Abc 7 news at 4 00 because we will bring you the News Conference as soon as it happens. You can see flowers out there for the fallen officer today. We will get you that News Conference as soon as it begins. Lets go to abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony live at the shooting scene. Reporter we are expecting the update from Hayward Police at any time. In the meantime here at the shooting scene in this neighborhood investigators have left the scene. This happened right behind me here in this quiet neighborhood where a veteran officer lost his life during a vehicle stop that was anything but routine. Witnesses say the shots came in rapid succession just after 3 00 a. M. One burst a brief pause and a longer burst of gun fire. I heard shots for sure. The shots were so rapid fire that it was war like almost. Bam bam, bam. Reporter when the shooting stopped a veteran Police Sergeant scott lunger lay wounded. This is a tragic day for the Police Department, family of the department and men and wom
Structures are we guesstimating about at this point might be threatened . I dont have an exact number on the structures at this time. It is a really remote area so we are still working on getting that number. Thanks for taking the time to keep everybody informed. We will keep you updated with the latest on this on twitter on abc 7 news bay area. Good evening and thank you for joining us on this wednesday. Im ama daetz in for cheryl jennings. And im larry beil in for dan ashley. Lets check in with our meteorologist sandhya patel to see what the conditions are and how strong the wind is blowing around that Lake Berryessa area. It is gusty in the area where the brush fire is burning. Temperature 73 degrees. Relative humidity is about 35 but the wind out of the southwest to 23 gusting to 31 is no help to firefighters. This is generally an area that tends to get windy and this is the closest reporting site to the Lake Berryessa fire location. As we take a look at our radar signature you see
Fantastic 4, only in theaters. We are following two big stories. One is a heartbreaking vigil for a fallen hero. The local officer shot and killed during a traffic stop. And crews are struggling to gain ground on a fire that is raging out of control and has been for hours sending people running for safety tonight. Good evening, everyone. Im larry beil in for dan ashley. Im ama daetz. We start with the breaking news out of napa county where a fastmoving fire has exploded and is threatening homes and forcing vac having evacuations. It is spreading to solano and yolo counties. Right now the fire burned more than 4,000 acres and it is still growing. With 5 containment it is out of control. There are 150 structures that are threatened and threatening mandatory evacuations. Residents have been told to get out. Campers at canyon creek have also been evacuated. Alan wang is live at the fire line with more. Reporter you can see the fire burning down the ridge toward us and the homes along this
male announcer how far would you go to help someone . Would you cross a street . Would you cross an ocean . Would you go if you could use your knowledge to teach someone and, in the process, maybe learn something yourself . Life is calling. How far will you go . Peace corps. v we are following two big stories. One is a heartbreaking vigil for a fallen hero. The local officer shot and killed during a traffic stop. And crews are struggling to gain ground on a fire that is raging out of control and has been for hours sending people running for safety tonight. Good evening, everyone. Im larry beil in for dan ashley. Im ama daetz. We start with the breaking news out of napa county where a fastmoving fire has exploded and is threatening homes and forcing vac having evacuations. It is spreading to solano and yolo counties. Right now the fire burned more than 4,000 acres and it is still growing. With 5 containment it is out of control. There are 150 structures that are threatened and threateni
You can see the huge flames. Fires are affecting three counties napa and county. Amy . This is 6,000 acres and we are watching it grow. We have seen some flares. Can up over the hillside and now it is very smoky. It has been very busy. We are watching from pleasanton valley road. It is very smoky. And still. No wind. That is an advantage right now. Look at this video fire has already destroyed one build asking we have video of that happening, it was an outhouse or a shed. A home has been damaged. 100 are threatened. We have video of the fire we shot moments ago on the hillside we are standing in front of. Usually you see fire lie down overnight. Not this. It is still raining. Year, it was really picking up because of the winds. They were whipping it along. They are worried about that today. They have thrown a lost manpower at this. You will see the numbers go up. We dont physically put the numbers assign until they arrive but there were significant orders for resources to this incident