Maddy. The 8yearold girl murdered. And thrown in the e0 f iiahr c0h,pvk live, from the cbs bay are studios, this is kpix5 news. Tonight, remembering maddy. The eightyearold girl murdered and thrown in the dumpster. As many wonder how could it happen . Tonight, new details about the suspect, maddys 15yearold neighbor. Im elizabeth cook. Im allen martin. Ken bastida has the night off. Betty yu takes us to a memorial tonight at the beach in santa cruz. Reporter so many people in the Community Came out tonight to grieve and remember little Maddy Middleton asking how this tragedy could have happened. This as we are learning new details. Sources tell the San Francisco chronicle that maddy was sexually assaulted and strangled and her body trashed just five minutes before her mom called police. People who searched for maddy over two days, calling her name hoping for her safe return stood in silence tonight. The Community Left flowers and lit up part of the santa cruz coastline with candles. I
That that 15yearold boy might be charged as an adult in the case . Reporter yes. So, of the range of charges the d. A. Earlier indicated that, yes, some of those charges did allow that 15yearold boy to be charged as a adult. Well get details before noon. Kiet do, kpix 5, live in san jose. Back to breaking news out of lafayette. A fire is burning on a hillside near highway 24 and the Pleasant Hill road exit. Firefighters are on scene now as you can see. As liza said just a few minutes ago they are not planning to close highway 24 at this point. So far the fire has burned three acres. No word yet on the cause of the fire. A major flareup from a wildfire in napa and solano counties has forced more evacuations and burned an additional 400 acres on the south side of the fire yesterday. But the flames did remain within the secondary containment lines. Kpix 5s anne makovec is live at the staging area in vacaville where firefighters are about to deal with another hot day. Anne. Reporter yeah.
Yeah. Those hot temperatures have been a real challenge as has the rugged terrain. Now that the sun is coming up, they are going to get a better look at exactly where this fire does now stand. This fire is now 80 contained. But it is roaring within those containment lines. The wragg fire has been burning for a week, 10. 5 square miles. 7,000 acres burned. This is southwest of Lake Berryessa. Yesterdays flareup in the Wild Horse Canyon area forced about 200 people to evacuate their homes. Overnight firefighters have been trying to reel it back in. This particular part of the fire very difficult terrain. We were flying hand crews in back and forth in and out of the fire pretty much for the last four days. This is the slowest most labor intensive part of the fire to control and thats where we had the flareup. Reporter heres a look at time lambs video of yesterdays big flare up. More than 1100 firefighters are battling this fire and its still burning within the containment lines this morni
Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Homeowners staring down disaster as the rocky fire rages out of control. Good evening, im juliette goodrich. And im brian hackney. The rocky fire in lake county has grown to nearly the size of San Francisco. It is 27,000 acres. More than 42 square miles and it is 5 contained. 50 buildings have gone up in flames. Half of them homes. Thousands more are threatened. A triple digit temperature, very low humidity. Winds that are helping push this fire through really steep and difficult access type terrain. For some homeowners it is too late for help. Kpix5s andria borba spoke with one woman who lost everything. Reporter as you drive along Morgan Valley road, the blackened hillside becomes overwhelming. There are so many people down there whose houses are just ashes. And everyone we know that lives down there, they have nothing anymore. It is crazy. Reporter the rocky fire has burned hopes to the ground. Among them, amanda o connors. He
Front line of the fire. Good evening im julie haener. And im frank somerville. By the time our helicopter headed home this evening the amount of smoke had diminished quite a bit and containment has reached 20 but the damage is done. The rocky fire has been burning for six days and scorched 67,000 acres. So far two dozen homes have been destroyed. We get the latest from noelle walker. Reporter it is like a different day out here on the rocky fire than what i experienced yesterday. We drove around much of the perimeter except for the far northern section. The newest section of this fire. It looks so much different. Such a more calm atmosphere than the hustle and bustle of the fire. Earlier we made it to rocky road, thats the road that gave the fire its name to find out what is left. Reporter tonight we got our first look down rocky creek road where the rocky fire got its start and many homes met its end. Totally gone. Like a big hole in the end. I call it teeny tiny toilet town. Reporter