A very good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garciacannon. Im sam brock. We, of course, are following breaking news in the south bay. The fire burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains along the lomapre prieta ridge line. All the residents there. This fire has rapidly grown over the last, not even 24 hours. Started about 3 00 yesterday afternoon. Weve been in touch with cal fire overnight, reaching out to emergency crews. The glow clearly visible even on my drive in this morning, up 101. 1100 acres have burned so far, already up. Those mandatory evacuations for the area covering 300. The red cross set up three emergency Evacuation Centers, one in morgan hill, one at so Cal High School as well as the Presbyterian Church in morgan hill and the Jewish Community center which is familiar to so many in that so cal area up there. 1100 acres, as you mentioned, burned so far, laura. The questions this morning become wind patterns and the hundreds of firefighters trying to estab
Took crews everything they had to stop that fire. Reporter the crews are going through their air tanks like crazy. Four of them in a row, all the way out to the freeway. All of them got out safely, but one resident got her feet singed. It was kind of scary. All the smoke was making it hard to breathe a little bit. All of these people were running out, crying. Reporter it was a chaotic scene, as fire crews rushed in. The call was for a wildlands fire, but a handful of homes were already burning. Fortunately, no fears of anyone trapped. They were evacuating people as we were pulling up. We got Information Way early on, that all the houses had been evacuated. Reporter this young woman rushed to help an elderly neighbor. Oh, my gosh, it hurts so bad. Yelling for her, because she cant hear very well, then she saw me and was like, we have to go. Reporter another fire fight was happening behind the houses. It appears the fire started, and spread to a row of eucalyptus trees that created a buf
The humidity is holding the temperatures up, 57 campbell and saratoga, and everybody is pretty close in the mid to upper 50s. Temperatures today ending up in the 60s and 70s, and after wednesday england temperatures inland temperatures will pop up. We are seeing slow traffic to be sure, getting around to the berkeley curve slow traffic and into the bay bridge toll plaza. There will be waiting to do it the toll plaza, 20 to 25 minute delay. Looking at the commute where the traffic is going to be busy in the east bay on i80 80 i 880 and once you get through the dublin interchange, slow traffic all the way down to the sinole grade. San jose still looking decent out of downtown for the trip in a san jose silicon valley. Some people from the valley could be coming to San Francisco for the dream force, taking over part of sonoma for the week. Just know there are a lot of crowds in for that event. 6 02 am. There were six armed robberies in the east bay, and the police are working together to
Driver told police that he accidentally pressed on the gas and accelerated and he ended up driving, crashing through the front windows here of lees sandwiches. And he actually put a hole in the wall and did damage to the business next door which appears to be some sort of Sandwich Shop as well. So two different businesses now have damagement you can see theyre cleaning up the glass right now. I asked police if there were any drugs or alcohol involved and they said no. This is just an accident of somebody pressing on the gas. Nobody was injured here. It was sufficient a solo driver. It was fortunate because this place just opened up at 6 00 a. M. And this accident happened about ten minutes later. Only employees were in there. We havent had a chance to speak to any of them. The good news while there is a lot of damage, nobody was injured. Back to you in the studio. We see that cleanup is underway. Thank you, jeanine. The time is 7 02. Lets check your weather. Hopefully everything is nic
Yesterday afternoon and quickly it jumped. It quickly went to 200, 500 and now over 1100 acres, only 5 contained. Some of the challenges for the firefighters out here, the hot temperatures are leading to very dry fuel, and this is very steep terrain. Its not easy to access. There are evacuations which kris will touch on later. We know 300 homes at one point were threatened and we know at least one home has burned. Unfortunately, if we have people that dont heed our evacuation request then were in a position where we have to provide rescue usually with those people. My basic plan is to protect my property and my family. Ill be the last one to leave if we have to. Reporter still no determination on what caused yesterdays fire. If you look back out here live, youre looking at the fire burning on loma prieta, theres communication equipment. We talked with a Santa Clara County sheriffs deputy, theres no more fuel for that fire so it wont be burning in that area. This fire right now is burni