All right, laura, thank you. A man is in the lake county jail. They say he admitted to spray painting it black and white. Trying to make it look like a police daryl. During a daily briefing, hes suspending all escorts into the fire zone. County deputies arrested three other men yesterday for drying trying to break into homes. Take a look at what his school collected by today. And equal amount of donation hauled away yesterday. And abc 7 news angelow submitted this picture. Thank you for all of your generosity. And thank you for sharing your picture with us. Thats fantastic, people trying to help out. The fire has really taken its toll. Its been unundated with animals stranded by the fire. Theyre making room for as many animals stranded by the fire as they can. Meantime, theyre trying to reunite dogs and cats with their owners. These cats were forced to evacuate from the valley fire. Theyre waiting for their owners to claim them, but that could take time. Theyre logs everything. The she
We start this morning with breaking news a worker for caltrans hit and killed and now there is a possibility that the driver was drunk. We are live with the latest. Reporter yeah. We are here at the scene of that deadly accident which is 580 westbound near lake shore or lake shore boulevard. We are joined right now you may have seen one of the chp officers who has been monitoring, george smith. If you can walk us through it. Yeah. The vehicle was traveling on westbound 580. Eastlake shore. Vehicle lost control and struck a worker. Reporter as i understand it that vehicle was westbound on i 580, went across all lanes of traffic at one point. Thats correct. The vehicle lost control. Veered to the right. Struck the wall and went back, across all lanes to the left and went into the Construction Zone and struck a worker. Reporter and did the driver stop here at the scene . Is he in custody . The driver was put under act for suspicion of driving under the influence. Reporter one other aspect
As of this afternoon, it is at 73,000 acres and now 40 contained. The death toll still stands at three people. The number of homes destroyed remains at 585. Ktvus tom vacar now with more on todays developments. Reporter even though the fire is 40 contained, with hot weather and low humidity back, the army of firefighters has grown once again. There are nearly 4100 firefighters now on scene working to contain this fire. They are from across california and now from across the western united states. Reporter when Police Caught one individual with a car stolen inside the fire area and tried to make it look like a police vehicle, the Sheriffs Office decided to suspend escorting homeowners into the area for now. Were focusing all our efforts, our Law Enforcement efforts on getting officers out into the evacuation area and actively patrolling for anyone who is looting or should not be there. Were arresting folks out there that are attempting to break into homes and that in fact have broken in
Announcing it will default on part of its nearly 1 billion in debt. And we begin tonight in missouri, the Mississippi River is reaching heights never measured before. Rising water is breaching levees protecting farms and homes and people are now scrambling to get to higher ground. Al jazeeras andy rosegen is out there in the middle of it all. Andy what are you seeing night . Jonathan, take a look, the merrimac river is covering the intersection for days. 46 feet, 20 feet above flood stage. The Mississippi River as you mentioned which the merrimac needs 52, is about 20 feet above flood stage. Trouble brewing interstate 55, out of st. Louis, they are putting sand bags there, water is starting to get close there. The head of i dot, Missouri Department of transportation, are keeping their fingers crossed. Adding to the thousands of people that have already been chased from their homes by the floodwaters. Missouris governor calls it the worst. Water levels are predicted to exceed, the histo
Contribution to the world. And robots in but then this is d w business thanks for joining us. China wants further talks to hammer out what the details will be of a socalled phase one trade deal with the United States beijing may send a delegation to finalize a written agreement that could be signed by president from pound president xi at the Asia Pacific Economic cooperation summit in chile as soon as next month meanwhile u. S. Treasury secretary Steve Menuhin has warned a new round of terrorists to take effect in december will still happen unless a deal is reached well for more on the effects of the existing tariffs we can speak to. From the Asian Development bank at director of Macro Economic Research Division so weve already got tariffs on hundreds of thousands of dollars on chinese goods billions indians and yes hundreds of. What effect they already having on on asia as a whole right the number of affects the 1st is youre actually seeing a decline in investment pretty broad based a