Near st. Helena. Terry mcsweeney, you were with crews a authority tishort its believed that lightning started this fire. Reporter a lot of evidence that lightning started it. I was talking to firefighters here. They say the focus tonight is on structure protection, saving the homes which are up state route 128, closed off as you can see. Everywhere you look, theres fire on the mountain. Huge flames leaping into the night sky along hennessey ridge. Cal fire says this fire has burned 2,400 acres and is 0 contained. With the hot, dry conditions that weve been having and then coupled with this weather that weve had, its not common for the area with all the lightning strikes that weve been having. Its just its very can be very hazardous for the fire conditions. Reporter the cause believed to be lightning. This video from the local chp office showing a strike a short while before the first reports of fire. This structure fell victim to the flames today. More than 200 other buildings are thre
Department said they were following up on several reports of missing people in the fire zones. More than 77,000 other people are still evacuated from their homes. They are spread out around the county. Jesse gary joins us from one of the Evacuation Centers at cabrio college. Jesse . Reporter frank, good afternoon to you. To a man, woman, and child, there is one fourletter word that carries with it a combination of hope, anticipation, and frustration. That word is home. For the evacuation people here with a destination, a universal destination that is cloaked in questions and uncertainty. Is it ever gonna end . You know, i want to go home. Reporter Boulder Creek evacuee Barbara Andrews echos sentiments shared many of the people chased from their homes by the czu mega fire. Santa cruz county has set up near lay dozen evacuation sites for families, their pets, and their animals. Since that first night, weve expanded considerably. Weve gotten a lot of good infrastructure going on here. Wer
A half 1000 dollars if they break home isolationalist. Several people are killed in flooding and landslides in the region surrounding south Koreas Capital plus. My sons death cannot be. On the u. S. Judge making a plea that better prison protection of those after his son was murdered. U. S. President donald trump has publicly rebuked the head of the White House Coronavirus task force hes accused dr debra books of hurting his administration after she said the spread of coded 19 throughout america marks a new phase in the pandemic reynolds reports. Dr Deborah Burke says one of the most prominent experts supposedly advising President Donald Trump over the coronavirus pandemic but trump lashed out at burkes on monday calling her pathetic and suggesting that she was out to do him political damage burke said warned in an interview that the outbreak had entered a new stage and the virus was extraordinarily widespread in the u. S. In a White House Press Conference Trump seemed to backtrack sho
Visit coveredca. Com to learn more or enroll today. Now at 11 00 p. M. Two Police Shootings but a bay area District Attorney refuses to investigate. Tonight, the new ultimatum. My question is why is she there . Why does she not resign . Tonight californias Health Secretary says there is one thing we could do to cut coronavirus transmission in half and congress about to get an opportunity grill the heads of the worlds biggest tech companies. They will play a sad song. Now at 11 00 p. M. , streaming on cbsn bay area, a message for the Solano County investigator investigating a pair of deadly Police Shootings or we will take you to court. Tonight kpix 5s joe vazquez reports so far the District Attorney is refusing. The current circumstances compel an outside review. Reporter in a video statement the District Attorney announced she will decline to prosecutor two Police Shootings instead she asks the state attorney general take the cases. Given the circumstances of the magnitude of the perc
The inland spots as well. That gray start. Well, our temperatures are running mid to upper 50s to low 60s at this hour. And heres what you can expect as we take you through our day. So right around the bay well see partly sunny to mostly cloudy skies and topping out at just 63 in San Francisco and 70 in oakland and 82 in san jose with a little bit more sunshine inland and 86 for concord. So seasonal if not just a little bit below average for this time of year. Well talk about our warmup through the week coming up in just a few minutes. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we just got word of a computer hack on the vatican linked to the chinese government. That is according to a u. S. Firm that tracks state backed cyber attacks. It said that this began in may. The vatican and beijing expected to engage in talks this year over the renewal of a deal that stabilized their relations. But this report says those targets included communications between the Hong Kong Diocese and the vatic