Light up the Early Morning in brentwood. Chris white took this video realizing there was nothing he could do to stop the huge fire. The people who live here are out of town. Right in front of the house. I mean, i park in front of my house and my daughters window is above the vehicle. Thats scary. Reporter this fire started at 3 27 this morning on highland way. Firefighters kept it from spreading to the house, but eight minutes later, they got a call that another car was on fire, just a mile away on hollowbrook court. Our neighbor noticed the truck was on fire, came over to the house, rang the doorbell until we bitted, everybody got out safely. Reporter john is angry and frustrated this happened. Our family lives were at risk because somebody decided to set that vehicle on fire. Reporter he was afraid this could happen. He heard about the three other car fires this week in martinez, walnut creek, and lafayette, but we leaved he, his wife, and 6yearold twins got out okay. Havent stopped
That is about to reopen so were going to get out of here. But after more than four hours, highway 101 south is reopened again near healdsburg. Live near healdsburg, wayne freedman, abc7 news. Thank you, wayne. We told you 101 opened literally minutes ago. Traffic is really slow. Want to take a look at our drive time traffic map. You can see the area in red. Thats the heavy traffic. Hopefully that will dissipate as we get into the afternoon hours. That road has just reopened. Governor browns budget is out and it calls for more spending on schools and child care. The plans for the budget year july 1st shows moderaely improved fiscal outlook since his initial proposal in january. The revised package calls for 124 billion in spending, 1. 5 billion more than last year. Most will go to k12 edge kaeks. He is backing away for Child Support for low income families. It is now up to the legislature to come up with the final plans. Wells fargo is having budget issues of its own in the wake of the
Sat in his place. There is contradictions between what the white house says and what the fbi is saying. I was going to fire regardless of recommendation. Reporter President Trump told Nbcs Lester Holt that he didnt need the recommendation of Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein to fire fbi director james comey. He is a showboat. He is a grandstander. The fbi has been in turmoil. You know that, i know that. Everybody knows that. Reporter but on capitol hill, acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe shot down one of the white houses excuses for axing comey. Is it accurate that the rank andfile no longer supported director comey . No, sir. That is not accurate. Director comey enjoyed broad support within the fbi and still does to this day. Reporter but mccabe also said he was unaware and could not confirm reports comey had asked for more resources to investigate Trump Campaign ties to russia, alleged ties, before he was fired. That said, we dont typically request resources for an individual ca
Rain. As we widen out there are downpours and storms popping now in cherry hill as well as parts of southern Mercer County ahead that of main line so a lot to go through as a cold front comes through to wipe out this intense heat and humidity. Talking about the heat and humidity and also the hard part of the storms is the intense downpours. You have more on that part of the story. Thats right. The reason why were getting those showers and storms is that because of all of the heat and humidity today. You look at the heat indies feeling like 94 in philadelphia, weve got a heat index of 94 as well in wilmington, close to 100 there in dover. Heat index up the 95 corridor in trenton feeling like 95 degrees. Thats why that severe thunderstorm watch has been posted until 8 oclock. The big concern with these thunderstorms as they move through gusty winds up to 60 Miles Per Hour and the possibility of hail. In combination with that some locations are underneath a Flash Flood Warning up until 6
Strikes in the last 15 minutes along route 40, the Atlantic City expressway and again during the rush hour youre dealing with a wall of water that initially comes down at rates of between three and 4inches per hour, so it is blinding rain and as we head down to the south, were also dealing with some pretty intense storms stretching through dover as well and you can see those rainfall rates an additional two to 4 inches of rain there and, again, this is where we have the most intense severe storms at the present time, over 150 or so lightning strikes from millville to dover just in the last 15 minutes. In addition to again the severe storms were dealing with, a lot of water on the roadways. Meteorologist Melissa Magee has more on that story and some of the further guidances across much of the area. Adam thats right because were dealing with so much water in such a short period of time we have a flood advisory into the evening. Minor flooding is occurring in some reports. Weve had report