Reporter firefighters call this a plumedriven fire meaning theyre fueling the burn. It falls down and spreads the fire in all kinds of directions. That creates all kinds of challenges. Reporter there was a bit of good news today. Firefighters say cooler temperatures and calmer winds slowed the spread of the fire. But at this point, thats little consolation. 60,000acre fire, with the conditions that it meets, those things only help but just a little bit. Reporter joining the effort today, the air force reserves. This morning deploying two c130s to our region joining more than a dozen other air tankers and helicopters, all to bolster thousands of firefighters on the ground who spent the last five days working for some progress. Reporter cal fire says in that new area where the fire jumped, there are some homes, though most of it is uninhabited land. However, there is a lot of really dry brush, fuel for those flames. Report live in lakeport ian cole nbc bay area news. Thank you, ian. Fire
Its been more than two weeks since both sides faced off in the courtroom here. Theyre in recess right now, the exhusbands attorney is an hour into his closing argument, its an emotional case with long lasting impacts for both sides. You see them both coming in around 9 30, the doctor appeared with someone who told me she was her friend lending her support. Steven finley walked in on crutches. He hurt himself playing sports a couple months ago. Both he and lee were stone faced in the courtroom today. The judge asked questions throughout the First Closing argument. At issue is the fate of the five frozen embryos made by finley and lee back in 2010. Three years later, the couple split. Finleys attorney went first, and he called lees cancer a red herring, she doesnt have cancer any more, its a separate issue. Focusing on the consent waiver signed before freezing those embryos. On page eight of that form, you can see language that if a couple divorces, the embryos can be discarded. Finleys
Then pulls him to safety discuss before train klaidz that the car. This is what we are trend to do. Right place at the rate time. The deputy in the video and partner was on the track. Waving to the oncoming train to slow down. The precious seconds electrically made all the difference. Neighbor saw it mangled car as it was being taken away. By looking at the car do you think he would have survived if he were in the car. Gosh no. No. I mean there was barely any formation of the car that was smashed up edriver was believed to have been under the influence which may explain why the deputy had to remove him from the vehicle. Both say they were just doing their job. I dont think there was time to be scared. Kind of do things as safely as you can and respond and thats it. Kind of just happens. Driver was taken to the hospital for minor injuries. Fortunate ending thanks to 2 deputy who were ready when it counted most. In sunnyvale lillian, abc 7 news. Wow how close was. That incredible work by
From ktvus debora villalon. Shes live on highway 20 with the fatigue that Fire Fighters are starting to feel. Reporter its really starting to rack up heather. Were in clear springs. In the distance you will see theres a road closure. In the back of the hill theres a few big hot spots. No one expects them to be the last. Tonight this hill was crackling on the side of highway 20. Thats where firefighters will spend the night trying to keep it there. Most highways are natural fire breaks but not for the rocky fire. And theres hundreds of hillsides like this. Packed tight with fuel and ready to burn. This is Fire Fighters 13th day at the line. First they were at the wragg fire, then the lowell fire now this one. Theyre all burning with intensity like we havent seen. Its been a long time since the humidity has been low. Its real dangerous. Very dangerous. We dont put people out in front of the fire but we wont put anyone in harms way. Were fighting aggressively with boots on the ground. Rep
Will take west. They start off on the cool side but then well end up with temperatures that will be in the 80s. I went 88 runs a little warmer there and then clout. It will spin in a lot of cloud cover here. We could eke out a few showers because of it. 50s and 60s on the temps. The water temps are very warm so the coastal locations are staying warm. Southwest 20. Not as breezy. A mix of low clouds and enis up in the morning. Er, 70s. All right sal sal what to you have for us here . Well, we tonight have pretty decent conditions when it comes to the traffic. The trafficking also looking at the commute thank goodness i have a cough button. Westbound bay bridge that is light coming into San Francisco with no major problems. Also the morning commute looks good if you are driving on the san mateo bridge heading out to the highrise. As we look at highway 101 in San Francisco, northbound 101 looks good approaching the 80 split. Lets go back to the desk. We are following a developing story th