Experience for hundreds of campers who got trapped by an outofcontrol fire in california. The creek fire has burned more than 73,000 acres since friday evening in the Sierra National forest. The only road out of a popular Recreation Area threatening the lives of more than 200 people. Military helicopters got there in time, taking everyone to safety. Cbs news spoke to one man who says he barely escaped. Were all in the water and we just we keep going down into the water to protect us from the embers. Some of the embers the size of golf balls. Winds blowing 40, 50, 60 mileperhour in some cases, some of the gusts. We keep going under and under and under. In my mind im going, are we going to die from the fire or from drowning . 20 people had injuries ranging from burns to broken bones. More coming up ahead on cbs this morning. A gender reveal party is to blame for a wildfire east of los angeles. Cal fire authorities said the el do fra generating pyrotechnic device used during the party. So
Talking about our high fire danger and a spare the air alert with our hazy and smoky skies. There is a lot to get to. The heat advisory is along the coast and the bay for today. We have excessive heat warnings in effect for the rest of the bay area. All the highlighted areas in pink are under the excessive heat warning. We have a spare the air alert that remains in effect and we continue with smoky and hazy skies. We are record 21 days in a row with our spare the air alert in effect. So we are looking at a red flag warning, critical weather conditions up in the hills. The north bay mountains as well as east bay hills, that is from tonight all the way until wednesday morning. We will talk all about this coming up in my full forecast in just a few minutes. Lets check in gianna lets look at traffic. We start on 80, westbounder leisuretowne boulevard we have a crash with all lanes blocked that happened at about 2 30. This is a fatal incident. Chp is still on scene for the investigation. Th
Bay area, looking at this dangerous heat that continues. Triple digit heat and then, still hot around the bay and warm conditions along the coast. Here is a live look with our camera from the lick observatory, you can see those hazy skies out there. We are still dealing with that smoke. We are going a record 21 days in a row with our spread the air alert for the bay area. Also adding to that, we have critical fire weather conditions. This is the last thing we need. We are looking at dry and gusty offshore winds. That red flag warning is in effect tonight until 8 am wednesday. We will talk about what you can expect coming up in a few minutes. With temperatures expected to hit 105 to 108, concord will be using the Concord Senior Center as a cooling center to beat the heat. Some other bay area cities are opening up cooling centers, Margaret Todd center, the mills at a community center, the San Rafael Community center, the Fremont Community center and the Calistoga Community center. Pg e m
Brics it it separates Northern Ireland a part of the u. K. With the republic of ireland and e. U. Member its been opened and without checkpoints for 20 years both sides have benefited politically and economically. Part of brechts it means a return to the socalled hard border of the past with security barriers and watchtowers the armed Republican Group the new ira says it will attack the Prime Minister here. Prime minister Boyce Johnson says hes removed the need for a hard border by keeping Northern Ireland economically aligned with the e. U. And also the rest of the u. K. Some customs checks however will now be needed between mainland britain and Northern Ireland the. Board. That details and raise unionists any defense to the rest of the u. K. Is seen as a threat to their british identity the Democratic Unionist Party intend to vote against the deal in parliament while what are described as hardline unionists known as loyalists are threatening civil disobedience on a large scale if the
A couple of weeks back, we took a look at some of the best GameCube to Switch ports and remakes. We also added a few more we would love to see, as a treat. Well, that was a lot of fun so I ve decided to do the same idea but with games from the Nintendo Wii.