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KRON KRON 4 Evening News August 18, 2016

announced the arrest a few days ago and are hundred 75 to order pounds skate be back in court september 7th. Alecia his bail set at 5 million could face up to life in prison. Vicki the fire has destroyed 175 structures. And 380 homes remain at risk. The fire currently sits at 40 percent containment. Fire evacuations orders have been lifted for a porting of lower lake. And evacuees are being allowed to return their neighborhoods. To see what is left of their properties. Other fire victims are learning that they have nothing to return home to. The devistation was too great. Kron4s Haaziq Madyun spoke with evacuees experiencing both sides of this disaster. Reporter inside the clayton fire disaster area you will find homes destroyed right next to homes Still Standing with no signs of any fire damage. The same can be said among evacuees here at the red cross shelter in middletown. Some folks, like eric webb, lost everything my place, a lot of my clothes, i barely got out of there, the fire just came over the mountain and just consumed our property other lower lake residents tell miraculous stories of survival yes, i found out yesterday that my entire street is Still Standing wait a minute. Youre able to go home . The terror is over and my home is Still Standing and my children are safe it is that kind of random mix of emotions that often mirrors the random path of destruction caused by wildfires. Like this home on quarterhorse lane, for example, burned down but right across the street john rickerts house. Is Still Standing. He gets a little emotional when he thinks about what his neighbors lost in the fire a lot of people lost everything. Everything, yeah its terrible in lower lake Haaziq Madyun kron4news grant if youd like to help the victims of the clayton fire. These are the organizations that are accepting monetary donations. Lake county officials are asking that you only donate money. They say they do not have the resources to manage donations like food, clothing, or household goods. Vicki southern californias bluecut wildfire is exploding in the cajon pass 60 miles east of los angeles. A time lapse video shows the fires growth. Since it started yesterday morning it has grown to more than 30 thousand acres. Roughly the size of San Francisco. More than 80 thousand people have been evacuated. An unknown number of homes have been lost. As for containment. Calfire says thats not even close. Reporter the term place for some seniors their apartments holmes directly surrounding the area this neighborhood is called resemble research at an issue the Railroad Tracks behind me here touched off fire after 4 00 and at great pictures from a high overhead courtesy of abcs 7 news. This is a material used as a fire preventative for preserving it and see the kind of smoke he tells the fire is pretty much. Under control. It will be an effect kills smoke clears. On the trestle where toll its a fairly large homeless and kamen. Hong vicki census started yesterday has grown to more the 30,000 a. Of arab size of San Francisco on node number of homes have been lost. They say it is not giving close. They are throwing a lot of resources at the fire. Take a look at this. Its called a v l a t for very large air tanker, converted from a dc 10 airliner. They can drop up to 12 thousand gallons of fire retardant at a time. Cal fire has deployed two of them along with eight other air tankers, eight helicopters and more than 13 hundred firefighters on the ground tough day for firefighters, as well. We dont like losing homes. Its challenging when were up against a fire thats burning so aggressively, that were really struggling to keep up with it. Reporter from the air you can see some of the devastation left by the flames. Cnns Stephanie Elam got a closeup look from the ground. They dont even know how many structures have been lost because they cant get in there to look. The fire is threatening more than 40 thousand homes north of the cajon pass in the towns of hesperia, baldy mesa and phelan. The fuels are extremely dry and very explosive this time of year. And, in my 40 years of fighting fire, ive never seen fire behavior so extreme as it was yesterday. This is a challenging year. One of the things were seeing is that the fires are burning at really unprecedented fashion. Its to the point where explosive fire growth is the new normal this year and thats a challenge for all of us to take on. Reporter the fire closed interstate 15, the main route between los angeles and las vegas. Truckers parked their big rigs as traffic gridlocked. The huge smoke plume spread eastward. Two hundred miles away in las vegas, Health Officials urged people with respiratory problems to stay indoors. Closer to the fire. residents throughout the San Bernardino mountains need to be on high alert, even if theyre not in those evacuation warnings, because of just how quickly this fire is burning and how dangerous it has been. In fact, two firefighters did sustain burn injuries battling the fire yesterday, so this is definitely a very dangerous situation. Reporter as for the two injured firefighters, they were treated at the hospital and then returned to the fire lines. And this afternoon we learned the rocky fire. That destroyed nearly 4dozen homes last year. In lake, yolo and colusa counties. Was started at an illegal marijuana growing operation. Investigators say a faulty water heater malfunctioned near a site where 100 pot plants were growing. The fire burned about 108 square miles. And destroyed 43homes. The fire was the second most destructive. In the lake county area last year. Only the valley fire was worse. Investigators say the case remains open. And two suspects are believed to have left the country. Grant Emeryville Police are looking for a shooter. Who fired from a moving car. Vicki it happened around 11 30 this afternoon on adeline street near 45 street. Kron fours dan kerman is live for us. On the scene for with the latest on the investigation. Dan . Reporter mrs. Are residential area you come up for coffee ago what in the office going to the bus any see two cars streaming in dallas street when firing at the other the police have released this still pharaoh from security video showing a man shooting at another vehicle. They say possibly 20 rounds were fired as one car chase and other north down adeline and 45th. The time police got to assemble cars were gone. Reporter please believe their work to shooters and that of a parable for the second cart or their the sugar and each the two cars either way police continued yellow out. A man was shot while walking loose. Plus. Police in the south bay. Nowmore details ahead. East bay for the next few weeks. The reason crews will have to shut down some tracks. Hayward police are looking for a suspect in connection to a violent Armed Robbery where one victim was shot. That crime. Happening late last night. But as kron4s Maureen Kelly reports. Its part of a bloody crime wave that police are calling unprecedented. In 20 years i havent seen it that busy in a two week period for this Agency Reporter heres the scene from last nights latest act of violence. The victims. A married couple in their 40s. Out walking just before midnight. At the corner of florida street and dolpin way police say the couple were approached by a gun toting suspect demanding their cell phones. They complied gave up their phones and for some reason he shot the male victim right there at the scene. Reporter the victim was transported to a local hospital. At last check his condition is unknown. But police say he is out of surgery, concious and talking. Which makes this victim one of the lucky ones. Because homicides have spiked in the first half of this month. Will weve had five homicides in the last 14 days. Reporter heres the memorial at the scene of the most recent killing. Police say 42 year old Jason Villegas was stabbed to death while walking back from a Neighborhood Store on sunday. I wish i had the answer as to why these things are happening. Ours appear to be random. Theres not a serial killer out there. Two of the other murders in august were domestic. And arrests have been made in those. Two others are possibly gang related. Police say they are boosting patrols in areas known for gang activity. Residents near where last nights shooting took place say they are sick of the violence. i wish it would stop there are kids around people just want to live their lives people just want to live safely. Reporter police say the suspect in last nights shooting drove away in a large candy apple red suv with gold rims. Maureen kelly kron4 news. This spike in violence in hayward has sparked a conversation on our website. With viewers asking whats going on in the east bay town. You can join the conversation too. Just go to our website. Kron 4 dot com. Reporter san jose police. Asking for the publics help identifying a burglary suspect that we see in this video. The crime was back in may. But police just released this Surveillance Video today. It shows the suspect entering an apartment complex Community Center on charlotte drive in south san jose. He has a purple suitcase. Police say the suspect used a pry tool to force his way into the Community Center. And then stole one of the desktop computers. You see him put the computer in the suitcase. Then walk out. Anyone with information is asked to call police. A San Francisco beach was temporarily shutdown after someone lit two of the beachs portable toilets on fire. The incident happened yesterday afternoon in San Franciscos sea cliff neighborhood. At china beach. This is a picture sent in by a kron four viewer. A Golden Gate National recreational Spokesman Says the fire caused 30thousand dollars in damage. The fire quickly spread to a nearby wooden structure. While the Main Building on the beach had minor heat damage. No injuries were reported. Vicki big news tonight. Cisco systems is laying off over fivethousand employees. The internet gear maker. Which is based out of san jose. Making the announcment earlier today. This big shakeup means about sevenpercent of ciscos workers will lose their jobs. Catherine is not over but about 85 percent of the states Water District say their Water Supplies can handle the continued drought. Should not be hit with mandated conservation charges that as a big switch from last year. Relatively normal amount of rain snowfall morning california britteny look outside right now low hanging clouds samprass the airport and allocation is still very warm clothes and the coast use of similar conditions as well temperature was by some mildly do have an area of low pressure causing isolated showers searching down into parts of south lake tahoe. Retrieval rotation and thats what is keeping temperatures prickles average as we head into the rest of tonight we still seem mild warm conditions for the and locations to what it fairfield and nine deep to unconquered 93 livermore. But then 60 by 11 00 p. M. Joining us to the base 6461 by 9 00 and by 11 06 degrees closer to the coast mid50s for the rest of this evening. Grant delays in that east bay for the next few weeks there will be delays in the south hayward from stations crews work on important power power cable made an between 10 and to the afternoon. , until september 9th trains less attractive area while workers are to attract trade 20 maybe 30 mandalays passengers going through the frost station to samprass coach need to transfer south hayward and passengers traveling fremonts richmond have the ticket daly city train and transfer of the south hayward wafers stations. As tens of thousands of kids across the state head back to the classrooms. Put an end to the so called personal exemption for immunization requirements. Reporter in what supporters say will protect the vast majority of Public School students from infectious diseases, the new law does away with a controversial provision in vaccination requirements. It means parents can no longer opt out due to their personal beliefs. Melinda landau is the districts head nurse. Sot Melinda Landau San Jose Unified School district right now 37 out of 32,000 students in the district have a personal exemption and they are grand fathered in. Going forward, parents have three options. They can get the vaccinations, they can ask a doctor for a medical exemption, or they can choose to home school their kids. Sot Melinda Landau san jose unified the new law was inspired in part by the emotional debate both for and against vaccinations that followed last summers Measles Outbreak at disneyland. Early indications are that the vast majority of students in the south bays largest district are in compliance. Sot Melinda Landau san jose unified grant on our website we have a section section dedicated to back to school. Just head to kronfourdotcom. And click on the ready for school tab. There we will get you and your family ready for the new school year. Grant trump exchanges to his Campaign Staff for his rival says the bottom the ford freedom sales event is on our biggest event of the year just got better announcing zero for seventytwo across the entire lineup of ford cars, trucks and suvs. Plus, tagged vehicles now get a thousand smart bonus. Thats freedom from interest. And freedom to choose with ford. Americas best selling brand. Now get 0 financing for 72 months across the entire ford lineup, plus specially tagged vehicles get a thousand smart bonus. Vicki now at 5 30. Massive wildfires burning across california tonight. And one big fire were following is one out of San Bernardino county where the bluecut fire is growing out of control. The fire started tuesday and it has already burned 30thousand acres and fire crews are having a hard time trying to contain the fire. Right now, there is still zero containment. The fire is burning off of interstate15 near cajon pass. Over 82thousand people have been forced to evacuate the area and nearly 35thousand homes are threatened. And now we want to get back to our coverage of the massive clayton fire burning in lake county kron fours will tran. Is in lower lake with an update on the progress firefighters are making. Will as a Tree Services charge of the tree but theyre doing is theyre bringing down the trees to make sure they do not fault and utility workers they went through a couple days of for marquetry is saying the streams to go down too dangerous. Addressing case bring the trees down and thats what theyre doing. In the meantime there are firefighters also at the scene of the distance you can see hot spots are gone not as bad as well with some monday it or even yesterday bob is a concern there are some structures that remain because those homeowners stay behind they ignore the orders to evacuate and stay behind and save their homes catalog embarrassed the start of homes on fire there are also crisscrossing this area. Will be quite some time before the evacuees returned invest once again a sports in this area authorities said they simply do not know what to make sure this area is safe enough for people to return to go through the rubble as far as i can see there was nothing but rubble. They cannot discuss trephined anything even jewelry left behind. Continuing our Team Coverage of the clayton fire. It has been a tough day for many impacted by the fire. Kron fours Terisa Estacio spoke with many evacuaees today as reporter they have turned up 100 practices. And the glove and displaced they want see answers it wants to know about their palms pets and neighbors. Forecast one dog left behind a cards holy family members like the behind . Yes they are like my children. Have you heard anything about when you might be able to go back . Now. It is in the now no way. This is reporter was an arson fire. And despite all the hardships these people have same answer questions everyone tells me theyre committed to rebuild and want to get x so they can start this long recovery. Britteny deal with smoke and a stagnant air due to no rainfall harmful for those with respect terry alices and heart conditions. A time lapse a video from the camera as always there still dealing with what redolent house were as is much cooler the inland conditions. Wheat see whats in store for the rest of tonight fall will not be as bad by midnight and visibility is about zero and 2 mi. An oakland to three in hayward to half moons baseman view 12 livermore. Nineties far and yet even concord mid60s for San Francisco. Verses alicea inland locations closer to the mid90s delegate that really dramatic 35 degree mark start to notice these temperatures in inland areas of the more concord and oxalis article down. Donald trump is shaking up his Campaign Staff again. Hes hired Stephen Bannon from the conservative website Breitbart News as his chief executive. Catherine heenan is here with more on what both trump and were doing today. Catherine another first for trump he got his First National security briefing today. This was his motorcade as it arrived for the meeting at an fbi office in washington. Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are entitled to receive the briefings as their parties president ial nominees. Also today trump also met with advisers for what was described as a discussion of tactics on how to defeat isis. And his st

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