To the occupancy of the vehicle. An elderly gentleman and young girl approximately 30 years old. Suspect is described as an African American male, in his forties, wearing a green shirt and blue jays, but he is about 57 it had a hunch is 65 lbs. 57 165lbs wearing green shirt and blue jeens. 6js64a reporter will gather more details as they come available live in oakland. Pam pam we have more breaking news tonight. This time on a Police Officer. Involved in a car crash pam youre looking at the scene interstate 580. Near 150th avenue. The crash. Two of those injured while the rest suffered moderate injuries. Back up for miles along the highway. Recent rain wasnt enough. Pam more brady news tonight this time on a c h p officers involved in a car crash you are looking at the scene as san leandro at interstate by 86 people were involved in the crash in two people were seriously injured while the others suffered moderate injuries. Pam pick the vehicle struck a one of the disabled cars and hit
This . As you can see the fire is fairly actively burning and the winds are causing it to pickup. This is not unusual for this mountain this early in the morning. It is just showing the potential we have out here. There is a lot of unburned file and the mountain has not burned for many, many years. We have very hot temperatures in the last few days. We have very low humidity. All of those factors contribute to this. This site looks. Our apologies for Audio Program with amy hollyfield. We will go back to amy but, first, we go to pictures of what is going on. You can see the hotspots burning right there at 1,500 acres. When the sun comes up firefighters will try to do battle and only 10 percent containment so a tough battle head with todays weather. Mike had a good view of the fire driving in and you are describing how it wrapped around the south side. Walked outside and there was the on glow of the fire as it mid from the eastern side to the south side and it was spreading both ways, sp
Under mandatory evacuation orders. The good news, in just the past hour, we have noticed less smoke coming from the fire zone. Heres new video still pockets of there are still many pockets of intense flames. You can still see black smoke mixed in with the thick white smoke coming from these areas but again, it looks like crews are making some progress. Cal fire dc10 has joined the firefight. Earlier chopper 5 spotted that plane dropping retardant made a couple of passes. Cal fire using two planes and three helicopters in its aerial attack. Our crews spotted one of those choppers refilling its water tank as helicopter crews making use of small lakes around the mountain to fight the flames. The fear started near Morgan Territory road yesterday afternoon and as we said a minute ago homes on several nearby roads are under mandatory evacuation. Kpix 5 reporter ryan takeo is live in clayton and tells us crews are starting to gain some ground. Ryan. Reporter theres much less smoke than earlie
Hopefully the mudslides that will occur will not be so intense that they create another tragedy of some sort. So its taken an area that hasnt burned since 1977 and all of a sudden turned 3,000 acres of it into practically a moonscape. Reporter seth a adams with the conservation group, save mt. Diablo, says not only has the fire created a risk for mudslides and flooding, its killed a lot of wildlife. Like mt. Diablos famous tarantulas that come out this time of year to mate. 3,000 acres, most of it in mt. Diablo state park, burned. A whole bunch were killed by this fire. Some may have survived underground but a whole bunch of them were killed and thats a big hit on that species. Theres one right down my back. Reporter then there are the creatures that seem to be out in abundance. With so many trees gone, this woodboring beatle is suddenly out pinching people in force. Theyre biters. Reporter but theres a silver lining. Expect an explosion of wild flowers to bloom next year. Next spring,
In the morning and we will keep it there with patchy fog and temperatures run in the midtoupper 50s from now through the evening hours where we will see a few pockets of sunshine from noon to 4 00 and mostly cloudy by 7 00. We are running in the 50s with drizzle and fog and we could hit the 60s from time to time during the afternoon depending on many rays of sunshine we get through the cloud deck and fog at coast and drizzle possible through noon and dry in the afternoon and you will be in the midtoupper 50s and following into the 40s by the end of day. Right now, you do not need the umbrella but it could be different this morning. It is wet, still, and we will talk to leyla gulen about the commute. If you are waking up, we have a couple of crashes that have started to clog the roadways and one is in san jose on highway 85. This is right at the caldecott tunnel westbound highway 24 you can see we have an area of green to the south of it and that is an indication of where the drizzle co