fire-nado. >> live where you live, abc 7 news. >> wow. >> it's jumping the street. >> 100 foot wall of flame. that wall of flames near redding has now killed two firefighters. >> as we mourn the loss, we also battle a fire that is moving extremely quickly. >> this is that new normal, the unpredictability, the large explosive growth fires. >> 38,000 residents evacuated, families are losing their homes and seeing what's left. >> there's two chimney stacks standing, the metal roof is on the ground, everything's ashes, and it's still burning. >> still burning. so terrifying. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> i'm kristen sze. here's what we know right now. flames are charred more than 44,000 acres. the fire is only 3% contained. >> 38,000 residents are evacuated tonight from their homes in and around redding. two firefighters have died

battling these flames. 800 national guard members are in redding tonight assisting the crews. cal fire spoke a short time ago calling firefighters' efforts herculean. >> this fire whipped up into a wi whirlwind of activity, uprooting trees, moving vehicles, moving parts of roadways, very significant extreme winds challenging for firefighters. end of the day, bottom line, we say it time and time again, but i'm going to say it, you're going to hear it from everybody here. these are extreme conditions, this is how fires are burning in california, we need to take heed, evacuate, evacuate, evacuate. >> now, we want to show you the area where the fire is burning tonight. the small box is the size of the fire 24 hours ago. the red is how much it's grown since then. and you can see it's significant. it's bigger now than the city of oakland. >> we have live team coverage in redding. let's begin with abc 7 news

reporter laura anthony. laura? >> dan, we talked about the destructive force, the power of these fires. i'm standing in keswick, a small town that was completely destroyed, virtually every home here burned to the ground overnight. this just one of them. i'm here on market street. this is from what i can tell kind of a main residential street for this tiny town, less than 500 people. here is somebody's rv, may have been somebody's home. if you take a look at this, all that's left is the metal frame, the plastic air-conditioning units are collapsed, virtually nothing left inside, just gives you a small idea of the power, the relentlessness of this fire. yet another northern california community has been devastated by wildfire, and perhaps most frightening the fire season is not even half over. the tiny town of keswick was

reduced to rubble overnight, with the population of fewer than 500 people. a place according to a pg&e crew only two homes survived. >> right now is our peak heat. that's a bad time to have this fire with low humidity and really high temps and winds. it's just a recipe for bad fire. >> reporter: just a few miles to the west, closer to redding, lake keswick estates also suffered a direct hit. dozens of homes were leveled overnight, others were spared by the whims of a fire clearly out of control. >> so there's two golf -- >> reporter: among hundreds, here to help, a team from the bay area, quite concerned that the fierce winds don't repeat their performance tonight. >> the joke was today cooling trend by one degree cooler than yesterday. and about two degrees cooler by the weekend. still expecting the high temps, triple digit temperatures going on and it's a challenge. >> reporter: and we're back live here in keswick, or

unfortunately what's left of it. these are really some of the very few flames we've seen today, the weather's actually been pretty cooperative. but as you can see the damage done here in keswick doesn't matter, car, a home, a trailer, everything in this path of this fire completely destroyed. in this little town, and as you're driving by this town, you blink and you miss it. unfortunately now it's pretty much destroyed. among the buildings destroyed, they're saying officially 65. i can tell you just from our trip around here today it's going to be many more than that when the official numbers come out. among those, the shasta historic park, for those familiar with that, outside of redding, they lost some historic buildings, an old schoolhouse, a live near redding, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> so sad. so similar not many months ago

in the north bay wildfire. thanks, laura, very much. people in the area are talking about the grim reality of getting out from the fire zone. listen to one woman describe how her dad got out just in time. >> they just kept saying go, go, go. and i don't know how many minutes after he left the house that it went up in flames. but he said that 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. >> that family is looking for their lost dog. her dad had to leave before they could find it, sadly. about 10,000 people have been ordered to leave shasta county, roadways jammed with cars overnight trying to escape. let's show you the evacuation zone. it's the gray area you see on this map right here. the fire is the red shaded area. the yellow around redding indicates downtown. >> abc 7 news reporter dion lim

is live at the evacuation center at shasta college tonight. dion? >> reporter: dan and kristen, i don't know if you can tell on your end, but there is this strange dark orange haze in the sky because of all the ash from the carr fire. in fact, you can actually see it accumulated on this vehicle in the school's parking lot. now, it being summer you would assume that a college would be pretty empty. that is not the case. there are more than 550 evacuees staying the night here, and possibly for more nights to come. >> i miss home. and i'm hoping that nobody else loses their house or their life. >> reporter: rows upon rows of cots line the gymnasium at shasta college, one of several evacuation centers across the campus set up by the red cross. >> the situation kind of blew up overnight, went from about 20,000 acres burned to 45. >> reporter: along with the onslaught of donated supplies, medical stations to tend to

those evacuated from nearby hospitals and clinic the. patrick perry's mother-in-law is also in need of oxygen. >> it's tough for me too, because i have epilepsy. it's tough for me dealing with the heat and everything. i'm trying to look out, i'm kind of a young guy, trying to look out for my mom and all them. >> air-conditioning units have been so overworked. some of the nearly 600 evacuees seek respite in tents under trees. >> he left at 6:00 this morning to get a hotel room and i told him he needs to stay here because he's not going to find anything. >> nearly ten hours later and with her two kids in tow, jenny waits, along with everyone else to get the all clear to return home and in her case be reunited with the love of her life. >> i don't care about anything in that house. i just want my husband and i want to know that he's safe. boy, what a heartbreaking

interview that was. back out here live. we actually have a very good update. check this out. jenny heard from her husband moments before we hit the air. he did indeed find the hotel room all the way in willow, an hour and 15 minutes away from here. so you can imagine evacuations are happening all over the county. something we should point out is the red cross does have capacity for about 1,300 beds here at shasta college. however, they do want to diversify and make sure their supplies last. so any new evacuees they are directing to nearby cross point church. in redding tonight i'm dion lim, abc 7 news. >> dion, thank you. give you a look at the devastation from the air. a crew member with an air tanker shared these pictures. look at this scene. you can see pockets of fire and smoke and just how difficult it can be to reach some of these areas. looks like armageddon. >> three local firefighters, ones from marin county, were injured responding to the fire.

last night they were defending a building when the burning vegetation nearby hit them with a blast of heat. engineer scott peterson and firefighters tyra barnes and kyle kordovas suffered burns. >> three firefighters sustained minor to moderate burns. they're all in good spirits and doing well. >> five counties have sent firefighters to help with the carr fire. now, experts say the carr fire is not being driven by strong winds, like last year's north bay wildfires. instead, san jose state meteorology professor greg clemt ents said the plume intensified and created its own weather. >> that can spread embers farther distances. so that's not uncommon, but to have something like that in a wildland urban interface near homes and housing developments has never been seen before really. >> conditions continue to be a

challenge in fighting this fire. so let's get right to abc 7 meteorologist sandhya patel for the very latest on what's happening. >> yeah, kristen, take a look. it is hot still, still dry, 102 degrees, relative humidity 21%. what's not going to help them is the winds are increasing, gusting up to 15 miles an hour. windier conditions are expected later on tonight before those winds begin to relax a little bit going into tomorrow. take a look at the temperatures, extreme heat will continue through the weekend in the redding area with those numbers barely coming down. the middle part of next week. here in the bay area we are tracking a heat advisory that remains up until 8:00 p.m. for lake mendocino counties and also the east bay hills and diablo range. take a look at this photo from richard tugle in redding. firefighters are getting the rest they can. tugle took the photo in his

backyard this morning. his family had to evacuate, but the firefighters saved their home. he calls them true heroes. that they are. a little league team was supposed to play in finals in redding. but because of the fire and poor air quality, petaluma american's game was postponed and moved. >> it's now at 8:00 tonight, they will advance to the regional tournament if they win. >> with a chance to make it to the little league world series. more than a dozen active fires are burning. a fire burning in riverside county has burned 11,000 acres. a 32-year-old man has been charged with arson in this and multiple other fires in southern california. and the valley floor of yosemite national park remains closed two weeks after a fire started there, burned more than

45,000 acres of land, 29% contained now. one firefighter was killed and seven people have been injured in the fire. cal fire said late today that more than 300 wildfires are currently burning across the state. 300, can you imagine? 7,000 firefighters are on the front lines trying to slow the flames. officials estimate up to 50 new fires are starting every single day. they call this the new normal. still ahead tonight, police, protesters, and a major ruling on a riot. a violent trump rally gets a new look with big implications for the city of san jose. plus, police point of view, dramatic new video you'll you know when you're at ross shopping for backpacks... ...and mom also gets a back-to-school bag? that's yes for less. ross has the brands you want for back to school. and it feels even better when you find them for less. at ross. yes for less.

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few months before the election in june of 2016. abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow is in the news room with the latest. >> reporter: this decision comes from the ninth circuit court of appeals. it says san jose police officers in this instance do not have what's called qualified immunity. the civil rights case will proceed. the attorney says the plaintiffs injured in this case range from a teenager to women in their 70s. hernandez says he's a proud president trump supporter, but also says his support of president elect trump cost him greatly in june of 2016. hernandez remembers these images vividly as trump supporters left a rally in san jose, hernandez says they found themselves in the thick of a riot. >> it was really scary because the cops aren't doing anything and they're just watching everything that's happened. they started coming to us, and they attacked us. we weren't inciting anything or saying anything to them. >> hernandez suffered a broken

nose, bruising, concussion and scratches. >> someone needs to be held accountable for hit. >> the decision by the ninth circuit court of appeals now makes that possible. the court ruled in dill lan's favor that the san jose police officers present that night do not have qualified immunity. dill lan argued the officers created a situation in which trump supporters had to walk through the violence. >> there were a number of other routes to safety that citizens could have taken. and they were all blocked by the police. >> dylan says protesters hit her clients in the head with rocks, sucker punched them and tore their glasses off. >> all of them were assaulted in the course of this riot and had to flee for their lives and the police stood there and watched them being assaulted. >> the decision means the case will now go back to trial court. >> it's an exception because officers cannot claim qualified immunity. if they have created a danger. by virtue of what they did. >> the san jose police department directed abc 7 news to the city attorney's office for comment. the city attorney is out of the office until monday.

>> in addition to damages, attorney dylan is also seeking an order from the court that san jose will have proper procedures so as not to allow this to happen again. in the newsroom, melanie woodrow. new at 5:00, body camera video of a deadly pittsburg police shooting shows officers open fire about 40 seconds after confronting a man. the pittsburg police department released the video, which happened on january 12th in a parking lot on railroad avenue. police approached a suspected drug dealer sitting in his car when they noticed a gun. at first they say the man, 45-year-old terry aimens jr. of antioch followed their instructions, and then he reached the gun. that's when the officer fired. a warning, some people might find this video disturbing. >> do not reach for the gun. put your hands up. put your hands up. put your hands up.

>> he died later at the hospital. last month, an attorney them he'd be filing a legal claim in response to the shooting. new details have emerged about the murder of a well-liked south bay butcher who was known for singing in church, co-workers of gauge mccarthy is suspected of killing ray hyde. abc 7 news reporter david louie explains what mccartney told investigators. >> 25-year-old gauge mccartney was scheduled to appear in court for arraignment. he didn't appear before the judge due to a medical issue. the exact nature of his illness was not disclosed. the court unsealed a document called the statement of facts. the two men worked together in the meat department at this safeway store. the two went out to dinner after work and had been drinking, even

returning to their safeway store to buy more liquor. the two then drove around the corner to central park. mccartney claims there was some sort of altercation that caused him to defend himself by squeezing hyde's neck with both hnds. he fell to the ground by this duck pond. mccartney then walked home. hyde's body was discovered. >> just really kind of upset me even though i wasn't really a personal friend of his. because he was a very helpful person there at safeway. >> a memorial has been set up at a park bench near where his body was found. >> mccartney's arraignment has now been rescheduled for monday afternoon. at that time, the district attorney's office is expected to provide more details about the case. in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. >> announcer: now your accuweather forecast with sandhya patel. hi, there, everyone, it's cooler out there because of the marine influence. we have fog rolling in, not just near the coast, but around the bay adds well.

live look from the emeryville camera, the marine layer has deepened overnight. 76 in san jose. morgan hill, a little hot, 90 degrees. highs have ranged from the upper 50s to mid-90s. the camera is showing you less in the way of sun as the marine layer is taking over. 70s from santa rosa to napa. concord, 91. take a live picture from santa cruz. show you the highlights heading into the weekend. fog overnight near the coast and bay. mild to warm this upcoming weekend. if you are out in santa cruz, it's a nice-looking day, beat the heat, enjoy the sun, there's quite a bit of sun there, there won't be much heading towards the evening hours. the fog will begin to fill in tomorrow morning starting off your day around 7:00 a.m. foggy around the bay and coastline and we'll continue to see the lingering low clouds into the afternoon and evening

hours. first thing tomorrow morning, temperatures will range from the low 50s to low 60s. a little bit cooler nl unless you're out towards antioch. take a look at the afternoon highs for saturday, it's a warm one in the south bay in places like morgan hill, gilroy, mid-90s. on the peninsula, a breeze to keep you comfortable. 58 in pacifica. half moon bay, 57. daly city, 59 degrees, some fog and breezy conditions. downtown san francisco, 63 degrees. and in the north bay you'll see the 60s near the coast. triple digits around ukiah and lakeport. nice day in vallejo. sunshine in the east bay. 67 in oakland, 77 in fremont, 78 in castro valley. inland areas, you will still see very warm conditions, but it's not going to be as hot as it has been. 92 in concord.

94 in fairfield. if you're going to gilroy, it's going to be hot as you would expect it to be for the gilroy garlic festival. 95 degrees tomorrow afternoon. enjoy the food. but be ready for the heat. warm on sunday, mid-90s. take your sunscreen and make sure you have plenty of fluids. download the accuweather app to track those temperatures anytime you want to help you plan your weekend and your weekend will feature mild to warm conditions. upper 50s to the mid-90s. if you're at the immediate coast, it will be on the cool side, that's where the upper 50s are. holding steady on sunday. minor dip on monday. one thing i do want to point out to yo is by midweek, an area of low pressure comes through and look at the temperature dropping out of the 90s, upper 80s inland, upper 50s along the coast, we certainly need that cooler weather thursday, friday temperatures will come back up to where we should be for this time of year. dan and kristen? >> sandhya, thank you. incentive to go out to dinner and some motivation to