Electrician before deciding to become a cop. We talked about my concern for your safety a lot and you always said dad, dont worry, when it is your time to go you cant do a thing about it. It is in gods hands. Reporter his daughter spoke wearing her fathers shirt. I think that my dad always knew Something Like this would always happen. I believe that if he had to go this is the only honorable way for it to happen. Reporter she wondered about a future without her father who wont be there to share special moments. I didnt know who would walk me down the aisle or love all my kids that will be too cute to put down. Reporter his brother talked about the boy who followed in his footsteps but that has now changed. Well, little brother, the tables have turned. It is your big brother who now looks up to you. Reporter one officer described the cops job as being a sheep dog, protecting the flock from the wolves. That is what Sergeant Scott lunger was doing when he died protecting the flock. Always
Showers falling in the desert southwest, socal, near sierra. Keep in mind if traveling across the state today, especially across the sierra and northern california, youll run into rain. At home, another dry day. Temperatures in the low to mid60s this afternoon. At the coastline, temperatures in the upper 60s. San francisco at 68 degrees, mix of sun and clouds. North bay and east bay, temperatures range from the 70s to 80s. It will be warm in the trivalley. Temperatures yesterday got close to 90 degrees. Today closer to 80. Less humidity, less heat. That continues this upcoming week. We have a hurricane making its way to hawaii. We will talk about that. And will that effect weather here . Probably not. If traveling. Last trip before school starts. Anthony, thank you. We begin with continuing coverage of several major wildfires in northern california. California governor jerry brown describes the state as a tinder box, declaring a state of emergency. This map shows the locations of many
Acres. The fire charred 24 homes and threatening 5,000 more. Also only 5 contained. A total of 12,000 people are out of their homes because of evacuation orders. Other here were seeing flames in excess of 100 feet. Now the rocky fire is one of more than 20 major fires burning in the state right now. Lets take a look at the map so you can get a handle on how many fires firefighters are contending with. California is under a state of emergency because of these fires. Meanwhile firefighters gaining the upper hand on this battle. This one rage in the Sierra National forrest. The willow fire about 50 miles knot of fresno. Burned 5600 acres so far. Hundreds of evacuated families can now begin to head back home at 9 oclock tonight. The fire is 60 contained but with more than 2,000 firefighters on the job, teams are confident theyre be out soon. The night crews were instrument tall in doing some firing operations. There are 400 homes in the evacuated community. Thou all of the fires are sendin
Reporter yeah, thats the good news, kris and scott. Battalion chief telling me no, because the smoke cleared, the heavy winds really helped this morning. I also just learned from him there have been up to ten fires in this immediate area, most started by homeless people. It is unclear if thats what happened here at the al ko building. He also said operations stop overnight. People leave here around 5 00, so its unclear why it started at 11 00, hours later you see a skeleton, by the way this fire not just versus an impact, but on this very small community. The bright orange flames ate away at the recycling plant, the fire so big it engulfed the nearly 63,000 square foot warehouse. We have a lot of sections in this building that are six, eight, ten feet thick or deep, and its going to be hard to penetrate that water to actually put that fire out. Firefighters say the heavy winds threw embers as far as a quarter miles away, sparking up to 20 spot grass fires, but its working like a double
First to our lead. In other wild ride in the markets for u. S. Markets erasing gains made earlier in the day. Tech stocks faring better than the rest. Straight to matt miller for the latest action at the close. Apple, netflix, facebook, amazon, best buy, these were the addingners on the s p fractions of index points at the close. We were up 3 on the s p after the huge drops weve seen in the last five trading days in the stocks out rally after the close. Old Economy Companies like gm, merck, johnson johnson, those companies along with microsoft, which some would think it is an old economy as well, way down on the embe index. Now we are in in a situation where today is the sixth trading day. The Dow Jones Industrial average was up 540 points. Slowly chipped away at that gain until we finished down at a loss of 200. It is anybodys guess as to what happens tomorrow. Maybe they think we are too pricey. We would have to wait and see how asia opens up tomorrow night. We will be watching that.