Live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc7 news. This is the first mandatory evacuation that weve had on the Northern Edge of the fire along highway 20. New evacuations in that massive fire burning in lake county. Two dozen homes have now been destroyed. And thousands are in danger. Good evening, everyone. Im katie marzullo. The biggest fire burning in california right now is the rocky fire in lake county. And it continues to grow tonight. It has now burned more than 27,000 acres. It is still just five percent contained. 24 homes have been destroyed. Along with 26 outbuildings. Another 6,000 buildings are threatened at this hour. Abc7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow is live in clear lake with the latest. Reporter the top priority for firefighters overnight will be to make sure that this fire does not jump highway 20 or highway 16. Firefighters tell me they are treating those two highways, the enter section of them, like a box, and they want to keep the fire inside. The rocky fir
Youre making plans. August 1st. I know, i dont like it. Its moving too fast. Slow down, mother nature, slow down, relax. Well, really, if you think about it, summer is like two months. Here, yeah, exactly. Whats up with that . Its too short were robbed. I know, its brutal. Im not ready for it yet. Im rob nelson. Im michelle charlesworth. A nice day ahead and i think less humidity than a few days ago. Exactly. Keeping with yesterday. If you like the hot stuff, amy, this has been your week, huh . Thats right. I like the hot stuff we all like the hot weather, the three of us. Amen. Temperatures have been in the upper 80s, low 90s. We had 89 yesterday, were going to go for 90 again. A beautiful blue moon, by the way, last night. A lot of pictures sent in to social media. Thanks for all of those. Love to see what you saw last night. From brooklyn into lower manhattan, we have a beautiful look day in front of looking day in front of us. Look at the sun glistening on the buildings so gently.
Continue through early afternoon. Were going for a forecast high of 90 degrees. Coming up in just a few minutes well see if we can hold this for the second half of the weekend and ill show you the string of 90s ahead in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Michelle. All right, amy, thank you so much. Developing right now, major roadways shut down in brooklyn. Last nights water main break, giant one, still causing big problems this morning on flatbush avenue. Eyewitness News Reporter marcus solis joins us live from Prospect Heights right now with the details. Good morning, marcus. Reporter good morning, michelle. Well, fives still without water, but many more people were affected as they try to get around this mess on the roads. More on that in a second. Hear you with hear the jackhammer and see the work that continue, and this all because of a 12inch water main that burst yesterday. It happened around 8 15 on flatbush avenue and st. Marx avenue. So crews had to wait a little bit. There w
Another robbery in central park. This morning, police are looking for a man accused in the violent attack. Cbs 2ilana gold joins us live from the park with an update. Ilana . Andrea and diane, police say the victim is a 53yearold man. He was walking here on the upper west side. When the suspect asked him for money. And then he strangled him and stole everything he had. The nypd just released a sketch of this suspect. They say he is responsible for a violent robbery in central park, in the rammable section by 72nd street and west drive. It happened at 10 00 thursday night. It is terrible. And it is frightening. Police say he approached a 53yearold man walking by. He said he was hungry and needed money. But when the man told him no and walked away, the suspect followed, and then put him in a choke hold until he passed out. The victim woke up 30 minutes later and his wallet and backpack filled with cash, jewelry and keys were gone. It is very concerning. This is our park. We should be fre
It could be anywhere. It could be anywhere. How do we know . Reporter Health Officials say they became aware of the first case around july 10. People with the disease live in highbridge, mont haven and hunts point. And the source has not been found. More than two dozen buildings were checked for the legionella bacteria which grows in warm water. The testing focused on cooling towers and the results came back positive for the concourse mall on 161st street, Lincoln Hospital, the Opera House Hotel and two more buildings. And this building that houses a plastics building and the building that the Health Department says includes offices for verizon. All are disinfected. We will see what happens in a affects anybody else. Symptoms include fever, cough, chills and muscle aches. Contagious. So it is not spread from person to person. People get sick after breathing water vapor from faucet, showers and whirlpools or cooling towers. And people middle aged and older are at highest risk especially