Around and losses instore 74 cast coming up. It seems like the rain is worst it causes more problems. Grant kron fours Spencer Blake is live in walnut creek tonight. How are things going for drivers reporter the rain seems to stop we go live now its coming down even harder than it was earlier this afternoon hand and highway 24 comes from the turf i 60 see the traffic there and part of this to merge that is coming up also the wife freeways the death valley want ticket take careful out there. Earlier in the day and all the creek some minor construction that was on hold. At all the umbrellas throughout the downtown area. And a milk Truck Drivers still have their work to get done. As we look at the carpet driving in the water we did talk to one person that came from argentina she gets to take it carefully. Reporter have to dress for the weight range youthe glove is as well. If youre breaking for any curves or merge thats when hydroplaning could happen take it very carefully tonight as you
grant we now know the names of the napa officers involved in a Fatal Shooting last week. They have been idenitified as Sergeant Ryan cole and officer jack thomson. This is video of the scene last monday night from our helicopter partnership with abc7. Noel russell was allegedly threatening people with a knife. When the officers arrived. They drew their guns and ordered russell to get on the ground. Authorities say russell did not comply and became agressive. At this point Sergeant Cole and officer thomson started shooting. Killing russell. A knife was found next to his body. Police say two warrants were out for russells arrest for drug possession and assaulting a peace officer. The shooting is under investigation. grant another big story we are tracking tonight. One of two people who got sick after drinking herbal teas bought in San Franciscos chinatown neighborhood. Has died. 56yearold yuping xie of San Francisco. Died saturday at a hospital where she had been since february. The tea
An army of firefighters battling wildfire across california tonight. As tens of thousands of acres go up in flames. We are tracking the destruction tonight. Youre looking at video from the cold fire in yolo county and the soberanes fire in monterey county. Good evening im Vicki Liviakis in for pam moore. Steve and im steve aveson. Tonight we are looking into why this fire season may be more of a challenge for firefighters. Kron4s Spencer Blake joins us now. And spencer is there progress tonight on the fire lines . Reporter the progress is very slowgoing, lets put it that way. The cold fire up in yolo county is still just 15 percent contained, and its burned 47 hundred acres. And down in monterey county, the 54thousand acre soberanes fire is 35 percent contained. Those stats are comign from cal firebut even on the municipal level, fire stations like this one in palo alto can feel the heat of the 2016 fire season. In some ways, this summers fire season isnt as bad as 2015s. Through the e
Their police powers, pending the outcome of an independent investigation. Chicagos useofforce policy explicitly prohibits police from firing at a moving vehicle if it represents the only threat against officers. Vicki a photo making light of the black lives Matter Movement that was published in the San Francisco Police Union Newsletter is stirring up controversy. Kron4s Maureen Kelly has reaction. As you can see it shows a black dog wearing a sign that reads black labs matter. Next to a light colored dog whos sign says all labs matter. It was published on the back page of the august issue of San Francisco Police Officers association journal. After reportedly sent to the union by a supporter. Next to the picture. It reads. Maybe its time we all just sit back and tone down the rhetoric. If it was meant to lighten the mood. The Vice President of the San Francisco chapter of the n aacp certainly isnt smiling. dont play with this lives are being ruined lives are being taken and people are m