same area where we had the woolsey fire back in 2018.t now anywhere from 20 to 30mph. and these winds will stay pretty active through wednesday evening. we have more showers here locally through the weekend. we'll show you the seve stricter food safety measures in california after a social media influencer reportedly died from an allergic reaction in los angeles. disney influencer dominique brown was attending a holiday event hosted by the pop culture merchandise retailer box lunch, when she apparently suffered the medical emergency, according to the petition. brown had informed the staff of her life threatening allergy, but she was still served food containing the allergen. the petition also claims the venue didn't have epipens. the venue says it is conducting an internal review of the incident. >> if you've been to the grocery store lately, you may have noticed a shortage of eggs on the shelves of some bay area stores are bare, as the bird flu outbreak gets worse. abc seven news reporter laura martinez spoke to people about the impac.

fire in 2018. >> this was called the woolsey fire. major fire burned for several days. and in our town, we have about 8000 homes. and we lost almost 500 of those in that fire. the after action reports from that were taken very seriously. there were three of them. i read every page. so did everybody else that was in charge. and we took that to heart and said, this is what we need to do to fix this. we should not be in this kind of a position again. so in the five years, six years since then, we've made major changes, especially the fire department has and the sheriff's department, as well as our city to be ready. and i can tell you, one of the big changes that happened in that is instead of escalating fire response based upon as the fire develops, everything is turned over now, it's now everybody roles. we'll back them off if we don't need them. and they were pre-positioned on monday night because of the red flag warnings that the weather service had given us, and they were able to respond quickly and in force. i would characterize it

so andy benton, who is the president for a long time, we were talking during the 2018 woolsey fire. he talked about how that campus is literally informed by fire in 1985, when i was here, we noticed that everybody just dropped everything, got in their cars and left, and we had no idea where they were. >> we had no idea if they were being cared for. so we decided thereafter that we could do better and the do better was that we have equipped this campus to withstand fire to the best of our ability. we have 4.6 million gallons of water. we have 15 days of food. we have counselors, medical doctors, and a caring community to take care of those students and calm them. we relocate them into one of two facilities, and even now we've got a fire, we've got a helicopter landing and withdrawing. >> you're speaking. look at this. >> withdrawing water from our lakes, 2500 gallons in about 60s. >> and they're probably fighting the fire up in malibu canyon right now that particular woolsey fire took three lives. >> burned 1600 billions, cost southern california edison a couple billion dollars in se

been much worse, but the city and county put new wildfire response plans in place following the 2018 woolsey fire. wildfire in l.a. county that destroyed more than 1600 structures. >> one of the big changes that happened in that is, instead of escalating fire response based upon as the fire develops, everything is turned over. now it's now. everybody rolls will back them off if we don't need them. and they were pre-positioned on monday night because of the red flag warnings that the weather service had given us, and they were able to respond quickly and enforce. >> evacuation orders are still in place for thousands of people, and the power is out for many. 99 year old actor dick van dike says one of his cats was missing when he and his wife left their home. mark hamill, of star wars fame, says he's under lockdown orders. pepperdine university got its power back yesterday and officials say a shelter in place order on campus has been lifted. at its peak, officials say the franklin fire burned areas larger than five football fields per minute. investigators are digging deeper into the past of l

also the winds have dried down dramatically over the last 48 hours compared to the 40 woolsey fire, this nine more, despite catching in the everyone by surprise. >> an hour ago, the wind was heading directly west. >> you can hear it crackling. >> you can feel the heat. >> so two factors that made a huge difference. number one, this is the only major fire in the u.s. right now, along the county to throw maximum manpower, 1400 firefighters, and some state inmates at this 4,000-acre fire that is a wildfire, actually kind of small. unlike years ago, this helicopters fly at night, they can at the fire when it sleeps, and because the fire is so remote, you can stretch the water hoses inside, so ariel support has been critical. >> the full array of aircraft that are available to us, we have air tankers that drop retardant, we have the super scooper's that drop water, and then we have an array of different helicopters that we are going to be employing. we have no reports of significant injuries or deaths, and that is a huge victory. >> yeah, and they are actually lifting the red flag warning in

two things helped save the city compared to the devastating woolsey fire in 2018. by night by day. flame retardant around the flames. also as the only major fire now burning in the u.s., there is no shortage of manpower, including this prison work crew who built containment lines around the fire. >> scary, right? >> yeah, yeah, scary. >> the fire nearly wind out martin sanchez restaurant. >> firefighters come around. >> we make -- and clam chowder. >> the city feels like a ghost town. >> you would think we are a third world country 20 square miles of america has almost no electricity, almost no cell service and almost no internet. >> so containments at 7% but that number will increase when we get the evening update; however, this fire does appear to prove a point. there isn't one fire season in california. it's every year all year long. bret? >> bret: william la jeunesse in malibu, california. thank you. meantime residents of western north carolina are still struggling to recover from hurricane helene. they are getting some relief tonight. more than 150 campers hav

. >> we were out here just a few years ago for the woolsey fire, which burned nearly 100,000 acres, destroyedaround 1600 structures. they know the risks here. they know the dangers now, a fire chief here described this fire as stubborn. the mayor of malibu said that it has been a traumatic experience. they had to actually move their command center from malibu city hall because it was under threat from the flames. they had to move up to calabasas. so the fight continues throughout the day with these higher winds. we are hoping that in the next few days, the humidity will rise. that is helpful and the winds will drop. that is also very helpful. now, thousands of people under mandatory evacuation orders, amongst them dick van dike, who has moved out with his wife and their cat. he turns 99 on friday. by then we are hoping that the conditions. >> will get better is what nick want me to say. he is hoping the conditions will improve a little. >> mad lib, there we are that we do this all the time. nick, thank you so much. >> all right. and finally, the winner is put the photo up. stuck squirrel. yes

this is the same area in 2018 where we had the woolsey fire.o firefighters are battling some very strong winds right now. this is an extreme fire event that is underway. winds currently in the region anywhere from about 15 to 30mph. and those winds in the hills have been even stronger over 50mph. highway one. the pch is closed in this area as firefighters try and battle it. cal fire has said once the sun is up here at 730, they're going to send 15 tankers to the region to douse this area. so we'll keep you updated on that. let's check in with sue and see those drive times this morning. >> all right. it's pretty scary scene there we are here in the bay area. another scary scene. we have a live shot now of this fatal accident. this is on south city 101 northbound. you can see the cars on the right shoulder. and just now, that chp officer coming up on the left shoulder. so a little squeaking by on the right hand shoulder. but the main freeway is still shut down for this fatal accident. traffic is being diverted off at 380 and at south san francisc

. >> corral canyon was hit hard by the 2018 woolsey fire, which burned a number of homes. empty lots remain, and the community is still rebuilding in 2019. >> it was horrific. we were part of a much bigger fire. the support wasn't really there because the i guess the infrastructure with the fire department was completely stretched. and on top of that, up here in corral, we lost our water pumps as well. so there was no water. we felt like we were fighting a fire with our hands tied behind our back. >> those who live here have made upgrades to their homes, not just adding fire hoses, but creating an arson watch and going as far as changing the air vents on their homes. >> we purchased a fire proof, i guess, or new air vents that stopped the embers coming in, but still allowed the ventilation into the house. real game changer from our perspective. >> we're praying very hard for the wind to blow in the right direction. if they have it under control, the firefighters have it under control completely. >> josh haskell, abc seven news. >> we have some new details about two possibl

i'm having, like, ptsd from woolsey because this is just the same. >> seven homes destroyed, nine damaged. when you consider that thousands of s were in the fire zone. the los angeles county fire department says they were able to keep property damage down to a minimum. ryan lippert tells us what it was like when the flames came close to his house. >> well, it burned to right on top of this little last ridge here before it came down the canyon. luckily, the fire trucks, i mean, the helicopters, the strike teams, everybody got it out right there. so we were blessed. >> a lot of preparation before the santa ana winds hit. according to l.a. county, fire is the reason only a handful of homes were damaged or destroyed. residents told us they prepared with neighbors to protect their property. >> it was a team effort. i all i basically did was get as many assets of hoses, ladders, water buckets in place so that if, when the fire, if and when the fire came, we'd have a chance to put out the embers. >> alec gillis talked to us about how he and a buddy tried their best to save a neighbor's home and

remember the woolsey fire of 2018 that destroyed nearly 500 homes in malibu alone? there were lessons learned from that fire. >> one thing that probably made the most difference is the way the fire department responds. it used to be that you'd escalate up to the fire, and with our new regime, the county fire department gets throw everything at it and call it back if you don't need it, said garcia. >> abc seven news. >> coming up, a california strategy in the battle of federal versus state. taxpayers are caught in the middle. >> plus, okay, we see which way the wind is blowing. now we're going to suck up to the new regime. >> the tech industry shifting to support tru but his vision dimmed with age. he had amd. i didn't know it then, but it can progress to ga, an advanced form of the disease. his struggle with vision loss from amd made me want to help you see warning signs of ga, like: hazy or blurred vision, so it's hard to see fine details, colors that appear dull or washed out, or trouble with low light that makes driving at night a real challenge. if you think you

. >> this thing was born out of woolsey and a realization that community members really need to be take ownership of their risk to live in this area, and we worked with l.a. county and with their blessing and their uh- tutelage really grew this thing over the last five years. >> the fire burned through the santa monica mountains on both sides of malibu canyon road. that leads to pch and where malibu canyon hits pch. that's where you find sarah. retreat. >> we saved our house in malibu. we know there's going to be fires we prepare. >> josh haskell, abc seven news. >> what a situation there. well, time is up for san francisco unified to present its early financial report to the board. >> now, the school district paused closing schools back in october despite facing a huge budget deficit. >> abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez is here with information on where they are going to make those cuts. leanne. that's right. >> so this is the financial plan we've been waiting for, and the school board is reviewing it as we speak. so the school board gets the plan tonight, approves it. and that

memories remain from the woolsey fire of 2018, which destroyed over 1600 structures and took three lives today, at least to date with the information we have now, we have no reports of significant injuries or deaths. and that is a huge victory. >> the venerable dick van dike is among the thousands evacuated from this starry little city. he turns 99 friday. by then, the wind should have dropped and the danger passed. for now, at least for now, jake, the people who stayed to defend their homes remember they were doing that largely without power, without wi-fi, without cell service, and that inability to communicate during a fire is something the mayor of malibu says they're going to look into before all this inevitably happens again. >> jake. all right. thanks to nick wall. nick watt in malibu. a significant update is just coming in on the ceo murder case. and when the suspect was last in touch with his mother. that news is next. >> leo, ever since we introduced him to the farmer's dog, it's changed his quality of life. >> he used number twos are really getting better. >> better poo. >> be

we were out here just a few years ago for the woolsey fire, which burned nearly 100,000 acres, destroyed 1600 structures. so people are well aware of the danger. nobody here takes it lightly at all. now, one of the fire officials called this fire stubborn. obviously, they are dealing with high terrain. they are dealing with winds whistling through those canyons. gusts today expected to maybe get up to that 50 or 60 mile an hour level that was causing so many problems over the past couple of days. at its peak, this fire was burning five football fields a minute. the mayor of malibu has called this a traumatic time. the city hall was actually even threatened by flames, so they had to move their command center to calabasas, just over the other side of the hill. now pepperdine university canceled some final exams. all the schools closed. pacific coast highway behind me is also closed. now, you mentioned evacuations. dick van dike was among those who was evacuated along with his wife and his cat. he is turning 99 years old on friday. by then, we hope conditions will have gotten a little bit b

woolsey, whose little round face you see here. you may know of judge walsh's 1933 ruling that allowed james book ulysses to enter the country and maybe wrote that ruling while he was looking at the duffield clock colonial williamsburg has an outstanding duffield clock and so does the library company of philadelphia i hold the library company's share this is their clock i hold their share number eight which was originally in 1731 to 2. joseph, a son of clockmaker peter stretch joseph however, was in another line of work hat making, but that's as close as i could get. someone does own the original duffield chair, but he isn't giving it up yet. two more clocks are in the are in the apes collection. this may be a clock that was unnamed in franklin's estate inventory. the other is a non striking timepiece that was donated by the sons of jp morgan. it may also be in that estate inventory richard beach married franklin's daughter and this clock was passed down through their descent. as noted on the engraved silver plates attached to the