Of evacuees to go home soon. The governor toured the rocky fire today and ktvus tom vacar is back from the area and is in the news room. Reporter 60 of the massive fire remained uncontrolled. Reporter governor jerry brown came to the fire to assess the damage, lend support to the residents and praise to the 3635 firefighters including 1200 inmates working the fire lines. He also came to warn of what lies ahead. Yeah, we have a challenge in california because august and september are more threatening than july. Fasten your seatbelts. Reporter he is set on getting the Climate Change message out. We have had droughts in the past. We havent had drought with this elevated temperature. More devastating fires. More to come. Reporter worried about flood should el nino deliver a wet winter. Go from one thing to another and the climate is unstable and the word people use is extreme weather events. Now we are in an extreme weather event. Reporter because this fire is still far from over that coul
There could be minor slowing past the area, and san jose has a structure fire near the story road, a good area to avoid, not causing a big delay since it is early. You may want to avoid those particular streets. Looking at 280 northbound up to highway 17, traffic moving well and is light at the bay bridge toll plaza. 4 31 am. A young man credited with preventing a fiery attack in a dennys restaurant in hayward. The mother of the man said that she and her 21yearold son were having breakfast on industrial boulevard yesterday morning and they heard loud noise. Five or six people had been doused in a liquid that smelled like gasoline. The mother said she saw man struggling with a lighter and her son jumped into action. My son threw a chair and hit him so that he would have to drop everything, and to startle him. That was enough time to get the fire extinguisher to shoot him in the face, and he kept shooting him in the face and pushing him out the door. The woman said her son managed to pus
His siblings and when it was it was in the fields saturated with pesticides. They say these are mitigating factors jurors should consider. The morgan hill teen disappeared en route to school and her body has never been found. All of these factors did not excuse his behavior but may have affected his behavior. Thats what the defense wants this jury to cling to, that this was someone who wasnt the average kid growing up. That he had a lot of challenges and the decisions he made later in life were affected by that. Reporter prosecutors countered his father never abused him and was loving toward his children. Other garcia family members came in contact with presumed pesticides but didnt kidnap or kill anyone. Still, defense lawyers hope a sliver of lingering doubt may sway the panel of 12 to vote for prison instead of a lethal injection. Theyre in a penalty phase in a Death Penalty case and need to take risks at this point. Reporter one of the risks could be recalling prosecution witness w
The smoke earlier was all flame. The good thing is the day started with humidities going up, and that meant the flame says started going down and we saw more smoke than flame. However, we expected this yesterday when the fire, quote, unquote, exploded, in the words of fire crews. There are no cars. This time of day the place would be filled with cars going both directions. But with the evacuation of residents have come firefighters. Over 1400 firefighter personnel, some with engines stationed at each home waiting for the fire. Others is spots like this like that dozer waiting to mobilize from the roadside to the latest hot spot. Today the biggest focus will be the southeast corner of this whi wildfire which is right on the doorstep of the town of mariposa. The question is will firefighters be able to stop the spread of this fire before it reaches the evacuated town of maripo mariposa. Mike tesell, nbc news. A strike team headed this morning to the detweiler fire. It is threatening many
Francisco, and the judge there gave no indication as far as when hell make his final decision on that injunction to that executive order that would defund sanctuary cities but the Trump Administration had a new interpretation of the order saying the socalled sanctuary cities wouldnt be stripped of all federal funding, the grants be stripped of would only come from the department of Homeland Security and department of justice. At one point during the arguments even claiming that Santa Clara County would stand to lose only 1 is million in funding and San Francisco wouldnt see any federal funding stripped at all. The judge seemed a bit skeptical asking at one point then whats the purpose of the executive order then . The council for Santa Clara County and San Francisco said this would cause irreparable for cities that are tnot cooperatin. Heres the Deputy Attorney for San Francisco speaking after todays hearing. We are not confident that that is going to stick, and we have seen the admini