You cant get through. The regular Customer Service line 8 00 to noon, forget it. Reporter Michael Hurley has been waiting since june. No faith in the system, none at all. Reporter the e. D. D. Blocked benefits saying they needed to prove they are who they say they are, like thousands of others they mailed in paper documents verifying their identity and then heard nothing back. I think im now in another reporter kim was told to wait eight weeks. I was upset. Because how would it be eight weeks to find my identity . I sent why eight weeks . Reporter the e. D. D. Required thousands of workers to verify their identities as it tries to weed out rampant fraud. But the Governors Task force found scammers still got paid while honest workers were blocked from benefits. During a twoweek reset, the e. D. D. Will install new technology that automatically verifies an k57pplicaapplicant identity and speed up new claims even as it doesnt address the old ones. Good afternoon, governor. Are you confide
Progress on the lnu lightning complex. Sky 7 was over vacaville, earlier this evening. This is damage on oak canyon lane. At least 978 structures have been destroyed. More than 356,000, containment. Cal fire shifted a lot of its focus to lake countys middle town, Hidden Valley lake and lower lake. Its an area thats been hit multiple times in several years. And this report for us a short time ago. Flames shooting into the smoky air along the hillside of butts canyon road southeast of middletown. A site that is one of the main fire focuses for cal fire. I honestly expected cal fire to buckle and just get overwhelmed by it. They have held up, remarkably well. In fact, on tuesday, some firefighters sprayed the hillside with water. Others took to the air, dropping fire retardant. This is an area where homes have burned in the past. Theres now hope that wont happen, again. There is a little bit of deaa vu. But what are you going to do . The human condition is to power through. So you cant la
Showing the homes damaged or destroyed in the czu lightning complex fire. The color coded map focuses on santa cruz county. So if you look here, what red means is that that home has been destroyed. Orange, yellow and blue means damage. Green shows undamaged homes. The black circle means the address is confirmed but if there is a white circle around the home, that means that that address has to be verified. You can find a link to this map on our website on abc7news. Com. The largest fire in the region is the scu lightning complex fire and it spans seven counties including alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties. It is 20 contained. And firefighters are making Good Progress though against it with major help from aerial water drops. This was the scene we saw during our 4 00 newscast as helicopters loaded up on water before taking off to do a drop near neighbors had to evacuate several times. That was all on fire, mission peak was all on fire. So you were basically surrounded by fla
Front lines tomorrow. And, at the same time, the weather is cooperating, pitching in with cooler temperatures and higher humidity. The Better Weather is helping firefighters with containment. Right now, the scu lightning complex is 20 contained. The czu lightning complex in santa cruz and san mateo counties is 19 contained and the lnu lightning complex in the north bay is 27 contained. Firefighters made steady progress on the lnu lightning complex. Sky 7 was over vacaville, earlier this evening. This is damage on oak canyon lane. At least 978 structures have been destroyed. More than 356,000, containment. Cal fire shifted a lot of its focus to lake countys middle town, Hidden Valley lake and lower lake. Its an area thats been hit multiple times in several years. And this report for us a short time ago. Flames shooting into the smoky air along the hillside of butts canyon road southeast of middletown. A site that is one of the main fire focuses for cal fire. I honestly expected cal fire
Supposed to deal with all of that . Thank you, mayor. I appreciate this, and again, this is such a challenging time, i would say the risks the downsides to the shelter in place and the slow reopening are very real and very concerning from a health standpoint and an economic standpoint. I think the Counter Point is no one has said, were going to go ahead and open quickly. As you see across the country, the Mental Health consequences of opening and having a surge, many people are struggling in San Francisco, but if we have a surge like we saw in new york or unfortunately like we saw in houston and parts of florida, we would have all of those concerns that youre talking about on top of the overwhelming the Hospital Systems due to covid19 plus the covid19 pandemic and everything that were dealing with and managing today. Unfortunately, theres downsides to where we are today, but theyre even worse. And we just want people to understand that these times are hard, but we have a pandemic in ou