cal fire officials to give us the latest information about both containment and recovery efforts. this is a live look now from the silver dollar fair grounds in chico where they will be speaking. >> and you can see we are about to get started now, but here is a look at the flames. at least 48 people have died. the butte county sheriff's department listed more than 100 people as missing. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. >> now, the fire is at 35% containment at this moment. it has burned 135,000 acres and more than 7500 homes. keep in mind we are about to get updated figures so those are likely to change. the fire has torn through towns including paradise and magalia. several areas are still under evacuation orders tonight. those are the latest numbers we have, but literally any moment we will get new numbers from officials there in butte county. every time they update us, the numbers get a little bit more grim. >> they certainly do. of course, we will be hearing from fire commanders. we will be hearing from their

meteorologists monitoring the weather conditions there, and it looks like we are about to get underway. so let's listen in live in cheek ow for this news conference. so let's listen in live in chico for this news conference. >> good evening, i'm steve koffman, engine company captain with ventura county fire department and serve on as the public information officer on team four. this is the evening update for the camp fire, november 14, 2018, 1801 or 6:01 p.m. i'm going to start off with the current acreages at 138,000 acres, 35% contained. total personnel assigned to the fire, 5,473. citizens evacuated, we're still holding at 52,000.

citizens in shelters, 1,385. our current numbers on damage or destroyed structures as of 1800. single family residence. damaged, 115. destroyed, 8,650. multiple residences. damaged, 13. destroyed, 106. mixed commercial/residential. damaged, zero. destroyed, four. non-residential commercial properties. damaged, 48. destroyed, 260. other minor structures. damaged, 41.

destroyed, 1,301. which brings our grand total of damaged structures to date to 217 and our total destroyed structures to date to 10,321. i would like to bring up our operations section chief. >> good evening. my name is josh bischoff. i am battalion chief for cal fire in the riverside unit, and i'm proud to serve on incident management team four as an operational section chief. i will go over today's day operations and a little bit of what we have planned for tomorrow. starting off in the northeast side of the fire along the feather river drainage, we did experience continued activity in that area. up at the bear ranch com tower we were able to work retardant out of helicopters from one of our mobile retardant bases down

towards the feather river drainage to try to stop the spread of that fire along the feather river drainage. from that com tower back moving towards the south, along the big bar area, we continued to push dozer lines on our primary and secondary containment lines. we had several areas we had to go indirect, away from the fire's edge, but we also were able to get direct on several areas. last night we did have some significant fire growth above the big ben area, out into that big bar area. we were able to corral some of that with direct line and are continuing to work around it. the lower part of big ben continues to be a challenge in the steep terrain. we continue to try to find options to push down to the river's edge, however, that area is extremely steep, extremely rocky, and is proving to be very challenging. in the bloomer hill area, we had a lot of continued success.

the upper part of bloomer hill we were able to mop up, patrol and start to go in and seek and destroy any hot spots. the lower part of bloomer hill, we continue to finish all of the hand line, and we are waiting for the right opportunity to do a small fire operation to tie the lower part of bloomer hill in. crossing the cherokee side, we were able to do some significant line construction. we did have a small slopover in the cherokee area last night we were able to contain, continue to push down to the river's edge, and are currently doing a firing operation to try to tie that in to the river. along the bottom part of the 99 corridor, everything was in mop-up and patrol status. we continue to look for any hot spots, and efrverything is holdg good. in the town of paradise, concow and magalia, there was a lot of work done in there today to find hot spots and extinguish any hazards. up along the santos ranch ranchh

and from -- up to nemchu, we continued to line. we were able to tie it in last night. the burning operation was successful and currently we're doing mop-up and patrol down through magalia. through magalia through sterling city was mop-up and patrol today. from sterling city moving north and to the east, we experienced a significant fire behavior today. it is still within our containment lines to the east of sterling city. however, there is increased fire behavior up there. we are using bull dozers and hand crews to try to get around that area and corral it back out to the east. from there back down into the feather river drainage, we continued to have success, trying to cut indirect and direct fire line, and we found a few opportunities to get the fire from the top back down into the feather river drainage. that area is very steep and

challenging. for tomorrow we will continue some of the burning operations we have planned and try and tie in those sections that i described that are challenging us, specifically up in the big bar area. that will be our focus for tomorrow. thank you very much. >> good evening. my name is aviva brawn, a meteorologist with the national weather service based out of cheyenne, wyoming. i am here serving as an incident meteorologist for cal fire incident management team four. dry conditions continue this week at the higher elevations with rising humidities in the valleys. the northeast winds will continue to develop each night, continuing into the morning, with the strongest winds found along the ridge lines and down through the northeast to southwest aligned drainages. by the afternoon, light upslope, up-valley winds will develop.

now, these light winds and the inversion that has settled over the valley will continue the poor air quality we have been experiencing. the best window of opportunity if you choose to go outside will be in the early afternoon. two things of note as we look ahead. the first is that beginning saturday night we are going to get some stronger northeast winds in the overnight period. this will likely lead to some mixing in the valley, which will help with that poor air quality. the other thing that we are looking at is that we're increasingly confident in some precipitation by the end of next week. thank you. >> good evening. my name is brent newman. i am the commander of chp's valley division based in sacramento which also has jurisdiction over butte county including the chico and/or

oweville chp offices. the men and women of the california highway patrol have been heavily involved in rendering aid and assistance to the many affected by the camp fire in support of the butte county sheriff's office. we are staffing road side check points in many locations, and our officers very much feel the burden that is placed on the many residents who have been displaced, whose worlds have been turned upside down. some of those very officers, just like officers from the police department and the sheriff's department have lost their own homes in this horrific fire. the task faced by sheriff kory honea, the chef's law enforcement officer is substantial. perhaps unprecedented. as his department renders law enforcement services throughout butte county, including the deeply-affected areas of pulga, concow, magalia, not to mention paradise, we are here in support

of sheriff honea and paradise chief eric ryhinebold for the long haul to assist in the many issues presented by the camp fire. we deeply appreciate the public's understanding of our need to protect the evacuated areas. such protection enables firefighters and workers, utility and otherwise, to work as safely and efficiently as possible in rendering repair to the infrastructure. it also helps us with the concern many of you have expressed to me or to the sheriff, which is a concern for looting. the california highway patrol is actively patrolling the affected areas along with the butte county sheriff's department, the paradise police department, california national guard, and officers and deputy sheriffs from jurisdictions all over northern california. there are few moving vehicles in

the evacuated areas, and these are mostly utility companies and fire apparatus if not law enforcement. law enforcement units are active and alert in looking for anyone or any vehicle that doesn't belong. as the sheriff has said in previous media events, looters will be arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. two final items. earlier today the butte county agriculture department in conjunction with the butte county sheriff's office created a letter to allow livestock owners access through our traffic control points to restricted and evacuated areas due to the camp fire. these letters will be specific to the person obtaining the letter and attempting to gain access through the traffic control points. feeding and watering of livestock shall only be made during daylight hours, and all persons must immediately depart

the restricted area by the same route as entry. an escort may be required. the letter may only be obtained through the butte county agriculture department at the following location. 316 nelson avenue, 316 nelson avenue in oroville, and their phone number is 530-538-7381. their office hours are monday through friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and saturday from 8:00 in the morning till 2:00 in the afternoon. this is the only location to obtain the letter, and it will not be available at other locations. it is also the only letter that our officers will accept to allow entry under these conditions. the public is reminded, for those few that will be allowed access for this purpose, to stay vigilant on current fire conditions. please continue to adhere to road closures, evacuation orders, and drive slowly and yield to emergency personnel in

the area. as you reenter your property, please be aware of hazardous conditions because they very well may exist. finally, we took on the mission of clearing vehicles that were abandoned in the roadways and either left on the side of the road or pushed. the vast majority of those vehicles are totally burns. we have identified nearly every one of the vehicles. the process is that an officer goes to the vehicle, completes the normal tow storage form. the vehicle is then towed to a staging location, and we have investigators from all over northern california that work for the california highway patrol or part of our vehicle theft task force that have the expertise to identify vehicles that are severely burned. to date, to this moment we have recovered 128 vehicles, 40 of which were recovered today. we have recovered nearly 100% of all of the vehicles that have

been blocking directly the roadway, and we have a lot more that are on the side of the roads. we are not towing any vehicles that are on public -- or private property, only that are on the public roads and posing a hazard. there is much work to be done, but we are very committed for the long haul and optimistic because of the cooperation and partnership exhibited amongst all agencies that we will accomplish any and every law enforcement mission effectively and for the best interests of the public here in this county. thank you. >> good evening, everybody. i've been asked to speak up, so if it seems like i'm yelling at you, i apologize. in order to accommodate that request. as you know my name is kory honea, and i'm the sheriff and coroner of butte county.

as i said on my previous presentations, the information that i'm about to provide to you is the most up-to-date information that i have. this is still an emergency situation. it is still an evolving situation. we're continuing to gather new information, and over time, what i have told you today may change or may have to be clarified. i want to start by talking a little bit about what chief newman told you. i want to tell you really how much support we've gotten from all of our law enforcement partners, and certainly the national guard, but chief newman and i have been working very, very closely together and i'm very grateful for his assistance in taking on some of the missions with regard to traffic control as well as removing the vehicles. i would have to echo all of his sentiments and statement with regard to our ongoing effort to

keep people out of the area because, one, it is not safe and, two, we are trying desperately to protect the property of the people in there. when there's more people in there than there should be, that makes it that much more difficult. i would again ask for your patience, not only in terms of when you make contact with the highway patrol officers at the check points, please understand that they're doing a job and that there's no need to be rude to them. but also when you call into our various departments and speak to our civilian staff and our dispatchers, they're doing their job, they're doing the best job they can, and i would ask that you please be patient and at least civil to them when you talk to them. as of tonight there are no -- there have not been any changes to the evacuation orders or warning since my last update. i have decided to keep the lobby of the butte county sheriff's office closed for two more days.

the reason for that is that we are -- we have ramped up our efforts to service the missing person call center. the staff that would normally be tasked with dealing with people coming in the lobby have been put to that task. i want to stay as focused on that effort as possible, and so we're going to keep the front lobby of the sheriff's office closed. at i've said in the past, we remain open for calls. you can still contact us by phone. we'll still answer emergency calls. if there's a need for you to come to the sheriff's office to report something, you can go to the jail lobby. a lot of work has been done with regard to getting our efforts to find unaccounted for and missing persons further down the road. as i've told you, we set up our call center.

we have brought a lot of resources in. that has been a pretty significant task because it required us to set up work stations for them, get computers set up for them. so a lot of our support staff have been busy doing that kind of thing. i went down there today and checked on the call center and was pleased to see a significant number of law enforcement personnel from throughout the state manning those calls. through our ongoing efforts we have been able to locate or determine that over 200 people that we thought were missing or were unaccounted for are not. i think that's a pretty positive number. as of tonight, we currently have 130 people on our unaccounted for list, or persons who are unaccounted for. we released a partial list last night and now we have that list up on our website.

it is at the butte county sheriff's website. that can be accessed at www.buttecounty.net/ sheriffhonea. tonight it will be updated and the 130 names of those who are still unaccounted for will be listed. we would ask that people check that list to determine whether or not they are on it, because, as i have said before, friends and family may have been unable to locate them and may have called our office to report them missing or unaccounted for. if you find your name on that list, please call my office and speak to one of our investigators to advise us that you are safe and well so we can move on to other cases. you can call 538-6570 or 538-7544 or 538-7671, all with the 530 area code.

if you have reported someone as missing or unaccounted for and then you have located them, we would also ask you to call and let us know so that we can remove their name from that list. we are going to be working to update that list at least on a daily basis, and my sincere hope is that over time the list will get shorter and shorter and shorter until we have been able to account for everybody. now moving to our ongoing effort to search for and recover human remains of those who perished in the fire. i brought in a significant number of resources to aid us in that endeavor. i have done that, as i said last night, because we want to be able to conduct as thorough a search as possible of those areas in as timely a fashion as possible because we're very

cognizant of the fact that people want to get back into the area. we're utilizing these resources to try to balance both of those competing interests. so today we brought in an additional 287 search and rescue personnel to assist with ground searches. they are joined by -- that number includes 50 members of the california highway -- i'm sorry, the california national guard. that brings the total number of assets that we have or resources that we have helping us with these searches to 461 individuals, including the ones we already had. we have also begun to use cadaver dogs. at this point we have 22 here working with these teams in an effort to locate remains. as i told you last night, we now have the ability or we were planning on bringing in a rapid dna system. i'm pleased to say that ande,

anc a-n-d-e, rapid dna identification system is arriving here in butte county. they're flying in from various parts of the country. they are bringing with them their system and the experts who can run it. we are hopeful that will expedite our efforts to identify remains and then locate or notify their next of kin. the folks from ande, working in conjunction with our coroner's branch and the california department of justice and the sacramento county coroner's office and morgue, are getting set up and putting the process in place, and they have already -- have the capability of beginning to collect samples from the general public or people who suspect that a loved one may have perished in the fire. so beginning tomorrow, anyone who believes that a family

member perished and they want to provide a dna sample can go to the butte county sheriff's office between 8:00 a.m. -- excuse me. between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., and they can then provide a sample. we are going to run that out of our lobby until such time as a family assistance center is set up or some other more appropriate location is set up. we will update you at time goes on to let you know where that process is taking place. finally, again, the most difficult part of my job with regard to these particular briefings is to provide you with additional information about the human remains that were found today during the course of our

search. an additional eight human remains were recovered. that brings the total up to 56. all eight of those human remains were found in the paradise area. six were found inside structures, two were found outside of structures. of the 56 human remains that we have, we have tentatively identified 47 of them, but we are waiting on dna confirmation, which we are hoping will be expedited by the fact that we brought in the rapid dna system. that is all of the information that i have for you tonight. thank you. that is the sheriff of butte county, updating the media once again along with other public officials there, key figures that have been updated. of course, you just heard a number more deaths confirmed, bringing the tal to 56.

130 people are still unaccounted for in the wake of these fires. >> we will

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a "abc 7 news." good evening once again and welcome back. we have live team coverage tonight on the camp fire in butte county. >> "abc 7 news" weather anchor spencer christian is tracking the continuing issues with our air quality in the bay area. >> first let's go to "abc 7 news" reporter wayne freedman live in butte county for us tonight. wayne. >> reporter: good evening, dan. behind me the road block on the road to paradise. it is roughly ten miles from here on the day and the night of the fire it took people six hours to work their way through the flames. today we spoke with one couple, they were very fortunate to make it. they can thank their neighbor. burned shoes abandoned by the side of the shoe, a not-so-subtle sign warners looters about guns and a backhoe for convenience. this is paradise in aftermath, the main road out of town after thursday's flames and chaos. >> there were flames on both sides of the road, hot embers blowing over us and propane

tanks popping all around us. >> reporter: marilyn welsh and her husband ralph found safe haven in her sister's house in chico. it may be home for a while because the place they used to live this is all gone. >> 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. >> reporter: many of whom are elderly and retired more than 25% of the population, which makes this fire unique. >> it is the fact there's so many elderly people that can't move as fast as the younger people, you know, and it took a while for some of 'em to leave their homes. >> reporter: ralph and marilyn had no idea there was a fire on thursday morning. they had received warning calls from the fire department, but somehow those calls didn't register. if not for a neighbor across the street who came over and banged on what used to be this door, they might not have gotten out alive. >> he came to our front door and

he beat like heck on the front door, and i went to the front door to see who it is. and, boy, oh, boy, he says, you got to get out of here right now. >> reporter: they had to leave behind their precious cats. >> either stay there and die with them or leave because the flames were already in our backyard and starting to surround the house. >> reporter: which led to that harrowing drive and escape. not only did their home vanish, so did that of their neighbor jim burnett. it all happened so fast they haven't even said a proper thank you. so -- >> i just love you. you saved our lives. thank you so much for being a fantastic neighbor. >> reporter: so to that neighbor jim burnett, wherever you are tonight, the welshes want you to know how much they appreciate what you did for them. we asked the family if they planned to rebuild and go back again. they said not at this time, but they're not making any choices

yet. live near paradise in butte county, wayne freedman, "abc 7 news." >> what a story there. wayne, thank you. and "abc 7 news" weather anchor spencer christian has been tracking our air quality. >> spenter, we just learned that sf state is cancelling classes and closing the campus through the rest of the week because of the smoke. is it getting better? >> not at the moment, dan. we expect modest improvement over the weekend, but it won't happen unless we get some stronger wind, and at the moment we have a calm wind. this graphic shows a measure of the fine particulate matter in the atmosphere. any measure of 150 or higher means very unhealthful air. actually, unhealthful air, very unhealthful air is what we have in livermore right now where the measure is 251. you see that the smoke and the haze are not moving out of the area. this is the view from emeryville, and the visibility has been reduced to just a mile and a half in livermore and two-and-a-half miles in san carlo, mountain view and san jose only three miles of

visibility, and at sfo which is interfering with arrivals and takeoffs. so flight schedules are impacted by this. as i mentioned, the wind is calm. we need a stronger wind to move the particulate matter out of here. on the other hand, the calm wind is helping the firefighting effort. the first seven days of this month were clear. we had not only clear skies but cleaner air. the next seven days leading up to today we had, of course, smoke building up in the atmosphere, smoky skies and very poor air quality. once again, we are hoping for improvement over the weekend. we will keep monitoring conditions. dan and ama. >> spencer, thank you so much. today top politicians witnessed the fire destruction firsthand. governor brown, u.s. secretary of the interior ryan zinke and fema administrator long visited what is left of paradise and talked with first responders. >> we can't avoid catastrophe, but we can prepare for it. we can recover from it, and we will. >> interior secretary zenke was

asked about president trump's tweet which blames the fires, damage and deaths on gross mismanagement of the forest. >> i don't want to finger point. what i want to do is how we go from here. this is just not a state issue. it is not a federal issue. this is an american issue of managing our forests. >> today the white house released this photo of president trump speaking with the fema administrator who visited paradise. governor brown today announced an executive order to help with wildfire cleanup and recovery efforts. in the meantime, this is the fifth straight day of stock declines for pg&e. the utility company faces serious financial consequences if it is found liable for the wildfire in butte county. >> yeah, the camp fire is both the deadliest and most destructive fire in state history. "abc 7 news" reporter david louie talks to a former state utilities regulator about what corrective steps need to be taken. >> reporter: pg&e has indicated it could be in financial distress if investigators say it is to blame. in a filing with the securities and exchange commission, pg&e

said, quote, while the cause of the camp fire is still under investigation, if the utility's equipment is determined to be the cause, the utility could be subject to significant liability, in excess of insurance coverage that would be expected to have a material impact on pg&e corporations and the utility's financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows. pg&e said it has taken out over $3 billion in lines of credit and short-term loans. with that pg&e filings indicate it has $3.4 billion in cash on hand and 1.4 billion in insurance coverage. but that is still $5 million short of the $10 billion in claims already filed in connection with last year's northern california fires. investors reacted to those disclosures. pg&e stock dropped almost 22% wednesday. with back-to-back years of catastrophic fire events, santa clara university law profitsor and former state public utilities commissioner katherine sandoval says action needs to be

taken to provide reliable power and protect the public's safety. >> these broad sweeps of wires and all of this vegetation isn't mixing well, and so as we're looking at how do we have to change, there will be real questions about how do we figure out the financing so that, you know, we can keep the golden state's economy viable. >> reporter: ideas that may surface may include removing all vegetation or new systems to turn off the power grid during high winds. david louie, "abc 7 news". >> and we have seen our awful ar quality over the past couple of days throughout the bay area, so what exactly is in the pollution? >> yes, some students are finding out. we'll have that part of our cove

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new video from butte county. it shows first responders rescuing a woman in a wheelchair. cal fire deputy chief scott mcclain tells us he came across this woman in a wheelchair on thursday when the camp fire first broke out. you can see she doesn't have anything with her except her tiny dog tucked in her air. it is not clear where she was

doing but she was doing the best she could. officials took her to the hospital where she appeared to be okay, but they got her out safely. >> goodness. we have been told how bad the air quality is. students in san francisco decided to see what we are breathing. >> abc news reporter lyanne melendez shows the result of the experiment. >> there's two adjustment knobs on the side. >> reporter: they were introduced to new microscope to anallize the contents of the petri dishes. they were left outside for the last four days for the benghazi benghazi -- nor the last four days to capture bad stuff. >> we had the lid over it with the vast lien some know particles really good in. we had a different one, we did not have the lid on it, the experimental. >> reporter: using a grid, students picked three random boxes and averaged the number of particles. >> if you use the naked eye to see it, we only see the chunky ones. once we put it under the microscope we see a lot more. we are actually breathing way

more than we thought. >> reporter: the size of particles are usually described in microns. one micron is equal to one millionth of a meter. to give you an idea how small a micron is. take a human hair. the diameter is between 60 and 80 microns. particles that are less than ten microns are breathable and can settle deep into the lungs causing health problems. >> that fire has burned downtowns, it has burned cars, it has burned forests down, and that's all part of that smoke. so, yes, there are going to be chemicals involved in that as well. >> yesterday i was getting headaches and i think it was from that, but, yeah, just like breathing it in. i don't think it is really good. >> reporter: the teacher told us what they learned from this experiment will hopefully give them a different outlook on catastrophic situations affecting the state. >> as fires continue to get more intense, more frequent, our droughts get worse, students can

think about prevention and start thinking of maybe solutions, because this is going to be the generation of solutions. >> reporter: solutions to problems created in part by previous generations. in san francisco, lyanne melendez, "abc 7 news." all week long "abc 7 news" is looking into ways to make it easier to get around. that's part of our commitment to building a better bay area. >> tonight we explore how useful those traffic apps are. you probably use one, and whether they're helping y

"abc 7 news" is committed to building a better bay area. we are spending more time examining issues that affect our quality of life, and tonight that's traffic navigation apps like waze, google and apple maps. >> so many of us use them. they're supposed to make driving easier and faster, but as the app's popularity grows so does evidence the apps may make traffic worst. on their cellphone traffic apps to get where they're going. >> so the app would tell me the fastest route, and that's including traffic jams. >> i love the waze app. i use it every single day. i commute all the way to los

gatos. >> i use google maps to get around and it helps. >> even some app fans admit the traffic information can sometimes backfire. >> i've noticed that it definitely tends to get people off on the same exit, causing more traffic. >> it has been a year and a half since we first showed you this don't trust your app sign put up by the city of fremont, an early indicator of a problem that has only gotten more extreme. >> we think they're making things worse because they're sending vehicles and motorists into neighborhoods that they weren't intended or designed for. >> when interstate 680 slows down during evening rush hour, the apps send traffic on alternate routes including mission boulevard, so it gets backed up and so do surrounding streets. >> there are so many commuters trying to get on to 680, and it is just horrible. >> now state of the art computer models appear to show the apps can have a wider impact that goes beyond just a single neighborhood. >> this demonstration shows in

some circumstances apps can really make things worse. >> alex byen is director of uc berkley's institute of transportation studies that created this computer traffic simulation. >> there's an accident. that accident obviously obstructs traffic. >> the top-level shows traffic flow when 20% of the drivers are using apps. the bottom level is regular traffic with no apps. after 45 minutes, the accident is removed but the apps don't know right away. so they keep sending drivers off the freeway, backing upside roads and clogging on and off ramps many miles away. as the incident plays out over two hours, the scenario using apps has worst long-term congestion and reduced traffic flow compared with the scenario with no apps. >> this problem is growing, and this problem is not going to cure itself. >> byen thinks the apps should be required to cooperate with government traffic agencies to improve traffic for the good of all, not just individual drivers. but that's not likely to happen

any time soon. so fremont traffic engineer noe vilosi says his city and many others are fighting back. >> this is how we monitor the traffic conditions on a daily basis. we actually run tests. >> engineers watch the apps during peak traffic times to see where they're routing drivers. this test is just before 3:00 on a thursday. waze is sending drivers off the freeway through residential neighborhoods. >> we have a significant high school traffic and it is sending motorists into high school traffic. >> here google maps is telling commuters they can turn their 33 million drive into a 28-minute drive. >> google maps and waze are sending the traffic off the freeway for a savings of four minutes, but it is impacting a large part of the community. >> fremont added no turn signs and stop signs to discourage cut-through traffic. but as things get better in one neighborhood, the apps route drivers into another one.

in march engineers expanded use of a tougher traffic. >> if you exit the freeway and you are looking to save time off the commute using ress deidenti streets, we will punish you by making you wait at red light. >> it is a long longer today than it was last time. >> engineers are still tweaking the exact timing. >> to try to find the right balance of reducing cut-through traffic and not impacting our residents significantly. >> early indications are the number of drivers cutting through fremont is down, but we still found plenty of backed up traffic, and not every commuter willing to change their habits. >> even though they slowed down the traffic lights, this way is a lot faster for me. >> waze and google maps are owned by google and would not do an interview for the story. waze sent a statement saying in part, waze was designed to, quote, reduce traffic by redirecting drivers away from places that are already congested, not to send everyone down the same route. the company also pointed to its

connected citizens program which partners with cities to work on transportation challenges, and the waze carpool app that can help cut the number of cars on the road. now, we have posted the entire waze statement at abc7news.com. google maps did not respond to our questions on this issue, but sent a general statement saying in part, the app strives for accuracy. we've also posted that. another traffic app, apple maps, did not respond at all. so we'll wait to hear from them. another bay area city meantime is taking action against apps which direct drivers going through the east bay to cut through foster city to avoid backups on 101 and 92. the redirected traffic got so fwad the city is reviewing a pilot program preventing necessary turns on east hillsdale boulevard on to edgewood boulevard and shell boulevard from 4:00 until 7:00 p.m. the city council will have a meeting next month after a community feedback survey ends. >> what do you think it will

take to build a better bay area. hair yo share your ideas by using the #betterbayarea. >> let's talk about the warriors. >> yes. kevin durant, draymond green, where do the warriors go from here? the short answer is houston for a game. steph curry's new role on the

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today. given the tension, playing the rockets tomorrow is perfect. it gives these guys a common enemy but steph curry won't be back for a while. steph traveling with the team during the three game trip with texas, was not in l.a. when everything blew up. st steph will be re-evaluated in ten games. looks like a minimum of nine games missed because of the injury including the three he has been sidelined. next time we hear and see from the warriors will be at chute-around tomorrow. can k.d. and draymond patch things up and stay on course? who knows. we know the entire warriors organization walks on egg shells when it comes to kevin durant and trying to resign him. perhaps draymond was screaming what others have been thinking for a while now. it was clear from looking at durant last night he is upset. >> kevin, have you and draymond been able to hash anything out?

>> no. >> do you see that happening any time soon? >> i'm sure it will. we have a long season ahead. >> i love both of those guys, and at the end of the day we're on the same team with the same goal, and that's to three-peat. i don't think either of them will lose sight of that. >> when you play at a high level and you're competitive, things happen. every time i have ever been on, things have happened. by the way, i kicked mj's [ bleep ]. >> i know you guys got a job to do, but i'm not trying to get nobody no headlines. what happened happened, we try to move on. just trying to play basketball. >> go on a little win streak, it will not matter and it will be in the past like a ponytail. >> that's a great line. we'll see if it is true. this is a saga that's going to linger for a long time. in what is considered a big win for major league baseball analytics community, jacob degrom is a cy young

ten wins, he had a 1 allowed three runs or fewer in the final 24 starts. in the american league snell was 124-5, more traditional cy young numbers, but only pitched 180 innings. closer by the way, blake trident received a third place vote and came in seventh in overall voting. 49ers and raiders combine 3-16 records as the two struggling franchises try to right the ship. nfl decided to avert the attention, taking them off national tv. in week 13, the 49ers will not play on sunday football. they've been flexed out of that game. the following week the raiders get the boot in favor of -- khalil mack and the chicago bears, the ex-raider. they will be taking on the l.a. rams. something the raiders did yesterday does deserve some extra hair time though and this is fantastic. they spent their off day at ucsf

benioff children's hospital. they donated raiders branded toy cars. these things are awesome. as well as a check for $5,000 to support the hospital's child life department. great to see smiles on the faces of young kids. finally, if you are a fantasy football owner that drafted le'veon bell, he may have stolen your championship hopes this season. i have le'veon. maybe it makes you feel better. after the steelers running back decided to sit out the whole season holding out in a contract dispute, his teammates took the stuff he left in his locker. >> i prern it. i appreciate the cleats, my guy. i hope you the best. i appreciate the cleats. i i am taking it all, my brother. much love. >> that was linebacker bud dupree helping himself to bell's locker full of shoes and gear. he never showed up to claim it so his teammates decided, you know what? this looks like it fits me. this is going to look good on me right here. >> thanks, larry. >> wow. all right. well, join us tonight at 9:00 on

kofy tv 20 and right here on abc 7. we will look at the dire housing situation in butte county. thousands are now homeless. why one official says butte county is on the edge of a humanitarian crisis. >> on "abc 7 news" at 11:00, concerned parents pack a school board meeting on the peninsula. what could force several elementary schools to close. >> see you later tonight for that and more. that is this edition of "abc 7 news". look for breaking news whenever you wish on the "abc 7 news" app. we appreciate your time. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. for larry, spencer, all of us here, thank you for joining us tonight. ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. i take trulicity once a week to activate my body

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