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Watch: Gov. Gavin Newsom gives update on California wildfires, COVID-19

FILE - In this June 9, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom wears a protective mask on his face while speaking to reporters at Miss Ollie’s restaurant during the coronavirus outbreak in Oakland, Calif. Following a weekend that allowed California’s broadest reopening yet, Newsom on Monday, June 15, 2020, defended the state’s pace of easing coronavirus restrictions and said the economic harm they inflicted have negative health outcomes, too. “We have to recognize you can’t be in a permanent state where people are locked away for months and months and months and months on end,” he said, adding the state must consider the health impacts of seeing “lives and livelihoods completely destroyed. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, Pool, File)
FILE - In this June 9, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom wears a protective mask on his face while speaking to reporters at Miss Ollie’s restaurant during the coronavirus outbreak in Oakland, Calif. Following a weekend that allowed California’s broadest reopening yet, Newsom on Monday, June 15, 2020, defended the state’s pace of easing coronavirus restrictions and said the economic harm they inflicted have negative health outcomes, too. “We have to recognize you can’t be in a permanent state where people are locked away for months and months and months and months on end,” he said, adding the state must consider the health impacts of seeing “lives and livelihoods completely destroyed. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, Pool, File) Jeff Chiu AP

Gov. Gavin Newsom gave an update on California wildfires and the COVID-19 pandemic Monday at noon.

You can watch a recording of the livestream here:

California firefighters are still battling two major fire complexes in Northern California sparked by last week’s lightning storms, in addition to other major fires throughout the state. Last week the LNU Lightning Complex in the North Bay area and the SCU Complex in the South Bay and East Bay are the second and third largest fires in the state’s history.

Despite fears of more lightning, no more major California fires were sparked overnight or early Monday morning, but the National Weather Service has a red flag warning in place through the evening as the threat of dry thunderstorms persists.

Meanwhile, the state is still grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic. State public health data from Saturday shows more than 660,000 Californians have tested positive for the coronavirus and more than 12,000 have died.

This story was originally published August 24, 2020 at 11:54 AM with the headline "Watch: Gov. Gavin Newsom gives update on California wildfires, COVID-19."

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