Businesses. Were live at the scene. Andrea . Reporter the flames burned for about two hours and 15 minutes. Theyre out at . Point. You can see multiple pg e trucks out on scene. That gas main that was punctured sent a fireball into the air for about two hours and 15 minutes straight. It was several stories high. Now, were told that there is a crew that was digging for fiberoptics a the time on a verizon permit. It was a thirdparty contractor. It was dig ing into a fiberoptic line at the time when this fire began. As you can see, it took quite some time to put this fire out. Here is what pacific gas and electric has to say about the length of time it took to get that gas main shut off. We needed to go slow. We needed to put together a plan first, and then slowly, methodically hand dig to get to point where is we could shut off valves or pinch lines to shut off service. Reporter now, if you are listening to that, think about it for a hot second. 24 inches is the state law. If there is a
Darya darya good morning im darya folsom. james and im james fletcher. Lets start the morning with a check of weather and traffic. An icy cold morning with some slick spots on roads, especially those areas that saw snow yesterday. After lows fall below freezing for parts of the bay daytime highs will boost into the 40s and 50s, much like yesterdays with abundantly sunny skies to take us into the afternoon. Major hot spots in hayward wb 92 at hesperian right lanes closed slow from 880. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. Toll to 101 james morning. Black ice may cause some problems today for drivers near the Santa Cruz Mountains. darya it was snowing all along highway 17 yesterday. Kron 4s will tran is back out there live with a look at conditions. The snow is gone but whats left behind even more dangerous black ice could be part of the morning commute from people going over snd through the Santa Cruz Mountains some spots are wet and that could turn into ice yesterd
Car along highway 37 and fled into the nearby marsh lands. It happened two hours ago on skaggs island road. Sky ranger shows the sheriffs deputies carrying the suspect into the ambulance. They say he got tuck in tstuck mud. First he asked deputies to shoot him. A chp helicopter is lower a basket to the suspect who crawled in and was transported do shore. Deputies say he is a wanted felon. No word as of right now on his condition. Well, yesterday we broke the story. Today the mayor of San Francisco is responding. Mayor london breed is defending her plea to the governor toet o report last night that revealed she sent a letter to Governor Brown on behalf of her brother. Napoleon brown is serving more than 40 years in prison for manslaughter for pushing a woman out of a car on the Golden Gate Bridge. Mayor breed said she is not trying to use her position to help out her brother. Basically, i came to the conclusion of whether i was mayor or not, is this something that i would do. And the an
Today breed acknowledged that her plea for clemsy may have backfired. Unfortunately, i am in a situation where i am mayor and it will probably have the reverse impact of what i was hoping that it could possibly do, which is you know, get my brother a reduced sentence and get him into treatment and get him the support that he needs. Reporter mayor breed says her brother has been treated unfairly by the justice system, like many other africanamerican men. Napoleon brown is serving twice the normal term for manslaughter and other crimes because i care about along with so manyeport written letters on her brothers behalf before. But she wasnt mayor then. When i was asked to write of course concerned that you know, as mayor this could backfire. This could have the reverse impact. And i knew the letter would be public. So i wasnt necessarily trying to hide anything, but i was concerned. Reporter while she made no mention of the victim or her family in her letter to the governor, breed went ou
than an inch, doylestown .85, pottstown about a half inch. atlantic city you ll notice really hasn t gotten into the action quite yet, only .02 of an inch. an additional quarter to a half inch of rain again causing minor street flooding where you have the poor drainage then temperatures crashing as an arctic boundary moves in and this could cause an icy mix in the far north and west suburbs. you can see right now we re in the 60 s but temperatures in the 30 s behind it. we ve got winter weather advisories. i ll talk about that coming up in the full accuweather forecast. gina. [inaudible] traveling out right now i do have some good news. that earlier tractor-trailer that we had in langhorne on 95 has cleared. now we re just sort of waiting for this delay to really run its course but it looks like for the most part you re moving along, a little slower than you should be but the tractor-trailer is gone so things are going to be moving along a lot nicer now for you. let s als