Investigators believe the flames overtook their vehicle after they got into a crash. We are trained to do a job, and, uhm, you know, theres just times, um, when, you know, some things go bad, but but the fight still has to go on. Thousands of people have been evacuated. Firefighters are battling another group of fires burning to the east of twist. President obama directed federal funds to help out in the firefight across the state of washington. Fire crews will get relief thanks to military troops stepping in to lend a hand today. You can either pull it over your head and get down on the ground get your feet in. Thats the training. Teams of soldiers training yesterday and many are already joining crews on the front lines. By this weekend, the 200 active duty soldiers will be deployed up and down the west coast of virginia. New this morning a group of mosquitos tested positive for west nile virus in martinez. Mosquitos also tested positive in oakley. So far no humans have contracted the
Pretty majestic imagery. A viewer sharing this drone video with us. You can see how all the smoke from the fire is filling the sky. The fire is burning on both sides of tesla road between livermore and tracy. This is a very remote area of the livermore valley. Other images illustrate the scope of this fire. Which grew extremeley quickly late this afternoon and tonight. Thick white smoke. Blanketing the sky. currently is at 2,500 a. With five percent containment. The fire is moving in a southeastern direction and as mentioned we did have some evacuations earlier at the motorcycle parked. Unfortunately we do lose one structure but it was uninhabited. Nevertheless it was destroyed grant and it was a home that was lost . yes but apparently nobody was living there as the fire continues it is possible may bump up to a higher severity grant what is the outlook tonight do they hope to make progress . we are hoping to make a lot of progress tonight but theres always a difficulty with the wind.
Mid80s inland. We will talk about the back to School Forecast and a slight bump up in the temperatures coming up. Carolyn. Lisa, thank you many this morning sharp questions are being asked about how a man flagged with terrorism charges in france was able to border a train. Three american men stopped the attack and they are now International Heroes. French Authorities Say if not for the action of these three men, who grew up in sacramento, many people would have died. Melanie woodrow has the latest. Injured, but not defeated. Airman Spencer Stone waved to photographers as he left the hospital. Spencer is one of three men being called International Heroes for thwarting a terror attack on a parisbound train. Sacramento state senior Anthony Sadler is another, although he still questions the title. I would say my friend spencer is the heroe. I really just followed his lead. Once he got up, we just followed him. The third Army National guardsman, alek skarlatos, who said tackling the gunman
Good morning, everyone. Im Carolyn Tyler. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, august 23rd. Lets start with a quick look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. Hi, carolyn. Good morning, everyone. Still a lot of gray out there. A little bit of sun break at sfo but still delays offed minutes there. San jose waking up to cloudy skies and temperatures at around 60 trees. 64 Mountain View, and oakland at 62. Also at San Francisco and the coast. Today at the coast you may get some sunshine here with the temperatures in the 60s to near 70. Looking at midand upper 80s inland. We will detail the mini warmup coming your way in a few minutes. Thank you, lisa. This morning sharp questions are being asked about how a man flagged with terrorism charges in france was able to border a train. Three american men stopped the attack and they are now International Heroes. French Authorities Say if not for the action of these three friends, who grew up together in have died. Melanie woodrow has
Lifethreatening situation. Family of the young men hailed heroes cant wait to see them. Im so proud of him. He is such a good kid. The hay speed train could have been a massacre. The three young men grew up together in carmichael. Saw a man later described as an Islamic Radical known to authorities, armed with an Assault Rifle running down the aisle. I looked over at spencer and said, lets go. Go i ducked down on my feet, and alex looked at what was happening. Spencer looked at what was happening. Alex said to spencer, go get him. 23yearold Spencer Stone, air force Airman First Class tackled the gunman. Alex, 22yearold National Guardsman wrestled the gun away. The three beat the gunman with his weapon until he was unconscious. I came it see my friends on our first trip to europe and we stopped a tourist. Crazy. No one did anything to help even after they subdued the guy. He said it was frustrating that they attacked the guy, get him to the ground and subdue them and then help the other