hour. after 8 temperature, the first alerts went to the primary evacuation zones. by 8:29, jared shot this video. you can see the fire bearing down on paradise and shortly after is when he got his first text alert. a second with more evacuation zones at 9:09. i feel like there was no way for people to really get alerted quick enough. reporter: by noon, the camp fire burned through town, and turned about 17 square miles to ash. it only took 5.5 hours, and the area you see in purple was charred black. i don t think you can design an evacuation plan to get everyone in your town out. there s just not enough roadway infrastructure to do that. the other big story, the unhealthy air in the bay area isn t going anywhere. relief that was to come this weekend, just got pushed back from the north to the sows bay, we are socked south bay, we are socked with this gross, unhealthy air. let s go to paul deanno. what has changed. paul? the wind direct change we wanted is not go
the pension system is in crisis to the tune of $100 billion. it is underfunded we got future unfunded liabilities. governor chris christie talked about it today. he had couple of solution, the question is: goff for, you have been in office for eight years. where were these solutions sneap ashley johnson has all the details. ashley, what do you got for us? new jersey governor chris christie at news conference wednesday issued a warning to the sk sores democrat phil murphy about the dire state of the state pension fund system. new jersey is more than 100 million in the hole to pay for current and future retirement benefits. let s get rid of the myth which started was public employees underpaid. you know? we have the highest paid police officers in america. we have think highest paid firefighters in america. we have a month of features in america. where are they suffering exactly? and most of those public make more than all of you? special commission on public pensions and
very heavy snow amounts, very strong, heavy downpours of snow at times in this. back to our west, some breaks of sunshine for the afternoon that is coming and we re going to be looking at those temperatures hanging around, 37 degrees, but it ll feel like the 20s. we ll talk more about the weekend coming up next in your accuweather forecast. looking a lot better. shirleen okay, thank you, bill. we are following a developing story in brooklyn where a serial killer was just sentenced to 75 years to life in prison for the shooting deaths of three brooklyn shopkeepers. and there were some fireworks inside the courtroom. eyewitness news reporter stacy seager is live in downtown this. reporter: reporter: well, shirleen, it was really a bizarre sentencing. we re talking about a serial killer known as the son of sal, rambling and rambling for at least 25 minutes minutes during brooklyn. in the end the judge had the final say. now, take a look at this defendant. he was convicted
in a moment, but first, breaking news. a slashing on a bronx subway train. it happened early this morning during an attempted robbery. it comes as felony assaults are on the rise. magdalena doris is live. reporter: this latest slashing marks 900 attacks this year, and police in mont haven are searching for the suspect. reporter: a man was approached by two people who tried to rob him. he resisted, and he was slashed. this is the lastest in a number the number is going up, and that s the latest addition we are putting into the it. i m confident that it will go down. reporter: they are adding more police patrols overnight near bars and nightclubs and tracking different statistics. last friday brought two more slashings, one at penn station and another at the a. train station in manhattan. the victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. magdalena doris. time for traffic and weather on the 2s. how about that cold out there? it s brutal. as promi
.40-caliber gun clip in the water but still searched for the murder weapon. authorities are searching for reasons how a career criminal could be let out of jail again and again. there are some people that have to be in prison. and we need to work harden to ensure that they get to prison and more importantly that they stay there. reporter: now, a spokesman for the criminal court system actually says that howard was in his words a perfect candidate for that drug program that commissioner bratton was so critical of. in the meantime howard is out of the hospital in custody still being questioned by police. live in east harlem, dick brennan, cbs 2 news. officer holder knew his job was dangerous. but he was passionate about it. he was starting to plant his own roots in this country. cbs 2 s hazel sanchez reports from far rockaway, queens where officer holder called home. reporter: police commissioner bill bratton and mayor de blasio spent time at the family of randolph hold