County. I jumped out of bed. Thank god. Or else id be sleeping in the house on fire. He lost his house, he left es on his come o in vacaville. Fires reached the neighborhood. I was on the roof, i didnt know if the leaves would pick up and get embers. That man was able to save his home. But the house across the street burned to the ground. One resident, Current Conditions made for the perfect storm. I think its unprecedented with the heat and the humidity and the wind, it was inevitable. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. Thank you for joining us. To the north, we have the lnu lightning complex fire and to the south the czu august lightning complex. The largest fire is the scu lightning complex burning east of milpitas. Cal fire says 137,000 acres have burned. Thats 214 square miles. Bigger than the city of san jose. A fire bee afr analyst with cal fire explains how hes able to calculate how fast and far its moving by using a technique called spotting. Right now the spotting dis
The day trying to determine if homes are still standing. She joins us now from davenprt. Stephanie . Its been an emotional week for people trying to see if their home is still there. We visited the Civic Auditorium just east of us that has been at full capacity for seven days in a row. Its one of the dozen shelters taking evacuees in. Its just south of here where we met many families. You notice that haze that stretches through the mountain significantly better than 48 hours ago. Their homes are in the middle of the fire zone, and all they can do now is wait. These are like tears of joy, tears of sorrow, because its very bittersweet. Its very sweet that my family is okay. Reporter Kathy Azevedo is living through the pain of simply not knowing. All you can do is take one day at a time and just be thankful for what is, you know, instead of what was. You really cant look back. Reporter mourning the thought of losing everything, she sat in her car praying for her family, her parents and he
A safe way to bring kids back into the classroom. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Ucsf compiled a report that may ab virus spreading in the classroom. Abc 7 News Reporter Leann Melendez takes it one step at a time. We know children have less severe symptoms than adults. Inside my nose are receptors and thats how the virus gets into my body and children do not produce receptors as frequently as i do. Pl is n d for the ing her zoom disease to get in, and there is no or limited disease in elementary age students and thats why were seeing that pattern. Kids have smaller lungs so when they sneeze or cough they dont spread the particles as far as High School Students or adults do. Another interesting fact is that size does matter. Kids are shorter and that would mean they wouldnt fill the room. Perhaps the most important point that ucsf want to make that mak, physical distancing and ventilation are key to curbing the spread of the virus. Take for example, this high school in israel as seen in t
Let me introduce to you for the first time your next Vice President of the united states, Kamala Harris. Im so proud to stand with you. And i do so mindful of all the heroic and ambitious women before me. Biden and harris both outlined their vision for the future, drawing sharp contrasts between their ticket and President Trump and attacking his response to covid19. When other countries are following the science, trump pushed miracle cures he saw on fox news. Biden also acknowledged the historic name of their campaign. This morning, all across the nation, little girls woke up, especially little black and brown girls, who so often feel their communities. But today, today just maybe, theyre seeing themselves for the first time in a new way. Harriss Vice President ial candidacy putting a spotlight on california. Governor newsom reflected on what the harris pick means to him as a bay area native. As a point of pride, not just being a californian. Growing up in San Francisco, it doesnt surp
Giants outfielder Mike Yastrzemski discussing the situation. We understand the world is a bigger place than the baseball field and when events of the world are overflowing on to the baseball field, we dont have control over that, and thats when we have to adapt and thats when we have to make our choices on how we want to handle situations. I think the thing that was most enlightening about yesterday is how many good, highquality conversations happened around the clubhouse. Four of five of them where people were sitting around talking about really important social issues and really looking for ways to make changes and being creative of how to protest. Talking with a source connected to the nba, the players are going to use their platform now to push owners to make political change, not just donate money and hope for the best. Theyll also push for police reform. One item on the agenda thats going to be more immediate, they want nba owners to open up their arenas to use as voting location