Coverage. We are on highway 128. The fire is behind us, about 20 minutes behind us. We had to come out just to file this report for you. This has been an unusual report. Lets begin with more video from sky 7. Its not off that firefighters know how and when a blaze starts, but theres not much doubt about this one. About 6 30 this morning, 20 different lightning strikes. One person told me the big one shook the ground. He said it sounded like an explosion and saw flames almost immediately. Its burning in steep terrain. By 10 00 a. M. , they begun evacuating residents. Cal fire reports by 2 30, 70 acres had been burned. Now over a thousand acres have been burned. The lucky part right now at least, is the wind is down. That said, we still dont know how many structures have burned, if any. We do know that some are threatened. There was one house we looked at high up a steep road. Flames on the hillside moving in. Cal fire had moved in. We left at that point, but cal fire was going to try to
A speech ro speech roateep ro. So its a tough fight in there. A fight evolving situation. As far as the evacuees are concerned, theyre getting out of here. Theyre going to the Cross Walk Community church in napa. They are getting information there. So this fire continues to burn, sparked by lightning. Were hoping we dont get wind, and cal fire, as of now, is still saying zero containment. Were hoping that changes sometime soon. From napa county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. Wayne, let me ask you about the evacuees for a minute. Better safe than sorry. Anyone decided not to evacuate . Reporter dan, im sorry for the threesecond delay, but that has to do with where were at in our signal. Yes, there are people in there who have stayed. Most of them have left. If you go through the area and look at the gates, there are these tags, they say evacuate. We saw chp going in there, knocking on doors, making sure people were gone. I saw two people who stayed behind. The owner of the house, trying to
The California Independent system operator extending that flex alert asking people to conserve that energy as you mention through thursday to avoid blackouts and also intermittent outage situation. Thats not what we thought we would find on this block here in milpitas. They said about 139 customers did not have power and when we got here you can see the lights are on this morning and good news for folks on this block but there are sporadic outages we want to tell you about when it comes to pg e across the bay area this morning. The good news, the rolling outages were called off last night by pg e shortly after 8 00 p. M. Because the Energy Supply would meet demand. Thats what the Energy Supplier said. Were learning two big reasons for this. The temps stayed cooler and people did conserve energy. Governor newsom also took some blame for the outages during his monday news conference. Let me just make this crystal clear, we failed to predict and plan these shortages and thats simply unacc
Reopening, the university of North Carolina is back pedaling. Switching to Remote Learning after 130 students contracted the virus. Elementary schools in the state are also seeing an uptick in cases. This school temporarily shutting down after a cluster was linked to a faculty member. Also new trouble at one of the nations largest fire department. Chicago fire academy had to close down after an outbreak. Officials saying theyve had nearly 300 cases and two chicago firefighters have died from the virus. Megan tevrizian. Coming up next, the seven things to know this morning. Also a special Education Teacher in the south bay logged into class without wearing a shirt and its not just that action that has parents really upset this morning. Also ahead, michelles message. What the former first lady was wearing during her its game day live, here at bia fanfavorite venue, ever since they got gigspeed internet. Hey, amy . Wanna grab a seat . Were live. Its game on, with gigspeed internet from xf
Say that an officer on the first floor of the mall heard gunshots coming from the second floor and called for backup. That gunfire between two groups that were fighting. Now two victims are in serious condition, and two gunmen still on the loose. Two teens shot inside tanforan mall, one in the stomach, one in the leg. Well, basically everything unraveled right in front of my store in a way. First i heard like pop pop pop, it must have been six or eight shots and i knew right away its a weapon, not fireworks. Art stein ducked down inside his store. Mostly i was thinking whether its a terrorist act or something else, and if its going to stop, you know, because it was pop pop pop. Reporter a fear felt by other mall employees as well. I was really scared. Reporter people running by this ice cream shop, the owner pulling customers in, then pulling down the gate before armed officers came charging r close the gate and go back inside and hide. Reporter as employees hid, police cleared hundred