Famous getty museum. Im dan ashley, ama daetz is off. Five active fires burn right now. No deaths thankfully. Comes right up to houses, freeways and world famous landmarks. Biggest is thomas in Ventura County, jumped to 90,000 acres. 150 homes burned but fire officials expect that number to rise. Skirball fire scorched about 500 acres near the wealthy community of belair. So far four homes burned there. Marci gonzalez with more. Reporter raging flames threatening commuters along the busy 405 freeway and charring multimilliondollar homes in elite belair neighborhood. Really frightening. Lot of homes here. Reporter one of four major fires burning out of control. Of course im worried. Reporter nearly 200,000 people ordered to evacuate, including this nursing home. Number expected to climb as flames spread. More than 80,000 acres scorched so far, fuelled by strong santa ana winds. Kicking up to 70 miles an hour. Thats Hurricane Force winds. Reporter neighbors pitching in to save each other
He came face to face with gunman this morning trying to rob him and he says an angel saved him. Tonight, hes telling his story from a hospital bed. Thank you for joining us at 11 coliseum lucy noland. That man was on his way to his job as a septa bus operator. When a man shot him. Our Dave Schratwieser is live at septa head quarter its. Dave this isnt the only Armed Robbery police are investigating in the area. Reporter theyre looking at a couple more lucy. Robert wouldnt gus is resting in the hospital awaiting surgery tomorrow morning to repair a fractured leg that was caused by this shooting. He says he was walking to work at 4am this morning when a gunman approached him, demanded his money and then shot him when he tried to get away. Im hanging in there. Everything is sore but iming in. From item tell University Hospital bed wounded septa bus operator spoke out tuesday night over the phone. Telling fox 29 how a would be article robber opened fire on him on his way to work. Demanded
Im hanging in there. Everything is sore but iming in. From item tell University Hospital bed wounded septa bus operator spoke out tuesday night over the phone. Telling fox 29 how a would be article robber opened fire on him on his way to work. Demanded everything i had and i seen the car coming down the street, i decided to just run for tour the car and thats when he started shooting at me. Reporter 47yearold wongus who usually drives to work walked Tuesday Morning to this bus stop around 4 00 a. M. Because his car was in for repairs. He was shot in the leg and left bleeding in the middle of the ridge avenue when a driver pulled over to help. He was my angel. This morning he was my angel. Like i said god wasnt ready for mow because im sure if he was, the guy could have took my live at any time. We heard like three shots. Oh, my gosh whats that. Reporter police are trying to determine if the shooting here in the 3100 block of ridge was part of a pattern of gun point robberies in the are
Turnpike connector bridge headed eastbound, from the pennsylvania turnpike, into new jersey. On the new jersey side, the ben franklin bridge looking good. No problems at all. And mass transit off to good start. Karen, thomas, back to you. Bob, keep us flowing. 4 01, breaking news out of south philadelphia this morning, Police Investigating triple shooting, happened just before 11 00 last night, police found three men shot, two in the leg, one in the foot. All three in the hospital this morning in stable condition. No word on a suspect or a motive. Developing right now, there is a drexel associate professor who has been making the headlines time and against with the offensive tweets, now put on leave. Not for the post cents itself, it is for his safety. Steve keeley is over there, drexel, to explain. Steve . Reporter well, not just his safety, but everyone else around here on campus, as well. We believe this is a necessary step to ensure the safety of our campus, what drexels Public Sta
Bruno . Look at all of that gold. Yep, he brought the 24 car al gold tour to philly. Did you see it . What did you think . Highlights from the show coming up. Hey, if you went last night and you got all dressed up whatever in gold, show us some pictures, sends it to us what, whats our hashtag again . Fox 29 goodday. Ya. We did see some creative outfits, though. Good day to you, it is wednesday, october the 11, 2017. Many things to get to. So pictures of that. And i know we have to talk about, whats it called, the lightning fly . Lantern fly. Lantern fly bugs. If you have pictures on your trees, sends those in, too. Theyre taking over, sue. Yes. Welcome back, alex. Welcome back, alex. I think shes a little sleepy. Went to see bruno mars last night. Yes, all good. Six out of ten today. We have rain in the forecast, get ready for it, bus stop buddy is. Our temperatures are mostly in the 60s. Not as many 70s as we saw this time yesterday. So here is some rain to the south of us. Here is so