In east san jose. Chopper five for giving us this view. Some of the dark smoke and the flames coming from the scene. Good afternoon at thank you for joining us im kenny choi. I am michelle griego. The fire is burning in the foothills near a born road near san jose evergreen neighborhood. Kpix 5s anne makovec is following the fire from the live news desk. Reporter been watching video from chopper 5 overhead. The fire has been burning for about 35 minutes. And already you can see all of the ground that it has covered. We are hearing between 40 and 50 acres, but it still does have the potential to grow significantly. There on the righthand side of the screen, you can see some of the red material that a flame retardant that calfire has been dropping, trying to protect the homes. It is burning very close to them right now, and we were watching some buildings burn earlier. Those are only outbuildings. Those are not homes we are talking. There were garages and sheds and other things. It looks like two or three small buildings that have been burned so far. It looks like the fire did not spread to very the homes. It has cleared back and let of the ground brush, which is exactly what firefighters tell you to do so you do have the opportunity to protect your home. The smoke that you could see, it is visible all over san jose, from downtown san jose, north near the airport. Just a massive amount of smoke has been coming off of this 45 acre fire this morning. It is now considered for alarms and as michelle mentioned, this is near the the foothills of east san jose. And a lot of dry grass is there and just the terrain. The fire has been able to move uphill very easily. Your from the life pictures that we are seeing the tree burn, and luckily the fire was stopped once it actually got to the roadway. But this is just west of grant county park, and we have seen several airplanes from calfire, as well as helicopters dropping water and dropping the flame retardant. We are continuing to monitor these pictures. We know that the homes in that community are considered threatened. You can see, this might be a home that is on fire. This appears to be a building. We dont know if it was something that somebody was living in at that point, it appears to have fire and smoke making it difficult to even see from chopper five pictures. We are keeping an eye on this. This may be the first home 12 fallen victim to this wildfire that started at 11 15. Kenny and michelle, i will throw it back to you. Keep on watching the new information, and the live video coming in to the news desk. Whenever you have a fire like this, the conditions, the windy conditions can be a factor. Left check in with mary lee after the weather center. The weather can play a few huge role in firefighting efforts. We are monitoring the situation very closely and right now, do good news, the wind is not that strong. That should help firefighters out there trying to get a handle on the brushfire out there. You can see chopper 5 flying over the scene and just how extensive the fire is, and all of the smoke. I want to show you the san jose camera because you can see the fire burning on our san jose camera as well and all of the smoke. Current conditions, right in san jose, and what you can expect. Firefighters are up against the wind out of the northwest, and eight Miles Per Hour. Gusts up to 13 Miles Per Hour. It is hot already in the low 80s and the temperatures are going to climb as we head through the rest of the afternoon. Relative humidity values 38 up to 39 percent. As we go through the day northwesterly went 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour. That right now is what firefighters are up against. Back to you. Joining us on the phone is Santa Clara County fire captain murphy. Can you hear me . I cant. What can you tell us about the county response to the fire. As was mentioned, san jose is working a large vegetation fire in the East Foothills and requested mutual aid from milpitas, Santa Clara County and south sent Santa Clara County county Fire Departments are assisting. We are looking at the fire burning trees from the view from chopper 5. It looks like this has covered at least 45 acre so far. How to begin to fight a fire like this especially when it looks like steep terrain . And a lot of late flashy fire moving uphill. The resources are focused on getting people out of harms way. Protecting the homes that you see in the area. And again, making sure that the life and property are the prior primary priorities for firefighters. We are looking at one building which looks very close to a home. Maybe an out building. It is still a small home in the foothills. Do we know how many structures are engulfed in flames. We do not have any information on this at this time. When firefighters attack a brush fire and it is threatening homes, some homes, structures are in flames at this point. We are taking a live look at one of the firefighters bring the hose onto the water on the home. What is a plan of attack in terms of air retarded. We have seen calfire making at least one drop. What is the plan of attack from here on out . The air resources are primarily going to be focused on trying to slow will refer to as the head of the fire. The part of the fire that is spreading the fastest. And also, using the retarded and the helicopter drops to protect the properties in the area as well. Santa clara county fire captain bill murphy. Take you for taking the time out to talk to us. Heres a look at some snap chat video just coming in to the news or. This is the view from a road just a few miles away. You can see just how much smoke the fire is putting off. The huge plume of smoke looking to be pushing up the mountain. You can also see some smoke coming off the burned hillside below. Lets take a live look from chopper 5. In this shot you have more air retarded being put onto the fire, near the fire line, as you can see some of the smoke and the charred areas threatening the homes. We have already seen a few structures that have gone down already. Vta is sending a bus to the areas of the people around the area can take shelter in the bus. A brush fire burning in east san jose. We will stay on top of this breaking news, and bring you the very latest updates as we get them throughout the newscast. In other news at noon, a driver hits two bicyclists and is Santa Clara County street. One of them did not survive. Kpix 5s with live in san jose with what led up to this deadly crash. The scene is still affect active. It looks like the Investigative Unit is look taking pictures and measure and getting witness statements in. The crime scene cleanup team is not here they are doing their work as well. There was quite a bit of blood here on the scene. Heres what we know so far. A woman was pulling out the parking lot at the stripmall at the capital expressway and she was trying to make a right turn. Two men on bicycles were traveling southbound the same direction that the suv was turning. Both of the men were hit and went down. The driver stopped the suv but parked at a sharp angle in the middle of the street. She remained on the scene. Paramedics took both men to the hospital where one was pronounced dead. The other did suffer life threatening injuries and is in critical condition. The were both wearing helmets. This is a bike lane out here and traffic laws say the woman shouldve yielded walk traffic. Spec anytime youre exiting the i department have to go to pedestrian vehicle check it traffic as well as bicycles. The bicyclist would have the right of way because they were in the roadway, traveling southbound on vista park. She was exiting a parking lot when this happened. This is the 26th fatality involving traffic here in san jose for the year. Traffic is moving just fine and capital expressway but remains close on vista park drive for the time being. Live in south san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. Im emily turner with the traffic alert. Crews are out of the scene of a deadly collision that happened on i 80 in richmond. This happened at about 5 00 this morning, west of alpert hall drive. A commercial truck crashed into the guardrail and rolled over. You killed the driver. This was the only person involved. Chp has blocked the two rate lanes and unfortunately, there in the process of repairing it. Lets take a live look at the map where you can see exactly what we are talking about. You look screen, but as we zoom in closely to where this is, you can see the line of orange. They do still have the light right lane closed as they do the work. The drivetime on the eastshore freeway to the base, only about 15 minutes. They are not expected to open this additional lane until about 4 00 or 5 00. You could only imagine how much of a compound the problem this will be. In the meantime this is the workaround. If you want to skip you could reroute to san pablo and take alpert hall drive. That takes you just pass with this where this is happening. You are in the green both on san pablo as well as alpert hall drive in the eastbound direction. Westbound looks good. Sonoma county man charged with three murders and an attempted bombing is learning his fate. The hearing started at 9 and is underway in Sonoma County. There are still a lot of mysteries about why the suspect did what he did. There was no trial because the 40yearold pleaded no contest after the Sonoma County da agreed not to seek the death penalty. Detectives say he confessed to three murders. The most recent killing, his brother, shamus at the familys home in forest hill in march, 2017 and as authorities questioned him about that, they say that he gave him information on a cold case murder back from 2000 for, and information that only can the killer would know. It was a double shooting of two engaged camp counselors. They were killed while asleep on a beach in 2000 for. The 22yearold lindsay of ohio and 26yearold jason of michigan. The two were shot their sleeping bags on fish had beat. The trip was part of a three day sightseeing trip to Northern California after Whitewater Rafting at a Christian Camp and el dorado county. The killer is under investigation for 13 years. He was also convicted of an attempted bombing in 2000 for. After 9080s days at sea at this drug bust the crew of the u. S. Coast guard cutter is back in the bay area today. The, skated about 569 million worth of drugs. New at noon, kpix 5s jackie ward was in alameda at the crew members were welcomed home. Reporter on the first counter drug deployment of the eastern pacific ocean, the cutter sees tens of thousands of pounds of drugs and their families are now welcoming these heroes home. With 140 crewmembers reunited with their families after an incredibly successful three month patrol off of the coast of central and south america. Fiveyearold victoria at one yearold camilo could not hold onto their dad tight enough. We felt so sad, but we got over it, and we know that he was going to come back. Spine the girls really to help to keep us busy and making it easier. We are just happy his back. Reporter their job is intense, as you can see in the scope wrote video that the coast guard took of the seizure of the 45 foot submersible. It was stuffed to capacity with 70,000 pounds of drugs and five men. This type of interdiction only happens about 1 to 3 times a year because these expensive vessels are so rare. They are made in makeshift shift yarde shipyards deep in the jungle. Strike were jumping on a boat going 10 knots with water rushing over the deck. It was a great move. Those guys are great athletes. They have been working towards this type of a takedown their whole careers. Reporter getting everyone home safely is not an easy feat, but it is a job families like the sanchez family now is necessary. Slacken has to get done. Somebody has to do it. Reporter now the crew will rest up and work from home for the next three or four months before they head back out to try to do this all over again. And alameda, jackie board, kpix 5. The drugs offloaded thursday represent 14 separate drug smuggling vessel introductions between may and july of this year. We are continuing to follow breaking news in east san jose. This fire burning and incinerating structure already. We will have updates as we take a live look from chopper 5, overhead. Strike you can see the fire on the san jose camera, and all of the smoke with the brushfire. We will check in on weather conditions in san jose, and also the rest of the week ahead, with a cooldown, in just a few minutes. We are continuing to follow breaking news right now. Chopper 5 is five over a fire in east san jose. And is now a for alarm blaze, and it started off as a brushfire. Several structures are destroyed or damaged. This is what we are looking at. The view from chopper 5, overhead looks like a house engulfed in flames. You can see firefighters on the ground with the hoses trying to water that. This is the foothills their guerrera avenue. No injuries have been reported. We will follow the story on air and online on kpix. Com. We want to bring in mary lee right now with the forecast and the firefighters taking a look at the wind in the area. Were really wanting to end because firefighters thankfully are up against at least, conditions. Light wind in san jose is a good thing. They live look at the san jose camera from the brushfire. 83 degrees. A warm they and we continue to see the temperatures climb. 86 in livermore and 87 for concord. Lets check the wind. Checking it since the top of the show the northern winds at 10 Miles Per Hour in san jose. But it could be much worse. You can see sfo 24 mileper hour wind downtown San Francisco. 20 mileperhour winds out of the west northwest. San jose is only 10 and we are forecasting just 5 and mileper hour wind as we head through today in san jose. 12 in san ramon and also fort livermore, concord at 12 and looking at 13 mileperhour wind in vallejo. The satellite and reader view with the low pressure system north ushering in the onshore push for us. We continue to see the temperatures cooling down as we head through the week. Plenty of sunshine for the rest of the afternoon. Looking at low clouds and areas of fog along the coast and for part of the bay tomorrow morning. We could see patchy drizzle and afternoon sunshine. The sunset at a 31 and the son restaurant at 6 a. M. The daytime highs 90 for concord and fair for mid 80s for livermore and san jose. 70s in oakland. 70 in San Francisco in the mid 60s for pacifica. Hear the sevenday forecast and what you can expect with the cooldown heading to the week. The stronger sea breeze driving temperatures heading to the work week, and into the weekend. Morning clouds and areas of fog with areas of sunshine heading through the week. By the end of the week, daytime highs below average the time of year. Thankfully, and san jose, 10 mileperhour wind. Not that strong and that should help firefighters trying to get a handle on the blaze. Norah odonnell moves into her new role tonight as anchor of the cbs evening news. She joined cbs in 2011 and was recently, angered cbs this morning. She recently sat down with kpix 5 anchor ken bastida and elizabeth cook. My intention is further understanding of complex issues, and that is why there something new and difficult to offer. And we can remind people that there is a destination place. This time to return to watching the evening news, and knowing that it is time well spent. The cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell begins tonight at 6 30 right here on kpix 5. We will be right back. New at noon, the Trump Administration is writing a new roof for Us Productions for Central American migrants. It would require them first to ask for protection from any country they cross other way to the u. S. Asylumseekers coming to mexico from guatemala and el salvador would be affected. Exceptions include victims of human trafficking, and people denied asylum in another country. The new asylum loss are set to go into effect tomorrow. A reminder before we go to break. If you have a Consumer Problem or question, you can email us consumer watch at kpix. Com or call the hotline 888 5 helps u. We are continuing to follow breaking news. Chopper 5 is live over the fire in east san jose. It is now for alarm blaze in the evergreen neighborhood. Several structures have already been destroyed or damaged. This is in the foothills near a barn road and guerrera avenue. No injuries have been reported, but we will continue to follow this story coming up on the kpix 5 news at 5 at online on kpix. Com. That will do it for us for kpix 5 news at noon. Have a great afternoon. Z3fqdz zi0z y3fqdy yi0y douglas mommy mommy hope its okay, im here. Youre safe now. Thomas you just had a nightmare, bud. Douglas no, the ghost was right there. Hope it looks like hes gone now, and i promise im not gonna let anything happen to you, okay . Douglas stay with me, hope. Dont leave. Hope im not going anywhere, okay . I promise. And look im wearing the ring you gave me, see . Yeah, your daddy and i are