North bay, santa clara valley, moderate, central, southbay. Later today when more smoke develops and driving heat santa clara poor air quality. Heat advisory everywhere but solana county. Hottest temperatures worst time of day, now through 8 00 this evening. Watch out for heat related illnesses, getting overheat varadaraj, heat stroke, exhaustion. Kids, dont leave pets in the cars and find somehow to stay cool and hydrate varadaraj throughout the day. Drink water and be okay. Tap the weather button when you open the app. Its free to download for apple devices. Overnight things are cool and weather conditions helped firefighters double the amount of containment on a wildfire burning in sonoma county. Sawmill fire started east of cloverdale yesterday morning and forced dozens to evacuate. Abcs News Reporter Amy Hollyfield joins us with an update on the firefight. Reporter they are feeling good. You can see behind me the road is closed. They are thinking it will be open soon. They immedia
Deputies trying to pull him over for reckless driving. Deputies now say anderson was behind the wheel when the car struck and killed 14yearold ivan cruz. Prosecutors say this case is a top priority. The District Attorneys Office is going to work tirelessly to ensure that justice is done for this 14yearold boy who lost his life and for his family. Jail Records Show Police actually arrested anderson last wednesday night on a number of charges, including felony warrants for violating probation. He was booked this morning on the murder charge for cruzs death. In san jose, fire crews were able to save a large cross from the Holy Cross Church that caught fire over the weekend. The church was destroyed completely by sundays just roaring devastating fire. Everyone believes its just amazing that the crucifix still survived. Abc 7 News Reporter vic lee is live from the church with the remarkable story. Reporter well, the fire crews have left but they were busy today trying to salvage what they c
It burst. That is why the water was spewing. Walnut creek is open for pice. There is no evidence this happen ed. Businesses are mopping up after a water main break sent thousands of gallons of water into the street, a river of water forcing police to close part of the roadway. Mud covered much of the pavement after crews closed off the main and the water receded. Water service was cut to 20 customers. We have plenty of water from the storm passing through the bay area with slippery and flooded roads. Our reporter and in the south bay. Matt . Not much rain at the bottom of highway 17 and it is drizzly moving santa cruz to los gatos or los gatos to santa cruz. That is always trouble on highway 17. We shot a video an hour ago. There is light rain. I saw on the c. H. P. Website a green taxi car ran into the wall of the northbound lane of 17 north of the summit and blocked the slow lane. We do not know about injuries. That is what you can expect this morning on 17. We are near the lexington
Police there but they cannot dispersed because they have tripped up. Here is video of looting on telegraph including the paint store and a walgreens. There were several arrests, dozens of arrests and police have reported arrests. The official count will not be until later today. The arrests shut everything down. That happened at 1 00 oclock this morning. Protesters again shut down freeways in oakland. Last night police tried to gather dozens of demonstrators blocking interstate 580 frustrating drivers for a second night and rushed an intersection of telegraph at i580 and stormed the hill making it to the east bound lane stopping traffic. They moved into the westbound lanes until 100 officers arrested the protesters. A few hundred rushed a ramp in the middle of rush hour traffic on 980 and shut down eastbound lane for an hour and a half. The Police Officer who shot Michael Brown breaks his silence, exclusively to abc news but it did not calm the protesters in missouri and across the nat
City. They are pretty showing. Southbound 680 is moving fine. The northbound side we need to be careful because of construction until 6 00. In the news this morning, a startling rest legislation about the miss force in the bay areas largest city, a new report says san jose is losing officers so fast it could soon be a Staffing Levels not seen since Ronald Reagan was president. Matt . The San Jose Police department has 99 oppositions. They are looking to fill them and hire more officers but the department has many difficulties including resignations and limited hiring the San Jose Police Department Released a report before the City Council Meeting today addressing staffing and the trends in the Crime Statistics and it reveal the difficulty the department is having hiring and keeping officers and other resignations have slowed down from the record preeing number of 2012 officers are resigning at a rapid rate averaging three or four a month. The goal is to have 45 recruits each academy bu