Tonight just what we need the drought. Water shoots 30 feet in the air live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Tonight, just what we need in the drought. Water shooting 30 feet into the air. A huge water main break floods parts of los angeles. Heres a live look at ground zero tonight. Looks like a Swimming Pool in the middle of the street. A giant hole filled with water. Part of the famous sunset boulevard will lakely be closed all day tomorrow. We have the latest. Reporter that water finally shut off, employees at ucla as well as several dozen contractors are working to clean up the mess that was left behind. Just inside is the Bruins Basketball arena. Crews are armed with mops and steam vac are going to work all night. The water buckled asphalt and flooded streets shortly before rush hour. Firefighters say about 36,000 gallons of water gushed out per minute in a state stricken with historic drought. We lost eight to 10 million gallons of water in the incident. Report
Ebola virus and its mutations along with other types of viruses and bacteria. This is going to be faster and cheaper. Reporter its called the micro array. It has a speck with a dna signature for the ebola virus. 24 hours after a human blood sample is matched with a tiny dna markers, researchers get results that hook like this. White and green dots on the screen. Because these 20 ebola spots lit up, that is an indication that there is an ebola in the particular sample. Reporter each spot corresponds with a disease. When it lights up, it can tell doctors what the patient is suffering from even though they have no idea what the person was exposed to. This can tell you what you are looking at even if you have no idea beforehand what is potentially there. Reporter right now the micro ray is only used for research. But if it is approved it could become a common test in hospitals all over the world. The cdc is ushling doctors here to keep on the lookout for those symptoms, but an outbreak is
The water still leaking there just a bit. But here is why. An estimated 10 million gallons of water down the drain. And we watched it happen. To put that in perspective, the entire city of los angeles uses 55 million gallons of water each day. At its peak, that geyser was shooting water 30 feet into the air. It took more than three hours to turn off a series of valves and ultimately stop that massive leak. But the damage was done. The 93yearold water main broke just above the ucla campus. Water and mud blanketed parts of the school. You can see students down below literally wading through that water. Underground parking garages were also flooded. And at one point up to 8 inches of water covered the floor of the historic Pauley Pavilion which is home to the ucla basketball team. This is creating a huge response on social media. Thousands of photos and videos were posted showing the damage and the flooding. This photo tweeted by an nbc reporter shows the workers trying to dry out inside
Cleaned up. Kirk has the stor story. How close the girs is to the campus nishtion this aerial video see the massive water main break that shut down the streets of ucla and westwood neighborhood on tuesday afternoon. I didnt really now know how bad it was until i see here for myself. Firefighters say at least 3 drivers were rescued from several cars that were stuck with water flowing as high as the window. Several cars students attempted to navigate the fast moving waichlts i would never expect Something Like that to happen. Just right next to us. Look at. That. Reporter parts of the track and field stadium on campus and the pavilion home to the been team were taking on water. It was renovated for 133 Million Dollars in 2012. But look more like a fountain with water cascading down the adjoining steps. When you have this amount of World Trade Center its like a flash flood. Never know what is going to happen. Reporter with the helicopter in the air and Swift Water Rescue Team on the groun
Three camp grounds are still closed and weve just learned that evacuation orders are expected to remain in place for a few more days. Abc7 news. Now, figure later tonight looking at the rim fire that became one of the biggest fires in state history the man behind the drone that hampered the firefighting efforts, coming up. At least two places along the bay area shore lines are unusual this time of the year. Its happening on ocean beach. Were live to explain what they are and why so many died at once. Alisa . Reporter this is one of the creatures. Experts say theyre not dangerous and large groups of them will wash up on bay area beaches. This is what ocean beach looked like yesterday. Dead Sea Creatures stretched out for miles, today, they still littered the sand. Just coming on shore, and die. Weird and smelly. Gross. Theyre not dangerous at all. Rich moi says theyre called valellavalella. Its a little unusual to have this bloom, this huge number of valella coming out this late in the