>> we all share the same grief. we're going to make sure that within our power it's not going to happen again. but we have to work together to do it. >> that's interior secretary ryan zen key, neither hee or the governor can believe what they're seeing firsthand zbloops this is so devastating that i don't really have the words to describe it. it looks like a war zone. it is. >> as the governor tours the fire zone for the first time, answers are coming slowly for the 100 or so people officially listed as missing. right now the death toll is 48. >> weakening winds give firefighters a slight reprieve today. the fire is now 35% contained. it's burned 135,000 acres. several areas are still under evacuation orders. good evening to you. i'm dan ashley. i'm kristen sze. we begin with the camp fire. just a few minutes ago we got video of national guard finding

remains at a property. >> at one point the troops pray for the family that lived at the home. >> we pray that someone did perish here -- >> searches like this will continue for days. while that goes on, the city of paradise remains off limits to residents. >> there's also just too much damage for people to be around it safely. getting in may take a while and getting out isn't easy either. >> abc 7's wayne freedman joins us live from the butte county road block just outside paradise. >> reporter: there's another element to this fire that makes it different. it's paradise itself. the demographics. if you look at the united states census, 25% of the residents of paradise are 65 or older. that's going to make rebuilding difficult. it also made escaping difficult.

>> tacos for lunch, who gets what? for this family in butte county, this passes as a break. >> there were flames on both sides of the road, hot embers blowing over us, and propane tanks popping all around us. >> marilyn, her husband ralph and another couple have taken refuge at his sister's house following last week's trauma in paradise. their retirement home of 18 years, gone. >> this is where i started life. >> this is where i started life. i started out life in paradise. >> reporter: they moved back after living much of their lives in san jose, came back figuring to stay. >> it wasn't the house we loved so much as the people. >> he came to the front door and beat like heck on the front door. i went to the front door to see

this, and boy, oh, boy, he says you've got to get out of here right now! >> they had to leave behind their precious cats. >> either stay there and die with them or leave because the flames were already in our back yard and starting to surround the house. >> reporter: which led to the harrowing drive and escape. not only did their home vanish, so did that of their neighbor jim burnett. it happened so fast, they haven't even said a proper thank you. >> i'll tell him, i just love you. he saved our life. thank you so much for being a fantastic neighbor. >> reporter: they haven't seen jim burnett since that morning. they presume he's all right. they want him to know how much they appreciate what he did. their children appreciate it, too. live near paradise, wayne freedman, abc 7 news.

abc 7's laura anthony spent the day with governor brown. >> she joins us live from butte county. >> reporter: we were with the governor for part of his tour. the fema administrator who said he's seen a lot of disasters in recent months, but this one is the worst. >> this is the same thing we saw downtown. >> reporter: flanked by local, state and federal officials, california governor jerry brown toured the disseminated paradise elementary school in the heart of a town virtually wiped out by the camp fire. >> this was our worst nightmare. >> reporter: the governor asked a few questions and after driving past hundreds of fire-ravaged homes, he talked about what's just the latest and worst example of what brown calls california's new normal.

>> it's the devastation that only fires of this kind can bring about. >> reporter: despite tweets earlier this week from president trump threatening to cut off federal funding to california fema administrator brock long said he and others heard a different message from the president today. >> about an hour ago, president trump spoke with both me and secretary zenkey with the department of interior. his message is to take care of people. that's exactly what we're here today. >> reporter: the secretary ke nexted claims that the fires are due to california's mismanagement of the forests, predominantly owned by the fire department. >> there's a lot of reasons for the fire. now is not the time to point fingers. >> with the daunting images of so much destruction fresh in his mind, the governor did not want to discuss allegations that a pg&e transmission line might have started the camp fire.

>> the easiest thing is try to identify one source of our problems and kind of pick on that. i think it's much different than that. we are in the problem and we are the solution. >> reporter: there's still no clear indication of when residents of these communities will be allowed to return. officials though are already starting to warn people that once they're allowed back in, the conditions here are dangerous, and there's the very real possibility that they could find humane remains that the searchers have missed in all this debris. in paradise, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> laura, thank you. air quality is still bad in the bay area because of the camp fire. this is what it looked like outside. livermore is getting the worst of it. alameda county giving away free

masks. abc 7 meteorologist is tracking it. >> your best line of defense is to stay inside and avoid exposure to this. look at the smoky view from our walnut creek camera. particulate matter, any time you get above 150, that is considered unhealthy. we have very unhealthy in livermore as you just mentioned. unhealthy for the rest of the bay area. it might be impacting you, and the even commute definitely impacted by areas of poor visibility, down to just over a mile in san jose and mountain view. sfo has been reporting arrival delays because of low visibility. one of the biggest problems is the wind. we can't seem to get the strong sea breeze in here to blow that smoke away. take a look at our calendar for this month. seven straight days of smoky skies. i'll say it since i know many of us are feeling it. it's getting old. take a look at the air quality. unhealthy for thursday to pour.

friday, saturday and soon expecting poor air quality. biggest change is originally we were expecting the breeze to help out our air quality on saturday. it was supposed to get moderate. now things have changed, as far as prospects for rain, that has changed as well. an emergency shelter opened to provide a place for the homeless in san francisco to escape the smoke. that will stay open a bit longer. st. anthony's opened its doors last friday to people who suffer from respiratory problems. a total of 65 beds are available. today st. anthony's announce thad the shelter will remain open as long as it's needed. the. the smoke from the fire has forced the cancellation of dozens of high school football playoff games and other sporting events. officials came up with a plan today to decide any game that can't be played, toss a coin. according to the "san jose mercury" news, the executive board voted 5-2 in favor of that plan. one board member told "the mercury news," it's a lousy

solution, but it's the most fair. >> not ideal. they near a mind. concern is growing among investors that pg&e doesn't have the resources to pay all the potential claims for fire victims if found responsible. >> stock value dropped for five consecutive days. insurance coverage falls well short of mounting claims. abc 7 reporter david louie on pg&e's financial crisis. >> reporter: a cloud of uncertainty over pg&e. questions persist whether its power lines are causing the state's catastrophic wild land fires, whether vegetation is being properly managed and what role lawmakers, the state public utilities commission and pg&e play in addressing the issues n. a filing with the securities and exchange commission, pg&e says its insurance coverage doesn't begin to cover existing and future claims.

after borrowing $3 billion, it has $3.4 billion in cash on hand and $1.4 billion in insurance coverage. that's still $5 billion short of the $10 billion in claims already filed in connection with last year's wild land fires. that doesn't even include the potential for claims for the camp fire. in a statement today, pg&e said, quote, we are aware of lawsuits regarding the camp fire. because the cause of the fire has not been determined, it is uncertain if pg&e could be liable for any of the damages. pg&e stock dropped almost 22% wednesday. its stock has lost over half its value over five days of trading. investors appear to be signaling concern about pg&e's finances. consumers have reason to be concerned, too. santa clara university law professor katherine sandoval was a california public utilities commissioner for six years. >> the question is going to be what is necessary in order to maintain and operate the electric and natural gas service on which millions of

californians depend. >> reporter: she recalls pg&e declared bankruptcy in 2001 during the energy crisis when it was saddled with $12 billion in debt. they'll have to review the risk mitigation efforts in the context of drought cycles nd dry vegetation, maintenance of power lines and other safety matters to ensure reliability. david louie, abc 7 news. now to disaster relief and preparedness in the wake of the camp fire. >> "7 on your side's" michael finney is live at san francisco's irwin memorial blood center with more on that. hi, michael. >> reporter: hey, you guys. how are you doing? we're doing a virtual blood drive is what we're up to today. we want you to go online and set up an appointment and give blood near you. there's often these blood events that will come by a local school. they'll go where you live. and there's facilities like this one. we want you to sign up. now,ing now that we've got that

taken care of, we want to talk about how we can make you and your family safer. here to talk about that is the lieu tej nant from the san francisco fire department. you work on this a lot with the public. >> it's really important to make sure we give the public the accurate information in a timely fashion so they can stay on point with what's going on in their particular neighborhood. >> how do you do that? how do they get the information? >> our particular city has a system set up through the department of emergency management where you can sign up for text alerts. if you send your zip code to 888777, you can actually get localized alerts sent directly to your phone in the form of a text message. >> if you live in a different part of the city or outside the city, you can input that zip code into the same text box and you'll receive alerts on that particular neighborhood. >> that's 888777. >> that's correct. which is different than the

wireless emergency alert system which is amber alerts and weather alerts. >> it's very local and it's to you. >> correct. it comes in as a form of a text message. if your phone is on vibrate or on airplane mode, you won't receive those text messages. it's important to make sure it's turned on. >> lieutenant, thank you very much for joining me. again, we've got all this information online at abc7news.com including how to donate blood near you. reporting from san francisco, michael finney. now we'll move on to the other news of the day. an officer just started his shift when this happened. >> we got the call of a woman screaming for help. >> and her baby was in big trouble. fortunately the officer knew what to do. also here, a top retailer, top shipping company and you know when you're at ross and you find a deal on cookware that makes you say. yes! ...oh, yeah! bring on the holidays! that's yes for less. everything you need to prep, cook and serve up the season.

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even seasoned investigators are calling it ingenious. a recent heist that happened in san francisco that ended up with the theft of high-end luxury items from a union city store. abc 7's vic lee is live at the ups shipping facility with a story you'll see only on 7. >> well, this is the ups san francisco customer center, and this is where the heist took place. a heist you might say that was creative and frankly too simple to be true. ♪ >> reporter: it was like a heist from a movie, a movie like "oceans 11," a plot that even makes former fbi agent rick smith marvel at the chooefs' creativity. >> you have to give them some credit for ingenious idea. >> reporter: it happened earlier this month. >> the police department received a report from a local shipping company that some high-end merchandise that was destined for a union square

retailer had been stolen. >> reporter: that's all police will say. a source with knowledge of the theft tells us how it went down. the shipping company is ups. the retailer is louis vuitton store in union square. the ups center on potrero received a call from someone who said he was from the louis vuitton store. the caller reportedly asked ups to stop deliveries temporarily because its basement storage area was flooded and someone would come by and pick up its shipments. for three days a driver purporting to be from louis vuitton made the pickups and disappeared with hundreds of thousands of dollars of expensive products. by the end of the week, the store asked why its deliveries had stopped. ups said it was because of the flooding. in fact, the basement was dry. the store knew nothing about the pickups. smith who is now a security consultant says ups must have protocols which were not

followed. >> there's got to be some sort of process, security procedure for contacting the vendor and then confirming -- >> reporter: confirming that the caller was, in fact, from louis vuitton and confirming the credentials of the guy who picked up the shipments here. both ups and louis vuitton declined mment. police continuing their investigation. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> incredible, vic. thanks very much. in oakland a newborn is alive thanks to the quick thinking of an oakland police officer. we just got body cam video from that officer that we'll show you here. we need to warn you. it's fairly intense. we'll show you what happens when he's born outdoors, dirt still on his tiny body as the officer helped the infant take his very first breath. [ baby crying ]. >> a little baby boy. >> when i showed up, he was

blue, not breathing, cleared his airway. >> crying good. >> he's crying good. just got her skin to skin and rubbing his chest. >> the baby was born yesterday to a homeless woman living in her car. abc 7 news anchor eric thomas has the story. >> this is what oakland does every single day, is really serve our community. >> reporter: police chief ann kirkpatrick took pride in announcing gregory palomo. >> flagged down by a citizen who advised me a woman had just given birth in a vehicle. >> reporter: simultaneously a woman who spotted the woman totally naked on the side of the road was on the phone with oakland police dispatcher. >> i was terrified for her. i can't imagine being nude on the side of the road and having a babe on your own. >> reporter: this is some of the conversation nicole and the

officer were having at the time. >> a naked female screaming. the female is saying she just had a baby or just delivered baby. >> barely breathing. trying to clear the airway right now. i got the baby breather. >> reporter: paramedics arrived within minutes and brought mother and child here to highland hospital. >> all i can think of is i'm the father of two myself. i just really needed to get the baby breathing. >> reporter: turns out the woman was homeless and living out of her car. the baby appeared to be immature, but both are doing well. the city of oakland has found the two a place to stay while they recover. in oakland, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> gosh, the tension you can just feel it. what terrific work and great outcome. >> i know. they work for those moments. >> makes your day. on to the weather. good evening to all of you, dan and kristin. take a look at live doppler 7.

that smoke is still overhead and impacting our air quality. right now most areas here in the bay area are in the sensitive to unhealthy category. head down towards santa cruz, they're actually dealing with moderate air quality. i do want to take you in a little closer, as you'll notice parts of the south bay in the unhealthy group, livermore, very unhealthy. santa rosa seeing improvement. believe it or not, parts of southern california, despite the fires a burning, the fire and smoke getting blown to the ocean. post sunset sky due to the smoke in the air, you can see just how bad the air quality is right now. 63 in san francisco. it is 59 in oakland. san jose 60 degrees, 56 in pacifica. taking you to the north bay from the golden gate bridge camera, a murky view because of the smoke. 52 in vacaville and 58 degrees

in livermore. another view from our east bay hills camera. smokey, hazy conditions expected the next few days. poor air quality will continue. we're expecting cooler weather weekend. might signal possibility of an improvement. i think we'll have to wait a few days. hazy first thing tomorrow morning. temperatures will range from the mid thirts to the low 40s. definitely swegter weather. tomorrow afternoon it is going to be hazy again, 66 francisco, half moon bay. 68 in san mateo. as you take a look at the computer models, two interesting setups. i know we've been saying rain chances, rain chances and which keep pushing them back. pushing back the possibility of rain. so now we're going to thanksgiving, thursday. this is our european model. it is definitely showing rain approaching by the time we head into friday. friday afternoon on to the coast

and in the sierra, some snow friday night and then another band coming through on saturday. that is the weather of the two models. if you buy this model over the next ten days, painting a wet picture, over an inch for some areas of the bay area. the other computer model, it is trending drier over the next ten days, gfs model. take a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. i'm not happy to report that things are changing and going dryer. i want to show you what's in store. hazy and mild tomorrow with the smoke lingering. cooler weather for the weekend. more clouds and definitely higher humidity to help those of you dealing with sinus issues. partly cloudy as you head into monday. temperatures in the 60s monday through wednesday of next week. you can download the accuweather app and track those temperatures any time you want. obviously if you're really

sensitive to smoke, stay inside. >> absolutely. thanks, sandhya. bigger,

a heads-up for anyone thinking about a drive through big sur. caltrans will preemptively shut down highway 1 at two points that experience significant slide whenever significant forms are forecast. they'll send out two traffic advisories, the first issued 48 hours in advance allowing big sir residents and others to stock up supplies in advance and make travel plans. a final determination on whether to close the highway or not will come 24 hours later. new technology at sfo could mean shorter security lines for you. the airport just unveiled these automated streaming lanes. new stainless steel counter tops mean several passengers can put

their stuff in bins at the same time. they're big enough to hold your carry on suitcases. conveyor belts push the bins through the x-ray machines. >> the other thing is, you don't have to wait for the stack of bins to be replenished. these things are constantly being fed, so at the front end you can really get going faster. >> this is a pilot test in terminal 3 where united airlines operates. if it goes well, it could be expanded to other terminals. >> pretty slick. national signing day means bragging rights for one

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breathing as a teachable moment. fighting back, see what one city is doing to stop commuters from cutting through town to by pass crowded freeways. a huge accomplishment for a dozen east bay athletes. >> 12 girls in concord signed letters today committing to college sports. this was part of the fall national letter of intent signing day. >> one of the 12, angelina anderson was not at today's ceremony because she's already playing for the under 17 u.s. women's soccer team. >> the team consists of 21 of the best girls soccer players in the country. >> anderson is heading to uc berkeley in the fall. good for her and all those women. great job. world news tonight with david muir is coming up next. i'm kristen sze. >> i'm dan ashley. we appreciate your time. we'll see you again in half an hour.

tonight, tracking a nor'easter just hours away. driving already turning deadly tonight. two dead, more than 40 injured in a major crash. heavy snow, sleet and rain falling at this hour. a dangerous commute home. winter warnings and watches are up right now. more than 100 million from the south all the way up through new york city and boston. rob marciano standing by with the new track tonight. the new fire roaring to life tonight. the stunning images. the flames. communities already burned to the ground. and the dire warning tonight. authorities now fearing the death toll could reach 100 or more. the horrific traffic stop. the deputy targeted when the suspect suddenly opens fire. the suspect jumping out without warning, taking aim, unloading