Mike, warmup to the 9. We have a lot of news this morning. We are getting a better idea of that devastation caused by the clayton fire in lake county. Calfire says more than 100 homes have been destroyed in the fire. And 3,000 acres have burned. It is just 5 contained. Thousands of people have had to evacuate from their homes. About 1,000 firefighters are now trying to get that fire under control. The fire started saturday night off highway 29 in Clayton Creek road. Ktvus alex savidge has been in lake county all morning and he is about to show us some of the areas affected. Alex. Reporter yeah, hey, good morning to you guys. Just scenes of destruction everywhere you look here in downtown lower lake. And this is one of those scenes behind us here. This is the original firehouse here in town, and you can see this is the plaque. Thats all thats left. It says historic lower lake firehouse. You see the building gutted by this fire as it blew through this area late yesterday. Thats just one
Throw them on. Metro west by 8 a. M. , 84 by 10 00 this morning. Noontime, we are knocking on the door at 90 and make it well into the 90s this afternoon and you factor in the humidity. We have a heat advisory going into effect start at noon and will feel like the heat index 100 to 15 degrees. We will take you town by town and look at the hot spots coming up. Julie grauert with live drive time traffic and look at the expressway. Julie goomo seconds turned from orange to red at morrissey boulevard. Volume starting to pick up. We have a half hour before 6 30. Route 1, 3 south are clear. A look at the zakim bridge. Nothing lowering you down on the leverett connector or the bridge itself. Live drive times. 12 minutes on route 1 from 128 to the tobin. 17 minutes on the expressway. 25 minutes on 93 south from andover down to the leverett connector. Back to you. All right, brace yourself daniel very steamy and shiri mentioned the heat advisory with temperatures rising near the middle 90s. It
The same cannot be said for tallahassee. 70 without power. It could last for several days. We know hermine is not done yet. The roads looked jagged because of hermine. The first hurricane to hit florida in 11 years. Made landfall overnight. Pounding the gulf coast with the heavy rain and high winds. This is the worst in a long time. Hard hit island the storm surge devastated part of the community. The water in the backyard. Went to the front. This is expected to impact the east coast throughout the Holiday Weekend. The goal is to be overprepared and underwhelmed when it comes to the storm. We want everyone to be safe. This storm will be dangerous and impact labor day festivities. A system not moving could be trouble. The rainfall could happen for hourers and days in some spots. There are 40 Million People that are impacted by the Tropical Storm hermine. In the Power Outages in florida they have over 300,000. Majority without power. As the storm moves through georgia and through the car
Block in an apartment that collapsed during an earthquake in hong kong has been arrested. The president is demanded to pay every penny he paid of taxpayerers money on home improvements. We have a breaking story for u you. One area in germany there has been a train crash involving two, if not three trains. Thousands of syrians refugees are trapped at the border of turkey. As many as 30,000 people have fled heavy fighting with the syrian army trying to retake aleppo. Russian air strikes are pounding their homes. Live to our correspondent. So far the border is closed and it looks like its staying closed. Reporter yes. For the time being. Turkish officials believe there is no need to open that border because theyre providing assistance to the people who are really camping out on the other side, on the syrian side of that border. Tens of thousands of people are on the move and unfolding human tragedy, really, and it will only get worse because the whole of aleppo province is a battleground.
With my grandchildren. Reporter the handgun left unattended by 27yearold ricardo marquez. Ridiculous. That should never happen. Reporter they say he stashed the loaded revolver in his girlfriends diaper bag and her 6yearold got hold of it. Looked like a family party, so i dont know what happened. Reporter marquez went before a judge this morning facing two felony charges, negligence and tampering with evidence. Officers say he tried to toss the gun into the bay. To think on a sunday afternoon when this park is full of people, anyone it could have been me, you, any little child that was down there. Reporter and that grandmother is right, it could have been anybody. Luckily that bullet didnt hit anyone and they did recover the shell casing. Carson chambers, abc action an update to a story we brought you at 4 00 today, a School Bus Crash in Sarasota County now all cleared. It happened at waters and pine brook street in venice around 3 00 this afternoon. The student there attended venice h