Awareium. John sasaki aquarium, john sasaki, ktvu fox 2 news. Jim at 6 00 p. M. Starts now ktvu fox 2 news at 6 00 p. M. Starts now. A fire forcing evacuations at this hour. Crews are working to save homes threatened by the flames. Good evening. I am julie haener. And i am frank somerville. That breaking news is happening now, a new fire that started after 4 00 p. M. This afternoon in the community of lower lake south of clear lake. Cal fire is calling this the rocky fire. It broke out at 4 00 p. M. This afternoon. These are live pictures from sky fox 2 over the fire. You can see in some parts the flames are raging. Cal fire said the fire burned 150 acres. But that was an hour ago. I am sure when they update their numbers the number of acres burned will be higher. There are homes and ranches threatened. Some of them Million Dollars homes. We spoke to a woman, she said the flames are heading towards her home. Now 2 miles away. The sky is black because of all the smoke and she is getting
Hours since the fire started, and it has already grown to more than 3,000 acres. More than 300 firefighters are on the fire lines, and more have been requested. Cal fire says the flames have been moving fast and homes east of the town of lower lake are evacuated. One resident told us five homes have been lost, but so far, cal fire isnt confirming that. Earlier tonight, we spoke to a woman who lives in lower lake. Reporter theres lots of branches there, theres a lot of homes, and theyre going in, theyre rescuing people. Theres trailers. People getting their animals out. If that fire jumps, theres no water in the creek. The fire is burning through brush and timber that is very dry from our drought. We do have a crew on the scene. They are telling us the flames are moving away from the town of lower lake now, but homes and ranches there are still threatened. An Evacuation Center is also opened at the highland senior center. Take a look at this picture of the fire, it was posted to ktvu fa
Very hot, no cooling really. There might be a teeny bit, not a lot. Yesterday was 104, 105. Today maybe 102. Tough to get information there weather, current, its so remote but 60s and 70s, the humiditys at 29 . Wind is kind of southerly, south, southwest which might bring in tropical clouds later. The fog bank is very large. The delta breeze is howling for some, up to 32, 33 Miles Per Hour gusts. Its going to be significantly cooler but screaming up from the south are a lot of tropical clouds. The combination of these two are going to give us maybe a cloudy evening. Fog hugs the coast. It will be cooler, 90 for some but with a breeze. 60s, 70s for others. All righty, sal, quiet today at 6 01. Sort of quiet. At Golden Gate Bridge were going to show you a picture youre going to like. If youre a marin county commuter it has been nice in marin county. Southbound 101 looks good to the Golden Gate Bridge and into San Francisco. The fog is not especially thick. It definitely is overcast as st
Francisco. Lombard street is closed heading into the city due to Police Activity. The major impact this is having on the marin commute this morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Were bringing you live pictures from outside oakland oracle arena. This is where the funeral for Sergeant Scott lunger will be held. In about one hour, a procession of Police Officers will head up 880. Thats expected to cause pretty major traffic delays on 880. Christian calfton will be having a live report on todays ceremony. Good morning. Its thursday, july 30th. Im gasia mikaelian. Im dave clark. Lets talk about our weather and traffic. And were noticing it will be cooler for many people. For most. I would say 95 of the forecast. Not too much in lake county. They will have to wait. They will get tropical clouds. They are already on the move. Theres rain in parts of southern california, maybe for us late tonight and tomorrow. The breeze looks like it has turned to a more favorable direction. Lake county wont get
We have had some nasty traffic the last couple of weeks, with a last delays. Right now the Altamont Pass is building over from tracy to greenville road with debris in the lanes. Southbound 880 approaching a street not causing delays. We will keep our eye on it. Here is drive time traffic, i80 westbound from albany to the maze is four minutes. 280 northbound from 101 to cupertino is 11 minutes. Developing news in labor county, this morning firefighters are bracing for another brutally hot day against an outofcontrol wildfire spreading at a near record pace. Here is the latest on the rocky fire burning 13,000 acres in the clear lake area. Flames are near Morgan Valley and rocky creek road and only 5 percent contained. Three homes have been destroyed and the fire burned at 10,000 acres in only 24 hours. Firefighters worked to save plans where hundreds were evacuated. Did you think you would see your home . I was not sure. I said i did not know, just pray for us. We left it hype. Dont know