Fire warns all of us, be prepared to leave in a moments notice. Tonight we are live on the front lines with new evacuations underway and the efforts to save homes and our bad air, the worst in the world right now. Now at 11 streaming on cbsn the bay area. Evacuation orders have been issued all over the bay area and in the santa cruz mountains, and theres an evacuation warning for the entire city of hillsboro. Cal fire has divided the fires into three socalled complexes, the scu in santa clara, alameda and contra costa, and new evacuations in san mateo and santa cruz and ellen you in sonoma and napa counties that turned into salina, lake and yolo counties. The ellen you has scorched more than 124,000 acres. The biggest wildfire last year just burned over 77 thousand acres. We have Team Coverage beginning with joe vasquez and napa county, and the new evacuations near st. Helena, just minutes ago. Reporter hope valley, due north over the hill from st. Helena, the socalled spanish fire rag
Now at 11, and exclusive, explosive new claims that San Franciscos medical examiner was pressured to change autopsy results in the highprofile death of the public defender. Newly released documents reveal the internal fallout that spark calls for reform in the east bay. Shut it down and start over. One is santa clara leader is pushing drastic action to fight it defitely time for a reset. Dozens of california lawmakers are demanding a fix to the states unemployment mess. Now at 11 and streaming, a kpix 5 exclusive. A stunning new allegation connected to the sudden death of San Franciscos former public defender. Joe vasquez is live at city hall with details from a new lawsuit tonight. Reporter the question of what killed him is the subject of a very public disagreement for the last year and a half and now it is the subject of a lawsuit against the city and one of its top city officials. The public defender died last year and a month later the corner determined the cause of death. But the
Documents reveal the internal fallout that spark calls for reform in the east bay. Shut it down and start over. One is santa clara leader is pushing drastic action to fight the coronavirus. It is definitely time for a reset. Dozens of california lawmakers are demanding a fix to the states unemployment mess. Now at 11 and streaming, a kpix 5 exclusive. A stunning new allegation connected to the sudden death of San Franciscos former public defender. Joe vasquez is live at city hall with details from a new lawsuit tonight. Reporter the question of what killed him is the subject of a very public disagreement for the last year and a half and now it is the subject of a lawsuit against the city and one of its top city officials. The public defender died last year and a month later the corner determined the cause of death. But the city administrator herself went down to the hall of justice to the medical Examiners Office and demanded changes. Ms. Kelly ordered claimant to alter and edit the re
See this protest is on the move. We are in downtown martinez, and we have 700 people, perhaps more than 1000 gathered in the downtown streets. This is the black lives matter rally. You can see from topper five it is a significant crowd marching to this town of 30,000 people. Why are they here . Many of the protesters said they were compelled to come to martinez after a video went viral. It shows a white couple painting over a black lives matter street sign. The couple has since been charged with three misdemeanors, including a hate crime charge. This is not happening in my town. She was going on about kerrtown. This is our town. There are minorities in it and the town needs to start taking some sort of stance one way or the other to make it very clear where its values lie. Orr t w,what is going on is they have gathered at the courthouse. They are moving down to the waterfront of martinez. This is a peaceful protest, as it has been all along. As a matter of fact, demonstrators have been
Organizations that are against black lives matter. I will be down here as a scare tactic. We are not afraid. We refuse to be afraid. We are going to come down and march. We are going to make sure our voices are heard. Reporter folks are in fact, quite excited to be here. This has been, as i mentioned peaceful, but also in the air was a warning from the police chief from yesterday, as he was told that on social media there would be people coming here that might try to defend the police. As far as we could tell, that did not develop. We have not seen any counterdemonstrators in this crowd. Right now, the biggest danger is the heat. It is in the high 90s in martinez as this peaceful demonstration continues. In martinez, thank you. To San Francisco where one person is dead and another injured in a house fire that happened after 11 00 on sacramento street. Authorities say the victim was injured in the fire and is expected to be okay. No word tonight on the cause. The other big story we are