Displaced and one fatality has been confirmed. Many people remain unaccounted for. 50 engine crew rz from other states have been called in to help as well as crews from nevada and the California National guard. All Public Schools in lake county will remain closed for another day tomorrow. Firefighters are making Good Progress in fighting the fire. The fire has been spreading in every direction since it broke out on saturday afternoon. Our crews have been throughout the areas all day today, abc7 News Reporter Cornell Bernard joins us in middleton. Reporter the scope of the tragedy is very hard to comprehend. Were here on lincoln street. This is one block away from highway 29. Destruction is all too clear. The neighborhood has been reduced to ashes. Firefighters are battling flames just miles away. A new fire fight south of middletown, the valley fire reared its head over a ridge. Crews need rain, but got gusty winds instead. Still, theyre winning the fight here. Were trying to get conta
Gladys says she was just out shopping with the wife for the holidays yesterday. Again that information from a neighbor not confirmed by poli police. No word at this hour on whether the gunman has been caught. Iain. Shawnette, thank you. A homeless man now faces charges in the death of a psychiatrist. Philadelphia police have champed 27yearold manuel baez with the murder of 75yearold howard baker. The doctor was found dead inside the rodeway inn in center city on monday. He died of strangulation. Police say on sunday baker told his wife he was heading out to watch the eagles game at a bar. Investigators say instead he went to the hotel checked in and had two male visitors. To your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Rain and dense fog on this Christmas Eve eve. Looking live through the eye of our camera in wilmington. Hard to tell because its such a beautiful shot but there is some fog here and there. Fox 29 meteorologist kathy orr is here. Kathy, dreary, warm, though. Dreary and warm thats f
Last night the suspects vehicle stops out of frame of camera on the 100 block of west colder street. The suspect gets out an approaches the woman confronting her at the corner of colder and green streets and then in what surely appears to be against her will as witnesses here yelling for help shes pulled down the street and back into the car which then takes off. But not before a side window is kick out. The glass still on the street here. Car leisha phone and glasses were also found. Family members think she may have known her attacker. I believe she notice the person. I believe she know the person who did it. Reporter possibly someone she saw earlier in the day they say. As Police Search for her including under cars, her father and other family members were busy putting up flyers in the neighborhood asking for information. My only concern receipt now getting my daughter back. Bring her back home. Confrontation was a couple blocks from germantown friends school. Where children were ou
And we will speak to the ceo of the risks in Space Tourism and im ali velshi and this is real money. As i told you we will keep an eye on those protests continuing across america tonight but let me tell you about news that happened today. One month ago voters sent democrats packing in congress in part because of discontent over the economy but november turned out to be a gang buster month for job creation and we learned 321,000 net new jobs were added to the economy, that is nearly 100,000 more than most economists had forecast. And up ward revisions which we get from september and october boosted this years total figure by an additional 44,000 new jobs. America has now added on average almost 241,000 net new jobs per month so far in 2014. Thats about where monthly gains should be for the job market to have room to grow. To take advantage of new workers who are coming in to the labor force. Unemployment, the unemployment number in november stayed put at 5. 8 . I tend not to like that n
And a sorority sister. She is wearing protective head gear. Why she needs it. Weve all seen the jaws movies. Sharks are terrifying. Theyll bite as soon as they look at you. They scare the dickens out of us. Maybe, just maybe, sharks have got bad pr. This video is shot by jim in the bahamas. He dives constantly with sharks. This is a video of him with his friend tarantino. This is a tiger shark. He is going to pet tarantino. He gets caught up in the current and gets taken away. He swims back to the camera and hopes tarantino will join him. This is so crazy. You see the shark swimming right at him. This is where he starts giving her love and affection. And shes loving it. Give me some more. Its an amazing video. Its all about jim is trying to raise awareness of sharks and the way they behave. He is passionate about it. So we have Jim Abernathy live by skype right this minute. How was this experience for you . We specialize in large shark encounters without a cage. We gave tarantino as we