coffey. coffey if coffey park. >> a highly calf natured ronnie has give and jolt to christmas here. starting with one string of lights and branching out to trees and ornaments. >> we passed out over 200 trees to residents within coffey park and outlying areas. markfield, anyplace affected by fires they received a tree if they wanted one. >> for ben hernandez 2017 was a christmas eve to forget. until the blossoming of the tree decorations which he says brought him something unexpected. hope. >> i wasn't planning on having one this year. just too emotional. but thanks to ronnie we got our tree. >> pavg tree, too. >> thanks, man. >> thank you. >> of course. >> reporter: now a lot of the families who are providing lights and trees here actually lost homes themselves. they are going above and beyond in this situation. and i really do mean above and beyond. the behind me you see this palm tree -- that is about 300 lights linked up there, 100 feet tall. a man hand climbed and put up the lights. it's spectacular. you can file that under the krrgt of do not try this at home. reporting live i

live from coffey park, emily turner, kpix5. >> some people who lost homes in coffey park have been putting up christmas trees where their houses once stood. most of the decorated trees are in the middle of those empty lots and are lit up at night of 1 family that lost a home in the tubbs fire has recorded a youtube video. they say putting up a christmas tree amid the devastation really sent an important message. >> we're here tonight putting a christmas tree on our lot because we wanted to symbolize the hope that our community has instilled within us and how we've come together and to symbolize we're going to rebuild. >> we're just kind of hoping to inspire other people to do this, kind of create a little bit of a movement to just bring a little joy to all this chaos. >> the woods family was able to safely evacuate with their pets in the early hours of october 9th. broke out >>> five people were hurt in a two alarm fire at a senior apartment building in san francisco that broke out on the seventh floor of the building at 15th and dolores early this afternoon. firefighters had it under cont

sound from - ronnie duvall - holiday decorating coffey park in santa rosa gabe slate kron 4 news.kron 4 news. gabe slate kron 4 news. ahead at eight.. the clock is ticking for congress to pass its tax overhaul by christmas... what it could all mean for your paycheck. plus. a growing southern california wildfire spreading to the north... and we're learning the cause of one of the other fires that erupted. and next. his sudden death a shock to san francisco. tonight we look back at mayor ed lee's bay area legacy ♪ when you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. ♪ visit kp.org to learn more. kaiser permanente. thrive. ♪ (pam) ed lee's low=key style served him well as he dealt with the many challenges he faced during his nearly seven -years in office as the mayor of san francisco. (grant) as catherine heenan show us, he was both blamed and applauded for changing the face of san francisco. it is special to be the first asian american mayor of this cityed lee took office nearly seven years ago.... a longtime city hall bureaucrat who

it's coffey park strong. >> kathy strong has called coffey park home for decades and came name 50 families who have been misplaced. >> we have fe lee sha here, mike here, my mom and dad across from me. i can go on and on. >> loved ones who have little left on their probably, until about 17 days ago. >> right here, coffey park. a highly caffeinated ronny duval has given a light to christmas here. >> we passed out, i think, over 200 trees, within coffey park and outlines mark springs, any place that was affected by fire they received a tree if they wanted one. >> for ben hernandez, 2017 was a christmas to forget until the blossoming of the tree decorates which brought him hope. >> i wasn't planning on having one this year. just too emotional. but thanks to ronny, we got our tree. >> you did. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> reporter: a lot of the families who are providing lights and trees in this case actually lost homes themselves but they are going above and beyond the call of duty to lift the community up. looking at the palm tree over my shoulder here, there are 300 l.e.d. light that is a

so this is a way to show that we are coffey strong. we are sonoma county strong and we are people that will rise above these ashes. >> reporter: what started with 30 strands of lights a few days ago has now become a full blown holiday affair. more than 30 dreams have been donated for vacant lots. 500 plus strands of lights are hung and even the most devastated survivors admit -- >> it helps. >> reporter: it starts up at 5:30 when the sun goes down. with each twinkle and each tree neighbors say they've been given a gift that's far more valuable than anything they could open on christmas morning. >> coming down here last night i was in awe, brought tears to my eye, but it was tears of joy, feeling like we as a community, as a neighborhood have band together and tried to make what's best of a horrible situation. >> reporter: back here live you can see some of the lights have started to come on. they should all officially be on by 5:30. as soon as we get off the air, we'll shoot video and round that up for you so that you can see the full

coffey and coffey park. >> they have given a jolt to christmas here, starting with one strand of lights and out to trees. >> we passed out 200 trees in coffey park. you name it. any place that was affected by fires, they received a tree, if they wanted one. >> reporter: for ben, 2017 was a christmas to forget until the blossoming of tree decorations that brought in something unexpected, hope. >> i wasn't planning on having one this year. too emotional. but, thanks to ronnie, we got our tree. thank you. >> of course. >> reporter: a lot of families who are providing lights and trees in this case actually lost homes themselves. they are going above and beyond the call of duty. i do mean above and beyond. looking at that palm tree over my shoulder, 300 l.e.d. lights that a community strung up there by hand climbing the tree, top to bottom. that is a bit of what's going on here at coffey park. sam brock, nbc news. >> beautiful. >>> coming up this morning on "today in the bay," why a man decided to send manure to the treasury secretary's home. >> nbc responds to travel insurance disputes. we

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fsu officials suspended all fraternity and sorority activity in the wake of coffey's death. seen this in other cases with these alcohol deaths in fraternities. >> penn state in particular. >> they're more concerned about getting in trouble than saving a brother's life. >> it's terrifying. i was in a fraternity more than 20 years ago, and i thought it had come to a close when they were cracking down on drinking, taking it off campus, and we are far from an answer there. >>> meanwhile, a cdc study says america is losing the battle against opioid addiction to the point it is lowering u.s. life expectancy. new stats showing overdose deaths spiking to more than 42,000 in 2016. that's the most ever and more than the annual breast cancer deaths. west virginia, ohio, and new hampshire have the most overdoses. the death rate in west virginia is 2 1/2 times the national average. president trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency in october but allocated no money to combat it. >> there's a lot of discussion among doctors who prescribe opioids, too. should a prescripti

he lost his home in the atlas fire and used to live in coffey park.a way to cope and give hope. >> you can burn a residential community down and take our personal effects, but you don't have an ability to steal our christmas spirit. so this is a way to show that we are coffey park strong and sonoma county strong and we are people that will rise above these ashes. >> reporter: what started with 30 strands of lights a few days ago has now become a full blown holiday affair. more than 30 trees have been donated from vacant lots. 500 plus strands of lights are hung. even the most devastated fire survivors have to admit -- >> it helps. >> reporter: it starts at 5:30 when the sun goes down. with each twinkle and tree neighbors say they've been given a gift that's far more valuable than anything they could open on christmas morning. >> coming down here last night i was in awe, brought tears to my eyes, but it was tears of joy, feeling like we as a community, as a neighborhood have banned together and tried to make what's best of a horrible situation. >> repo

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it's coffey strong. >> reporter: kathy scott has called coffey park home for decades and says she canave been displaced. >> we have charity and mikey right here. samantha over there. felicia over there, david lowell, my mom and dad right across from me. i can go on and on. >> reporter: loved ones who had little light left on their property, literally, until about, oh, 17 days ago. coffee in coffey park. >> reporter: ronnie duval has given a jolt to christmas here, stringing lights and trees and ornaments. >> within coffey park and outlining areas. you name it, any place affected by fires, they received a tree if they wanted one. >> reporter: for ben hernandez, 2017 was a christmas eve to forget until the blossoming of the tree decorations which he says brought him something unexpected, hope. >> i wasn't planning on having one this year. just too emotional. but thanks to ronnie, we got our tree. >> thanks, man. >> thank you. >> of course. >> reporter: and a lot of the families who are providing lights and trees in this case actually lost homes themselves but they are going above and be

duvall, organizer of xmas lights in coffey "so that promted me ..."ar 30 luces mas para instalarlas al siguiente día. " track - y de 30 pas a 120 al siguiente da ... hasta iluminar 500tos rboles... con la ayuda de un par de personas que se unieron a su gran misin. duvall, organizer of xmas lights in coffey "everyday, all day, we spent our time working until 2 or 3 in the morning to make it happen." traduccion: "todos los días, todo el día, nos dedicamos a trabajar hasta las 2 o 3 de la manana para lograrlo." - esta promesa de navidad, ronnie la empez con sus propios fondos y luego se unieron a la causa otras personas con trabajo y donaciones... ahora su acto de amor est por todas las zonas afectadas por el incendio. ben hernandez - "thanks to rony we got..." traduccin: "gracias a rony tenemos nuestro árbol de navidad... gracias amigo! " ola de violencia... a pocos das de terminar el 2017 en mxico se registran ms de 20-mil crmenes en las ltimas dos dcadas.... le diremos cuales fueron los estados mas violentos residentes en chiapas realizan un ritual qu

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the west side of coffey park now has power.nd the east side is expected to be re-energized by tomorrow. >>> as christmas approaches, today will likely be one of the year's busiest travel days. the aaa auto group estimates 107 million people across the country will go out of town for the holidays. >>> and they are already hitting the roads. we are tracking lots of traffic out there, some delays along highway 17 due to an earlier crash. this is just past the summit. but it's about 37 minutes from vine hill up to highway 9. 237, 26 minutes from 880 to 101. an accident still blocking a lane near north mathilda avenue. san mateo bridge 30 minutes across the span. 680 through walnut creek, in the red still residual delays from an earlier crash approaching highway 24. your 580 approach not so bad any longer as you make your way towards the bay bridge toll plaza. eastshore freeway now seeing the slowdowns 33 minutes from highway 4 to the maze. and you have a slow ride 28 minutes into san francisco. >>> that weather is really cooperatin

reporting live from coffey park. nbc bay area news. >> what a wonderful story on christmas thank you so much. >>> still to come. a christmas greeting from the commander in chief. what president trump had to say on the the holiday. >>> and spirit of giving. how a football team and coach are taking it upon themselves to help the hungry. downtown san jose. the sun has gone down, and "christmas in the park" is in full b mawell right now let's give you a look outside downtown san jose there. the sun has gone down. and christmas in the park in from swing. pru see the ferris wheel going. rob mayeda forecast a few minutes away. >>> well the christmas message from the commander in chief, president trump and the first lady issue ago greeting on twitter. >> our fellow americans melania and i are delighted to wish the aa and the entire world a acks merry christmas. >> they also spoke to kids about theta's journey. some of the kids who called norad tracking santa's progress through the air space were routed to the first family. t

hundreds of residents who lost their homes at coffey park and santa rosa when the devastating fires broke out in october may have gained something more valuable tonight. a true sense of community. we are live in santa rosa with what some people call the miracle at a coffee part. >> reporter: ali on a good evening to you and in the 1940s classic miracle on 34th street a little girl's wish for a house on christmas comes true with santa claus leaving his cane in the corner as proof of christmas magic. in this real life version of the houses are all gone but the lights behind you celebrate -- signify the joy of the season and made this neighborhood live again. and santa rosa out of the darkness there is light fueled by neighborly love. >> it is heart rate breaking. the spirit is very nice to make all of this happened, it makes you happy. >> reporter: hundreds of people have come home for the holiday to the place where no her own stayed. but today coffey park has the old feel of christmas. >> you know it is all about cleaning up the devastation that they went through and giving them a chance t

he was an original homeowner in coffey park and that home is exactly what he wants to see back on this newly cleared lot. >> we have been here 30- something years. yeah. and, um, we just want to get back in it real bad. >> reporter: that's why he is already working with builders to make it happen. one of those builders is john allen, with apm homes. he has nine. original coffey park floor plans and a plan to rebuild 500 lots. >> the emphasis on using the same footprint and floor plans is to fast track the process to the city so we can essentially get an over-the-counter permit and get these homes built. >> reporter: he is talking about next summer with new codes and as well as working with banks to have funding in place for the people who want to build with him. the more he is due, the cheaper it becomes for everyone. >> if we were take on one single home you could be looking at $350 a square foot. by dividing that cost over 20, 30, 100 homes, you can then get that cost down to $240. >> reporter: he says the contractors are ready. he is just recruiting the neighborhood. for folks like

sue fellbaum were decorating a christmas tree on their burned out lotásot tom & sue fellbaum/lost coffeyark home in fire 103-109currently we are in a 25 foot trailer so there's no room for a treet and we wanted to brighten up the neighborhood a little bit with a treethe fellbaums have lived here for 28 years, and while they've been looking at other homes but as of now,

it's coffey strong, coffey strong. >> kathy called this home for decades and can name you 50 families who have been displaced. >> cherry and mikey there, samantha there, fa lee va there. david there, my mom and dad across from me. i could go on and on. >> reporter: loves ones who have little light left on their property, literally, until 17 days ago. >> we passed out over 200 trees to residents within coffey park. you name it. nip that was affected bay fire, they received a tree, if they wanted one. >> reporter: for ben, 2017 was a christmas to forget, until the blossoming of trees that brought him something unexpected, hope. >> i wasn't planning on having one this year. just too emotional. but, thanks to ronnie, we got our tree. thank you. >> of course. >> reporter: a lot of families providing lights and trees in this case actually lost homes themselves. they are going above and beyond the call of duty to do what they can. i do mean above and beyond. looking at that palm tree, there are 300 l.e.d. lights that a man in this community strung up there by hand climbing the tree, top to b

find out when power will finally be restored to santa rosa's coffey park neighborhood.ive look outside... at the san francisco international airport. (robin) welcome back. checking in on your morning forecast. rebecca:lingering rain associated with cold front passing through the area will be out of the bay area before sunrise and exit the central coast by around 9 am. cool and blustery weather is then forecast this afternoon with gusty northwest winds. clear and cool tonight with widespread lows in the 30s. dry weather returns thursday with cool daytime highs followed by a potentially colder night into friday morning. high pressure keeps things dry and seasonable through the weekend. clouds may increase by christmas day as the next front approaches. no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 (robin)in national news ... clean up has begun following monday's deadly train derailment that took three peoples lives and injured more

<coffey park is a great place to live, santa rosa has a strong sense of community its centrally locatedd beautiful wine county so everyone wants to live here.>( james ) but not everybody is ready to leave the area. one couple who has lived in santa rosa for 28 years were out decorating a christmas tree yesterday. that couple says they plan to rebuild. ( james ) the north bay firestorm is bringing some attention to the shortcomings of emergency alerts.. california's top emergency manager says the vulnerability of cell phone service is hurting public safety warnings. that came at a hearing yesterday about the failure of the emergency warning system after the fires. the flames burned cell phone towers... and even knocked out telephone lines... cable t-v and internet. emergency officials say one of the main problems is most public warning systems rely on áprivately owned communication s network. and the state has áno authority at the moment to order private companies to strengthen their systems. ( darya ) happening today... the supreme court is hearing arguments about a baker refusing to pr

the west side of coffey park has been re-energized... and the east side will come on-line friday... temporary overhead powerlines. besides lighting up the streets... the electricity will also help property owners rebuild. ( darya ) in the santa cruz mountains... caltrans is almost done making repairs to storm ravaged highway 35. a slide took out a 200 foot long stretch of highway back in febuary. that led to a 10 month long closure near saratoga. caltrans released time lapse video of the work... which includes three large retaining walls. one to support the new road bed... one to support the hillside ábelow the new road ... and one to support the hillside áabove. ( darya ) weather permitting... the project will be done and the road opened by mid january. ( darya ) still ahead on teh kron 4 morning news... no christmas gift for warriors fans this year. how much longer steph curry is expected to

holiday decorating coffey parknicole medeiros - lost home to fire, coffey park. say the decorations are helping them heal. ( james ) coming up next on the kron 4 morning news... the service must have been excellent. a man leaves behind a 2-thousand dollar tip ... for his 17-dollar breakfast bill. the request he had for his server. do you need the most trusted battery this holiday? maybe not. maybe, you could trust the world would be just as happy without them. (screaming) or, you could just trust duracell. ♪ it's beginning to look a lot like christmas ♪ or, you could just trust duracell. hits an arizona diner.( james ) a customer added a two- thousand dollar tip to his 17-dollar tab.<"unbelievable! it's like we took it right to the managers and said look what we got. so now we have to figure out how we gonna do this - how we gonna split it."> ( james ) the anonymous diner did have one request. he wrote on the receipt -- "please split with the whole staff... merry christmas!" everybody working at the time got 200-dollars. and the person who served the generous gue

having fun. >> reporter: organizers call this coffey park celebration of hope.enerosity of others. from the food to the toys, everything was donated. people also donated christmas trees. they were given to anyone who wanted to put one on their property. so far, about 140 of them have been given away. which helped transform the fire-ravaged subdivision into a place filled with holiday spirit. >> you like christmas trees, music, you invite people out and this is what you get. the neighborhood is alive again. the first time after the fires, the neighborhood is alive. >> reporter: travis garrison lost his home and so did two of his family members. seeing the neighborhood come together for this holiday event reminded him why he wants to come back. >> i don't want to leave this community. i've been here 30 years. i grew up here. i'd love to have a family and raise them right up here in coffey park. >> reporter: reconstruction for some could begin as early as spring. for now residents are finding comfort spreading holiday cheer with their old neighbors. >>> two residen

coffey park residents called it a bittersweet event. >> you got christmas trees during christmas spirit, christms music, you invite people out and this is what you get. the neighborhood is alive again. after the first time after the fires, the neighborhood is alive. >> reconstruction for some of those homeowners could begin as early as the spring. >>> tensions are growing between president trump's legal team and special counsel robert mueller. a trump transition attorney says mueller improperly obtained e-mails between transition officials. abc news reporter kenneth moten has the details from washington. >> reporter: special counsel robert mueller versus president trump's legal team. >> are you going to fire -- >> no, i'm not. no. what else? [ inaudible ] what are you, surprised? >> reporter: the president critical of new developments concerning e-mails from his transition team, e-mails requested and obtained by the special counsel investigating russia meddling in the 2016 election. >> they're spending millions and millions of dollars. there is absolutely no collusion. >> reporter: no w

coffey park residents returned to their neighborhood for fun. it was bittersweet. >> it makes me sad to not have my traditions we've had before. but it's fun to see my kids playing in the snow and having fun. >> reporter: organizers called this coffey park celebration of hope, an event made possible by the generosity of others from the food to the toys everything was donated. people also donated christmas trees. they were given to anyone who wanted to put one on their property. which helped transform the subdivision into a place filled with holiday spirit. >> you have christmas trees, christmas music, invite people out and this is what you get. the neighborhood is alive again. the neighborhood is alive. >> reporter: travis garrison lost his home and so did two of his family members. it reminded him why he wants to come back. >> i've been here for 30 years and grew up here. >> reporter: reconstruction for some could begin as early as spring. residents are finding comfort spreading holiday cheer with their old neighbors. in santa rosa, lilian kim,

but in the weeks since the fire, rumors have been flying around coffey park about the rising cost of rebuilding. >> as we know with the fires all of a sudden the cost per square foot is up here where it was down here. >> insurance brokers tells tell the the price per sfaur foot with 350 or 4 oh oh. >> you don't have anybody to build. >> broker jay is saying he is hearing as high as 800 a square foot. >> the price is going up double and triple. and who knows how far up into heaven? it's not going to be enough. >> the schwabs moved into a rental in the park along with their son who lost his home. she say they'd leave this and buy something else. >> in the meantime every shack? santa rosa is selling for ridiculous prices. so the people are really in trouble. >> if you own a home and have fire insurance, check the limits of your policy. it's the story we're working on for 6:00 tonight. if i can take a few minutes more out here where all the cranes have been cleaning up you will see no work going on right now. and that's because the army corps of engineers has expired one of the two contr

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one other note tonight, the work in coffey park at least this part of coffey park has stopped. i'm talking about the keenup work by contractors working for the army corps of engineers. two of the companies hired by the army corps of engineers only one is new currently employed process. the other one the contract ran out. the armies corps says they won't have a new contract with another company until the middle of december. the next couple of weeks, nothing is happening in this neighborhood. and that has affected the schwabs they can't understand why they are lot hasn't been cleared. tonight they know. reporting from santa rosa, mark matthews, nbc bay area news. >>> thank you mark. >>> ready to walk the picket line we can we expect thousands of oakland city workers to walk off the job? >>> also watching out for parents. facebook's new messaging app made just for kids. would you let your kid use it? ♪ [baby crib musical mobile] millions are still exposed to the dangers of secondhand smoke. and some of them can't do anything about it. but you can. protect your family. visit tobacc

as more burned out lots get cleaned up in coffey park a new development for sale signs are going upásotwilliams/realtor 06-12this lot is just under 6000 square feet and its going for 160,000 realtor michael williams says his clients on crimson lane had been looking to sell and move out of state before the fire the prospect of waiting a year or 2 to rebuild was enough to convince them to sell the lot nowsoti had a lot of another big story tonight: nearly 2 -months after the north bay firestorm broke out, more and more burned out lots are debris free. but as kron4's dan kerman reports ... not everyone wants to wait to rebuild. as more burned out lots get cleaned up in coffey park a new development for sale signs are going upásot michael williams/realtor 06-12this lot is just under 6000 square feet and its going for 160,000 realtor michael williams says his clients on crimson lane had been looking to sell and move out of state before the fire the prospect of waiting a year or 2 to rebuild was enough to convince them to sell the lot nowsoti had a lot of people ask if there more lots coming

in coffey park in santa rosa crews with heavy equipment are working seven days a week to take out debris from warehouse is used to be. there is a backup at the county landfill where trucks are having to wait to drop off their loads. by all accounts the cleanup is going well.>> not only just the removal of the debris off the private property but off the streets and out of storm drains. >> the cleanup in coffey park is expected to take until january. it could take an extra month for the fountain grove area and then it will be time to rebuild. >>> a new study shows what smart phones are doing to our brains. researchers from south korea used brain imaging to study the minds of 19 teenage boys with smart phone addiction. they found a connection with cell phone dependency and a lack of neurochemicals affecting the ability to focus. a heavy reliance on your smart phone damages your ability to be attentive and leads to anxiety, depression, impulsiveness. i spoke with a researcher on this topic and she said no such research has come out yet but i would not be surprised. here is one study that pro

as more burned out lots get cleaned up in coffey park a new development for sale signs are going upásothael williams/realtor 06-12this lot is just under 6000 square feet and its going for 160,000 realtor michael williams says his clients on crimson lane had been looking to sell and move out of state before the fire the prospect of waiting a year or 2 to rebuild was enough to convince them to sell the lot nowsoti had a lot of people ask if there more lots coming and i do think it's going to happena few blocks away on hopper avenue a coming soon sign is already up, presumably after the lot is cleared of debris and across the street this cash for homes sign realtors say despite the fire, the neighborhood remains desirable sotcoffey park is a great place to live, santa rosa has a strong sense of community its centrally located and beautiful wine county so everyone wants to live here. around the corner on kerry lane no for sale sign just the opposite as tom and sue fellbaum were decorating a christmas tree on their burned out lotásot tom & sue fellbaum/lost coffey park home in fire 103-109cu

in coffey park, crews are working seven days a week to remove debris from where houses used to be. there is a back up at the county land fill where trucks have to wait hours but by all accounts, the clean up is going well. >> the debris that we are moving off the streets and our storm drains systems, it's all happening. >> the clean up in coffey park expected to take in the middle of january, it may take longer in the fountain grove area. >>> many prominent menussed of sexual misconduct now -- men accused of sexual misconduct are dealing with the allegations. >> this is a live look at the macarthur maze. i have more about the commute coming up. >> we have partly cloudy skies and chilly temperatures, i will check in on the current conditions and show you what to expect for your bay area weekend coming up >> we have more coming up on ktvu news right after the break . >>> welcome back to ktvu news, all of the news, weather and information you need to know throughout your day. >>> there is a report by the new york times that president donald trump urged senate republicans to end the in

kron 4's dan kerman reports as more burned out lots get cleaned up in coffey park a new development forle signs are going upásot michael williams/realtor 06-12this lot is just under 6000 square feet and its going for 160,000 realtor michael williams says his clients on crimson lane had been looking to sell and move out of state before the fire the prospect of waiting a year or 2 to rebuild was enough to convince them to sell the lot nowsoti had a lot of people ask if there more lots coming and i do think it's going to happena few blocks away on hopper avenue a coming soon sign is already up, presumably after the lot is cleared of debris and across the street this cash for homes sign realtors say despite the fire, the neighborhood remains desirable sotcoffey park is a great place to live, santa rosa has a strong sense of community its centrally located and beautiful wine county so everyone wants to live here. around the corner on kerry lane no for sale sign just the opposite as tom and sue fellbaum were decorating a christmas tree on their burned out lotásot tom & sue fellbaum/lost coffe

a grand jury found it supported evidence against charges that caused andrew coffey's death. >> in thea eva pilgrim here with the story. good morning, eva. >> reporter: we now know andrew coffey died from an illegal amount of alcohol he drank at a frat party. in the search for answers, a grand jury interviewing witnesses. that grand jury encouraging authorities to pursue criminal charges saying that many of the brothers seemed rehearsed and were more concerned about getting in trouble than they were about trying to save his life. 20-year-old andrew coffey, a pi kappa phi pledge at florida state university,was found dead inside this house after an off-campus frat party this past november. his blood-alcohol nearly seven times the legal limit to drive. court documents now revealing the only people at the party, two strippers, the pi kap pledges at their new big brothers. he passed out after drinking large amounts of liquor straight from the bottle. they claim as they played pool, coffey fell asleep, snoring loudly but when a pledge went to wake him he didn't have a pulse. phone records sh

. >>> families who call coffey park home are trying to get into the spirit.park residents called it a bittersweet event. >> you invite people out and this is what you get. the neighborhood is alive again. the first time after the fires, the neighborhood is alive. >> reconstruction could begin as early as spring. >> we certainly hope for the best for all of those families. >>> it is a really cold start to the morning. >> yes it really is. some people may be dealing with frost in our deepest inland valleys. that will change. more moisture in the air so it won't be so dry either. a good chance of rain. you'll need the sunglasses. clean. spare the air. dry air definitely. breezy, a chance of rain wednesday. the dry pattern returns thursday. a look at live doppler 7. nothing to be found on that. right now reinforcing how dry it is. about 66 in san jose and also in santa cruz. followed by fairfield and san mateo so most of us right around 62 to 64 degrees. free mon and palo alto. free mon and palo alto. into san francisco upper 40s. notice the yell lows. the yellow

the west side of coffey park will be energized by tonight and the east side by friday. lines will eventually be replaced by an underground electric system that existed in coffee park before the fires. where 200 feet of road.. was wiped out. >>> last winter's storm caused a major washout in the santa cruz mountains where 200 feet of road was wiped out, but now road repairs are wrapping up. it's happening along a section of highway 35. kpix5's kiet do shows us what that stretch looks like now. >> reporter: back in february this stretch of highway 35 near castle rock state park looked like it was hit by a meteor that left a gaping 200-foot wide hole in the mountain, but look at it now. so-called fast tracking has allowed caltrans to build in months, not years. the speed at which it's happened the agency said is amazing. super fast tracking is essentially designing and building simultaneously. design a small portion and build that portion right away. >> this way when you compress all those jobs into a short time frame, then you can get the road completed and open up to traf

pg and e crews have installed 226 poles ...and 15 transformers in the coffey park neighborhood.he west side of coffey park will be energized this evening...and the east side will have power by friday. besides lighting up the streets... the electricity will also help property owners rebuild. some one thousand homes were lost during the tubbs fire back in october. (vicki) crews on the front lines of the wildfires in southern californiaare trying to take advantage of calmer winds... (grant) catherine heenan is here with the latest on the huge 'thomas' fire.. (catherine) the thomas fire is in santa barbara county.......it's still the biggest of the southern california wildfires. it's now about 50% contained...and has burned more than 270-thousand acres. today crews were setting controlled burns on the fire's northern edge and building containment lines. they're worried about the fact that a return to high winds is expected tomorrow. they're clearing dry brush - and hoping to leave nothing much to burn when the windy conditions kick in again. one woman in santa barbara county got tog

schaeffer elementary school in the coffey park neighborhood and john ridely elementary school in the park west area -- mark west area, were closed for three months following the deadly wildfires. power is expected to be restored to the east side of coffey park today. >>> in washington state the clean-up continues at the site of monday's amtrak derailment. three people died when the train derailed on to a highway. >> these people were thrust into our town and we embrace them. >> last night dozens held a vigil. many prayed and took a moment of silence. crews have hauled away one of the trains, two locomotives. the train was going 80 in a 30- mile-an-hour zone. the governor of washington says that amtrak now plans to pay for the costs associated with the deadly derailment including medical expenses for the victims. >>> investigators in mexico are looking at speeding as the possible cause of a deadly tourist bus crash. 12 people were killed including 8 americans. all were passengers from a pair of royal caribbean cruise ships. the crash happened during a day trip to visit mayan ruins. >>

. >> reporter: he was an original owner in coffey park and that home is exactly what he wants to see back on this newly cleared lot. >> we've been here 30 some years and just want to get back in here real bad. >> reporter: that's why he's already working with builders to make it happen. one of those builders is john allen with apm homes. he's got nine of the original coffey park floor plans and a plan to rebuild 500 lots. >> the emphasis on utilizing the same footprint and floor plan is to fast track the process through the city so we can essentially get an over the counter permit and get these homes built back very quickly. >> reporter: he's talking move- in dates next summer and is already bringing the old plans up to new code as well as working with financial institutions to have funding in place for the people who want to build with him. the more who do, the cheaper it becomes for everyone he says. >> if we were to take on one single home itself, you could be looking at pricing from 300 to 350 a square foot. by taking and dividing that cost over 20, 30, 100 homes, you can then ge

. >> we are calling coffey park number 2. what we're seeing in southern california is similar to santa rosa and coffey park. >> reporter: critics say sonoma county emergency officials should have sent mass alerts on to cell phones as the october firestorm erupted. instead, they warned people through land line programs. the wine country wildfires in sonoma county alone burned 137 square miles destroying more than 5,000 homes and killed 24 people. the cal oes deputy director says resources of course have been stretched very thin these last couple of months. 100 fire engines from oregon, arizona and montana are in southern california right now fighting these fires. >> thank you. >>> a new report in the "san francisco chronicle" sheds some light on pg&e's preparations in the days before the wine country wildfires. the newspaper says on thursday, october 5th, pg&e's weather forecasting office warned of upcoming strong winds. the fires began three days later. pg&e was reportedly ready to take care of power outages but didn't take t

. >>> pg&e is close to restoring temporary overhead power lines to coffey park in santa rosa. the west side of coffey park now has power and the east side is expected to be energized by today. >>> this week, two napa fire survivors took time to thank the first responders who came the rescue. philip and linda visited the napa air operations hangar taking this photo with one of the officers who helped them. chp posted it on facebook. the couple was lifted to safety from the atlas fire in october by a chp helicopter. >>> a big deadline today for those looking to get health insurance through "covered california." jackie ward reports from the newsroom. >> reporter: people only have until midnight tonight if they want or need that coverage starting the first of the year. this is an extended deadline because of a strong surge in demand. more than 220,000 new enrollees selected a plan through december 15th. and that remains ahead of last year's pace by about 10%. still there is a lot of uncertainty. as part of the tax bill congress passed senate majority leader mitch mcconnell told ma

you can't -- you don't fight -- some of these fires you don't fight like coffey park. you don't fight it. you get out of the way and get people out of the way which is what they did in ventura. >> i think you touched on this. one of the issues here is these santa ana winds are going west toward the water and pushing the flames toward populated areas as opposed to pushing the flames east where it's not as populated. >> and that's our offshore wind, land to sea. that is -- they are santa ana winds, land to sea. you're right. i looked at these areas and bayes there's a lot of -- there's a lost population centers. a few years ago we had a fire in malibu and it swept down and it comes out of those hills which are not that populated, but comes down to the city. malibu, orange county, they are under the gun tonight and tomorrow night. it's definitely -- because of the duration, this thing isn't over in a night. it will be a few nights. >> i don't remember them typically lasting like a week. this is going to stretch you said through friday poe continuation -- potentially throu

. >> firefighter robert nappy traded to the sharks team for in game lost his home in coffey park. >> it's just what we do. i mean regardless of i'm involved or not i just -- i have that -- i just want to give back. i would love to play hockey and have it go to something. >> this ice rink was built by the late cartoonist charles schultz. spadly the family home burned in the fire high pressure his widow o says the community hasn't forgotten the victims. >> all the love and caring comes out helps to heal all of us. i mean we give some we get some. and it heals us all. >> the sharks alumny won this game 7-3 but both sides scored big raising $40,000 to benefit fire relief charities. in santa rosa cornell barnard abc 7. >>> a stretch of highway 37 in novato spent a lot of time under water last winter might be getting relief. today the california transportation commission approved a $130,000 grant for marin county to study flooding. the money is coming from the new state gas tax. this part of the highway was closed or partially closed from january to february due to flooding from this past

pg & e plans to energize the west side of coffey park today and the east side later. having power will of course help people rebuild their homes and provide some street lights as well. >>> as the thomas fire continues to grow, one lady took mat enters into her own hands. what she did saved her home. >>> why broken parking meet letters soon be a thing of the past. >>> i haven't shopped for anything yet. >> and she's not alone. 7 on your side's michael >>> containment of the thomas wildfire is now at 50%. it has grown to 424 square miles, enormous, making it the third largest wildfire in california history. that size translates into the area from san francisco to san jose and just about all of san diego county. this fire has destroyed more than 1,000 homes. it has been burning two weeks. full containment is expected january 7th. still a long way to go. >>> a woman in santa barbara county built an elaborate system that saved her home and possibly her town from the thomas fire. look at this. lynn installed giant rain birds, a 5,000 gallon back-up tank, and miles of fire h

kron 4's ella sogomonian is in coffey park tonight.ella what a resiliant community that's exactly right and people have been so grateful for the tranformation calling it theraputic. take a look at the difference. this place went from pitch black to a christmas miracle with the help of two men who are still decorating as we speak. since the fire in october... driving down hopper avenue can bring up dark memories.so ronnie duval decided that pain had no place here during the holiday seasonand instead brought over some christmas spirit. those who've lost a home or live nearby say they appreciate this labor of love. sot: ronnie duvall, decorated coffee park// ""its pitch black yo use nothing its very eerie. so i thought its christmas time why don't we just go ahead and throw up a couple of lights see what people say. there was a fear of maybe they wont accept it. maybe they will. so i'll do it in the middle of the night they won't see me and ill read about it on facebook or i'll see it on the news maybe. and every night i added more and more because there wasn't enough and the first person

. >>> reporter: here in santa rosa's fire-devastated coffey park neighborhood, work crews with heavy are working 7 days a week, even thanksgiving to remove the debris from where houses used to be. >> they are going to segregate the metal, the foundation, the concrete, and then eventually get down to an ash and debris area. almost like an orchestra, a lot of moving parts and pieces. >> reporter: they are trucked to the county landfill in petaluma but the landfill these days is overrun by trucks. drivers must wait sometimes hours to drop off their loads to the tune of 6,000 tons a day in total. some people have expressed concern that debris from more than 5,000 homes will breach the landfill's capacity but those in charge say not anytime soon. >> we estimate that the capacity is anywhere from 25 to 28 years in terms of the landfill. and we're thinking that it might take two years off of that life capacity. >> reporter: but to lessen the wait times, officials are considering streamlining the dumping process and extending the hours of operation. it has also allowed truckers to use the la

devastation in coffey park, but these lights are new. it's the goal of one man who wants to bring hope to this community. in the beginning he worked alone in the darkness with his music. >> you already know what happened to the neighborhood. there's not a lot of people coming to the neighborhood. >> reporter: but he does. during his in m visits he got an idea. >> this place used to have people decorating their house with lights. >> reporter: that was before the fire. he's now making it his mission to raise this neighborhood with lights from the ashes. >> the residents being turned off by the lights being here, but at the same time that's why i did it at night, so it wasn't like everybody would really see me. >> reporter: it was hard to continue to be invisible. he started out with 30 strings of lights, that grew to 60. now there's too many to count. >> it just has been evolving magically. >> reporter: that magical dust is being sprinled on a lot of people. >> this is my way of giving back to this amazing community. >> this is my house. >

. >> firefighter robert nappy traded to the sharks team for in game lost his home in coffey park. >>just what we do. i mean regardless of i'm involved or not i just -- i have that -- i just want to give back. i would love to play hockey and have it go to something. >> this ice rink was built by the late cartoonist charles schultz. spadly the family home burned in the fire high pressure his widow o says the community hasn't forgotten the victims. >> all the love and caring comes out helps to heal all of us. i mean we give some we get some. and it heals us all. >> the sharks alumny won this game 7-3 but both sides scored big raising $40,000 to benefit fire relief charities. in santa rosa cornell barnard abc 7. >>> a stretch of highway 37 in novato spent a lot of time under water last winter might be getting relief. today the california transportation commission approved a $130,000 grant for marin county to study flooding. the money is coming from the new state gas tax. this part of the highway was closed or partially closed from january to february due to flooding from this past year's