and a camera in the other, aboard rocky mountaineer. canada's rocky mountains await. call your travel agent or rocky mountaineer for special offers now. state of emergency. reading burns this morning and takes a second life. the flames also hurt some bay area's own firefighters. they were sent to help this out of control inferno. thanks for joining us today. i'm reggie o'kief. o'k a wall of flames and here's the latest on this developing news. thousands of residents have cleared out a car fire is burning out of control. and sadly we've learned two

firefighters vadied. it's scarred more than $44,000 acres and now only 3% contained, down 6% from yesterday. it is a surreal scene in neighborhoods in northwest reading. dozens of homes lost as the fire moved through overnight. and for each of these homes oosk a different story. listen to how one woman described how her dad got out just in time. >> he left the house and it went up in flames, but he said he could see the fire as he was leaving. so i'm just glad he made it out. i'm afraid some people may not have. >> it is so scary, and the conditions crews are facing are brutal.

temperatures are expected to reach 110 degrees today. three have been >> reporter: today they had to lower their flag at half staff as a reminder of the danger where those firefighters are headed. this is to remember that firefighter that was killed. the firefighters still in the bay area no doubt thinking of their coworkers and the danger they're in as news comes in of injured firefighters. three firefighters from marin county were hurt on the carrcarr fire. they were hurt last night. >> the fire laid down in a large timber grove that was adjacent

to it, took quite a bit of heat. three of the firefighters sustained minor to moderate burns to their hands, head, face. they were treated at reading medical center. all three had been released by early this morning. one of them is en route now to uc davis burn center for additional follow up care, but i'm happy to report all three are in good spirits. they're doing well. >> reporter: that team had been working all day yesterday from 1:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. to try to save as many structures as they could. back here at home fire officials country costa county tell me the fact that the carr fire is drawing from so many different countries just shows how drawn down the resources are all across the because of these fires. >> a former executive producer

here at native. thankfully her home is safe. >> i'm looking at it, and there's that old roof is on the ground, everything is ashes and it's still burning. my mom got out safely last night. her and the pets. my sister and my family, we all got out safe, but, yeah, her house is gone. it's just crazy. it's very thick smoke, the streets are empty. the chp are out about and they're trying to keep the

structures that are left protected. >> abc 7 news reporters laura anthony and dion lim are in redding. you can watch from abc7news.com and abc 7 news app. make sure to follow on twitter for breaking news updates as they happen. now we're going to turn to meteorologist mike nico on what those folks are facing. >> unfortunately my initial news is not good, but it will improve ever so slightly into next week. the winds are pretty light. but just like yesterday's, it's going to pick up and blow out of the southwest. they will pull back a bit tomorrow afternoon. that's why the highest fire danger you in the red here, including redding is midnight

tonight. now, we've also got the excessive heat that's going to continue. this warning ends at 8:00 this evening, but let me show you the forecast for reading the next seven days. 111, 110, 108, 106, 104. the heat is not going away and during the morning hours temperatures will fall back into the 60s and 70s. now let's talk about the marsh fire in clayton. that is 70% contained. it had burned about 250 acres since it started wednesday afternoon. cal fire says one home burned and 13 structures are still threatened. order. firefighters expect to be in the area cleaning up for at least two more days. rnor brown has declared states of emergencies in several

counties including mariposa. that is where the ferguson fire is still burning. it has charred more than 45,000 acres of land. there's no actual fire in yosemite, but the fire has sparked the closure of the valley floor until at least sunday. a man accused of killing a safeway man, investigators say the men were together in the meat department but it's not clear what led up to the killing. this is the first homicide of the year in santa clara. new at 11:00 a.m., a bombshell expose about to come out involving the ceo of cbs. multiple reports came out this morning saying the new yorker is about to publish an investigation about the ceo.

cbs said in a statement that it's investigating the claims made. president trump is denying he knew in advance about a trump tower meeting between a russian lawyer, his eldest son and aides. the trump campaign had allegedly been told the lawyer had dirt on hillary clinton. the president's former lawyer, michael cohen, claims mr. trump knew about that meeting beforehand. this morning the president tweeted, no, he did not know of the meeting with his son don, jr., cohen recently said he was going to share information about that meeting with mueller. facebook and twitter making headlines for all the wrong

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in thailand was even more improbable than all of us thought. a u.s. ranger told thai officials he had deemed the operation a success if just one of the 12 boys made it out alive. tonight abc news will air a special on 20/20. >> they said, listen, if we bring them out through diving we may lose some of them. the thai navy s.e.a.l.s thought they may lose half of the boys coming out. it was a matter of leaving them in there or trying to dive out and risk losing a few of them. and the navy officer said for me success would have been bringing out one boy to his parents. we had no idea it would be that successful. reggie. >> and matt will reveal more

incredible details about the rescue tonight on a special edition of 2020. investors rocked twitter in premarket stock trading crural yr today as a company posted a decline in user growth. shares slid nearly 20% following yesterday's 19% drop in shares of facebook wiping out $119 billion in market value. twitter like other social media companies says that it is prioritizing its platform over user growth, getting rid of abusive accounts. a big day in gilroy. the garlic festival gatest opened up, and huge crowds. hi, matt. reggie. yeah, it's already hot here in gilroy, and check out all the people who have already arrived. it is packed here in gilroy.

the only thing hotter right now are the grills here at gourmet alley. the gilroy garlic festival is partying like it's 1979 celebrating four decades of family fun. more than 100,000 people are expected to walk through the gates during the big event. the big attraction, gourmet alley. that's where everything is prepared, the meats, the herbs, the sauces and of course pyro chefs. >> yeah, it's world famous. >> reporter: the festival now attracts celebrity chefs. master chef winner shawn o'neil will be hosting the first ever junior chef contest for kids under 18 and also be doing a cooking demonstration today

featuring 15 cloves of garlic. >> the community aspect of this, the charity aspect is absolutel >> reporter: charityerize the b -- charities are the big winner. >> my daughter and my grandkids are working here today. >> it's a family thing. >> reporter: there's a lot of things people should know before they come out here to the gilroy festival, parking, how to get tickets those kinds of things. we set it up on our website. i wept and got the combo meal number two that includes the garlic sausage, shrimp scampi, marinated mushrooms and two pieces of garlic bread. and reggie since we can't share it through the camera i'm going to have to eat it myself. >> looks like fun. so if garlic i't necessarily your thing, we'll tell you where

you can get a cold beer, hot food and watch people actually bite into part of the bay. if you're thinking about going out this afternoon let's open the weather window hon santa cruz, one of the areas that will be sunny while the rest of the coast will be cloudy and cool today. ful you're going to be out on the bay know there's a smash

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the ocean churning about, every once in a while a wave or two of clouds swilling over those trees in the east bay hills. let's talk about what's going on right now. you can see we've got quite a spread again for 56 in san francisco, barely 60 in oakland. 73 in san jose. that's a little bit warmer than yesterday, a little bit cooler in our east bay valleys. look at clear lake yesterday we happen about 98, know we're going to make tonight same scenario we've had the last couple of nights, mainly cloudy even more so in the east bay. a bit of mist or drizzle in the coast and around the peninsula. low to mid-90s there, but low to mid-80s in the south bay. 82 in red wood city, the warm

spot. look how sticky the clouds are at the coast. look at all that white, low to mid-60s there. going to the game tonight it's christmas in july so find that ugly sweater or if you have a nice one, wear it, too. either way you're going to need it. brewers in town take on the giants. to 90 in santa cruz, and you can see we've got some $100s up across the extreme north bay. look at the 60s around richmond and low to upper 90s. you can see a few clouds hanging over the golden gate and heading over towards berkeley. and we'll be mainly clear and as we head towards midnight and once again in the mid to uppe 50s. now, low to mid-90s all weekend. if you're running or just walking, looking, participating,

i don't know, admiring, foggy start for the san francisco marathon, 57. and as you get to 11:00, it'll become breezy party cloudy and about 67 degrees. tapering as we head inland back to average levels for the weekend. >> i'll only run if you chase me. so good luck to all the runners out there. looks like it'll be some good temperatures for that. from pedal power to food power if you you're looking for something fun to do this weekend we have you covered. some ideas from partners at hoodline. >> it is a celebration of the bicycle. this weekend in oakland join 20,000 other bicycle enthusiasts from 11:00 a.m. you'll you'll yu

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