County. The fire is behind us. The goal is to keep it that way. What you see now is calm compared with what we saw here an hour ago. Lets show you part of what youll be looking at those flames and billowing black smoke from an intentional fire to burn away fuel when the blaze changes direction. This highway section of highway 20 is where the firefighters were making a stand to contain it. They want to keep it south of highway 20, west of highway 16 but that fire has spotted in places. Wind is part of the problem. The extremely dry fuel is another. Here is cal fire spokesman who is not making predictions about that wind and the fuel and what they might do. Were starting to see the fire activity pick up. Its hard to speculate. This has been a very dynamic fire for us simply because this area doesnt have any fire history for the most part. Reporter when you say no fire history what does that mean mean . It has not burned in some of these areas, so the vegetation and the brush very very de
Dead up tells what is led up to the us what led up to the deadly confrontation. Reporter thats what officers say they were up against, a suspect shooting at them with an illegal assault rifle. The scene of the officerinvolved shooting in oakland this morning. Many rounds were fired. Its likely close to a full magazine if not full. Reporter 9 00 sunday night, officers began investigating report of a sexual assault. That led them to a suspect in a house on the 3800 block of mlk. The suspect ultimately came out of the front door with a rifle. And immediately began firing upon the officers that were in front of house. Reporter the two officers returned fire striking the suspect. Police say at least 30 shots were exchanged. One of the officers was hit. The suspect and officer were transported to the hospital. The suspect died of his injuries and the officer recently promoted to sergeant and a 14 year veteran is expected to recover. The Police Officer sustained significant gunshot wounds. An
Commute. You get to the bay bridge toll plaza you will see that traffic is is light. There is not a big delay right here. Looking at the south bay. There is a report of a crash southbound 17 near the summit. Now at 5 00 lets go back to the the desk. Sal, thank you. Were following developing news in oakland. There is a live News Conference about to take place at the Oakland Police department. There has been an officer involved shooting. A Police Officer was shot and injured. A suspect was killed early this morning. You can see on our camera right there, somewhere Police Spokeswoman watson getting ready to speak to our cameras. Alex savidge is out there right now waiting for her to begin. This happened on Martin Luther king boulevard. There was a shooting out there. Again she is getting ready to begin to talk. Lets listen in. We are going to go ahead and get started. My apologies i understand you are live. What we can share with you this morning, the Oakland Police department did have an
Highway 28 parts where firefighters are really hoping to hold that containment line. That firell now jumping, starting another 50acre brushfire there. Firefigthers right now. Jeff. Cole. Lets get a closer look at the weather conditions for firefighters. Here is chief meteorologist jeffmo x ranieri. The big reason why that fire was able to jump highway 20 we had a major wind shift in the past 24 hours as the fire is moving northeast. Again, this fire is to the north and also the east of santa rosa. Lets take you down to the conditions, and we are seeing some good news when it comes to the wind. It could be a lot gustier. Winds right now out of the eastsoutheast at 15 Miles Per Hour. Temperature of 85 degrees. Humidity at 32 . So yes, the air is dry. But at least the humidity is not down in the single digits. So much smoke from this fire is visible on doppler radar. Those areas of green yqnhere; ÷ he eastern side of clear lake with the way that wind is blowing. Whats in the forecast for
Reporter firefighters call this a plumedriven fire meaning theyre fueling the burn. It falls down and spreads the fire in all kinds of directions. That creates all kinds of challenges. Reporter there was a bit of good news today. Firefighters say cooler temperatures and calmer winds slowed the spread of the fire. But at this point, thats little consolation. 60,000acre fire, with the conditions that it meets, those things only help but just a little bit. Reporter joining the effort today, the air force reserves. This morning deploying two c130s to our region joining more than a dozen other air tankers and helicopters, all to bolster thousands of firefighters on the ground who spent the last five days working for some progress. Reporter cal fire says in that new area where the fire jumped, there are some homes, though most of it is uninhabited land. However, there is a lot of really dry brush, fuel for those flames. Report live in lakeport ian cole nbc bay area news. Thank you, ian. Fire