Transcripts For KTVU The Ten OClock News On KTVU Fox 2 20240

KTVU The Ten OClock News On KTVU Fox 2 July 13, 2024

Structures have been destroyed including 133 homes. Good evening. While the official count of homes lost in the fire has increased so also has the containment and as we mentioned crews have made more progress and reports tonight that the fire is 45 contained and that is a significant increase from 24 hours ago when containment was at 15 . More than 76,000 acres have burned since the fire broke out a week ago. Right now more than 5000 firefighters from across california and other states continue to work to extend containment. Cars screamed into windsor another communities is the widespread Evacuation Order was lifted. City workers in windsor including the mayor greeted returning residents with cheers and welcome home signs and Evacuation Orders were also lifted for geyserville and santa rosa allowing about 100,000 people to return home. We are in downtown windsor. The people who live there on the outskirts of the city they returned home to find a very different scene. Reporter it is homecoming for some and heartache for others. We are seeing relief and appreciation everywhere. There are some signs that say thank you First Responders for protect in our beautiful town. But for some people, the worst fears were confirmed. This was the master bedroom right here. Took home of 30 years high on a ridge now rubble. I did as much as i could do to prevent it but the wind was blowing so hard. Reporter for four days ken Schmidt Peterson used everything he had to clear and soak the property leaving tools for firefighters and the engine never came but the fire did. We came back to get some stuff in the house and the fire was getting close. s reporter this is his video before fleeing and the neighbor caught the house burning. He said you wouldve died if you wouldve stayed there. Reporter he is glad he had time to save cherished possessions and he helped his late father build this home. You still think what you couldve done. Reporter fires hopscotch as they did skipping one house but striking another next door. That is why pulling into driveways and unpacking brings tears. It is so random so we feel blessed and lucky and so fortunate to have the house. Reporter other residents return to clues about close call. The workbench is toast in the fence is gone. Reporter houses scorched but still intact after crews beat backfires that burned through foothill Regional Park and almost did the same to their subdivision. The residents are overwhelmingly grateful. My refrigerator is probably right now but i have that and a home and we are really lucky to have that so i will take the mass to have my house. It is crazy. You know. It is just incredibly an empty feeling. Reporter for this family no house but every intention to rebuild. His mother is 93 years old and wants to come back to her beautiful views the hideaway he and his dad built for her. You just want to go home, you know and you want to go back home and go to bed and it is like a dream. It is unreal. Reporter this property was evacuated, but spared two years ago. He has friends who lost their homes in this fire, but he said nothing can prepare you for this. Unfortunately, more than 100 other households are going to go through the same experience in the days ahead. It is just heartbreaking seeing this people come home. Deborah is in the north bay tonight. Now to janet and coffee park, which was devastated by the tubs fire in 2017, and residents returning home this time are hoping for a sense of normalcy. Reporter absolutely. This is an area where people lost everything in the 2017 fire and people here lost so much. There are still scars an empty lot next to half built homes and for a lot of the people, when they got the Evacuation Order to leave on saturday, it was a big scare and a big relief to come back tonight. On the streets around santa rosas coffee park, signs of life and residents returning after the sheriff lifted the Evacuation Orders that sent people scrambling from that saturday night. No children insight on this empty street lights were on and some homes. One resident began decorating for halloween hoping for a return to normal. If i hang onto how life was before, you go crazy in this is the way it is right now and if the deal with it. Truck she and her sister moved into their rebuilt home on october 4 only to be evacuated again three weeks later for the kincaid fire. Evacuees returning tired and hungry and brought food and supplies to nearby shops which some are open in summer clothes. We got back an hour ago but we have not been around town but our neighborhood is still pretty much empty. Reporter he is grateful his house is Still Standing and his family safe. Two years ago we barely made it out. This time we took precautions. Reporter the mayor is also relieved that the entire city of 60,000 got the all clear to return home on wednesday. It has been great and i have seen a lot of Smiling Faces and it has been a tough week. Reporter he warns everyone will not have power with the shut off. There are some places that dont have power and others like it my house we have power but we had to evacuate. Reporter temperatures are expected to drop into the 30s for the county and red cross has shelters and Warming Centers open. It seems like it has been getting significantly colder every night, so i people need a place to go that is warmer, our shelters are available for that. Truck today the red cross was preparing treats and they plan to hold a Halloween Party at the shelter for the children who are still there. For those who need food, there is a plan to have a food giveaway and the mayor told me tomorrow at Finley Center in santa rosa, they will be giving away food in the afternoon to anybody who might need it and also donations are being accepted in the morning and this is critical for some people who are coming home and finding refrigerators full of spoiled food. Live from coffee park in santa rosa. Fox 2 news. Some pretty chilly temperatures tonight. You mentioned a freeze warning. It is kind of early and usually expect to see those in february and march and here we are with a freeze warning showing up now and the current numbers it is cool with 40s and the cool spots in the north bay running 10 to 18 degrees cooler like in fairfield and it was last night at this time. That freeze warning encompasses north of santa rosa and winds are up in the hills burger temperatures could be 25 or 30 degrees and for folks without power, these are some very very cold overnight lows and something to contend with for everybody in the north bay especially those displaced from their power. As we look at the current temperature forecast we are looking at 27 tomorrow morning in santa rosa and 32 in napa and that will get you some ice on the roads if there is any standing water from the firefighters hoses and 35 and still cooler on the bay but just northbay and the freeze warning in effect through tomorrow morning. Temperatures in santa rosa down into the upper 20s. Pg e said it is now restored power to 196 customers who lost service in the latest round of shutoffs and systemwide more than 168,000 customers remain without power here in the bay area. Most of them and those outages are in the northbay. Utilities say as crews inspect equipment, they are discovering a lot of damage from the wind. Where up to 83 cases of damage. This includes trees falling into lines, broken poles and other hazards, tree branches tangled in the wires that we have been able to remove and make repairs on. And we expect that number to rise. Pg e says it could take hours or days for power to be restored to the remaining customers. An update to a story we first brought you last night. A community of seniors shivering in a cold dark apartment complex during the force blackout now has power once again. We are live again at the Bennett House in fairfax where a lack of electricity revealed some serious risks. Reporter yes, and now tenants are telling me they are grateful and overwhelmed by the outpouring of support. The nonprofit that runs the Apartment Building said it is working to address their safety concerns. Reporter aside from a freezer filled with spoiled food from the power outage, she tells me she is now better prepared. On tuesday night, the 98year old reach out to us and she and dozens of her neighbors at Bennett House, an Apartment Building for seniors and the disabled, went without power since saturday. I knew what i did by making the phone call was the right thing to do. But i didnt know what it would create. Reporter what it did create is an outpouring of support from the county in the community. Donations of food and lanterns and flashlights after our story show the conditions the residents faced. Long dark hallways and disabled folks stranded on the third floor with no power to operate the elevator. A life sentence and for now i know i feel safe and safer today and this afternoon and this evening then i certainly did last night. Reporter the power was restored about 4 00 p. M. According to residents. We caught up with one tenant in the elevator after it was operating again. He tells us the power and the help came in the nick of time because supplies and patients were running low. We celebrated and there were cheers and shouting. Reporter there are now lanterns in the hallways and the president of mercy holding, the nonprofit that runs the Apartment Building said temporary generators are on site. We are doing our best to fix whatever is going on that is not going perfectly. Reporter it has plans to have a permanent generator Strong Enough to power the whole building including the elevator. We are proud of the work we do, but it the end of the day it is not a nursing home. She draws on her experience as a rosie the riveter for what she has received president ial recognition to give her strength to fight for what is right. I feel really good about what i have done. I think a lot of good will come of it. We are just heart warmed. And i think the community. Reporter while there is relief among the residents, they tell me they should have never had to cope with the conditions they faced during this outage. It is nice to see the complex manager taking some steps there. And thank you for coming together for those folks. More followed over the planned pg e outages and the major change that one bay area congressman is now calling for. Conducts 30 security concerns on the fire line is authorities warn of people posing as firefighters and security guards in order to commit additional crimes. What is being done to stop these thieves. A big decision by twitter will change what you see on your timelines. I am Lauren Blanchard in washington with what the social media giant is doing, and why it will play a big role in the 2020 elections. Ne five million kids now using ecigarettes. The fda said juul ignored the law with Misleading Health claims. Now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn San Franciscos ecigarette protections. Say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c. How you watch it does too. Tv just keeps getting better. This is xfinity x1. Featuring the Emmy Awardwinning voice remote. Streaming Services Without changing passwords and input. Live sports with realtime stats and scores. Access to the most 4k content. And your movies and shows to go. The best tv experience is the best tv value. Xfinity x1. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Some horrible is for the warriors. Seth curry broke his hand against a game in phoenix and happened during the Second Quarter the game and curry came down for a layup and a player on the suns fell on his wrist and curry never returned to the game and the sports director will have a whole lot more in this injury and what it means for curry and also what it means for the team coming up later in sports. San francisco fire crews were called to a fire there on the top floor of the haightashbury Apartment Building tonight in the photo posted to twitter shows that building near the corner of oak and masonic in the fire broke out on the third floor and the Fire Department is asking people to avoid the area as they work to mop up the fire and nobody was hurt. Fire crews in Southern California battling a wire fire that broke out near the Reagan National library. The fire exploded just after six clock this morning during an extreme red flag warning with dangerous santa ana wind. Tonight they updated the size of the fire and now burned just under 1500 acres of slightly from this afternoon and at this point the fire is still just 5 contained. It is burning and see me valley north of los angeles and flames as we mentioned came very close to Reagan Library where the former president is very but authorities it was protected by a buffer zone of vegetation management. Is the closest this library has come to this kind of a danger. So this is really serious stuff. We were prepared and we augmented resources and we had incredible robust Quick Response from her neighbors to the south of la city and la county. The easy fire is threatening roughly 7000 homes and that has prompted thousands of people to be evacuated. We learned about two fires possibly started by pg e equipment bringing the total number of fires in the past week to six. The Fire Protection district said this transformer was throwing sparks into the brush on gateway road just before the fire broke out there early sunday morning and threatened homes. Two hours later crews responded to another fire in oakley and force people to evacuate their homes. Fire district said they were investigating and it points to malfunctioning pg e equipment there as well. These are the fifth and six fires linked to pg e equipment in the past seven days. They are also investigating the utilities equipment for sparking the kinkead fire in Sonoma County and two fires in lafayette. Pg e is also looking into whether downed power lines started a fire there. The governor continued his criticism of pg e today as he visited communities affected by the power shut off. The governor stop by a Senior Living community in American Canyon where the lights came back on last night for the first time in four days. Once again, he demanded accountability and says he is well aware of the growing calls by lawmakers and state to take over pg e. For us to take over all the assets means taking over all the liabilities and costs and answer your question, yes, we are gaming out every scenario. The congressman said he is pushing state legislature to move toward public ownership. He calls the outages incompetent and unacceptable. The pg e president and ceo said breaking up pg e wont fix the problems facing the power grid. A white house advisor is on the eve of his congressional testimony and the impeachment probe. National security adviser tim morrison is the latest Administration Official step down. He was listening in on President Trumps phone call with the president of ukraine in july that launched the impeachment investigation. Morrison is scheduled to testify tomorrow morning about the u. S. Withholding military aid to ukraine as well as efforts to get ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son. Former National Security advisor john bolton city wont testify in the impeachment inquiry unless he is subpoenaed. The house committees leading the impeachment investigation today asked bolton to answer questions behind closed doors next week. Tonights attorney said bolton wont testify unless a subpoena is issued. This comes at the house gets ready to vote on an impeachment resolution tomorrow and it would allow the impeachment hearings to be public and also calls for the release of deposition transcripts. This will be the first full house vote on impeachment. A big move today by twitter. The San Franciscobased Company Announced it will eliminate all political ads and worries there could be misleading messages. As we report that announcement came this week. Reporter the ceo of twitter announcing the decision on his platform saying they believe political reach should be earned and not bought. Jack dorsey tweeted that while online ads are effective, that power brings significant risk to politics where it can be used to influence votes to affect the lives of millions. The Trump Campaign is not to please saying this is yet another attempt to silence conservatives since twitter knows President Trump has the most sophisticated Online Program ever known. But twitter ceo said it is not about silencing anyone but rather forwardlooking political ad regulation saying this is not about free expression. This is about paying for reach. Twitter social media rival facebook is not following suit. This has been criticized by some democratic lawmakers. Mark zuckerberg was on capitol hill last week answering questions about how they would protect voters from misinformation online. Are you telling me and i think you said to me before, you plan on doing no back checking on political ads. Chairwoman, our policy is that we dont fact check politicians speech. There will be exceptions for twitters new policy. A Voter Registration ads will still run. The change will go into effect on november 22 meaning all of the 2020 electionyear will be political ad free on your twitter timeline. In washington Lauren Blanchard, fox news. Inmates at a jail in the east bay are on a Hunger Strik

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