Th this is abc7 news. There is so much energy and heat in the main body of the fire. The rocky fire is burning hot and intense tonight forcing more evacuations. Good evening, everyone. The rocky fire in lake county continues to grow. It has burned nearly 85 square miles and has become the largest fire ever in lake county. And it has spread to yolo and coluuso counties. 3,000 firefighters are battling the fire and it is only 5 contained. Sergio is live with the latest. Sergio . Katie, tonight we found a hill so we could watch the fire line in the distance. It is something we notice a lot of the residents near clear lake doing. A lot of people are evacuated and they say they have things packed just in case they have to leave. At sunset crews started backfires to cut a fire line along this ridge which is only a couple miles away from the town of clear lake. We are afraid it will jump that ridge and come down. It is really close. It is and out back it is nothing but grass. Gail and lots of
With an extended magazine used to shoot at officers. Oakland police chief described the shootout. Close to to a full magazine was fired. It happened near Martin Luther king jr. Way. Officers were following up on a Sexual Assault investigation. When they alived at suspects house this is what happened. The suspect came out of the front door with a rifle and immediately began firing upon the officers in front of the house. Officers returned fire and struck the suspect. The 49yearold oakland resident was pronounced dead at the hospital. The officer was shot at least once. He is a 14year veteran who recently was promoted to sergeant. The Police Officer sustained significant gunshot wound and is currently in seriousbutstable condition and has undergone one surgery and will likely have more surgeries for the coming. The second officer involved in the shooting was not injured. That officer has been where the department for one year. Oakland police and Alameda County District Attorneys Office w
Back at it, you guys, i got to say, the wet they are past weekends was gorgeous. I know. Yes. At least one more day of the same. Starting to see little more humidity creeping up on us, had to ends at some point right . We are now looking ahead to possibly seventh day in a row of our heatwave. Ninety plus degrees, in other words. And thats definitely going to be the case in terms of thermometer readings, but going to eventually see the humidity creep back up on us, too, coming as new frontal boundery set to cross through. Lets go ahead take you out first and for most, two of you of skycam 3, overlooking atlantic city, lights lit up on the boardwalk, it is quiet you have little hint of a haze going on out there just from the moisture, from the sea breeze, generally speaking it is completely clear across the board. Not terribly humid just yet. Next, take you back in time, show you what we ended up with yesterday in terms of daytime highs. 09 degrees was the official daytime hyatt Philadel
The upper 50s and low 60s. Coastal clouds and fog will keep drizzle in the mix for some until mid morning. A system to our north will send a weak front through the bay area and monterey bay today, making it feel like fall, which officially arrives this friday. A more substantial cooling will come with another front on wednesday. Each of these no major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. darya breaking news from overnight. Two overnight. News from breaking darya maze to sf. Min from the less then 30 bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. darya breaking news from overnight. Two officers in the east bay are hit by a car being driven by a thief trying to get away. mark will tran is live in san leandro this morning with the details. Will. will it happened around 8 30 last night at the safeway on lewelling boulevard. This morning we do not know how bad the officers were injured but the injuries are not considered life threatening. Investigators
Highway 92. Sky fox was right overhead. You can see the burned out shell of the big rig. Right now only one eastbound lane of 92 is open. This is near the 101. It happened just before 10 00. More than two hours ago. Then less than an hour ago, the chp tweeted that cleanup is under way and other lanes will open around 1 00 this afternoon. The other top story we have been following for you throughout the day is the rain. Right. Lets go to meteorologist Rosemary Orozco who is tracking the storm with how much more are we going to get, rosemary. Yeah much the rain has tapered off considerably. We will get to the radar. I have a sixhour time lapse on this. At 6 00, you could see, wow, it was really coming down. Most people got caught up in it during the morning commute. If i put it in still motion to show you what is going on right now, you can see mostly cloudy skies. Im sure a little bit of drizzle falling off and on below the radar beam. Able to pick up a little bit of green on the east b