Wednesday. Im kris sanchez in for laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Back to those wildfires as we continue to push the firefighters continue to push those limits across the bay area this morning. As crews make progress on the north bay wildfires, another one pops up in Santa Cruz Mountains, forcing more evacuations. It is active. Here is where things stand. The socalled bear fire is burning near 5 containment. It is threatening 271 acres, actually, 271 acres are burned, but 150 homes are under threat, under mandatory evacuation orders this morning. That is the area of deer creek and bear creek canyon. This continues to be a very tough fire fight. Five firefighters were hurt while working in very treacherous and steep terrain. The weather could help firefighters with this. We have Team Coverage to get you up to speed. Me meteorologist kari hall kicks off our coverage. Likt winds and higher humidity. That is really going to help out as far as containing those wildfires. As we go throug
Uninterrupted remarks, we have a live feed going on nbcbayarea. Com. You can watch it there also. This speech follows the one President Trump gave last night in phoenix, arizona. He was met with protestors. Police in riot gear deploying smoke bombs to break up that crowd of rally protestors. Several scuffles broke out and demonstrators started throwing rocks and bottles at police. There are protests set up for todays nevada speech. And for what the president said, he tore into some familiar targets. He defends his remarks about the tragedy in charlottesville. I didnt say i love you because youre black or i love you because youre white or i love you because youre from japan. I love all the people of our country. And the president also threatened the Government Shutdown if he doesnt get funding for the border wall with mexico. In the meantime, new at 11 00, just days before a controversial rally takes place in San Francisco. Some city leaders are calling for stricter gun laws, but it may
Procurement safety procedures put in place after alleged expense account abuse , and an ordinance that says all security equipment be approved by the board of supervisors before it can move forward. There are ways to expedite the rules. Thats we need to focus on more. We are developing policies and proceed wrdures right now a waiting for the bodyworn cameras to be delivered. Reporter you dont know when . Unfortunately, we dont have an accurate timeline. Reporter in fact, we also found out the issue was not even scheduled for the board of supervisors to address, but today board president told us he will make sure its on the agenda for the next meeting. Live in san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Robert, thank you so much. Turning now to decision 2016. As we take you live inside the Republican National convention. This, of course, under way in cleveland. These are the delegates inside the arena. They are awaiting tonights headliner, indiana governor mike pence. Tob tob tonight, he
That shifted an now cleared. Maybe some road work or cruise clearing in the area but nothing big. Approach to the bay bridge. Look at san rafael south 101 moves well along this stretch of the north bay as well. Were going to head to you guys for breaking news. Thank you very much. We start overnight on the peninsula where there is a Community Center that is in flames right now. We begin in millbrae, specifically where that fire is burning right now. Today in the bays bob redell just arrived on the scene. Looks active behind you. Good morning. Youre looking at the millbrae Community Center here thats been burning for over an hour. You can see the flames coming through the roof there. The respective Fire Departments squirting water on it trying to get those flames to tamp down. Its been burning like that since we got here with the flames being visible for the past 20 minutes or so. There was an aerial ladder or hose hovering over the roof. Theyve sense removed that. I want you to pan dow
Batter that indicates it started outside against the wall on the backside of the center. The fire is remarkably, as you can see, still burning and destroyed this building. It destroyed this building and the city of millbrae. The place where he attended summer camp was decetroyed befo his eyes. The fire started around 4 00 this morning and never stopped. A four alarm fire with around 60 men and women with five different agencies trying to put it out. It became unstoppable when it enter the attic space. Theyre notoriously hard to fight. Turns out it had no fire breaking installed, and the ceiling was made of thick material that made access challenging. Around 200 children were counting on their summer camps, seniors needing brown bag meals, and more. It will not be replaced in time for this summer, but everybody is safe and were thankful for that. The city moved tifss a short walk away, and the Community Center still burning several hours after it started. If you saw anything unusual aro