Crushed a mother at a popular Bay Area Park. The question tonight live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. This 100pound tree branch crushed a mother at a popular Bay Area Park today. The question tonight, who is responsible . Lets get to kpix5s andria borba in San Franciscos north beach tonight. We now know the mother suffered a skull injury and is in the hospital tonight. Reporter well, ken, juliette, it was a bright sunny day here at Washington Square park albeit relatively windy. City officials are trying to figure out what brought this tree limb crashing down. It was just after 3 00 when linda an her husband on vacation from seattle were walking through the park. We heard a crash and a big branch came down. Reporter they saw a little girl and momentarily breathed a sigh of relief. Then they saw her mother on the ground under a giant Pine Tree Branch that had fallen 50 or 60 feet. Linda jumped into action and kept the 37yearold mother of two from moving until parame
It is foggy out there in effect dense fog. This is a shot of the Golden Gate Bridge. Certainly low visibility San Francisco 53 degrees 1050 in san jose and 48 in santa rosa exhibit visibility shows not very good visibility and half moon bay. Visibility not so much in terms of driving dangers of the roadway but oakland and hayward and you may run into patchy dense fog especially along the coast. And visibilitys are reduced there as well. High temperatures later today warming up above what we saw yesterday as High Pressure continues to build. Today the warmer of the two days this weekend details on your full forecast coming up. Back to you. Ch ph is investigating a deadly crash chip is investigating a deadly crash at the intersection of fulton and river road in fulton. The victim was riding a skateboard at the time of the crash. New video shows san jose First Responders treating a woman who police say was hit by pickup truck. It happened at 1 30 a. M. Near pierce and almaden. The woman t
0001 reporter day was of to rernl rainfall have swamped the state. Reporter the storm is expected to dump more heavy rain throughout the weekend. The governor declared a state of emergency saying residents advised to evacuate some do so quickly. We have levels of flooding along rivers and creeks. Because these are record floods, we dont know how wide the water is going to get. Reporter the International Guard going home to home to save residents and pets in high water. Helicopters are primarily in active search and rescue right now. Were trying to coordinate with the officials to make sure we get things clear. Reporter even impact the governors mansion, thes byment flooding overnight. Rivers, creeks, in some areas expected to crest 4 feet higher than the previous record. This is not over reporter the storm system over louisiana is expected to dump more rain for the next 36 hours, making it uncertain exactly when the water will start to recede. Stick with us for continuing coverage on t
Through 90 of the way. When this phone pole falls over f it falls on to something that hasnt burned yet, and there is plenty of stuff that hasnt burned yet, you could have yet another fire. In fact, where we are standing on one side it burned. On the other side of the driveway it did not burn. So the problem here is that you not only have to worry about the fire growing up towards the north to the other town up there. You have the problem that there is a lot of stuff going on here because not everything burned up. It was a very fastmoving fire. Now they have a double problem. They have thousands of people on the lines at all nine of californias big fires right now. This one happens to be the most noteworthy. This is the one where at least in this town, lower lake, its done a lot of damage. It can do a lot more. That is the situation that were seeing here on the ground. And that is what we have to report from this point in time. We have some other reports coming up. All right. Thank you
Mike, warmup to the 9. We have a lot of news this morning. We are getting a better idea of that devastation caused by the clayton fire in lake county. Calfire says more than 100 homes have been destroyed in the fire. And 3,000 acres have burned. It is just 5 contained. Thousands of people have had to evacuate from their homes. About 1,000 firefighters are now trying to get that fire under control. The fire started saturday night off highway 29 in Clayton Creek road. Ktvus alex savidge has been in lake county all morning and he is about to show us some of the areas affected. Alex. Reporter yeah, hey, good morning to you guys. Just scenes of destruction everywhere you look here in downtown lower lake. And this is one of those scenes behind us here. This is the original firehouse here in town, and you can see this is the plaque. Thats all thats left. It says historic lower lake firehouse. You see the building gutted by this fire as it blew through this area late yesterday. Thats just one