Over her on Climate Change just come to the state of california. Observe it with your own eyes. Governor gavin newsom not mincing words governor says california is in a Climate Crisis the terrible toll of the states wildfires becoming more evident. Block after block of destruction and now at least 19 people dead in what has become a historic year for California Wildfires than 2 dozen fires burning along the west coast pushing mass amounts of smoke into the bay area the skies still as we are seeing some of the worst air quality on earth. Thank you for joining us tonight at 6 im pam moore and im ken wayne lets get straight to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow morris theres a lot of very unhealthy air still out there yeah we just cant makes it outlawed the smoke. Actually made his way back in the bay area couple of days ago now has mixed all the way down to the surface what we need is some way to kick it further out of the area, but right now not see much in the way of wind at all in fa
Coverage in the l a new lightning complex fires have now burned more than 46,000 acres overnight. These fires have destroyed at least 50 structures threatening dozens more theres 0 containment. The flames are and solano napa and sonoma counties right now and cal fire has hundreds of personnel on the scene trying to protect as many homes as possible. Mandatory evacuations have been issued for several neighborhoods. Well go over some of them right now this includes rockville road. Sassoon valley road Gordon Valley road Wooden Valley road clayton road. A man casts corner shelton lane northwest Browns Valley road. Also west of blue ridge road to 5 05 and north of cherry glen road. The highway one 28 and it is important also know that 80 is shut between fairfield and vacaville between cherry glen road and air base parkway weve covered that a few times here well get more information on that to you as soon as new information comes in. Now tonight, there are multiple evacuation orders also in
Commemoration at the naval cemetery in vallejo. This is the oldest Military Cemetery on the west coast. It opened in 1858, nearly 1,000 are interred there, including three medal of honor recipients and veterans from the war of 1812, the civil war and world war i. Good afternoon. Im larry beil. And im dion lim. While memorial day is about honoring those who died for our country, for many its also the unofficial start to summer. The heat and holiday sent many people off to beaches and parks across the bay area despite recommendations to stay at home. Leeann melendez spoke to people who said they just needed to get out. She joins us live from the roof top of abc 7. A beautiful picture behind you. Reporter its beautiful up here. We often hear people say, im so tired of staying at home. I am really tired of hearing about covid19. Does this make them a bad person . Absolutely not. It makes them human. Today, humans had the heat, the holiday, and the will. Here at stern grove in San Francisco
This is not how bruce willis is supposed to be handling a global pandemic. Were getting to see the insides of a lot of peoples houses right now. Even politicians. Senator Lindsey Graham gave us a glimpse into his confirmed bachelor pad after holding up the stimulus bill because he was concerned greedy and lazy nurses and Hospital Personnel would take unemployment money instead of showing up for work. Yesterday, he changed his tune significantly, to send those same people his thanks and support on world health day. What heroes are doctors, emts, anybody in the supply chain to get food on the shelves. Youre truly the heroes of this fight. Jimmy what a beautiful piece of artwork. I had no idea lindsey knew how to paint we also got to see the inside of Bernie Sanders house. The big story of the day, the second biggest story, i guess is that Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the race for president. He made the announcement from his home in vermont where he has been holed up for weeks, obvio
Begin with the latest on the corona virus as the World Health Organization says that the virus does have a higher death rate than the flu but is more difficult to transmit. While many people globally build immunity to seasonal flu strains ninetys a new virus to which no one. And that means more people out of susceptible to infection and. C. V. S. Diseases globally about 3. 4 percent of reported 19 cases have died. By computers and seasonal flu. That any queues trying to fewer than one percent of those infected. The so the mortality rate for covert 19 the disease caused by the corona virus is 3. 4 percent and that number is making headlines but what most media is not going to tell you is that that number is also pretty crude and poorly calculated number one its based primarily on the outbreak in china where the majority of the cases have been detected specifically and move on which has a higher death rate than anywhere else in the case of those cases were early and many of the victims d