Route. He is also a former Police Reporter for the San Jose Mercury news. This fire has burned about 67,000 acres. At this point, 9,000 homes threatened this morning. Almost 600 burned, hundreds of others damaged. Some evacuees were able to return yesterday. The whole house went around the chimney. It was the center of the house. Once we get it out, it will be a clean slate, blank canvas, well start over. Reporter hundreds of people have been making their temporary homes at the napa county fairgrounds. They are getting help from volunteers. They dont know how long they will be there in tents or whats going to happen next. Live in middletown, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Its not just the homes that have been destroyed in flames. This is whats left of one of the schools in middletown. The flames raced through a classroom there. Three dozen teachers hundreds of students losing everything in that fire. All Public Schools in lake county are closed again today. No word yet when they might re open.
Now. And that is where this whole active shooter situation played out late this afternoon. Here we talked to one of the witnesses, someone who was here on the ground when all this was im sorry, we dont have that sound right now but heres some more pictures that we pulled from twitter of sort of the scene on the ground how hectic it was earlier today as this active shooter situation was played out. But our understanding at this point is that shooter is dead. We should have an update from the officers in a few minutes. At this point, a lot of the streets around st. Lukes hospital still shut down at this point. You can see that behind me here. As soon as we get the update from officers in the next few minutes, well make sure to bring it to you. But for now, live along guerrero, mark kelly, kpix 5. Thank you. There is a lot confusion as officers first arrived on the scene. Like mark was just saying, take a listen to officers as they tried to coordinate their response to an active shooter.
Yesterday on one side you had people celebrating at city and others protestors demanding change. [ yelling ] reporter the protestors marched around super bowl city carrying symbolic tents and signs that said, no penalty for poverty and house keys for homeless. Organizers are now asking mayor lee to invest 5 million in housing and to create new programs for shelters and health services. In addition to the hundreds of protestors was a veritable alphabet soup of Law Enforcement from sfpd to the coast guard. Kpix 5 security analyst jeff harp says this beefed up security presence is likely the new norm for big events. Back over the last couple super bowls, one of the big differences is we didnt have a shooting in San Bernardino prior to it happening. We didnt have an attack in paris. We didnt have inside, you know, committing to the cause isis, you know, committing to the cause as much as they are now. Reporter yesterday the new homeless shelter at pier 80 was supposed to open. It has been
Marched around super bowl city carrying tents and signs that said, no penalty for poverty and house keys for homeless. Organizers are asking mayor lee to invest in 5 million that the city invested for super bowl back to the homeless and to created new programs for shelters and health services. The city does have a response to the protestors who say that the city is going too far in its effort for the super bowl. Our coordinated effort in the city is to really try to end peoples homelessness bring them into our system of care and there isnt a coordinated attempt to sweep away our problems. We struggle with homelessness every day. Reporter a shelter was supposed to open yesterday and the pier 80 shelter will open today or tomorrow instead. It was set up for the homeless and they are still putting it together. When finished it could hold up to 150 people. It will remain open until march. Reporting live in San Francisco, cate caugiran, kpix 5. Keeping the bay area safe is the top priority
With the latest on the developing story. Reporter good afternoon. We have new information. We now know that police are describing the suspect as a white mail between white male, between 30 and 40, 511, brown hair and brown eyes. Every parent said this is one of the nicest parks in the neighborhood. Thats why theyre so upset to learn a sevenyearold may have been assaulted. It seems like the safest park i could ever imagine, and its not. I think parents take false comfort in that. It may have been the perfect opportunity for someone up to no good. We were there as officers with the San Francisco Police Department went to the place they say the sevenyearold girl was attacked. The call, blasting across police radios. A sevenyearold fee mel was assaulted in the restroom. You hear about stories about that stuff, but in this area never would have thought that happened. The wall asks decorative tile are out of sight from the play area popular with parents. The attack was reported yesterday. I