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live this is kron 4 news @ 5:30 p.m. >> and at 530 our developing story it wild fire burning on the back side of mount diablo its earnings through the park 100 a. are affected your looking in a live picture flooded the aircraft's involved in china knock down this blaze. 100 a. but no evacuation have been ordered no structures are affected they're doing water drops a number of ground crews already on the scene of this is a grassy wooded area we should let people know it. if the committees nearby are likely single the smoking might be concerned by seeing so much smoke in the area. the areas of black cop, clayton camerno strus
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no homes affected at this time. no evacuations ordered. part of the problem is it is so hot outside we will waited for the summer finally began in here it is jacqueline course here we get with the warm temperatures. >> temperatures are this hot over hundred degrees it's going to dry of bethel's anything can start the fire it can spread easily. >> what we looking every now? the >> looking at hot and dry conditions the good news is the winds aren't too terribly strong pretty seat mile an hour winds they're coming from the northeast. they're going to be blowing towards dan volk towards alamo and towards san ramon toppling of the of the way. again because the winds are only miles an hour is not going to spread the fire as quickly as if they were 15 or 20 mi. an hour. it can easily be a lot stronger if we did have the sea breeze winds in place which we don't rate now. that's why temperatures are so hot. plus dry air has settled right over right now so temperatures
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continue to be in the hundreds. for much of the bay area as a matter of fact current conditions over a hundred degrees in many spots the north bay, inland, the peninsula of the south bay fire dangers up everywhere it's he devised in effect that will continue into tomorrow will talk more about the heat wave coming up in just a bit. >> or jacqueline we want to show you the location of the fire. let's take a quick look at the live picture read they're going to do as many of these drops as they possibly can to get this thing out as quickly as possible. about a half-hour ago is that the 50 a. it's now balloon to 100 a.. no homes are threatened but a scary thing for people who live in that area off this in lots of black smoke. the location here on google earth of light on one side, black hawk on the other creek canyon road runs rain in the middle of that in both communities. there aren't a
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lot of homes in this area. you can see the train this is where mount diablo state park is an you concede it's a mountainous region with lots of trees, lots of dry grass. it's burning a hundred three degrees of their fire fighters have their work cut out for them we sort of check of what sort of equipment they're throwing at this thing. we've learned that they've got to helicopters, 48 air tankers, so lot of equipment, a lot of manpower being thrown at this. so that this doesn't threaten any homes. at first we heard of may be threatening homes but last word as you can see it's pretty desolate out here. not of a lot of homes nothing is written at this point and they're hoping the no more homes will be threatened. last were todd you were in the 2460 here you conceal the thick smoke we see now where are you. >> i'm coming up the ganesha
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valley road raised by the hospital and you can see over the hills a lot of thick, brown smoke coming over. it looks like vandals san ramon area is getting hit pretty hard there. >> this has been burning for people who live in this area these are live pictures of smoke coming from creek canyon road where this fire is taking place. it's been going on for about an hour you can see that thick black smoke that todd was talking about. does it have people stopping the tracks todd and looking at this thing. >> this section is a jackson on a nation of valley road it will that's because people are looking at smoke, the parking lot are looking over at the fire hit any concede the black smoke. i live in the clean the area i'm just wondering if it's could come over the hill that way tree again home will see. >> have a lot of manpower is in
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mentioned they're hoping to contain it in the fire that started about could 45 to 50 minutes ago in between clayton black caucus and no homes are threatened right now but as the polo you can see how much sticks most people are driving home from work single my goodness what's happening. project a fire officials there say no evacuation no homes are threatened. thank-you todd. looking at more pictures knell of this thick smoke coming from this. still don't know what started this whole thing again look of the flames there we haven't seen those huge flames in the last 45 minutes or so. >> we will continue to follow developments as otc it with the far not to fund to other news of the day. five people seriously injured after an out of control s u b crashes into a bus stop your this happen in san francisco today. dan kermis live on the scene he joins us with a look at what happened today. dan. >> it happened right here on san bruno ave the people were standing in the driveway over
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there. they're staying in the shade there were off from the bus stop when a car lost control and blue ribbon to all five people. they're all right now hospitalized. like this vehicle stories to the 24 year- old woman was heading south on san bruno ave towards bay shore. if she lost control across the double yellow line and slammed into five people who are waiting here for boss. >> did expense and to the mechanical difficulty with the vehicle. >> choose unable to apply the brakes, she is unable to shift the gears, she was unable to steer the boat. >> after hitting a fight to win for the bus, the ford explorer the woman was driving came to rest between this yellow home and this bus stop. that's after smashing into the state, possibly putting one of the victims. to get a real understanding of just how hard the car hit one need only look of the vehicle parked behind the gates. it smashed. san francisco police are conducting an investigation beginning with the
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driver and her vehicle. >> going to ask questions about how it happened and and on the vehicle to an inspection on the vehicle to determine what if any mechanical difficulties may have taken place. >> as you can imagine of you are one of those people went to the bus it wasn't just those five people were there the reply of others just next to them that saw it all happened. we spoke with one of them about an hour ago. >> you read the screaming, you heard people backing away most the people were yelling in chinese. then you cut of just froze and when you looked over it was ago my goodness back card just literally came down crossover she was on the other side she crossed over and read into the crowd. i saw a woman right here lying on the ground another gentleman for their of lying on the ground. behind that to was another woman who
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actually pinned down on the ground. she was in very bad shape. just pleading for nose, mouth, her leg all she could do is kind of not of me pointed our mouth the leg she couldn't speak sure is pretty bad. >> now at this point officials in san francisco general hospital are telling us all five people were hit have been hospitalized two are in critical condition three others in serious condition so far no charges to the driver this point pending the outcome of the investigation. reporting live in 7 cisco kron 4 news. >> i want to show you where this happened on google earth is a san bruno ave and visitation alisha was driving southbound here that simmons take this will sequenced weakens your talking about this is san bruno ave have another shot for you where racks is booming and carried to an southbound belongs in revenue crossover there, the double
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lines right there for fat and the people were hanging out right here on to that shelter right there. the card cross a double line to run into the people right there. pam. >> again we're following the wild fire burning in contra costa county this is near mount diablo state park appeared 100 a. a look at all this smoke that is frightening to the many people who live in the communities of black hawk, clayton, danville or livermore the good news is, fire officials at this point no structures are affected by this blaze. were continuing to follow this road and newscasts. >> and it's still really, really hot out there right now for most of bay area occurred in the '80s close to the coastline but for much in the triple digits almost everywhere else. did he will continue cash into tomorrow. details of that are coming up.
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this is a map to be an idea of where the wild fire is burning near mount diablo state park were temperatures right now still about above the 100 degrees as we approached the 6:00 hour. we've been showing pictures for the evening of the air tankers and one non dropping airdrops try not on the blaze. it's 100 a. but no structures and no evacuations at this time. >> we want to show you video that we shot was the last hour this was shot at about 520 you can see those flames and was burning there. it's essentially trees and grasses dry and it's definitely a lot of there. video was shot about 525 this evening trade this is this thick smoke this is what people who were driving home are seeing. lots of smoke. we have video from 5:30 p.m. you can see the huge smoke plume from above and eighth in putting this out from the air
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primarily. they have lots of folks on the ground about a hundred and 40 people are finding this from the ground. they're fighting it from the air we've heard of four air tankers are on the way in bringing in another to have the air tankers that they've ordered the don't this to get out of control. the good news is it is in such a remote area off no homes are threatened. >> surely hot out there right now that will continue into tomorrow for inland locations and other choice spots through the bay area. the cooler weather along the coast tomorrow if an end to the entire bay area
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back to live pictures now of very smokey if 100 a. wildfire burning out of control off creek canyon road in contra costa county this is near mount diablo state park. the committees of black hawk, clayton san ramon danville that entire area seen these large plume of smoke pouring over their communities.
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however, cal fire another local fire departments are telling us if those structures are threatened at this time they are making water drops from the air you conceal frightening this to be look out the window and sees huge clouds of smoke pouring over your area. if i can we don't know the cause but we do know that he is a factor in jacqueline is with us now to give us a sense of just how hot it is out there. >> and it is scorching out there this afternoon i will look at where the fire is burning rugged terrain tablatures topping hundred degrees still winds aren't too terribly strong. 10 mi. an hour of the northeast blowing in this direction if the winds were stronger than that it would be much more of a concern because it would not the flames all round. really warm temperatures and dry conditions not a good thing. it's like the bay area wide look of these temperatures. in the triple digits up in the north bay 107 in santa rosa is our warm is location right now off, one of
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live in concord, one of four in livermore almost every location the bay area is in the hundreds right now. if only as a global view locations are not 89 san francisco, 86 half moon bay, 96 and oakland, 95 in hayward. still they're very very warm. he did as remains in effect for most of bay area you see all the or thailand on your screen tomorrow this will remain in effect for the north bay. this will disappear for places close to the coastline are sea breeze winds are going to kick back up tomorrow and provide cooling relief closer to the coast. in the spot stay hot temperatures top 100 degrees away from the coastline and he buys real- estate effect till 8:00 tomorrow evening. cooling of the media coastline because those see breeze winds will kick back up. they're important for forecast to keep a comfortable out there. 68 have one day tomorrow with the wind in the afternoon, if some six san francisco the cool morning air providing relief from the bay shores. 83 hayward,
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86 fremont but stain hot inland in the triple digits and the upper 90s in the north bay and upper 90s in parts of the south bay. i look at your kron 47 day around the bay forecasting how inland tomorrow and the warm side near the bay. our sea breeze winds will provide relief close to the clothesline and the clinic taken thursday and friday. come this weekend will get a blast of cold air unseasonably cold air that will drop off our temperatures and bring a sick expense of fog backing keep our temperatures 15 to vote degrees below where they should be. will assure you video coming into the kron 4 news room we've been telling you that the fire crews cal fire and when not making air drops dropping that story did not down this place. you can imagine those people who live all of our viewers who live in that area in the community of the area near the mount diablo state park are single the smoke and are certainly frightened by it again those structures are threatened at this time our web
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producer and kimberly has been loaned to the elements on line. an updated picture of the fires sent in by what other readers kathy let's take a closer look at it. right here you see the smoke billowing over the hills right now but in the foreground you can see some homes right there. on the site they also write their friend he's near the scene and he gave them an update he said he's hearing dozens of sirens he's in one helicopter dumping water and retardant on the blaze appeared he also said the power went out at their home for just a few seconds about an hour ago and even of the fire is still file a walaway they are pg up just in case it does had their way. head to www.kron4.com live a slide show to fire pictures right-of your near the blaze snap a picture take some video e-mail let's go to www.kron4.com look of a slide show and said as your pictures.
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>> i can live pictures of the area affected this is near mount diablo state park and you can see back in the background of this picture that huge plume of smoke. you can understand why people would be frightened seeing that kind of smoke. it would appear not too far from their homes but cal clark tells us gnomes are threatened at this time we're going to take a quick break and come back with the very latest for you here on kron 4 news. [ male announcer ] when meg whitman arrived at ebay,
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at a picture of the wild fire burning off with creek canyon road in contra costa county this is near the mount diablo state park. you can see the background-huge plume of smoke filling the sky a number of committees in that area have concerns because they're seeing that smoke. but again cal fire has told us that no structures are threatened at this time. at last check this fire has registered at 100 a. it may have grown since then. fortunately
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the winds are not a major factor in this blaze. we've been watching a number of aircraft making water drops to try and knock this out. no evacuation seven ordered no structures threatened. >> you can see the smoke and the flames coming from this fire. todd is near the scene trade >> heather and finally home i live in the foothills between clayton and concord and i could see picture-perfect diabolo and the looks of the smoke is moving up the ridge now. it's really hot it's like the hundred five degrees out here that's what makes it scary the foothills where we live it's all open space others drybrush everywhere so that's the kind of scare you have carried the >> liz were hearing from cal fire they're doing everything they can fight this and it's not running in the homes but must be scary if you're living in that area is drexel smoke in your neighborhood? all right we
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lost ought to listen to clean the area but the bottom line is this is very scary for people who live in the area because are so much smoke that come from the area. jacqueline fire fighters of the work cut out for them because it's so hot right now. >> pc lot records were broken today the numbers that have the our next to the new records in santa rosa at 1 07, now but one of 5, sanders filed, san francisco, oakland, redwood city lot places breaking record of the jurors the only place where was somewhat comfortable was along the coast which is pacifica up at 85 degrees. very scary word it fires burning cuts temperatures are natural digits. >> going show you these pictures again these are live pictures this could see a sense of why there's so much concern in the area. that fire is very smokey of course a lot of dry fuel in
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that area these are live pictures and we will bring in the very latest in an update at the top of our newscast coming up at 6:00. stay tuned.
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i this is kron 4 news at 6:00 of the developing story >> our developing story it 6:00 this wild fire burning in contra costa county it has burned about 100 a. at last check. kron 4 as the loan the story for the last hour and a half or more. heather donald as europe is about to give us a better look at the exact location expected. >> it is scary for people living in clayton, black hawk san ramon alamo because to conceal that smoke but were hearing from firefighters is it is not threatening any structures. will take it falls agency were the fire is burning along creek
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canyon road and you can see it's a mountainous area full of grass. it a lot of fuel to burn here tough terrain for firefighters to get that that's why they're fighting this primarily from the air right now. you can see not a lot of structures in this area >>. pam> heather on the phone with us to get the latest details on what's happening with this fire were going have a conversation shortly to get an update on what's happening. last check in with jacqueline because of the temperatures there of course that's making its tough on fire fighters. heather. >> the temperatures are very hot of their this afternoon pam especially where the fire is burning the inland spots have been cooking out there taken the picture fall hundred degrees at 6:00 in the evening. this goes to show how hot it's been temperatures reaching 106 in this area this afternoon. good news is that winds are actually a lot lighter out there today if you don't have the sea breezes
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the winds could be gusting up a lot stronger have the sea breezes been in place. 10 mi. an hour winds coming from the north there going directly towards blackhawk rate now. i can very mountainous terrain so the winner will what that around a little bit but not too bad because the wind is not so high at this hour. temperatures on the other hand have been very warm out there today. look at today's highs really of the spot topping hundred degrees all those little rcc next to the numbers are record-setting temperatures. one of seven in santa rosa other warm this location today. same thing and not all 1 05, san francisco at the airport that's not listed here but that broke a record san francisco downtown did at 96 degrees, one of two in san jose right now or excuse me are high temperature. out there now things from the hot side still hundred four degrees in los gatos, 1 01 in san jose
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temperatures are not cold in the afternoon high in santa rosa it's still hot along the coast at half moon bay 86 degrees. '89 san francisco, one of five concord and 1 03 fairfield. as he did was in effect will that will remain in effect until tomorrow especially to our inland spots and also to the north bay and south bay. a little relief along the coastline with the sea breeze winds moving back in tomorrow pure will talk about that coming up just a bit. this one is in current county it's about 60 mi. northwest of los angeles on the left-hand side you can see this fire is just that of control video was shot earlier in the day 1,100 a. burning on this one. this is look back which is about 60 mi. north of los angeles just off of a high five it's up to 1,100 a. 150 homes have been evacuated rate now the fire is being pushed by gusty winds you
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can see their trying to fight this on the air they brought in a big air tankers trended down on it and make sure none of these homes burned we will keep you posted. >> course of our own fire concerns in the bay area if this is in contra costa county near mount diablo state park right off of creek canyon road. a number of communities are seeing the smoke from this fire and again were being told that no structures are threatened to and there are no evacuations planned. their number to air drops they've been going on all afternoon you could see fire trucks now from this live picture trend make their way up the narrow road near the mount diablo state park civic and of this fire downed on the ground. this is a canyon area heavily wooded area a lot of dry brush and trees and what not. the fire officials are trying to do with this in this particular situation and of course the entire bay area is dealing with
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such hot temperatures right now that always poses a big problem for firefighters in this kind of situation. you can see the road to try to navigate as a get to the areas where the fire is burning in that particular fire truck and a live picture were looking at is seated next to an area of scorched earth for the fire has already burned and david lee scott not particular area under control. this wallflower overall is still burning up under control. there is a black hawk livermore black caucus all seen this huge smoke over their area again cal fire officials tell us that people in homes are not threatened at this time and there doing the best it can to try not to down. we'll be right back much more ahead on this fire and all the day's news stay with us. droiiiid.
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back to our developing story the
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wild fire burning off of creek canyon road in contra costa county these are live pictures you can see the intense flames in this particular angle of the fires here. this is happening near mount diablo state park and the firefighters are concerned the second day of high temperatures causing serious problems as they try and knock down the smokey 100 a. wildfire you just saw. another tanker dropping some of the fire retardant to try knocked on these claims as to kick up. look of the dry brush you see along the fire line there. all of the dry brown grass there makes perfect you will for this are to continue to grow. last check was 100 a. were going to get additional permission on not. everything said it's still about a hundred acres from oliver indications another airdrop point for last picture there. i can this is one of those situations that fire crews are always concerned about when the temperatures get above 100 degrees. jackson has been telling us the temperature has
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lingered above 100 degrees in that area all day long. our web producer kimberly is that the model has been tracking the fire on line a number of your pictures have been coming in. kimberly. >> with complete coverage of the fire on www.kron4.com including pictures and information on how you can e-mail us the pictures and video. let's to tell look at a few of the ones we received so far. if this is from jason he was driving from life i had to walnut creek and the 24-680 interchange and you can see the cars right here with the hills and the fire with the smoke in the background. we have another picture for you from past you can see the home in the foreground and the billowing smoke in the background look at that. you can see little darker in the background you see white smoke at the top. that we've heard from people that even though there are no structures threatened at this time the news block site we heard that one person was actually packing his
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things because he lives in the area and he's fearful that his home could go up in flames. for keeping track of this online gunna www.kron4.com you look for a slide show and also send us your pictures and video. >> first one update to in developing new system why delays on bart this is all because of the heat today. at trackside equipment problems started the delays in san francisco this afternoon essentially the whole system was delayed. and our go the way was a least 20 to 25 minutes long we just spoke to some bart riders who say delays are now 10 to 50 minutes. no estimates when the trains are going to be back on time. a bark spokesperson told us it's going have to cool down first. >> our developing story this wild fire burning in contra costa county 100 a. at last check but look at all of the smoke. it is certainly frightening to those residents who live in this area of contra costa county watching all this
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smoke drift over the homes and businesses and communities. were going have an update from cal fire on the latest developments associated with this please let fire on the latest developments associated with this please let me come back after the break. r) but destroys fleas. so ask your veterinarian for advantage, the flea specialist for gentle, but effective, flea control.
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conceive how big the smoke plume is it's covering the entire area there. were told last check was 100 a. were going to get an update on the phone with us from hellfire is jim crawford to give us the latest janices still 100 a. fire? >> last report is about a hundred and 25 a.. give us a complete status update. hundred 25 a., which had air tankers, three helicopters a total of 200
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personnel that are at the incident. >> jim as you might of the imagine the number of people live in contra costa counties in this huge cloud of smoke come over there committed the they're frightened what is the message you want to give them at this time? >> if there's going to be an evacuation order for actions the been notified through the system as well as the river system currently we don't have evacuation orders in place. as far as the smoke get to an area where it's clear the only road that i know. there are some there were some and are some structures in the area around
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the roadway of the fires now burning in to the homes. not near the communities of blackhawk. >> this point you can say you feel confident no homes and major structures are threatened? >> currently only the ones that are within the needed areas that we identified early trade the fire seems to be burning away from homes in that area. >> are you concerned is this just a matter of a wind shift that would make the closer to home so we changed the dynamics there. >> basically the forecast informations we probably will have conditions will boast about the same for the next 12 hours will probably get some downstream in the evening with the research we have we feel confident that should not be a significant problem.
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>> noticed an allied picture winner is the fire could and tried to get up through those narrow roads in through the parking area it appeared our having difficulty reaching the fire on the ground? >> there are a number of fire roads in contra costa county to be able to get into those wilderness area this jury did just a matter of some of the street roads. >> only to continue to repeat this at least one website of says that homes and buildings aren't threatened. let's get clarity just explain for those few hours or in the area and the written by seeing all this smoke, what they need to know in terms of what the threat is to >> buildings and >> area there should be fire resources in the area. we don't have any
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evacuation orders that are in place. >> alright jim crawford from hellfire the key for the update will be staying in touch with your office wrote the evening. the key is a big issue even at this hour jacqueline is your vitellus that he is about 100 degrees in contra costa county parade >> in many spots he was talking about the winds here just a moment ago consistent wind. that's a very important for them because the wind speeds are not very high only 9 mi. an hour winds in the direction they're coming from it helps them get a handle on exactly how to fight this fire winds have been consistently of the north and northeast loin down towards black hawk and down towards danville. that will continue for at least the next 12 to 24 hours to not see any major pattern shifts in our weather. plus temperatures will continue to be quite warm. but still look to what we saw bay area wide out there today. a lot of places topping 100 degrees nearly every
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location topping 100 degrees. all little rcc next to the numbers, those are all record- setting temperatures. when 07 santa rosa today, one of five napa, 98 oakland, 96 severance his gulf and hundred down the peninsula hundreds in the south bay and hundreds more in the spots there's no escaping the heat today. it's still hot at this hour. in the spots well over a hundred degrees. same thing up in the north bay 104 in santa rosa said in and out of hundreds dead in the south bay. finally getting a little bit of relief close to the coastline 80 and services gulf looks cool compared to the rest of these temperatures in the bay area. we are seeing a heated visor in effect out there right now all the war she see in your screen and includes san francisco, includes the peninsula east bayshore the north bay in the south bay basically the entire bay area. it's going to continue into tomorrow advisor to light o'clock tomorrow appeared will
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see in the spots seem very high temperatures topping a hundred degrees in those locations and others away from the coastline. we will see cooling of the media coastline because sea breeze winds will start to kick back up and that will do a little shift that will see down in the inland spots about 24 hours for now. high temperatures tomorrow and a hundred degrees in our inland spots, 96 and rose a, 101 morgan hill, 92 san jose if much cooler close to the coastline and around the bay shore. a big shift in our weather for the in the week. will release to the sea breeze winds to go for a blast of cold air will move into the bay area as well. unseasonably cold air for the weekend dropping our temperatures well below where they should be so will be the complete opposite of what were seeing now were temperatures 15 degrees below average. >> and other developing story now this one at a san francisco where five people were seriously hurt while waiting for boss. one
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driver lost control per car and crashed right into the lead by people all the people were taken to hospital we have the latest on how they're doing but the first want to go live to the scene of the crash were kron 4 dan carmen has been standing by. he's there to tell us what happened. >> the car was sheared heading south on san bruno ave at that point the drivers said the mechanics of the car went out the electricity the car crossed the yellow line here and ended up right there where you see the driveway right next to the bus stop. by people were there waiting for the costs of the car plowed right into them. here's what were the witnesses told us. >> you heard the screaming, you were people backing away most of the people were yelling in chinese. the new just froze and when you looked over it was like oh my goodness back car just literally came down crossed over because she was on the other side she crossed over and just
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read into the crowd. i saw a woman right here lying on the ground, another general and the brother of lying on the ground, and behind that it was another woman who was pinned down on the ground she was in very bad shape. she is planning for knows, both her legs all she could cut a deal is not at me and pointed our mouth and leg she couldn't speak. she was pretty bad. >> at this point all five are hospitalized two in critical condition, three in serious condition in the meantime the car has been impounded the 24 year-old driver has been interviewed not charged yet. the be inspecting the vehicle and then decide whether the be any charges are not. reporting live in 7 cisco kron 4 news. >> back to a live picture of the wild fire in contra costa county and you're seeing one of the many airdrops about to be down here by the aircraft and
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we've been watching all afternoon in the hills of contra costa county near mount diablo state park. this is our developing story of the day just a moment ago we spoke with the representatives from hellfire and told us the blaze is grown to 125 a. now. he assures us that no homes are threatened at this time. despite all the smoke the people contra costa county are watching and seeing the lord their communities from the blaze. gnomes are threatened. reported to the break and come back but first we have a program change to tell you about and that's for this coming saturday. nbc will air the giants game so on will air nbc programming. at 8:00 the show was called persons unknown and directly after that you can touch kron 4 news and 9:00. sn
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communities in the east bay from black caucus alamo livermore san ramon all are getting a taste of the smoke. just a few moments ago called fire told us 125 a. but despite the scary smoke no evacuation's, no buildings threatened at this time. our web producer kimberly has been tracking events associated with the fire on line. >> can more continue to receive pictures from our viewers let's take a look at a few that just came these are from san ramon you can see the helicopter in the distance getting ready to do the fire retardant and water drop. right here you can see the helicopter look of those homes nearby. cal fire to say no structures are threatened at this time but we did hear it before from somebody said is backing up just in case. right here we talked about the train the drybrush that the firefighters are having to doused with water to try and get that the fire out. head over to www.kron4.com where we have a
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live slide show of the pictures and you can set as your pictures and video. stay with us more continuing coverage of the fire coming up after the break.
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now at 6:30 p.m. tonight big stories in one big block of news more cruz, more stories break our top story. >> our top story is a 125 a. wildfire off creek canyon road in contra costa county. a lot of dry grass and brush fuelling the blaze but, no structures are threatened. this video was taken not long ago and you can see how the fires still burning through the bushes and trees in that area the fortunately the winds are light however, the temperatures are high. jacqueline is here now to tell us about the weather conditions. >> damn hot and dry out there temperatures to 100 degrees were the fires burning but thankfully the winds not too terribly strong out there. 9 mi. an hour winds consistently of the north
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or northeast blowing either directly toward black hawk or coming down in this direction because the winter so light the fire will not spread is easy in that regard but there's so much dry brush and you will run this area because of the hot and dry conditions. it's not only here it's everywhere through the bay area this afternoon. look of this place is the top hundred degrees nearly every single locations except for open, except for san francisco in pacifica. san francisco and oakland of 96 set records today. a lot of records broken out there today, 1017 rows of that's new record, 1 05 map of when hundred in hayward hundred two in san jose and it's still pretty hot out there this afternoon. our current still won 04 in santa rosa same thing now but topping hundred inland topping a hundred in the south bay. '88 san francisco, 86 half moon bay look cool out there this afternoon. he did rise remains in effect for most of
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bay area it will continue into tomorrow mainly for in the spots. if the north bay in the south bay were temperatures will topple hundred degrees. cooling of the media coastline as our sea breeze winds start to kick back and carried it will be hot inland tomorrow, cooler along the bay shores and down on the clothesline. as we head into the weekend we are going to get a blast of cold air that will dropper temperatures in the other direction well below average as we head into the weekend with the only mid-70s or inland locations. >> were following in other developing story or you yet another well far this one in southern california if you can see on the right-hand side of your screen about 50 mi. north of los angeles and the community of look back. look of those claims they are being ripped to ground by wind pass at this 0.1100 a. have burned, 150 homes have been evacuated because of the fire will keep you posted. >> right now we of kron 4 cruz all across the bay area covering stories important to you. here
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today's other top stories. >> here in san francisco to people in critical condition, three in serious condition after car loses control and hit all five of the five were in front of the driveway they were waiting for the bus to come there were standing in the shade. the driver says the car had a mechanical problem and as a result she lost control and plowed into all five of them. again two of them in critical condition, three in serious condition the investigation is under way. in san francisco kron 4 news. >> continuing our coverage i spoke to one witness was standing there at the bus stop when the crash occurred. take a listen i should describe the one victim was pinned by the sec. >> shoes in very bad shape to splitting from nose, her mouth her legs all she could do was kind of not at me and point to a remote mountain leg she can speak. she is pretty bad. >> marin kelly kron 4 news
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>> in the bay area existing home sales up lunch to the lowest level in 15 years. real-estate agents say one big reason is that buyers and sellers seem to be in the standoff over prices. many buyers are hesitant because they're worried the market has yet to bottom out. some sellers just want to negotiate. if agents into homes that are selling alfa are going from under the asking price. i'm christine conley kron 4 news. >> in oakland the police department is holding at today's summit which is focusing on gangs and violence. if the oakland police department was to work closely with state and federal authorities which will help them dismantle gangs that are working in the city. this as another california city and the success it has had dismantling gangs that are operating there. reporting in oakland kate thompson kron 4 news. >> in texas tea bowl has unveiled a brand new remote- controlled. this one has a slide
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out to unfold according keyboard it's called the tico slide remote. before this remote you have to tear open down through the alphabet and select each letter one at a time when typing out tax. now you can quickly tied in with your looking for. the tico slide is on the market because $89 and works was series 32 those in the premiered you go. gabe slate kron 4 news. >> we continue to follow the smokey 1258 heard wild fire burning off of canyon road near mount diablo off your of light winds that is hitting the firefight but the high temperatures are not treated the fire crews are on the scene and fighting the fire from a year in the ground no structures are threatened. will continue to follow the story. in the meantime a programming change to tell you about for this coming saturday. nbc will air the giants game, so tron will air the show persons unknown. and the show will air at 8:00 on front and then directly after that even catch kron 4
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smoke pouring over the communities of black caucus and rubble callable clayton and more this is in contra costa county office of creek canyon road. a wild fire 125 a. it started around the 4:00 this afternoon. still no word on the cause of the blaze officials have been using ground crews and air tankers dropping fire retardant in an effort to knock it down. cal fire told us when the last half hour self to death molinos structures or homes are affected by the blaze at this time. the continue to work on getting this under control as nightfall begins to increase upon this. it is much work done as possible. web producer has been tracking the fire on line lot of your pictures coming in. >> were continuing to see those pictures of our viewers. this
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one came in from shawn not in concord you can see this as trail if we wrote: is inland so you can see back in the background and those are clouds that sticks smoke in the background next pictures from brian in livermore he took this from his backyard and you can see again and the billowing clouds of smoke and haze just in the background there. another picture we have from jason he was driving from lafayette to walnut creek he was on the 24- 680 interchange into the cars to looking at kids not to the beautiful clear blue sky you can see the haze in the background. our last one we just want to talk about the train again and the fire fighters are dealing with is the dry brush. there's not a green specks in sight in the foreground. and we'll return to www.kron4.com we'll all the latest details on the fire there we have of your slide show full of pictures from the fire right now and we also have information on how you can send us your pictures and video on
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www.kron4.com. >> still very warm in that area and of course that complicates the firefight but the winds have been laid and that helps. we will continue to follow this fire and development associated with it throughout the evening and check in with kron 4 at www.kron4.com as well for the latest developments. meantime going to move on the sports these continue to make a little noise in the american league west of vern has that story straight ahead. speaking of the a's wouldn't you see in a small boy managed to score date. byrne
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has that story and all the sports these coming up next.
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a's are in cleveland tonight and he rego of live little cleveland fan watching the action. takes carme a deep to center to run shot. there you go they get called up and they produce it was 2-0 in the fifth koko crisp swinging the bats. out of there in a hurry. chris the three for for a stolen base you gonzales brocken and dealing. a jam in the strike at 17 innings strong seven strikeouts and when he gets one it's not cheap the. right now to out some the ninth the easily 5-0 at last check
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texas was losing the a's a look and give a little ground. sometimes when you try to find true love you just have to show initiative. make it happen. here's what as bob boyle seventh fiddle did last thursday night during the day but they raise game. blows by all the little kids and fans and hands of all to a young lady. gives their knights hog little love later on another foul ball walks over and a little boy know another fan no one point for you at last check was maybe five balsa handed to work and actually our night them went out on a date to. there you go seven weeks ago he does make it happen. kevin kennedy to are as a ball boy from last thursday. giants had the game to as the phillies are losing right now out last check. a giant win might give them a tie for the playoff lead to
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everything hold. this week's sports phillips stated cover boy that's home runs rbi in batting average as an mvp candidate giants fans are hoping to lease the new two games. map to show the giants in 2005 this season with tripoli fresno until today was suspended 50 games for testing positive for an impediment a performance enhancing substance he pitched much of his big-league career he's known for giving up home run no. 660 to barry bonds. big honor for the major-league baseball commissioner. (music) but the former milwaukee brewers' owner was honored with
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a bronze seven good statute of miller park. the statue join those of hank aaron and the reportedly over the top ceremony. that's all for little love of the baseball commissioner. this the ball warners is among the chosen. curry, making the final cut he's a member of the 12th team, team usa. currie did have an injured ankle last week but battled back from it. how about that. scurry on the u.s. team carried out is our story from oregon and oregon state tyler patrick thomas has been dismissed from the team after police say they found him naked and intoxicated in a stranger's home and had used a stun gun to taken into custody. responding officers told a bit down on the gun he refused and instead dropped to a three-point stance and charged the officers. at that point the use of guns.
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the incident happened late sunday. he is kicked off the team on monday. >> what we come back college football game against stanford head coach jammed is here. life after running pass back to kobe your heart is the cardinal rule on. i chat with the coach just ahead and zero chose cinco wire showing in? he's done something. we'll tell you a moment. ç
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again we want to go back to the fire burning in contra costa county it's what up to 150 a. but it to percent contained that's improvement. some structures are threatened creek canyon road but there's running the area and protect the structures will have updates throughout the night with complete details tonight at 11. >> back to the poll the football team starts their season against sacramento state note to be
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gearhart in a big as the german store here #33 stefan tell your. sophomore quarterback to interlock is the star of the team he's an all-american candidate. the former nfl quarterback charlie revisited with him down at the farm before this afternoon's practice. >> this team will be defined by? >> a thousand little things. most people think are insignificant but add up to make all the difference appeared first in the four most about the team will reap what we sow. >> let's get a little deeper on this i know barkleys usc ascot it but luck has said what everett it is said what you think it means? >> having it all the time. the
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attitude, the work ethic, the ability. whatever situation you're in doing the right thing, making the right decisions when it comes to being a quarterback. having an instinct to make place and no where people are. all those things. >> did you see toby cure hurt the other night? what did you think? >> what i saw him before the half after the half, cut some passes out of the back in shoulder pads were nearly as big any war when he was here but to, i thought there were really trying to include him in the offense and get him going which is a good sign in a preseason for running back. a >> i estimate she kept up the program, he is and talk to you in a while i guess he's got a football the band.
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>> talk to my dad for the first time today in four weeks i had a nice visit with toby over the summer in between his when he was back on campus and were closely watching him we won out over a way to we got a chance to see him play on tv the other night. he's always so when we really want to do well. >> will be closely watching football this year and as a favor to you will be watching your brother john with the raiders as well. (laughter) >> absolutely. >> his brother as head coach of the ravens. he was fine for treating during a game 90 minutes before kickoff he treated twice. shame on you with
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