Used to muscle the gunshot sounds. Reporter state police say 14yearold nicholas haremin seen in an Instagram Photo shot to death along with his eightyearold sister nadia, nicholas was a freshman at seneca high school, a member of the schools robotic team. Nadia went to an elementary. 11yearold alexander was seriously wounded. He went to the local middle school. Very sad about the whole incident. Our hearts go out to the family that remains. I have three kids and, you know, when it involves kids at all its always tragic. Nadia is my best friend and she was always nice to me. Reporter nadia and nicholas were found shot to death in the same bedroom. Alexander and his mother were airlifted to cooper hospital in camden where they remain in extremely Critical Condition with gunshot wounds to the head. Police recovered the gun used in the shootings at the home. This investigation is far from over. And motive is not one of those things well be able to talk about today. Reporter sources say le
Is very hard to fight. Good evening. Im dan ashley. That fire is raging out of control fare a fifth straight day and its only getting bigger tonight. At this moment the fire has grown to more than 25 square miles and is only 5 contained. Fire over there, theres fire here. Reporter right in the middle of these two coming together. The fire has forced the closure of highway 120 for a fourmile stretch, blocking traffic innd out of yosemites west side. That net miranda has more from the fire lines tonight. Im concerned about that. It wasnt like that. Reporter with winds suddenly so strong kathy bryant and her family dont know what to do. The rim fire Near Yosemite National Park is behaving erratically. Residents could be safe one minute but not the next. In fact, heavy gusts pushed 50 to 100foot flames across an incident command post, forcing crews themselves to evacuate. The bryants are all packed up just in case. Should they go about their business . Or hang out at their house . Were afr
Rim fire in yosemite grew to 200 square miles bigger than the city of san jose. Flames threaten buildings including homes already being destroyed. Crews are making little progress with containment now at just 7 . This is now the 15th largest wildfire in californias history. Winds are a big problem today for crews fighting the rim fire. Abc 7 news meteorologist leigh leigh glaser has more. You can get a sense, you see that fuzzy area. Thats where the smoke plume is. Very large. Affecting even south lake tahoe, but you can see some of the convection right there. That is because of the heat of that fire. It just makes its own weather system. I do want you take you out to show you current readings. Temperature right now, 88 degrees, relative humidity very low at 17 . Tomorrow highs near 90, gusts to 35 miles per hour. There is a chance of dry lightning tuesday and wednesday. Here is another look at this. You can see the smoke plume. Let me take you in a little bit closer, and you can clear
134,000 acres. It has destroyed four hos and a dozen other structures. Its nearly put San Franciscos water and electrity supplies in anger. More than 2800 firefighters are having a hard time getting control of the fire because of rough terrain and tall trees which catch fire far abov their reach. The weather is making their effort more difficult. Leigh glaser shows us why. It was really a hot day out the on the fire lines and a gusty winds, reported gusts to 35 mes per hour in the higher terrain there. Were giving you a good see of that plume of smoke that being created by these fires. And its moving as far north as South Lake Tahoe. Theyre reporting very poor air quality. Current readings, temperatures in the upper 80s. Hot out there. Humidity at only 17 . Very dry those winds sohwest gust to 30plus miles per hour. Tomorrow not a lot of relief here. 90 those winds will pick up as well. There is a chance of some dry lightning as we head into tuesday night and wednesday, sothing they do
Something they do not need. Ama. Leigh, thank you so much. John alston joins us live from Tuolumne County with a look at the fire tonight. Reporter this has been one of the nagging trouble spots all afternoon. Behind me that road behind me is the road that leads up to berkeley camp. As best we can tell, that is still apparently threatened by the fire thats burning behind me. Fire crews apparently were able to save some yurts in the area and theyre keeping an eye on some cabins. We dont have any reports of any damage at this point, but the winds have been making matters worse up here in the sierra. Like a welltimed bucket brigade, several helicopters tried to snuff out the fire that would not go away. On the western side, fire crews are taking preventive measures to keep the flames from reaching more populated areas. This clearing will help if the fire moves toward twain hart and tuolumne city. True survivors here. We dont know whats going on either, but we know were safe here. Reporter