Smoke go up and he knew something was going on. Reporter still they are counting their blessings. These can be replaced. Reporter they are also counting their minutes. Unlike their neighbors, they had time to prepare. We are waiting for the time so we can get back into the house and start life back over again. Reporter you can see in the distance, some of the smoke showing how unpredictable this fire is. Those hot spots flaring up and literally the last three minutes from the distance. I can tell you that right now the fire is still under investigation. They dont know what caused it. Veronica. Jessica, with you speaking to the residence there, has a been challenging, or have the homes been evacuated . Not all homes have been evacuated. If you live on the avenues, you need to get your stuff together and leave. The family that we spoke to were the last on their block. Reporter all right, jessica florez, we appreciate the report, thank you. Now we have a live look at the conditions in lake county. This is from chopper 5. You can see the bomber getting ready to make the run. A lot less smoke coming from the fire zone. We have seen pockets of intense flames. Mostly isolated areas burning on the ridge tops away from low lake and the area of clear lake. This gives you a good idea of how that fire tore through yesterday. People who thought they were safe were suddenly forced to run. This is not the first time that people have been chased out by fire. Reporter at the clear lake senior center, if jackie weise forced out of their home are once again looking for a place to sleep. The lights went out and it was dark. They said that we had to leave to go to kelsey bill high school. Kelsey view high school. I didnt want to go when i chose to stay here. Reporter when raquel evacuated yesterday, she only had time to grab one thing, this picture of her deceased father. I grabbed one picture and i said, this is what i want out of the house. Reporter she slept in her truck last night and probably will again tonight. I see the smoke and it is over by my house. Reporter for brandy cook and her daughter, this is wearing on nerves after last summers devastating fire season. My biggest thing is i want to know if it will be standing or not so i know where to put my kids. Reporter brandys daughter is assuming the worst and inoculating herself against the possibility that their home may be a pilot. For me, i pretty much am going to say it is gone and im going to let that go. If it is there, great. Reporter people who call lake county home, survived fires last year and they now say the clinton fire is three igniting old fears. We have been through the situation many times. It makes it more difficult each time you go through it because you get worried more and more. Each time they evacuate you, it seems to be more serious each time. Reporter this is the area that the fire storm blew through in lower lake yesterday evening. Coming up on kpix 5 at 6 00 , we will introduce you to an owner in the neighborhood who is the definition of lucky. Kpix 5 news they are serving meals to evacuees and first responders. It is at designated evacuation centers. The department of Emergency Services has up implemented this Operation Center in sacramento. It is responding to the fire in lake county. Many firefighters are experienced with battling flames in the late county region. It is the same area that was hit by the valley, rocky in jerusalem fires just last year. We have learned how quickly the clayton fire was moving in a matter of hours. Cape a look at what kpix 5 reporter a tiki 11 reporter captured yesterday. At kpix 5 reporter captured yesterday. Reporter firefighters are trying to battle the fire. We are literally just standing here. Reporter the firefighters kept andrea and her photographer back as the fire continue to grow and they got out safely. Battling the clayton fire. We have this fire photo of a base camp. Sunnyvale has a distraction strike team. Firefighters from San Francisco packed up and left for lake county. Nearly 2 dozen firefighters and a chief are at the fire zone. Chief meteorologist paul is live at the mobile weather lab and clear lake. Paul. We had to weather elements going on and one is the multiyear drought. I know there has been wet weather, but the trees are showing a lot of stress and the trees are burning quickly. Thats a longterm issue. The shore to issue is that it is super hot today and 93. 6 degrees at the mobile weather lab and 13 relative humidity. Not only is it dry for multiyear period, it is super dry in the atmosphere today taking the conditions that much worse. Lets look at what we can expect over the next 1224 hours. Steady wind at 1015 Miles Per Hour. It doesnt stand sound that strong, but a large fire will create its own whether an extension way the wind that is already there. When you get close to the intense heat of a large fire like the clayton fire, you can trouble or triple the wind speeds to 30 Miles Per Hour or stronger. As for the forecast, tomorrow, sunny and 98 degrees. It goes up as high as 30 with a high of 99 degrees. We found a hilltop south of the lake itself very close to lower lake and close to the city of clear lake. At times there is fire dropping and retardant. The elements are stacked against these firefighters. You can see how windy it is. It is about to come down live on television. The breeze just picked up, now think about how bad it is near the fire. If you have a 600 degrees fire burning, you are talking critical fire conditions. Getting worse and the fire level continues. Looking live over clear white clear lake on a windy afternoon. We will have the latest information tonight at 6 00 and online at cbssf. Com is sick is San Francisco woman in Critical Condition after a large tree branch came crashing down she was playing with her children. The limb fell about 50 feet from a pine tree in Washington Square park on friday. Is there sufficient tree maintenance and San Francisco park . Katie is in San Francisco with a look at whether they are doing enough. Reporter there are over 100,000 trees in San Francisco. Is this a freak accident, or is something more at work here . She is out of intensive care and is stable. Reporter the idea that a 100 pound tree Branch Purchase fall on a mother as she is watching her Children Play has sent shockwaves through north beach. I would never sit under a tree like this. Reporter it is also raising questions about how well the city is managing the thousands of trees and it care. This is not the first time it has happened. The parks director says they are doing the job, but he admits it is a big one. We have 177,000 trees in our system and 2030 people. Reporter is that enough . We could always use more researchers resources. Reporter when i asked if there was a regular policy, it doesnt look like it is enough. It was assessed in 2008 and in 2010. There was maintenance in 2013. Interestingly enough, in this case, the assessment was not done by wreck and park. It was done by front of Washington Square, a neighborhood organization. At least me to question whether back and parks is assessing the trees appropriately recreation and parks is assessing the trees appropriately. Mother nature acts in Mysterious Ways sometimes. Reporter the question about Mother Nature had arborists from the city examining the tree this morning. They left and they left a pretty much the way it is and they will be back to check it tomorrow. We will keep an eye on it as well. Tiki 12, back to you. Slowly to returning tomorrow. Court employees were on the picket lines as early as friday. A deal was struck on a new contract that gives gradual raises over the next two years. The union ratified it yesterday. Santa Clara County Superior Court employees are back at work in a brandnew building. Employees from the Park Center Plaza and the sunnyvale courthouse get a new fresh start in the Family Justice Center in san jose. After Court Operations were stalled over last weeks strike, employees have a backlog of work just to sift through. Campaign 2016. For the first time we are hearing specifics of what donald trump would do to fight terrorism if he were to become president. Trumps Campaign Manager is in hot water for suspected ties to a prorussian lyrical party. Reporter donald trump Political Party. Reporter donald trump outlined his plan at home and abroad. Military and financial warfare will be necessary to dismantle islamic terrorism. Reporter he did not repeat his call for a ban on muslims, but he does want to implement a new test for americans coming to the country with ties to terrorism. He also wants to stop nationbuilding meaning removing dictators and making friendly governments which he says doesnt work. He also wants to focus on signs of radicalization within the u. S. Reporter Hillary TrentHillary Clinton says that trump is all over the map and she rejects proposals to force isis out of syria. He talked of sending american ground troops. That is off the table as far as i am concerned. Trumps speech was overshadowed by reports that his Campaign Chair was on the list for secret payments from a prorussian Political Party in ukraine. The New York Times reports that the party designated 12. 7 million. The anticorruption investigators say they have a documented system of illegal loved the book payments. He denied a report saying that the suggestion that i accepted Cash Payments is unfounded, silly and nonsensical. Craig boswell, cbs news, the white house. Have you stayed at a hotel get lately . A hotel lately . You may be the victim of a data breach. That includes travelers who stated a popular San Francisco hotel. Plus a report of a gunshot that sent people scrambling for cover at jfk international. How the olympics is being blamed for causing the false alarm. And alert for parents. How you putting your baby down to sleep . The study that found more and more parents are getting it wrong. ,, [ male announcer ] choose it. Scoop it. Pour it. Blend it. [ blender whirs ] no matter how you make it, youll love our endless variety of beverages. Baskinrobbins cappuccino blast®. In picking the next chief. A series of meetings will be held starting tonight to get input in the selection. The San Francisco police are holding a meeting to public the next chief. There will be a series of meetings. Tonight it will be at the Southeast Community center and oakdale. You can send fill out a survey online at links on our website, cbssf. Com entire communities are experiencing flooding and some areas of louisiana. The death toll now stands at 6. 2 inches of rain fell in a couple of days causing rivers to overflow. More than 20,000 people had to be rescued. Now there is a danger that loaded waterways will press downstream leading to more floods. Many parents continue to put their babies at risk when putting them to bed. Despite decades of educational efforts, a study by the journal of pediatrics found that many babies are still being placed on their bellies or on their sides to sleep. More than 90 of parents are either putting babies in their own beds, or using dangerously loose bedding, blankets or numbers. You put them into a bed with pillows, blankets and other people and it is not a safe and firemen at all. It is easier to pick them up and put them in your bed, but it isnt safe. Reporter the American Academy of ped of pediatrics recommends that the babies be put to bed on their back. The number of sids deaths have dropped. This could keep you awake at night. Hotels are tactic are targeted by hackers. A Popular Hotel in San Francisco has been targeted. It was the love meridian San Francisco le meridian San Francisco and other hotels that operate under the hyatt, sheridan and marriott names. The Hotel Operator says that malware was located back in june in the Payment System for its restaurants, tells and other facilities. The Security Consultant says that cyber hackers have targeted hotels. We know that Hotel Security historically has not been great. And there is so much credit card information in their system. Might up at my credit card here when i stay in the room. Reporter how do they gain access . It could be as simple as an employee openingnight attachment on an email. All they have to do is click on something. Reporter i have to imagine that a Large Company would go out of their way to not have these kinds of things happen. The incident has been contain an incident individuals can use payment cars at all properties. Neil farrell says it is not good enough. It is the responsibility of the institution or the retailer to up their game. Reporter guests could be losing sleep until then. What can you do to protect yourself . Farrell says that since there is no way around using a credit card, just be vigilant and check your statements and respond immediately if you notice something fishy. It is that time of year. Apple is set to release the next generation of gadgets. It looks like ipad may be left off the list of must haves this year. According to analysts, apple may be waiting to upgrade its tablet until next year. However, we may get options for the next round of ipads. Im not a new 12. 9 inch ipad as well as a lower cost 9. 7 inch ipad. Also an ipad pro are planned for the 2017 release. It may be puzzling to people who live on the east coast, but once again the line began forming outside of the bay areas newest dunkin donuts. This is the first to return to the area and it opened in walnut creek in june. The bay was once home to more than a dozen franchises. The last one closed its doors more than 15 years ago. The mobile weather lab showing when gusting in excess of 15 Miles Per Hour. We are in the fire zone in lake county where it is 96 degrees and 13 relative humidity. We are on a hill with a great Vantage Point and we will have more coming up. All new at 6 00 tonight. Fair confusion. Fare confusion. Google says that its free, but when passengers board, they are told to pay up. We will have the latest from wall street. Here is the cbs evening news tonight. Flooding in the south and wildfire in the west. We will tell you where the weather is heading next. Plus, inside to battleground states that could decide the 2016 president ial election. And, why parents are still putting their babies at risk when they put them down to sleep. Those stories tonight on the cbs evening news. Abandoned near a dumpster in mill valley, is looking for a new home. It may be 63 degrees with fog rolling into San Francisco, but one size does not that all in the bay area. We are in the fire zone with mobile weather showing you write in the fire zone that it is 96 degrees with 13 relative humidity right now. Very hot and very dry with a large fire burning very near lower lake and also the city of clear lake. You can see the ridge in the distance. In between here is the area of low lake. You can see all that is burned and is burning. There are up to four different airplanes at once trying to keep check of this large fire which is growing as the winds increase this afternoon. The weather throughout the region, it is 86 in concord. 83 in San Francisco. Seven76 in santa rosa 74. Tomorrow we will have moderate air quality throughout the bay area. Not the best and also not the worst. Tomorrow is not the spared year a spare the air day. San jose 57. Oakland, your load tonight is 57 and san mateo, your low as 54. An area of wheat pressure is passing by to the north. There will be an increase in the winter in the afternoon when we typically have the strongest wind and that made the problem that much from worse here in lower lake and in the general area. Another area of pressure passing by which will keep the wind elevated and wind will be stronger near the fire itself. Future cast shows that near the bay and along the coast, we will have cloud cover tomorrow morning and we will see temperatures a few degrees warmer away from the water. Things will be cool along San Francisco bay. There will be some drizzle and then we will be sunny and hot away from the water, including lake county, tomorrow. There would be cooler temperatures along the bay and along the coast. Livermore 94 four for tomorrow. Mountain view 77 in san jose 83. We will stay in the 90s away from the water and a bit cooler into the weekend. 60s and 70s near the bay and 50s near the coast. Im not sure if you can tell, but we can see it from here that the ridgetop is painted pink. The reason is that flame planes are dropping flame retardant on the top. The colors literally is changing the hills around here in an attempt to fight the clayton fire. ,,, scal good day, mlady i am sircanalot, here to save you from another breakfast bore. Wake up those eggs with glorious spam see what spam can do. At spam. Com the smaller picture on the bottom left shows how the 2yearold poodle mix looked when he was found. Rescuers named him mozzarella e his first meal w at dog abandoned near a dumpster in mill valley is looking for a home. The tutoryearold this is how the twoyearold poodle mix left when he was rescued. His first meal was a little bit of cheese. Thankfully, mozzarella has been nursed back to health and will be ready for adoption soon. It was not gunfire, but sharing that sent panic through a jfk airport terminal. Look at this. One traveler told security that she thought she heard shots fired. They led to the arrival of swat teams and panicked passengers. Nothing was found. One media report says that it may have been people cheering while watching the olympics. Watching the olympics in the terminal. Better to be safe than sorry. Right . That is it for kpix 5 news at 5 00. We will see you back here at 6 00. Pelley nature at its worst. Thousands are forced from their homes by floods in the deep south. And fire in the far west. All our neighbors, this is what we came home to. Pelley also tonight, trump does an aboutface. We will also work very closely with nato on this new mission. Pelley a mission to defeat isis. A new study finds many parents are risking their infants lives by putting them to sleep the wrong way. Dr. Jon lapook will show us the right way. 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