by the way, that s one big science fair. that was my goal when i was in school to get to that science fair. i didn t make it. i had some good science fair i came so i still can t figure out how to get laugh ra out of a volcano. remember that? not enough baking soda? baking soda. no one ever told me because we had to call in the superintendent to do it. yes, the special crystals sold in every grocery store. right. keep it a secret. i m still not old enough. 25 minutes before the top of the hour. heather s got the headlines. we have a box like that just at home for my boys. i ll bring it in for you. good morning to you all. sad news coming out of the west coast, the death toll in the most destructive wildfires in that state s history has now reached to 5 people. two more bodies have been found in syrias that were scorched by the valley fire. they re believed to be two men who were reported missing earlier this week. both the valley fire and the
our meteorologist joins us with more on this. good weather, and we re hoping for a little bit more good weather to come. these fire, when you start measuring in thousands of acr , acreacres acres,. four times the city of san francisco when you talk act the valley and butte fire. much of it happened saturday into sunday. the valley fire has the potential to be one of the most deproductive fires in california history. it s becoming a raeger regular thing. as far as the improvements in the weather condition, we talked about some showers rolling on in towards the region. we go in for a close perspective. the showers have been very light in nature, quarter of an inch, half an inch at the very most. here comes the storm system. this particular one is quite impressive if you ask me for this time of year. has potential for decent snow showers that already brought down some snow in the higher elevations. but the models, wednesday night, the valley fire gets some
acres. and very near that site, the valley fire is just 30% contained. it s measuring 70,000 acres. the two fires together have already destroyed more than 700 homes and forced the evacuation of 23,000 people. an appeals court today halted the execution of an oklahoma inmate hours before the state was to put him to death at 4:00 p.m. today. the decision was made after attorneys for the inmate, richard glossip, asked for time to review new evidence and after pleas to halt his execution. glossip who has been on death row for 18 years was convicted of ordering the 1997 murder of a motel owner. though there was no physical evidence tying him to the crime, the man who committed the murder testified that glossip hired him to carry it out. in recent months, glossip s case has attracted nationwide attention including from actress susan sarandon who played a nun trying to save a man from death row in the 1995 film dead man walking. i really think that he s
or so number you gave for the homes. in all about 1,000 homes, buildings, businesses have been lost between this, the valley fire, as well as the butte fire that s burning just east of us but firefighters warn that that number will go up as they get more accurate damage assessment. and the lives lost count could also go up. right now we are at one person confirmed dead here in this fire. but there are several people that we learned are still missing including a former newspaper reporter who lived here in this community. as far as the evacuees, no one is allowed back in just yet. just for emergency supplies or feed their animals but otherwise about 13,000 people remain evacua evacuated. ari? thank you for your reporting on that. this is interesting. jon stewart getting in there and pushing congress to extend funding for 9/11 first responders who were sickened
enormous fires going on. this is a current look at those fires. there are a dozen in all. the two big ones, the valley fire, about 100 miles north of san francisco. it s burned a size bigger than milwaukee. it s 15% contained. the second one is the butte fire that s outside sacramento. it s about the size of tampa. it s a little bigger. they say it s close to 40 3ers contained. still, people are coming back, next to nothing. we ve seen video and pictures coming out of these areas in california. homes charred. what s left of people s livelihoods. the woman who died, this is what s left. she was in her 70s had a care-giver. she called fire officials but they couldn t get there. that s how fast they re moving. firefighters, more than 11,000 of them on the ground trying to fight these things. a lot of them have never seen anything eye quite like this. this is what s left of a carport. just ruins. firefighters, again, working very hard to set up lines.