Tonight Berkeley Police are asking for the publics help and have a 50,000 award for information. New at 10 00, ktvus amber lee joins us live at Berkeley Police headquarters. Reporter police are asking for help in solving this crime. The victims mother never imagined having to see her daughter die in front of her. Family and friends have set up a memorial for serenity henderson on the corner of prince street and ellis in berkeley. There morning the sudden death of the pregnant single mother. She was shot in her car when she pulled up to a stop sign. She was the joy of my life. She was the joy of all of our lives. Reporter a joy that was taken away wednesday night. Like a loud sound back to back like pow, pow, pow, pow. Reporter her mother says she was in the front passenger seat when another car pulled up next to serenity and fired multiple shots and her black honda. One bullet struck her 19year old daughter in the head. The bullets were coming. I didnt know where they were coming from.
On. It was big and leaping into the air. This video shows the driving challenge that some evacuees had getting out early on sunday morning. The glass fire interrupted overnight during dangerous conditions that brought in onshore winds, gusting up to 50 miles per hour. By afternoon, spot fires were popping up. Like this one near highway 29, posted on social media by a firefighter. Is less than half a mile a quarter mile from the main fire. Just trying to cool it down. It is threatening more than 2000 structures. It is in imminent danger. One of the places at risk, with fires a half a mile away. Workers had to evacuate 55 patients, 13 mental patients and 42 in acute care. They were by ambulance and evacuated to the nearest facility that was best for the condition. About 1000 people have had to evacuate. A full assault included helicopters and a 747. Another night of dangerous conditions. They attempt to make headway on a fire was zero containment. As well as the structure defense. We wil
The best thing our customers can do to help prevent going into that stage iii category is to conserve as much energy as possible. You heard it right there, conserve energy. That is going to be the motto during this heatwave we are all dealing with across the bay area. Tonights power emergency is over for now after a series of rolling outages around Northern California this evening that helped stabilize the grid. This started around 6 30 with an order from kauai so. The independent system operator manages the states power grid and it told utilities, like pg e, to shed powerlines because of unusually high demand. Pg e explained in a tweet saying there was strain on the power grid due to excess heat. Pg e began rotating Power Outages at the direction of the state grid operator. 200 to 250,000 customers were affected for about an hour each. This map is from pg es web shot. It shows a snapshot of the situation at 8 00 tonight. The red dots represent outages of 5000 or more, the orange dots
Two structures have burned and others threatened. Officials have called in more air and ground equipment. There is no containment. Doubtfire is one of two fires in southern santa clara county. The other, the park fire is burning along a wooded ridgeline near Anderson Lake not far from morgan hill. Broke out at 11 00 last night. We have more on that fire and the others around the bay area. I spoke with the deputy chief that told me the park fire is about 50 contained this afternoon. They had to evacuate homes with 80 people in one neighborhood. They are trying to get them back in. He said it was a sleepless night for crews across the area. Reporter the aerial photo shows the 343 acres of scorched earth that broke out at around 11 00 pm saturday night. Claims forreston evacuation. 80 people had to leave their homes with another 20 sheltering in place. Probably the busiest fourth of july i have seen. Reporter the deputy chief said their plans for increased staffing made all the difference
Also, the state saw another Record Number of hospitalizations. There are currently more than 5600 patients in california hospitals. This is also the 16th straight day that hospitalizations hit record highs. How bay area hospitals are helping with the surge. You know how counties help each other in an emergency . That is mutual aid. They do the same thing in the medical community. The bay area is helping by taking in covid19 patient from as far south as Imperial County which shares a border with mexico. Both of the hospitals are overwhelmed with the nucases of reporter sergio works for medical Services Company transporting patients to the bay area. Healthcare system in Imperial County, east of san diego is being flooded with coronavirus patients. Be arranging a transfer when they cant find it locally. The radius gets wider and wider. Reporter ucsf is one of the hospitals taking patients from distances that are typically out by the norm. It speaks to the fact that it is unusual times. I