[ding] what's for dinner?!! stouffer's. an inferno moving so quickly across northern california it burned the size of nearly 50 football fields per minute, and just one man is accused of lighting it. the desperate warnings for people

to evacuate as flames rip through homes. >> i can't make any promise or guarantee that we can get up there to save your life. >> what a group of women saw just before the flames erupted. >> he was also just slurring his words. >> nobody can seem to agree on how to handle california's homeless encampments. what a new sweeping order from the governor's office means for homeless people here in the bay. >> we've got nowhere to go. i mean, i'm trying to get my life together. plus, why a car accident probably saved this east bay woman's life. >> this jerk, why the heck did he are to hit me, right? but maybe now i have to thank him. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> good evening, i'm juliette goodrich in for sara tonight. right now we are following a northern california wildfire that's burned an area larger than the size of atlanta just since yesterday. during last night's 11:00 newscast, the fire had burned about 6,000

acres. 24 hours later, it's almost torched 125,000 acres in butte and another county. a man has been arrested for arson. . look at the intensity. a photographer caught the moment a propane tank exploded in the flames in one butte county neighborhood and booms from the gas line repeatedly catching fire. this is the largest wildfire california has seen so far this year. so the fire broke out yesterday afternoon, east of chico, in upper bidwell park, a few miles from paradise a town that is still rebuilding six years after being decimated by the camp fire. residents are being told to prepare to

possibly evacuate again. the park fire is also the state's largest since the caldor fire. that blaze broke out three years ago, burning more than 220,000 acres across three counties. so this evening we've been watching chopper feeds of the flames jumping highways and closing in on homes in butte county while tankers make constant drops. in fact, at one point the fire grew so fast it was consuming the equivalent of nearly 50 football fields a minute on average. another challenge, the flames are torching inaccessible areas that haven't burned in years. madisen keavy has the latest on the fire fight and arson arrest. plus what witnesses saw the moment the fire sparked up. >> reporter: fast moving fire wrapping home, cars, anything in its path in flames. we were in the fire footprint on thursday afternoon near chico. this is the scene, an active

one, begin, in cohassett, where this rural community is being impacted so deeply and so fast. an arrest on suspicion of arson made within a day of the fire starting. the quick response with help from eyewitnesss who saw it all play out. >> and then i saw smoke come up from underneath the car, and i was like, oh my god, like i think it's catching on fire. so we were like watching it, and then i see flames. >> reporter: the man arrested, 42-year-old ronnie stout ii. witnesses say they saw him push a burning car into a gully, spreading flames that caused the park fire. >> his wheels were spinning and stuff. >> reporter: a chico local said she saw the car, found burned out later, driving recklessly and believes it got stuck after a spin out. >> he was kind of slow. he got out, but he definitely, like, went back in and then came back out. and then like looked at it

and turned around and walked in the middle of the road standing like this. >> reporter: what started small has grown into the state's largest wildfire this year by far. a massive plume of smoke hangs in the air. on the ground, crews work to save tight knit communities. >> i had no idea anything like this was going to happen. it's really overwhelming to kind of think it did and be the person to witness it start and like all this devastation. >> reporter: processing how quickly things changed and what it means for the future of these hills. >> and we want to protect it. i didn't know we were going to protect it in this way or attempt to protect it in this way, but i'm honored to do that. >> so as for the man that's accused of starting the fire, tonight a group of women claim they encountered him before the flames broke out. they say they were swimming when a man in his 40s approached them and something seemed off. >> he was also just slurring his words. >> so they say he made strange

remarks toward them and seemed under the influence, and he finally left when a bystander came up and they asked for help. >> people are saying you saw him run away. we saw how he acted before. it was ten, literally the fire started ten minutes after he left. there's the fire truck and on both sides of the road it's flames engulfing around the truck. >> they say they didn't connect the dots at first but recognized him from a picture floating around social media and then contacted police. there's also been an arrest in connection with a 50-acre fire in sonoma county. so this is the aftermath in geyserville. the flora fire, it broke out yesterday just before 5:00 p.m. crews were able to get a handle on the flames within a couple of hours. a man is accused of driving his truck with a missing tire for over four mile, creating spark, which led to the fire. we are learning more about another fire that's popped up in just the past couple of hours. it's burning about 100

acres near altamont pass, impacting interstate 580 t this hour. three westbound lanes are shut down after a car fire spread to a hillside. no estimate on when the lanes could re-open, so the eastbound lanes are not affected that the time. we will continue to keep a check on it. so there's been a years long tug of war with court battles over how to handle home eless encampments across the bay area. now in a sweeping executive order, governor newsom ordered state agency to start urgently clearing encampments on state land. there are roughly 180,000 homeless people in california, which is about one-third of the nation's homeless population. our kelsi thorud spoke to one of them, a man who has spent years in an encampment along the san jose creek. he told her he has nowhere else to go. >> reporter: he has lived in this encampment in san jose for a long time. >> we've been here on this

creek for over 17 years. i mean, there was a guy who was here for 27 years. and he just barely got housing taken away. >> reporter: he told me he struggled to get housing because of his criminal record. he just recently got a job but says it would take a lot to be able to save up enough to afford a place. >> i'm actually getting some all right money. not enough to really like support myself completely, but at least i can, you know, maybe i could afford a tiny home or something or something. >> reporter: ahmed says many of the people he lives with in the encampment are in similar situations. that's why when he learned the governor ordered state agencies to begin sweeping encampment, he couldn't believe it. >> i'm working right now, and i'm trying to keep it that way. but if i've got to move around constantly, i'm not going to be able to keep my job. >> reporter: the governor's order calls on state agencies to prioritize removing encampments on state land, giving the folks who live there 48 to 72 hours to leave. it also give asset of guidelines on how cities can do the same

on their own property. in a statement, san jose's mayor said in part, quote, we're eager to work with the state to responsibly and quickly remove encampments from state property in san jose, especially those adjacent to neighborhoods and in dangerous areas along our freeways and on and off-ramps. local advocate shawna cartwright is furious. she believes the governor is using homeless people for his own political gain. >> he thinks that getting unhoused people off the streets will clean things up, but instead, all these -- you know, so many people out here are going to die. >> reporter: cartwright says she's worried that with this executive order the unhoused will be forced to move farther and farther out, leaving them with fewer and fewer resources. ahmed told me for now he's just going to keep on living how he has been. if the time comes when he's kicked out, he'll move. he just wishes there was somewhere better for him to go.

>> i'm trying to get my life together, and this is going to hurt me a lot. >> mayor london breed's office says the city has been doing what the governor is calling for. she posted these pictures online saying this is how one encampment looked before and after it was cleared yesterday. an injunction had previously limited the city's ability to sweep homeless encampments, but that injunction will officially be lifted next week, which means the city will have more power to clear encampments, and even cite people in extreme cases. >> we will be using law enforcement to cite and those citations can get progressive and they could lead to a misdemeanor if people refuse services. we have to introduce some level of accountability. >> a major ruling. companies like uber, lyft, and doordash can classify drivers as contractors in our state rather than employees this. upholds the ballot measure that passed in november of 2020, prop 22.

so prop 22 reclassified app-based drivers as independent contractors rather than employees who would be legally entitled to benefits. the argument centered on whether voters have the same power as the legislature to regulate terms of employment. the legislature still has power to enact laws on worker's compensation. all right, on to the niners. the niners first preseason game is in less than three week, and today thousands of fans, they got their up-close look at the 2024 squad at open practice today at the team's santa clara facility. one of those guys keeping an eye on them, matt lively, what are we looking at? good team? >> sit the best part of the year. people ask me all the time, to veterans care about training camp, and if there's any misconception over whether or not the niners are eager to take the field and get to work coming off last year's super bowl loss, well, i want you to just listen to george kittle. >> they're like, all right,

football. we're feeling good. i'm excited. >> yeah, nobody loves training camp more than kittle now in his eighth season. but it's not all fun and games in santa clara over the next few weeks as they work to get ready for the regular season. >> it's brutal. i'll be honest, you know, just complete honesty. it's brutal. you know in order to get to where you want to go, this part has got to suck. that's point-blank period. it's got to hurt, it's got to suck. if it doesn't, you're not doing it right. especially the way we do it here with the 49ers. it's got to be physical. you're going to be fired. >> fred warner is motivated, that's for sure. they're going to get a day off on sunday, and then less than two weeks before their first preseason game in nashville, which you can watch right here, jules, on kpix. >> yeah, they're honest, though. they're like, hey, it's brutal. >> yeah, it's hot. it's brutal, they've been drinking and having fun all off-season. then it's like, run laps. >> all right, matt, thank you. still ahead, people taking stock of devastation from a monster wildfire. plus, this bay area woman

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home, and we've been working on it a lot lately, fixing it up, and it's just -- we're at the verge of maybe losing all that. >> just bringing back memories of when we were driving down the first camp fire and it was really scary. and then i looked back and it's just right there. >> right there. >> and that happened again today. >> fire crews have had a tough night ahead of them trying to bolster containment lines to stop the flames from spreading even more out of control. so when we take a look at the conditions there, you were talking about a red flag warning in that area. >> still in efect until 11:00 tomorrow night because conditions are still going to be hot and dry. >> right. >> and breezy. especially during the overnight hours when the wind in that part of california tends to pick up. let's start with the conditions around the park fire in northern california, and then we'll get into what's going to be changing in our weather around the bay area. there is that red flag warning, just kind of center around chico and the park fire. that red area is where we're talking about the red flag

warning being in effect. the winds have been gusting up to or even above 30 miles per hour over the past couple hours. humidity levels during the daylight hours are down to as low as 10% tomorrow. the smoke being produced has been substantial. the fire has grown by leaps and bounds. all that smoke has been blowing off to the east. it has been creating its own weter, essentially. even a fire tornado associated with it at one point this evening. that smoke, while it's blowing to the east by now, it's going to cover more of northern california over the next couple days. we can simulate that with futurecast. for the moment the winds are pushing that smoke to the east. as those mid level winds in the atmosphere, which direct the smoke plume, weaken a bit, it's going to spread in every direction. the bulk of the smoke is going to stay to the north of the bay area. close by the time saturday evening rolls around, something we'll be tracking through the weekend. right now tracking cooler temperatures as we head into the workweek tomorrow. temperatures anywhere from 57 degrees in santa rosa and 58 in the city to 76 degrees now in

concord backing down from a high temperature of 98 degrees earlier this evening. the fog is just barely visible in the distance behind the buildings downtown, but that fog is more widespread. let's track that on our floor map here. the fog is going to make a push away from the coast. it hasn't been very widespread at all for the past couple of nights. now with the weight of the atmosphere starting to relax a little bit, the heat dome moving away, that marine layer getting deeper. having a better chance to push farther across the bay. not too much of an intrusion yet tomorrow morning, but a little bit of fog would help to put the brakes on the warm-up that will kick in once the sun comes up. let's talk about where our temperatures will be by early tomorrow morning. mostly in the 50s. a lot of 60s on the map the past couple of mornings. 61 in san jose. upper 50s for los gatos and morgan hill. a mix of upper 50s and low 60s inland in the east bay, but these numbers are closer to normal for this time of year. not the unusually warm nighttime temperatures we've had most of the week so far. a few spots dipping down

to around 50 degrees in the north bay valleys. 50 exactly in santa rosa. 48 degrees early tomorrow morning in petaluma. so a cooler start means the atmosphere has a little more work to do to get temperatures to warm up. we will still warm up. we'll just end up about two to six degrees below normal for a change. that's a nice break for especially everybody east of the oakland hills. right around 80 degrees in san jose. mostly 70s for the north bay. mostly 60s around the bay and barely touching 60 degrees right along the coast. if you're heading up to sacramento this weekend efor the last weekend of the california state fair, temperatures are going to be dropping there as well. they've been at or above 100 degrees so much in the month of july, but a nice break in the 80s in sacramento both saturday and sunday. if you're staying closer to home and checking out the san francisco marathon and half marathon sunday morning, lot of clouds, temperatures in the 50s, actually comfortable running weather all things considered. the weather could be a whole lot worse for that,

for sprinting 26 miles. temperatures stay below average for the weekend, closer to normal by monday and tuesday. that slow warm-up sends inland temperatures to around 90 degrees by next wednesday and thursday. so a warm even hot but not out of control hot end of july and start to august a week from today. temperatures around the bay spend the few days in the 60s through the weekend and then back up into the low to mid-70s. nobody changes temperaturewise along the coast. the fog is going to be back. gray skies overhead for most of the weekend and most of next week. no sky july back into foggest weather. >> paul, thank you. for one east bay mother, getting into a car accident probably saved her life. kevin ko reports, her story is part of a puzzle that her doctor has been trying to solve in hopes of saving other women just like

her. >> reporter: fremont mom maria christina delgado's life took a terrifying turn when she got in her car. >> dropped off my kids with her friends. >> reporter: she got rear ended, went in for a routine checkup post accident, and doctors found a lung nodule that wasn't there before. >> i would have never known. >> reporter: it turned out maria, an active filipino woman who doesn't smoke or drink, had lung cancer. >> i was shocked when i got the news from the doctor that it was, in fact, cancer. no idea. was it my diet? was it my environment? thinking about my family. thinking about my kids. that made me want to get through it. >> reporter: maria laid in the hospital keeping herself optimistic by sending videos like this from her bed to the people she loves. three incisions in her lung and one surgery later, she's walking today cancer free. cancer she would have never known about if she was never in a car

accident. >> i consider myself lucky. i consider myself blessed from at first i was mad at that guy. this jerk, why the heck did he have to hit me, right? but maybe now i have to thank him. i have his cellphone number, maybe i'll say, thank you for hitting me, now you save my life. >> reporter: of course, there's the surgeon who did save her life. >> hi. >> reporter: maria is seeing her surgeon for the first time since her operation, remembering the first conversation she had with dr. jeffrey. >> this is your situation, this is what i'm studying. it's exactly you. and this is what i'm going to do. >> reporter: the doctor regularly removes cancers from the chest, mostly lungs, and he noticed something about seven years ago. >> about 2017 is when i started getting young asian patients that were my colleagues, that were my friends, that were found to have lung cancer. 30-year-olds. we looked at all of our northern california data at kaiser, and we found all

lung cancer in everybody, all race ethnicity, is decreasing dramatically except asian women nonsmokers. >> reporter: the reason for this disparity in nonsmoking asian women is still unclear, but the doctor says his early research shows the howest risk fashg or the for nonsmoking asian women could be a family history of lung cancer, but lung cancer screenings nationwide require patients to be more than 50 years old and have an extensive smoking history. >> right now if you go into your primary care provider and said i'm asian, i'm 50, i don't smoke, i have a family history of lung cancer, your primary care doctor would be like, what? you're not covered for that. >> we need to be doing something more than saying, hey, look, it's increasing. what do we do about it? >> reporter: that's why he's pushing for changes in screening regulations. he says most nonsmoking asian women don't find out they have lung cancer until its in its late stages, lessening the eectoiveness of treatment. >> we caught it incidentally

because fortunately or unfortunately, she got that car accident. in her case we were really, really lucky. and i love that, but what we're seeing the majority of the time and based on what i see clinically and based on the research is that most women, asian women nonsmoker, are not caught. because they don't get in a car accident or don't get a routine imaging. so they're caught way too late. it just feels right that jim harbaugh is back in the nfl, and it didn't take him long to have the quote of training camp. plus, probably a good things that the giants are done with the dodger this is season. another rough loss

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all right, up top we were talking football, but we got to finish things first things first. we got to go to baseball. >> this is still baseball season. the giants and the dodgers, they wrapped up their season series earlier today. i think it's a good thing they're not going to face l.a. again over the final two months. you got three-time cy young winner, l.a.'s clayton kershaw making his season debut. trying to be robbie rayesque. top three, san francisco up 2-1 with two on. kershaw strikes him out. giants were punched out 16 times in the game. now 4-2 dodgers in

the eighth. jorge soler brings home michael conforto is and the game is tied. nick ahmed, released by san francisco earlier this month, signed with l.a. yesterday, he takes tyler rogers deep to put the dodgers back on top. ahmed had just one home run all season with the giants, and then on the very nix pitch, yeah, his name is shohei ohtani and he does this often, his national league-leading 31st homer of the year. he leads the nl there. dodgers won 6-4. they take 3 of 4 in the series. giants finish the road trip 2-5. a's in anaheim. check out the teamwork to make the catch on the foul ball of oakland's lawrence butler. he continues to be on a tear in july. hits his ninth home run of the month. two-run shot in the fountains. a's won 6-5. they're 7-3 in their last ten games. won't be miller time in

oakland for a while. the a's all-star closer placed on the injured list with a broken pinky in his nonpitching hand. reportedly he pounded a table in the club house following monday's game. silver lining, that means the a's can't trade him before the trade deadline on july 30th. padres starter dylan cease had a day to remember in washington, d.c. >> abrams to right field. johnson coming in. he makes the catch. no hits for the nats. dylan cease throws a no-hitter. >> oh, the great don on the call. second no hitter in padres history. san diego swept the nationals. they're looking good. jim harbaugh back in the nfl in his first year with the l.a. chargers. as you might expect, harbaugh brought enthusiasm unknown to mankind. i'm so excited to read this i can't even speak. and this is what he said when he was asked about the start of training camp. >> feels like being born. feels like coming out of the womb,

you know. it's like you're in there and it's comfortable and it's safe and now you're out. you're born, the lights are on. you know, it's bright. got chaos, people looking at you, people talking at you, and just feels good to have it happen. >> jules, you're a mother, do you think your kids feel -- >> wrap it up. i would be like -- >> i know, not your cup of tea from the head coach. >> it was interesting, but you know, yeah. >> they miss him in these parts. >> they do. i was like, where's the khakis, where's the outfit. >> that's what everybody said, where are the khakis

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olympians are obviously some of the most dedicated athletes in the world. we wouldn't know. and it would be fair to say that many of them have given up a lot to follow their dreams and compete. and for australian field hockey player matt dawson, an injury left his olympic dreams hanging in the balance. so he chose to give up something he can never get back, his finger. just two weeks before the paris games were set to begin, he was hit. a hockey actually stuck during a practice match. it left the top of his ring finger almost completely severed. he had two options, get rekrufktive surgery and rest up for six months, or removed the damaged part of the finger so he could compete. so that is what he chose. because he's an olympian. when you hear his story, it's hard not to think about the niners legend. were you thinking about that? >> yep. >> he was thinking about ronnie lott, the hall of famer. after the 1985 season he had the tip

of his left pinky finger amputated after being crushed on the field. years later lott says he does regret not having it fixed. >> hmm. >> interesting. after all of his success he regrets these moments. >> it's just, i mean, you know. >> it's just a finger. >> it's the little piggy. >> when you're trying to type on your laptop at home now when he thinks -- >> you're texting, you do your index finger. >> it's gold medal or bust for this guy at this point though, right? >> no kidding. oh, absolutely. >> they better not lose their first game. >> he's like -- >> i gave part of myself. >> true. >> literally. >> thanks for watching, the late show with stephen colbert is up next. the ne >> a bizarre internet rumor is spreading online that trump's vp pick, j.d. vance, had sex with couch cushions when he