Result of arson fires. And coronavirus takes out the countrys Oldest Department store chain. Liquidation sale signs could be seen on lord taylor locations yesterday. The nearly 200yearold Company Announcing its declared bankruptcy. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 3rd. Thank you for joining us. Hope you had a good weekend. Lots of news to get to. Were beginning this half hour with the possible hurricane heading for landfall in North Carolina. Residents and President Trump has already approved a disaster declaration for parts of the state. Isaias is a Strong Tropical Storm and heading northnorthwest. Before its done it will bring as much as six inches of rain to North Carolina. Reporter josh chapin is there. Reporter beachgoers raving about the weekends weather even as a storm threatens this beach town again. For Tropical Storms, we have to look at the totality of impacts. Reporter New Hanover County Emergency Management is not yet calling for evacuations. For ea
The interstate transport of marijuana. In october, 2016 two men were killed and one woman shot in the face in sebastopol after a crew from philadelphia allegedly killed them over pot. The suspects in that case, Robert Randolph and maria lebron from philly, still have murder warrants out for their arrest. Its cases like these leaving Sonoma County in a legal lurch. We are investing any marijuana robbery, any Home Invasion type stuff that occurs in Sonoma County. Well follow where it takes us, but were not routinely worried about interstate commerce because thats more of a federal issue. Reporter at least until theres a standard federal law or similar state laws in place nationwide about marijuana. Its up for each state to decide, but you got to think that if marijuana was legal in every state, it would drive the prices down. The commodity would be up and it wouldnt be such a valuable commodity for the black market. Reporter in Sonoma County, andria borba, kpix5. Again. They are still lo
Some evacuees are finally getting some good news. This santa cruz wildfire is a monster. Tonight some evacuees are finally getting some good news. Here is the latest. The loma fire has burned nearly 3000 acres. It is 22 contained. We spoke with neighbors who are watching and waiting. It is nerveracking. Reporter he is closely watching the fire. He stayed home while most of his neighbors were evacuated. The flames are close. Tonight will be the night that determines whether i have a him tomorrow. Reporter sheriff officials told evacuees in some areas they could go back to their home. The area where evacuees are being allowed back in is remote. You can see one home on a hilltop painted red. A surge of air power help firefighters tame the flames. We are making progress. Reporter helicopter airdrops rain from above. It feels like we are out of the woods. If the weather continues to cooperate and the relative humidity was higher. Anything can happen overnight. I pray for the men who are out
Challenge. The wind. So far, this fire has burned 2,865 acres. It is now 22 contained. Its destroyed one home and six outbuildings but the number will go up and the fire continues to threaten more than 300 homes. As far as evacuations, as you mentioned, some of them have been lifted. They remain in Santa Clara County but they were just lifted in Santa Cruz County. But even with a bit of good news like that, firefighters and even some homeowners know that they are not out of the woods yet. I know theres still a lot of work to do. I think if the weather continues to cooperate, we have a little bit lower temperature today, relative humidity was a little bit higher, well continue to make progress. Anything could spark up overnight. It happens every time. Reporter too early to call this fire out . Thats right. Reporter and as you remember, this fire doubled in size on tuesday but firefighters were able to make some progress yesterday with those cooler temperatures. They do believe that they
Some evacuees are finally getting some good news. This santa cruz wildfire is a monster. Tonight some evacuees are finally getting some good news. Here is the latest. The loma fire has burned nearly 3000 acres. It is 22 contained. We spoke with neighbors who are watching and waiting. It is nerveracking. Reporter he is closely watching the fire. He stayed home while most of his neighbors were evacuated. The flames are close. Tonight will be the night that determines whether i have a him tomorrow. Reporter sheriff officials told evacuees in some areas they could go back to their home. The area where evacuees are being allowed back in is remote. You can see one home on a hilltop painted red. A surge of air power help firefighters tame the flames. We are making progress. Reporter helicopter airdrops rain from above. It feels like we are out of the woods. If the weather continues to cooperate and the relative humidity was higher. Anything can happen overnight. I pray for the men who are out