The fire expanded in size and intensity in a matter of hours. On highway 138 you can home after home burned to the ground. Laura anderson was driven from her home yesterday and is still unsure if its Still Standing. You can imagine terror and sadness and concern. Reporter the fire caused traffic backups for miles at the areas main highway was shut down. Many drivers were left sweltering in their cars in tripledigit temperatures. We need cold water and food and i dont know how long we can go home, you know. Reporter hot and dry california has been plagued by wildfires for months. Fire officials are hoping cooler temperatures and lighter winds will help get the fire under control. Here in Northern California firefighters are making progress in their battle against the destructive clayton fire in lake county. Its 35 contained and cal fire hopes for full containment by the weekend. The fire is still 4,000 acres in size more than 175 homes and other buildings are destroyed in the lower lake
Everybody talks about youre going to pivot. Despite poll numbers trump says he is staying true to himself but overnight, a shakeup at the top of his campaign. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters in new york, good to be with you. Im annemarie green. There is a new fast moving wildfire burning near los angeles this morning that has already destroyed homes. These are fires burning this morning. The blue cut, clayton, and chimney fires. The newest is the explosive bluecut fire and its burned 1,000 acres so far and that is after sparking late yesterday morning east of los angeles. The fire is forcing more than 82,000 people from their homes and more than 34,000 homes are in danger. Erika knockland of cbs station reports. Reporter the flames burned county overnight scorching acres of land reducing structures to rubble. The fire crews reached into the night to keep the blaze from reaching more homes and ordering residents to evacuate immediately. This fire is aggressi
To recede. We should drop in the mid 60s and level off there the rest of the day. It may still feel a tad humid but for comparison sake it is heck of a lot better then what it was yesterday. Later tonight there could be a shower or thunderstorm. Ill show you pattern in place to bring that back to you but if you are hitting phillies and yankees here tonight, clouds are building, there will be a few thunderstorms approaching but at this point we will expect to get game in without any major problems. Meisha, back over to you. Looking outside right now the boulevard what we were talking with im keeping my eye on this two lanes are getting by. Thinks boulevard southbound at ridge avenue and kelly drive. All lanes were blocked for quite sometime. Two have now opened, penndot just zooming in, you can see crews out there, tow trucks showing up, getting some cars here. But as they are pulling these vehicles out of the way they will probably to have block all lanes, if not, maybe keep one opened
To drop. Drier air will work into the region y the wind shifts from the northwest. Showers and thunderstorms last evening and night. Maybe a stray sprinkle. Muggy start and its wendy too it had continue through the day. The wind shifts to the west northwest. And then the northwest dragging in the drier air. 83 by midday lunch hour. Blend of sun and clouds and clouds decrease for the second half of the day. With plenty of sunshine. Set at 7 41 and temperatures in the mid80s a few isolated storms tomorrow. We will talk about where they could be but traffic and weather is together. Reporter good morning. We are off s. Lets look live at the zakim bridge and leverett connector. They nothing to slow you down. A beautiful shot of the city. The ride in on route 3 north along the south shore e expressway is wide and one split crows into downtown or hop on the spike. Normal drive is 10 minutes and no reported delays on the t or Commuter Rail now back to devel a driver hits three pedestrians and
Reasoningon. Its 80 de region. Its 80 degrees in boston. 81 in lawrence. Middle to upper 70s for a lot of us and the dew point is in the 0s. Its quite sticky out the door. Dew points will drop through the courafteseofoon. We have a couple leftover sprinkles out there too a few pushing through northern essex county and making their way off the coastline near plum island for the next 20 minutes or so. Other than that a few storms and showers. Now clouds in place but these two will be departing as well. So its blend and a muggy start. Upper 70s sunrise at 5 5 and windy a 5 5 and windy and 5 54 and windy and gusty. There will be droir air. Temperatures in the lower 80s by lunchtime. Mid80s into the ride will ride into the area. Developing story a driver hit three pedestrians and the victim a 10yearold girl her f old man in wheelchair. A Family Member tells wb wbz the father tried to push the girl out of the way. All thee were taken to the hospital and this happened around 8 three were take