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With more sunshine saturday pushing highs into the upper 40s. We are tracking the next storm forecast to bring rain sunday afternoon into monday morning. The wind will increase with this storms as temperatures stormtrack 7 weather team clouds will linger through the increases from the northwest at 1015 mph. Not much sunshine is in the forecast until maybe rain snow showers thursday night. No widespread travel problems are friday and saturday are dry with more sunshine saturday house fire in the three thousand block of briarwood drive in cedar falls. You can see the flames here. Theres significant damage to the upper level of the home but there are no injuries. The cause of the fire not yet knownbut stay with kwwl and kwwl investigating several cases of atm fraud. Cedar falls police releasing a photo of a man they say placed a device called a skimmer on an area bank stealing hundreds using peoples bank account information. Kwwls Jessica Hartman looking into how these skimmers work and w
I think the conversation on brexit is continuing to shift but im looking forward to seeing whether janet yellen tackles this issue headon or dances around it. Tom i do not think that is a small idea and i believe she has got to. I would be stunned if she did not directly mention it. Day, Michael Mckee and i will do this at 1 00 p. M. This afternoon. Francine i wonder whether she will focus on domestic risks or international. Lets get the bloomberg first word with nejra cehic. Nejra a new warnings from George Osborne on the risks of leaving the European Union. In a speech he will say that brexit would lead to a 42 billion black hole in the budget that would have to be plugged with higher taxes and cutbacks. The eu is june 23 and recent polls show the leave faction is ahead. Hillary clinton has opened up a doubledigit lead over donald trump in the race for the white house. A new bloomberg poll shows clinton leading trump 49 to 39 among likely voters and 55 said they could never vote for
Abc7 news starts right now with live breaking news. That breaking news is out of lake county. A wildfire has destroyed homes and businesses and forced people out of their homes. Good evening. Im eric thomas. The clayton fire started near lower lake and expanded this afternoon. The fire burned 3,000 acres. Right now it is only 5 contained. Cal fire has confirmed 10 structures has been destroyed, though it appears many more are now gone. Right now more than 500 homes are threatened and have been evacuated. Abc news president arer lilian News Reporter lilian kim has more. Reporter we are on main street here at lower lake and structures or what is left of them are still burning. This is what we are seeing in the neighborhoods as well, pure devastation. Firefighters are calling it the clayton fire because it started near Clayton Creek road. The crews seemed to have a handle on it until it blew up this afternoon taking over the town. In a matter of 20 or 30 minutes you look around you and th
Building that it ended up taking down. We dont even know how many buildings have burned in this fire now that light is hitting this area. Where it is going to be able to get a little bit better picture of what were dealing with. You can see many destroyed cars as well [ no audio ] the fire burning on the eastern portion of lower lake east of highway 29. It has burned more than 3,000 acres. Now the official word is ten homes burned but as i said we already know that the number is much larger than that. And the fire started saturday and weve been hearing stories of how quickly it got out of control. Flaring up with yesterdays winds and hot dry conditions. I couldnt even drive. I had to stop at the bottom of the bridge because its my everything. Reporter yeah, that is one of the thousands of people who has been evacuated. She believes her home is gone. There are three Evacuation Centers set up including one at twin pines casinos. The thousands of people who had to leave their homes really