She didnt return home to Salt Lake City where she was said to be honored with a women in tech award. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. Im julie haener. Her family said she was found dead in her rental car in san jose yesterday. Ktvus andre senior joins us outside San Jose Police headquarters with the latest on the investigation. Andre. Reporter tonight San Jose Police will not confirm the body found in that vehicle in that quiet neighborhood is that of erin valenta, but her family and friends say it is her body, in fact, and theyre now looking for answers in this case and theyre mourning her passing. There are flowers, a note with three hearts and the name erin written on it sitting on a sidewalk on the 6500 block of lane in san jose. Her body was found in a car here saturday night. When we came out to walk our dog, we noticed all the activity. Reporter this resident told us he had an inkling of what might be happening here because he had been following a Facebook Page creat
Good evening im julie haener. Im andre senior in for frank. The utility promised communication. The warning covers half a Million People in 16 counties in the bay area, foothills, including san mateo, lake, napa, and sonoma counties. Live coverage now from ktvus amber lee in sonoma with how people are preparing with the blackout still on their mind. Reporter andre, we are in downtown sonoma. We spoke to merchants and residents who lost power last time. Many tell me they are frustrated, but better prepared this time. El dorado kitchen downtown sonoma is bustling on this monday night, serving california cuisine, but they are bracing for what may be the price of doing business in northern california. There may be another plan for the power outage. The second could potentially re weeks. Lost sales, food, and wages. Tens of thousands of dollars in our head. The hourly employees themselves, you know, they dont need to come in to make their ways. Reporter this time the manager says a rented g
In our case. The hourly employees themselves dont get to come in to make their ways. Reporter it had time the manager says a rented generator is scheduled to arrive on tuesday, but it will only keep them from spoiling. It will not be able to help keep the restaurant open. And they are off in the kitchen and they have to be operable in order to remain open. Reporter at nearby sonoma market, they tell me the business learned a lesson during the last outage. And they have purchased a new generator. We will get them up here. Reporter during the last outage, the markets stayed open, and moved all their perishables into refrigerated trucks because the existing generator could only power the lights and registers. One shopper said she lost power in her home. This st ameful. High winds will outages if n prevent fires. They are one tool that we have to keep them safe to combat the risk. We are trying to get through. The owner of sweet goose says they lost about 60 buckets or two freezes full of
The fire has now burned more than 54,000 acres, a steep increase from this morning when firefighters said the fire was 30,000 acres. Containment has fallen from 10 to just 5 . 94 structures have been destroyed and Officials Say another 80,000 structures are still threatened tonight. Also today authorities evacuated another 90,000 people from Sonoma County bringing the total number of people evacuated to 180,000. Heres a look at the evacuation zone. You can see the evacuations stretch from healdsburg down to santa rosa and then all the way to the coast. We begin our Live Team Coverage tonight with ktvus jana katsuyama. Reporter we just got an update. The wind gusts have been pretty intense here. I understand from one of the officials here that the fire has already jumped font road. Up the hill we saw about 15 minutes ago a number of vehicles coming out of shiloh ridge and dashing south down font road because in the past 10 minutes there has been an Emergency Alert imminent fire threat t
From about 10 down to 5 . So far 94 structures have been destroyed and Officials Say another 80,000 structures are threatened still tonight. Today authorities evacuated another 90,000 people from Sonoma County. That brings the total number of people vac waited evacuated to more than 180,000. You can see the evacuations stretch from healdsburg to santa rosa to the coast. We begin our Live Team Coverage tonight with jana katsuyama. The situation in shiloh near windsor has changed since your last report at 10 00. Reporter just in the past 15 minutes, julie. We were down on shiloh road right at the intersection for all of the evening and now they are moving trucks both in and out of that area. We are right now at old redwood highway and had to pull out because they said we need to evacuate immediately. Let me show you some video that mark hamburg, my photographer, shot a short while ago of the flames that have now crept up towards pleasant avenue. They have cross over and we understand fie