More about what happened. You can find the latest developments on our homepage of ktvu. Com. California could top 300,000 total cases when new numbers come out tomorrow. As of yesterday there were another 7000 new cases of the coronavirus statewide and 149 more people died. Thats the highest number yet. The death toll is more than 6700. In the bay area more than 32,000 cases have been reported. Thats an increase of about 1000. And 636 people have died, with 11 more deaths reported. Health Officials Say fraternities and sororities are to blame for a jump in the number of coronavirus cases at uc berkeley. The university is urging students to change their behavior, or plans to return to campus could change. Ktvus greatly joins us now. The parties have led to instances of secondary spreads and small household and gatherings. Reporter thats the biggest concern. The students would go to these parties, get infected with covid19 and spread it to their homes and communities. The university is s
Alarm fire started at the rear of that mans building. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Tonight, new information about what may have happened. Ktvu has learned fryer crews were called out to extinguish a mattress fire at the rear of the big building on 14th street between south bend as an fulsome. The mattress fire was out 11 30 last night. The big fire broke out around 6 30 this morning. Live coverage now from ktvus amber lee. Our cruise still pouring water onto that fire . Reporter this is a very active seen behind me. We can see firefighters using huge trucks to put out hot spots. The fire did apartment tells me 160 firefighters were here at the peak in 20 remain here tonight. At this point, the fire is still not contained. Ive never seen a city fire spread this fast before. It was amazing. Reporter huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky as flames burned six buildings in San Francisco zenner mission district. One who had to evacuate said it
Work and how communities respond will look different this year. Already california has seen more fires this year compared to last year. We have the challenges ahead, and there are a lot of them. Reporter cal fire responded to more than 600 fires just last week. Getting on them fast, keeping the acreage down is the goal. Because the pandemic complicates everything. I would not know where to go right now, if that happened again. Reporter frederick lost his home when the tubs fire roared into santa rosa. He evacuated with his grandchildren that night to a packed evacuation center. We sat down and it got crowded and more crowded as we sat. There were a lot of people there. We only stayed about four or five hours. Reporter a scenario that wont work now. It may be that we dont put you in a congregant shelter situation. We may be putting you into hotels. Reporter hotels, dorms, scattered locations, the priority will be social distance. Box mills instead of buffets at a Temperature Check upon
Fireworks spectacular and included a flyover by the blue angels in the shadow of washington, jefferson, lincoln and roosevelt. The president focused on the movement to remove confederate monuments. He claimed that leftwing mobs are removing statues of the founding fathers. Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out history, defame heroes, erase values and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, to face our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of Violent Crime in our cities. He only made a brief mention of coronavirus and few masks were seen. The president offered support for Law Enforcement think the attack on liberty must be stopped. The radical ideology attacking the country advances under the banner of social justice. Both justice and socie they want to silence us. We will not be silenced. There were tense moments before the arrival as officers broke up a protest by native american activists. About 15 people were arre
Hillside in fairfield go up in flames. Good evening, i am julie haener. It spread to 60 acres before the firefighters were able to get it under control. It is one of several fires burning around the bay area. They continued to fight a much larger fire it has been burning since yesterday and it is east of gilroy. Amber is in fairfield and the flames got close to some of those homes. It is scary for people of this neighborhood. Reporter many refused to leave telling me that they wanted to stay behind to make sure that did everything they could to protect their homes, the whole hill was on fire. The help over there, the one next to the houses. Reporter it broke out 4 30 , monday afternoon in the cordelia area for frilled, people did hose down the grass to protect the property and there was a mandatory order to evacuate 30 homes. It was terrifying. We didnt know it to do, you know . We were scrambling around. Reporter a resident shared these photos with us as the fire moved towards home an