Wednesday. Im kris sanchez in for laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Back to those wildfires as we continue to push the firefighters continue to push those limits across the bay area this morning. As crews make progress on the north bay wildfires, another one pops up in Santa Cruz Mountains, forcing more evacuations. It is active. Here is where things stand. The socalled bear fire is burning near 5 containment. It is threatening 271 acres, actually, 271 acres are burned, but 150 homes are under threat, under mandatory evacuation orders this morning. That is the area of deer creek and bear creek canyon. This continues to be a very tough fire fight. Five firefighters were hurt while working in very treacherous and steep terrain. The weather could help firefighters with this. We have Team Coverage to get you up to speed. Me meteorologist kari hall kicks off our coverage. Likt winds and higher humidity. That is really going to help out as far as containing those wildfires. As we go throug
Sheriffs office. They tell us this morning that yesterday they did arrest main who they believed looted one of the homes evacuated up there within the fire lines. Cal fire tells us another firefighter has been injured. In spite of that, they are making progress and containing this wildfire. Who was killed monday in napa when his water tender went off the side of the road. Here in the Santa Cruz Mountains, no fatalityings, thankfully, but a sixth firefighter hurt over the night. The fire did not spread last night. Its still at 270 acres. Containment has bumped up from 5 to 10 . A fresh crop of firefighters have moved on to the front lines. Theyre moving to the front lines to relieve the men and women who have been out here no over 24 hours. Cal fire expects to make significant progress today with the fresh legs out there on the lines and another wave of air attacks expected sometime this morning. They do not expect the fire to go beyond deer creek and bear canyon. We want the surroundin
Two political campaigns in berkley. Morningses on two begins right now. Youre looking live, San Francisco Bayview District where crews are cleaning up a big mess following a massive water main break. Water gushed for hours flooding homes and streets. Ktvu Tara Moriarty is live on the screen and in two minutes she will join us with more on the closures, the damage and what may have caused the main to break. Good morning, welcome to mornings on. Im tori campbell. Good morning. Sunshine and hot temperatures today. Coast bay inland and it doesnt matter. Coasts will be hot if not hotter that some areas. In fact, west lake daily city yesterday. 91 degrees and probably the same today. San francisco was 88 but were going 891. Seven 81. Huge, 20degree spread. You dont see that very often but that is what were having today. Higher elevations are in the 70s for some mountains if you get about 1,700 feet. It is okay in washington today. Partly cloudy skies but the leading edge of a front is coming
Camp you cant go into the water. Dry land is fun. We cant get into the water, but we beefed it up with other stuff like survival and fires here sh the issue is high levels of e coli, created by the drought because dead grass is no longer inviting for all of the beasts. Were not watering the lawn. And that is a area where the geese would congregate. Now theyre at beaches so goose feces and low Water Quality is an issue. Anyone ingesting the water could suffer flu like symptoms and skin irritation. No timetable for opening either beach. In oakland, abc7 news. A new slogan is catching on in the south bay. Brown is the new green. Residents being encouraged to embrace lawns that are now brown from lack of water. Were live with more on the rebates available and alternative way to have a green lawn without wasting water. Hi, david. Hi. Look at this perfect green lawn here. Just hours ago it had brown patches as a result of reduced water. Well she how transformation was made. There is an effor
Nobody was hurt. And that the arrests couldnt have been done without the chps help. Police say rafi is now undergoing an evaluation before formally charged. And a sunnyvale man under arrest after a corvette that was driving failed to negotiate a turn from the freeway onramp just after midnight. A passenger, a man in his 40s died after the scene. Hahn was arrested under suspicion of driving under the influence and vehicular homicide. This is the third crash on that stretch of highway in a week. And a threecar crash happening while a man tried to get away from police. Officers tried to pull the driver over near connell road at 7 30 a. M. The suspect took off, smashing his mitsubishi into another car a couple of blocks away. That car then spun around. Two people suffered injuries, police say they found illegal narcotics in the trunk of the suspects car. And a San Francisco State University professor under arrest, accused of taking video of his students using the bathroom during parties at