Wind has been picking up those embers and those embers have been skipping from house to house. And the other problem were hearing about, Water Pressure, firefighters telling me that they had to let some homes burn because they didnt have enough Water Pressure in some of those hydrants perhaps because of the power outage. Just moments ago, we got the view from above the fire from our affiliate kabc. Real concern because of zero containment on these fires so far. From our station in los angeles hes joining us as hes flying over the creek fire, an incredibly busy day, thank you for being with us tonight. Youre over a very active scene right now, the creek fire. How large is this and what are youre seeing . Well, this fires 11,000 acres right now, david. Well take you outside and show you picture of the creek fire. 11,000 acres. And were using our technology to show you where the fire is burning. And as you can see, theres a lot of smoke obscuring the fire and this is because of the santa
a passenger plane coming in for a landing on the wrong runway. another plane sitting right there in its path. here s abc s david kerley tonight. reporter: the apparent close call at jfk this afternoon. when the pilots of a mexican jetliner, lined up to land on the wrong runway. a runway a delta jet was readying to take off from, the pilot of the commuter jet sees a bigger plane coming right at him. looks like a plane on final. yeah, i see that. um. 4231, cancel takeoff clearance. reporter: it was cleared to land on runway 13 left, but the pilots of the jetliner lined up to 13 right which is about 10,000 feet to the south. that s where the delta jet. was already rolling to take off. polaris 880, you re lining up for 1-3-right. ch [ beep ] to your left, make a left turn, you re lining up for the wrong runway. go around. polaris 880. polaris 880, go around, turn left.