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Officerinvolved shooting just a short distance from this entrance about half a mile from this entrance between this area, saratoga avenue and winchester boulevard. That involved san jose police. Sources tell us a suspect pulled a gun on an officer who was part of a specialized unit, not a patrol unit. One person was shot and killed. No officers were hurt. The chp this afternoon shut down both lanes of southbound highway 85 and that has created a lot of headaches for motorists tonight. It is possible that this section of highway 85 is going to remain closed for hours. Just a few minutes ago the...

Hours ago the evacuation area was up creased. Its in purple. It includes heelsberg and windsor but everyone from ohio 101 to the coast. The total stands at 83,000 people who need to be evacuated fblt cal fire has issued an evacuation warning for the city of santa rosa. Thats a warning. That means peel should be prepared in case officials decide a mandatory evacuation is needed. Its just 11 contained. At least 77 buildings have been destroyed and of course 31 of those have been homes. Power shutoff began at 5 00 for ma rip, napa, sew hanno and sonoma counties. Another will start at 8 00 clook. ...

That reduces the number of customers affected to a half million. And 22 counties including lake, marin, napa, sonoma and solano county. This morning cal fire crews battling the kincade fire are reporting they did not have to deal with the wind as strong as originally forecast in the high wind advisory has been canceled. Officials say that could lead to better than expected containment numbers this morning once they have a chance to analyze the work ground crews were able to do overnight. The last report shows the fire had burned nearly 119 square miles. It is 50 contained, Holding Steady there...

Minutes to get to this point where we could get kind of close to the glow. You can see we are quite a distance away from it as it makes its way up and over this hill. Thats a good thing. Thats good news for the people who live in the surrounding towns. Right now theres a lot of so called mop up work happening throughout the burn area around the kincade fire. And they are using watter to cool anything smoldering. Hand crews are out here too cutting new fire line and clearing brush. All of that to hopefully prevent the red flag winds from blowing the embers up to a half mile ahead of firefighter...

Lets bring rosemary into talk about the winds in that area right now. Of course, we know that the red flag warning and the wind advisory are pretty much bay area why when it comes to north bay, east bay but our focus of being on the north bank because those winds were hitting near 90 Miles Per Hour early this morning but in this area, the winds are gusting between 25 and 50 but take a look at what can occur with that type of wind and right now, the closest reading i can find is in and around martinez, a north breeze at about 22 and you get over closer to the diablo range and the winds are clos...