Two new fires sparked today in Southern California, making a total of six fires that have forced people to leave their homes. Newest is liberty fire, started this afternoon in Riverside County and already burned 300 acres. You can see the trees blowing in strong winds fanning these flames so ferociously. Hours earlier lilac fire exploded, at least 20 structures destroyed before this neighborhood burned to ground. Last check, 2,500 acres and growing rapidly. Gained most ground on the smallest skirball fire near belair. 20 condetained. Rye fire is 7,000 acres. Thomas fire in Ventura County, almost 100,000 acres and destroyed 150 buildings. Creek fire, burned down five homes and ten other buildings, including this barn with 40 horses trapped, just six survived. Omar shows us what its like on the ground. Reporter strong winds and dry conditions are fuelling the raging wildfires in Southern California as officials continue to battle. 110,000 people evacuated from homes. Schools closed in at least 15 districts and thousands without power. Low humidity and strong gusts keeping firefighters on edge as they hope to contain a difficult series of fires. Topography, steep, hard to get members in there and hoses deployed. Reporter more evacuations in ojai valley. Thomas fire, 150 square miles. State of emergency under way. Urge caution even as threat starts to fade. Still ask folks to stay away from homes. Not completely out of the woods yet. Hope to let people back in as soon as possible. Reporter for residents, devastation of homes coupled with neighbors gone in a flash, almost too much to bear. Im numb. I dont know. Well get through it. It was very quaint, cozy neighborhood. And the house was just wonderful. I dont know whats going to happen. Reporter in Southern California, omar jimenez. Were seeing incredible moments from the wildfires. Look at this man, risked his life to save a wild rabbit dangerously close to flames along highway 1 north of ventura. Captured by news photographer. Knelt down and stopped rabbit and eventually picked it up and saved it. This is from the thomas fire. Picture from los angeles police. Officer carrying a cat to safety. Added the caption for some it might be just a cat but to others its a friend, a loved one, a companion. Live look at firefight right hur, lilac fire in san diego county, one of the newest to break out. Live reporter talking about it, six major fires now in that area. Seeing effect of the Southern California fires in bay area, air quality. Hazy skies captured on several tower cameras. Spencer christian is here with the expansion. Smoke has been working its way up into the bay area. View from emeryville camera. You could see the haze just a few seconds ago, cant see it now. Smoke has been drifting westward to see and carried northward by circulation around the center of High Pressure up into the bay area. Why were seeing increase in haze in the air here and decline in air quality. As matter of fact tomorrow will be a spare the air day as will saturday and sunday. Poorest in north bay. Seems to be the entry point for the smoke from the south. And moderate air quality in other parts of the bay area. Wind is generally gusting in area of the Southern California fires 20 to 40 Miles Per Hour at surface but much stronger in Higher Elevations and smoke will continue to move in our direction. Another impact of the fires is felt by Southern California students studying here. Uc Berkeley Students leave for winter break in a few weeks, some worried might not have home to return to. Reporter its a stressful time for students at uc berkeley as they prepare for next weeks final exams. Now some students from Southern California faced with new set of worries. Wildfires destroying or coming dangerously close to their homes. It was really surprising to see one of the most wellknown freeways in l. A. , everything on fire. I used to drive that every single day. Still do when i go back home. Scary, thankful the house isnt burned down so far. Reporter shared this picture of house in ojai. Had to evacuate. Burned old school and destroyed neighbors homes. Crazy, seeing images on facebook and looking at updates online. Reporter grew up in ventura. Ton of friends, homes devastated. Reporter shared this picture. Many homes wiped out. Jacks house is still standing. Will be spending winter break to help them recover. Going back now completely different. I feel empowered to be there. Feel a little helpless. Reporter vice chancellor sent students resources Like Mental Health and financial support. Please know your safety and wellbeing are our top priorities. If youve been impacted by the events consider exploring academic flexibility as needed with instructors. Berkeley. Abc7 news. New details about the tragic ghost ship fire. Day two of the criminal hearing for two men faces criminal charges for ghost ship fire last year. Leslie brinkley is there. Joins us with update. Reporter this was day two but preliminary hearing could go on another week or even two. Riveting testimony that touched on emotions and revealed new information. Nicholas bouchard took the stand. Says he cosigned the lease along with Derick Almena in 2013. But says within a few weeks hired a lawyer to get off the lease because he envisioned bringing the building up to code and almena did not want to. Emotional day in court. Lea Danielle Vega on the stand. Went by name of swan. Described ghost ship as stone hut. Not intended for humans. As for power, electricity went off as much as it was on the week before the fire. Called it a living, breathing hive of dreams with no clearcut leadership and broke down sobbing uncontrollably. I dont know why the prosecution has to ask her about people who have been deceased that its irrelevant and it was terribly tragic to see her weeping in court. Victims families shook their heads in court in frustration as they listened. Calling it heartbreaking. We lost our children in the fire and were trying to get answers. Thats what this is about. Reporter this preliminary hearing will determine if Derick Almena and max harris should go to trial on 36 counts of Involuntary Manslaughter and bear criminal responsibility for the ghost ship fire. Testimony to resume monday. Abc7 news. Carbon monoxide outbreak killed one and sickened others in burnell heights. Abc7 News ReporterMelanie Woodrow explains what happened. Reporter firefighters had to break down the door of downstairs unit for call from upstairs, Carbon Monoxide detector sounding overnight. Elderly female by the door. Reporter and elderly man in the bedroom. Worked on him 45 minutes but he passed away. Tragic to watch him die. Reporter now flowers outside the unit. Woman taken to st. Francis hospital for Hyperbaric Chamber treatment. Delivering High Pressure 100 oxygen will restore her own levels to normal displacing Carbon Monoxide. Reporter in stable condition. Staying inside. Reporter Fire Department says old water heater is to blame for Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Upstairs residents thanking for working detectors. Just installed in october. Were really thanking the universe and our management company. Reporter pg e restored gas to upstairs units. Four treated on site to exposure to low levels and two firefighters. Abc7 news. San Francisco Police are hosting a town hall meeting right now in response to last fridays officerinvolved shooting of carjacking suspect in the bay view. Unarmed and officer had been on the job only three days. Department has policy to hold town hall meeting within ten days of officerinvolved shooting. Also a Community Meeting in hillsborough to talk about the possibility of new cell towers. Delayed from last month. Hear from the citys mayor and latest on the city strike headed for fourth day. Also ahead hottest toys. Search trend data. 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Victims said helped with costume changes and touching them in intimate parts of their bodies. Reporter alerted parents and told cole to leave but a short time later back with the girls again. Arrested for annoying and or molesting a child under 18. Worked in four other Dance Companies and schools including music in motion. Im surprised and saddened. Dont want kids to have have to experience that. Reporter doesnt believe would be near her performers. Backstage changing areas. School district requires them to hire a backstage production person at high school for safety. They sate district recommended cole as outside contractor. Used to work as substitute theater technician but stopped in summer of 2016. Moier is concerned why he was allowed to be a contractor on district property. I was clearly told he was not allowed to step foot in the theater. I never asked why. Reporter conducting internal investigation. Believe may be more victims and want people with information to come forward. Republican congressman will resign his seat amid Sexual Harassment allegations. Trent franks stepping down end of january. Announced leaving after House Ethics Committee said would investigate him. Admitted to talking about fertility issues and surrogate mothers in front of those women. If you have the app, you received this push alert and watched live as senator franken announced his resignation from the senate after eight women accused him of Sexual Misconduct and more than 30 of his democratic colleagues called for him to step aside. There is a big part of me who will always regret having to walk away from dh job with so much work to be done. Follows retirement of john conyers, another congressman facing allegations. Spoke about the fight to reform Sexual Harassment policies in congress. We have to recognize that behavior like this is normally not just one incident. Normally its a pattern of behavior. And i think weve got to make sure that however we move forward, that we are victimcentric. Frankens resignation take effect in next few weeks. Minnesotas governor will name a temporary replacement, then voters determine who will serve remaining two years of his term. Negotiators from city of oakland and two City Employee labor unions are back at table. Shortly after mayor libby schaaf announced the city had a new offer to present. As city were absolutely committed to being at that table and trying to work out a deal that is responsible to our workers who we value very much but also responsible to our residents. Mayor wouldnt say whats in the offer but did say at this point it appears that striking workers will stay off the job a fourth day tomorrow. Involves more than 3,000 city workers whose contract with the city expired in july. Federal government remains open at least for now thanks to stopgap spending bill passed in both houses today. President trump is expected to sign the measure to keep the government running until december 22nd. Passed roughly along party lines. Top Party Members met with the president as they continue to struggle with unfinished business. Without temporary extension, would have shut down prior to the weekend. Weather. Chilly here and windy, in Southern California as well. Mix of interesting ingredients with the haze coming in, chilly mornings and warm afternoons. Live doppler 7, high clouds offshore. This view from emeryville is clear, back to San Francisco, 60 degrees right now. Other temperatures in mid to upper 50s. Flat 50 at half moon bay. This is view from east bay hills. Higher perspective over the bay, pleasant evening. 51 at santa rosa, 46 at napa and mid to upper 40s. 54 at concord and 51 at livermore. Sutro tower. Chilly inland overnight. Perhaps not quite as cold as last couple of nights by a few degrees. Dry and sunny continuing into next week. Mild. Daytime temperatures above average. Overnight, thin high clouds. Lows into the upper 30s in north bay. Inland east bay, mid to upper 30s. Morgan hill, 39. But santa rosa, low is 44, improved from last night and bay shoreline, mid to upper 40s. Storm track, this is how its looked, flowing very far to our north, High Pressure ridge built in here, strong area, deflecting storm track up into alaska and down into west central canada. Remaining dry in bay area and across most of Southern California. Rain across north interior and east coast, not here where rain is needed. Tomorrow is dry and hazy. Mid60s at coast and bay and upper 60s in inland areas. Air quality declines. Spare the air day tomorrow, poorest in north bay, moderate in other locations. Accuweather sevenday forecast, going to be mainly sunny. Few high clouds, dry. Much milder than average. Getting into middecember and high temperatures in upper 60s to near 70 inland next seven days. 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