Season isnt. Rolling into 2018 now as fires are still burning right now. Im dan ashley. Im dion lim in for ama daetz. This is unusual year. 2017, cal fire battled more than 7,000 fires. Thats correct fire. About 50 more than last year, pretty average year. Burned more than twice as many acres. Biggest fire in modern state history, thomas fire, still burning. 91 contained and not expected to grow any more. Destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in little over three weeks. And we can never forget north bay wildfires. Late sunday night in october, merged into six massive fires, killing 43 people in napa, sonoma, lake and mendocino counties. Took 23 days to fully contain and fire season isnt over. Reporter david louis shows you what the cal fire is doing now and what its doing to budget. Reporter consumed over 1 million acres in california. Caused billions of dollars of damage and put pressure on 1. 8 billion budget. Approaching half the agency as entire budget halfway through the fiscal year
Brake tapping starts. Ive seen it get slower at little valley, there is a horse breeder there and a driveway, people can go into the driveway and back on. We are still okay for the cut through between 580 and 680. Crash right here just off of 680. We are waiting for another update from chp. We are bugging them a lot. Sorry, but we need to tell everybody whats going on. Everything else is moving smoothly, guys. New this morning more shaking in the area around danville, this is tied to recent quake swarm. The usgs says since midnight numerous small squaks have rattled the area. The biggest 2. 8 at 3 25. Then a 2. 7 one hour earlier. This makes at least ten dwaks between 2. 6 and 3. 0 over the past two weeks. Scientists say that that shaking is tied to a plate that actually pushes mt. Diablo higher. Bringing the gun control gate to the bay area. A bay area congressman is holding a town hall this weekend to discuss what needs to be done to make sure Something Like this never happens again.
Solidly higher, all in rally mode with the dow up more than half a percent, and the s p 500 up, and nasdaq up the most at 9 10 of 1 . For the dow and s p 500, the tech heavy nasdaq up for the first time in five days, putting in weekly gains, and this week we have had the pattern of bind the open and selling the close. Back to last friday, the pattern started last friday of the s p 500 higher midday only two fall. Todays trading higher during the day and finishing lower yesterday, recite a dramatic reversal with highs up more than a percent. We see right now the s p 500 flirting with that top trendline so it will be interesting to see whether or not buyers can hold on. One source of bullish tailwind, rates trading higher. That has been the case more recently when rates are trading lower the has been a tale stocks. Tailwind for that is the degree of sensitivity, but in the last five days we have had strength. There was also a bullish the apartment of energy report, and this was interesti
May be heading in toward livermore and pleasanton. This is right now blocking that shoulder and part of one of your lanes, but you see chp going by and you saw other cars going by. Theres Traffic Control. At its very worst you can go off and back on. This is highway 4 in sunol. That is whats going on right now. Let me show you on the maps where that is. That is here. Thats important because this is between the ge plant and 680. This is a major cut through for folks. Traffic very light so theyre able to get by right now, but there is a little slowly as you approach Little Valley. Thats where there is an extent in towards a business, exit and back on to the roadway and get around the crash activity. We will continue tracking that. Chp thought they would have that cleared up before the major morning commute. Traffic overall looks light right now. Also very cold for those folks working out there. Whats the forecast like for today . It starts out really cold this morning again. Weve seen fr
Well, growing number of companies are distancing themselves from the nationl Rifle Association ending discounts and other membership benefits. Let us now how you feel. Should companies boycott the nra. You can vote on our live poll abc7news. Com go to the website and click a thumbs up and thumbs down. We will leave the voting open while we bring in Lyanne Melendez live in the news room. Reporter would you believe me if i told that it is not always clear that boycotts have an impact on the companys business. Caught in the middle of an angry debate. The First National bank of omaha cut ties with the business. Flag ship win club called the american sellers wine club. It is described as the nra wine club. The company did not respond to a request for comment. One company that did break ties was simmanic saying they have stopped their Discount Program with the national Rifle Associations. Others have done the same. San francisco supervisor has led corporate boycotts in the gay rights fight.