Firefighters are counting on to this is kpix 5 news. Burning out of control. A big wildfire close to some homes. The one thing firefighters are counting on to go their way tonight. Good evening. Im ken bastida. And im elizabeth cook. The brushfire in Riverside County started just after 4 00 this afternoon and its still going strong tonight. Youre looking at live pictures. Its only 20 contained. Flames burned up to 150 acres of rancho rupa Regional Park west of riverside. The fire spread from 10 acres to 50 in just an hour, consuming palm trees and threatening homes and buildings. Right now, voluntary evacuations are in effect. Firefighters hope they can get the upper hand before gusty offshore winds start fanning the flames. So far, the winds are holding steady. Residents worked to help their neighbors before fire crews arrived. I had to help put it out. Hes working from the bottom. Im working from the top. An it was just team work. Its horrible. Scary. People trying to knock on people
Helicopter, rising into a brilliant blue sky, rounding st. Peters and the coliseum. Within minutes, the arrival at castel gandolfo, the vacation retreat of popes. Crowds greeting him outside his new, temporary, home. And then, one last time as pope, benedict stood on a balcony. He spoke, saying, i am no longer the pontiff of the catholic church. I am simply a pilgrim, beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth. [ speaking Foreign Language ] reporter after blessing the faithful, he disappeared. And hours later, at 8 00 p. M. Local time, those swiss guards leaving their post. The gates closing. One chapter ends, a new one begins. Benedict told the cardinals today that he will be close to them in prayer as they choose his replacement. And diane, tonight, this 2,000yearold church, steeped in tradition, is improvising its way into a new reality. All right, george, our thanks to you. And, of course, tonight, at the vatican, the papal apartment has been sealed with a red ribbon, a
Headquarters thats continued to grow over the last few days. We are learning more details about what happened before tuesdays shooting. We know detective Sergeant Loran butch baker and Elizabeth Butler had been at the property of the suspect for about 10 minutes before knocking on the suspects door at his porch. Jeremy goulet talked to his officer wind back inside to get his gun came out a back door and ambushed him. Neither was wearing body armor at the time of the incident but body armor would not have helped. A half hour later goulet was gunned down himself. He had taken officer bakers body armor and both officers weapons. Goulet was a former military police officer, marine corps reservist and Army Helicopter pilot courtmartialed for rape of female officers in hawaii. Those charges were dropped. He has done jail time for peeping and secretly recording video of women in san diego, portland and berkeley. The fallen officers were investigating a new accusation that he broke in a cowork
Authorities believe the fire may have been sparked by downed power lines. Were learning more about the man who killed two Santa Cruz Police detectives in cold blood. Kpix 5s kiet do found out the death toll could easily have been much higher. Kiet . Reporter ken, everyone we talked to within the crime scene, seems like they all had some story of survival. Thats because the gunman had two weapons and was spraying bullets everywhere. Were also learning that the two officers murders happened so quickly that they barely had time to turn and run. Youre looking at a 45 caliber bullet fired by the suspect from his own gun. He pulled the trigger at his home. It sailed over a playground, a busy street, and hit a woman standing on stanford avenue a fifth of a mile away. She was standing in the street by the speed bump. Reporter right in front of melissas home. The bullet missed her child, who was in her arms. The child said, my mommy was hit by a bullet and i looked at her and said, what . And w
Santa cruz at 11 00 in the morning. A Scholarship Fund is set up in the fallen officers names. We are going to put a link to the citys website on cbssf. Com with information how you can donate. Click on news and look for coverage on the police shootings. The man accused of killing a man from oakland and two other people on the Las Vegas Strip is in jail. A team of Los Angeles Police officers and federal agents arrested 26yearold ammar harris yesterday at an apartment complex in north hollywood. The arrest came after a week long manhunt. There were tips that proved to be beneficial that we used. The shooting victim kenneth cherry was laid to rest yesterday in his native oakland. Harris and cherry had argued at the valet stand of the aria hotel resort. Investigators say the shooting that followed caused a Chain Reaction crash on the strip that killed a taxi driver and his passenger. A partial human skull found along the Alameda Creek trail was probably there for at least a year. And fore