Now to a developing story, the rocky fire raging on this morning, more than 62000 acres charred at this point and that fire still just 12 contained. Here is a look at where the fire is actually burning, evacuations are underway with more than 6300 structures threatened near clearlake. That is one of just one of 20 wildfires burning in the state of King Abdullah right now. Its definitely one of the largest of those fires. Kris sanchez joins us right now. Reporter veteran firefighters are using words like unpress depped and erratic and part of the problem is that this fire is burning in an area where there have not been any fires am recorded hi ri. The fire is voracious, continuing to grow and deny all efforts to contain it. Although firefighters did hold the line at 12 containment, the fire jumped a major fire line, the flames spread across highway 20, winds pushing the fire north towards thousands of homes. Highway 50 was supposed to be a natural fire break. Cal fire says that the fire
The rocky fire raging on with no end in sight. As of this morning these,nm mase flames burned through near 100 square miles of dry rugged per rain not far from clearlake, about 100 miles north of San Francisco. This animation puts it into perspective how much that this had fire has grown since it broke out last week. At one point it took just five hours for the fire to grow 20,000 acres, today in the bay kris sanchez following the story for us. Firefighters say this fire is like nothing they have ever seen before. Reporter because this is the first fire am this rare area in recorded history. It is prime for, the fuels are bone dry from our years of record drought. Veteran firefighters are saying they have never seen anything like it this before. They may not ever again. The fire is so voracious, continuing to grow, continuing to defy efforts to contain t although firefighters held the line at 12 containment, the fire jumped a fire line, a major one, overnight. The flames spreading acro
Its been more than two weeks since both sides faced off in the courtroom here. Theyre in recess right now, the exhusbands attorney is an hour into his closing argument, its an emotional case with long lasting impacts for both sides. You see them both coming in around 9 30, the doctor appeared with someone who told me she was her friend lending her support. Steven finley walked in on crutches. He hurt himself playing sports a couple months ago. Both he and lee were stone faced in the courtroom today. The judge asked questions throughout the First Closing argument. At issue is the fate of the five frozen embryos made by finley and lee back in 2010. Three years later, the couple split. Finleys attorney went first, and he called lees cancer a red herring, she doesnt have cancer any more, its a separate issue. Focusing on the consent waiver signed before freezing those embryos. On page eight of that form, you can see language that if a couple divorces, the embryos can be discarded. Finleys
On the job now. He was suspended from mid june to mid july. His overall salary was docked 10 . Coming up tonight at 6 00 hear more from the chief himself. Reporting live in hayward, ian cole, nbc bay area news. Ian, thank you. We want to get to our developing news now, north of santa rosa. The erratic and destructive wildfire. This has been extremely challenging for firefighters. Yesterday, the flames burst through the containment the line and jumped a local highway. Its called the rocky fire in lake county. Its been burning for nearly a week now. The earliest it can be contained is next monday. Here are the new numbers. The flames scorched 65,000 acres, twice the size of San Francisco. Its 12 contained. And nearly 7,000 structures are threatened. Many of them homes. This cal fire map shows the growing perimeter of the fire. People living nearby are worried the flames could soon overrun entire neighborhoods. My big concern right now is just for my neighbors, and because theres a lot of
I think we have the rain out of here. Ill have the details in the Weather Forecast not only today but in the weekend. Erin. Big problems on the roads. Upper loop parked because of some Police Activity by arena drive and as we look at maps. Gw parkway northbound crash slateers lane and southbound crash lingering at the key bridge and new one southbound 123 steer you clear of of the slow downs allison and steph. Erin, thanks very much. We begin this hour with breaking news out of Montgomery County. Intense images from the scene of a crash that happened around 3 45 in gaithersburg. Not the right graphic there. Taxi these are the pictures well telling about you and slammed into a tractortrailer and slammed into a cab wedged under a big rig. And westbound lanes of shady grove road as it intersects with oak mond avenue. Still closed 7 00. Driver of the cab was trapped for a while. He has serious injuries. And president nears 100 day in office and President Trump taking aim and that could mea