Term as mayor just two years ago while he was under fed investigation. Fox5s Sarah Simmons is life at the gray camp in northeast with more on the victory. Reporter tony and shawn, definitely a big night here in ward 7. A loft people turned out here at the and acc Baptist Church here in northeast. Mr. Gray coming in to applause, a lot of people supporting him. A lot of excitement. The fire alarm is going off in backyard so theres a lot going on. You can see the people turning out from mr. Gray as he spoke to his supporters thanking them for all of their hard work. We did speak with him beforehand about his losing the 2014 mayoral raise, being cleared of the federal Campaign Finance investigation and now winning the primary for his old council seat. Take a listen. Im just excited. Im excited that the people at ward 7 have te to give us an opportunity to represent them once again and im really looking forward to it. Theres so much to do in ward 7. Im just excited to be able to have the op
Of the fire fight throughout the day. Tom joins us live with the latest. Reporter i just want to show you a few things of what the firefighters are competing with. You see firefighters putting out hot spots. The reason is because they dont want to go away and have a fire start again. This is a meticulous job being done hundreds of places. The other danger is if you look over there, you will see a house in tact. The problem with that is that is fuel along with all of the other things that have been burned. Should the winds change, have a real big gusting situation, you can get another fire started, it can come right back into town and finish off the rest of this town. Despite of all that, here is pacific gas and electric. Theres a Cable Company as well trying to put these phone poles and wires back up so when people do return to the few home that is are around and as people try to rebuild, there will be power and utilities to do something about it. The problem with letting people back i
It is good to see you. Good morning. One half hour ago there was good news about the battle against the clayton fire. Cal fire said it has gone from 5 contained it to 20 contained. It has not grown, which shows the firefighters are making progress. We want to show you a photo of the man police say is responsible for that fire. Damin pashilk faces numerous charges. He is a construction worker born in San Francisco, he is behind bars this morning in the lake county jail. Residence have been telling us they did believe the fire was intentionally set. Alex is right here in lake county. Show us some of the damage. Reporter good morning. I think there is sort of a sense of disbelief that someone would intentionally set a fire. We are in the hurt we are in the heart of lower lake. As i step out of the way you can see the burned cars. This is part of an auto repair shop. Also in the midst of all of this there are some homes behind the businesses. Now this morning we are getting word and there
And the retreat hang out by the coast. Little lows moving not that may pop up some thunderstorm activity in the sierra. It has been nonexistent since june. And 60s, 70s by the water. 6 01. And we are looking at a commute that is going to be a little bit slow at the toll plaza. And we have a 20minute delay now reported at the end of the line trying to get to the bridge. This is a look at the stackup traffic there. And nothing unusual once you make it to that stand. And take a look at interstate 880. So far so good if you are driving on 880 from oakland to hayward not a bad drive. The slow traffic in the bay. Slow traffic here as you drive. 205 is very slow here coming up to mountain house. And still really not a great commute getting up and over the hill into the valley. It does get better. And at 6 01. Lets get back to the desk. An arrest has been made as the clayton fire continues to burn. Nearly 200 homes and businesses and 4000 acres have been destroyed. The fire is still 5 containe
Through 90 of the way. When this phone pole falls over f it falls on to something that hasnt burned yet, and there is plenty of stuff that hasnt burned yet, you could have yet another fire. In fact, where we are standing on one side it burned. On the other side of the driveway it did not burn. So the problem here is that you not only have to worry about the fire growing up towards the north to the other town up there. You have the problem that there is a lot of stuff going on here because not everything burned up. It was a very fastmoving fire. Now they have a double problem. They have thousands of people on the lines at all nine of californias big fires right now. This one happens to be the most noteworthy. This is the one where at least in this town, lower lake, its done a lot of damage. It can do a lot more. That is the situation that were seeing here on the ground. And that is what we have to report from this point in time. We have some other reports coming up. All right. Thank you