Beach in orange county. Strong waves could hit in a few hours. Now for the latest on the sue pho me advisory we president on the tsunami advisory, lets check in with sandhya patel. Lets take a look at the earthquake and just how powerful the waves that have been generated all the way from the chile coast owl toward the pacific. It is across the pacific and in a northwesterly fashion. Thats where the strongest energy has gone. This is what is prompting the tsunami varies re. They are not expecting a major tsunami or major waves. It is certainly possible that a series of dangerous waves many hours after the arrival time may actually occur. The first may not be the largest which is why there is concern. The tsunami advisory is not for the bay area, but for raged point to san san onofre state beach. It arrives at 4 46 a. M. The best advice is get off the beaches and out of the harbors and the marinas. In santa cruz we are expected to find the first in the morning. Estimated height is. 4 fe
Behind to escape the flames. Cal fire is trying to make fire lines. The latest evacuations for clear valley and other areas are highway 29 down to tubs lane, middletown and Hidden Valley lake. Entire neighborhoods have been wiped out. The full scope of the disaster is the not known. Areas where homes were destroyed cobb mountain, middletown and the lake and they are going towards the thermal plant. Some cooling towers have been lost. For a close up look at the disaster, we are in middletown much tonight where much of the town went up in smoke, joe . Brian, huge fire and it moved very quickly. As you said the scope of it we are not sure. We have been driving around middletown and we have seen home after home just leveled to the ground, smoldering in ruins. In middletown, entire neighborhoods are turned to ash. Many homes burned down to the foundation. Dozens of homes destroyed. We are looking at in this area over hundreds of homes up to 1,000 homes destroyed. This corner at main and jef
I would say that the valley fire in lake county will be one of the top 20 most devastating fires weve seen in california and the fire season itself has probably been the most extreme that ive seen in my 30 years with regards to the number of fires that weve seen statewide, the way these fires are starting and spreading in and ending up in basically a migration is a rapid and very erratic spread of fire and its making it very, very difficult to fight and to get on and its putting people and property in harms way. And my colleague, Scott Schaefer spends part of the week in lake county as kqedsuki lewis. Welcome to you both. Suki, let me start with you. You were among the first allowed back into the fire zone. What did you see . It was as the sun was setting and we went through the blockade and there were still spot fires everywhere, and there was smoke rising from the bound and the big tree stumps from where the fire had burned to the ground and we were driving further down the road to a
Island near the bahamas thursday. The same island where debris was found saturday. A coast guard crew recovered a lifeline from the ship called el farro, search teams have searched a debris field that could be from the ship, 33 people were on board. Heavy rain storms are expected to continue today in South Carolina, the coast guard and local agency made hundreds of rescues including that of a woman and her 15monthold they be. They had gotten trapped in fast moving flood waters near charleston yesterday. Rainfall totals over the weekend ranged from 14 to 24 inches and some roads were no match for all that water. We havent seen this level of rain in the low country in 1000 years. Thats how big this is. At least five storm related deaths have been reported in South Carolina, in the capital, columbia, a dam break flooded major thoroughfares. A Flash Flood Watch remains in effect for many areas because more rain is in the forecast today. Time for our weather and a little traffic, i woke up
Evening, thanks for joining us, im dan ashley. Im aum ra ama daetz. Take a look at what abc7 News Reporter Cornell Bernard shot today in san rafael as the rain moved towards lake county. Lets turn to spencer christian, spencer this, should help on the fire line. Its helped with the firefighting efforts and cleaned the air a little bit. Here is a live view showing light to moderate rainfall moving through the bay area, throughout the area of the valley fire, this is helpful rainfall. Firefighters 63 degrees and winds gusting to 20 miles per hour. The winds are accompanied by rainfall. It continues to be light to moderate from west to east. Lets look at rainfall totals so far in mount st. Helena. Notice how widely varied these amounts are. Lower lake, only 4 100ths of an inch. We expect the rain to end and winds to be rather strong throughout the overnight hours. They will shift north and northwestern direction and will weaken mid day, into the afternoon. Bad news is that temperatures ri