The government just declared a state of emergency. The rocky fire is just 5 contained. And today, evacuations are underway for residents near the fire zone. We are live with the latest. Katie . Reporter weve been out here several hours. The winds are just changing. Five minutes ago, there is a bit of a breeze that died down at this point. We can see flames picking up on the ridge line behind me. Im along the road and and am joined by cal fire Public Information officer. Give me perspective at this point. Right. Here we are on the north side of the fire. Like you said, winds have been changing all day. The south side has been active most of the day. Now, here we are on the north side. Were seeing extreme fire activity going on. Youre going to see aircraft in, laying retardant down and firefighters can get up close to the fire and put fire out. That is probably reassuring for folks that live where there is an advisory at this point. Do you think crews are able owe get a handle on the rid
Th this is abc7 news. There is so much energy and heat in the main body of the fire. The rocky fire is burning hot and intense tonight forcing more evacuations. Good evening, everyone. The rocky fire in lake county continues to grow. It has burned nearly 85 square miles and has become the largest fire ever in lake county. And it has spread to yolo and coluuso counties. 3,000 firefighters are battling the fire and it is only 5 contained. Sergio is live with the latest. Sergio . Katie, tonight we found a hill so we could watch the fire line in the distance. It is something we notice a lot of the residents near clear lake doing. A lot of people are evacuated and they say they have things packed just in case they have to leave. At sunset crews started backfires to cut a fire line along this ridge which is only a couple miles away from the town of clear lake. We are afraid it will jump that ridge and come down. It is really close. It is and out back it is nothing but grass. Gail and lots of
Is doing what it intended to do. She points us to the pie chart of alerts that weve taken all of the a larts that relate to crime and put them in red. If you drill down into those, youll find alerts about people sleeping or smelling bad or drinking a beer on the train. Reporter darwin says out of the 763 alerts between april and may, only a handful were for crimes that would have called for an officer to investigate. When it comes to security wed rather have that one that was successful than deal with the 100 that is basically junk mail. Reporter at the center for human rights the app isnt just a harmless tool. He believes its Racial Discrimination discrimination, its promoting that. It furthers racial profiling by giving people an additional tool to do racial profiling. He said the 265,000 could vfb much better spent. B. A. R. T. Said it came from a grant that could only be spent on security. Other transit agencies were offering to to their customers. Our board of directors heard abou
Been given that he is on probation and given his prior arrest, Santa Clara Police say at 8 45 last night the 24year old was trying to park his car when he crashed into a parked car. He damaged that car as he was opening the door and left. When Police Showed up a few hours later, they suspected he has been drinking. He returned to the scene. He was cooperative and he took a field sobriety test and they arrested him. When he was released from jail this morning, he denied the dui allegation. Simple as this. Justice will be served and the truth will come out. There is no dui. Im sorry for any body i let down. Im sorry for, you know, the way the whole thing happened. It is time like, you know, i need to speak and want everybody to understand this was not a dui, the situation could have been handled differently but as far as anything is concerned, it will work out how it is supposed to work out. Hours later, the 49ers released him and his arraignment is scheduled for october 9th and thats if
Violation and suffer a fairly significant sanction because he was given the benefit of the doubt so recently by the court. What kind of sanction are you talking about . Jail time . Yeah, he could definitely go back to jail. In santa clara, david lui, nbc 7 news. This may surprise you the 49ers lead the nfl in the dubious category. Players arrested since 2012. The most recent aldon smith. In march bruce miller was arrested on suspicion of spousal battery. Ray mcdonald for felony domestic violence. April 2014 aldon smith was accused of making a false bomb threat at lax. In march Chris Culliver arrested for hit and run. In january of that same year Daniel Kilgore was arrested for public intoxication. In September Smith was arrested in san jose on suspicion of driving under the influence. February of 2013, al netter arrested for dui. November 2012 Demarcus Dobbs also picked up for dui. In february 2012 ray mcdonald was arrested in sunny vail for an outstanding warrant and in january 20612