Ktvus Debora Villalon is live there now. Firefighters plan to be on that scene all night. Reporter allnight monitoring for hotspots and the possibility that parts of this damaged church could collapse. Streets are still closed and the fences are up but the good news, the Church Sanctuary was saved. Definitely better than what i was imagining. Reporter staff of first come Regional Church got the first look inside the sanctuary. A mess of falling plaster, some electrical and water damage but firefighters covered the piano and or convince. And organs. With fire raging crews ran hose through the ceiling to block the blaze. Before it could crease into the heart of the church. The firefighters did an excellent job. So grateful for their speedy action in containing the fire. So the damage is not worse than it had to be. Reporter the fire looked as if it might level the church campus. It started on the roof and raced through the attic of the hundredyearold brick building. First church is prepp
Investigators. Was primarily in the attic. When the conditions changed and smoke and heat started coming down there was a collapse of the ceiling. Thats when we pulled out of the building and went into a defensive mode. Firefighters focused on saving the sanctuary. This community is very strong and a strong staff and congregation. Will come together to do what we need. This area will be closed off tonight and tomorrow. Firefighters are on scene monitoring hotspots. Another big story where tracking tonight to videos of the latest Deadly Police shooting in this country take us to san diego. The videos today were released. The police chief saying its in the best interest of the public to release the footage. In the video you can see one officer approach the victim was not listening. Then he gets into a shooting stance and puts an object that he pulled from his pants at an officer. Thats when officer Richard Gonzales fired for shots killing the victim. The object was eight ecigarette. Prot
Not to stand. Then he practiced, that the protest is now spread. Yesterday the seahawks linked arms during the national anthem. Four dolphin players took a knee and the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback raised his fist. They took offense to kaepernicks original actions, sending them a letter saying that members might not volunteer for shifts at levi stadium. But a meeting with city officials refused the situation. They say that it was important to look at the greater good. That is the sentiment that i get that people realize, you know, we have a stadium and that people will protect theirs. One persons actions that will change that. We have a lot of professional officers here. We want to make sure that it is loud and clear that they will be safe to come to any event there. Reporter and also the group called the courage campaign, they would plan to fly an airplane banner overhead with the message reading kaep inspires courage. Thats said to happen between 5 00 to 6 00. Well send it back to
And theyre hitting it pretty hard with all of these bombers right here. There is one right there. Reporter cal fire and the other firefu0vjejt agencies kept hitting the fire hard but it also kept hitting back. Whats unique about what were seeing and we have seen this the last couple years, this fire is spreading very fast, very aggressively in almost the complete absence of wind. Reporter for some residents that, means no more waiting. I was here through the night and the fire was getting close to the house to the south and so we bailed out early this morning. And after we got everything put away. Reporter now at this point, there are about 500 firefighters rotating in and out of the loma fire using 24hour cycles to avoid fatigue and what is certainly going to be a very long firefight. Coming up at 6 00, updated figures, as well as some unique situations that have some residents going back into the fire area. Live in the Santa Cruz Mountains, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Incredible
Time we get to saturday night and things will start to improve. There will be more of a rain pattern today more than thunderstorms. 60s for most as rain begins to move in. So far so good. We are looking pretty good if you are driving around the bay area. Lets look at the east shore freeway, interstate 80. Not a bad commute so far. This is a good time for you to take advantage of a decent commute. At the toll plaza if you are going that far, a lot of people are driving to San Francisco and there are no major problems here. Traffic continues to look good. In san jose we are off to a good start. Northbound 101 and 280 and we look at the peninsula nearby. Traffic is moving along well on 101 and 280. Lets go back to the desk. A pedestrian in oakland was hit and killed by a car hours ago. The man called the chp before 1 30 am and said hed hit someone who was walking on eastbound interstate 580 near the keller avenue offramp police went to the scene. They found the victim on the ground. We do