Bay area wildfires turning even more deadly tonight weve learned a 70 yearold man has been found dead in Santa Cruz County where the czu lightning complex fires are burning coal fire says those fires are burning at least 74,000 acres so far in san mateo and santa cruz counties. It is at 8 containment at least a 163 structures have been destroyed. There are roughly 1500 fire personnel working on the fire lines kron fours gayle ong joins us now live. In the Santa Cruz Mountains in Scotts Valley with more on this fire fight. Gayle. Well that 70 yearold man was found in the low area of last chance the road and of Santa Cruz County sheriffs deputies are also looking into 3 other missing persons cases. Firefighters are focusing on saving homes. We have video of what theyre doing today and you can see a they were a back burning they were setting fires to control the fire line around a home on highway 9 in Boulder Creek and this is right by the Boulder Creek Community Church. They were making
Dangerous heatwave continues until next wednesday for inland areas. Heat advisory until 9 00 p. M. Tonight for the bay shoreline. Heat illnesses are possible. The risk is high. Be careful. Live doppler 7 showing you no fog. What we have been dealing with is tropical moisture, which has added to the humidity, and thats made it even more uncomfortable. Ill let you know how long this heatwave will last and whats changing for this weekend, coming right up. Okay, sandhya, thank you. All right there are several Power Outages in the bay area, affecting at least 10,000 customers, including some large ones on the peninsula and the south bay. There are also two large outages in concord and martinez that were affecting 4,000 customers at one point. Power has been restored to some of those people. Now we just got this video our newsroom not long ago, showing a melted mess on Begonia Court in martinez, where one of these large Power Outages is going on. Contra costa fire says a transformer box in f
Im Catherine Heenan Vicki Liviakis has the night off. The video shared on social Media Thursday shows the woman calling the Asian American worker a derogatory term upsetting other customers kron fours dan thorn talked to the man who shot the video. He joins us live in los altos tonight with more dan. Well Catherine Grant this man tells me that he was angry by what he was seeing and what he was hearing. This woman say to this post office worker. The woman was already out of line for yelling at this woman, but then she used to racial slurs and he and other customers in the post office jump to this workers defense. And a now viral video a racist outburst is caught on camera in los altos its like the 30 year the woman in the video during her angry rant pearls and antiasian slur at a post Office Employee. Wall i didnt think it would escalate swear was about moving to time but then. She was just she started cursing i was like ok here we go its not acceptable huyler brumfield is the man heard
We will get to all of that but lets get you caught up on your forecast. The start of this day is going to look and feel a lot like yesterday but the afternoon is going to be different. Not nearly as much of a marine layer. There is less wind and we will warm up. Some places will be 15 degrees warmer today compared to yesterday and that says so much more about how cool yesterday was. Today is actually your warmer day by 15 degrees. Concord is one of the average days. You are going up to the mid 80s. Ilmighget a little bit of and to drizzle at the coast but we are going to warm back up into the low 90s by the time we get into the weekend and that is also something we need to talk about. I will have the complete forecast in just a few minutes. Good morning, we have the traffic center. Lets look at the roadways. If you want to take 680, we have some brake lights. There was an accident right around 4 30 including an overturned vehicle. It is in the clearing stages. They had to make a traffi
Now at 11, and exclusive, explosive new claims that San Franciscos medical examiner was pressured to change autopsy results in the highprofile death of the public defender. Newly released documents reveal the internal fallout that spark calls for reform in the east bay. Shut it down and start over. One is santa clara leader is pushing drastic action to fight it defitely time for a reset. Dozens of california lawmakers are demanding a fix to the states unemployment mess. Now at 11 and streaming, a kpix 5 exclusive. A stunning new allegation connected to the sudden death of San Franciscos former public defender. Joe vasquez is live at city hall with details from a new lawsuit tonight. Reporter the question of what killed him is the subject of a very public disagreement for the last year and a half and now it is the subject of a lawsuit against the city and one of its top city officials. The public defender died last year and a month later the corner determined the cause of death. But the