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KGO ABC7 News 400PM July 12, 2024

An Evacuation Order or warning is in effect south of there to the oakville grade. The Sonoma County sheriff had this message. The biggest concern that we have regarding evacuations is this red flag warning that has gone into effect at 1 00 today and extends through tomorrow evening. My main message for you today is that more evacuations are possible. San Francisco Police and sheriffs deputies are now hoping the patrol the evacuated zones. And the glass fire moving dangerously close to the northeastern edge of angwin. Flames are bordering the small town. Reporter the work thats happening this afternoon is critical to save angwin. Fire crews tell me theyre building a fire line from the road to spring lake road with hopes to save angwin. Its day five, working in triple digit heat. These heroes arent giving 140pound hoses a half mile up the hill side of northeast angwin, each crew pouring out 100 gallons of water a minute to fight the flames. Were so appreciative. My parents home is Still Standing and we are one of the fortunate ones. Down the road, shes checking on her parents vineyard in deer park. It is absolutely devastating. And heart breaking. The destruction that i have seen. The people that i know that have lost their homes and their lively hoods. It is awful and im really hoping that everyone on this mountain and everywhere else with this fire are able to get out as well. Reporter shes praying for these brave sonoma firefighters, working tirelessly a few miles away. At any point did you lose hope . No. You cant. You cant lose hope. Reporter its very difficult to breathe in this area, partly because the smoke is so dense and thick. Its been challenging for aircraft to make water drop. Theyve been dropping 1,000 gallons of water every drop. Abc 7 news. Boy, stephanie is right in the middle of it there. Governor newsom toured the middle school this morning. It was heavily damaged in the glass fire. The governor met with north bay leaders as well as first responders. And speaking with reporters, the governor said just shy of 4 million acres have burned what he is calling an his, to wildfire year for california. And he spoke about how a changing climate is fueling the mega fires. Mother nature joined the conversation. She bats last. She bats 1,000. Shes chemistry, biology, physics. She is present in this debate. And in this conversation. And she is dominant for sure. The governor says there are 23 active fire complexes now burk all across california. Cal fire says the scu complex of fires in alameda and santa clara counties are contained. Both the fires burned more than 300,000 acres. The czu complex in the Santa Cruz Mountains is also 100 contained. Another red flag warning is raising concerns about more fires. Lets check if with sandhya patel. Were about three hours into this latest red flag warning. Yeah, and that red flag warning has been expanded and also, extended into saturday morning. Lets take a look at the winds gusting on mt. Hood to 16 miles an hour, 14 on mt. Diablo. A little breezy. The winds will pick up. The red flag warning until 6 00 a. M. Saturday. It covers the North East Bay hills. Its a combination of north, northwesterly winds. Anywhere from 25 to 30, low humidity and dry fuels that will lead to the high fire danger continuing right on through saturday morning. Take a look at the hour by hour forecast. The winds begin to i am crease as we head into later tonight and tomorrow as well. Theyll be gusty about 29 to 30 miles an hour. The big concern is that the fire, the glass fire, could rapidly spread. Other fires may rapidly spread as well. It is hot and dry. The winds are still light. The temperatures are really hot across many parts of the bay area. The heat advisory until 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Take it easy out there. Thank you. A flex alert from now until 10 00 p. M. Youre asked to turn the air conditioning to 78 degrees and turn off unnecessary lights. If there is too much strain on the power system, they can have rolling outs. I dont want to hear about it. Oh, no this woman just evacuated from sonoma to the Berkeley Hills. The last thing she wants to hear is to evacuate again because of the fire. The Berkeley Hills residents are under a red flag warning until 6 00 p. M. Friday. We get three alerts, at least. We met with long time residents who are not only signed up for emergency alerts heres the instructions about what to do. Theyre prepared to evacuate. Sooblgs we get home, ill turning car backwards into the driveway so it can be pointing out. Because the streets are so narrow, the city is asking residents to park in their garage or driveway so emergency vehicles can get through just in case. Just wish us luck. They said they need to be toward evacuate by car or foot. In some neighborhoods, it will be faster to use foot paths like this one than city streets. I have explored all of them to see how to get down the hill. Reporter she showed us her go back in the back of her car . Do you want to feel how heavy it is . Reporter shes not sure how long she can remain in the hills. Im very nervous. I dont know how many longer i want to live like this. Reporter laura martinez, aiks 7 news. Members of the Firefighters Association are calling on the board of supervisors to remove the Fire Protection district. This is about ensuring the safety and the future safety of all the citizens of santa clara county. Not just one small district. According to the firefighters union, the Fire Protection district did not follow the recommendations of a recent audit which found improper spending. Supervisors are scheduled to decide whether to strip the districts authority that theyre meeting on tuesday. If that happen, the county Fire Department would take over responsibility of that district. Vallejos police chief has fired an officer following an internal affairs investigation. Officer ryan mcmahan was fired for violating Department Policies by engaging in unsafe conduct. Chief williams announce in the march his announcement to fire mcmahan for his involvement in the fatal officer involved shooting of 21yearold willy mccoy. He was with you. Six officers to open fire. He was also involved in a deadly 2018 encounter with 33yearold foster. They agreed to pay 33 million after a civil suit was fired. A grm called cops off campus is calling to abolish the police department. This event across campuses is pretty much our coming out party. Just the sort of publicized and make our presence as a movement known. The group rallied at ucsf. They say instead of spending money on police, it should be spent on Mental Health and student housing. They say they are taking it to the board of regents. A burglar dealt another devastating blow to a south bay beauty spa already reeling from a prolonged closure due to covid19. Somebody broke sue blue orchard beauty at their brand new location in south san jose. Thieves made off with 30,000 of high end spa machines. The owner recently moved in after losing their old home in saratoga. A huge loss. After being close dude to covid and the pandemic, weve been closed for six months. This is worst thing could have had happened at the worst possible time. She believes whoever broke in knew a thing or two about the skin care business. The state reported 3,062 coronavirus cases, down about 200 from the same period before. There were 96 deaths, above the daily average of 84. The sevenday Positivity Rate jumped slightly to 2. 9 . A key figure indicating the transmission rate. Italy has reported the largest increase of covid19 cases since i am a. There have been 2,500 cases reported this in the last 24 hours. Italy risks joining its european neighbors france and spain where case number have been surging. The krerlts for Disease Control is out with extensive new guidelines for colleges and universities dealing with covid19 outbreaks. They said entry screening might prevent transmission. This is a change from the guidance in june when they recommended against testing for students, faculty and staff. Election fears. San francisco taking steps to ease worries about the upcoming election. Bad air out there. The air quality around the bay area getting worse. Well tell you what do you know to stay safe. And playoff fever. The as. Were they able to break hey, my twitter is blowing up dear jack box, bring back the spicy chicken strips, still waiting for the spicy chicken strips, so many about spicy chicken strips. Wow, i hear you. So im bringing back my juicy 100 allwhite meat spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99 is it the juicy 100 allwhite meat . Or because you can spice them up or cool them down . Or because a little birdie told me you wanted them back really bad. Get my spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99. All right. Time for consumer news. Michael finney joins with us a look at the headlines. A lot of extensions right now. There sure are. Today was originally set to be the last day, the dead line to get your real i. D. From the dmv here in california. But because of the pandemic, that has been changed to this day next year. Let me explain. A new federal law requires stricter Identity Verification a ato board a plane or enter a Federal Building in california. Real i. D. Takes care of. You can upload the document before you visit a field office. The attorney general Javier Becerra announced am 8. 69 milliondollar settlement against the Health Insurance provider anthem. Over failure to protect a patients personal data including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers. It affected about 78 million patients across the United States including more than 13. 5 million in california. Anthem is required to make changes to its Information Security program. A knew court ruling in ireland says the bread in subway sandwiches is not actually bread. A judge ruled this week, the bread contains too much sugar and instead should be categorized as a starch like a cookie. In a statement to abc news, subway said in part, subways bread is of course, bread. Our guests return each day for sandwiches made on bread that smells as good as it tastes. Look, let me tell you. A lot of american corporations run into trouble over in europe. Because here we seaccept one thing. There they accept another. We accept a lot more sugar in our bread. Is that the takeaway . Its like eating a cookie . Ill just have the cookie. We semia lot of sugar in many products. Yes, indeed. B. A. R. T. Service is back on track after a delay this afternoon. This is what probably caused it. A downed power hijack that was blocking the track way. They confirmed that was the problem. Take a look at this. Two peacocks spotted roaming through the ashes. A photographer captured it yesterday at the trailer park in deer park. They dont seem to be affected. Humans certainly are. This forecast is not helping. Typically, october is one of our highest time periods for fire danger. I wish i had good news for you. I dont. Well talk about the fire danger once again. It is awful out there. Youre looking from our east bay hills camera. Visibility is so poor, you cant even see anything. Its hot. Near one hundred in fairfield, 97 in livermore. Heres a live look from our exploratorium camera in San Francisco. Definitely hazy. 77 degrees in the city. It is 88 in oakland. 94 in san jose and also in gilroy. Heres a look at the visible sat height picture. Notice the blanket of smoke from the fires to our north and the glass fire coming in. It is really creating poor air quality. The shark tank is covered. Unfortunory, now the smoke impacts are going to continue. Take a long at the air quality. It is very unhealthy. If not rosa, concord, livermore, poorary quality from oakland to san jose indicated in orange for a sensitive group. And we do have some pockets of moderate air quality. The smoke forecast will show you what you can expect. The pinks indicate the heavier smoke across our region. So this afternoon, going into really tomorrow night. It will be smoky. Saturday morning, parts of the bay area with the sea breeze coming in may see a slight improvement. But youll have to wait until sunday before the air quality gets a little better than that. It will be poor to under healthy. Monday looks a little better. Gusty still tomorrow night. Look at middle town. 30 at middletown. Its a dry north north westerly wind. We are facing critical fire weather conditions. Upper 50s to mid 70s. It will be pretty warm other than the coast with some patchy fog and haze. Tomorrow afternoon, hot in the south bay. 98 in gilroy. 97 in los gatos. On the peninsula, up in in redwood city. Downtown San Francisco, a little cooler than today. North bay temperatures, 100 in calistoga. Hazy skies in the east bay. People in, fremont. It is going to be steamy inland. Spare the air you this tuesday. Hot and hazy fire danger tomorrow. Cooler for the weekend. Specially the second half and next week, temperatures will level off. Larry and kristen . All right, thank you. From social justice to technology. Former president barack obama talked with silicon valley. Take a look at our camera in San Francisco. You cant see a heck of a loe. We were talking about the smoke and the haze. We are streaming this hive camera if you want to check this out. 24 7. Our new connected tv apple on roku, amazon tv, and others. See if you have better scenery out there than what this shows. The air in business you have to be then do it all over again. 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It will stay open every weekday until election day. The site will be open two weekends ahead of election day. Every registered voter in the state is set to receive a mailin ballot as well. I want to assure voters that they have put much time and thought into making sure voters have the option to cast their vote and the options are safe and secure and everyone has a good experience on election day. Nearly 600 polling places will be open on election day, november 3rd. From elections to sill cone valley, barack obama spoke with a group of develop betters technology and the former president s concerns about the deep divisions in our country. The very thing that bring people together from Little League meetings to others, president obama speaking to a Developers Conference sponsored by the cloud communication coil, said the result is a lack of consensus and agreement on facts that cast a shadow over Critical Issues from covid19 to the election. Right now there is a all vested with similar authority. Everybody wants to believe what they want to believe and it becomes politicized. You have a generation that says we should be living up to our ideals. There are things we were taught by our parents and by our teachers, and maybe our parents and teachers didnt believe everybody was equal. But we did. And well take action to do something about that. Obama noted the proliferation of online sites has created silos that some may get caught in narrow biases, combined with social isolation, that could be dangerous. If you have a bunch of lonely young men sitting in their basements, they are more subject to watching youtube videos and going down some rabbit hole. The next thing you know, they come out and they have a bunch of crazy could not spoorcy theories. Despite problem, he told the online conference that democracy needs voter participation. I continue to believe the instincts of most folks out there are good. We just have to make sure those voices are heard. David louie. Abc7 news. Air quality around the bay getting bad again. Well talk about what it means for your health. A smoky haze is sitting over the bay area. Youre looking at pictures from foster city where you can see a lonely sailboat. I can barely make it out because of how thick haze is there. It doesnt seem to matter what part of bay area youre in. It was almost as bad as being right next to the fires. A look at the Health Concerns as it continues on worsen. Reporter youre looking at a smoky, smoggy san jose. The air quality reading just as bad as it looks. I would say 150 is like living in a house with someone who smokes significantly. I wanted to show you what it looks like for myself with just a little activity. We are walking uphill, a few steps wearing a mask. Already im catching my breath. Huffing and puffing. Even worse for people with medical conditions. Reporter dr. Nelson has asthma and also treats it. She can tell you why she doesnt take chances on a day that looks like this. Several years ago, i made the mistake of running during the 2017 fires. I was incredibly sick for months. Its bad. Especially when youre running up and down. You cant even breathe. A 10 to 20 uptick cynic it started in august and she wants to people to take it seriously. It is somewhere in the 140 to 150 range which is extremely dangerous. I took message to outdoor diners. This is the air quality right now in san jose. Whoa under healthy. I didnt know that. Readjusted. 150 isnt so bad anymore. Reporter for the doctors we talked to, a serious warning. Dont be outside at all if you have a serious condition. Your asthma can worsen. I can get increased mucus in your lungs. You might sme

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