budget. reporter: consumed over 1 million acres in california. caused billions of dollars of damage and put pressure on $1.8 billion budget. approaching half the agency as entire budget halfway through the fiscal year. $275 million more than cal fire set aside as emergency fund. we always watch budget closely. be fiscally responsible. but it s clear in the climate we re living in, we have to have the resources to battle the fires. stay focused and be able to respond to changing environment we re experiencing in california. reporter: says it s working closely will the department of finance and legislature to keep funds available for fire lines to be staffed. on track for new record. compared to past three budget years. complicating the process is how the fire season, compared to four years ago, is running longer. fire seasons today on average 75 days longer than they were. we have to change our mindset. one of the reasons we ve invested additional money in staffing yea
season isn t. rolling into 2018 now as fires are still burning right now. i m dan ashley. i m dion lim in for ama daetz. this is unusual year. 2017, cal fire battled more than 7,000 fires. that s correct fire. about 50% more than last year, pretty average year. burned more than twice as many acres. biggest fire in modern state history, thomas fire, still burning. 91% contained and not expected to grow any more. destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in little over three weeks. and we can never forget north bay wildfires. late sunday night in october, merged into six massive fires, killing 43 people in napa, sonoma, lake and mendocino counties. took 23 days to fully contain and fire season isn t over. reporter david louis shows you what the cal fire is doing now and what it s doing to budget. reporter: consumed over 1 million acres in california. caused billions of dollars of damage and put pressure on $1.8 billion budget. approaching half the agency as entire budge
job staying in bounds there too. they know how to milk clock and impressed with this offense. they are very situationally strong and well coached and you would expect that. mike gundy is really got it going with this group in particular. done a good job utilizing everybody. the cowboys backs with the two cowboy back formations and they ve utilized the wide outs pretty darn well. and i would say so. and multiple tail backs getting involve and moving the receiver a couple of times. cornelius having a nice rhythm, getting the ball out quickly. handoff once again. and wrapped up in the back field is wilson. baylor playing sell out defense and trying to get the ball back. that is two tfl assist for jalen petery on that box coach. they love him. another guy that coach rhule got into the previous game that we covered him, another freshman from the houston area could really run and a big hitter for a kid that weighs 200 pounds. what a great formation. this is what
no cars at night. on top of that, they just finish painting the street two weeks ago. in west oakland, doll lang, kp x5. the chp said there was a shooting that left two men wounded. it may have been the result of road rage. two men and a gray suv opened fire on a white toyota camry. as it merged onto eastbound i- 80 near airbase parkway around 9 am. both men and the camry were hit. the driver has major injuries. the passenger is expected to survive. the gray suv sped away. the chp is asking any witnesses to give them a call. a bmw ended up mangled and upside down after it flew off of a san francisco freeway before dawn. it happened at 4 am this morning and slammed onto burke vermont street below. the driver not only survived, he was able to get to the hospital without assistance. police are trying to figure out what caused the crash. specs hundred hundreds of people that lost everything in the wine country wildfires got something back today. a new set of wheels. rep