Result of arson fires. And coronavirus takes out the countrys Oldest Department store chain. Liquidation sale signs could be seen on lord taylor locations yesterday. The nearly 200yearold Company Announcing its declared bankruptcy. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 3rd. Thank you for joining us. Hope you had a good weekend. Lots of news to get to. Were beginning this half hour with the possible hurricane heading for landfall in North Carolina. Residents and President Trump has already approved a disaster declaration for parts of the state. Isaias is a Strong Tropical Storm and heading northnorthwest. Before its done it will bring as much as six inches of rain to North Carolina. Reporter josh chapin is there. Reporter beachgoers raving about the weekends weather even as a storm threatens this beach town again. For Tropical Storms, we have to look at the totality of impacts. Reporter New Hanover County Emergency Management is not yet calling for evacuations. For ea
2 and a half hours it was all the way up here and moving our way and then it was spreading down here as you see behind me. Really fast you. Officials say theres no immediate danger to any additional homes at this moment that but there are still evacuations in place. So far 2 structures have been lost and one person was hurt, but has minor injuries. The fire is currently 20 contained. And in the east bay Officials Say forward progress on the california fire burning near highway 88. The rodeo area has been stopped at 150 acres that fire right now is 50 contained. Well take a live look outside right now as we talk about our 4 zone forecast here is downtown San Francisco. Looking towards the east bay. We dont see any of the smoke from the fires that are burning they would be a little too far north for this camera angle, but people are seeing and smelling smoke lawrence who live near these fires us what theyre telling me on twitter anyway so the winds must be playing a role in pushing that
Neighbors described this rodeo fire that broke out near highway 80 incoming skyway just before 2 oclock monday afternoon. What began as 2 small fires quickly merged into one in burned 230 acres because of strong winds wind at least one of the fires to get away from us and it burned past fortunately. They burn past all the petrochemical infrastructure. You can see behind me and also thankfully burn past a quite a few houses in north circular is. And headed out into the wilderness area thats bounded by interstate 80 on this side. Coming skyway to the north and highway 4 to the south and to the east as steve hill with Contra Costa County fire explains the wind fueled this fire but also push it away from homes nearby. Neighbors off california street say they could see the smoke and flames from their backyards. I saw the live this hour that some houses are probably getting like a 100 yards out a fire. So there are some neighborhoods neighbors back as were worried about it thankfully. No one
Cornelia and also fairfield some very gusty winds this afternoon. We have some 30 mile an hour gusts just in the last 3 hours here and still in the court is some of those to 22 Miles Per Hour right now as you make your way into fremont well we had windy conditions in the afternoon. Although those start to calm down a little bit now as theyre dropping down to 7, 8, Miles Per Hour. But were going to see more of that smoke continue to filter into places Like Union City fremont this fire continues tonight and into hayward so certainly by tomorrow morning. The smell of smoke in and around this area, those winds start to calm down nothing really to mix out some of that smoke for the south theyre also going to be dealing with some smoke, theres fire starting yesterday this the crews fire c gilroy here the winds not that strong this afternoon, although you get up in the Mountain Range is certainly in the Higher Elevations you generally get some stronger winds to whip around the fire and thats
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