>> the deputy and others saved a disabled woman and husband and other folks, elizabeth hur said some fires left homes in ruins and skipped others that were left next-door. >> reporter: a daunting task for firefighters. nearly 6,000 homes and businesses destroyed in area larger than new york city burned to the ground. officials say extinguish week before they determine the causes. 2800 homes were destroyed in santa rosa alone and surrounded by the devastation including cars, trucks and furniture. a handful of home are still standing and the homeowners say they can't believe it. jean and mike overwhelmed by the destruction everywhere they look. >> i've been here 39 years and to find it still standing, i must have done something right somewhere along the lionel. >> this is the only three homes for three-quarters of a mile that way and one mile that way. >> michael clemens he and his family making an escape ahead of the flames returning to the site of where his home once stood. >> most of the houses gone. in sonoma a crew of firefighters saving homes in just a few hours. >> we were runni

elizabeth hur is in santa rosa with more. izabeth: the disaster -- elizabeth: the disaster in california now being called the worst-case scenario. >> if fires are burning faster than firefighters can run. the deadly inferno tearing across california wine country for the fourth day in a row, scorching nearly 200,000 acres and forcing town after town to evacuate. police going from door to door ordering all 5000 residents to get out. >> everybody says it is the wind that is going to come our way. you know, we might end up losing the house. elizabeth: fires sweeping across town so fast, this video showing what some residents were up against trying to get to safety. >> 30 years. i am not letting a fire take it. elizabeth: raining down on thousands of firefighters from five states now on the ground battling the flames around-the-clock with the governor declaring a state of emergency for network, sonoma, -- napa, sonoma, and another county. ,ust about everywhere you look homes and cars burned to the ground and with more wind and dry

elizabeth hur abc news, santa rosa, california. >> a philadelphia man accused of raping two childrens county is locked up in jail. the 21-year-old is being held on $2 million bail. he was arrested by police in falls township. investigators say his victims were under ten when the alleged molestation started. >>> the city of chester, delaware county has surpassed an on ominous milestone. there have been more murders this year than all of 2016. a 26-year-old man shot in a hail of bullets on thursday, died from his injuries yesterday afternoon. he is the 27th homicide of 2017. police are asking anyone who has information about that shooting to give them a call. >>> authorities have identified the bodies found floating in the schuylkill expressway river thursday near walnut street. the medical and are confirmed the victim was 58-year-old philip brightenower entrepreneur behind the app that was on shark tank. the medical examiner has not ruled on the cause of death. >>> president trump did not rip the acran nuclear agreement as he promised. instead he accused iran of violating the landmark

elizabeth hur, abc news, santa rosa, california. >>> now, as sources continue pouring in to fight the north bay wildfire, a massive base camp has been growing at the fairgrounds in santa rosa as the staging area command post. jonathan bloom takes you inside. >> reporter: as firefighters hold the line around these raging wildfires,y're also engs panneding the line around their campground. >> we're moving this fence over to make room for more firefighters coming in. >> reporter: they're arriving from all over. >> we just came here today, trying to get checked in, actually. >> reporter: and from santa barbara and a crew from oregon. >> we're bringing our 20-man hand crew, tools, chain saws and an eagerness to work. >> reporter: some come from mutual aid fire departments across the state. >> this is a challenging fire, we're happy to be here to help. >> reporter: some drop what they're doing. >> i'm a rancher. i was working cattle, branding calves two days ago. >> reporter: he also drives a bulldozer. >> we take uf our cowboy hats and load up our fire shirts and load up the dozers and go.

elizabeth hur reports on what comes next. elizabeth: army sergeant bowe bergdahl did not speak to reporters heading heading in the court-martial at fort bragg, but in court he pleaded guilty to charges he deserted and committed misbehavior before the enemy. telling the judge in a prepared statement -- "i understand leaving was against the law. i understand i endangered the safety of my platoon. i understand i was before the enemy." >> my name is bowe bergdahl. elizabeth: the charges stemming from bergdahl's disappearance and capture by the taliban in 2009, bergdahl eventually handed over to the u.s. special forces in 2014 as five taliban prisoners were released from guantanamo as part of a prisoner swap. controversial deal blasted by then candidated off his post without permission. and at least two soldiers tried to find him were seriously wounded. trump he -- president trump: he is a traitor. no good traitor who should have been executed. he's gone. elizabeth: the president not going further today. president trump: i'm not go

elizabeth hur is in santa rosa with the latest. elizabeth: jonathan, for days, thousands of firefighters have been working around the clock. authorities say naturally they are tired. but thankfully, more help is now on the ground and we are told they are now working together to try to get ahead of the raging wildfires that you can see left so many towns in ruin. the damage done is catastrophic. with crews attacking the massive wildfires from the ground and from the air, finally on this day four of reporting progress. >> today is a different day. it's a good day for us. elizabeth: firefighters beginning to contain the fires that raged out of control across northern california. so far scorching nearly 200,000 acres completely wiping out some neighborhoods and destroying thousands of homes and businesses. the danger not over yet for so many communities, including napa county with flames inching closer to city limits. all 5,000 residents remain under a mandatory evacuation. >> you will not be given life safety at this point. you are on

elizabeth hur has details. meeting of the nfl owners, 11 owners sitting down with 12 players and their union reps to talk compromise. >> this is not a resolution overnight but i see the issues that are important to the players. that's what we talked about. i talked about things going forward. elizabeth: this as protesters gathered outside singing, marching and taking a knee. they say to stand in solidarity with the players kneeling during the national anthem. to protest racial inequality and injustice. >> the fact the conversation is being entertained right now is disgusting. >> you have colin kaepernick, a person fighting to end police brutality and racism. you should be encouraging this type of activism from your players. elizabeth: former san francisco 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick started the movement last year and created a backlash that intensified trump suggested the nfl owners fire the protesting players. president trump: get that [bleep] off the field right now. out. he's fired. elizabeth: kaepern

elizabeth hur abc news santa rosa, california. >>> a philadelphia man accused of raping two childrenn bucks county locked up in jail. the 21-year-old is being held on $2 million bail. he was arrested by police in falls township. investigators say his victims were under ten when the alleged molestation started. >>> the city of chester, delaware county has surpassed an on ominous milestone. there have been more murders in the city than all of 2016. a 30-year-old man was shot in a hail of bullets on thursday on sunny side avenue. he died from the injuries yesterday afternoon. he is the 27th homicide of 2017. police are asking anyone with information about that most recent shooting to give them a call. >>> time 7:36 a.m., president donald trump did not rip the iran nuclear agreement as he promised, instead he accused iran of violating the landmark accord and directed lawmaker to say fix it. the president announced he would not certify the deal. it was negotiated under the obama administration. the president accuses iran of committing multiple violations of the agreement and wants congres

elizabeth hur is in santa rosa where the bad news keeps coming. elizabeth: jonathan, good evening. here in santa rosa, this neighborhood you go around and all you see is home after home like this burned to the ground. but you get to this one block here and take a look. there is a handful of homes still standing and the lucky homeowners say they still can't believe it. the current california wildfires now the deadliest fires in state history. so far killing at least 31 people. burning an area as large as new york city and destroying thousands of homes and businesses. firefighters now racing against time with winds expected to get stronger overnight and through the weekend. this as new questions emerge with so staff at a senior center in santa rosa, left dozens of elderly residents to fend for themselves. >> why did nobody stay behind to ensure that everybody was evacuated? elizabeth: homeowners in communities still threatened continue to watch the forecast nervously. >> here we are. this looks like world war ii. elizabeth: jean and mike already overwhelmed by the destruction surroun

gotten off lightly with only 16 dead, but shortly after he left the death toll was raise >> abc's elizabeth huras more. >> reporter: president trump in puerto rico as consoler in chief. >> we're going to help you out. have a good time. >> reporter: this during the president's first trip to the u.s. territory, two weeks after hurricane maria, as one emergency official put it, destroyed the island. president trump accompanied by the first lady, even handing out supplies himself, while praising fema and emergency responders. >> great job. great job. and to all of my people -- >> reporter: directly responding to critics slamming the federal response as inadequate and slow. >> this has been a category five, which few people have ever even heard of. a category five hitting land, but it hit land, and boy, did it hit land. >> reporter: the white house maintaining federal help has been delivered and continues to stream in, with thousands of troops and civilians on the ground, delivering more than 1 million meals and 2 million liters of water. bashed some members of the puerto rican leadership in a barra

abc's elizabeth hur reports tonight. >> reporter: the current california wildfires now the deadliestire disaster in state history. so far killing at least 31 people, burning an area as large as new york city and destroying thousands of homes and businesses. firefighters now racing against time with winds expected to get stronger overnight and through the weekend this as new questions emerge with some families claiming the staff at a senior center in santa rosa left dozens of elderly residents to fend for themselves. >> why did nobody stay behind to ensure that everybody was evacuated? >> reporter: while homeowners in communities still threatened continue to watch the forecast nervously. >> here we are and this looks like world what are war two. >> reporter: gene welch and mike hib barred already overwhelmed by the destruction surrounding them. >> i've been here 39 years and to find it still standing, i don't know what i did but it must have done -- i must have done something right somewhere along the lines. >> this is probably the only three homes from here for three-quarters that wa

elizabeth hur, abc news, washington. adrianna: now to the local weather, crisp and cool. conditions are feeling a little bit more like spring then fall. meteorologist brian van de graaff is the forecast. brian: we have definitely seen the temperatures coming up. it is pretty nice out there. look at the big board here. a picture from the capital out there. one thing i notice is, the flag is still at half staff as a remembrance of those who lost their lives in las vegas. we are checking in at 71 degrees. the average for this time of year is 73. i do think we will exceed that. a few scattered clouds out there today. not much happening. a pretty calm pattern as far as conditions. lacrosse, soccer, baseball -- whatever you have going on, by 5:00 p.m., 73. once the sun sets, temperatures will swivel back to the 60's. not quite as cool this evening. tomorrow, a little bit warmer. we will be in the 80's by the end of the week. coming up, much-needed rain may arrive in time for the last ha this after a man grabs a young girl as she was heading home from the bus stop. i am suzanne

in northwest, i'm elizabeth hur, abc news.cy: suburban detroit mother ordered to spend a week in jail for refusing to have her 9-year-old son vaccinated. have the procedure done. now her exhus will gain temporary -- ex-husband will gain temporary custody. she says she would rather be behind bars than compromise what she believes. the judge reminds her she agreed to the vaccination. nancy: getting your own money is costing more than ever. a new report finds the average out-of-network a.t.m. fees up to $5. to give it perspective in 1998, it was less than $2. if you accidently overdraft it's costing $33 now per incident. jonathan: crazy. it was 60 years ago today that the soviet union shocked the world with the launch of sputnik in 1967. space race was on. they won. beeps were heard on radios around the world. it was a big deal. sputnik's batteries died three weeks on reentry so the u.s. responded launching explorer and creating nasa less than a year later. alison: by the way, october 4 is unofficially known as sputnik day in rus

elizabeth hur, abc news, santa rosa, california. adrianna: no major development in the las vegas massacre. the hotel at the center of the shooting has released its own timeline of events, and it contradicts police. the owner of mandalay bay says that stephen shooting at the concert crowd within 40 seconds of shooting the security guard at the hotel. the implication is that by the time the hotel security was notified of the gunman, the massive attack was already under away -- already underway could police claimed there was a six-minute gap between the shooting of the guard and the massacre, and that drew questions about the hotel and police response. new developers concerning the crofton, maryland, native wounded in the las vegas massacre. frost members of tina were at a restaurant in odenton, maryland. she lost her right eye in the shooting and she is recovering in a las vegas hospital. is stillmbers as she not fully awake, but she is no longer in a full coma. >> at first it didn't sound as bad as it really was, and then we found ou

elizabeth hur has some of their stories. , payingion in mourning tribute as family and friends againharing stories honoring their loved ones lost in the las vegas massacre. >> i will never see my baby girl again. i loved her so much. >> among the dead, rhonda come in las vegas on vacation. christopher, an off-duty police officer and navy veteran. >> he was a goofball. i mean, fun-loving, full of energy. >> hann sonny at the concert with his wife heather is said she could feel the moment he was shot. >> and we felt of the ground. i was talking him and he was still breathing at that time. then he stopped. >> also emerging, the harrowing stories of survival. >> we did hear the bullets snapping by on the ground. >> people were trampling over each other. it was pretty much a war zone. >> so many still in pain, but grateful to the strangers and the first responders who risked their lives to save others. mckenna saying she is alive things to her boyfriend. >> my boyfriend started to help me. he carried me a little bit of the way. then there was this couple that help us and got us into his t

in northwest, elizabeth hur, abc7 news. larry: still ahead at "abc7 news at 5:00" -- the battle over the confederate battle flag. vandal strikes. >> if you are saying i don't like your views, vandalism is not the way to go. larry: update of the rival flag going up and if the confederate flag has to come down. alison: a "7 on your side" i-team investigation at 5:30. whistle blower claiming pet land is running an illegal conspiracy. shedding light on what he claims are inhumane practices. you won't believe what we found. >> in a moment we will tell you why he is legal now. alison: the rising cost of a wedding? how much do you think it is now? $35,000? $45,000? your brain is an amazing thing. but as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clini