Out. As a wildfire that started just this morning. Sees massive growth in southern california. Youre looking at the bluecut fire in San Bernardino county. Its raging through drought parched canyons near the cajon pass. Thank you for joining us im steve aveson. Pam and im pam moore. Grant lodes joins us now. He is tracking the fast spreading bluecut fire, grant grant hon su is split started, this morning get remarkably fast to what the same car near the mouth of high skill resort the old town of a half dozen people forced out for. What hundred firefighters are working to in the National Forest service scrambling at least be to get reinforcements to the frontlines. And burning a radically hot hands puling tonight aspire cause a Freight Train to suddenly stop the crew was forced to run for safety. Get pam firefighters are getting the upper hand on the clayton wildfire. It is now 20 percent contained. But the damage is already done. More than 100 homes burned to the ground. Families forced to leave everything behind. And wait to see if their home is spared. The wildfire setting off a chain of problems for lake county. Including major Power Outages that is something pgande is working to restore. But for many, electrical power is the least of their worries many victims of the fire are still in holding centers, with nowhere to go. Some are still not sure whether their homes are in good standing. Kron 4s alecia reid met with one man today, who made a trip to check on his house on 2nd street. She joins us live from his residence. Was he able to salvage anything . Alecia this is it. Pretty much everything has been incinerated. The homeowner had no idea what to expect when he came home, and at first he wasnt even allowed on the property for fear the towering chimney would fall overhis own safety. Pkg within moments of opening his gate, duane barbic had to close it but as habit permits, he made sure to lock it up, although everything on the other side, was nothing but debris. sot when they saw me by the fireplace they told me a lot of people get killed Milling Around after a fire because it tips over. He said you need to get away. Alecia we made our way outside to check out his garage. sot this is sad. This used to be a lamp. Alecia he managed to find a couple of recognizable things in the debris. Sot this is a chest alecia although charred, many items brought back good memories. Sot that refrigerator. Standup reporter duane loved this house and plans to rebuild. In the meantime, hell be staying with friends. At 10pm, find out why hes taking this loss with such stride. Reporting live from lake county. Pg e says. There are roughly 700 homes still without power in the fire zone. Crews have been out all day replacing power poles destroyed by the fire. Our cameras were rolling when helicopter crews were hoisting the poles into place. Pg e says. Some 77 poles need to be replaced. 69 spans of wire also have to be installed. Officials say, they hope to have power fully restored in that area by the weekend. Whats being called the blue cut fire. Started late this morning and has now burned over 9 thousand acres. Multiple buildings have been destroyed. Firefighters battling the flames reported some minor injuries. The fire has prompted road closures and mandatory evacuations. It also caused a Freight Train to stop suddenly. The crew had to run to safety. The fire is. Zero percent contianed. Well keep an eye on it and bring you updates as they happen. We are tracking the clayton fire online and on our kron 4 mobile app. Grant after being paroled july to of seven symptoms prison six times over the next four years for violating parole during his last month the president and was an inmate firefighter working on the front lines cutting brush off waiting well fires in california. Britteny into tomorrow we will see another round of high in and temperatures less take a look get some of the numbers how dry its going to be also wind speeds other top pitchers push back in the high 90s between 1012 hour turn out was the Day Committee 15 with direction into the rest of tonight wind speeds and by tomorrow morning it 45 about 5 mi. Per hour as ago today costing about 13 mi. Per hour. Again tomorrow we will see how conditions at double digit mark wednesday to alternate between 10 and 20 mi. Per hour and into the evening. Cooler weather call details coming up next forecast in 10 minutes. Pam our cameras were rolling and helicopter crews were hoisting calls and place paid 77 holes need to be replaced 69 spans of wire also need to be installed base to have powerful restored in that area by the weekend. Hit steve almost three weeks after a violent kidnapping attempt in san leandro, police are asking for peoples help. Kron four brought you this story in late july. Now police have more details, and have heard from more women who were almost victims. Spencer blake is bringing us the details live from san leandro tonight. Spencer . Reporter its hard to forget the original story a Good Samaritan actually stopped that kidnapping in progress while a man was dragging a woman down the street by her ankles. Fortunately, nothing that violent has been reported since. But some women say they have seen the suspect, and the car hes driving. Its easy to find a place to eat at 14th street and juana avenue in downtown san leandro. But this is apparently also the area where a kidnapping suspect tried to find another victim. I thought this was a safe city, so its scary. Its like freaking me out. A Woman Tells Police a man who looks like this pulled up in his car and started talking to her. She was a little bit freaked out. She quickly turned the other way and left. Another woman in the east bay says she saw the suspects car a 2014 silver Nissan Sentrafollowing her. After digging up some surveillance photos, police noticed the flashy wheels on the car black or gray, and clearly an addon. Those wheels and the tinted windows are really what are going to distinguish this vehicle from any other silver Nissan Sentra thats out there on the roadway right now. The car had some dealership signs on the license plates, so police think the suspect may have recently bought the car or borrowed it from someone else. Its also possible he works at a dealership, and took the sentra out for a test drive, looking for victims. Its really scary. I live a few blocks away, so definitely, ya know, its nervewracking. You just want to stay indoors. One san leandran woman says shes might have to start carrying pepper spray of her own, you wanna feel safe in the middle of the daytime walking down the main street. So, now that you stopped me im kinda thinking about that. Police say somebody knows this fivefootten black man with glasses, and they might have the missing link to help them put him in jail. Even though the suspect never got the first woman in his car, he would still face kidnapping charges, as opposed to attempted kidnapping, because he took control of her when he started dragging her. Live in san leandro, spencer blake, kron four news. Steve new tonight. San Francisco Police have announced. That the mysterious death of a man inside a busy shopping center, may not have been a homicide, as was first believed. The body of 28yearold Frank Galicia was found last wednesday morning in a stairwell inside the westfield mall along market street. Until today, police were treating the case as a Murder Investigation but now they are saying only that the death is suspicious. Kron 4s Charles Clifford is live for us tonight in San Francisco. He has an update on the investigation and reaction to todays announcement from the victims family. Charles. Reporter last week has taken a toll on Family Friends and sedate the police said at natwest creating more questions than answers tuesday the Police Department said that the autopsy results cast on the theory he was murdered also unlikely the 28 yearold daughter of Natural Causes as a result there no longer calling this a homicide only that the death this suspicious and investigators would elaborate how the young man mayor died but did say that this is still a very active investigation. He is caught off guard by tuesdays announcement spoke telephone with louis assess the family is frustrated. There have been rare and negroponte export not told about this most recent development. Everyone wants answers and hostess cakes and it can be resolved soon. Reporter their parking of the medical Examiners Office said determine the exact cause of death. Massive fire burns close third to a community we are tracking the fire and will bring you a live update. Determine exactly how frankin San Francisco, charlestonight the rising tide of frustration and sadness. Among louisiana. Three more drowning victims were death toll to eleven. Some local officials say, the hurricane katrina. And as Catherine Heenan shows us. A lot of people are hurting. we really need help. I havent been to my home since saturday. We dont even have clothes. I was woke up at 3 30 in the morning. My neighbor called me, said you got to get out. Entire neighborhoods underwater. Boats navigate around submerged cars and trucks. A pet cat takes refuge in a tree. Meow residents say they have never seen anything like it. it never flood like that before. Its been 1927 since it flood down here. Its been a long time. This one it just came upon us and just started dumping mass amounts of water, we go back to our record books. You know throw those records out because we surpassed them, catherine more than two feet of rain fell in just three days and storms are expected to continue through the rest of the week. this is a historic flooding event. Nat fire crews are going door to door in boats, col. Mike edmonson, la state Police Superintendent we have to go to every house now. Once the water recedes, all these homes that are completely covered with water, weve got to go to every single one of those and go inside of them and check for anybody that might be in those areas. In the submerged hamlets east of baton rouge, one man who lost his home turned to aiding others. Just anybody who needed help anybody i mean, it didnt matter who it was. I mean, you know, this is what its all about man helping people. I mean, why wouldnt you want to help anybody . As the days go by, patience is wearing thin. Laura maux enough is enough Everybody Needs to get together and pull together. The president needs to come down and see what louisiana is all about. President obama has made disaster aid available to 20 of louisianas 64 parishes. So fare, nearly 50 thousand people have applied for fema assistance. Calling it a public threat, a live alligator living in Alameda Creek near fremont has been shot and killed. Kron 4s Vicki Liviakis is here britteny comfortable mid60s in San Francisco 76 and nab by 77 how. We do have a change is closer here friday we see eighties back for inland locations and these will stick around and a saturday sunday with that area of low pressure a weather disturbance it will help draw back closer to where we should be and a low 70s for the week and is in the coast in the low 60s. Explain why it had to be put vicki yeah, this was a pretty good sized gator some four feet long. Pretty common in florida. But a creek in fremont not the usual hangout for an american alligator. Fish and wildlife snapped this photo of the young alligator sunning itself on a rock. Video from krons partnership with abc 7 shows the wardens had a cage with them but capturing the gator alive apparently not an option. A game warden killed the alligator with a single shot to the head. Needed to take it. Gators are not native here and illegal in california. This one is thought to have been an escaped or abandoned pet. And aside from the threat posed to humans. An alligator can also take a toll on the habitat. Steve . Volkswagen is still in big trouble over its diesel emissions cheating scandal. Steve overcrowding is a problem for students at an east bay high school. In fact schools throughout the district are seeing a jump in enrollment. There are 53 thousand People Living in dublin and only one high school. The school has enrolled 200 additional students since last school year. Will we have one school in the pipeline, a k8 school that will come online in may 2018, we have a plan to build a Second High School in dublin and we probably have to put up another couple of schools in the next 10years or so steve Dublin High School is among the Top Performing schools in alameda county. It is back to school time pam tonight kron 4s gabe slate shows you products that can help keep your children safe. Gabe has this had an activation trigger if there is a stranger danger it is being bullied at the temple the trigger a very loud highpitched alarm goes off a debate flashlights and allow tracking devices the moustache or keep on them if they go missing confined them. Even against the boundaries on of a kid goes out of that cell and you will be alerted it what sort of got walkytalky. The world we live in School Shootings but to be an active shooter at a school will prove the backpacks are now a thing and theyre selling like hotcakes this is horrible truth and insert and put in the back of your kids bad works with any existing backpack that you have light weight a pound, and shapes and sizes and tell younger kids its a dry erase board at that stuff from schering them to. Pam pam are ready for School Section on our website or mobile application kron4news dotcom steve ahead at eight. Federal police told to back off of medical pot users. The ruling being called a victory for marijuana advocates murdered on an afternoon jog. The family of a google manager says their final goodbyes. As and next. As wildfires tear through and burning thousands of acres. We talk to fire officials about there is no way to truly understand the heartbreaking there is no way to truly understand the heartbreaking plete relief means enjoyment of every beautiful moment. Flonase, six is greater than one, changes everything. Grant started late this morning low grass fire in a state 15 now more than 9,000 a. In growing it originated in the pass area right now the whole town of five of the people forced out tonight theyre scrambling to get frontlines polaris suffered minor injuries 45,000 homes threatened by this fire and some roads are quite frankly jammed as everyone is trying to get out of dodge pam a hundred these structures are in danger the mandatory Evacuation Order was lifted for neighborhoods east of highway 53 paul kagan himself the cache creek and there is no way to truly understand a heartbreaking losses people sufferedbut kron 4s Vicki Liviakis is a wildfire survivor herself and learned a great deal from the terrible experience. Vicki . Vicki yes, pam and steve. My house burned down in the Oakland Hills firestorm and i lost my dog. Later i was asked by cal fire to do a video with fireproofing tips. That will double the chances of your house surviving a wildfire. Family needs evacuation plans to practice the you should not wait till youre ordered out if your honor on when and hohhot get out. If the drought drags on. Its likely well be experiencing more and more of these wildfire here in california. Well so video from the complete list of School Closures just a click away as always kron4news dotcom cahow a federal court has made an important ruling. Which affects all medical marijuana growers and users. Kron4s grant lodes joins us now with more on the decision. Grant this is a big victory for marijuana advocates. A federal court ruled today that cannabis users cannot be federally prosecuted if they comply with their states medical marijuana law. The Court Ordered the Justice Department to prove 10 pending cases violated state law before the prosecution can move forward. Marijuana is illegal under federal law. But congress has barred the feds from spending money to stop states from regulating the use or sale of medical pot. Federal prosecutors tried to argue that congress only meant to bar them taking legal action against states not individuals. Todays decision could still be sent to the supreme court. A major announcement out of uc berkeley. The schools chancellor says he is stepping down. Nicholas dirks says it is time for him to step aside and let someone else take on the challenges cal faces. Dirks took over the position in june of 2013 and plans to step down at the end of the Upcoming School year. The school has had a rocky stretch the past year. With allegations of sexual harrassment made against facultly members. Dirks did not say if that was a factor in his decision. Black smoke and flames could be seen pouring out from a boat on lake tahoe. Gabe steve it broke out on a tourist cruise boat docked at zephyr cove. Luckily the boat was mostly unoccupied at the time. The popular boat operated by a motorized paddle wheel cut its season short due to tahoes low lake level. This isnt the first problem for the tahoe queen. It has run aground twice since 2014 forcing crews to rescue stranded tourists. No word yet on what set off the fire. Pam two people playing the popular smartphone game pokemon go. Were robbed at gunpoint in fremont sunday. Police say, the two victims were sitting in their car, when a suspect approached them with a gun. Holding them at gunpoint. That person demanded their phones and wallets. The suspect then took off on foot down cabrillo drive. And thats where he was last seen. He is described as a thin African A