In 2018 there was over 36 fatalities and close to 1100 dui arrests, what were doing to stop that is have the maximum amount of officers out there. The chp will be setting up guy check points as part of the safety campaign, they recommend ride share if you plan on drinking. New information in the case against the undocumented immigrant acquitted in the death of kate steinle. Steinle was shot and killed when walking with her father in 2015. Turning now to the other big story in florida where dorian just strengthened to a catagory four hurricane. People are boarding up windows and filling sand bags, theres uncertainty about where the storm could make landfall. Now the storm has been upgraded. The models in the short term show that steady push toward the North Western bahamas and the u. S. The starring winds will weaken and thats tough to forecast the movement of the storm, the storm in the past half hour a catagory four, impacts the bahamas this weekend. The well defined one source that h
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 its clear in the climate were living in, we have to have the resources to battle the fires. Stay focused and be able to respond to changing environment were experiencing in california. Reporter says its 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 weve invested additional money in staffing yearround and work we do ahea
Season isnt. Rolling into 2018 now as fires are still burning right now. Im dan ashley. Im dion lim in for ama daetz. This is unusual year. 2017, cal fire battled more than 7,000 fires. Thats 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 isnt over. Reporter david louis shows you what the cal fire is doing now and what its 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 budget halfway through the fiscal year
Reporter whats joe said after hearing firefighters rushing to the scene around 2 00 a. M. On march 13th. These pictures show the burned up back end of his car and the devastated front portion of the nissan that was parked behind him. Its not something you expect to find sunday night when you went to bed and to come out and see your new car is melted into the street. Reporter we showed joe the video lee hesed by police showing a man in red hoodie carrying a gas can as he walked through the sunoco station on oregon avenue. Minutes later, police say the two cars were set on fire. The video shows the suspect running back passed the gas station and tossing the gas can on the roof of a garage. His image captured by another camera as he gets away. Saw the video. Its unreal. Its really good. I hope they can catch see somebody. I didnt rec night the guy myself. Reporter joe is driving rent car for now as he and his Insurance Company deal with the damage car headaches. If you have to go through
Today. This gun show ended at 5 00, but it does continue tomorrow here at the cow palace. Monty francis, nbc bay area news. Oakland police are under pressure to track down four killers after four people were killed in the span of a few hours yesterday afternoon. The shootings reached different neighborhoods of that city from west oakland to deep east oakland and all took place within a timespan of about six hours. This is the scene from the last deadly shooting which happened around 8 15 last night, not far from bishop odowd high school. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say they believe all four homicides are gang related, and they have not made any arrests in any of those cases. San jose police have made another arrest in the beating death of a 14yearold boy last year. 31yearold joe was arrested thursday on murder charges. Investigators say he was hiding out in an apartment complex there. Police say he was the last suspect wanted in the death of reyes who was attacked