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live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. tonight, a state of emergency. this wild fire just keeps growing and growing. and now, a new threat. good evening, i m allen martin. i m veronica de la cruz. ken and liz have the night off. the rocky fire now covers 18,000 acres in lake county. it is still just 5% contained. the governor declared a state of emergency and called in the national guard. it is one of 18 firefighters burning across the state tonight. andria borba says there is a new problem tonight. reporter: yep, that problem is both the wind and the spread of this fire. it is a massive fire. 18,000 acres. about two miles east of lower lake out here on morgan valley road where this fire is burning. it is very rural up here. the fire burning on both sides of the road and for firefighters, there is only one way out. tonight, the flames from the rocky fire are refusing to relent. climbing up steep hillsides and causing trees to burn from the in ....
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that s important right now. but i m thinking about what s going to happen next. reporter: after firefighters put out the flames, they found a badly burned body inside the back unit where deputies tried to serve the eviction. that s the hurtful part about it, you know, uhm the intent to hurt others because you re not where you want to be in your life. doing something like that could like it comes from crazy people. anyone who not just anyone is going to do something like that. reporter: you can see the force of that explosion. that door is one of the doors taken out from this building. as for the two families now left homeless, the red cross is helping them this week. but they don t have any long- term solutions for those families. live in west oakland, i m da lin, kpix 5. this isn t the first time an eviction has turned violent. back in september 2013 an eviction sparked a shooting and four-hour standoff in contra costa county. when two sheriff s deputies went ....
five. this month i ve scheduled i think about seven scheduled already this month. more than usual? way more than usual. reporter: but even with a lot of rain, experts say our drought won t go away right away. will this be the drought buster we need? reporter: that s the question we asked santa clara university professor and civil engineer ed mahrer, who says our warm weather is bad news even if we get very wet. more likely than not to be a warmer year than we ve experienced in the past. what that means is there s less snowpack. snowpack is our los angelesst natural reservoir we rely on for our water supply. reporter: even with a very rainy forecast experts say we should still conserve water. because the drought is likely to stay around for a while. the national weather service says the el nino is not likely to be short but could last into the spring. reporting live in san jose, scott budman. we remember 1997, a lot of floods and mudslides around here. ....
two children were killed when a massive oak tree limb fell on their tent. it happened at the upper pines campground in the yosemite valley just west of curry village. the two children were asleep in their tent when at about 5 a.m., the limb came crashing down. video just in from the campsite shows how the limb sheared off. police tape surround the tent and the tree now. rangers say the campers never saw any danger. in this particular situation people were simply in a campsite here in upper pines. they were in a designated campsite. they were camping out just like, um, you know, people are doing right now. it makes me feel sad for the family and sad for the situation because it s out of their control. one of the victims was with his family. the other was a family friend. their identities have not been released yet. also in yosemite, park officials are closing campsites at tuolumne meadows after two squirrels died from plague! they will be treating the area with a ....