Afternoon and quickly grew to 600 acres. Thats according to the latest update from the santa clara unit cal fire. About an hour ago, evacuations are also under place along all of kenyatta road. At least four helicopters are working at keeping this fire at a moderate spread. Where were standing, were a little bit southwest of where the fire is burning. The wind seems to be blowing the fire east and growing that way, but not too long ago another layer of smoke a little bit west of where that big one where you can see the big one is started. Doesnt look like the fire is going away any time too soon. And were keeping a close eye on it, terry. Were live here near gilroy. Ginger, nbc bay area news. Ginger, thanks very much. Heres another live look at the cruz fire burning near gilroy. You can see from the wildfire camera all the smoke. Again, so far at least 600 acres have burned. Were going to continue to update you on this fire on air and our digital platforms as well. Download our free nb
We are on fire watch now at 11 00. Evacuations underway in the south bay as crews work to contain large grass fires. We are live from the fire lines. A rowdy crowd takes over an open fire truck as it tries to make its way to an emergency call. The moments caught on camera. The fourth of july turns deadly for a young boy in the bayview. Tonight, police are searching for the confronter a black why police are now involved her we start with the fire watch though now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area , i am brian heckman. I am juliette goodrich. The socalled cruise fire east of gilroy has now exploded to more than 1000 acres. In just a few hours with no signs of slowing down. The fire is now burning towards highway 152 threatening homes and forcing evacuations. Kpix 5s joe vazquez spoke to residents who say the wind changed things in a blink of an eye. Reporter juliet, you can see the bright orange glow in the hills behind me, it is lighting up the sky tonight. T eiurs now and se fire
Painted by 100 people on the 4th of july. Just yesterday a white couple was caught on video trying to paint over the permitted mural. Martinez police shared a picture of their white nissan pickup with the name nicole on the tail let. A man who witnessed the vandalism saturday talked to us by phone. He was there again this afternoon at about 6 00 when someone else pulled up in a jeep and yelled all lives matter. And then my friends pursued them on a skateboard and then when he pulled up to them and said, whats up, the guy then pulled a gun on him. Reporter the man who did not want to be identified captured video of police over the man. I have to commend them for not only being on the scene but for responding so quickly because they were on him this crazy fast. Reporter 30yearold joseph osuna who is now charged with brandishing a weapon. Tom jensen. Its been more than eight hours now that firefighters have been battling the cruise fire. Flames lighting up the night sky. Just before 4 00
20 to 30 Miles Per Hour winds along the coast. Well talk about the rest of the week coming up in a few minutes. Len. Fire fighters are trying to stop a fire thats raging east of gilroy and burning for more than 15 hours now and has grown to 1500acres. This morning, its only 15 contained. Kpix5 kiet do joining us live from the fire lines with the very latest. Kiet. Reporter yeah, im on crews road east of gilroy and the sun coming up giving us a better look of the burn area roughly where the fire started and parts of it burned, parts of it not. You can see some of the red retardant that the planes dropped and they use these roads oftentimes as natural fire breaks and you may see smoldering as well. This cold air is trapping a lot of smoke in the valley and its very smokey right now and that allows Fire Fighters to get the upper hand overnight and in this case, overnight when the sun first went down, it was pretty active overnight and check out this time video pushed out by cal fire overn
Around the bay, 66 in San Francisco and cool along the coast in the low 60s in pacifica. Talk about the rest of the week and when we will see temperatures heating up in our full forecast coming up. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and a Traffic Alert this morning. There is on the antioch bridge southbound so youll see delays. This is a major injury accident involving a vehicle hauling a trailer as well as another truck, possibly a garbage truck. Theres a lot of debris in the roadway. Caltrans has been called to the scene and has been out there since about 3 45 this morning and theyre trying to let traffic through and antioch bridge southbound around mid span and youll see the closures and right at wilbur avenue. Anne. Im anne mack vic. These floods are the worst Natural Disaster to hit japan since a typhoon in october that killed almost 90 people. Back to you. Right now, Fire Fighters are trying to stop a fire anyoning east of gilroy. This all broke out yesterday and is