Toaster strudel. California. Burnin g along a road from la to las vegas. Its fierceness stunning even veteran firefighters. The latest on the fire fight. Plus. A deadly crash on a busy triangle highway. The road shut down for hours. What weve learned about the investigation. And. A local mans fight to make his home safe. What he wants the city to stop from happening. How the community is rallying around him. Starts right now. Breaking news right off the top a major wildfire burning out of control in california. Good evening everyone from the breaking news center. Im tisha powell. The flames hitting so hard and fast. Its already ripped through 30 thousand acres in just 24 hours. The blue cut fire is burning along that major road from la to las thousand of resident told to get out of their homes. Authorities couldnt immediately say how many homes had been destroyed but they warned the number will be large. Tonight on the front lines hundreds of firefighters are on the attack. The fire ignited in brush left dry by years of drought tripledigit heat and gusty winds. We will be keeping an eye on developments on the fire fight all night. You can look for updates on this story tomorrow morning on Eyewitness News. Right now. highway 55 near Nc Central University in durham back open, tonight after a deadly crash. This was breaking news here at four oclock. A motorcycle and an suv. Colliding near burlington avenue. One person was killed. Highway 55 was closed from burlington avenue to dayton street for several hours while police investigated. Were working right now. To find out the victims name. And if any charges have been filed. Look for updates on abc11dotcom or the abc11 of killing a mother and her three Young Children in their greenville apartment should be extradited to North Carolina on friday. Investigators say dibon toone killed garlette howard. And her three girls ages six, seven, and 11. Toone is the father of the two youngest victims. The 39yearold was arrested last night in richmond, virginia. Investigators say he was driving howards work issued suv at the time of his arrest. Detectives say theres a chance the victims may have been killed several days prior to the new tonight police in wilmington arresting the man they say killed a lillington woman. And her unborn child. Tevin vann was arrested late last night. Hes charged with two counts of first degree murder. 21yearold ashely mclean. Was found dead in a room at a best Western Hotel in wilmington last week. Vann is also charged with robbery. Hes in the New Hanover County jail, tonight. The man accused of killing a Gaston County three year old faces a judge for the first time. Billy court. His appearance lasting just one minute. Mccullen is accused of killing jordan dumont. Investigators say he called 911 on monday. Claiming he woke up from a nap and the child was gone. He maintained the story while police were looking for girl. The next day. Searchers found her body in a wooded area near her home. Pledging to protest until election day in november the air horn orchestra, tonight once again. sounding their disapproval of governor mccrory. Andrea blanford is live on blount downtown raleigh. Outside the executive mansion. With just how much longer we will see these weekly protests. Next wednesday will mark five months that the air horn orchestra will have met here people angry over policies passed by gov. Mccrory and the republicanled General Assembly are vowing theyll continue making a lot of noise. Until they get exactly what they want. Beating the same drum for 19 different tune from gov. Pat mccrory. 17 48 39 we will be here every week until hb2 is repealed and coal ash is addressed and gerrymandering is overturned. But pledging they wont be silenced until mccrory is voted out of office. 17 34 25 thank you for being here over and over and over and over and over again. Demonstrators pulling on their biohazard suits one leg at a time. Showing up one wednesday at a time. Protesting coal ash controversy. In earshot of the executive mansion. Theyre out to prove they arent just blowing hot air. Pointing to the recent resignation of state epidemiologist megan davies who stepped down saying the public is being misled about the safety of their drinking water. And calling hb2 the states law regulating public bathroom use based on biological sex a symptom of a bigger problem. 17 27 13 Mccrory Administration and Republican Legislature has rights, Womens Health access. While organizers admit the orchestras numbers have dwindled in the summer heattheyll keep sounding off. Sending their message at least until election day in november. 17 50 06 i love this state. I love this city. But i hate what theyre trying to do bringing us back to the dark ages. Gov. Mccrory has come outside his home and acknowledged the air horn orchestra a number of times but the organizers say they would welcome a we tried contacting mccrorys office for comment. But have not yet heard back. Now to vote 2016. And Police Ramping up security around the Convention Center in uptown charlotte ahead of Donald Trumps return to the queen city tomorrow. Just hours before he scheduled to return to North Carolina the gop president ial nominee had his first classified intelligence briefing at the f bi office in new york. Tomorrow night in Charlotte National security plan. Trump is expected to begin speaking around 730. The doors open at 430. Angelica alvarez will be in charlotte. Look for her live reports starting at four oclock on Eyewitness News. Well also stream trumps speech live on abc11dotcom. And the wife of democratic Vice President ial nominee tim kaine continued her swing through our state. Anne holton receiving a warm welcome in greensboro. She spoke to volunteers about how important their work is. Saying shes all in for hillary clinton. Holton make sure everybody gets to vote. Citing the recent overturn of a Voter Registration law in North Carolina. Concern in rtp, tonight. The possibility of pink slips at a major tech company. Networkign giant. Cisco systems. Announcing it will lay off 55hundred employees. But its unclear, tonight how many will come from here in North Carolina. The shakeup means about seven percent of ciscos roughly 74 thousand workers will lose their jobs. The layoffs come as the company tailored for large data centers. And pouring more resources into software and security. Turning the tables on hundreds of wake county teachers, today. They became the students. In a round of training on writing better lesson plans for their classrooms. The group of about 250 second and third year teachers. Took part in a symposium to improve teacher quality. These beginning teachers. Learned about everything from math and science assignments. To the Resources Available for them from the the improving teacher quality symposium. Is held every year. As part of the districts teacher support program. A crime alert tonight for homeowners in wake and johnston county. Police are investigating possible fraud by a Homeowners Association management company. Nearly 30 neighborhoods that did business with kornerstone Community Management are currently involved in the investigation. The kornerstone office is locked and police say its out of business. Garner police say there is so much paperwork theyre now getting help from financial crimes unit. Now to an Eyewitness News update on the raleigh man. Whose home has been hit by cars six times in almost 9 years. Its a story weve been following. And one we covered when the home was struck again just this past weekend. But now. Now a woman who doesnt even know the homeowner has started an online petition to help him. Angelica alvarez went to find out why. This online petition already has almost 500 names. And woman behind this says shes making it her mission to make a man she doesnt even know. Pkg i love raleigh. Chris redshaw has lived in raleigh almost all her life. And owns a Small Business here. 22 13 46 we make a lot of best of lists and that was the first thing that came to my mind is knowing that this story has now gone globally how can we tout ourselves as any kind of best of when we allow our citizens to go through what this family has gone she husband and father of three. Carlo bernarte. In the news once again. Six times is just enough. She couldnt stand by and do nothing. Over the weekend. A car plowed through his property. For the 6th time in almost 9 years. When it happened last year. The city made changes to the road. Highlighted in this photo. They added lighted chevron signs. And reflective markers. But nothing that stops a reckless driver. Which has been the case many times. Some even deadly for the drivers so Chris Redshaw is hoping this online petition will. 22 16 40 his family can sleep safely at night. Already she has almost five hundred signatures. Hundr eds of messages of support. People even offering to for legal fees for bernarte. Theres even an attached letter. Redshaw plans to send to the mayor of raleigh. The ncdot secretary. Even governor pat mccrory. She plans to go all the way up the chain. To help bernarte and his family. Redshaw 22 14 28 i just dont think we are the best of watching over our neighbors. On cam i talked to bernarte on the phone today. Hes moved by what shes doing. And is grateful people are willing to step up. And hopes it will make a difference. Befor e he takes a loss on the house. Or worse. Still to come tonight horror at sea. A ship with more than 500 on board catches fire. What weve learned about the cause. Plus a warning about the mcdonalds happy meal. The new toy to exercise. Might actually be hurting them. And. Speaking of hurt. A woman tries to fix her gas cap. But ends up making another big mistake. Its the mustsee video of the night. But first. A live look outside of the raleigh Eyewitness News center hi guys got the birthday girl a drum set. Drum set . Oh you guys must have Time Warner Cable. This is gonna be some party. Yeah, their free home wifi lets us connect and theres no data cap, so. The kids must love that, huh . hey, theres the birthday girl lets get this Party Started get more with Time Warner Cable internet. Like unlimited data and speeds up to ultrafast 300 megs. Uploading honey, im goin viral call now. Get 50 megs for 39. 99 a month. Robbery involving american swimmers at the rio olympics. The United StatesOlympic Committee says americans jack conger and gunnar bentz were removed from their flight to the us by brazilian authorities. Meanwhile, a move by a brazilian judge to keep olympic swimmer ryan lochte from the leaving the country has come too late. Lochtes father says the gold medalwinning swimmer arrived back in the us yesterday. More than 500 passengers and crew forced to abandon ship after a fire on of puerto rico. Many of the passengers required medical care. But there were no deaths or lifethreatening injuries reported. A crew member says the fire started in the ships engine room, when a hose carrying fuel burst open. Igniting the blaze. The ship runs several times weekly between puerto rico and the dominican republic. Federal authorities are interviewing the captain. Too much water still creating a flood of problems in southern louisiana. The white house says Homeland Security secra louisiana. Widespread flooding has damaged tens of thousands of businesses and houses. Residents in 20 parishes are eligible for disaster assistance. At last check. 6 thousand people are in shelters. Down from more than 11thousand. Earlier in the week. More news out of rio. A senior olympic executive from ireland was taken to a hospital. After police came to his Beachfront Hotel to arrest him as part of an investigation into ticket scalping. Least nine others to illegally sell tickets for olympic events. The 71yearold will be detained while the investigation continues. Agents estimate the schemes profits were about three million us dollars. Now to the big board and the mustsee video of the night. We start in Washington State with one womans really bad decision. She was knocked down by her own suv. After attempting to close its gas cap at a red light. An intersection. The woman hopped out of her honda crv. Then noticed it was still moving. Unfortunately, her attempt to grab hold of the Steering Wheel resulted in the wheels smashing her feet and sending her to the ground while the car kept going. The woman was not hurt. Her vehicle went through an intersection. And crashed into a tree. It did not have any serious damage. Now to an act of kindness during a powerful storm in nova scotia. The woman who took the video says the man in the motorized wheelchair thunderand lightning storm. Another man who was driving by stopped his car, got out, and pushed the man in the chair 200 feet uphill. And. A puppy caught in the act. Mavis. The jack russell terrier just cant help herself. Here, her owner comes across mavis destructively unrolling the toilet paper roll in the bathroom. When jennifer speaks the little dog stops what shes doing and looks up at her owner with an adorably innocent pedometers put in mcdonalds happy meals. The fast food chain has now voluntarily removed the step it up activity ban from its restaurants. Afte r receiving reports of skin irritations from the band. The colorful plastic device strapped on like a watch and tracked steps. It blinked as the wearer walked and blinked more rapidly the faster they moved. Delta will soon offer passengers the suite life. The airline announced today it would start offering an all suite Business Class for international flights. Seated in their own personal space called delta one suites. The suites will fit one flier. Have a flatbed seat. An 18inch entertainment system. And individual storage space. With direct aisle access. Delta one suites will first be available on the airlines new airbus a350 fleet next fall. Breakout olympic home from rio. Still to come. Why the american swimmer. Has been forced to store her four medals in her socks. And the one thing shes looking forward to now thats shes back home in texas. Ledecky. Swarmed by her own private army of su down at Dulles Airport in virginia from rio. Ledecky sported all five of her medals as she made her way through baggage claim. The 19yearold says shes first going to eat a home cooked meal with her mom, then shes going to take a break from swimming for a couple of weeks. And simone manuel. Returne d to houston after her historic swim in rio. Manuels plane arrived early this brought home two gold medals. And two silver medals. She was the first africanamerican to win an individual medal in swimming in the olympics. Manuel says shes not sure yet where shell keep her medals. Theyre packed inside socks because she hadnt received the cases for them, yet. She also says shes looking forward to her mothers cooking and a donut. Coming up next in sports. David cutcliffe chooses some powerful words in sharing his opinion on a potential 9 game acc football schedule. Plus matt dayes says theres no reason to worry about the nc state offense but first olympic update the us Mens Basketball Team looked more like itself tonight, advancing to the semis with an annihilation of argentina. The us women swept the 100m hurdles event and took gold and silver in clerk ok, 8 on powerball gets you a free lucky for life ticket. Wait, lucky for life is free with powerball . Boom sign me up. 1,000 a day for life . Thats my game. 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