Across the state including the six large fires in the north bay mendocino and lake counties. Containment on those fires is between 73 and 96 . Cal fire is predicting it will have full containment by next tuesday. At least 42 people have died in the fires statewide. And 7,000 structures have been destroyed since the fires broke out the sunday before last. 15,000 people remain evacuated. Statewide. Preliminary estimates of losses exceed 1 billion. And that figure is expected to rise. 1,500 people evacuated, amend that. For a week and a half, its been the scene of fire trucks racing toward flames. Today highway 128 north of calistoga reopened to all traffic. The chp opened the major artery at bennett lane at 9 00 this morning and urged drivers to continue being cautious going through the area. Crews starting to get the upper hand on that bear fire which is burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains. That fire is now 30 contained. However, hundreds of people still remain out of their homes and st
Meeting with a. U. President neil kerwin and he told them that Campus Police and the m. P. D. Are searching through surveillance videos in hopes of finding who did this. Students would like more action dealing with what they call a hostile environment for students of color. The administration condemned it as a hate crime. They are threatening a leader. Our fist black female president of the school. A personal friend of mine and his and the fact that we are Walking Around the campus feeling unsafe is unfair. Richard we believe the Campus American University has an image of a person of interest. When we get the image we will bring it to there may be 1,000 reward in this case. Coming up at 5 00, you will hear from the woman who took the pictures of the nooses and her take on this. Reporting live, Richard Reeve, abc7 news. Nancy thank you. New information today after the stabbings at the university of texas monday afternoon. Police say the man who killed one student and stabbed three other
Would appreciate a phone call. Alison emergency room shut down and patients were put in the ambulances and whisked away to another hospital. This is as the hazmat teams scoured fredericks hospital. After two people walked in and said they were burned when they opened a package. As Maryland Bureau chief brad bell reports the hospital is back open after hours of tension. Brad in the last 45 minutes or so, things have it goen back to nowhere hall here at the hospital. The ambulances are coming and going. They opened a box at home. Something got on the skin. They felt a burn and came to the hospital and brought the box with them. Out of abundance of caution First Responders had to declare the hospital what they call adminny disaster zone. The police are starting a different investigation. People who received a box at their home with the household chemical inside didnt order the box. Police want to find out what that is all about. A well share it with you when we have it. Brad bell, abc7 ne
The public thinks about this dismissal. Leon harris has the details. This is getting a ton of attention. And will be for days to come. President trump spoke extensively about his decision to fire james comey in an exclusive interview with nbcs lester holt, and the president s reasons appear to contradict previous statements coming from the white house. Now on the topic of comey, were also seeing some new reaction from a brandnew nbc News Survey Monkey poll. More than half, 54 believe that comeys dismissal was not appropriate, and when it comes to why the president let comey go, nearly half think it has to do with the russia investigation. Only about a quarter think its related to the Clinton Emails as stated. In his sitdown, he also had choice words to describe comey. Hes a show boat, hes a grandstander. The fbi has been in turmoil, you know what, i know that, Everybody Knows that. You met attorney general rod rosenstein. Right. Did you ask for a recommendation . What i did is, i was g
Our clients perspective is that if the university had taken action on that first report he may not have been on campus, he may not have ever met our other client, and she may not have been attacked. You know the hashtag no means no, actually like spread around campus, twitter, social media, all of that, people really started having discussing like conversations about that on campus. One of those women who spoke out on twitter says the dean of Student Affairs at Howard University told her, quote, you embarrased your family by doing that. Another woman suing the school claims her attacker was a Campus Police officer who sexually and physically assaulted her. All five women claim their cases were investigated slowly, if at all. Lawsuit state the school didnt provide appropriate counselling or accommodations to extends School Deadlines after they were attacked. They have experienced depression, theyve been suicidal, and they express those things to the university, and still the university