Oakland four and the update we expect any moment on the recovery and the investigation. Amy hollyfield is at the scene where officials are expected to speak any moment. I see them walking up now so we are about to get started. I will give you an idea of what we expect to hear. The debt tolls with at 36 yesterday but we saw a coroner arrive overnight and we are wandering, it will go up. This is the first update since 3 00 year. 75 of the building was searched. That was 15hours ago. They have had teams working around the clock on the effort. We hope to hear of progress. Johnna is leading and arranging the press conferences and gearing all of the experts and will lead us off but i see a spokesperson from the sheriff speak on the effort of the coroner and the fire , the behalf italian chief, police, and doing final organizations on what they will say before they get going. They had a set become so they had to stop their welcome for nine hours overnight into monday. That set them become a little bit. They have been heard at it since 9 00 yesterday morning. They town the power off to the community so it was a set back for those living here. They brought in a crane and were concerned if they hit a power lean it could put the crews at risk. Pg e said they have been told they can town the tower become on at 8 00 and we hope for an update. She is testing the mikes getting her notebook and i will top talking. Here she goes. We will get started. Thank you for joining us. I am officer watson, one of the Public Information officers for the Oakland Police department. We would like to provide you with an operation am update. I wrote like to turn it over to Alameda County sheriff deputy. Good morning. I am dutchty modeste, a Public Information officer for Alameda County. There is no change in the total number of victims located and recovered. The numbers have shifted in 36. At this time we have 26 families notified. We have nine tentative i. D. S and we have one doe remains to and we have one doe remains to be notified. Oakland Fire Department chief updating on operations from last night and early this morning. Good morning. Use recall yesterday we were forced to success spend recovery operations interior because of the instability. Working through yesterday and last night we removed the wall that was presenting the greatest danger and we put in suring to stabilize the flooring areas. This morning at 2 20 we want back in and resumed recovery praises. At this time we have been able to search through the building and clear approximately 85 of the building and we will continue that through the day. There is one corner that remains unstable and that is another thing we will do today, stabilizing that corner. Then we can search the last section. Now our citizens and community on the pg e planned power outage. Currently the power is still off in this specific area. They anticipate the power be returned by. [ inaudible ] maybe by 8 00 a. M. But safety is paramount, and the power will remain off while the crane and heavy equipment is here still processing the scene. I would also like to call in my partner Public Information officer to provide information to our community. We have a lot of good will citizens, community members, people outside of the city of oakland outside of the state, even outside of the country, who want to donate. We it is challenging for to us take donations here so we have a system set up with information to share for anyone who would like to donate. Allow him to provide that information. Good morning, everyone, i a Marco Marquez a Public Information officer. The information i have to share is there is a web page set up on www. Youwearing. Com. On search before oakland fire or victims of the oakland fire, you will see a link connected, set up by the city, and the red cross. Here arrest the site we are spenting overwhelming amount of support people bring in food and asking how to donate financially. It is overwhelming. It is set up online and you can make the donations, whether you here, or cross the nation or international, as we know the magnitude of the impact on the families and our community. One way we are asking those who want to give back is to give back through this website, it goes a long way and the funds will be presently distributed. You can see how they are distributed. We know you are praying and your thoughts are with you but if you with lick to give financially visit the website, www. Www. Youcaring. Com. Seven for victims of the oakland fire. Thank you, officer marquez. We will open for questions starting on the right and work our way aroun what are the challenges . Specific challenges about the remaining 15 that needs to be searched . Primary that corner as you face the building the left corner, we cannot totally secure that area. We will put in bracing, exterior bracing today. That will finalize that corner. There is a small section that in the back and it still needs to be processed with a. T. F. And our crews. [ inaudible ] will the rain affect anything . I have not approached that with rain a do you anticipate the number of dead to go up . Based on the remaining areas, i dont anticipate the numbers going up. One section is still in an area that has potential but, otherwise, n otherwise, n [ inaudible there is an oakland as set up for this specific inciden there is an oakland as set up the issue with the corner, it is not supported laterally moving across. That load is then shifted along the last wall, what we call the bravo wall. If we move the parapet that wall could be unstable so we need bracing to support the corner. If we remove the parapet it means the other wall could be unstable. We do not want to do that. We do not want to do that. [ inaudible speak up, please. [ inaudible speak up, please. Not at thi [ inaudible ] we are still working to reconile the list. We have people still reported missing. We have one unidentified. [ inaudible ] the question was, just one unidentified and that is correct. I cannot bring the number at the top of my head, why want to be inaccurate but we are working to reconcile the missing compared to the identified and tentati i. D. s. [ inaudible they have focused on a section that is of interest but it will remain under investigation. Physical they can be serve [ inaudible ] i dont have that information. A. T. F. Is the prima investigator supported by our office. [ inaudible ] i did not quite understand. [ inaudible ] no, maam. 15 primarily that hasnt been searched is in the front left area we can not get to. [ inaudible ] it hasnt been searched. We can not clear it until we g through i District Attorney omalley indicated yesterday at the press conference her office had an investigation and i want to make it perfectly clear the alameda District Attorney omalley leads the investigation. They are the primary investigators. They are managing and handling that portion of the investigation. On the identification proce. [ inaudible ] we understand and recognize oakland is a very Diverse Community. In our Diverse Community we have many different groups. We are very sensitive to everyone in our community. It doesnt matter what group. We are very sensitive to everyone to answer the question. [ inaudible ] it is absolutely very difficult to put a timeline. The most Important Message we want to send because we know families are watching, we know 36 families are watching, we know other families are watching, as well, and, to our community, we are not going to put an end time we are going to continue the search and we are going to continue the investigation and we are going to continue the process until absolutely every piece of debris is removed from this building and every area has been searched. Families in our Community Need to know there is nothing left at this location and, again, the investigation and the process continues. We will certainly keep you posted. As far as we bring closure to some areas, but continue in other areas [ inaudible ] i dont believe so. I have to check. It is not coded for residential. The building is not. That would depend how it is locked at by code for commercial building. [ inaudible ] right now we are actively working with an advocate from the Lgbt Community so we are sensitive and properly reporting. Again, we are working through the building. We will continue to search through the building areas we can get to when we have completed the search, then we would stop until the corner is secured. [ inaudible ] until the investigation is done i will not comment on how people were found. That would be primarily coming that would be primarily coming from the Alameda County recently and we do not expect to and certainly hope we do not find anymore victims. Primarily what has us uplifted we are back inside the building searching. More than anything we want to clear the building and say it is clear. [ inaudible ] we will take one last question. Sir . [ inaudible ] this are two pockets unsearched. One is still looked at and processed by a. T. F. And my hope is it will be completed today. The remaining is the a b corne this is still not stable, when it is stabilized we will search it. We do not expect victims in the area but we need to search the area when it is safe, we will do that. It will not take much time when we are able to get back in there. That will depend on how long it takes to stabilize the corner. We would like to conclude this portion of the press conference. We will update you of the time in our next politician am briefing and we with like to return the battalion chief to the field so the work can condition. Myself and Public Information officer marquez and deputy modesta will be available for questions we may not have been able to provide. Please, thank you for eye patience. We will certainly update you on the next briefing. Here is what we learned, there were no new victims found. The number still remained at 36. We know that 26 of the families have been notified. Nine have been identified and one is still unidentified. They are welcoming to try to reconcile that with the list of people that are still missing. 15 of the buildings needs to be searched and there are two pockets including a corner they cannot get to because it is too unstable. At 2 20 a. M. They resumed searching after removing a dangerous leave leaning wall and used the word uplifting, they are working again getting back at 2 30 a. M. And the goal is to clear the building and make sure each body is brought out and identified. When we have a News Conference our fears are the number will go up so in is the first time it hasnt gone up so this is in good news but it is a relief to know that we do not have any new victims this morning to tell you about but they are trying to identify some of the folks. Of the folks. And let their families come join us this season, at the all new festival of holidays event. Including the new world of color season of light show. Now at the disneyland resort. Now, the forecast with meteorologist mike nicco, henfully you are not waking up saying, i does not know it would be this cold 39 degrees. Lowtomid 40s for most of San Francisco. The closer to the water at crissy field and financial district in the upper 40s. We have upper 30s to low 40s into the south bay and upper 30s inland east bay and mid30s in the north bay. We will top out around 54 to 56 today. Lowtomid 50s and cooler tomorrow. Warmer with the wet weather on thursday. Midtoupper 50s and a 2 moderate on the stormimpact scale. Back to cordelia a crash involving two rollovers westbound 80 before the 680 interchange. It has cleared. We have a fender bender in the backup. In the fairfield area. Near west texas road. It is blocking the far left lane. The drive times shower bouncing back, westbound 580 tracy to dublin an hour and 37 minutes. Dublin an hour and 37 minutes. Trouble with ace r all the care your family needs. All connected for you. Flags at Oakland City Hall are at half staff and Alameda County facilities. Investigators will want to talk to three people about what was going on inside the warehouse and why he was chosen as the venue for the concert and party. The owner of the warehouse leased to an artist collective run by ghost ship founder derick ion almena who rent ready out part of the building to many other artists who worked and lived inside the structure. Party Program Metro rented space insides the warehouse for the friday concert and he advertised friday concert and he advertised the party on social media. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. We are getting new information on the oakland warehouse fire. Officials updated us moments ago. Crews did not fine any new victims so the number stays at 36. They do not specific the number to go up and cries have cleared 85 of the building. Officials told us they have notified 26 families with nine tentative i. D. s and one is unidentified. At one time it was not safe for firefighters do go in but the area is shored up. The work resumed at 2 20 a. M. And now to Amy Hollyfield at the scene officials just spoke. Officials say they do not expect to find anymore victims. They hope they dont fiend anymore victims. Beasked what make them think that . The Fire Department said they can see the corner they need to search but do not see anything that indicates there is a victim. It would have been typical it with not be typical for then to be in the corner. So the death toll is 36. There is still one corner to be searched but it is not safe to get to yet. Primarily the corner as you face the building the left corner, we cannot totally secure that area. We will put in bracing, exterior bracing today and that will finalize that corner. This is a very small section in the back to be processed with a. T. F. And our crews. We tried to get him to on nail down what he specifics from today if they get to that corner today and he said it depends on where it is sure up and did not want to give a timeline. I grabbed the bat ask in she thought it would be wrapped up best rain and she said possibly the search of the building will be complete but not the entire scene. That certain indication of the timeline. We talked how everyone is holding up. She got emotional saying all of the firefighters and rescue crews carry around an emotional backpack with them and something here can trigger a memory from good morning devastate fire they have been on. She realized a trigger point for her is listening to music so she drove in and started to get emotional she had to turn off the radio. It is taking its toll, here we are on day four. It is difficult to imagine what they are going through. Derick ion almena the man who ran the ghost ship collective made a quick appearance at the site early this morning and was emotional. There are questions of the safety of the artist collective he was running. Was the place illegally get power . Were the conditions unsanitary or dangerous . There was only one message he wanted to get crass. I am so sorry, incredibly sorry, what do you want me they say . I will not answer questions. I am sorry. The District Attorney has launched a criminal investigation and said murder charges are a possibility. Alameda sad it was not a horrible place. All the firefighters go through the building in oakland we are learning more the victims. Ten more names have been released. Percent can . We have pictures of some of them and names of others. I will start with jennifer kiyomi taouye, 31, lived in oakland. Her brother said she was at the Party Painting peoples nails her hobby. And Jennifer Morris lived ins for december city a student at uc berkeley. Michela gregory lived in South San Francisco with her boyfriend, alex vega. Also at the party the he is missing. Alex ghassan, father of two, a filmmaker originally from brooklyn. Micah danemayer of oakland, a sound and video artist. His girlfriend is missing. Edmund lapine was an artist from utah, a musician we loved to spin vinyl. 33yearold em bohika is another victim from oakland. And Chelsea Dolan of San Francisco. 29yearold justin fritz. And ferel pines, 29 years old from berkeley, and 32yearold Benjamin Runnels of oakland. We are sharing more information for you on our when at abc7news. Com. We have Little Information but they all had very full lives. Authorities are working to identify the rest of the fire victims now. Notifications have again out to families beyond the United States, in finland, korea and guatamala. The sheriff said they do not specific the death toll to dramatically jump. We cannot locate any other deceased victims but we are prepared to remove them if the First Department and a. T. F. Locate but we do not anticipate anymore huge numbers. Nine tentative i. D. s and they will work to identify one person still unknown. In San Francisco, dozens of people showed up for a candlelight vigil to honor the fire victims at harvey milk plaza. Leaders of the Transgender Community organized the trip use. A number of trans people are in the to have lived and worked and spent time in the artist collective. There is one trans individual who has been identified as a victim. They are worried there could be more not identified. The investigation will include individuals like the Building Owner and the founder of the collective on the scene. We will provide information but we are just on a daybyday basis we responding to the changing nature of this very complex and devastating event. As the Investigation Continues the mayor said she and other city leaders will update as much as they can through the week. The d. A. , investigators are look at two things, whether there is criminal liability and if so who is liable. Several key people have been interviewed and the city could be held liable for not endorsing building and safety codes the range of charges could be murder, all the way to involuntary manslaughter. Until we know what the evidence shows us, there could be other charges if the evidence presents that. The d. A. Is vowing do work diligently and use any sources necessary to bring justice for the victims and their families. Hours after the fire starts the it team reported about a history of compliments again the warehouse and dangerous conditions. There are new questions of the actions the city took. Or failed to take. Six complains were f. B. I. D against the ghost ship site in the past two years. These are photos of on two occasions inspecters showed up and were not able to get inside. These photos so the art, debris and wiring throughout the building. Dan noyes spoke with a former nanny for the man who ran the ghost ship, derick ion almena. This place is dangerous overall. Just the amount of stuff, in there and where it was placed. There were neils coming out of the ground, the staircase, a lot of people are hearing about, that was a real thing, and the makeshift staircase. You can see the staircase where many of victims may have become trapped. A neighbor said the family complainted repeatedly over the past two years about parties and the dangers at warehouse but little was continue. Many artists in oakland are worried what happened to the ghost ship collective could start a crackdown on other Artist Spaces the mayor is respond saying she is here to help. Matt . I am standing on the other side of where amy is standing where they held the press conference earlier and there is a lot of activity on this side with a pg e arriving dealing with power issues and there are firefighters working on the building. This memorial on 31st avenue is growing and you can see the flowers and notes and our community has been devastated. They are mourning the victims and there is concern there could be a citywide crackdown on other artist collectives who have continuing high rent and gentrification issues where lofts are turned into condos. The mayor schaaf will announce a major grant addressing displacement of art locations in oakland. This is a mourning but worrisome that there be kneejerk reactions of closing all of these down. People we spoke with say most of the artist building close. The mayor will speak at 11 00 this morning. This is a oakland business that is pledging to help the Artistic Community setting aside 5,000 in grants to benefit oaklands creteive community. Local artists and knew sixes can apply through january 15. Our coverage of the oakland fire continues and we will send out alerts through the news app when we receive new information. We will start with temperatures in the south bay and upper 30s los gatos and campbell and saratoga, and Mountain View and san jose at 43, the warm spots. We have 36 in novato, then in lafayette, and danville is 34, and redwood city is 38, alameda is 46, san carlos is 42 and San Francisco at 45. That is downtown. Internets or neighbors or districts in the 30s from our exploritorium a gorgeous deep blue sky, clean air, cool and breezy on the water this afternoon, fog around slay now and strong winds on mount tamalpais, 22 to 32 coming our way and mid50s are feeling cooler. Lowtomid 50s tomorrow and rain is heavy at times on thursday and midtoupper 50s. The next storm will be discussed ahead. Highway 4 westbound side, around the bay point area before you get to san marco boulevard. It sounded minor but fire crews are blocking the far left lane and possibly the two left lanes reports from folks heading eastbound. Clearly we have heavy traffic through pittsburg area. I dont have injuries there. Through walnut creek a steady through walnut creek a steady crawl with a lot of brake lights so, hopefully we can get it clear with an update in less than 10 minutes. Outpouring of support for the first spokespersons in oakland and how local businesses are and how local businesses are helping out. Im not a customer, but im calling about that credit scorecard. Give it. Sure its free for everyone. Oh well thats nice and checking your score wont hurt your credit. Oh im so proud of you. Well thank you. Free at at discover. Com creditscorecard, even if youre not a customer. New aveeno®. Dont just eat yogurt. Wear it. Daily moisturizing body yogurt. Enriched with the nutrients found in greek yogurt, intensely nourishes skin for 48 hours. Aveeno®. Naturally beautiful results®. Come join us this season,orld at the all new festival of holidays event. Including the new world of color season of light show. Now at the disneyland resort. An update with jessica castro. Welcome back. We her moments ago from First Responders. The best way to help support the victims is through giving online through sites set up. Now, the totals we have, a general fund has more than 373,000. It is sticking up through the morning. It has been growing by thousands through the morning. And another site set up with partial matching funds from the oakland as, radars and warriors, and up to 307,000. First responders have been overwhelmed by questions from folks trying to help and this is simply the best way to dole it to use the crowd funding websites. Thank you. Businesses and Community Organizations in the fruitvale district are doing what they can to help out as the city deals with the tragedy. Many groups have walked up to First Responders and offered to help directly including the group which is offering green cobs grief couns anyone who is working long hours at the fire site. Anyone who needs coffee, a break, bathroom, we are very close and this is an opportunity to say, were here and this is what community is. The Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation wants to make sure the tragedy is not repeated and is informing the area residents of the four danger of illegal electrical hookups. The ghost ship is described as hard to get into now and so difficult to escape. The maze of living space and Artist Studio with filled with wood, carpet and paint which can produce thing smoke that is toxic. The smoke got thick and they lost their sense of where they were and they end up making a wrong turn in a husband they havelied in for a long time. Fires say it is important to location where exits are as soons you arrive somewhere so you do not waste precious seconds looking for them during emergency. The tragedy affecting so many, if you need help, you want to talk someone call township distress line to provide counseling. John f. Kennedy university is providing in person counselor meetings with a full list of the resources and others on abc7news. Com. Type in help, and this will pop up. I. R. S. Tax returns could be delayed. Now to the nasdaq. Good morning, you may not be able to count on receiving your federal tax refund in january, warning that the checks would be delayed and now we have a date, february 15. This change is aimed at battling fraud and i. D. Theft. The i. R. S. Must hold on to the refunds until midfebruary for the millions of americans who claims the additional child tax credit. Two years after facebook added a safety check feature to notify family and friends they are safe after tragedy, google is launching their own stand alone personal safety app called trusted contacts, so you can select a group of friends and family notified of a location and safety after an emergency. All the majority of people in the United States decorate Christmas Trees each year and are shelling out for cash. 730 display a Christmas Tree this year. The average price for a natural tree is 50. That is 22 increase in 20 stocks are quiet and mixed, and the nasdaq is slightly here. Now, how is the weather . A little bit of fog from fairfield to American Canyon in the backup in napa through napa, watch out for that the next couple of hours lie clouds coming our way from the next system and it is quiet increasing today and tomorrow and still need the sunglasses and heaviest rain is wednesday into thursday and another push on friday and more on sunday and monday. Tonight the temperatures are colder with widespread fog and mid30s around the bay and low 40s until San Francisco where we have upper 30 to mid40s. Tomorrow morning at cloud cover shows at 4 00 or 5 00, sun the be setting and the rain researches the ground. Lightly at first and the waves of earlier low overnight. At 7 00 on thursday morning, through 5 00 in the evening, yellows, oranges, reds, minor flooding is possible. Around the drains that have stuck leaves. A break on thursday and the next been of rain is on friday, and mainly during the morning into the afternoon. Through thursday, we are looking at 1. 25 in the south bay and up to 2 in the north bay. Fridays storm is light as is saturday into mondays. Alexis . Back to westbound highway 4, in the bay point area with a crash with injuries jammed for four miles into pittsburg. Ace one is delayed 41 minutes and not moving between fremont and great america. A vehicle is stuck. They are working on a tow truck to remove it. But those are big delays. Everyone else is average. Cash lanes are moving along at the bay bridge toll plaza since 5 28. Missing a few hours of sleep is not only bad for your health but increase your risk of a car crash. Drivers who misogyny one or two hours of sleep in 24 hours double their risk for crash. The centers for Disease Control fund more than a third of American Adults do not get recommended seven hours of sleep. It is important to get enough sheep because Drowsy Driving is nearly as dangerous as drunk driving. Santa clara has canceled the we holiday trolley this year due to personal issues. They will have the trolley on display but no announcement where that will be. First, images from memorials we watched last night for the victims of the oakland ghost ship fire. Here are the 15 things you need to know. New information just released on the oakland warehouse fire. The death toll remains at 36. 26 are the families have been notified. Only 15 of the warehouse remains unsearched. Crews are shoring up unstable wall. Derick ion almena who ran the ghost ship appeared at site, and was emotional say he was sorry. Thousands of gathered for a candlelight vigil for the victims at lake merritt last night. Many spoke to the crowd including parents of two victims. We posted photos and stories of many of the victims at abc7news. Com. Dress warmly second coldest morning this week waiting for you. 30 to 44 own 51 to 53 with biting scold breezes this afternoon. It hasnt been a great morning on the roads and here are a couple of hot spots, westbound 580, tracy to dublin, and a crash is blocking westbound highway 4 in the by point area, antioch to concord, 52 minutes, in the red, but, still, green in the north by. Six from the live desk, heightened security this morning for the Los Angeles Metro red line which runs next to universal studio theme park. The f. B. I. Received an anonymous Terror Threat with the credibility being assessed. A spot of good news, Klay Thompson took over oracle arena scoring a career high 60 points and not only that he set the nba record for most popes scored in under 30 minutes of playing under 30 minutes of playing team, only playing for 29 all of our teams are playing well. We did not know when the next News Conference is happening but when we fund out we will tweet it out and let you know. We will see you in 25 minutes. The latest update 36 found dead, one left to be identified and fires are hopeful the death toll is not expected to rise. There is one section of the building to search which is dangerous because it could fall on top of the investigators. They had to sure it up before they could get in that area of the building. The building. Stay tuned. Oh, lifesized dragon hand back scratcher. If only it came in a luffa. It does oh, a raisin rehydrator. It turns them back into grapes. 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