Still fighting tonight. Firefighters in San Diego County are still battle raging wildfires that have already burned more than 9,000 acres. Additional air tankers and helicopter are deploy to the region but its too late for some. If i had everything i possibly could want, it was absolutely gorgeous and now its all gone. My heart goes out to those who surfed losses. Although the losses look like theyre being contained. Reporter a large wildfire rages on, destroying homes. Scary scenes like this shows what happens when uncontrollable flames meet sweeping winds, a sort of fire tornado forms right near peoples homes. Nearby, the largest wildfire threatens camp pendleton. So far thousands have been evacuated from San Diego County. Youve been asked to evacuate, but trust me, the fire officials know reporter thousands of firefighters work to put the blazes out but theyre up against record heat, dry winds and low humidity, not to mention fatigue. The cause of the fires remains under investigati
Modified crops. Dr crystal dilworth is a molecular science and Cara Santa Maria has a bank ground in science. Im phil torres, an endometeorologist. Tonight spiders and goats and how we may hannes spider harness spider silk. Thats the team, lets do some science. Music ] hey guys, welcome to techknow. What does the bulletproof vest have to do with goats milk. The answer lies in spider silk of all things. I got a chance to look at the future of fabrics. It is fascinating. Lets take a look. Reporter they are natures masterful architects, genius at structural design. Their silk though just a fraction of the size of a human hair, is stronger than steel and more powerful than tevlar. You have called spider silk the ancient biomaterial for the future. What do you mean by that . Spiders have been around for roughly 600 billion years. It has properties that no manmade properties have. What can you use it for . Medical products, car tyres, bike tyres looking at it for air bags. How do you get fro
Modified crops. Dr crystal dilworth is a molecular science and Cara Santa Maria has a bank ground in science. Im phil torres, an endometeorologist. Tonight spiders and goats and how we may hannes spider harness spider silk. Thats the team, lets do some science. Music ] hey guys, welcome to techknow. What does the bulletproof vest have to do with goats milk. The answer lies in spider silk of all things. I got a chance to look at the future of fabrics. It is fascinating. Lets take a look. Reporter they are natures masterful architects, genius at structural design. Their silk though just a fraction of the size of a human hair, is stronger than steel and more powerful than tevlar. You have called spider silk the ancient biomaterial for the future. What do you mean by that . Spiders have been around for roughly 600 billion years. It has properties that no manmade properties have. What can you use it for . Medical products, car tyres, bike tyres looking at it for air bags. How do you get fro
First, lets get to the top stories with International Shakeout day. In San Francisco and oakland, mayors london breed and libby schaaf will practice drills including drop, cover , and hold on to keep safe during the earthquake. Experts in the field teach students about the importance of earthquake and disaster safety. Last night a group of thre earthquakes rattled the geyser and the magnitude was from 3. 2 to 3. 3. Its a good reminder we always need to be prepared. Surprise Fireworks Show sen people in the bay area into a panic last night. It was part of a Film Production on the avenue of palms. It was betwee 8 00 and 10 00 p. M. And many people thought it was the resul of a power outage. Today in antioch. Celebrating the ribboncutting for a new Affordable Housing project. The 400 unit housing complex will house mostly seniors and families. There wil be a Community Swimming pool plus recreational services. It antioch starting at 11 00 this morning. And now we look at the Weather Foreca
Citizens united is by far the biggest there. Upcoming case will be another one, the listing rules for aris. And potentially some Court Watchers believe, he could not down the benefits given to candidates and parties themselves. So, the Citizens United is the most highprofile decision on this issue, but very much in a string of cases and we do not know how this is going to and yet either. Marianne from tennessee on our line for independents. Good morning. Caller good morning. I have a question about dark money. When the representatives who are supposed to be representing us shut down the government over obamacare, the stock market went down. Resumed, iternment went up the same day. Since these representatives get a heads up on the market movements, how many of them made money, who were they, and how much . Host andy kroll. Guest that is a good question. That gives back to what the previous color said about the stock act. There is absolutely the for them to act on information they have a