Tonight 6300 homes are in harms way. Cornell bernard is live in lower lake. A lot of worried people out there tonight. Reporter folks are so worried tonight. Many are trying to remain calm, but take a look at this. Scenes like this are certainly not helping with that at all. This is just incredible. He rocky fire has crossed this ridge in the last ten minutes, moving to the northwest, and an intense air assault is underway. With tankers dropping water and fire retardant on this fastmoving blaze. Far from here the fire continues to march north with a vengeance. 2,000 firefighters from across the state trying to prevent this intense blaze from jumping highway 20. So far that battleline has not been crossed. Backfires have been set to prevent the spread. Hundreds of worried results needed more information and went to a Community Meeting at Lower Lake High School to get updates from calfire on this blaze. So far there is no word when evacuate residents can return home, and others are wonde
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
The world series. Its monday, august 3rd. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. Well, we start now with investigators in new mexico looking for clues after two bombs went off outside las cruces churches during sunday services. As federal investigators move in today, worshipers describe the moments of terror and confusion after the blast. Abcs Kayna Whitworth has the details. Reporter the fbi investigating two terrifying explosions at churches in new mexico. It sounded like something had fallen off and, like, shattered the glass in the back. Reporter 8 00 a. M. An explosion in a mailbox outside cavalry Baptist Church. Parishioners left with their ears ringing. 30 minutes later, 8 30 a. M. Just as worshipers were receiving communion, another explosion shattering the glass front doors at Holy Cross Church in las cruces. Can you contact the daso bomb squad . Reporter that bomb exploding in a trash can near the entrance. Police arrived, escorting
And good monday morning to you all. We have to start with Severe Weather thats hitting several states producing strong winds, hail and tornadoes. The radar showing that strong line of storms moving east overnight heading east moving across to Detroit Heading toward pittsburgh and albany right now. And this image here showing what the storm system is capable of producing. A strong tornado was spotted just west of des moines iowa, some reported damage there. Oh, my god. Oh, my god, no. Im going to shut the gas off. Youre okay. Panic in eastern michigan as a tornado rolled through that area. The twister damaged several buildings including a school. Severe storms turned deadly in illinois. High winds caused a tent to collapse at a festival. We get more now from abcs bazi kanani. This is horrible. Reporter festivalgoers described the frightening moments that led to this. At least 15 injured and 1 person killed when a sudden storm barreled through the annual prairie fest near chicago. Powerf
Along without a problem. Back to san jose we have an accident and this is northbound highway 17 near hamilton avenue, not causing any delays. Look at this backups for miles. We have westbound 580 bumpertobumper traffic from tracy to the accident on the shoulder at grant line. To get from tracy to dublin it will take you an hour. Matt and kristen . More break news from oakland. A Police Shooting left an officer injured and a Sexual Assault suspect dead. Janet o has the latest from north oakland. Janet . Yes kristen, check out the scene. You can see several officers investigating the Early Morning shooting. Oakland miss say this started out of a Sexual Assault investigation yesterday evening. We are told Police Officers tried to make contacts with the Sexual Assault suspect when he shot at two officers with a rifle. It happened at 38300 block of mlk way at 1 30 in the morning. A Police Officer who was shot is out of surgery and in stable condition. The suspect would was shot was pronoune