Im frances rivera. Fire fighters are entering an eighth day of fires raging across southern california. Fire Officials Say six wind whipped fires covering more than 250,000 acres have destroyed more than 800 homes and structures. 100,000 people have been forced to evacuate. The largest blaze, the thomas fire in Santa Barbara and ventura counties, is causing power surges and temporary outages for tens of thousands of customers. And the inferno is triggering new evacuation orders. Among those in the line of danger, talk show host Ellen Degeneres who tweeted her home is under evacuation and had to take her pets. Dan has the latest from the ground. Reporter the thomas fire, the biggest in southern california, is still on the move. Over of the last 12 to 14 hours we experienced extreme fire behavior. Reporter a new flareup in Santa Barbara county, more than 100,000 residents under evacuation orders. Perfect for wildfires. Were in december. The vegetation is as dry as its ever been. You know
You mentioned it, pat, slick spots out there, here and, there because we did actually have snow showers that moved through last night, not adding to any substantial accumulations, but, what we certainly have left behind, is some slick travel, because of it. So, we are going to eventually brighten up for some sunshine out, there but if it looks wet , just assume that it has, in fact, slicked over. You notice pretty consistent gradient, though, here. Youre at or below freezing generally out through the Lehigh Valley, poconos region, less har every i95, less as you go out to the shore point, again, these are all just observation points. And the observation at Philadelphia International airport, 34, but it doesnt mean some of the neighborhoods are arent a little colder. So, just keep that in mine, 31 , in doylestown, 31 in mt. Holly. Cold beginning to the morning obviously, but nothing terribly harsh, because we dont have too much wind today we had 43 degrees, within at least few degrees o
December 18th 2017. Glad youre with us. Happy birthday to you. Thank you. Happy birthday to your daughter sidney ton all you statue tanners out there. Happy happy birthday. What time is the party . Well, you know the older you get the more parties dont mean that much. So were not invited. Right. [ laughter ] in other words. Thats the bottom line. Were not invite. What happened was ing. Still empty mix. Maybe next year. 9 01 is the time. Also a ahead a teenager with local ties made us history becoming the first ever black woman to made the olympic Speed Skating Team well introduce to the 17yearold talk to her coming up next. All right. Thats exciting. Very exciting. Im getting exciting. I love the olympics. I do too. Im an olympic junkie. I like all the stories. Im mad if i miss the opens stories. I like it all. Lets take live look outside right now because its pretty mild. Gorgeous morning treat to do beautiful sunrise. Mike has a lk store for this monday. Hey, mike. Hey, guys. I saw w
Weather and traffic. Well start with those chilly temperatures tuck. Steve temperatures in the 30s off to the north and west. Its almost cold out there for parts of the area. We have a warmup, lots of sunshine in the forecast. Ill have those details in a moment. Erin. Chillier temperatures but sun glare impacting our drive on 66 eastbound. Speeds under 10 miles per hour. About a 45 minute delay from gainsville to the beltway. If youre taking the rails we have metro delays on the orange and silver lines to Largo Town Center and new carrolton. Earlier train malfunction at clarendon allison and steve. Want to get to an update on the breaking news we first brought you last hour. Arlington police capturing two suspects who ran away during a traffic stop this morning. Happened just before 5 00 a. M. Along Army Navy Drive near 395 and the Pentagon City mall. If you lively in an apartment, maintenance and you. And you hear maintenance knock on the door its usually expected is. Whats not is bei
Reopened Army Navy Drive here from fern street to e street. Everything flowing smoothly. When we arrived on scene a little before 5 30 this morning there was still a Park Police Helicopter overhead searching for the suspects. Arlington county police say where they made an attempted traffic stop and that two suspects bailed out of the suv and ran. That is why they had the Park Police Helicopter up. When we got here we looked a little bit closer. There were police further down fern street blocking off Army Navy Drive and right in front of the residence inn that is where we saw them doing some investigation on that vehicle itself. That will vehicle to us and as we got a closer look also we could see that it had some damage to it. The air bags on the front passenger and also the front drivers side both had been deployed. Theres also looks like some of the wheels also were flat and when i got a little front end damage as well so it appears to us obviously this suv strucking that. Struck som