>> fire emergency in california. the state's largest fire is chasing i'm from interior homes tonight. we want get to right to our developing news on the lake county wildfire. the rocky fire is burning 45 miles north of santa rosa, growing to 35 square miles five percent contained. flames destroyed three structures and the fire is threatening hundreds of homes tonight. emergency officials have issued another round of evacuation orders.

cornell bernard is live in lake county. >> reporter: it's a really nervous time for everyone, and the fire has moved north. you can see the smoke behind me. new evacuation orders have been issued for the golden eagle housing development. and all areas east of the cash creek recreationaway along highway 20. that's several miles from where we are now where the fire has scorched everything in sight. >> just keeping a eye and see when we can get back in there and give is the okay. >> he is waiting to go home his family has been living in this rv in the parking lot of david's feed store. hay bales are covered, protected from falling emberes. self dogs and eight, and a miniature horse are here, too. firefighters told the family to leave their home as the rocky fire grew more intense. luckily his house survived. >> been a scary time for you guys. >> absolutely. >> just don't know -- how the

winds change. >> reporter: more than 1500 firefighters from across the west are battling the fire across unforgiving, steep, rugged hillsides. as the fire marches north the weather is helping. >> we don't have those high winds out of the north. humidities are starting to come up and temperatures coming down. >> reporter: the death of firefighter david ruhl is a grim reminder how dangerous the job can be. >> unfortunately there's tragic occurrences that do occur around the country, and we constantly push safety. safety all the time. >> reporter: the red cross evacuation shelter at middle town high school is open with room for more. >> we're expecting a possibility of more if the evacuations in clear lake become mandatory. so we have ramped up the shelter to accommodate 100 people. >> reporter: locals and evacuees sending a very big thank you to firefighters for all they've

done, but to keep in mine, 6100 structures remain threatened by the fire. evacuees are hoping the weather does cooperate and firefighters can finally get the upper hand on this blaze. we're live in lake county, abc7 news. >> thank you. and more now on the fire -- firefighterrer who died. officials say david ruhl was killed while exploring ways to attack the fire when erattic winds stoked the flames and he became trapped. he was from south dakota and has been assigned in california. ruhl was helping battling a wildfire in the modoc national forest. around the state, 21 large fires most of them in northern california, are pushing 7,000 firefighters to their him as they battle flames amid drought. firefighters are reporting good progress on this fire, burning in napa and solano counties near lake berryessa. it charged 126 scare miles since

started july 22nd. it's 29% contained. another fire ignitedded yesterday in trinity county west of redding. this fire is five percent constrained has forced evacuations. crews are keeping a close eye on the forecast because of the familiar for lightning in the area today. we want to stick with weather now. cooler on the fire linessed today compared to yesterday but firefighters still facing weather challenges. drew tuma has the latest on the conditions. >> and we saw that active southwest wind pushing the lake county fire to the north. so the temperature right now is a very warm 95 degrees. relative humidity is low at 22%. the winds right now out of the south southwest at eight miles-per-hour and dusting to 15. future weather takes you through lake county over the next 12 hours or so. tomorrow morning, good news. by 6:00, the winds are going to

calm down. but in the late afternoon hours and early evening, the winds are going to pick up between 10 and 15 miles-per-hour out of the southwest. unfortunately, that onshore breeze is giving us relative cool temperatures in the 70s and 80s and this cooling trend continue ford the second half of the weekend. we'll talk about sunday with the full accuweather seven-day forecast in just a few. >> a major bart shutdown in effect while crews work on track maintenance. there's no transbay tube service this way but bart ranked to keep things moving. sergio is live. >> reporter: to make sure that passengers are able to navigate their way from the market street train here to the transbay terminal they have dispatched a small army of people in fluorescent vests which you can't see through the big group of people are walking to the

temporary trapsbay terminal. some of the works have been here since this morning to help direct passengers to the dropoff and loading opinions for the shuttle buses. they connect bart train requireds who get to embarcadero station and then walk here to the temporary trapsbay terminal to continue on to trains through downtown oakland. bart has marshaled nearly 100 buses from bay area transit areas to provide the free service. passengers from oakland told us the bus ride was not crowded actually fast, 20 to 25 minutes and bart says a drop in erodership has helped. >> typically on a saturday we see 100,000 people using bart to get across the bay. so far the ridership numbers show that's down by 50%. which is great. we wanted to get the message out remembering if you don't have to travel across the bay please don't do so. >> reporter: crews have been hard at work replacing a series of aging transfer rails near the

west oakland bart station and that is why train service under the bay had to be stopped this weekend, according to bart, the crews are making great progress and these bus bridges are going to be in operation for regular service tomorrow and then compare together to break, as usual, over a sunday night, and then continue on monday. reporting live in san francisco, abc7 news. >> okay, thank you. bart is providing a lot of information about how to get around without transbay service and we have that information on our web site, abc7news.com. new details about an exchange of gunfire between san jose employs and a suspect. police say around 11:30 last night the man took off running as officers approached a group of people at the light rail station. they say the suspects opened fire and officers shot back. he is accused of then carjacking a vehicle and trying to run over an officer. that officer shot at the man but

missed. the pursuit ended when the suspect crashed into another car. two people in that car were taken to the hospital. they're expected to recover. the suspect suffered minor injuries. no one was hit by gunfire. also in san jose, flames reduced a large home to rubble in the vista point area and in the fight a firefighter suffered a minor burn to his ear. the fire started just after 3:00 this morning. fire dispatch tells abc7 news the roughly 7,000 square foot home was still under construction. no word yet on what sparked the fire. ahead, why a construction of a giant telescope in hawai'i is leading to arrests. >> what researchers are saying after word that the brother of the famous lion, cecil, had also been shot and killed. >> the dream toes play football. i said don't give up on your dream. >> a dream come true for a rising football star. 140 characters got him on the team.

to new attempts in at the case of the american deb test who outraged people in the world when he killed cecil the lion the government of zimbabwe want to extradite, dr. walter palmer who is in hiding. today the zimbabwe cob sir vacation task force announced a hunter killed sees sill's brother, jerico in a national park in zimbabwe. he had been watching over cecil's cubs. researchers cho tracked jerico suggest he is still alive.

>> airlines includes british airways, air france and qantas ban the transport of animal trophies. there's now an online petition to pressure others, like delta to do the same. the sum of us organization, a new worldwide movement for a better global economy planet, has already gathered 248,000 signatures of its 250,000 goal. properties in hawai'i are willing to go to jail in their fight against the large solar telescope. astronomers are building it on a mountain in maui to observe the sun's magnetic field. 20 people were arrested who were attempting to black the construction equipment. opponents are trying to preserve the conservation district land. >> talking to the project manager, i said, come on but they're adamant. >> what are we going to be able to con sever in the future? just doesn't make any sense at all.

>> people have been demonstrating on the mountain around the clock. they were arrested for violating an emergency rule restricting overnight access to the area. get your motor running. may look like they're showing off but this is for more than bragging rights. this event in san francisco is helping officers from across the country. let's head live outside right now. we're enjoying a brief break from the heat. find out when to expect the next blast of summer. >> i'm traffic reporter with your bart close sure update. there are no trains running through the transbay tube while crews repair tracks. a bus bridge and extra ferries are available. delays are expect on bay area bridges throughout the weekend. get the latest traffic updates right here once abc7 news and

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motorcycle officers from the bay area and across the country got revved up on the embark dare roy nor third annual san francisco international police motorcycle competition and exhibition. abc7 news what as pier 30 where participanted performed ewe turns, circles and rapid acceleration, all time for bragging rights and safety training while on the job. >> being a presidential escort we're doing special events like the giants winning the world series, and we have to do this on real surface streets. it's better to kind of have a dress rehearsal versus making errors on the street. >> the event offered a bicycle obstacle course for kids. dreams can come true. with a lot of determination and

in this case social media. the kansas city chiefs have a new running back, undrafted free agent la vans taylor. how did this fan snag a position on his favorite team? one word. twitter. taylor played football for the university of central missouri a division 2 school. that doesn't get much attention from scouts. his dad recommended la von tweet his highlight reel to the chiefs. >> i said don't give up on your dream. put it out on twitter. >> to put a helmet on and play nfl football even for a moment, even in practice, to just see your name on a jersey of your favorite team. >> the chiefs called taylor two months later and he is now training for the upcoming season. it's incredible. and over to drew. when shu tried to get on the 49ers, they didn't have twitter. >> did they have tv back then? we'll ask him later.

live doppler 7hd, it's a gorgeous start to the weekend saturday. lots of sunshine. we'll take you just to the east. you can see numerous thundershowers have developed south of south lake tahoe, bishop. look at this impressive number of lightning strikes can just in the past 15 minutes. 435 lightning strikes have happened. unfortunately this is not good news since we have such a dry atmosphere and such dry land out there. they'll be on the watch for more fires to potentially develop out of the storms. live outside. lots of sunshine across san francisco. comfortable temperatures. 69 in san francisco. san jose lake tahoe temperatures not too hot and a quarter eights fromment from santa rosa, napa, fairfield

concord. live doppler 7hd and satellite showing you morning clouds and afternoon sunshine. sosee this swirl of energy? that giving us an onshore breeze that is keep us on the cool side and will continue to do so for sunday. the future weather shows you tomorrow morning clouds around the bay. otherwise afternoon sunshine on the way, and temperatures will remain below normal so a comfortable second half of the weekend is on the way on sunday. we'll take you through the tropical pacific where we have hurricane guillermo. we'll keep an eye on this system. it women weighingen to a tropical storm by tuesday. thursday morning though, you see 5:00 in the morning gets very close to hawai'i so watch for high surf and' potential for soaking showers next week. overnight, upper 50s to lower 60s. the name of the game, mostly cloudy skies, and then for your sunday highs, very similar to

where we are today. 70s and 80s. 70, san francisco, 73, oakland. 80, san jose, 80 in napa. 89 in antioch. the accuweather forecast mild to warm tomorrow. below normal on tuesday. thursday a touch warm but no intense heat either friday or saturday. so the first week of august is looking very typical for this time of the year. no intense heat but still a warmup. >> thank you for repeating that. >> you're like, no heat. >> thank you drew. look who is here! >> he's back! >> there was no twitter when i was there. there was television. just came out. just happened. >> did you miss us? >> ready for some football in nfl training camp is in full swing, including the local heroes the 49ers and raiders. silver and black into day two head coach jack del rio with

raiders have several question marks on both sites of the ball but one thing is for sure this team is changing their culture under jack rio. they're flying around in practice. there irseveral starting positions up for grab. the coaching staff knows what it takes to be successful. it starts with derek carr who has several weapons in his arsenal, including amar'e recouper, and free agent michael crabtree. they put on the pad tomorrow where you find out more about your team.

here's the old ball coach after day two. >> the amount of con enact in today's nfl is limited and so we have to be very purposeful when we are in pads and we get the work we need and that we prepare ourselves fundamentally to be able to do the blocking and tackling that are necessary to be a good football team. >> the niners start camp tonight with the 7:00 p.m. practice at leave -- levi's stadium. and they have a new coach and several starting positions with players leaving or retiring. >> a lot of guys here aren't faking it. so roll up your sleeves. it's the day-to-day. who shows up every day. if you show up every day with a smile, if you show up every day and you're an angry man, be an angry man every day. just be that guy. don't fake it. be who you are and let's go. >> i prefer the angry man. let's tee it up.

pga tour in virginia. tigers event, the quicken loans national. tiger struggled but his game seems turn toe return two games a week. he finds the water off the tee on the 11th. had a 3-over 74. tied for 42nd at 5-under. kevin chappell, a 67 to get to 14 under. tied with the man who had the round of his day troy merritt. sunday's final round should be interesting. >> rain and wind in the forecast for the women's in scotland. here an 11 shot an even par 7 2. one lack of the leaders. she's tied for the lead. shares the lead with teresa liu.

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at 6:00 tonight, statewide effort to ban an oil industry practice that protesters say is dangerous to the environment. they're not wearing moat tar board but they're moving nip world. how zoo keepers prepared them for their new lives. join us at 6:00. a new york restaurant is taking rabbit food to a new level. the sweet green chain is serving the wasted salad. that includes vegetables scrapped, on chief see remnants and bread ends all for 8.60. a michelin starred chef came up with the creation. the owner says it's just a matter of opening your mind. >> not opening my mind on that. >> thank you for watching.

see you at 6:00. welcome to "world news tonight." dozens of wildfires raging at this hour. thousands of people evacuated. one firefighter losing his life. california in a state of emergency. a scare in the skies. two passenger planes about to land coming dangerously close to drones. >> about 100 feet below us. just off the right wing. >> the new message from homeland security to police around the country. the fda warning about a medical device in nearly every hospital. an iv part that hackers could target? >> security in health care is a cold war. and take a look. these construction crews, panhandlers and highway workers are not what they seem. they are undercover cops. why they're wearing disguises to keep you safe.