Reporter the search has forced both directions of highway 17 to be closed since midmorning. Traffic is being rerouted to side streets and thats creating a monumental backup whether youre traveling to santa cruz or san jose. The search for the suspect will continue indefinitely. As you can see behind me now, this is going to create a major traffic mess and right back there at black road and bear creek road, the traffic is being singlefiled onto side roads. You know that people in the Santa Cruz Mountains have already had to deal with these lane and road closures during the recent storms. Now they are doing one because of the suspects search. We will, of course, be on scene here to tell you when these lanes might reopen but that search, as they say, will go on indefinitely into the night if necessary. We are live near redwood estates, david louie, abc7 news. The con convicted killer of a richmond woman has been connected to women decades ago. Bob evans murdered a woman and her three daug
Active use. To morgan hill, our chopper bringing live pictures from over the scene. You can see a lot of smoke generated this fire burning near the coyote creek golf course. At least 100 acres have been burned. Weve seen several homter water drops in the past half hour. Good news, the fire is now 50 contained and cal fire says no structures are being threatened. The danger and evacuations continue in Southern California. Right now, zero containment of the socalled blue cut fire. This was about 60 miles east of l. A. Its in San Bernardino county. Now, this fire is about the size of San Francisco. More than 80,000 people are evacuating as smoke and ash smother entire neighborhoods. An unknown number of homes have been destroyed and this could be obl the beginning. Many bay area fire crews are being reassigned to help battle flames. A man and woman drove through the heart of this fire on highway 38 capturing cell phone video. Authorities have since closed the highway and also, interstate
6 00 eastern time about 30 minutes from now on espn. And the winner tonight, california or texas, will face warwick, rhode island in another elimination game. That will do it for our coverage here on our abc stations. For jaymee sire and kyle peterson, once again, the final score rhode island 8, oregon nothing. Please stay tuned to espn for the japan curacao game at 6 00 eastern time, and well see you states bracket. Next, its your local programming. Saying so long, im karl ravech from williamsport. One news, channel 7 a witness news with joe torres and jeff smith with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Now Eyewitness News at 5 00. Breaking news in the death of a 9yearold girl in queens. Now the stepmother is in custody charged with her murder. A power outage causes traffic trouble and more in the bronx. Hundreds are still without more than a thousand. Im joe torres. And im Sandra Bookman. First we will get to the breaking news in queens. An hour ago, Police Charged a woman in connect
Police responded to the Westwood Apartments to investigate a sex assault. A woman inside ran for help, calling the police from a neighbors house. I heard a loud knock on my door, like 4 30 in the morning, could have been my door, could have been loud enough it was somebody elses. I went out and looked to the people, didnt see anything. Reporter Police Arrived around 5 00 a. M. , the womans apartment was quiet, according to the police. The womans partner and children were still insidement in the apartment, unfortunately, they did find a 6yearold deceased, additionally, they found a 2yearold male unharmed. As well as an adult male with selfinflicted wounds. Reporter police say the man is the father of both children, the woman is the mother of the twoyearold child, but not the sixyearold child. Police are investigating both the sex assault and the death of the child. We know were working with a knife involved in the attempted Sexual Assault or the sexual appeared to be from the knife. Awf
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