Frfrom xfinityty. Fans of taylor swift known as swifties converged on santa clara last night for the first of two concerts this weekend at levi stadium. Silicon valley ha not seen an event like this in years. He tells are sold out, restaurants are booked out. The local economy is likely to rake in millions. A giant letter x now sits o top of the headquarters in San Francisco. But building inspectors say no one ever applied for the required permits. Good morning, its saturday, july 29, im devin fehely. Lets start with a quic check of our weather. We made it to the last weekend in july and it will fee like summertime. Two or three degrees warmer compared to the past couple of days. And the heat dome has been dominating weather over the southwest. And we dont have to worry about extreme heat. Temperatures in the 50s to the 60s this morning those numbers will warm up quickly inland. By lunchtime, well see 70s and 80s. The temperatures reaching into the upper 80s, but thats not bad for late
Here we go, the countdown, taylor mania , it is taking over the bay area, whether you are a fan or just trying to avoid getting stuck in it all, it is a spectacle in santa clara right now as the pop superstar brings her tour to levis stadium, our chopper is over the crowds. The fans started writing hours ago, about 58,000 people expected tonight and tomorrow. And even more fans without tickets could be showing up despite an official ban on tailgating. You can expect major traffic around the stadium. The opening acts take the stage and that is in a half an hour. Lauren has been all over this coverage, leading up to it, it is finally here. What is it like . Reporter fans are pining with anticipation tonight, fans have flown to santa clara from across the country like this group who flew in from the east coast , there is no short of excitement here tonight, tens of thousands of fans are here, but with that comes a high level of security. Earlier today i spoke to the Incident Commander at
New Police Officers. Thats more than double the current amount of cops. Also, a restaurant is so fed up with car breakins, the owner hired her own Security Guards to protect her customers cars. Plus, the burn is over. Now the mad rush to get out and clean up the garbage left behind. Were going to take you to burning man. How about this . Your license on your phone from the dmv. Well show you how it works. Good evening. This is nbc bay area news tonight. Im raj mathai. Were going to get to all those stories in just a moment. But first we want to start with some breaking news. Its on the peninsula. Problems on southbound 280. Traffic is backed up after the chp shut down all southbound lanes for a brief period. This is in burlingame. Right now, 280 has reopened. Thats the good news. At one point, just about 30 or 40 minutes ago, the traffic was backed up for miles. Heres what we know. This is happening near the truesdale exit in burlingame. The chp says this started as a potential shootin
Its happening at the sims Metal Recycling plant in redwood city, close to the shore of the bay. The smoke drifted as far as sunnyvale. Sara donchey is following the latest for us from the newsroom. Reporter a lot of people have probably seen the smoke from this especially if youre down. We are learning more about what caused this fire. Live right here above the scene, crews have made a lot of progress compared to what it looks like earlier. The flames erupted from a recycling plant. This is a look at the fire at its height. There it is. Sent a lot of smoke in the air, which is typical. The Fire Department says that scrap pile consists of things like water heaters, even cars and parts of car. And this is some citizen app video a shows the dark smoke billowing into the earth earlier. Its smelling like plastic. This is not what i wanted. It was a 20foot high pile of scrap metal that caught fire that time. It sent toxic smoke into the neighborhoods nearby and even caused a shelter in place
At the ground. So a lot of evidence that still needs to be collected. And look at this. Look at all those police cars at this location. Doesnt of them still here after responding to reports of 2 of their fellow officers were shot. And then let me show you video. This all went down at around 10, 30 last night when officers came to this location here. Its the extended stay. America to a disturbance call. They were going to obviously check it out when all of a sudden shots ring out from the suspect. The officers, they returned fire. Ultimately 30 people were rushed to the hospital. We do know that those 2 officers were hit by gunfire. Thats when they called for backup. And thats why so many officers came to the scene and still remain at the scene. Let me show you video of the hospital. We understand that the officers went to individual hospitals. So they went to 2 different ones, one treating the trauma the other for injuries. And heres the reason why we do know that one officer treated a