I got my animals. I got me and my wife and our child out. Im just worried about our home. Block after block destroyed. 175 buildings gone. Lost in the flames. That doesnt count the human toll. Dont know if its burned or not. Just homing its not. That was everything. I just hope that everybody is okay. Reporter but there will be some relief. Late today the governor issued state of emergency for lake county. Good evening im dan. Amma is off tonight. 1500 homes still at risk of burning down. Fire broke out on saturday evening at this by the town of lower lake. Thats where most of the homes burned in fact. Laura anthony spent the day with evacuee wondering if the homes are still standing. I just hope that everybody is okay. Reporter he hasnt seen his ho3iuz yet but pretty good idea what happened to it. Given it was right in the middle of this. On sunday. All of a sudden at 10 30 sirens started to go off and helicopters and flames and planes and everybody got really serious really quick. Reporter thats why crystal is already focused on the future. I mean as long as the lives are safe and animal. We saw people getting the animals out and everything and Everything Else is repu sable. Reporter they live on winchester street few block from downtown lower lake. Here on one side of the street home after home is gone. Jose and his family moved to winchester just a few months ago. Judging from what you see from here what do you think. Looks like its pretty gone. I think my house is gone, reporter while the planes moved on for now, the conditions here are ripe for more trouble. We have had now 5 years of 5 yourself of drought right so this area is bone dry. Tinder. We have had extreme fire behavior in the last several fires, significant fires in the area. Reporter with the uncertainty comes the waiting for family like this one. Evacuate from lower lake. They and animals are safe. But they have no idea whether house near Anderson Marsh is still standing. From what i heard last it was moving away from Anderson Marsh but wind can change at any point. Reporter its heart break to go see the area go through this again. Im standing in the neighborhood where dozens of homes were lost. Some of the same homes that were spared in the valley fire last year. In lower lake, lawyer anthony abc 7 news. Now this fire has only been burning for about 51 hours. Its already burned through 4000 acres so spread really fast. Firefighters say its only 5 percent contained still. Sergio has a closer look at the fire fight. Some resident try to evacuate but the shifting wind sunday afternoon made it difficult. Had the all started catching and we got trapped in here. Reporter crew put out spot fires where he and coworkers cut off yesterday. He lives near an area where helicopter pilots come to film the water bucket and felt somewhat protected. Its eerie to see the wildfires again. Another year. Another year. Scary last year when south of us. Now its right here. Reporter for those resident who chose not to evacuate its an exhausting 24 hours. But the fire fight continues and we were talking to rest dent mike haas who had a spot fire right behind his house. Once the wind picks up just like right now. We have a breeze and one firing up behind us here. Its all it takes a sweep of a pwrishtionz he sped off on the 4 wheel tore check it out. Within minutes the fire truck pulled up and water bucket hauling helicopters flew in to douse the blaze. Choppers are part of fleet of aerial resources which include massive jets. Use of dump fire retardant on large swavts of land. Clayton fire is speeding on fuel untouched by last year two blazes. Right now the fire is burning up to the rocky scars burn scars from last year. Reporter does that mean its boxed in a bit. Yes. Reporter unfortunately for the town of lower lake, its within that box entered area. There have been about 175 buildings damaged or destroyed among those destroyed unfortunately is this popular restaurant right here in downtown. In lower lake im sergio abc 7. S m. Well of course the weather conditions of the fire line are so critical that sandhya is here and look whats happening in the fire fight. Reporter it is not a good thing obviously. Hot and dry but live doppler 7hd showing you that the smoke that we were seeing earlier in the evening has been dissipating in terms of the intensity of it. Fire obviously still raging and the conditions right now is cooler. 76 degrees relative humidity has come up. Its 31 percent t. Wind right now calm. Thats the only good thing i can tell you is that over the next 24 hours the winds will remain under 10 miles an hour for most of that time period. The only thing is notice the changeh in wind direction from north west to northeast to south east. Thats going to make it tough for the firefighters but hopefully they are prepared for any change in the wind direction and the heat is going to be another battle. It is going to be not only hot but also dry the next couple of days. Not until this weekend that they will finally get some cooler weather in the forecast. Thanks very much. They need it desperately. Several schools will be closed for the rest of the week because of the clayton fire. They include burns valley elementary, east lake elementary, lower lake elementary, cuomo lower lake highway school, lieu center, highway school, lieu center, blue heron school. Highlands academy, Education Center and clear lake Creativity School all closed because of this crisis. Sky 7 hd was over some of the hardest hit areas earlier this evening. Evacuation center have been set up at the Seventh Day Adventist church in lake port as well as Kelseyville High School and twin pine casino in middletown. Evacuee who ran out of the this town to safety are now desperate for information about their homes or their businesses. Really disstrut. I look on the internet every couple minute. Reporter 7 News Reporter amy found a mother and daughter who left the area last night feeling like their home was going to be okay but while amy was there an officer came over with a list of homes still intact on this heavily damaged lake street. Their home was not on the list. So amy and her photography went into the evacuation zone and took a picture and showed the house wm standing. That is good. Thank you. Thank you. Reporter what a great moment that was. There are thousands of evacuee waiting for news about their homes and their man animal. Many not get good news. Firefighters work as quickly as they can. Now stay with us for continue continuing coverage of the clayton fire. On air and on line. We have a resources page on the clayton fire on our web site listed here. You find more information on school closure, Community Meetings and how to donate to fire victims. They need our help. New information tonight in the search for the person; responsible for killing San Francisco line cook stairwell last wednesday as we reported. Tonight for the first time we hear fromw franks girlfriend about what he might have been doing there. Melanie has that story. He was just the best. Reporter in the short time this woman knew frank, the feelings for each other were clear. I think it was the happiest this both of us had been in a really long time. Reporter after what she calls 6 week crush that developed here at son and daughter the duo had started formally dating. Tuesday frank told her he was headed to the mall to buy jeans. I texted him at midnight just telling him that i missed him but i didnt hear back from him after that. Reporter wednesday morning some one found franks body inside the mall emergency exit stairwell. She says she called a police nonemergency line that afternoon en frank didnt show up for work. Detectives interviewed her at sons and daughters but didnt tell her franks body had already been found. The only thing that really can make this right is for t,n person whot caught. Reporter franks brother lewis has been in San Francisco since friday. My whole mission coming up here was to gather information. Reporter he has been inside the stairwell where franks body was found. A lot of graffiti. Doors still propped open and the camera by the exit was spray painted over. What happened inside is what is vital. Nm need to know who was in there. Who was going out. Reporter while its not clear what if any Surveillance Video police have lewis says detectives tell him leads are coming in. In San Francisco, melanie, abc 7 news. San francisco mother of two is still in intensive care tonight with critical injuries. That she suffered after massive tree branch crushed her head and spine. Today the city head arborist personally inspected the 60 trees at Washington Square park looking for potential hazard. 36yearold woman was watching her children at the playground as parents do when 100 pound branch fell ona[ her friday afternoon. Arborist who inspected the pine throw found it was healthy. We have to try to figure fought there was anything unique about the tree. This park has had a lot of tree0c maintenance and assessment and there was assessment done in 08. Updated in 2010zw5. Tree work in 2013. Reporter San Francisconl voters÷o passed bond 20 the citys jn ark. Hundreds ofnk san lara county court ork after 8 day strike. Theyz] demanualed azt pay raise during the negotiations. Details of the final deal not released. Today also the first day of business at the new Family Justice Center for Santa Clara County. The cost of the building was one of the points where those on strike brought up in arguing for pay raises. More to come. Its a busy monday as you can tell. Stay with us. Coming up. The Birthday Party fight that ended in gunfire. Two young men killed. Tonight the friends want answers e. Also the change to cal train that could almost double the number of passengers every day. Summer and living is easy in the bay area. Sandhya is back with the full forecast. Just e art gallery closing in downtown oakloeft hosted one final party this past weekend. Andfn it ended badly. N in gunfire. Two people died and another person wounded by the shooting . Outside crying Gallery Blocks away from city hall. Reporter friends say the deadly shooting that killed 22yearold terence mcreary and 20yearold Craig Fletcher cook started when some one grabbed fletcher cooks girlfriend. Tried to protect her and right as it happened some other guy punched him in the facei he fell to the ground and bunch of guys jumped on him. Reporter then gunshots. Happened around 1 00 a. M. Suchbilityd men were at block party to mark the closing of prime Development Gallery in downtown oakland. Im tired of seeing memorial all over the place. This time its once again for somebody i know. Reporter loved ones left flowers and candles at the intersection of 15th and webster. Both men live in oakland and graduate from Berkeley High school. Fletcher cook played football q and rugbyf nz friends remember him for hiw positive attitude. R we are trying tou get to the bottom of this because this stuffs cant happen any more. You have to know what is going none our community and our world. You know. A lot of people are losing their lives every day for nothing. Reporter nearby Business Owner called Police Last Week to try and p hand. Its noti the incidents that just happen in one night. You know. Its just i feel like the feeling onuc the block is just over a matter of most it escalated to this. Its a tragedy. Reporter police m it with mourners. They are asking any one with information to speak up. This is abc 7 news. The gun club here announced today that its shutting down next month after more than 50 years in business. Club poured of director voted to close the doors on labor day to close the doors on labor day. September 5th. The range face pressure from environmentalistqand the Park District which said ammunition was polluting the soil and water at the regional park. Range is popular with recreational sport shooters and also Law Enforcement who train at the range. All right. We talked about conditions on the fire lines in california. Now lets go back and talk with sandhya about what we can expect around the bay area the next few days. Yes. We are basically going to be dealing with some hotter conditions over the next couple days. Look at live doppler 7hd. Heres a time lapse. This is why its not hot everywhere. Thinks from the east bay hills camera. Look at the marine layer coming in. Just allowed to us cool off every day. Everyone was actually lowered today. But that is going to reverse. So the low clouds fog stick around near the beaches keeping you cool but not the case inland. That is where you are not going to feel the influence of the marine layer and thats why its going to get hotter. We see where the low clouds and fog are sitting right nearb the coast and already pushing over the bay. Our camera at pier 15 giving awe view of your 9undinw5c8nnr morning commute. Its going . G to be murky. Its in the low 60s oakland Mountain View san joseog 65 still and a Half Moon Bay 55 degrees. Check out the view from the emeryville the port of oakland and its hard to see out there in spots so be careful allow8o the extra time for the morning commute. 55 in santa rosa currently 60 in nap a. Mid 50s in petaluma. Still pretty mild. Concord livermore upper 60s to the low 70s. And heres a live look from the kgo camera. Tree not really blowing much so we dont have much of a strong breeze tonight much of a strong breeze tonight. Foggy at the coast and bay lackingi at spotty drizzle tomorrow morning. Warmer afternoon the next few day was a cooler pattern setting up by the weekend but until then hang in there because it is going to get hot inland. Temperatures tomorrow morning starting out in the low to mid 50sg along the coast line most parts of the bay inland areas you are in the mid upper 50s. The fog as you look at the hour by hour forecast will be sitting right near the beaches and along the bayshore line as well. So tomorrow morning commute will include the fog at 5 00 a. M. A. M. At 8 00 a. M. Notice the fog is still sitting right around the bayshore line into the north bay along the coast line so tomorrow morning as you get the kids ready and taking them off to school you will need to watch out for the low visibility. Afternoon well feature plenty of sun except near the beachese look for your tuesday. In the south bay we start out 90 degree ins gilroy. Morgan hill, 81 santa clara 83 santa fe. 72 santa cruz. On the peninsula low to mid 70s from san mateo to redwood city. Coast line 59 in pacifica and foggy a. You are idea to that by now. Downtown San Francisco 65 degrees. Gets you into the north bay. 79 in san rafael. Mid 80s around santa rosa. 82 nap a. 77 in vallejo. Nice day east bay not too hot not too cold. 73 oakland hercules. 78 in fremont. Inland spots this is where it is going to get hot. Now today we have low 90s. We bump you up into the mid to upper 90s. 95 in santa antioch. 94 fairfield. 92 concord. 90 in san ramone. Look at the accuweather 7 day forecast mid to upper 90s inland. So thats where it is really hot. Along the coast line low 60s around the bay its comfortable around the bay its comfortable. The heat does ease a bit on thursday and you will notice the cooler afternoon on friday only in the low 90s. We keep that going for saturday we keep that going for saturday. But by sunday and monday warmest spots in the 80s and i know dan loves the 80s right dan not talking about the music either. Music and the temperature actually. Thanks sandhya very good. Still to come here on 7 news at 9 00. It was the first day of school in San Francisco. The kids were there. And so was you dont let anything keep you sidelined. Thats why you drink ensure. With 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. For th e strength and energy to get back to doing. What you love. Ensure. Always be you. I dont want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. Or wonder whether i should seek treatment. I am ready. Because today theres harvoni. A revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Harvoni is proven to cure up to 99 of patients. Whove had no prior treatment. 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Other forms of sleep related death more likely. Penn state researchers recorded the parents of more than 160 babies and say they are alarmed by what they saw. Pediatrician say babies should be put to sleep on their back and parents should not share a bed with their babies. Well it is the first takeoff school for a lot of Bay Area School drichblingts we were at Bryant Elementary School in San FranciscoMission District as students and their parents gather before class this morning. Very exciting. Mayor ed lee special appearance in some class rooms today. I want to say thank you to for inviting me as your mayor to talk with you so i have about an hour and a half presentation i want to give you about the budget. No . Not interested. Reporter in that wouldnt be boring forth kids. Joining the may