. >> we have heard from one south bay man were flames went directly to his home in yreka, marion five row has his story. >> reporter: mckinney fire is fast and intense and headed straight towards chris hutchins home >> monster fire without the wind but when the wind came up and added that element, it was nothing i've ever seen, a firestorm >> hudson who owns a bmw motorcycle dealership in san jose said that flames descended down the hill near his home scorching is grassy field in minutes, leaving him little time to escape. >> i got my dogs and my truck and all my stuff and i drove on out. >> he returned the next day afraid of what he would find >> the house survived, the garage and my wife's potting studio on the hill, and nothing else. it burned out both the tenant houses, and the barn we were rebuilding down there which we spent $60,000, all the old houses and all the outbuildings, everything to the ground >> chris says he credits his friend with putting out hotspots with a garden hose and his own efforts to clear his property with saving his house. he knows it could have been much

it is located deep inside redwood national forest in yreka.parks have closed the area surrounding the tree citing damage caused by visitors. violators will be fined $5000. >>> the world is mourning the loss of an absolute legend in basketball whose career started right here in the bay area. bill russell led the u.s. to two straight champions. >> event went on to dominate the nba for more than a decade leading the boston celtics to 11 championships and winning the most valuable player award five times. russell was also known for his activism off the court, as a civil rights advocate, a legacy he passed to future generations of nba players. former usf basketball coach was san francisco teenager when russell went undefeated in 1955 and 56. >> we all lost a giant, not only somebody who was one of the all-time greats on the court, but also someone that thought for racial injustice off the court his whole life. >> nba commissioner, adam silver called russell the greatest champion in all of team sports. his legacy includes the nba finals most valuabl

but some communities west of yreka remain in shelters. flash floods washed out parts of highway 89. there are reports of cars being swept off the road. in alpine county folks are cleaning up after sandbags failed to keep mud and debris out of homes and businesses. >> we couldn't open the door. so i climbed out the window, and the deputies had to push my car out. my car was buried in the mud. my basement is flooded almost up to the ceiling. that's where all my artwork is stored. >> oh, that is such a mess. >> it's like a double-edged sword for a lot of residents. you're either dealing with dry conditions or nflash flooding. >> this is absolutely the wrong time of year a possibility. the good news is thunderstorms that caused the flash flooding have now diminished. however there were issue not just to the north of tahoe but south of tahoe around the tamarack burn scar, and we are going to see thunderstorms and showers redeveloping in the mountains of northern california once again with the monsoonal moisture lingering. >> i don't know what it is about the 11:00 newscasts and the wr we

we really loaded up that a fire justice of yreka through spotty reception sharon trentino and duane moore. show me what life looks like at their ranch the fire bringing in a barrier. that's eclipse. what's normally a clear view of mountains? that's all smoke and haze then right. well smoking haze the husband and wife moved to their ranch from the bay area more than a year ago after years of seeing the damage wildfires can do they say they chose their new home carefully. i love this house because i love this house, but it also is cement fiber board composite shingle roof. not a lot of a lot of big trees right around me so that i have a dispensable space, but still they in their neighbors are preparing to evacuate with their important items packed up in an rv tanks are filled water tanks are filled but we're gonna try really hard not to go because we can we can stay in the middle of a big gravel pit and hopefully that won't burn as a work continues to fight this extreme fire trentino and more say they're doing all they can to stay out of the smoke and keep up. hope grateful for the people w

firefighters say they stopped the spread of the fire toward the city of yreka. it is blamed for four deaths. >> it really gave me a huge sense of relief to know he is behind bars. >> relief what that attack survivor is feeling and she is not the only one. >> and comes amid new efforts to get more shots into arms. >> counting down to outside lands, the final preparations underway. >> i will let you know the changes i for the weekend coming up. >> first, coming up on a jimmy kimmel live right after abc7news at 11. >> i'm filling in for jimmy kimmel. watch me tonight and you will be smarter in the morning. >> and east contra costa county they are responding to a brush fi at here. the fire broke out just before 11:00 p.m.. it is burning in the byron area. cal fire says the fire appears to be 10-15 acres. we are keeping an eye on that for you. san jose police have arrested a man suspected of shooting at least seven women and girls in the south bay with an air-powered rifle. >> some faced life-threatening injuries. >> these two sulfate residents do not know each other

some residents in western yreka and hawkinsville are now able to return home after mandatory evacuations, residents in far northern california evacuated over the weekend are now learning that they will not have a home to return to. >> i am sad and everybody says it was just stuff, but it was all i had. and i have been single for a long time and i just -- i'm going to have to poke cope. >> reporter: ash and smoke make it difficult for some residents who suffer lung issues to come back to their homes. minute kenny fire has not been the only danger in that area, the contractor was injured after a flash flood caused the bridge he was working on to collapse. fortunately, he was taken to a local hospital with non-life- threatening injuries. >>> now to a story of resilience, a fire destroyed this beloved south bay westra last week. the owners are rising from the ashes and they plan to rebuild. >> reporter: the fire destroyed the entire building and it is going to be a while before people can enjoy a meal again here. but, the owner tells me he plans on opening up a temporary location in order to

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it's in the redwood national forest north of yreka.s not on the trail, but a big attraction drawing in a lot of visitors that want to see it up close. the park has closed the area off indefinitely. anyone caught near it could be fined up to $5,000. you could even face. you could even face. yliving with metastatic breast cancer means being relentless. because every day matters. and having more of them is possible with verzenio. the only one of its kind proven to help you live significantly longer when taken with fulvestrant, regardless of menopause status. verzenio + fulvestrant is for hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer that has progressed after hormone therapy. diarrhea is common, may be severe, or cause dehydration or infection. at the first sign, call your doctor start an anti-diarrheal and drink fluids. before taking verzenio, tell your doctor about any fever, chills, or other signs of infection. verzenio may cause low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infection that can lead to death. life-threatening lung inflammat

it is burning west of of the town of yreka. more than 60,000 acres have burned. the fire is now 40% contained. > >> there are new evacuations ine in place as the six rivers complex fire continues to sprea. to spread. crews are fighting eight different fires in that area that were sparked by lightning over the weekend. so far, more than 3000 acres have . have burned. > >> from fires to flooding, today today president biden visited ky visited kentucky to meet with people affected by the recent floods. 37 people have died. thousands are still in the dark without power. the president approved a disaster declaration for the area to help get money and services to eastern kentuck. eastern kentucky. >> we are not leaving. as long as it takes, we are going to be here. we are committed. absolut% absolute 100% cover the cost for for the next few months. it mat. it matters. what people don't r, don't realize, all those plows that pick up debris and everything else, it takes us a lot of time, a lot of money. >> before sunday biden had not left the white house in 18 days. that

. >> jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, yreka, california. >> several bay area fire crews are headed there after spending days fighting the oak fire. >>> new details on a shooting during a youth football game in oakland. police say they are searching for the suspects who injured three people in the stands. it happened at oakland tech high school yesterday afternoon. as kpix 5's juliette goodrich reports, there is a new fpush fr safety on the football field. >> reporter: these kids worn out on the streets after dark. they were playing a game they love. football on a sunday afternoon. when the unthinkable happened in front of hundreds of people who were watching their game. >> i heard gunshots. so had to take cover and get the kids down with me. >> reporter: president of the oakland dine mites elite football known as coach kmu which, running for cover with his kids when gunfire rang out. >> a lot of us have them -- this them lay on the ground and take cover with us. just did what we can to protect them. >> reporter: this is video from a championship game last year. yesterday the 10-year-old

the mckinney fire has burned 95 square miles in siskiyou county near yreka. the fire broke out july 29th, and so far has burned 185 structured and destroyed them. the sheriff's office said yesterday that residents near highway 96 could return home. at least four deaths are being blamed on that fire where 11 people have been injured no word yet on exactly what started it. well, it's being called a win for the american people congress passed the so-called inflation reduction act. critics contend it won't deliver on its promises though abc news reporter deirdre bolton takes a look. democrats celebrating a major legislative win as the house passed the inflation reduction act the 220 to 207 vote falling along party lines with no republican support. the motion is adopted. president biden with a broad smile as he watched the vote on television democrats are calling the $700 billion dollar package a giant win for the american people. we send to the president's desk a monumental bill that will will be truly for the people it allocates 375 billion over 10 years towards

residents of western yreka are able to return home after mandatory evacuations.housands are still under evacuation orders, though, as it has burned nearly 59,000 acres. but firefighters gaining some ground. i say some, with only 10% containment. that fire is blamed for four des so far. the mckinney fire is currently the largest and deadliest fire in california this year. >>> hard to see all of those fire, paul. and of course we had a couple more flare-ups today. do you think the humidity played a big role? >> it didn't hurt. the monsoonal moisture, it doesn't necessarily feel great as you walk outside and go this isn't quite right. but the vegetation kind of absorbs some of that moisture. it helps slow down the spread of anything that gets going. fire dang shore will limited the next couple of days. we'll start with a look at conditions around the mckinney fire, which are still challenging for fire crews. the temperatures had been hot. the bad news, it's been hot. it's been very dry. the humidity is back above 10%, the latest update at 6:00, but not my much. only

but it is providing that humidity, which tends to slow the spread of the fire, just to the west of yreka on the map. you still see the rain falling this morning in that area and hopefully it will help those firefighters get some containment, more on that today. as we take a look at temperatures that will be slightly cooler to start out and as we had to the afternoon it will reach into the mid-80s and not as windy as we've seen the past few days and were watching out for that chance of lightning in the area. as you wake up and go out into the bay area there is a beautiful sunrise. in fremont we are the mid-60s to start out, it does feel muggy and there will be a chance of rain for this afternoon we will talk about that in a few minutes and mike give this a look at where to find lower gas prices. spirit yes look at mill valley, along shoreline, we found gas for $4.89 a gallon at the hq fuels. a little bit to the south of san francisco, there was gas for $5.09 at the arco gas station. and in richmond, we have under five dollars that $4.97, and that is on harbor way in richmond and gas co. g

. >> flames broke out three days ago just west of the town of yreka. since then he's grown to 52,000 acres with no containment. fire crews across california and the bay area are waking up to northern california to help and kpix 5's devin fehely shows us why this fire is just so hard to fight. >> reporter: the mckinney fire is a beast. it's torched entire hillsides and turned towering trees into kindling, burning uncontained and uncontrolled near the border with oregon. >> this one was driven by its fuels, its terrain, and it's extremely fast-moving winds. >> reporter: officially the cause of the fire is still under investigation but the u.s. forest service says several smaller blazes were sparked by a lightning storm in the area. whatever the cause, the forest service says the fire was stred by strong wind and was intensified by years of drought. >> this year in particular they're landing on an extremely receptive fuel bed. that means every strike that comes in has the potential to become a fire. >> reporter: more than a thousand firefighters are battl

flames broke out three days ago, just west of the town of yreka. since then it's grown to more than 52,000 acres with no containment there. >>> the we have declared a first alert weather day with thunderstorms in the bay area which we are focusing on that, jessica but also focusen at fires in the area. a lot of concern there. >> exactly. here in northern california that's our number one concern, over the weekend actually i was with my national guard unit and we were helping out with the oak fire in fresno but of course we got activated to help out in siskiyou county. >> all over the state. >> it's already starting to pop up and the big reason we're concerned about the first alert weather day we're already seeing lightning strikes in the bay area as we wake up this morning. now on the bright side, this is just offshore. i'm going so show that in a second. start off with first alert doppler, we're seeing a lot of convective activity and upleft in the atmosphere as we wake this up morning, zooming in closer to the bulk of the action we're just seeing

the fire is burning into klamath natural forest and into the city yreka. two people who were dying were found in the vehicle of the driveway of a home according to the siskiyou sheriff's coroner. as of now 52,000 acres are burned in the fire is not contained on any front. governor gavin newsom declared a state of emergency. meteorologist gary hall is tracking this as well, high temperatures and lightning storms a problem. spirit yes we are watching the potential for another round of lightning in the area which of course could spark new fires. we seen the gusty wind and very erratic wildfire conditions as we take a look at the weather conditions we are expecting today, we are starting out in the low 70s and it will be another warm one. take a look at wind speeds and some of those gusts that will reach 20 to 25 miles per hour for today, and a chance of lightning and gusty wind, and slightly cooler temperatures. but of course the outflow of wind could make for very erratic spreading of the fires in those areas. we are also watching out for a chance of lightni

let's get a look at the radar this morning and that area around yreka. we see some of the showers that do continue in the area, even this morning, as we are getting high humidity, which slows the spread of the fire, good news here, and once again we've not seen any lightning strikes. i want to show you our temperatures and what we expect throughout today, starting out in the mid-to-upper 60s, headed for the mid-80s today and it will not be as windy, but we know around the fire can create its own weather conditions in the area. we are still getting the surge of monsoon moisture today with the remnants of a tropical system as well, we will continue to see the moisture streaming and stay but will be drying out tomorrow, we'll talk about what it means for the bay area coming up, mike where can we find lower gas prices? >> checking around the bay and within, around mill valley we found gas for $4.89, which is below five dollars, we like that. a little more along the coast, san francisco we found gas for five dollars 09 so a shade over the five dollar mark, an