Who shot two deputies in an ambush attack overnight. We want 20. The video you are about to see might be disturbing. The lady released by the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department shows someone walking up to a parked patrol suv. They fired several shots directly into it before running away. The deputies sitting inside, men and women both in Critical Condition at the hospital. They are both suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. There out of surgery right now. We are going to keep them in our thoughts and prayers. One is a 31yearold mother of a sixyearold boy. Her husband is here. The other one is a 24yearold. The parents are here. The government clasfour 37. I swear them into office 14 months ago. The suspect is described as a male dark skin. The fbi is missing that. President ultra retreated the video the attack think, quote animals that must be hit hard. Bridge is murky at this time. The air quality is also great. We have been checking the are calling numbers in our neighborhood. There is
Calm down in the afternoon giving firefighters the upper hand really trying to get everything we can get done. Done before the wind picks up and then of course nighttime brings additional complications, firefighters unable to catch a break many coming from other fires in the region, the glass incident fire broke out during a red flag warning about 200 pg and e napa county customers were scheduled for a Public Safety power shutoff down more than a 1000 homes under an evacuation warning really urge you to do what you can. To clear Defensible Space around your home. The ready water things to evacuate with that you need know what you need to pick up so youre not trying to find important papers things like that at the last minute. And this point in time it is too early to tell and many buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Firefighters are focusing on structure protection and stopping the spread of the fire the cause is under investigation. In saint helene gayle ong kron 4 news. And wer
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look out and see that lowlying fog and still the haziness in the air. It is friday, august 21st. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Lets good to our coverage of the fires. Five have been killed. Tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes. The lightning complex fires are around 656 square miles this morning and that is about 14 times the size of francisco. We will have all the latest on the fires but first, lets go straight to mary lee with the look on the air quality of the bay area. We are tracking those hazy and smoky skies for unhealthy air quality, so checking air quality conditions of this morning, looking at unhealthy air from livermore, concord and for fairfield and unhealthy air for rio vista. A spare the air alert, once again in effect today and that will continue all the way through
Gavin newsom is clamping down as ktvu greg lee reports a goes further. Reporter governor gavin newson announced statewide restrictions. This is a statewide action starting today every county is impacted by the requirement to modify indoor operations. Every county needs to stop indoor entertainment 30 county is on the states watch list must shut down Indoor Worship Services nail salons and barbershops and malls. These 30 counties in total represent 80 of the population in the state of california. This includes several different areas. The states Positivity Rate has spiked 7. 4 as reasoning for the the added restrictions he said that Placer County was 20 with the icu beds available. Covid19 isnt going away anytime soon until there is a backseat or different type of therapy. There has been created confusion, they rolled back Trip Services and Health Officials say that they understand the frustration but understand that variances are needed. We will talk to the fellow counties in the bay a
Hillside in fairfield go up in flames. Good evening, i am julie haener. It spread to 60 acres before the firefighters were able to get it under control. It is one of several fires burning around the bay area. They continued to fight a much larger fire it has been burning since yesterday and it is east of gilroy. Amber is in fairfield and the flames got close to some of those homes. It is scary for people of this neighborhood. Reporter many refused to leave telling me that they wanted to stay behind to make sure that did everything they could to protect their homes, the whole hill was on fire. The help over there, the one next to the houses. Reporter it broke out 4 30 , monday afternoon in the cordelia area for frilled, people did hose down the grass to protect the property and there was a mandatory order to evacuate 30 homes. It was terrifying. We didnt know it to do, you know . We were scrambling around. Reporter a resident shared these photos with us as the fire moved towards home an