Campus. Police investigating a suspicious package reported in the library. The rest of the campus is not effected, but police are asking people to avoid the library while theres an investigation. Rain is not forecast, but the showers not in time to help fire crews in placer county. They had to scramble to fight a grass fire thats now grown to 355 acres. The foothill fire broke out near Thunder Valley casino and expanded rapidly in the dry and windy conditions. Theyve now stopped the forward progress and flames. The fire is 30 percent contained. A mandatory Evacuation Order remains in effect for an Industrial Area just north of roseville. Live look outside, its a dry monday, but the first rain of the fall season and on the way, and it will dramatically reduce the fire risk. A lot of people may be headed to the sierra for the holidays, and a good time to leave is now because the winter storm could make travel dangerous tomorrow. Tuesday night and wednesday allen, its going to be rough dr
Up, it has been very erratic the winds in this area. We have weather coming in which will increase those winds, and that is going to drive the fire in a different direction that we dont want to happen. Reporter firefighters are writing from san luis obispo, and los angeles to help in this firefight, we are also establishing an Evacuation Center in toledo, so far there is no word how many structures may have burned. Take a look at this picture posted on twitter, it shows an aerial view of the fire, taken by a passenger that was flying to san diego tonight. Our chief meteorologist here now, we will talk about the rain and the thoughts on that fire, and those the forecast here we with some strong winds blowing everything towards the south, and that canyon land affair, Santa Barbara is set up, they will be funneling in those canyons, those are populated areas, so this fire is going towards, the upper edges of folder and some of those roads out of Santa Barbara if you see that, but, they wi
Hundreds of student protesters and community activists gathered in front of the Cathedral of Learning throughout Sunday evening for a march and subsequent rally in support of Palestine and demanding that Pitt divest from any funds supporting Israel.
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