from nevada and california urging the biden administration to step up the country's fire fighting and preventing resources. it's not a. >> indictments, not finger pointing and it's not novel. it's not new to the biden administration. even the previous administr

there they are getting some rain and some of those areas in around the tamarack fire. you see some of the showers moving across there. but some more lightning strikes coming through as well. now, just a little further north near the quincy fire. still some smoke settling in around there and then you start to see some of moisture for to interact with some of cloud cover as it moves through that direction. still, the winds have not been a real big concern there. so some of that smoke likely sitting down in around the quincy area. also in the chester and of course in the susan bill. you see that coming up on the south there. some of those winds are kind of switch around here now in the quincy, maybe 6.11 to 14 miles per hour. so not a ton when they're just a breeze there today so that smoke really cannot move very far in around the fire in the models start to pick up on that as well. the next 24 hours. you can see all the smoke in yellow and orange here kind of just sitting in and around the fires that showed in the models are not predicting a lot of wind to pick up that

tamarack fire in southern sierra remains out of control.ews say the tamarack fire is still moving quickly. it's scorched more than 66,000 acres. water drops like this one are part of the assault on the fire burning on the california nevada border. several homes have been lost to the flames and nevada's governor declared state of emergency for one county in the fire's path. a couple prepared to evacuate are members of the fire protection district. >> once we got our own family settled, we would make sure we had our radios and all the things we needed to respond to any medical emergencies or fires in our community. >> video overnight from dixie fire as well, you can see too. meantime with the tamarack fire they hope containment will happen by august 31. >>> dictatesy fire, which is the largest in california continuing to burn. in you video shows dixie fire destroying homes and threatening thousands of others and businesses most along west shore in plumas county. there are 14 mandatory evacuation zones, more than 190,000 acres have been charre

take a look at this time lapse video of the tamarack fire. all that smoke being sent high into the atmosphere, where it gets mixed in with weather patterns. we've been catching a break when it comes to air quality, but i know you're keeping an eye on it here. >> eventually our luck is going to come to a temporary end with some of that smoke making its way into the bay area. it's been a little bit better as we head into the weekend. let's put the smoke concentration forecast in motion and you can see it's going to remain thickest around the sexual fires still burning. some of it tries to sneak into the bay area but then it gets farther away. we're going to see it making more of an appearance heading into monday morning. mainly the eastern half of the bay area to start the day but then it does spread across the rest of the bay area as we head to the rest of monday. still, this is going to be farther up in the atmosphere. we are looking at smoke for the whole depth of the atmosphere, not just ground level, and because this is blowing in with tho

mhm as the tamarack fire continues to grow in alpine county. a few ridgelines over the community of south lake tahoe watches and remembers the first thing i think of his angle right because i was a fallen leaf lake that day. were there for like, five missed me, my family and we saw that huge smoke coming over the mountain. the wind driven angora fire in 2000 and seven consumed more than 200 homes as the community watched in horror. now residents are quick to be concerned when they see smoke from a nearby fire. it's far enough away where we can we can watch it closely and have some time to prepare. if anything, does change, captain kim george has been trying to ease the concerns of residents. she says the tamarack fire is burning primarily in the opposite direction and not a threat to tahoe at all right now. at the same time, we're asking people to think through the evacuation plan, like things that you might grab have a list of the things you know that you're going to want to take if it does happen, um, communication plan with your family, mayb

fire crews driving through a wall of flames in the tamarack fire in california. and in colorado rescuers searching for victims of a deadly mud slide. flash flood alerts as we come on, and much of this country set to feel the intense heat moving in again. ginger zee standing by, tracking all. >>> news on mario battali, settling allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace. >>> what's happening with new and used cars. many sold before they reach the lot. used car prices soaring up to 45%. and tonight, how much some owners are making selling their cars back to the dealership. what's driving this. here in new york, the shark warning amid sitings. authorities adding patrols in the air and on the water. >>> once the cleveland indians now with a new name tonight. >>> and they never gave up day after day this. country moved by them, and tonight we honor them. who are our persons of the week? >>> good evening, and it's great to have you with us here as we near the end of another week together. we begin tonight with these alarming new numbers. this new summer surge of

in fact, the showers drifting closer to the tamarack fire zone.ely, some lightning strikes detected but the good news we actually have some showers in the area as well. now back here, some areas of fog out toward the immediate coastline. this looks like typical summertime. the weather here in the berry doesn't it with the fall coast side and also surging back into the bay already right around. the golden gate bridge cloud things up once again right around the bay shoreline as we head into your thursday morning current numbers out there. san francisco checking in 64. we have santa rosa, mid eighties triple digits out toward fairfield. so it is hot inland. no heat advisories. no excessive heat warnings, but still, it's kind of been a middle of a hot stretch for the interior for today, and then once again as we head into your thursday. outside right now, we have mostly clear skies up above oakland. i think we'll add a few extra high clouds to the forecast for tomorrow as some clouds kind of move in cruise in from the south. overnight lows were starti

we just got a heavy downpour for rain and new lightning strikes on the tamarack fire, and if we come back closer to home, we've already gotten some light rain here in the area. those are light showers working their way up 101 in the north bay. i'll be back in a couple minutes. we're going to take a look at the system and when the rain might get here. >>> california is rolling out new rules to slow the spread of coronavirus. allstate employees and healthcare workers will have to show proof of vaccination or get weekly covid tests. kpix 5's kenny choi reports on the new vaccine rule is. >>> juliette, the head of the ucsf school of medicine says he stopped tweeting about covid a month ago because numbers were so low. but we are in a very different scenario right now in which we are seeing policy shifts at the local and state level mandating vaccines. >> it's a choice to live with this virus. >> reporter: the push is for state employees and healthcare workers to get vaccinated. if not, it's weekly testing required. >> it's the right call and i think it will get us to a place that we need

tamarack fire is 67,000 acres and 45% contained. meteorologist darren peck is here. still a long way to go on these fires. that's on top l the smoke too. >> yes. >>> i want tou a unique of what that 190,000 acres looks like. that's the footprint but the satellite reads where most recent heat signature has been detected in see how the fire is growing. there is the community of paradise, fire burning that way. it hasn't needed help from the weather. in fact there have not been significant weather elements to the fire other than the ones it's created on its own with the pyro cumulus clouds. the question is where is the smoke going to go? there is higher concentration off the dixie fire in purple. mid levels of the atmosphere does bring some smoke towards us. tomorrow, a southerly surge clears a lot of it out. at the ground level, a better story at least in terms of our air quality here. as long as the fire goes we are vulnerable to any shift in the wind. i will be back with the houswhere idenbiden is visiting with iraq's prime minister. he has said his country no longer

the tamarack fire remains out of control. see the tamarack fire is moving quickly and has gorge more than 66,000 acres. water drops are part of the assault on the fire burning on the california/nevada border. several homes have been lost. nevada's governors declared a state of emergency rowan county. one person prepared to evacuate as a member the fire protection district. >> when we got our own family settled, we made sure we had our radios and the things we needed to respond to any medical emergencies or fires. >> the tamarack fire started as a lightning strike july 4. it is 4% contained. crews expecting a full containment by august 31. >>> northwest of that fire, the largest wildfire in california continues to burn. the dixie fires threatening thousands of homes and businesses, most along lake alman or. there are 14 mandatory evacuation zones at 180,000 acres, the dixie fire is 20% contained. the national weather service said smoke from the dixie and tamarack fire's is causing unhealthy air quality of her much of the sierr

the tamarack fire has burned more than 70,000 acres along the california nevada border. university of california, davis and his team shot those amazing pictures. he's at the station in davis, california now. thank you for coming on the programme. we really appreciate your time. programme. we really appreciate yourtime. i programme. we really appreciate your time. i want to start with those amazing pictures that we show just a few seconds those amazing pictures that we showjust a few seconds ago. talk through what is going on. they are heart stopping images, for anybody, even those who aren't familiar with the fire service and the fires here in the united states was not what happens in those images in —— �*s onjuly 21, our type three fire engine was going to protect a subdivision of houses, off of the highway in nevada. wejust houses, off of the highway in nevada. we just encountered incredible fire conditions was not as you mentioned, these large fires can create their own weather systems and you see right in front of our fire engine what almost look like a cyclone of fi

and he joined nevada's governor touring the damage from the tamarack fire at alpine county. they saw some of the homes burned by the blaze, which sparked on federal land last month. >> we're experiencing a mega drought in the entire west coast of the united states that arguably is going back to the year 2000. the hots are getting a hell of a lot hotter, and as a consequence, these young men and women in uniform have their work cut out for them. >> the tamarack fire has now scorched more than 100 square miles. caltrans lifted the closures this morning. fire crews expect full containment around the end of august. meanwhile, the massive dixie fire in butte and plumas counties now covers an area nearly twice the size o the city of san jose. at least 54 buildings have burned down. the fire is 23% contained. now, the weather not doing firefighters any favors. warmed up so much so a statewide flex alert is in effect through 9:00 tonight. >> brian hackney joins us now, and he's tracking those temperatures, brian? >> some places have actually cooled down today, other places it did at

this is the tamarack fire and what firefighters are dealing with. this is south of lake tahoe, upper 60s to upper 70s, southwesterly winds gusting up to 13 miles per hour. dixie bringing butte and plumas near paradise, 17 to 26% relative humidity. so it is very dry not just near the paradise area but near the south lake tahoe area. it is gusting up to about 17 miles per hour near paradise. this is something i am watching closely on high def doppler. you see all the lightning strikes over nevada as well as over sierra. you can see all the lightning strikes over the lakes there and approaching as it pushes north into the tahoe area. we'll be watching this closely through the rest of today with all this activity to our east. back to you. >>> breaking news, stocks around the world are plunging at this hour with investors worried about a resurgence of covid infections. right now, the dow is down about 890 points. >>> airlines, hotels, other companies that would suffer from new covid restrictions should they happen are seeing sharpest drops. for the first

right around the tamarack fire zone. have this a flash flood warning until seven o'clock this evening, so the rainfall picking out the showers out towards portions of the sierra. right now, you can see some areas of fog, though near the coast bit stubborn there and already surging back into the bay. current numbers for the six o'clock hour right now. 61 in san francisco. we had hate word 66 hotspots inland still in the upper eighties to the lower nineties, a live camera checking on sfo, and there's at the fog bank that will gradually expand. had in coverage as we head into tomorrow morning and once again, maybe some drizzle the start things out for your saturday and then into the afternoon hours, not as hot as today about a 30 degree temperature range from the sixties, all the way to the nineties for tomorrow afternoon. that's for you saturday, maybe some more cooling in your five day forecast. we'll have more on that coming up in a few minutes, mark. thank you. alright new at six. oakland mayor libby chef says negotiati

also governor newsom surveys damage caused by the tamarack fire.ow, he says climate change is impacting the fire season plus terrible air quality in the state's capital. look at all the smoke that hit sacramento and i'll be back here in a little bit. we'll look at some of that smoke, not just sacramento, but butte county as well and we'll talk about your forecast is the weekend. it's just around the corner. or the day your visitors quadruple. with comcast business you'll be ready... with the flexibility to control multiple wifi networks from anywhere. all on the network that can deliver gig speeds to the most businesses. every day in business is a big day. we'll keep you ready for what's next. get started with powerful internet and voice solution for just $64.99 a month from comcast business. call or go online today to learn more. expired without any major power outages. but the ever present possibility of shutdowns and rate hikes has many residents concerned. ktvu jana katsuyama live now in oakland to explain and janet solar panel installers are s

the tamarack fire remains 59% contained. the dixie fire burning in butte and plumas county is now california's 13th, largest in state history. it's burned 221,000 acres and destroyed 42 structures. today, firefighters are working on strengthening containment lines and allowing some areas within containment lines to burn, but they're also bracing for hot, dry weather, particularly on eastern fire lines. containment stands at 23% of the dixie wildfire started near the same area where the deadly 2000 and 18 campfire started, which, of course, devotee. state of the town of paradise. pg and e. was blamed for that fire and as stephanie lynn reports, p genie equipment may also be responsible for this fire. this is the town of paradise as seen through councilman steve cola tins, windshield, the air is thick with the sight and smell of smoke. it just brings back r, durable memories. the dixie fire continues to burn not far to the north, sparking difficult flashbacks to 2018. that's when the camp fire swept through con cow migdalia an

. >>> governor newsom received a close-up look today at the devastation caused by the tamarack fire, burning near south lake tahoe. newsom and nevada governor steve says a lack toured homesites near gardnerville guided by the fire that was sparked by lightning. both praised the tireless work of firefighters, with governor newsom addresses addresngthe esi devastating impact of climate change in california and the west in general. >> already we have 5600 wildfires here today. it has taken about 480,000 acres. but that in perspective. lastcordaking year. to four times the acres burned year to date this year, compared to the pace that was set last year. >> eye-opening perspective from the governor. the tamarack fire fire has destroyed at least 23 homes and burned more than 68,000 acres in alpine county and in douglas county, nevada. it is 59% contained. >>> we have reported extensively about how covid has changed the job market and how prospective employees have become more selective. and how many jobs remain open due to an absence of people applying. tonight, a report from the opposite

this is a terrifying view from inside the tamarack fire as they continue to head toward safety. >> in this case the training paid off. a calm sense of urgency. they did what they had to do. >> reporter: the tamarack fire has covered 90 square miles in alpine county, and across the state line in nevada since light and sparked it nearly 3 weeks ago. it grew by 8000 acres in just the past 24 hours and is still just 4% contained. >>> nearly 2 1/2 times that size, the dixie fire in butte and plymouth counties is now california's largest of the season. and while containment has also grown to 18% comp at least eight buildings of burned. embers from the dixie fire ignited a new one miles away, just north of the town of quincy. they're calling this one the fly fire because of its patient near butterfly valley. it's burned just over 1600 acres so far, but northwest of quincy it is raining ash in the town of chester, covering cars, buildings, streets, sidewalks, and then of course, there is the smoke. the national weather service shared the satellite images from the dixie fly fire zone. take a l

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this thunderstorm activity is kind of getting close to the tamarack fire zone.re getting closer to south lake tahoe. so of course, the bad thing. we have lightning strikes, but the good thing, hopefully hopeful. even get some rainfall to fall out of those clouds. looks like the radar's picking up on that activity this afternoon. here's the satellite as you can see that mike that fog that mike was talking about is hanging out coast side, and that means the san francisco's only 64 degrees away from that, though the hotspots in the eighties and the nineties out toward fairfield 91 degrees livermore 86 in san jose in the upper seventies. here's our live camera looking out towards san francisco. there we go with that to fog bank, a shallow marine layer, so that means that the cloud at least that the depth of that cloud is not super deep. so where it's foggy. it's cool. but away from this, you have the warming temperatures now, of course, yesterday we had that humid pattern setting up what we call it monsoonal flow, which essentially means just a change in the wind di

today governor newsom saw some of the damage from the tamarack fire firsthand and sounded the alarm for resources that fire is burning in alpine county and douglas county, nevada, and it's charged more than 68,000 acres with 59% containment. as ktvu rob roth tells us, the governor said the state will need help combating this difficult and potentially dangerous fire season. cooler temperatures and even some rain helped fire crews fighting the tamarack fire near south lake tahoe at the california nevada border, the 106 square mile fire on federal land caused by 1/4 of july lightning strike has destroyed 23 structures in the two states with containment, steadily increasing governor gavin newsom along with nevada governor steve cecil act toward the area and expressed frustration. u. s forest service is understaffed. and under resourced has been for years and years and years. newsome stress it because of climate change the old ways of firefighting and forest management won't work anymore. not just boots on the ground hand crews but technology that includes light our technology and satellite

this is a view from uc davis but on the tamarack fire.t it looks like from inside their track. as it were to protect a housing development last night. >> incredibly brave cruise. let's get a little bit more information on what it will do for our air quality. >>> it will deteriorate as we head toward the second half of the weekend. the question is, how much of the elevated the smoke actually sinks down to ground level and makes our air quality worse? i think i'll be more the case on monday. there are yellow dots between now and then. this is ground-level ozone and smog tickets traps. i the time we hit sunday we could see the wildfire smoke already at ground-level. it is more likely by monday. forecasting fees yellow dots, moderate air-quality. if we do add orange or red, i think it will be most likely in the east bay and for the santa clara valley. we will keep you updated. we are still several days out and there is time for things to head in one direction or the other. is take a look at what is happening now. we can still see most of the

some hotels and to jose they've had guests canceled because of the tamarack fire, smoke and concerns about the fires in the area as well. now crews in oregon are making progress tonight on that massive boot like fires. it's called the fire is now 40% contained mostly on the southern side. the eastern edge is still moving towards thousands of homes, but it's burning more slowly now, thanks to lighter winds, the wildfires ravaged an area half the size of rhode island. at least 70 homes have been destroyed, most of them cabins. and keeping an eye on the weather for you before you make your plans this weekend, check in with me. we'll take a look at the forecast coming up, with a dangerous disease nearly caused a bay area man to die of a heart attack at the young age of 43. well now his daughter has a form of this disorder at 10 30. their effort to save lives with the help of a unique motorcycle of personal popular san francisco cafe hit twice by thieves in just one year, we'll have more on the latest incident after the break. from te in san francisco's richmond district have been stolen

these images are from the uc davis strike team battling the tamarack fire.mbers swirl around the rig as firefighters try to access a housing development and save some homes. the fire is now more than 50,000 acres and is zero% contained. >>> nearly the size of the city of san jose. it's the second fire in the state this year to reach the megafire zone. the fire is 17% contained. >>> the smoke from wildfires burning across the west coast could impact the bay area this weekend. >> let's touch base with sandy. >> unfortunately it looks like we're going to be seeing hazy conditions and possibly some smoke at the lower elevations as well. increasing smoke aloft initially possibly impacting us at the surface, with hazy skies expected sunday and monday. tomorrow, you'll notice not a s mainly over the dixie and fi in the upper parts of the atmosphere starts to drift in our direction. near the surface, the highest concentration of smoke will still remain at least through saturday evening in that general vicinity. by sunday, things could look very different. i'll be ba

so far the tamarack fire has burned more than 58,000 acres.ontained. >>> and more families must leave their homes near the dixie fire. if you don't follow the evacuation orders, firefighters might be able to rescue -- they might not be able to rescue you. the dixie fire has burned 143,000 acres so far. it's also destroyed at least eight homes. 1,500 more threatened right now. that fire is 18% contained but the fight is tough for firefighters. this is because large part of that fire burning in an area that is hard to reach. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff rainierry. we have fog rolling right into san francisco, but that won't be able to save everybody from heat this weekend. i will show you where it gets close to 100 and some monsoonal moisture we are tracking in about seven minutes. >>> and it's not just tokyo celebrating the opening ceremony. a live look at japan town in san francisco where festivities are kicking off. we will take you there live and see what's about to happen. >>> too close for comfort. the reason some wildlife experts say

. >>> incredible video to show you from tamarack fire. firefighters are trying to get control of the flames after they jumped the state line into nevada. the wildfire started south of lake tahoe and has burned over 40,000 acres. >>> dixie fire sending massive plumes of smoke over butte. the fire has grown over 91,000 acres. authorities in plumas have issued new evacuation orders. >>> an unexpected ambitious announcement from pge. the company plans to bury 10,000 miles of power lines in california. the goal is to prevent equipment from sparking more fires. this week the utility acknowledged its power lines may have started the dixie fire. pge had recently said it was only planning on burying about 250 miles of line. the utility says its i edation to do this work more efficiently. >> with natural gas work and telecom providers to do joint trenching. that lowers the cost and reduces environmental impact. >> the projected cost is between 15 and $30 billion. pge customers will have to cover most of that. some say the project could cost 40 bill

the fire burning southeast of lake tahoe continues to rage out of control, the tamarack fire. it exploded in size this weekend because of windy conditions. latest estimate has the burn area at more than 18,000 acres. it was 500 acres just friday night. also jumped highway 89 headed in the direction of the alpine county airport. containment zero percent. the fire was sparked back on july 4th by lightning. it had been burning slowly until yesterday. >>> if you want to stay up to the minute on all things weather follow rob on twitter. his handle is @robmaietta. >>> booster shots of the covid-19 vaccine getting more attention. the fed advisory panel set to consider whether people with fragile immune systems should get one, 2 to 4% of the population, including people who received organ transplants or are receiving cancer treatments. people living with conditions such as hiv and leukemia would be potentially eligible. it's too soon to recommend that everyone get an additional coast. this week's meeting set for thursday. >>> big changes in southern california this evening. l.a. count

tamarack fire in the southern sierra the tamarack fire is moving quickly and has scorched more than 66,000cres. water drops are part of the assault on the fire burning on the california/nevada border. several homes have been lost. nevada's governor has declared a state of emergency for one county. a couple who was prepared to evacuate are members of the fire protection district. >> we would make sure we had our radios and the things we needed to respond to medical emergencies or fires. >> the tamarack fire started as a lightning strike july 4 and his 4% contained. crews expect to get full containment august 31. >>> northwest of that fire, the largest wildfire in california continues to burn. new video says the dixie fire destroying homes and threatening thousands of others and businesses. most along like all men are westshore in plumas county. there are 14 mandatory evacuation zones at a 181,000 acres. the dixie fire is 20% contained. the national weather service said smoke from those fires are causing unhealthy air quality over much of the sierra this weekend. >>> there is a sign of how b

this morning the tamarack fire south of lake tahoe is more than 50,000 acres, 4% contained. over 1,000 firefighters are on scene working to put that out. obviously a challenge. here is a look at what they're up against. this is uc davis crews battling the fire. this is what it looked like from inside the truck as they look to protect a housing development wednesday night. wildfires up and down the west coast even into canada are pouring smoke into the sky. so far our air has been clear with lots of green and yellow on the purple map now. pretty good. later in the show, we are live with the bay area air quality management district on how you can protect yourself as we head deeper into fire season. >>> days after we revealed hundreds of potential bogus disability complaints in san francisco we are learning dozens of alameda businesses are facing the same issue. mark rogers was one of 66 business owners hilt with an ada lawsuit all by one plaintiff, orlando garcia. that name is the same as over 1,000 lawsuits. >> i started to receive letters from attorneys wanting to help me. i

. >> newsom joined nevada's governor to meet with fire crews battling the tamarack fire. flames from that one have burned more than 68,000 acres. cbs news reporter anna warner was at that press conference today, and she spoke with metheg behind me, you've seen it before, unfortunately. and we're seeing too much of it already early in the year. now, governor gavin newsom was out here today to talk about the fact that they say they need a lot more help from the federal government and from the u.s. forest service because they need more bodies. they need more money. they need more time. and the fires are just that much more intense that they're basically, you know, asking the white house, hey, please, we need more help. >> you know, you bring up good point, because i think a lot of the viewers might not be aware of the fact that not all fire fighting efforts aat equal. inerni and then weave th u.s. forest service, which kind of takes care of federal lands, and you know how much federal land is in california this. one slopped over into nevada. so you've got nevada's governor i

you see the smoke coming from the tamarack fire. you've got 12 fires burning to the north and south of us. the largest is the beckwourth complex fire near the california/nevada border. rob is always tweeting out updates about the heat and fire danger even when we're not on the air. his twitter page is a great resource for you. follow him, his handle is @robmayeda. >>> in chinatown, a show of solidarity against the rise in attacks against the aapi community. here is nbc bay area's christie smith. >> reporter: more than a year after the shelter in place that hit chinatown hard, there was a change in pace for the summer block party. >> we never had a block party block off the street. >> reporter: held outside public housing with chinatown community development center, cyc, and some community groups. >> we're trying to build asian and black solidarity. we have to talk about the big issues. what are we doing in our own neighborhood? >> this is what unity looks like, when we come together as a community to protect one another. >> reporter

the tamarack fire south of lake tahoe has ballooned to more than 50,000 acres after jumping into nevada. firefighters shared some video of trees and visitation -- vegetation on fire on both sides of the roadway and they are being fueled by the whipping wind with more than 1200 firefighters fighting the tamarack fire, which is now 4% contained. >>> this heart stopping video from uc davis fire crews giving us an inside look on what they are up against and imagine being in that vehicle. this is what it looked like as they worked to protect the housing development from the marackre lastnight. >>> paul is joining us now. is any of that smoke coming our way?'s >>> some of it will come our way and the dense and worst air quality will be closer to the fires themselves but we have been lucky so far and that stretch of luck will run out to some extent. we can look at the smoke concentration forecast map in the short-term it does remain the same and the onshore breeze continues to blow it away from the bay area but as we head into the weekend we will see some mid-level weakening and shifting and a

. >> plumes of smoke rising from both the dixie and the tamarack fires.rom yesterday. the dixie fire burning east of chico near paradise has burned more than 100,000 acres. it is 17% contained. it's believed that fire was started by pg e equipment. the tamarack fire just south of lake tahoe is more than 50,000 acres containment on that is just 5%. you know, the crazy thing we're hearing that the bad air is not only hitting the east coast. it even being visible from iceland. >> but here in san francisco, taking a live look outside. you never know what a beautiful day out there, very light breezes blue skies. if you see some gray, it's likely fog kron four's. erica caturay with us now. we've been fortunate with our air quality oh yeah, definitely. i mean, we're seeing good and even moderate air quality right now compared to other places. the reason that we're seeing, you know, the smoke isn't blowing in our areas because the jet stream will actually. >> see that here. here's another shot again of the dixie fire. for example, you can see the smoke in the nor

one of the newest and fastest growing fires, the tamarack ck fire. families under evacuation orders, but some structures have already been lost. >>> and now to the catastrophic losses after the flooding in europe. at least 199 people killed, nearly 300 still missing after the violent storms and powerful flood waters destroying entire towns. some that had survived for hundreds of years. so many of these images. and maggie rulli is in germany tonight. >> reporter: tonight, as families pick through the devastation trying to salvage what they can, first responders are still searching for hundreds still missing in germany and belgium. after floods that german weather authorities say were the worst in at least 500 years. many areas are still hard to reach. it's hard to believe that this used to be a road, those flood waters so powerful it ripped up the pavement, opening a sinkhole. it's now just a pile of twisted pipe and chopped-up concrete. in the town of roitzheim, amid the sinkholes and mud, cars are tossed like toys, windows smashed, hanging off of ex

christina is off the order covers alpine county where the tamarack fire is burning, along with plumas butte and less in counties where the fly in dixie fires are burning to ktvu deborah villalon is live in sonoma county tonight with how crews from all over california are helping deb. all andre sonoma county knows what it's like to need help enduring several devastating wildfires in recent years at times like this mutual aid is essential. video from a santa rosa fire crew on the dixie fire, which straddles butte and plumas counties. departments across the bay area have sent strike teams fires of this size, unfortunately, seem to becoming the new normal, so we're like many other agencies across california, getting fairly used to, unfortunately responding to fires like this. i think we're all eager for a break the dixie fire almost tripled in size in three days. the fire seems to be outpacing the efforts there, spotting over a mile long in front of the fire. pirates really creating challenges for the firefighters on the ground. evacuations are widening as smoke engulfs were all town poli

meanwhile at the tamarack fire tonight, more mandatory evacuations as flames barrel down. bone-dry vegetation turned this canyon into a powder keg. tonight, crews are fighting to stop this fire from exploding. norah. >> o'donnell: jonathan vigliotti, thank you. well, tonight, this news, a white house official and an aide to house speaker nancy pelosi have tested positive for covid. both were vaccinated and reportedly came into contact with a group of texas lawmakers who fled to washington last week to make a political point. here's cbs' nikki battiste. (cheering) here's cbs' nikole killion. (cheering) >> reporter: tonight those texas legislators who fled to washington are trying to contain a covid breakout among their own. >> we don't regret coming to d.c. at all. >> reporter: as two cases surface for an administration official of house speaker nancy pelosi. the infected staffer was now working offstate and showing working offsite and showing only mild symptoms and acknowledged other breakthrough infections. >> the white house medical unit conducted contact tracing intervi

now as we've had so much rain in around the tamarack fire zone. the burn area.ld see some flash flooding, maybe some debris flows in and around that because of all that debris left over from some of those fire. so. that's concerned. they're not as much so toward the quincy area, although they're seeing some scattered showers in that direction. the smoke has been kind of an issue today. the winds have not been all that strong. and so that smoke is kind of settle down in and around quincy in that area near chester. you see the winds fairly light out of the southwest right now at 5 miles an hour early on. they're actually out of the east. and so some of that smoke in the forecast wants to start to filter back into the central valley. so you headed up by 5, maybe tomorrow. watch out. you're likely to run some smoke as you make your way in toward reading. you see the computers models start to pick up on that and then it looks like it's going kind of just sit there throughout tomorrow before beginning to kick a little further to the east. i think as we get into sunday

. >>> the fast-moving tamarack fire still burning out of control and firefighters trying to get ahead of the flames as threats of dry lightning bloom. >>> the red flag warning went into effect but it doesn't expire until tomorrow night. we will spotlight when the most concerning time may be. >>> one person is dead and three others hurt after a shooting near a popular walnut creek nightclub. that shooter is still on the loose and the man hunt underway right now. thank you for joining us. >>> we begin with a deadly shooting. an investigation happening right now in walnut creek. it happened overnight at the spoon tonic lounge and police say they just got there before closing time and found one person dead. >> witnesses say the club was packed and there were multiple fight outside of the club before the shooting. >> reporter: the nightclub is all the way back there and the shooting happened in this part of the parking lot and witnesses say a gunman was standing here shooting at a car in this direction trying to leave this parking lot and they say somehow the car reversed and backed right

. >>> and in alpine county, new mandatory evacuation orders underway near the tamarack fire. crews now warning residents about possible mudslides, as rain moves through the area. got some time-lapse video from a wildfire alert camera showing the smoke rising behind the gray rain clouds. so far that fire has burned more than 23,000 acres. this one sparked by lightning back on july 4th. right now the town of markley bill is evacuated. >> did you have any time to grab some belongings? >> i was told, don't worry about it, everything is going to be okay. and then that evening it was like, you have 10 minutes, get the heck out of your. >> you don't have time to go. chief meteorologist paul heggen joining usnonds ena friend for a few days. >> fortunately here in the bay area we managed to avoid that risk. we had one cloud to ground lightning strike this morning to the north of santa rosa, but that could've been a lot worse locally. that doesn't mean the monsoonal moisture had zero impact. we had thunderstorms in the high sierra again today. thankfully they were mostly wet thundersto

tamarack fire is south of lake tahoe. some worry it will have a negative impact on the tourism industry. >> we did get a lot of calls because we had a lot of of people concerned that want to know more about the fire and about the smoke. >> the tamarack fired covered 90 square miles in alpine and across the state line in nevada since lightning sparked it three weeks ago. it has burned more than 65,000 acres and is 4% contained. >>> in san francisco some bars are considering telling customers if you weren't vaccinated, you just around welcome. andria borba explains why. >> reporter: you could be showing more than id at some bars. they can be asking to see proof that you are 21 and vaccinated as well. with the delta variant and a huge spike in staff contracting covid, the bar alliance is asking this question. >> they're wondering what responsibility we have to our staff. we realize we absolutely have to do everything in our power to protect them and their families. >> 82% say they support vaccine card checks oh door. this is

check out this new video just in overnight, you see tamarack fire racing down highway 395. th inorth of gardner ville, nevada. last check there was no containment. dixie fire meantime sending these massive plumes of smoke over butte county. the fire has grown to over 91,000 acres. authorities in plumas have issued new evacuation orders. this morning, new tools are on the way to help spot wildfires more rapidly. cal scientists will develop the high tech spotters thanks to a half million dollar grant. the goal is to equip fire fighting planes with improved infrared detecters. realtime technology would provide data on flame length, wind speed, humidity helping predict where and how fast is fire will spread. >>> an unexpected and ambitious announcement from pge. the company plans to bury 10,000 miles of power lines in california. the goal is to prevent their equipment from sparking anymore fires. this week the utility acknowledged its power lines may have started the dixie fire. pge recently said it was only planning on burying about 250 miles of line. the utility says its curr