Afternoon. It is going to be a scorcher. Drink plenty of water and make sure that you take care of the children, pets and elderly. Shore line, San Francisco, north bay as well as down through san mateo and into monterey. This is going on through part of the weekend with temperatures usually hot as well. With the hot, dry conditions, add a little bit of wind and thats what we have in hour hills. We have heat and fire danger. That will go until tomorrow. It is an air quality issue. We have poor earl called around the bay area. Ill have more on what you can expect throughout the weekend. Well talk about the afternoon highs and tell you how long it is expected to last. The heat is forcing School Districts to cut their school day short in order to keep their students safe. Jessie, i see you wiping the sweat off your brow. I hear rose mary say its avenue going to be a scorcher. No, no, its already a scorcher this is the cool part of the day. It is already 99 degrees and its get worse. Kids a
Costume. That person tried to snatch her little girl. Henry has more after talking to investigators. Reporter thankfully, this oneyearold is okay, safe and sound with her mother but it is a frightening incident, no laughing matter. At about 1 00 this afternoon, well take a look at the video of the scene here. This is on willow pass road near water world. Thats where the water park is and where the old sizzler was. Around 1 00 this afternoon, a woman says she walked up to the bus stop near the corner where there was a man in a clown suit at the bus top right at that corner. And the two had a normal conversation. Thats when things got very scary. Lets talk to Corporal Christopher blakely. Here is what he had to say. They sort of had a small conversation and he was just, you know, kind of talking with her daughter. At one point, our suspect pulls the daughters left arm as if he is trying to tug her away from her mother. Thats when our mother thats when the mother reacts and kicks him in t
Locked out the window and saw the smoke, and i thought it was the safeway or, you know, thought it was like much closer because the smoke was so large. Theres still a major backup from the earlier shutdown on northbound highway 101 so heres look a gridlock from our traffic computer and a look at how many miles that red is. That is the stop and go stretch. Just a lot of slow traffic. Yeah. Pretty bad. Well stay on top of this story and bring you updates on the abc 7 news app. Good evening, im dan ashley. And im kristein sze. Thanks for joining us. Traffic is also a major problem right now further south in marin county. Thats right. The eastbound lanes of the richmond safe rafael bridge are closed right now after several hours. A big rig caught fire and has really delayed things. Drivers have spent the day stranded order finding alternate routes. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman is on the scene with the latest. Oum cigarettes must a person smoke before crossing the Richmond Bridge toda
A small army has assembled at summit in moamah prieto loma prieto roads. There job is to make sure the fire activity the uc does not make it to that side of the road. These crews would jump on it if it did. Reporter if you can look closely and see through the smoke, you could see the firefighters wearing orange. They work for the presence, the cal fire people arent are in yellow. We have 100 people fighting the fire. Coming up we will talk about what makes this fire unique, its not the wind. The big thing is the amount of fuel. That is pushing this fire to grow so big, 500 acres up to 1500 acres so far. We will stay in monitor the situation. Here are the latest numbers, massive flames have ripped through 1500 acres. Right now it is just 5 contained. Evacuations in effect for parts of santa clara and santa cruz counties. Nearly 300 homes are being threatened more than 500 firefighters are fighting the blaze. Crews are using air tankers and helicopters to attack the flames. Now to kpix 5
As were issued this morning. The fire started yesterday afternoon. Right near the top of loma mountain. It has burned through 1000 acres. At this point it is 5 contained. Jeanine is live in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Reporter we have driven all the way up this road. This is a very rural road. And from here, we stopped as soon as we saw flames and could get a cell phone signal. And you can see we apologize, it looks like we have lost her. It is important to know, that people are being told to essentially be ready to evacuate their homes, should the fire continue to push towards their homes. We are seeing pictures from one mans home he was loading up what he needs but he says, that he is going to stay as long as he can. He is concerned about looters. And, we can bring in this live picture. And, we are over orange active flame. Thats on the lefthand side of the screen. And it appears that it is close to a number of structures. You see animals, horses, the it appears to be horses. Yes. You