Largest fires in state history. Merely one. 4 million acres have burned statewide in nearly 2000 structures have been destroyed. At least seven people have a ed as result of the fires and were injured. Fires like this seem to be a new normal in california with significant delays is coming almost every fall. Climate change has made weather more unpredictable and led to hotter and drier conditions and pushed to fire prone regions. Should we plan to live with this devastation and air quality for many years to come . Is there any way g out . Joine is Scott Stevens a professor at uc berkeley. We have seen several instances in which the devastation from s wildfis become personal including the santa cruz firefighters who lost their own homes thisu year. E also facing concerns about a camp you run. What is the latest . Inthis is a little town called meadow valley. We have a camp there we have used for 130 years w for an undergraduate course and there is a fire called the bear fire to the south
And nearly two dozen sustained some level of smoke damage. Firefighters say that many of the units were packed with flammable material making the jobs even more difficult. It took two hours to get the flames out. If you drive highway we oh on the peninsula, it can be a traffic nightmare and now transportation officials are looking at ways to speed up the commute. We are joins in san bruno with what is being dorn. Katie . First, they will study the nasty section of 101. It is near the airport. They have secured federal funding in order to do this study. The metropolitan Transportation Commission said that highway 101 between 380 and whipple is the most unreliable stretches in the bay area. The Transportation Authority will look at other options including a traditional car pool lane. They believe, however, an express lane is the only way to go a car boom lane that solo drivers can pay to use. Express lanes are always there for you, riced to make sure the traffic is always moves, transit
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He can only point to certain things to grab your attention. Pretty much if he didnt know you he gets really scared. Reporter police pounded on doors and scowerred backyards. Dogs have been brought in and sharp images from that drone have been look at. Well do whatever it takes to locate this young boy. Were asking all of the neighbors in the area to please check your backyards, check your sheds were coming around doing it as well but an extra set of eyes is always good. Pd has been door to door so theres been a lot of coverage and theres a pretty frantic evident going on right now with how it is outside. Reporter the neighborhood borders on wooded park and theres water just beyond the trees. The search is frantic for this shy child alone in the cold. Im scared. Really scared. I dont even know him. I dont even know what to say. I dont even know what hes going through. Im reall really scared somethig happened or something. Reporter police are still calling this a missing persons case. Th
Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. It is 5 00. Morning to you, i am regular. I am natasha zouves. It is friday, most importantly. Meteorologist mike nicco has the friday and weekend forecast. Mike . Good morning, everyone, live doppler 7 hd shows you can put the umbrella away. It will be dry. Residual wetness on the roads. Sue will take care of that. Golden gate bridge winds are five miles per hour. Fog is going to develop the next couple of hours. Temperatures are mild in the 50s and midtoupper 50s with sunshine at noon so add the sunglasses, increasing clouds at 4 00, light rain in the north bay in the evening and i will let you know more ahead. It is quiet right now, where still over water on the roadways and you can see a sheen and this is 87, from the expressway to the s. A. P. Center, it is five minutes. We will look at mass transit in a little bit and the bay bridge toll plaza and what is hatching there. Thank you. We have break news from hawaii, the United