contained on the west side of crystal ranch. >> and see? the lime ridge open space area that we are talking about there? >> that's where the fire has been burning across the last hour or so. it started on the west side. and it's been steadily moving east with the wind. and now it's working up against crystal ranch drive and wanting to get across and we want to stop it. and we hopefully will. >> steve, what do you -- what are you hearing from the firefighters there on the lines, the sense you have of what's happening in the next few minutes, next hour or so do they feel they are getting a handle on it or is it continuing to spread. >> at the moment we are redeploying resources to crystal ranch drive to keep it from getting further east into the houses which you described. that's going on right now as we speak actually right in front of me. and it looks like crystal ranch drive is gichg us some help to

contain it. to halt the eastward progress. >> all right, steve thank you so much for calling in and sharing the latest information with us. regarding the fire fighting efforts on this two alarm vegetation fire burning in concord. >> it's sending smoke all over the bay area. here is a live picture from the walnut creek camera near the 680 highway. you can see the haze as a result of the fire spreading out across the landscape. and of course the smoke rising directly from the fire zone into the sky. >> people can see from farther away as well. a live look from the smoke from the camera seen from the east bay hills. and this is looking east towards mount diablo. and you can see the haze that dan was talking about and the smoke still rising as a result of the flames. >> but as you heard steve hill say, they think -- they think they'll cut it off and not jump over to crystal ranch road. a lot of houses up in that area

and in that neighborhood. good evening i'm dan ashley. >> i'm kristen sze thank you for joining us. right now we we want want to bring you experience christian he has been keeping an eye on the conditions in the area of the fire. it's not bad in the area of the fire but hot and dry. it's 92 degrees relative humidity low. 22%. now there have been occasional gusts over 10-mile-per-hour but the steady wind has been out of the southwest at 4-mile-per-hour. we don't expect much help from the weather conditions until after sunset when it gets cooler and the humidity rises. as you may be aware we have a red flag warning for lake and solinen o counties until 5:00 a.m. sunday. the other areas in red, mends orr county will be under red flag warning from 11:00 p.m. this evening until 11:00 p.m. tomorrow. much of the bay area is still dealing with high fire concerns i'll give you a look at the weekend forecast and the week ahead in a few minutes dan and kristen. >> thank you. now another fire concern, of course the holiday is coming.

fireworks this is the first july 4th since the north bay fires. >> and with conditions bone dry, tonight many so residents are feeling uneasy about the holiday weak ahead. >> understandable obviously. wayne friedman is live in petaluma with the story. wayne. >> reporter: good afternoon, dan. at this time tomorrow behind' people will buy the safe, sane and now contentious fireworks at a time on a holiday when americans normally come together, the opposite is happening here. what once was burn skap has almost become home sweet home again. >> this is my daughter's room. >> as july 4th approaches with tall weeds outside and a red flag warning imnent tanya williams of coffey parkels inde >> it's very kaerngs. >> and all due to sales of so-called safe and sane firework. they're illegal in santa rosa. but not in other communities where today volunteers of the

elam lutheran church begin to sell tomorrow not without plenty of posted warnings and discussion. >> it's not even mixed. i feel conflicted. >> do you pray over this. >> yes. >> what do you pray. >> i pray everybody is safe and sane with the fireworks. >> for seven years they used the sales to fund work rebuilding homes in natural disasters areas like new orleans in hurricane karnt that. they are liberal with warnings and literature. they are also in the popular opinion cross hairs. board of supervisors james gourd does not want to see the fireworks anywhere in the county but cities fall outside his jurisdiction. >> it's frustrating. but at the same time you try and look around and be reasonable. >> the santa rosa fire department will be actively patrolling and citing and finding people. >> at a minimum probably $500. >> old glory meets dry brush and zero tolerance on the fourth of july in the fire zone. as the santa rosa fire department told us today don't

let the words safe and sane fool you. if you take a sparkler and some sparks get in brush it's like throwing in a match. no in petaluma. wayne friedman, abc 7. >> we know what you were talking about wayne. thank you so much. firefighters are being flown into some of the more remote yaurs of the pawnee fire. burning in lake county. that's to strengthen the containment lines. it's 55% contained and burned 14,000 acres 22 structures some homes have been destroyed. mandatory evacuation orders lifted. the blazes started on saturday. a san francisco mother is furious tonight after she says her 5-year-old son was left on a muni bus was left on a bus and no one holder to. >> mel fli wood rows stot. >> this 5-year-old was a camper at the summer in the city program. >> i definitely trusted them to look after my son.

>> but on monday mom says the camp lost her son on a immune y bus dur a day trip at 5:00 my son wasn't there. >> the people lost me on the bus and they didn't -- and all of the other people just went. and they forgot me. >> youth programs manager sharon johnson says staff followed protocol. >> and the person who swept the bus says the child was coming off the bus at- as everybody else was. so how they turned around and ended up on the bus how that happened i can't sprain. >> i was asleep. >> with the 54 bus already gone johnson says staffers called 311. dispatch was able to reach the bus driver who stopped the bus to wait for staffers now on another bus behind it. >> when i woke up i saw the police here. >> the mom says she is mostly upset during the 10 to 20 minutes she was on the bus alone

no one called her. >> to not notify the parent is unacceptable. >> i take full responsibility tor that. >> i asked them why wasn't i notified i couldn't get an answer and i fwrabd my son and left. >> johnson calls it a hiccup. >> "i" not in the business of losing children. >> she says she has a service request into sfmta for more information to she can train her staff. >> abc 7 news. we are learning more tonight about the prime suspect in a cold case from 1974 on the stanford camps. that man steve crawford shot himself to death with a handgun when sheriff's deputies tried to serve a swrnt at his apartment yesterday. investigators discovered a 2-year-old suicide note in his apartment. they believed crawford wrote it after being interviewed by deevgts about the murder of arliss perry. perry's sister told abc 7 news by phone that she finally feels a sense of closure. >> it does for me.

my mom i'm not so sure. i mean, she is 88 years old. and she struggles with the why, i think. and i said, you know, mom, i don't think we're ever going to know the why. >> deputies also admit they may never know why someone chose to kill perry. big developments today in elbowed where there is a possible plea deal in the deadly ghost ship fire. the plea deal offered to derick almena and max harris would call for both men to plead no contest to 36 counts ever involuntary manslaughter with time served, credit both could be released from custody in two, maybe three years. it's thought the plea deals will spare families of the victims the emotional distress of a trial. some friends of the victims say they are upset saying prosecutors should pursue a harsher sentence against the defendants. no deal has been reached today. both almena and harris are due back in court tuesday afternoon. shifting gears now, cable and internet giant comcast is

trying to fix a nationwide outage to services. the company described the outage at widespread but hasn't defined by numbers. it impacts some of the internet abvideo and voice customers. in a tweet comcast linked the outage to unrelated fiber cuts to the network back bone providers. the philadelphia based company didn't offer more information but said it was working to get services restored as soon as possible. let's give you a live look at the golden gate bridge tonight. starting sunday the drivers will have to pay a little more to get into the city. tolerates go up 25 cents across the board. it will be $8 if you don't have fast track. $7 with fast track. it's the last mike in a 5-year plan initiated in 2014. a voter approved measure to raise the bridge tolls that passed did not include the golden gate bridge. ferry commuters will have to pay more. the san francisco bay ferry will increase fares by 3% sunday.

it's the fourth of five increases insides. the final increase will be in 2020. and more ahead on the busy half hour on the abc news, motivated strong and innovate girls. they help each other learn. >> kind of like a funner version of school. >> we are at a unique camp in the east bay started by a trio of high schoolers. >> security concerns after a prange caller somehow was routed through to the president of the united states. and the six-ton idaho potato on it way to the bay area right now. that's a sight to behold where and another look at sky7 live over the fire in concord. it's now grown to four alarms.

live pictures of a fire burning in the lime ridge area on the concord walnut creek border near ignacio valley road. concerns about the crystal ranch enabled. >> and we have an interview joining us by phone, ryan bane, fire official there tell us what is the latest we hear, word that more acres have been charred since the 100 figure we got a short while airing? can you tell us the latest? hello? ryan? >> okay sorry about that we lost ryan. let's tell you what we know about this. the fire started about 3:40 this afternoon. it's hot and not too windy in the hills near the walnut creek border. but the fire spread quickly, charred a considerable amount of acreage. and it's ringed by homes in the area which is why there was a fast and frantic response to keep it from spreading. we saw you a few moments ago an

air tanker dropping fire retardant. >> it's upgraded to a farah alarm fire. 150 acres have burned. and there are immediate evacuations near mots o drive at crystal ranch drive. dan, i know you have friends in that area. so you've been telling me how many homes there. it's a very concentrated area with neighborhoods really right up to the areas charred. >> that's right. and it's a relatively new subdivision. they are still building i think out there. the last 10 or 12 years the area popped up, the crystal ranch area. but the area near cowl, the old town of cowl used to be a smoke stack there, no longer there. but the area has homes that have been there some time. as you can see the fire has burned in the lime ridge area in the open space but hasn't reached thankfully the homes surrounding it. >> and we do have a couple of comments emails from viewers, one mentioning how they are not seeing fire fighters protecting their homes immediately away

from or near the fire. . that's one person's perspective of course. but we had another person saying he he is putting water on his own yard just? case. but firefighters tell us by phone that if you're in an evacuation area, please do not stay to do that or put water on your yard. urcht get out immediately because nothing is more important that than your life. >> of course. and the firefighters seem to have been very strategic about this. >> yes. >> they understand there are homes close by. someone may not have seen a firefighter out in front of their house. but clearly they have prioritized trying to keep the fire from spreading. and thus far they have been successful. >> they have done it. >> yes. and we are not seeing quite the level of bright flames that we saw earlier. so perhaps we are making some really good progress in this will no longer abrisk soon. >> more white smoke than black. that's good news. you can get the latest on abc7news.com. if you are taking off and also the app will have the latest if you enable the breaking news alerts. let's move to other news

we'll continue to follow that. we have the 911 audio of the woman known as social media as permit patti. >> as she called to campaign about an 8-year-old girl selling water in san francisco. fake a listen. >> san francisco 911 what's the exact location of the emergency. >> hi, i have someone that doesn't have a vendor permit selling water across from the ballpark. could i talk to someone about that. >> let me transfer you over to the police department hang on. >> great. thank you. the call never made it to the police. the woman alisyn ettel is white high pressure. she horjly said she was pretenning to call 911. the 8-year-old girl is black. her family sates she was raising money to visit disneyland. well tonight security practices at the kwhous are in question after a prank cal caller was patched threw the president on air force one. reports say yesterday podcaster john melendez sfoen as stuttering john from his time on

the howard stern show perhaps you remember him called the white house pretending that he was new jersey senator bob menendez. the prankster spoke to several people including jared kushner before transferred to the president and air force 1. they spoke about grimes and the next supreme court nominee. the white house has not commented on this call. and a new camp in the east bay started by a group of high school girls is inspiring a younger generation to get excited about s.t.e.m. dion lim introduces us to some remarkable young women. >> reporter: one part glue, one part detergent and a lot of girl power is the recipe not only for sliem but inspiring middle schoolers to explore and get excited about s.t.e.m. >> i wanted to create something local that could introduce girls to s.t.e.m. >> ashley chu and two friends raised money to create she

stemss. using kriens, technology and engineering and math to solve real world problems. >> i've been inspired by other workshops. i was interested in finding a way to give back to my community. >> for eight hours a day the girls tackle projects in teams. mara shows us something that looks like a ping-pong ball. >> it can change the color and move around. >> but it's a mini robot controlled with flicks on her phone. >> it's kind of like a funner version of school. >> nearby, emerson brandt and daniella show us their diy website inspired by their own diy build going from scratch. igniting a passion for s.t.e.m. >> to be honest i didn't care for it that much. i didn't know much about it. now i do like designing websites. >> whether building computers or learning the science of making ice cream in a ball, these girls now know they can accomplish anything. >> it's just really cool to see it come to life. >> reporter: the sky is the

limit for these young ladies who hope there will be more camps throughout the year in alameda, dion lim. >> girl power! >> abc 7 news. >> good for them but right now back to the breaking news story, the wildfire burning in concord right now. very close to a subdivision as we take a live lack of another plane that's been dropping retardant. >> air tanker dropping fire retardant. ryan bane with contra costa fire on the phone with us can you hear us. >> yes i can. >> appreciate your coming on. give us an update in terms of evacuations how critical the situation still is. >> we have currently have evacuations on the crystal ranch road right now and the montecito gardens subdivision. evacuations remain in place until the threat of fire is complete. right now we are sitting at about -- our last report was about 150 acres.

no containment at this point in time. >> can you tell -- sorry. gadi. >> we are currently working with calfire. calfire has aircraft on-site for us as well as contra costa sheriffs department with the helicopter. doing water drops. we are gaining ground on it. but we don't have containment at this time. >> can you talk a little about your fire fighting strategy, containment strategy, keeping the flames away from homes? what will people see in the next few hours do you expect? >> they'll see a lot of fire engines around the houses that have been evacuated. there is a lot of fire engines here, making sure that the -- the fire doesn't spread to you know other parts of the road -- the country here. a lot -- a lot of personnel on scene making sure the fire doesn't get into the homes. >> and, ryan, let's talk a little bit more if you don't mind about the issue of containment as we look from

stooif hd there are some flames but it looks like some areas are no longer spreading. how do you define kaenltment. >> we wait for the update on the containment actually is. when a flame is basically out and we have control line around the fires, we call that part contained. but it's -- it's sketchy to say right now that we have actually any containment at this point. >> would you say that there are still critical risk on the scene? >> there is always a risk. we can- we're looking at wind shifts as a possibility and the fire changing direction on us. we don't anticipate that at this point in time. but it is always -- it is a factor that does affect us on the fire grounds here. we are looking for, you know, when we talk about containment we need to to get ahead of the fire. need to be able to stop it before it has a chance to spread

at the front of it. >> in terms of e the fire risks were you anticipating that this could be a danger day in that area, given the winds, the heat and what we've been seeing? and we do understand there are areas that pg&e has said they would shut off the power to in advance if conditions are ripe for a fire. is this an area you've been watching closely for just such a danger. >> absolutely. when we have the heat and the wind, you know, middle of summer, dry grass, it's dangerous conditions at that point. you know, every summer we face the same thing. these seem to pop off pretty fast as far as the fire danger. it seems like we are looking at august conditions in june. >> and it is so -- as we watch from stooif hd, such dramatic images of the air tankers swooping in so low to drop the fire retardant. there as we zoom in you can see

the line of flames between concord and walnut creek on the border. talk about the fire retardant. you don't dump it on the fire. you dump it ahead of the flames to try to keep it from spreading you dump water on the flames. >> that's correct. the fire retardant is a pre-treatment of the vegetation there that helps -- it reduces the ability of the fire to spread. >> all right. ryan, bane thank you for the latest on the fire fighting efforts. ryan with the contra costa county fire protection district we wish you good luck in the hours heyde. we want to share the quick information we have got fibrin officials saying, please if you are in that area stay off your phone unless you need to report a live threatening emergency at your location. but if you are physically unable to leave your home unassisted then call 911. >> sure. because the norts know there is a problem. you don't need to call at this point unless you have a critical issue. you can see the fire retardant

there on the ground in advance of the flames. the winds were obviously moving slowly in one direction. it's not too windy out there. bt certainly the winds a factor. >> hopefully way away from the subdivision let's check with spencer. let's look at current conditions. a live view from sutro tower over san francisco. currently temperatures reading 64 degree in san francisco. 70 in oklahoma. 76 in mountain view. 89 in gilroy. 59 at half moon bay. looking westward from emeryville clear skies and in the area of the fire concord has current temperature of 94 relative humidity is low. wind gusting up to 10-mile-per-hour we have other inland locations with temperatures in the 80s to low 90s right now. and the forecast features are these. warm to hot weekend will bring triple digit temperatures inland with hire fire danger. spare the air alert tomorrow. but the easts on sunday. tomorrow's highs check it out. numerous triple digits in the east bay and north bay upper 80s around the bay. and upper 60s to 70s on the coast. we'll get a little bit of return of the marine layer tomorrow

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all right. let's update the breaking news now. happening in concord. alongis ignacio valley road and cowl road. the grass fire burned 150 acres so far. the concern now keeping it away from the crystal ranch enabled. >> yeah, we want to let you no he that montecito and the crystal ranch neighborhood, those two neighborhoods are being asked to immediately evacuate as they continue to put water and retardant trying to keep the flames away from homes. >> i have just heard via text from a friend limping in the subdivision they are preparing to get out. but we wish all of them good

luck and fire department is didding everything they can. >> world news with david muir up next. >> for all of us he tonight, the video now emerging. the shooting rampage in that newsroom. the alleged gunman jarrod ramos being led away by police. authorities urging everyone to get their hands in the air. tonight what we've now learned. the suspect barricading the door so reporters and workers couldn't get out as he fired. why the newspaper was targeted? what the suspect did to a girl he knew from high school years ago that might have led to all this. also breaking tonight was it a major security breach involving the president on air force one? was a comedian able to convince white house operators he was a senator? did the president unknowingly have a conversation with that comedian? new outrage over this cell phone video. police tasing an unarmed man from behind. he was sitting some say