Near st. Helena. Terry mcsweeney, you were with crews a authority tishort its believed that lightning started this fire. Reporter a lot of evidence that lightning started it. I was talking to firefighters here. They say the focus tonight is on structure protection, saving the homes which are up state route 128, closed off as you can see. Everywhere you look, theres fire on the mountain. Huge flames leaping into the night sky along hennessey ridge. Cal fire says this fire has burned 2,400 acres and is 0 contained. With the hot, dry conditions that weve been having and then coupled with this weather that weve had, its not common for the area with all the lightning strikes that weve been having. Its just its very can be very hazardous for the fire conditions. Reporter the cause believed to be lightning. This video from the local chp office showing a strike a short while before the first reports of fire. This structure fell victim to the flames today. More than 200 other buildings are thre
Robberies assaults and burglaries kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from san leandro what the police union is saying about these alarming numbers stand. Well ken and pam this warning from the police union comes up in the city of san leandro voted in june to slash the budget of the Police Department by more than a Million Dollars is also having the union come out and say that because of the spikes in crimes theyre going to need all the funding that they could gain but advocates for defunding. The Police Department say. That they should addressing the its not its not money thats the problem here. Its how these crimes are addressed. The San Leandro Police Officers Association is warning people over a significant jump in Violent Crimes, new numbers from the citys Police Department show from june to july there was a 500 increase in armed robberies, a 125 increase in assaults with a Deadly Weapon a 100 jump in shoplifting and a 75 increase in home burglaries is very concerning for us th
Aound the bay, clearing to the mid to upper 60s to the 70s and cool, cloudy and breezy along the coast. It gets cooler tomorrow with that stronger ocean breeze and i will have more on that coming up and now lets check in with the latest on the Traffic Alert along highway 17. A lot of activity if you plan on taking 17. Both directions and both lanes on the southbound side are shut down right at the summit. Northbound lanes are open. This is due to a big rig accident where they hit the hillside and got stuck on its side. It kind of toppled over. It will take some time for this to clear out. They are turning vehicles around at redwood estate. Using a lot of brake lights building because of this. Traffic alerts are in effect around 17 north of the summit. Today marks one year since the gunman broke into the gilroy garlic festival and shot and killed three people. There are several events planned but they will be largely closed off through social distancing. Were live in gilroy with how tod
Mix out fairly quickly looks like by already 10 oclock most of it is handled even this afternoon at the coast as we settle into a kind of typical summertime day all those temperatures 60s over most of the east bay. Even a good chunk of the peninsula 50s as you head up to the north bay for the most part in contrast were a couple degrees ahead over most of the Real Estate Today than this time yesterday breaking it down for you taken care of this fog pretty quickly this morning by 08 00am the inland areas at least turning mostly sunny with 6079 by 11 and by 2 oclock word, one 90 yes, there are many in the 90s on the board. Well take a look at that forecast a bit more. Sounds good dave. Thank you. All 9 bay area counties are now on the states covid19 watch list and there are more than 57,000 coronavirus cases and more than 800 people have died in the bay area from the virus. We continue to see the most cases in Alameda County with over 11,000 infections. The virus though has been deadliest
And bridging the gap of trust, particularly with communities of color across our nation . Sen. Scott i think Congress Plays a role in that, even a significant role, but the most important is the one on the local level, the mayors and county chairwoman, those folks have the most direct path towards Police Reform, not those of us in congress. I have shared this many times. I have been stopped by officers years. S in the last 20 seven times in one year as an elected official and all of my 18 stops were either by city, county, or state Law Enforcement, never by federal Law Enforcement officers. Literally while we know the president ial election is important this year, another very important one. The truth is your election for your mayor, a lot of citizens dont participate in, election every city council members, those are the folks directly in positions of power to determine the local Law Enforcement you have. When we dont vote in those elections, we are actually taking a step back from th