News for monday, august 3rd, 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Wildfires are forcing thousands of families from their homes in california this morning. Crews are battling 21 large wildfires throughout the state. The largest is the rocky fire raging near lower lake about 100 miles north of san francisco. That wild fire exploded in size sunday growing to at least 84 square miles. Air tankers are dousing the flames from above. Lamore abrams of our sacramento affiliate kobr reports. Reporter fastmoving flames continues raging through thousands of acres of dry brush. Tripling in size in just two days. Just how much more the rocky fire will burn is a question no one has an answer to. The fire behavior that were seeing because of the dry vegetation is its historic. Reporter Steve Kaufman is one of more than 2,000 firefighters from around the state on the fire line, but even with the Constant Water drops overhead, it just keeps raging. We havent seen fire really grow
And im joe torres, Health Officials were seeing new cases popping up in the coming days. Tonight there are four deaths linked to this outbreak in the south bronx and 65 people have been diagnosed with the disease and five locations texted positive for legionella and all have been disinfected. Eyewitness News Reporter aj ross is at one of those locations and shes in monthaven tonight. Aj . Reporter joe, sandra, well Health Officials narrowed down five sites including this one as a possible source of that legionnaires cluster. We are not out of the woods just yet. They do expect cases to increase over the next seven days and tonight i spoke with someone who battled the bacteria firsthand. I was about to wait one more day to go to the hospital and if i would have waited that one day i dont think i would have been here right now. Reporter for Daniel Tejada being back in his home surrounded byname is something hell never by family is something hell never take for granted again. Now just rel
Spread around brooklyn and the bronx. Eyewitness News Reporter Kemberly Richardson it is in East New York tonight. Kemberly . Reporter sandra, one year it was the disney themed, each year plenty of candy. Shamia lived on the corner of crescent. This home is now part of an extensive crime scene. She was 12 years old. She had an asthma attack and died three years ago. Each year her family holds a memorial celebration. That is what was going on last night when bullets started flying. Boom, boom being boom. Reporter by the time the bullets stopped flying on stanley avenue, six women and three men were hit in the neck, legs and arms. As i was walking to the car, you heard shots fired and everybody you see everybody scattered. The youngest 1, oldest 38. Reporter he was one of the ones shot. Yes. Did easy the gunman . I dont think so. Reporter sources tell Eyewitness News what started as a memorial celebration in the backyard of this corner home turned into an ugly crime scene stretching seve
Nice this morning. If youre getting out to exercise, this is a good time to do it. We look pretty too. Looking at sunshine partly cloudy skies right now. Some spots seeing mostly sunny skies in philadelphia. Getting brighter out there. Staying hot once again today. We have been in the 90s since last tuesday. We were in the 90s yesterday. Today we will hit 90 once again. That heat wave does continue today. Also monday and tuesday before we finally dip back into the 80s on wednesday. Temperature now, about five to six degrees cooler compared to this time yesterday. 56 in mt. Pocono. 62 in reading. 60 in pottstown. 71 in philadelphia. 63 in millville. 68 in wildwood. We will see lots of sun ship once again. Hot by this afternoon. By 8 00 a. M. , 74. 86 degrees at noon. And 3 00 close to 90. Well talk about some storms in your sevenday coming up. People who need to buy a special pass for the popes visit are getting ready to do just that. The sale starts at 12 01 a. M. Jesse gary is live at
Meteorologist Michelle Grossman is track the heat but low humidity. Good morning. Good morning. Feeling a lot like yesterday. We had low humidity yesterday. We will do that one more day before we see that return tomorrow. Enjoy today, pleasant yesterday, despite the 90 degree temperature. We will see 90s again this afternoon. Heres a live view outside. Starting out with sunshine. Mostly sunny today. Temperatures about six degrees cool every compared to 24 hours ago in mount pocono. 7 degrees cooler in millville compared to 24 hours ago. Cooler this morning as you head out. 90 degrees by this afternoon. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s. We have some 50s on the map. 72 in philadelphia. 70 in wildwood. 60s in Atlantic City and mill val. 60 to the north and west. 61 in lancaster. A cool 58 in mount pocono. As we go throughout the day, temperatures climbing once again to near 90 degrees. We expect the heat wave to continue. By 8 00 74. By noon, 86 degrees. You can eat lunch outdoors with mos