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KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 6pm July 13, 2024

In the scene where some people are being forced to leave the scene. Are evacuation orders still under way. It is an advisory. About 200 home it is out here right now. Were seeing a lot of smoke but were not seeing a lot of flames like we were earlier. Were right off of knoll drive. Were seeing some calfire doing some defensive work. Were seeing a lot of smoke up on that ridge now on the other side of the ridge thats highway interstate 80. So again, we are still seeing a lot of air support come out this way. But we do have boots on the ground now here over at this neighborhood here and around knoll drive again. 200 homes were given an evacuation advisory. The fire is now up to 150 acres. Its being called the american fire. Earlier we spoke with a City Council Member who seeing the flames in his backyard. I think were still a little scared from the napa fire. The fires are still scary. Pretty tough. We did a voluntary advisory evacuation. And i was advising my neighbors to please evacuate. Im glad theres support and help. The latest updates we have to talk to the fire chief. It looks a lot better than it does earlier. This section of knoll drive here is closed off to nonemergency personnel. We are still seeing a lot of boots on the ground out here right now. A lot of defensive fire work. Theres an advisory, an advisory evacuation. We did get work from vallejo firefighters association. Were getting word that the arizona dropped low. They advised people to have any respiratory issues to keep their windows and doors shut tonight. Leigh martinez. Im wondering how close those homes are to where the fire is burning and also you mentioned that over the hill er danger of the fire going down the hill to i80 . Weve seen a lot of drops on the other side of the hill. Thats where we were seeing a lot of focus of all the water drops going on the other side of this ridge here. To show you exactly how close the homes are. Were going to pan over. This is where the firefighters are working the flames come right up to this line right here. And if you just pan over just across the street. S that is where youre seeing all of the home where is the American Canyon City Council Member lives he came out to talk to us. He was concerned about his home and family. He got his family out but he was here monitoring the situation. Right now, were not seeing any active flames we did earlier now its just a lot of smoke. Leigh last hour we mentioned the winds seemed to have picked up. Now it looks fairly calm out there. How is it where you are at this hour . Right now it feels calm but right before we came on air we were getting a lot more of the breeze. So it felt like it was kicking up a lot more. A lot of the smoke came into the street so everyone was just doused in that heavy smoke smell. The winds have picked up. After two 2 00 thats when we started seeing the smoke. Are you getting a sense that theyre getting control of the fire. Do we have any containment numbers. Obviously you say now its more difficult to see the flames which could seem to indicate theyre making Good Progress. I would like to say theyre making Good Progress because were not seeing any active scenes but thats never really the case with fires. I did talk to the pio with fires for napa and they have confirmed that its 150 acres burned. He did not have containment numbers but said theres a lot of air support out here. Were seeing boots on the ground out here as well. Looks like theyre doing a lot of defensive work and weve seen boots going up into the hills. Its a lot of heavy support but we dont have any numbers as to where the containment is. Leigh martinez in American Canyon. Another spare the air alert for tomorrow. I want to show you a live look right now at east toward mount diablo. Tomorrow will be the 19th spare the air day of the season. High winds are expected to create dangerous air in the next week. Pg e says , about 10,000 customers were affected in butte. And not everyone is happy about what pg e is doing here. I understand the winds, fire conditions, fire fuel, pg e infrastructure and maintaining that. Frankly this just sucks. Pg e crews had to inspect roughly 100 miles of power lines to make sure none of them was damaged overnight. Its something that residents say theyll just have to get used to. The power outageses that as they deal with the after effects of the campfire. A second whistle blower has come forward claiming to have firsthand knowledge of President Trumps phone call with the president of ukraine. Molly hennenburg with more tonight. Reporter republicans on capitol hill dont think much of another whistle blower surfacing. Reportedly with some firsthand information about the july 25th phone call between President Trump and the presen ukraine. This person is going to come farred forward and say yeah, the president was on this phone call and thats the transcript. Who cares what his opinion of this transcript is. You and i can read it. Reporter whistle blowers may have information helpful to the impeachment inquiry. Whether they were in the room or have firsthand knowledge people who are in the very core of all of these events are saying this cant happen anymore. Again the president s problem is not with the democrats or with adam schiff. Its about people around him saying we cant tolerate this afternoon. Reporter the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says whistle blowers have every legal right to remain anonymous. One gop member says that americans have the right to hear from the whistle blower. I am going to insist the whistle blower comes under oath so the americans can judge their credibility. Reporter senator graham also says its imperative the house vote on an impeachment inquiry. Theres no requirement again under the constitution, theres no requirement under house rules thats that the procedure we follow. Representative demming says that the latest whistle blower is someone who sees wrong doing, hearing wrong doing and wants to do something about it. In washington, Molly Hennenberg fox news. Theres word there may be more people coming forward. An attorney representing the initial whistle blower tweeted i can confirm my firm and my team represent multiple whistle blowers in connection to the under lining august 12 disclosure to the Intelligence Community inspector general. No further comment at this time. Now the original whistle blower accused President Trump of asking the president of ukraine for a quote favor to investigate joe biden and his son in a phone call. The complaint sparked more members of congress. The president has repeatedly denied he did anything wrong on that phone call to the ukraines president. The subject of impeachment has been the latest topic. Congressman mark dusano joined us earlier today. The pral law says you cannot solicit anything of value from a foreign national. He solicited tens of thousands of dollars of investigation from the president of ukraine. Hes admitted to it. That for me is reason for impeachment and should be reason for genuine concern by people who support him and dont support him. Congressman desalne is hosting another town hall meeting tomorrow from 3 00 in the afternoon until 4 30. It will be held at los modanos College Recital Hall located in pittsburg. Two men walked into the tequila bar and one of them opened fire. Five people were also injured. Police say they do not believe this was an random attack. Investigators are looking into whether the suspects were involved in a fight that broke out at that fight earlier in the evening. We do not believe its random. We do believe this was an isolated eupbs tkept i guess we should call it. We dont feel that these suspects are going to go out and do this again we do believe this is an isolated incident. Two of the five people who were injured have now been released from the hospital. A man charged on a horrible and deadly attack on five homeless men yesterday morning in new york citys china town made his First Court Appearance today. They saw Randy Rodriguez hitting a victim with a metal pipe while they slept. Four of those men were killed. The lone survivor is in Critical Condition. The suspect has been arrested at least six other times in the past three years. Three times on assault charges. Police in newark are investigating a shooting that left a 15yearold boy dead and another 15yearold boy under arrest. That shooting happened around 11 30 last thursday night in a home on bradeburn avenue. They found a 15yearold with a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital where he later died. The suspected shooter who was also a 15yearold boy was also taken into custody. Police say they did find a weapon that was found in the shooting at the scene. And because the victim and the suspect are Minors Police are not releasing their names or any other information about that shooting. In richmond three people are under arrest in connection with a shooting near dianza high school during a Football Game last month. Police say officers arrested a 17yearold boy and recovered a gun at his home that was used in the shooting on september 27th. Officers also arrested two other male juveniles. A 16yearold girl remains in Critical Condition at the hospital while two 17yearolds who were also injure in the shooting have since been released. Coming up details on an explosion at a Southern California oktober fest celebration that left several people injured. Its that time of year. San francisco gearing up for fleet week and the famous air show featuring blue angels. And we had a warm day today. Were going to have a very warm day tomorrow. Then a fire weather watch in your extended forecast. Ill have all the info coming up. Sup. Wh whacha doing . Im watching food. Try my 3 cheddar bacon loaded curly fries. Get em delivered with doordash. Aaddiction. How juuline hooked kids and ignited an try my 3 cheddar bacon loaded curly fries. Public health crisis. Other news outlets report juul took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Markets ecigarettes with kid friendly flavors and uses nicotine to addict them. 5 million kids use ecigarettes. Juul is following big tobaccos playbook. And now, juul is pushing prop c to overturn ecigarette protections. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. Try my 3 steak and parm loaded curly fries. Get em delivered with doordash. A utility pole explosion during an oktoberfest sent several people to the hospital. The village was evacuated. Two firefighters along with two other people were injured. Officials say their injuries are minor. Witnesses identified up two three explosions sending a fire ball into the sky. Edison electric is trying to figure out what caused the that explosion. Hong kong was again taken over by protesters. Thousands of people took to the streets appearing to defy a ban on face masks. Reporter demonstrators taking to the streets of hong kong sunday for the Third Straight day in defiance of a ban on face masks. All this is as a bid was rejected by the high court. The court did agree to expedite the hearing till the end of october. This is a very bad move by a high court because obviously i think they also see that this case raises extremely important constitutional issues. Under the new rule anyone Wearing Masks at protests could face a fine of up to 3,000 and up to a year in prison. Demonstrators say, the risk is worth it. I see you have a face mask on. Yeah, its to protect my face. You dont care youre not going to take that mask off. Yeah z. You dont care what the government says. No its okay, its fine. For the democracy. For democracy. Yes. Though the protest first started peacefully, it later turned violent as police used smoke bombs to disperse the crowd. Despite police making several arrests demonstrations are expected to continue. In hong kong, fox netalk betwee and their Union Workers appear to have taken a turn for the worse. Roughly 48,000gm workers walked off the job on september 16th forcing gm to shut down factories in the United States. Workers are seeking higher pay, greater job security and a bigger share of gms profits. A new term of the Supreme Court is set to begin tomorrow. The justices are expected to take up cases on a variety of hot button issues including immigration, lgbtq rights, gun rights and abortion. Fox news garrett tenny is in washington with a look ahead. Reporter right now there are almost four dozen cases on the Supreme Court dockets for this court and it is filled with hot button issues. One of the most hotly watched cases deals with daca. The high court will decide whether the Trump Administration is set to move ahead to end the obama era administration who were brought to the United States as children. That case is one of several dealing with immigration and executive power and despite a string of set backs from lower courts ruling against the administrations immigration policies, Court Watchers say they believe the high court will rule in their favor. Thaaeufr playing the long game. I think theres those who have made a calculation saying we can absorb all these losses in the lower court because were going to win the end game. When this game gets into the Supreme Court. Another hot issue will be abortion regulations. Khr requires doctors performing which requires doctors performing abortions to have a partnership with near by hospitals. This is come to the thick in the campaign and is expected to be a big issue in 2020. It was a big issue in 2016. Conservative voters say we want tpob able to pick the next justice they really vote that issue. And it will be again, but precisely because its become such an important part of our system. We could see even more hot button issues this term. The high court is expected to take up about two dozen more appeals in those cases could cover issues such as gun control, religious liberty and the environment. In washington im gary tenney. Tonight is the last day of the hardly blue festival. Musical started at 11 00 this morning. Crowds have been pouring into the park for the last three days to catch a wide mix of musical acts. The whole atmosphere here, the park, beautiful golden gate park. We dialed in some amazing weather so that obviously helped. High quality acts of different generas. There was added security for this years hardly strictly Bluegrass Festival following recent mass shootings. There were no significant issue this is year. The event included 83 bands on six stages over three days. Fleet week is under way in san francisco. Activities kicked off today. The blue angels are set is file fliers. The event is expected to draw more than a Million People into the city. Fleet week air shows featuring the blue angels are scheduled for friday, saturday and sunday from 12 00 to 4 00. The best place to take in the air show is from san franciscos marina green. May be a little hard to believe its october. Judging from the weather most parts of the bay area. We want the show you what it looked like today in ocean beach. The sun was out, the weather was warm. It was a perfect day for a trip to the beach. And the warm weather is increasing the fire danger. Were you looking for a nice week and with the blue angels are we going to be able to see them. No rain in the forecast so thats some good news. The only little hitch in our giddy up in our weather some of the were going to have highs today unbelievable here in oakland we got up to 89 degrees. Same story in santa rosa. Up in antioch they made it up to 89. Check out halfmoon bay, where its usually as cool as it can be 81 degrees was their high today. A lot of 80s on the map. This is where were at now. We certainly cool down a bit. 73degrees in san francisco. Were still hanging on to those 80s up in santa rosa. Over in concord about 82 at this hour. 81 down in palo alto. Very warm for october. Taking a look at Storm Tracker 2, we have a few clouds that are rolling in. Were going to see those track in right now. Theyre coming in from south to north just crossing us but shouldnt be too much of anything. It should be nice night. Well have a mild night out there tonight. It shouldnt be very cold for our standards. We have 50s from san mateo to morgan hill heading into the east bay places like concord where itll be 55 degrees overnight. Well stay very warm well above average. 76degree at the coast. A little cooler out there for you. 82 at the bay. Still 90 inland. Well notice that those of you by the bay and those of you by the ocean will start to see a little bit of cooling before everyone else. How much warmer are we than we should be this time of year . Well if youre in santa rosa expecting 90 tomorrow when normal is 80. 77 in san francisco. Normal is 70. You can see everybody about 73 in oak oakland and san jose about 87. We start the week warm. We get a little warmer there. It is wednesday that we have a fire watch beginning because were expecting more wind in our east and north bay hills and then Diablo Mountain range. This is wednesday as you can see all the areas in red will be in that weather watch for fire. Its going to be windy conditions. We have low humidity levels so thats where we get that danger coming in. And as you can see here wednesday at 5 00 a. M. Through 7 00 p. M. We have the north and east bay mountains and hills and you know thats going to be a tough run. So you want to make sure youre looking out for fire weather possible as we get into wednesday and thursday. Were going to cool down as we get into the later part of the week. Head back down into the 80s heading toward the weekend looking nice. Keeping that sunshine with us. Well have a few clouds with the sun tuesday. We just have the watch out for that wednesday thursday. The weather is going to be perfect for fleet week. Itll be fun to hear all about that. Thank you. Sports is coming up next. The San Jose Earthquakes need a win to head into

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