The city of oakland, yeah you can be sure that traffic is definitely slowing as people. Turn to take a look at heres another Vantage Point showing us the plume from more of a distant shot you can actually make out at the bottom of the screen. Some of the water thats being sprayed from ground crews and also from ladder trucks. We have rebecca standing by she is taking a look at some of the traffic issues in the area and is the backup growing as youve been watching her last hour yet is especially in the northbound side james if we switch over the traffic map i can show you what our road sensors. Showing us button northbound 8. 80 slowing all the way from to 38 san leandro and continues to grow. 2 of the scene of the fire here and you could see the roads have just picking out up the solid red to orange coloring on your screen up to 23rd avenue. It is solid in the drive time now stands at half an hour just to make it through that stretch the from san leandro try to get into downtown oakland. Now on the other side of the freeway as well south on 8. 80 being affected and that continues to grow now the Traffic Center showing it its even beyond the 9. 80 split so coming out of the downtown oakland area and trying to get towards the 23th enue traffic is just a bumper to bumper in fact i do have a drive time for that as well so it continues to t about 16 grownow definitely do so hop ov to 5. 80. If youre just now waking up with us were just about to leave the house. Were exactly sure when this fire will be put out in one traffic will recover because obviously take some time so 5 80s going to be your best bet in the meantime now other spots around the bay area, lets take a quick a trip over the bay bridge. This has been problem free and very light all morning long you can tell its friday and its going to be a nice commute into the city only 60 minutes across the upper deck into San Francisco. Well see how the weather shaping up with john. Always though. Like think that all the time rebecca and i was the weather look like this all the timh too it has been a really nice start to the day so far looking out from the Berkeley Hills at berkeley and oakland itself starting to see more and more brightness working its way down not seeing any evidence of that smoke plume over berkeley as a smoke primarily spreads to the east out from the blaze for a future cast of wind gusts showing some very calm winds for the most part over oakland. So this is good news for firefighters battling that fire over in the east bay as far as skies go theyve offered up minimal fog all morning long you have noticed though a few showers in the vicinity. Those are well to the north so for those of you attending outside lands this weekend. Good news for aside from just a couple of sprinkles possible tonight. Were expecting mid 60s for your daytime highs partly cloudy skies in overall some really good weather out there to enjoy the festival this weekend back to you. All right, thank you john. Well speaking of the festival outside lands which kicks off in San Francisco today, but of course in the wake of these recent Mass Shootings that weve been covering for you. Youre going expect extra security this time around just want folks to have a good time, but they also want to keep you safe kron fours christina tater alive right now. And Golden Gate Park with more christina. Yes city officials are saying you know safety is going to be the number one priority. This year and security measures had have really ramped up from years in the past as you can tell behind me we already have barricades set up at each entrance at Golden Gate Park so far he turning going to be opening in till about 11 00am but they have already been putting a lot of resources behind this and actually to answer some questions for a security expert right here joining us live weve got rain and mud. Ryan. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Thank you having me. So brian go ahead and tell me when it comes to security and safety especially at a large event like at outside lands concert. Especially important g current situation, what is currently been in the news. Most of the time what people are going to be doing is looking at controlling routes of egress like roads and also potential. Other avenues so just people jumping barricades or people trying to gain on lawful access that facility there isnt Strong Security presence both in house and with Law Enforcement or in order to preclude that. Now when it comes to also normal concert goers wanting to enjoy their weekend. But obviously in light of the shootings that have happened. Imagine most people are feeling right now going to large event like this. I imagine most people are going to be concerned i mean i understand that they want to enjoy this event and thats something that they absolutely should i dont want anybody to have to think about mass casualties are active shooters and theyre trying to go out and have a good time in the weekend with their friends and family that being said i think everybody should have somewhat of a defensive mindset. They should be looking around for suspicious individuals. They should be proactive as far as having conversations with the people there with about locating exits and knowing what to do in the case of an emergency. They should absolutely be supporting security on site and local Law Enforcement to not be shy. If you see something Say Something mention to a Police Officer and bring them in so they can help react to whats going on. I think that defensive mindset is is such a strong phrase to think of this entire time instead of going out and living in a fearful man are having that defensive mindset always it wherever youre going whether it be the Grocery Store or outside lands. Thats absolutely correct. And having a defensive mindset doesnt mean it means to preoccupy all of your thoughts as i said earlier you should absolutely go out live your life and enjoy yourself. All im saying is that what you want to do is any place you go spend a couple of minutes assessing the situation looking around to see if anything appears to be out of order and trying to understand what you should do in the case of an emergency and that doesnt have to be an active shooter that could be a fire that could be an earthquake were in San Francisco earthquakes could happen and there are very real and existential threat. So having Quick Reaction time in an emergency situation is paramount and having a plan earlier will improve your reaction time and your chancenow obviously this is a large park. There are a lot of open areas but what type of i guess difficulties or struggles do you think that a lot of people or the Law Enforcement may have been securing an area like this. As you mentioned it is a very large area. You have a Central Parade area that most people are going listening to music and surrounded by vendor tense. Golden gate park is twice the size of central park approximately in terms of area. And theresnly so many areas that you can secure. Reeve in previous years people have tried to jump barricades and things of that nature and when you look here at in terms of security theyre going to be kids or just looking to have fun and try to get in without paying. But there also are people who could be up to more nefarious means and its up to both the Security Forces and the people to be vigilant and keep an eye out and thats how they can keep us all safe. Brian we were also talking about something off camera that you if you feel uncomfortable, you had mentioned it slightly as well here on camera dont be afraid to reach out to someone in know a lot of time someone may not feel comfortable, a lot of time sometimes people may not feel comfortable talking to someone of authority or Law Enforcement what they do and scenario like in a scenario like this if they do maybe feel that someone suspicious or theyre just worried about their safety. Law enforcement is absolutely here to help you theyre here to secure the facility and dont get me wrong. All of these officers have been watching the news as well, they know the potentials of what can happen and theyre there so they can keep you safe that you can enjoy yourself and some people might feel uncomfortable either because of a previous experience in Law Enforcement just because they dont feel like its its the correct thing to do they dont want to talk about somebody else behind the time or whatever. But people should especially in situations like this and they believe that somebody could be up to no good they should find the nearest Law Enforcement officer be good witness explain to them whats going on and allow that person investigate in an expeditious fashion. Great for a mink you so much any last where you want to get out to the community before outside land opens up today. I just think everybody should have a fantastic weekend and enjoy themselves and try not to think about some of the wars and tragedies event occurring. These events are for fun and for people to come together and enjoy themselves, thats absolutely they should do. Ou so much for joining us this morning. We really appreciate it and you guys were going to be sure to put all these tips and everything up online free over at kron 4 dot com are also going to have this interview. Kron on this going to be streaming throughout the day so if you miss any of that we will have that up for you, reporting live your Golden Gate Park christina teatro kron 4 news all right, thank you very much. Christine well check back with you a little bit later. Well new to outside lances here is the sale and use of marijuana on Festival Grounds and this comes after the city of San Francisco issue at outside lands a temporary cannabis permit. So this is video of the area where the pop vendors will be selling their products and its called the grasslands at outside lands only people 21 and over will be allowed into the section. In addition to buying pot people will indeed be allowed to use it. The mayor london breed says she wants to warn all the festival goers that this is a trial period for this kind of event. This is the first time were trying Something Like this out and i want to be clear if it works well, we might do this for other festivals if it doesnt were going to have second thoughts about issuing permits approximately 66 million into the citys economy. Representatives hope that this year will surpass as that number significantly. And by the way to help the crowds expected in the city this weekend bark is going to be running a longer trains and additional event trains too. Bart says they will not be single tracking anywhere in the system want to keep things moving as quick as possible. The longer trains will begin running this afternoon and will last through most of the hours on saturday and sunday parts also anticipating increased ridership because of the raiders game at the coliseum on saturday to says you have a lot of company on the trains this weekend. Head to break just a quick reminder following breaking news out of the east bay, we have smoke billowing up from a warehouse thats on fire right now in east oakland at 11th street and 23th avenue crews are on scene as you can see in this video kron fours will tran is headed there as well well have more updates for you coming up with the very latest on whats come into our on whats come into our newsroom. In just a minute. Its on. Get to the ross shoe event for even more brands at 20 to 60 percent off Department Store prices. Yes yep oh, yeah seriously, save on fall styles for women, men, boys and girls. At the ross shoe event. On now. And you score the you knperfect outfit . At ross ooooohhhh game on now, thats yes for less. Nothing beats getting the latest trends at 20 to 60 percent off Specialty Store prices. At ross. Yes for less. We are back at 8. 15 youre looking at some of the pictures and images earlier this morning as people were driving by on northbound 8. 80 looking over 2 east oakland where where house caught fire and as you can see set up pretty scary looking plumes of black smoke from what we understand its a 3 alarm fire burning right now at a warehouse that houses a number of businesses they got the call at around 6 23 this morning about this fire thats burning a lot of folks were calling from the nimitz freeway because they were traveling through the area they saw the stick. Pull of black smoke and they immediately started recording and also calling police now we want to check in with kron fours will tran whos on the scene. He has the latest update from the open Fire Department will. The fire still burning out of control so as you can see just how thick black smoke is so that is a sign that the fire still reaching new materials, new field because it is black at this time and theyre considering it looks like a shelter in place because you can see the smoke going from the right to the left side of your screen. So there are some nearby businesses here and some Residential Property that those people are being because is out in the east 11 street and james and robin rebe absolutely is doing damage to s area and cars obviously being diverted cannot go through here as the firefighters still have their hands bill heres deputy chief nyclu be joining us now you just got off the phone. Whats the update on the fire service. And a very active fire fight right now. We are in a defensive mode of operations are ones outside the building and were just trying to keep it to the building of origin. Are having some challenges of water supplies, a tampering us a little bit through some additional equipment into the area to try to bring in some water supply from the further a location working closely with these payment to see if we can do anything to boost the water. Pressures as applies in this area. That catch you off guard is there something wrong wiwater p they might on how the System Design we are flowing a lot of water this could happen in multitip that potential the the system that will work out because its a warehouse fire. We do know that theres a lot of materials inside obviously. I would think that would make it more difficult to fight a fire with all the chemicals inside. And yet as they can add a challenge to it will soon be artist a commercial artist a facility or coop that there is a lot combustibles and there we know theres multiple woodworking shops and there welding shops. Bronzing shops shop so that all adds real that can as it is and also difficult to extinguish. I know its very early but we havent origin of where the fire might have started not at this time not at this time and its not considered under control at fire started about 6. 20 and we are stilin fir you and i were talking during the commercial break because its a warehouse and it was to clean clothes at that time does it jump out a suspicious to you or things happen in the works. And not necessarily it in there so many potentials are starting the fire. An a and any facility but even in a commercial building until we in there and ever investigators get in there and start working through the scene and talking to property owners. It will just be an undetermined cause as of right now. I know its a defensive mode with all the ladders extended now, so you can do a thorough check of inside the building. But preliminary do you know of anybody was killed or hurt by this. As of right now we have no reports of any casualties or any injuries associate with her. Thank you so much, i know youre working. Youre talking to your crews that are closer to the scene you can see guys the flames still on the left side of your screen it looks like it punctured some holes in the building so. The firefighters theyre not inside simply too dangerous for them. So you can clearly see there on the ground there on their knees spring water, some of them sitting on their behinds spraying water into the buthdie as well the using so much water that you heard the deputy chief said that at one point they had a little bit of a problem with water pressure in supply. But it looks like at this particular time that has been solved and right now obviously its still way too early to tell the cause of the fire. But thousands of people are impacted by have nothing to do with the warehouse because on the right side of your screen. You can see just traffic on 8. 80 northbound going slow in going of course if youre on on the freeway you can also see it going southbound so its having major impact on that commuters this morning traffic is being diverted. But the good news change you just heard them talk about it that the deputy chief no injuries and no fatalities of course they are not saying thats official yet and so they can go through the building. But he says it looks like the building stained glass that it was closed at artists coop go up in smoke, its this is all happening as were waiting for the verdict to come in to go ship warehouse try which was another artist collective in oakland that caught fire as well and so part of investigation, i have to believe is going to be trying to pinpoint the cause and to see if there was any negligence hopefully there wasnt. But well have to wait and see, but yeah, good news that nobody was hurt in this case. The deputy chief was fully aware even though he has his hands full here when i brought up the oakland warehouse fire. He is fully aware of that so theyre monitoring whats going on there and because of what happened there obviously they had unfortunately practice under fire dealing with that situation as well so these firefighters obviously know what theyre doing and thats why they never i would imagine the mullet anybody inside the building when it happened they just canno being i because exactly is almost a carbon copy of that situation that the know what to look for and a very similar situation, so its going to be quite some time obviously to find out the cause. The fire but the cause of the fire still not a concern the biggest concern is obviously life and property property property obviously impacted now the good news, not life. James. The kron 4 morning news the time now 8. 24 we continue to get new video into our newsroom of this 3 alarm fire thats burning in the city of oakland. This is at 9. 76 23th avenue, its a warehouse fire. That started at around 6 23 this morning you can see that thick smoke, not only throughout the city of oakland, but weve received calls from alameda as well. This is just north of the nimitz freeway about halfway between the jingle town and the fruitvale district and thats why its causing huge traffic delays to folks on the nimitz freeway this morning so we want to check in with rebecca strong whos been watching the sensors and the growing back up there on 8. 80 rebecca. We are really is heavy guys both directions again because we could see it just east of fires burning east of the freeway right so northbound and southbound both being affected and the drive times really not find so folks can avoid this stretch definitely do so because again we dont even know when the fire is going to be totally alright and then its going to take time for traffic to recover. So a checking out our traffic map you can see the road sensors showing us just how slow. This traffic is that you are seeing it. A solid red coming out of san leandro trying to get to 23th avenue which is a close to the fire and so let me just show you what the drive time looks like 35 minutes coming out of san leandro normally when theres no traffic it should take about maybe 1015 minutes or so, and on the southbound side. Were also seeing traffic heavily affected coming out from a the 9. 80 splits and downtown oakland trying to get into a the to 38 split and thats going to be about a 15 minute commute time as well because a lot of folks are slowing down and taking a look there so 5 it is really going to be our best bet right now so try to avoid the nimitz freeway if you can other shots around the bay area real quick the bay bridge metering lights have just been turned on a couple of minutes ago so now were back to ensue and the macarthur maze and it s going to be a 20 minute drive time in the San Francisco jumped. While rebecca at least weather operating pretty well this morning its cool. Its cloudy winds have been light, this is all good news when you do have a fire burning in the city as for San Francisco, no fog so far this morning it has been our most fog free day so far a lot of sunlight making its way down to the south bay as well as into the east bay too where as i mentioned those winds are light at the moment. Temperatures currently mostly in the 60s that includes oakland San Francisco berkeley san mateo down through the south bay enough to the east bay inland, 66 degrees for your current temperature over in pittsburgh. There are some shower activity in the vicinity. We do have radar lighting up. It is not really impacting most of the bay area though the showers skirting well to our north we are seeing a couple areas that just a few sprinkles on the peninsula though, so for those of you driving up and down the peninsula maybe turning on that windshield wiper just a time or 2 of course more on your forecast is still to moms finally finding her sea legs, and shes about 10 minutes from a hotel by wyndham. Hes having the best. Day. Ever and hes about 10 minutes from a wyndham. With over 6,000 Hotels Across the country, a great hotel by wyndham is closer than you think. Visit wyndhamhotels. Com. Actually, thats my buick. Your buick doesnt have a roof rack this is my buick. How are we gonna fit in your moms buick . Easy. I like that new buick. Me too. I was actually talking about that buick. I knew that. Did you . Buicks fresh new lineup is full of surprises. Current eligible nongm owners and lessees get 20 below msrp on most 2019 buick encore models. We are back 8 30 is the time in our breaking news story this morning has been this fire thats burning in oakland 50 firefighters have responded now to this 3 alarm fire. A warehouse going up in flames and smoke that broke out a little after 6 oclock this morning of more than 30 businesses local artists have studio workspaces there and it looks like a number of them being threat now were damaged by that fire and because this is a studio art work space were dealing with hazardous. Materials which are very difficult to extinguish james, so they have east all on scene theyve expanded the perimeter they continue to push folks back because theyre dealing with you know the issues with the gas and the power to this area as well the fire not yet under control. But its always good to know that we have a fire this large at least we do not have any injuries so far and this fire has been contained to this one particular building. It has not spread to other buildings in the community that is the good news and standing by live at the scene for us this morning as kron fours will tran and will. You posted a fantastic picture on twitter just moments ago showing that role firefighters all trading their hoses at the side of the building. Thats right. I just looked away because they might push us back so this fire is getting bigger. So theyre telling us we can do this live shot here but the next time we might have to be further away because more resources are coming to the scene look at that you dont see the huge towering flames but the smoke speaks volumes of how this is still burning out of control. More than 2 hours into the battle and this is not even close to being called under control or contain because it is still burning it appears that the roof might have collapsed because you can see just the water being sprayed down there some more more than likely the weight of the water is making its way all the way through the roof to the cracks and down to the floor. This place was shut down at the time. James it talked about it is used by artists and other people including welders peoples stained glass so very reminiscent of what we saw the oakland warehouse fire from a couple years ago and the smoke now is blowing in our direction so breathing is definitely a problem which is why theyre telling and nearby people to stay in your home. Lower the windows do not open them up because its very difficult to breathe. Breathe at this time, defensive stance and you can see the latters fully extended that is a clear sign simply too dangerous for firefighters to go inside which is why they raise their hoses raise their ladders rather and in using their hoses to spray thousands of gallons of water down on to the building and the firefighters right there and i tweeted out that picture there sitting on the ground a lot of them on their behinds shooting water to the side of the building through the windows hoping to knock down the flames. It appears that nobody was injured were killed by this its too early to obviously to go through the building to see if they need a body is there a bit early on it appears that nobody was hurt killed it, theyre not making that official obviously just yet the cause of the fire simply too early or where it started but because of the materials like robin was talking about it makes it very difficult to deal with and pthat probably is adding to ho the fire the momentum of the fire and how strong it is 2 hours into this because you look at it its really not that big of a building compared to other huge warehouse fires but 2 hours into it and its still too dangerous for the firefighters to come inside. And right there you over there as well pd any robin you talked about that. Theyre also out there as well making sure that the power the electricity doesnt spark another fire, although a peers at the intersection lights are on so they are selectively turning off power to certain locations. It is having a major impact on the traffic as well you can see 8. 80 on the right side of your screen you can see right there that is northbound 8. 80 going through here and its very slow in going both directions fortunately as far as the visibility guys. I know that the sun is out visibility might not be a huge problem, but the smoke is blowing away from the freeway so at least people dont have at least for a moment, maybe their visibility blocked a little bit with that the smoke, so thats a little bit of good news and look at that you might notice, robin james just how smoky. It is in this direction as well so it is still very much burning out of control that it looks like her turning the corner because a telltale sign of any firelis the color of the smoke and when we arrived here, it was a little bit darker than what it is now so it looks like its starting to turn a little bit wider a little bit lighter and that seems to be a good sign that perhaps they are turning the corner but plenty of our resources here that you see a couple of ambulances the city more fire trucks and it looks like that water problem that theyre dealing with earlier because they had to throw so much water at this that some point maybe they were getting the pressure and the power that they were looking for it looks like that has been resolved so theyre throwing everything that they possibly can at this very stubborn fire. Well into 2 hours into the firefight and still burning out of control. James roberts. Well for that and were also following. Clearly the traffic impacts all of this as well whenever you see smoke and flames and flashing lights, you know theres going to be slow traffic. So lets check in with rebecca strong whos been. Monitoring the flow through the area and it is a mess, especially on the nimitz rebecca yeah, it really is a mess if you can avoid 80 right now through the oakland area definitely do so because uh it is definitely causing. Long folks are slowing down to take a peek because its causing so much attention from the the smoke in the air, but you can see on a our traffic map here the road sensors showing solid red getting towards of the fire 23th avenue. As a matter of fact, the 23th avenue over crossing shut down by chp and the fire crews right now as well so just keep that in mind to stay away from the area stay away from the city streets again east 11th between 23th and 25th they continue to close even more streets down just stay away from that entire 8. 80. You want to jump over to 5 maybe thats going to be a better alternative is look at the drive time 35 minutes coming out of san leandro coming from the to 38 connector trying to make your way into oakland and towards th 2and northbound the again slowing just over half an hour now southbound when thats going to be about 15 minutes for your commute from oakland trying to get a closer towards san leandro and to 38. Thats a look at traffic now lets switch over to weather and say good morning to jot. Good morning to you as well rebecca, the good news for the fire this morning as temperatures are cool. We do have cloud cover which is keeping temperatures a little bit on the cooler side too and winds of over all been pretty light. You are looking at the Golden Gate Bridge as of right under some of those cloudy skies but not so much a foggy start to the morning, Something Else that were seeing in the area which certainly is not going to hurt the situation is actually some shower activity take a look at this. We do have some light showers now just north of the airport the showers are generally working their way in a northeasterly direction so this area of sprinkles. It doesnt even hold up its team is expected to actually move over. The northern part of alameda on just north of the city of oakland and berkeley. Within the next few hours or so this is a very slow moving northeasterly at track to the showers and most of them are actually going to be dodging the bay area passing further to the north just north of santa rosa, into northern reaches of sonoma coubty so obviously going to be keeping an eye on the radar as well on this very active morning back to you. All right, thank you john. All right again as we go to break a reminder. Well have more coverage on our breaking news story coming up in just a minute that 3 alarm warehouse fire that erupted. In east oakland earlier this morning. It looks like firefighters are getting the upper hand now we just saw that in the live update from kron fours will tran will get more updates from him. Throughout the morning as well as some of the other official sources that we have here in our studios as well and make sure you download the kron on. An app that way you can stay connected you can get push alerts sent directly to your phone and any updates that we the weathers perfect. Family is all together and we switched to geico; saved money on our boat insurance. How could it get any better than this . Dad, i just caught a goldfish theres no goldfish in this lake. Its pure gold. Were gonna be rich. Were gonna be rich it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. Welcome back to the kron 4 morning news the time now 8. 41 youre looking at video from a fire that is still burning in oakland, a 3 alarm fire burning at an art work space said 9. 76 23th avenue. Our between jingle town and the fruitvale district we know that we have at least 50 firefighters on scene working to get this fire under control, theyve managed to contain it to this one building. So far no injuries reported in the fire has not spread to a nearby building states were go welcome back to the kron 4 morning news, the time now is 8 45 in were still tracking this breaking news story out of oakland where a 3 alarm fire is still burning and a Community Art work space in east oakland, not too far from the fruitvale district are between jingle town and for bill about 50 firefighters on scene working to get this fire under control theyve not been able to go in yet because they are still working on getting this out this is some video that we got earlier from commuters passing by folks on the nimitz freeway. They saw this huge plume of smoke and its been backing up traffic for hours. And again this happened in a warehouse that serves as an artist coop or a li a place where artists can have a safe space to not only work on their craft also learned the business skills necessary to become entrepreneurs and turn. There are aircraft into something they can make a living off of and so as were watching this fire play out this morning at this artist, coop were reminded of the go ship warehouse fire where were still waiting for the jury to come back on a verdict there still deliberating. Theyre wrapped up their 5th day of deliberations without a verdict yesterday. And theyll have to know that really is their account at erez have been charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. According to the goal ship pretrial instructions in order for the jury to find the defendants guilty. The people must prove 3 things the defendant committed a crime that crime was committed with criminal negligence and the defendants acts caused the death of another person in this case, 36 people died in a fire inside the ghost ship warehouse during a music event back on december second 2016 i think you have 36 counts which means is 72. Potential. Verdicts are each person one guilty one not guilty thats a 144 bird thanks to go through the largest number of homicide counts in any trial in American History was the oklahoma bombing case with a 168 counts this case is the second large is homicide case to go to trial in American History. The law says criminal negligence involves more than ordinary carelessness it attention or mistake in judgment. Its a state of blind crime. According to the jury instructions at present at with criminal negligence when he or she acts of the reckless way that creates a high risk of death or Great Bodily Injury or a reasonable person would know that acting in that way would create such a risk in other words, the jury would have to find that the 2 defendants should have known better than to host an event inside a building that the prosecution says people know notice of a fire. No time to escape and no ability to exit. So you state of mind to be what they call. Indifferent to probable consequences of your actions or a reckless disregard for human life. If theres 2 reasonable interpretation law says you must adopt that one that points to innocence if found guilty Derick Almena and max harris could both face up to 39 years in prison. At the Alameda County superior courthouse in oakland haaziq kron 4 news. So once again here we are dealing with another situation just like the ghost ship warehouse where they have all of these Hazardous Materials inside would work. Its an art space bronze makers metal welding shop, lots of Hazardous Materials that very difficult to contain and if you look at some of the pictures from a that particular workspace they create. One der sculptures in metal and the like a lot of the very large we heard some of it also used in places like burning man so theres a lot of materials there were going to keep an eye on see if they can get least get that down enough they can get investigators in their start looking for a cause, but in the meantime its causing problems now weve watched the smoke go from black to white and the commuters on the nimitz freeway theyve got a pretty close view of all of this activity so. We want to check in with rebecca to see if traffic is improving and how far its back to Rebecca Young guys its still backed up and still very slow in the area. Yes because the fires burning so close to the freeway as a matter of fact here you can see it. On our traffic map and causing a delays in both directions northbound 8. 80 and southbound both affected because of the smoke is its been so visible all morning long and so definitely avoid city streets a lot are shut down around the fire of course 23th that avenue over crossing closed. And if you could alternate because look at the drive times Still Standing in about 35 minutes and normally you should that be able to get through this stretch in about 10 minutes or so so from north on 80 from 2. 38 coming out of stanley under 2 23th avenue. Its going to for you and then the southbound direction also very slow because of this fire coming out of downtown oakland trying to make your way towards 23th avenue and even beyond getting into us and the understanding it just under 15 minutes right now so again 5. 80 definitely going to be a better bet this morning, searching things over to of the bay bridge toll plaza so the meter lights have been off all morning long until around 8 15 this morning. So they were turned on that quite late because it was so light for much of the morning commute but now its a back to work as usual right, its very normal here its a parking lot into a San Francisco. Its going to be slow across the upper deck and were standing at just under 20 minutes or so to make your way into what the city at this hour. Well thats a look at traffic now and lets look at weather with john. Rebecca skies are are definitely clear than they er that youre looking at today rather than driving through the fog youre just seeing a partly cloudy skies overhead. None of that smoke loom a plume making its way up to the northern part of the east bay around berkeley. But you are certainly still seeing that smoke as you can well see and some of our video this is what were seeing this morning as far as weather goes low pressure in the vicinity and it is drawing in not only some cool air but some shower activity this morning. Any sort of showers that you do see today across the bay area going to be light just in the form of sprinkles as most of this rainfall is being ushered well to our north up into Sonoma County where she can see north of santa rosa out towards bodega bay in guerneville is where you are seeing that heaviest of rainfall working its way through on the peninsula a couple of areas of light sprinkles around the airport. On up into Bayview District of San Francisco, the showers again working their way northeastward some may actually be seeing some popup sprinkles in the vicinity of that warehouse fire on the east bay. Thats certainly not about thing rain certainly does not hurt. That low pressure area again resulting in rainfall mostly for Northern California in the Sierra Nevada to start the weekend. So if youre heading in those directions up to the north coast into the high country thats where youre going to be looking at your best chances of rainfall as for temperatures today, theyll be cooler than average for inland areas while staying pretty close to average and what weve been familiar with out towards the coast, mid 70s for areas like hayward low 70s in oakland. A san Jose Livermore on up into portions of the north bay hangsng on to the 80s but just barely tomorrow going to be more of the same after some sprinkles tonight. Saturday should come along with drying weather and then sunday arrives with mostly sunny skies daytime highs starting to climb by monday and tuesday of next week, its back to the 90s inland. We go. James. And again our breaking news story this morning, the warehouse fire burning in east oakland right now broke out just before 6 30 this morning grew to 3 alarms. More than 50 firefighters on the scene that warehouse houses, multiple businesses, some of them destroyed this morning, well introducing my new spicy chicken strips combo. Bigger, tastier strips of juicy chicken with crunchy batter. Spice them up with hot sauce or cool them down with buttermilk ranch. Try my 100 allwhite meat spicy chicken strips combo today. Only at jack in the box. Dluckily her dorm iss heabout 10 minutes. From a hotel by wyndham. Ashleys meeting all her inlaws, and shes about 10 minutes from a wyndham. With over 6,000 Hotels Across the country, a great hotel by wyndham is closer than you think. 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It was in east oakland near 11th street and 23th avenue thats in the jungle town neighborhood right off of 8 80s so traffic can see it. Its only sing about a 100 feet off the roadway. And it has been burning since just before 6 30 this morning weve got a lot of fire personnel responding in fact theyve made great progress in bringing it down from the intensity that you see in these earlier clips to what the situation is right now and for that we want to go live to the scene kron fours will tran standing by will. Right now looks like the red cross is coming in. But weve learned its really not necessary you can see a red cross member is said piers right there thats not necessary because we just found out from the city of oakland that this is that karma herschel area, nobody lives at the wear houses used by about 30 artists and you can see the firefighters still have their hands full its about 2 and a half hours into the battl