Tonight. Right now firefighters have the fire just 5 contained. Abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Bernard has more. Reporter the rocky fire continues to grow with a venn gans again. It shows no signs of stopping doubling in size overnight as the fire burns north, there is a huge assault in the air and from the ground to stop it. The battle lines have been drown on highway 20. These crews keeping an eye out on the hillside to the north in case embers set it on fire. Backfires are set to head off the heart of the blaze. There is so much energy and heat in the main body of the fire and they dont want that energy and heat at the road side. Reporter dave and his friends from concord panicked when they found themselves in the paths of the fire. We saw flames two ridges over. Reporter on the mad rush to get out, the rv flipped over the side of a steep road and they are stuck. Hundreds of nervous residents came to the meeting at the high school to get updated about the fire. More than 12,000 residen
Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Shooting in selfdefense. Only this time, its a cell phone camera. Not a gun. And the target is a bay area cop. The confrontation was tense, the man who shot the video said he did nothing to provoke the officer. Betty yu shows us things got ugly when the officer drew his gun. Reporter the video starts when a rohnert park officer drives into a Residential Court and just stops in the middle of it. Don mccomas says he was hooking up his boat outside his house when he noticed the cop. He started filming the officer so the officer rolls down his window to do the same. He thinks he is being funny now. Reporter a few seconds later, the officer gets out. Talks into his radio and then. Put your gun down, really . This one really has a gun on me. No, you dont touch me. You dont touch me. You dont touch me. You dont touch me. I tell you to take your hand out. I have done nothing. Nope. You need to relax. You go away. I dont go away, i stay w
Lifes the food that brings us together. And kitchens where every meal is the most important of the day. Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Shooting in selfdefense. Only this time, its a cell phone camera. Not a gun. And the target is a bay area cop. The confrontation was tense, the man who shot the video said he did nothing to provoke the officer. Betty yu shows us things got ugly when the officer drew his gun. Reporter the video starts when a rohnert park officer drives into a Residential Court and just stops in the middle of it. Don mccomas says he was hooking up his boat outside his house when he noticed the cop. He started filming the officer so the officer rolls down his window to do the same. He thinks he is being funny now. Reporter a few seconds later, the officer gets out. Talks into his radio and then. Put your gun down, really . This one really has a gun on me. No, you dont touch me. You dont touch me. You dont touch me. You dont touch me. I tell you to
There. Reporter this morning, cal fire says the key to containing the rocky fire is the weather if it cooperates with them and doesnt turn hot and dry. For the first time in seven days, the evening shadow over lake county isnt smoke plumes from the rocky fire but coastal clouds. Today has been the calmest day since the fire started. Reporter the monster wildfire even got a short soaking from some muchneeded rain. I think we got fortunate this morning. We had a pretty good marine layer come in overnight. So we had some cloud cover, temperatures dropped, humidities went up. Reporter evidence of the fierce battle between firefighters and flames could be seen all around the edge of the fire, a blackened field with a house standing unscathed at the center of it and the sobering reminder that all that was standing between disaster and containment were roads and determination. How close did this fire come to spreading thousands of acres more . Take a look. That right there is the fireline. Im
Monitoring right here watching coming towards me three units everybody take a deep breath reporter three people were arrested here. Were talking about the driver and two passengers. Thats where the chase ended. They have been booked into the county jail. Nobody was injured in this wild chase. Charges are now pending. Live in San Francisco, anne makovec, kpix 5. The rocky fire southeast of clearlake has stopped spreading but has already burned 67,000 acres. More than 100 square miles have burned. The fire is only 20 contained. The firefighting has cost 14 million so far. Through the entire fire season cal fire expects to spend 434 million. Its building in three counties but late yesterday, firefighters took a stand and they won. Kpix 5s andria borba takes us there. Reporter this morning, cal fire says the key to containing the rocky fire is the weather if it cooperates with them and doesnt turn hot and dry. For the first time in seven days, the evening shadow over lake county isnt smoke