Extensively used in the military for transporting cargo or troops. Good evening. Im kristen sze in for ama daetz. Our top story tonight, scores of firefighters are battling a brush fire in southeast san jose. Its burning in san philippe and metcalf road to the east of 101. About 40 acres have burned. Earlier firefighters said it could burn as much as 500 acres. Firefighters attacking from the air and ground. This is mostly a rural area. Th at rihomes at risk. A vehicle fire was reported in the area about the same time. Its only 40 contained. Well have more at 11 00 over on channel 7. Whether youre talking wind or humidity, weather always a factor in a brush fire. Thats right. Drew tuma has more on this. Kristin and dan, encouraging news around the area of the brush fire currenly in the south bay. Relative humidity on the rise and the winds have weakened now calm. Earlier this afternoon, they were gusting out of the west at about 10 miles per hour. Into the hills around the region, it i
Its cruzs purchase outside the store people find shocking. When she came up to the table, she asked us what the money was going toward, and we told her it was going to instrument and other things we need. Reporter they were raising money to travel to disney land and other places to perform. The teens gave her back 80 in change. I started to cry a bit. Reporter sensing something was off, one student holding up the bill noticed key features were missing. He works at a pizza parlor. I r come across a bunch of 100s before, so i have been trained. Reporter when the crew ran after her, she hit the gas and sped off. In no time, cruzs car and face were on the Police Departments facebook page, being shared. Within a couple of hours, thousands of people were seeing it and getting tips. Reporter tips identifying Michelle Cruz who has prior counterfeiting offenses. She ended up ditching her car at the store on monday and pet think ty theft to the kids, because people were looking out for her. Its
Through napa valley. 50s and 60s with some locations in the low 50s, and here we go again with sebastopol and bodega bay at 50, 51 san rafael, so we do have some cool readings. Not enough of a delta breeze to get that much cooler. That thunderstorm missing lake tahoe and we will keep an eye out. Fog burning up and off, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s with a few 90s good morning. The traffic is doing pretty well. Southbound 880 a report of an accident near 23rd. It does not appear to be creating a big traffic hazard. We do have the camera and we are watching this and if anything appears we will let you know. Traffic is moderate in that area. As we move along to the other commutes, the tracy commute traffic is going to be okay. A little slowing on interstate 580 already coming in from tracy to livermore. That will continue and a little bit slow early this morning but no problems at livermore and pleasanton. 880 farther south toward the coliseum looks okay in the bay bridge is light. It is 4 02 am.
The building yet because you can see from the looks here the building has received a lot of damage and not stable enough for them to start the work to figure out what the cause of the fire was or where it began. They have not been able to do that after it was pretty much destroyed by the fire. Reporter the orange glow the flames from this fire at 100 lafayette circle could be seen from miles away and firefighters rushed to keep the flames from spreading and the weather conditions worked in their favor. I could see the embers from the fire from a few miles out so that is significant, a very large imber cast, thats what we call it. Because there was no wind it was going straight back up and coming straight back down. Reporter the fire began around midnight and it appears to have started in the restaurant located on the ground floor in the back of the building. The people in the Apartment Building next door were evacuated as a precaution. We were out two hours last night and it was terrib
East foothills of san jose. Its where we find Sandra Osborne where a fire got a little too close to home. Its still so dark out here its a little hard to see. Behind me the grass has completely been burned away. Youre seeing charred marks on the side of the foothills. Fire crews were able to get out and get the fire contained. This has been an ongoing problem out here. The high heat is not helping. San Jose Fire Department responded to reports of a car fire on sierra road east into the hills from piedmont. The fire spread and was contained to 3 acres of brush fire. While they believe there was no foul play, neighbors are worried at multiple fires in the area. That was going on, and somebody had lit a fire on our ridge where all the horses are. And i guess this one happened over here last night where around 3 00 in the morning, god knows what happened. Somebody might have lit a cigarette or whatever. They believe a car fire sparked all of this. Fire crews have tips for keeping your home