Now, breaking news. Breaking news is crews on the convenience of a house fire in santa clara. Matt keller arrived at the scene, this is south of levi stadium. What are you seeing . Matt there is an intense fire battle going on at this house in santa clara. It is five minutes away from levi stadium if you walk directly. 10 minutes to drive here. You can see firefighters on the roof cutting a home in the roof to ventilate all of the heat from inside. Firefighters are inside, the smoke is dissipating the last two or three minutes. They were here 20 minutes ago along with us and you can see it looks like they have a handle on the fire. The homes are close together. There is a lot of concern they would spread. I talked with family members who escaped. They say everyone is out and okay. They say when i said, what happened, they said they think there was a candle lit outside that may have started the fire. Firefighters are here. They have a handle on it. Everyone is out. That is the good news. A lot of smoke and firefighters in the area. We will monitor the situation. We will bring you the latest in half an hour. We can see the flames are coming out from the roof area. Right new we go over to meteorologist mike nicco with the forecast. Good news for the commute. Live doppler hd is showing it is bone dry. The only concern is fog across the north bay. Here is our roof camera. It is quiet. But cooler. Dress for temperatures in the mid40s to mid50s. We have showers moving in the north bay in the afternoon. The rest of us this evening, as well. Alexis . Quiet on the roads. The north bay southbound 101 is filling in, in san rafael. We are 18 minutes and slower at the Golden Gate Bridge but no major delays. So far. We had a crash in San Francisco with a minor impact on traffic. That is ahead. In the east bay, police are valuing a Sexual Assault on a teen boy with downs syndrome. Officers arrested a 38yearold for molest the teen boy following the boy into a bathroom. He assaulted the boy while his mother was waiting outside. She called for help and the boy was taken to the hospital. He was put in jail on six charges. Pose are trying to find the driver of an s. U. V. Who hit and critical hurt a uc student over the weekend walk southbound highway 101 between river and Mission Street before 2 00 a. M. On sunday when hit. Police are searching for a 2010 or 2011 silver honda with damage to the front center. The student was not in a crosswalk after leaving a halloween party. Police were forced to open fire on a man would rammed several vehicles with an rv. We were on the scene when damaged vehicles were towed after an emergency call on saturday. Officers arrive and found a man in an rv driving the vehicle toward them and other people at a street party. Officers opened fire, hitting hill. The man now is suspected to survive. The 49ers will give proof they are not using taxpayer money in for levi stadium. Last week santa clara mayor said that the organization is refusing to turn over reports that would determine in the stadium funding is coming from the john fund. A 49ers spokesperson said and i quote, the mayors accusation are false and irresponsible and in fact, funds are flowing into the general fund from the stadium. The San Francisco chronicle showed the auditors will be handed documents today. Days from finding out the next president and each day bring as new twist. Stehpanie is following the latest on the mail probe surrounding hillary clinton. Clinton took Office Donald trump. It is always donald trump first and everyone else last. And fbi director. Some of you have may have heard about a letter the f. B. I. Director sent out yesterday. That letter sent to lawmakers on friday where he said newly flagged emailed were discovered on the laptop of disgraceed former house of representatives member weiner, the husband of huma, and he said they should be looked out to figure out if they contain classified information relevant to the probe. He made the review public although there is no evidence of wrong doing by clinton. The Justice Department officials advised against alerting congress citing department tradition of not talking about ongoing investigations and not doing anything to be seen as influencing an election in the final days. A Record Number of ballots come into San Francisco city hall for early voting, and more than 87,000 San Francisco residents have voted so far, 17 of the register the voters, higher than previous elections and mostly because more people have requested vote by mail ballots. Election workers check the data but do not tabulate until the polls close on election day. A video is viral showing a man in San Francisco getting kicked off a cable car because ofly pit bull. The man said his pet is a service dog taken by a passenger, an attorney, not representing the man but said he called the driver for being afraid of his pit bull service dog and kicked him off. Muni sent a response saying it was not a Trained Service animal and it is up to the cable car driver to determine if it is safe. We cannot verify in the dog was certified. Happening today, in the north bay, crews will remove damaged trees along highway 101 in petaluma burned in a wildfire last month. The fire bound more then a dozen homes and killed a cat. Investigators say the fire started in trees that stand between homes and highway 101 causing an estimated 1. 1 million in damage. C. H. P. Is taking to social media to urge drivers to slow down on wet treats. This tweet was sent showing the influx of calls on road flooding. Behind the wheel on highway 101, sheets of rain falling making it trust for drivers on the road. Now, the weather. We start with fog, it is thick around santa rosa and we have quartermile visibility, and watch out in guerneville and occidental, and sonoma, 101, this is how it looks in san rafael, no fog, although it looks hazy as you look further down to the south. Golden gate bridge is looking good. Everything is drying out. You can see on my forecast, there are showers on the way for the afternoon and evening with temperatures in the lowtomid 60s. We are partly cloudy and increasing sunshine and midtoupper 60s and sunny on wednesday with temperatures in the mid60s to low 70s. My, what will happen as for as our rainfall goes, this area is the peninsula, you can say this could be for our east by shore and here is the scale, light to heavy, 9 taller the bar, the more rain that will fall, so, we have low intensity and light amounts but when it comes in, right at 6 00, it hangs around through 10 00, we will look at the rest of our microclimates and when you can expect rain. Alexis . Alexis maybe you need to add the umbrella to the halloween costume. Westbound 80 off ramp to 5th street we had a collision after midnight that took out power to the traffic signal on the offramp. Crews should be there at 6 00 a. M. And less than an hour from now. San Francisco Police department is on the scene to make sure we do not have congestion. The bay bridge toll plaza shows no metering lights, it happens at 5 30, and if you taking mass transit, bart train is on time. Ace one on time, and, no problems reported with caltrain this morning, that is the great option. Drive time is ramping up out of Central Valley and that is come up at 5 20. A man is found alive a day after 9 motorcycle veered off a road, the final message he recorded for his family a manhunt in oklahoma for a suspect in a string of Violent Crimes ended in a shot out that left the suspect dead. Michael vance jr. Was wanted on firstdegree murder and suspected of shooting a woman and stealing her car and killing his relatives. The manhunt starts on sunday after he shot an injured two Police Officers near oklahoma city. Iraqi special forces are closing in on the islamic held state of mosul. Car bummers are trying to stadium the advance but troops are two miles from the eastern outskirts and hope to enter today. The military estimates the state had 3,000 firefighters inside mosul and 1,500 in the outskirts. Iraqi forces have been converging on mosul for two weeks. This is a motorcycle miracle a man falls 100 off a cliff and waits 30 hours. He record add message on the phone to his loved ones think he would not make it. Here the details. This morning in first look, a motorcyclists terrify burn with death after falling 100 down a hill after a horrifying bicycle collision that took the life of his 29yearold friend. I love you guys. Sorry for being stupid. But that is what i do. All the 41yearold motorcyclist record adds message for his wife and parents. Love you, mom, dad, take care of the puppies for me, too. Miss you guys. I [ blank ] all i can say. Waiting for help for 30 hours, we watched with him as the day towns to night. I dont know what to say. We will have more details on the dramatic survival story coming up at 7 00 a. M. That is first look, for abc7. A bay area family is hoping a race to honor their daughters legacy will become an annual event. We were in downtown pleasanton for the first ever good for your soul run in memory of kate steinle. The 3yearold was shot and killed on San Franciscos embarcadero. The proceeds from the 10k will help athletes with special challenges, a cause that was close to her heart. We wanted to do something that kate steinle loved and give back to the community and at the same time remember kate and what a positive person she was. Kate steinle was walking loan the San Francisco pier 14 with her father and she lost her life. The suspect, an undocumented immigrant, deported give times, is still awaiting trial. Tomorrow, there will be consideration of a moratorium to cap increases, at 3 a year, if approved start immediately before 45 days, supporters want the city council to press pause, to research and discuss residents control and sterilization. If you vote by mail in San Francisco, Election Officials have a specific way for you to send in your ballots, a tutor video shows ballots shoulden folded individually, stacked and placed in the return envelope. Folding the ballots make the envelope more bulky and jam up processing equipment. 60 of voter in San Francisco vote by mail. A video showing us how to stuff an envelope. We have a full tool kit of voting resources to help you prepare for election day by click on your voice your yet, and you can see the ballot you will vote on and show you what the pros and cons are of each issue our website. Now over to mike nicco. The forecast will makeorbreak a lost trickortreating. Akids the go out but just prepared for wet weather. The book was that thick on the elections i read with my wife, it was brutal. Our exploritorium camera at pier 15, shows the forecast highlights, cool, fog this morning, for the commute, increasing clouds and showers hitting the in the bay and evening showers and breezes, and the showers are moving to the northeast and the storm is sliding to the south so our stormimpact scale for scatters showered at. 1 in south bay and a light on our stormimpact scale. You can see this morning, fog in the north bay valleys, and the high clouds we come in by noon, and they start to lower and they are thicker and by 5 00, 3 00 to 5 00, showers are moving in the north bay and a heavy downpour in mendocino and lake counties and notice that will continue through 7 00 and we have scattered showers, not a steady rains but scattered light showers around the bay 59 7 00, and they move into the Santa Cruz Mountains by 8 00 and they will try to push into the south bay by 9 00 but we still have lingering showers, in the north bay, until 1 00 and in the morning we wake up to aing therer are shower increasing sunshine and temperatures moving after today back to the 70s for most of us through the welcome. We still trying to shake off fridays nightmare commute, nothing like that so far today. We are looking good on the bay bridge if you are inbound headed to San Francisco, no delays on the lower deck. We heard we have a structure fire in redwood city and you can see it is shut done between broadway and tracy to dublin is up to 44 minutes from the Central Valley, and antioch to concord is quiet at 17 minutes and southbound 101 san rafael to San Francisco good at 16. An update on an early crash in south san jose next. 10,000 people celebrated halloween early in San Francisco with the animals. The San Francisco zoo shared toy toys from the boo at the zoo. Many animals chowing down on a couple kin treat. Amazing costumes. Next, the seven things you need to know include the breaking news on the peninsula, cruise on the scene of a house fire and matt is getting new details from firefighters right now. When every moment matters, how peninsula mans near death experience could one day help save other lives. And the big winner at the box office is try theraflu expressmax,nd flu hold you back now in new caplets. 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He is booked on six counts. We are tracking a chance of showers for our evening festivities trickortreating and how light the amounts are and it will be more of a nisance than a wash out other than santa rosa where it will be heavy. Nothing too spooky for the monday morning, southbound 87, had a crash at capitol expressway which is cleared and a fuel spill in lane one to be cleaned up with slight delays on the southbound side. Five, from the live desk an update on the 33 chinese miners trapped after a gas explosion at a mine in southwest china with new images. A rescue team has been able to locate 12 miners and it will take hours. A second team is trying to locate the other workers still trapped. The f. B. I. Now has a warrant to search emails related to the probe of hicks private server found on ex congressman weiners listen top. A poll out this morning shows donald trump is down only one point to hillary clinton. That is unchanged from a weekend but a huge change from a week ago. Trump has two scheduled rallies in michigan and clinton is on the trail in ohio. Incredible video show as huge wave stopping traffic on the island of malta, look at this a massive wave crashed over the seawall stopping cars as they are soaked, the island just south of italy. Strong wouldnts and waved pounded the bay over the weekend. Residents came together over the weekend to learn how to save lives after one of their neighbors narrowly escaped tragedy. Firefighters taught 250 Community Members cpr after a resident suffered a heart attack and his 14yearold daughter saved his life when she gave him cpr. He started coughing really hard and we were like, dad, are you okay, and we look over and he was passed out and i did not think and i started chess compressions. I had a massive heart attack and the doctors gave me a 1 chance of survivals given the circumstances. Amazing she was able to do that, the training focus on adult cpr. Last week, madea took down scrum and this weekend, tom hanks could not match up with halloween, capture the top spot again earning 52 million in ten days. It cleared 16 million and tom hanks and inferno tanked earning only 15 million. Jack reacher the accountant, and origin, rounded out the top five. The winner next week is certain as dr. Strange debuts. Breaking news in oakland. A big fire burning that is now at two alarms. We will breaking news this morning in oakland. It is 5 28. We are watching the pictures with huge flames coming from the lake merritt area. We got word from oakland fire it is at three alarms. This is near hanover avenue. Right now we do not know what is on the fire. Again, the images coming in and the information is pretty scant but obviously we are watching the enormous fire that is out of control and it is a threealarm fire. It is on the Eastern Shore of lake merritt with childrens ferry land in the north and this appears to be in the easton part, we are trying to figure out if it is a residential areas or businesses. We will get over to mike nicco, what are the weather cans that could contribute to a fire like this . I did not realize they were so big. You can see the smoke going straight up because of heat of the fire. When it is out of heat it is getting in the prevailing wind and coming from the southeast at seven miles per hour. That is going to push the smoke toward the bay bridge toll plaza and toward emeryville. Here is is a look at the winds,o it is human this morning, it is damp, and hopefully that will help the firefighters opposed to a dry breezy day. That is the latest as far as the winds, watch out for increasing smoke over emeryville and the bay bridge toll plaza. As far as the forecast, in san jose, at 87, you can see it is clear, this is the least likely area to get wet for the halloween. Check out the day planner. We are starting out cool in the 40s and 50s with increasing clouds by noon and low 60s and lowtomid 60s with showers in the north bay by 4 00, and the rest of us are getting scattered showers in the evening. An hourbyhour look at that is coming up and how much rain to expect. Alexis . Yes, i will take you behalf to pictures of the fire in lake merritt area. We wondering what kind of traffic impact it will have. I do not have official word of any street closures in the area but we are staying on top of this. As mike mentioned that will who over into the bay bridge toll plaza area and emeryville area. I was going to give. Look at that but that is ahead. Guys . We want to say we are checking for any potentil power identity averages in the area and keep you posted. We will continue with our hole news. The attorney for the woman at the heart of a police exploitation case is applauding a city for deciding to fire four officer over the weekend. The civil right Attorney John Burris is representing Jasmine Abuslin who said she had officers with officers in seven bay area agencies some while she was underage the she said the richmond Police Officers dismissal will restore integrity. He is representing her in the claim against oakland, and richmond and livermore. We want to do what is in her best interests because it is traumatic expense for a young girl to be involved in this activity. In machine ways, beyond her complete understanding. Five officers and other agencies have been charged with crimes ranging from having sex with a minor to obstruction of justice, abuslin is suing richmond for 30 million. Back to the breaking news, the massive fire burning in oakland you can see the flames reaching high into the air over the oakland skyline with the smoke rising in the large launch near lake merritt on the easton shore at hanover. A threealarm fire and we have information whether it is a residential area. This is a residential area. There are a number of apartments in the area and it is densely populated area of oakland. You can see how high the flames are going right now. Three alarms. We do not know what is on fire. Or do we know in anyone is evacuated. You have to assume they are given this is so close where people are living. We are monitoring for Power Outages and do not see anything from pg e to indicate there are Power Outages. We will monitor that, and you can see, without, the fire is burning hot and there must be some sort of fuel there causing the high flames. We are pushing out images on digital, and if you want to download the news app for flee this is a good time and you can monitor the live images coming in right new at our desk and newsroom work to confirm the details what could be burning. And the responses. We know this is quickly escalate to a threealarm fire. Again, if you tuning in to us, this is in oakland. You can see the bart train moving a distance away from the area. It will not be affected. Peoples hicks are affected. We are just getting the pictures and we have Little Information from oakland fire. We know only that it is three alarm. As far as what is burning or how many are in danger we do not know. This is a couple of blocks away from the elementary school. Childrens fairy land is to the north and the Oakland Public Library is on the southern eat. This is the easton side, densely populated area. You can see what is going on this is from sky 7 on the scene. You can see the dense black smoke rise, from the area. Trees in the foreground appear possibly a building or structure on fire. Multistory structure. What it is, i cannot tell you but you can see how close it is to other units look to be apartments or town homes on the left side of the screen to the building on fire and you can see the explosions happening on the bottom right corner of where the fire is. Obviously, spreading rapidly and there are a number of trees in the area but about to set on fire. On the right side you can see something that is exploding into the air. What we do not see is the fire equipment. I am not sure which side we are on. It is hard to see where the response is coming from. There is a better picture it is probably five stories tall. Absolutely. Can you see that is fully involved, engulfed in flames. No hope of saving the building. Still not sure exactly what this building is but we do know this is close to hems with several apartment complexes in the area and we are moving around and you can see as it buns, debris is falling inside and the windows have bursts and close to a telephone pole, and certainly close to trees we in the area certainly you would imagine firefighters on the scene are very concerned about containing this in a densely populated area. It is hard to tell, one part of the building is looking like two stories ask the rest of us is three or four stories, possibly. Possibly four stories. No saving that building. Right now it is a question, can they stop it from spreading to the other buildings . The other buildings aror certainly are looking occupied and i hope those people are able to get out. You can see the balconies at the building. We are hearing from our pilot in sky 7 and he said you can see the building collapsing right there, the upper story caving in, into the flames. What a ferocious fire, three alarms, and we will see if it continues to grow. Imagine how many thousands of degrees that is . This it goes. The whole front section of the building is now down. It did not take along. This is spread quickly and we have only been watching a few minutes and you can. I am hoping this does not jump to the other. Homes. Did you see the stuff flying in the flames . You saw the bigger pieces of the roof and the embers are getting caught up in the updraft and you are talking about and worried about this fire jumping to the adjacent buildings. I noticed this other buildings were wet from the rain over the weekend or they were putting waters on them. The wins are not fast at seven miles per hour. You can see the pieces of ash bushing and going straight up because that is how the smoke is going straight up. It is create its own wind tunnel because of the strength of the heat and how fast and how hard it is burning. There is the ladder on the bottom, the first indication of where the firefighters are located and you can see all the trucks lined up. I dont know what building this is or in it was occupied but we had a closeup i did not see personal belongings and i am helping this is a building under construction or empty for another reason. I have been look at this on google maps and it is a residential area and it looks like it is an Apartment Building and we do not know if it was occupied, Small Surface streets on the east side of lake merritt and closest major streets it is near is park boulevard or lake sure a few blocks away from that at hanover and lester avenue. Small surface streets. I dont think it will be have major track impact but i am sure the surface streets blocked. The weapons could blow over to the toll plaza and emeryville area, but i have been checking out the cameras and not seen the slowing traffic or spotted the smoke but we will continue to monitor this. Again, on the east side of lake merritt these are small residential streets and i dont think it will be major traffic impact but keeping a close eye on it. Again, this is near hanover and lester avenue, threealarm fire burning at what appears to be an enormous apartment complex and we are certainly hoping no one was in there when it happened. We have not seen people around the building over than the firefighters and you can see a ladder truck. The fire has burned very quickly and portions of the building have collapsed inside and the exterior. It does not appear it is falling outward so that is a good thing. The people you can see the view from inside of the windows, and on the ton of the screen, this is absolutely collapsing, exploding in size and spread so rapidly you can see the firefighters putting a stream of water on the building blue is a lost water to do and the major concern it is a densely populated area with a lot of tweets from viewers saying they are in the area and they can see this burning and it is very visible from the skyline at oakland. This is to the east of lake merritt you can absolutely see the bright orange hot yellow flames and massive amendments of smoke. Firefighters are on the scene. Presumably they are trying their best with something that has exploded and we are monitoring for Power Outages and peg meg is not reported outages and we are in contact with them. The concern is this is so densely packed, very residential in nature. Apartments. Homes. It is easy for the embers to fly and catch fire in other areas. We have had wet weather. We are hoping that helps keep the fire from spreading. This is similar to the big fire in emeryville at a big apartment complex which was under construction. There was no one in the building. But it spread and affected other buildings in the area. We hope this was no one there and this was an apartment complex still under construction. We do not know. Right now it looks like it is contained to the building. I have not seen evidence of it spreading to the neighborhood. This is a dense area. I am sure it is a concern for the firefighters who cannot do a a lot. It is out of control. Half of it has collapsed. This is an outer wall containing little inside. We watched the upper floor collapsed. The front or back of the building just crumbled inward. It is collapsing inward rather than going outward because it is close to other farms, other homes in the area. Incredible amount of fuel is contributing to the the fire. Can you see how hot the flames are. How high they are burning. It continues to cave in. Fires are using ladders to cage this and keep the flames down. The concern is not wanting this to spread to other structures. Reggie new to our colleague on the phone. Kate, are you seeing this near your neighborhood . Good morning. Yes. Yes. It is. Very close to my neighborhood. Do you know what the building is . I do not. I looked outside my window i just see a very tall orange pillar and smoke and embers in front of my building. How far away are you . My guess is two blocks. I need to double check. You have never walk by the building and know if it is under construction . Not that i can rib. There are embers floating to you and you are just two blocks away. Yes, there is a big hill behind and way taller than the hills. I cannot see flames from where i am but a lot of smoke and embers. How did you know it was happening . My building manager called and said, are you aware, look outside. [ inaudible ] what is your plan . Are you told to evacuate . Warned . Are there firefighters you can see . Any action from where you are . I cannot see fires but i see several neighbors out and about and people in their cars. I am getting my cats packed up. Just in case. You never think you are going to be worried about and here it is. What is the area like . Citizensly populated with apartments and homes; this a residential area . It is but. [ inaudible ] holder homes, mostly apartments and. This is a wide shot and we can see 9 glow and the massive smoke. What are you experiencing . I want outside i i dont not smell it. I dont know if that is encouraging but i saw the embers dropping on my street. I dont see anything on this street on fire but a lot of people are out check things and seeing people packing up i cannot blame them for that. We appreciate you talking to us on the point and offering your perspective. Kate is a colleague at abc7 and was woken up by her landlord or apartment manager who said you need to look at what is going on, a huge threealarm fire. There is a ladder truck and a firefighter is on the ladder traying to spray it down but they are up against it because it is not a lot that can be done. The structure is not stable enough to get close to the fire other than on the ladder. A lot of it has caved in. Interior of the building is, the mjority of it, has burned down inside and the exterior part of the building has fallen to the interior. Obviously there is a huge complex on fire and we are still waiting to hear exactly what the building was or is. If you live close by and know the name of the building or the status of the construction it would be helpful to us. We hope it does not spread beyond one building which now is on fire for 30 minutes when we started to see it on our cameras. We are getting another phone call, another interview coming up shortly with people, another person in the area. You can see what the firefighters is up against right now. I am seeing so many tweets. A woman said it is literally happening across the street. I hope everyone is okay. We hope everyone is okay. We are hearing of scenes where neighbors are preparing and getting their pets. Certainly preparing for the spread. Embers and ab are spreading through the neighborhoods near letter and hanover near lake merritt. We hear people can see it all the way from San Francisco which is not surprising given that it is difficult dark and they can see the big flames in the distance. This is happening in oakland not far from lake merritt in a densely populated area and there are very close structures near the building. It appears it is contained to this building. I dont have official word. I have not seen it jump to the other buildings so we have that going for it. I am not sure others in the neighborhood are dream affected but i cannot say that. Over to a mr. Smith on the phone from the twin peaks area. You can see it from there. Can you hear us . It is the biggest thing i have ever seen as far as a fire. I was getting ready for work this morning and i live on twin peaks with a decent view i have big picture windows and my goodness it is filled with orange, across the bay from oakland and it is ten miles and it looked like a skyscraper was on fire it was so high. What do you see now . Has it died down . Do you see flames and spoke . All the flames are gone. But 15 or 20 minutes ago it was raging. Mr. Smith are long time San Francisco resident. Have you soon Something Like this before . I have been on twin peaks for ten help plus years and this is absolutely the biggest fire i have ever seen. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate hearing from you. A lot of people are in the same boat waking up and seeing the fire in tv or in person at twin peaks. That speaks to how by the flames are. We get more information from oakland fire on what, exactly, is burning, what the building is the mike, how are you weather conditions as the firefighters keep it from spreading . That is a great question, reggie. They are very conducive to fighting this fire. The winds are light. They are coming from the southeast. They are blowing to the northwest at six miles per hour. The temperatures is 57 degrees. The humidity is 89 . It doesnt get much better than that until it was actually raining. That is not happening until the afternoon and evening. They do have the ideal conditions. I have learned by following twitter this is possibly emeryville redo, an apartment complex unconstruction now going to be gone in the next hour because of the flames. Those are the weather conditions. Now, the fire itself will create its own wind and that will start blowing, you will feel the wind blowing toward the fire as the fire is burning at a thousand or 2,000 degrees, the air will rise and create a vacuum sucking in the area from around the storm and it could be breezy. The the embers will fly into the air and cool off and then move with the wind which i believe will push the embers over a street or two and it will push it over lake merritt so hopefully a lot of it will fall to the northwest and will fall into the lake and not on other houses. Reggie. The sky 7 has zoomed out and you can see the fire trucks are rounding the entire area and you can get an idea of how close it is to the lake from this perspective. They have all of their people on it. It goes without saying. What they can do is at this point, not much. This became an inferno so quickly i am sure they just trying to keep it from spreading. You can see there are many homes located right next to this building an enormous building, hundreds of units and we are hoping everyone in the area was able to safely get out. Alexis, obviously there is a lost local road closures. I am watching this feed from sky 7 and 9 curve in the road, the dozens of fire trucks will be lester avenue and the fire is on the east side of lake merritt. You could see it is not too far from the lake. If you go over a couple of blocks to west it will, lakeshore avenue but i dont have word it is closed yet. I would not be surprised given the size of the fire and a couple of blocks further to the east that is park boulevard. Obviously, heavy streets, not too far, Oakland High School is not too far from this, effort, in the Cleveland Heights neighborhood so we are look at mainly residential streets and they are shut off surrounding the fire and obviously you do not want to be near this. A lot of homes and Apartment Buildings, Small Surface streets and not a ton of traffic going down the streets and when we get confirmation from Oakland Police or oakland fire that larger streets are closed i will let you know. I want do bring in another colleague, parts of the building is falling, paula is on the phone a colleague from abc7. Paula, where are you compared to the fire i am on lakeshore avenue on the lake, at brooklyn and lakeshore avenue with the traffic still flowing and open. A lost helicopters and sirens, but the traffic is still open. Have you ever been near the building . Are you familiar with him . I am not. I am headed there now so i will have footage and more information for you. Great. We are just hoping this is under construction, it spread so quickly people would not have time for get out. We are not seeing personal belongings or people outside of the building so we hope that is the case. How far away could you see the flames . A i am two blocks from there and i can see the fire from my place. On lakeshore. Did it wake you up . Did you hear the fire engines . We did. Yes. Paula, when you have more information that would be great. I will have an unstate in a few minutes. We hear from a viewer. We have so many eyes and ears on the ground. We hear it was a building under construction. It was not occupied. That is a spot of good news and why we saw so a lack of personal belongings or people. It was under construction. That is good news. There is never good news with a threealarm fire. I am glad to hear that no one was living in the building. It is similar to the fire we haded a few months ago in emeryville, obviously, not terribly far away, another Apartment Building under construction when it had a similar devastating fire, not too dissimilar. It was a six alarm fire back in july. Similar scene. It was densely packed area and that is the concern as it jumped from structure to structure and firefighters on the roof. It did not look like there was an opportunity to go to the roof of this building because it burned so quickly. By the time the ladders were up we are already seeing the roof gone and most of the interior had collapsed. Not a lot they can do. Just protect the homes from the fire spreading. It appears they have done that a victory for the fires now surrounding this building. Paula could see the smoke. See the fire. A lost embers are floating in the area. You can see the fire and most of the building could collapse when it happens. It is a shell. It is almost leaning outward if you look at center of the screen so a concern if it collapsed, we hope it collapsed inwards. The street is lined and jammed up with firefighters and crews on the scene. We spoke with another colleague a couple of blocks away saying she can see the embers landing in front of her him and she got a call from her apartment manager this morning saying you have to go outside. She is packing up her cats and neighbors, are, as well, considering packing up things and getting ready to go. This reminds us of the fire in emeryville over the summer, a sixalarm fire. I dont believe the flames were necessarily more ferocious than this morning, visible from San Francisco, burning hot, high, so fast. In emeryville the she was the extreme heat of the fire damaged a lot of the buildings across the street. This was an entire Shopping Center with terrible damage, a nightmare for the Small Businesses in the area. Even in they contain it physically the these are narrow streets, very close to other apartments and homes and you wonder about the heat damage from the size of the fire. We talking about hanover and lester avenue, a building under construction, a large apartment complex was under construction on the easton side of lake merritt. Very close to several apartment complexes and homes. It is a block and a half or two blocks away from cleveland elementary school. It is south of 580. It is amazing how fast it has spread with huge portions collapsing in front of us. We hoped it was not a building in current use and that appears the case according to a viewer who said it was urge construction. While it is confirmed we hope that is true and that seems to make sense. We did not see a