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Wednesday. Im kris sanchez in for laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Back to those wildfires as we continue to push the firefighters continue to push those limits across the bay area this morning. As crews make progress on the north bay wildfires, another one pops up in Santa Cruz Mountains, forcing more evacuations. It is active. Here is where things stand. The socalled bear fire is burning near 5 containment. It is threatening 271 acres, actually, 271 acres are burned, but 150 homes are under threat, under mandatory evacuation orders this morning. That is the area of deer creek and bear creek canyon. This continues to be a very tough fire fight. Five firefighters were hurt while working in very treacherous and steep terrain. The weather could help firefighters with this. We have Team Coverage to get you up to speed. Me meteorologist kari hall kicks off our coverage. L ....
A steady stream of San Francisco police and firefighters, first responders, here keeping vigil here at zuckerberg San FranciscoGeneral Hospital where that officer, a four Year Department veteran, is in Critical Condition afternoon surgery. He is in the intensive care unit. He was investigating a suspect believed to have a gun inside the beige lexus, that suspect then became aware of the officers presence and according to police intentionally ran that buys rammed that bicycle officer before taking off. The vehicle was found in Golden Gate Park and at 3 30 the suspect was arrested on the 500 block of ellis street. Now, the officer again had surgery. ....
That suspect is now in custody. Jean elle is live outside the hospital where the officers are gathering. Its going to be a long night. Reporter it is. Its been an emotional night already. San Francisco Police officers coming and going all night. Their somber faces saying it for his life. A Police Officers damaged bicycle is the crime scene. Officers rushed him to the hospital after an individual ran him over. Its sad they out here to save us, help us and keep the peace and people are wreckless. That suspect is mar keys johnson, police say he was trying to get away from officers who were closing in because they thought johnson had a gun. Investigators say he saw officers and took off. Driving into the officer on a bike and then driving away. Police found the suv empty and searched the nearby park, making an arrest a few hours later in the tenderloin. Hes an africanamerican ....
Hit and run was intentional. The officer was struck afternoon on turk street. Just a few blocks from city hall. The vehicle was located a short time later along the panhandle. The suspect was taken into custody 3 30 pm. Outside a building on ellis street. We get new information from jana. She is at sams the school general hospital. San francisco general hospital. Reporter that officer went through surgery today. He is here at general. We have seen a stream of Police Vehicles coming through. Officers wanting to be here to offer support. We understand that the next 48 hours will be critical. The call of an officer down brought San Francisco police rushing to help. The officer part of the bike patrol had been hit by a suspect driving a lexus suv. On turk street between vanness and franklin. Police say it happened during a firearms violation investigation. They observed the suspe ....
The bicycle patrol unit for the past four years. Over the course of the morning we have seen the Police Presence at the hospital grow as officers show their support. You are looking at police chief bill scott who arrived 20 minutes ago. Prior to that we saw the assistant police chief walk out of the hospital with other officers. The assistant chief and chief signal to us as they walked by that they were not able to talk to us at this time but they would be speaking later today. This started around 12 20 pm yesterday afternoon when there was a call of an officer down in the area of turk street between van ness and franklin. The officer was deliberately struck by a vehicle by a man he was about to question for a possible firearms violation. The man struck the officer and took off. Three hours after that come up Police Arrested the man they believe was the driver of that vehic ....