Ashes, now struggling to keep their child safe. Ive lived through four fires in paradise, and its not something i considered risking with my daughter again. Their story of survival. Nightline starts right now with juju chang. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. When ron howard and his team embarked on a documentary in paradise, california, they knew they would find people in pain. But what they also discovered was a comeback story. Leaning into all they had left each other. Will carr has reporte i have lived here for 30 years. I love this school. Reporter the football field holds decades of special memories for michelle john. We brought the line down around here. And there was screaming. I mean, people were just so excited. There were so many people, its packed. Reporter it was here just months after californias deadliest wildfire destroyed much of the town, that the Community Rallied to honor the graduating seniors. The kids have gone through so much trauma. They lost their schools,
Rather have that than it being more for today tomorrow still 2 more days of this heat wave ahead of us so yes, Power Outages today. I think those of us that having seen youre going want to use it you dont have ac well i hope you had a good plan yesterday to get cool, you might want to do that yet again this after went outside of berkeley right here skies are Crystal Clear and we do have heat advisories and peach and excessive heat warnings same exact places theyve been the past couple of days now, and they wont remain in effect through 07 00pm tomorrow which is when our heat wave officially ends before it cooler weekend now today will be a touch cooler in part due to increased sea breeze helping to draw on some cool coastal air youre actually seeing a touch of fog at times right along the coast in San Francisco today, a sign of that cooler marine air thats trying to push and today, its really not going to make it past berkeley and oakland out, but its going to help to result in a sligh
Season. From january to may 10 of last year, we had 675 wildfires. From january until may 10. This year, we have had 1135 wildfires. What california continues to fight the viral pandemic, it must also be ready to fight wildfires while protecting the firefighters from the virus. This is being done by training and smaller groups with more spacing between firefighters. At real fires, base camp tents will be much farther apart to ensure distancing as well. Trying to do our best to suppress the spread. At the same time, we have to mitigate and suppress these fires. The priority . Use more people, aircraft, fire engines and equipment to knit fires in the bud. Initial attack is the key component to keeping fires small and keeping firefighters healthy. Pg e and other investor owned utilities in california will be wire to spend 5 billion on safety and wildfire mitigation. To a sure that happens, the governors increasing the state budget to launch a 106 person wildfire safety division. That divi
We have an update, we are looking at this low spots in the bay area, driving on highway 580 near the ultima pass. Right here at 205. We have been talking about how traffic is here, and we do have the crew driving on 580 coming through the pass. There are a lot of cars out here, i dont see stop and go traffic, but in the past few days there has been as the morning wears on, more traffic here and stop and go. You can see that we are driving pretty much at the limit. There is a lot of traffic. We are going to 85 southbound, where four people were killed in an overnight rack. 85 is slow. Chp is investigating the crash and, so, lets go to alyssa harrington, following this for us, we have more details on what has happened and which chp is saying. Alyssa . There were six people in the vehicle when it flipped, the driver was arrested on suspicion of dui. This is a vehicle that was traveling at a high rate of speed and it lost control for an unknown reason. There were six people that were in th
Edge you can see, so maybe there is partial clearing this afternoon. Inland temperatures will be average. Oakland will be close to it. Lets head over and talk about southbound 85. Good morning, sal. Southbound 85 near cotton road, we have a closure of the freeway here on 85 southbound. You will not to be able to get a bike, they will be taking you up for an investigation, we have more details on what happened. Alyssa . A Dodge Durango packed with six people was traveling at a high rate of speed, the driver lost control. The crash had happened that 10 20 p. M. And the southbound lanes of highway 85, it flipped several times and, one passenger was inside the vehicle, and pronounce three male passengers dead at the scene. A female was also taken to the hospital and died from her injuries. Officers arrested the driver for suspicion of dui, the southbound lanes on highway 85 are closed, and chp hopes to have lanes open by 8 00. The driver was arrested, under the influence of alcohol. Always