Miles. 236 buildings have been destroyed but many evacuees are now finally allowed back into their neighborhoods this morning. We want to talk about the fire conditions. Mark, we did have some winds overnight, but it doesnt seem like they materialized the same way that we thought they would. Those winds, we were thinking potentially approaching 60 miles per hour. Instead, theyre around 40 to 50 miles an hour. So there was a bit of a pulse in the winds last night, but not extreme. Heres our live camera looking out towards San Francisco bay. A bit of some haze. This is a Nice Development to report. About one minute ago, the red flag warning expired. So this has been the third red flag warning in a week. This last one just expired within the past couple of minutes. That is a Nice Development. Take a look at some of the peak wind gusts. Mount diablo 51 miles per hour. Mount st. Helena, 45 miles an hour. And oakland hills, have you winds gusting to right around 37 miles an hour. Right aroun
That breaking news tonight is an urgent warning about imminent i. C. E. Raids from the mayor of one of the bay areas biggest cities. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im eric thomas. And im dion lim. Right away lets get to abc 7 News Reporter lisa amin gulezian. What are you learning . Reporter oaklands mayor libby schaaf issued this warning late tonight stating multiple credible sources have told her i. C. E. Could start operations within the next 24 hours. You may recall earlier this month Homeland Security raided 77 businesses in San Francisco, san jose, and sacramento looking for illegal workers. Agents demanded proof that employees were legally allowed to work in the united states. In her statement schaaf reiterated that Oakland Police would not participate in i. C. E. Activities. She said, we want residents to prepare, not panic. We understand i. C. E. Has used activity rumors in the past as tactic to create fear. Our intent is for our community to go about their daily lives w
governor mike huckabee and colonel oliver north. plus, parched from a drought and now parts of california are drowning too much rain. we ll take you live to california where people are fleeing their homes out of a fear of mud slides. hello, everybody, i m uma pemmaraju, america s news headquarters live in the nation s capital starts right now. and we begin with the breaking news out of ukraine. events there are changing by the hour. the latest, russian president vladimir putin has secured approval from his own parliament to send in russian troops into the strategic region of ukraine known as crimea. this seems to formalize what ukrainian officials have been saying that russian troops already there. aircraft have been spotted overhead and armed troops have been seen on the ground. putin says he is just protecting ethnic russians in the area following the ouster of ukraine s pro-russian president last week, but ukrainian officials are accusing russia of an actual military
master manipulator, saying this. if the affair went public, it would have destroyed any chance to become the president, and he knew it and he made a choice to break the law. we re joined by melanie sloan, executive director for citizens of responsibility and ethics in washington. nice to see you, melanie. thanks for talking with us. nice to be here. walk me through what happened. andrew young will be back on the stand as i mentioned again today. yesterday was his first time on the stand. how did that go? i think it went fine for him. he s had an easy time so far. he s the prosecution s main witness, and he s probably going to be on the stand for a couple days walking the jury through his relationship with john edwards from beginning to end. they tried to hammer away at his credibility, i thought, a lot yesterday while he was on the stand. what did you think about that? well, clearly he has a lot of credibility problems. he s got an immunity agreement with the prosec