Meantime, some good news on the fight against the thomas fire, burning ventura county. All evacuation orders were lifted in Santa Barbara county. Crews are bracing for more wind and are focusing the effort on the north side of the blaze. It has burned 272,000 acres and 60 containment right now. Some bay area crews who were helping in the firefight returned home. They include more than 60 people from the Fire Agencies across san mateo county. An event honoring mayor ed lee just getting underway in chinatown. We have more on the latest tribute. Reporter he was the first chineseamerican mayor and nothing meant more to him than his roots in the chinatown community. Heres a live look at what is happening as the community is coming together to remember their favorite son. There getting ready to hold a candlelight vigil in portsmouth square. Some have actually already signed a card thanking the mayor for his service. Many of his chief causes were born out of his connection to the community. H
Understanding and toll ran. Welcome to st. Patricks cathedral. [ applause ] in a sunset mass if manhattan he echoed a familiar theme heard throughout his visit to america. Gratitude and hard work. These are two pillars of the spiritual life. The pope continues his United States tour talking to World Leaders at the u. N. In washington, dc for abc7 news. The holy father will visit the u. N. At 5 30 before addressing the u. N. General assembly at 7 15. At 80 he will take part in a multireligious service at the 9 11 memorial and museum and at 1 00 oclock p. M. Will visit our lady keep of Angels School in east harlem. At 2 00 he will lead a procession through central central. At 3 00 he will celebrate mass at Madison Square garden. Happening today, the iphone 61 and 6s plus are on sale. Fans in new zealand were the first to get their hands on the device because of the time difference. Folks at home are lined up, some in body, one in spirit the while in san diego hero bought is taking up the
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Five day forecast. As far as the conditions right now though, we have patching fog regrouping. The showers have moved out of the picture. Patchy fog offshore and also in some of the inland vallies. Right now you can see current temperatures in the 40s, coolest spots for santa rosa, fairfield, you can see an update coming down near zero visibilities. Keep that in mind. Here is a plan for today with your forecast this morning, partly cloudy skies talking about patchy fog, there is the temperature time line, 7 00, 12 00 and 3 00, mid60s to the mid70s this afternoon. So take a look at those forecast highs for your thursday. Very nice out there. These numbers up a good 48 to 10 degrees warmer. The warming trend will continue, well also talk about shower chances in the five day forecast, right now we welcome back sal. It sounds like it is going to be a nice day today. Good day for a walk, the shower threat has moved out but maybe second half of the week we might be tracking some more shower.
Bags . Are you prepared for mass casualties. Because if people do not leave and we have 140 Miles Per Hour wind gusts in some of our mobile home places were going to have fatalities. Matthew right now is a category four storm capability of causing catastrophic damage. The storm has already taken at least 264 lives in haiti which had born the brunt of the damage from the storm. And this could get very bad, very quickly throughout the night tonight and into the coming days. Talking about Power Outages. Tens of thousands already from the miami area on up the coast. Weve got correspondents and meteorologists across the entire danger zone, well be reaching out to them as well as local officials. Hurricane trackers and others throughout the night. Lets begin by one of the areas floridas governor is worried about as the storm approaches. Palm beach county. Nick valencia joins us from West Palm Beach. Winds look like they are starting to pick up where you are. War the conditions like . Reporte