well inland and temperatures are continuing to come down, 50s and 60s and some 70s, even out to the delta it has been cooler, here is sal. traffic does look good so far driving to oakland. also the commute looks good to marin county and san rafael. we have developing news coming in from san rafael. a firefighter has been hurt just from hours ago. allie rasmus is live on east 14th street, what happened allie? reporter: well the restaurant was on fire and the firefighter who cut his leg wild on the building trying cut holes to release some of the smoke that was trapped underneath the roof in the building and he ended up cutting his leg with a circular saw. he was immediately rushed to the medical center in caster valley. he has a good laceration to his leg. reporter: now when firefighters arrived there was heavy smoke and fire coming from the buildings but they don t know what sparked this fire but it appears to be the back storage room where a dumpster is stored and
continues. this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. good morning, thank you for joining us on this tuesday morning, september 18th, i am pam cook. let s check weather and traffic and steve does not want you to go out dressed the wrong way this morning. might i say switch from air conditioning to heat, the overnight lows, you can feel that low and it is cool. temperatures are on the high side, they are stuck, inland, more 70s than 80s, here is sal. traffic looks good on highway 24, as you look at the caldecott tunnel from walnut creek to oakland, this looks good on the sunole grade, sunole grade, let s go back to the desk. a firefighter got had your just hours ago. east 14th street he is there to tell us what happened, allie? reporter: the battalion chief said he will be recovering but will not be working in alameda as a firefighter for a while. he suffered an injury while battling this fire here at the restaurant on east 14th street in san leandro. the fire started
the just released romney tape. goggle has guests this week. who s filming a movie. complete bay area news coverage starts now, this is ktvu mornings on 2. it is tuesday september 18th. this morning, occupy san francisco protesters have taken down their tents at san francisco s justin herman plaza. channel 2 has been following the situation, and said it s been peaceful until now. reporter: within the past half hour, a little skirmish, where one of the vendors who came in to see up his booth had a confrontation with one of the protesters. when he saw the protester it opened up old wounds, and the vendor pepper-sprayed an occupyier. reporter: they claim the occupiers stole near them and hurt business. now at 4:30 this morning, protesters were told to take their tents down. by six they had collide, and police were able to leave. about 40 protesters ended up at the plaza last night and camped out until the morning. the park is open after six. they can visit the park li
one of the firefighter cut himself with a circular saw. it was a serious cut but they think he will be okay. meanwhile they continue to fight the two-alarm fire and they are trying to keep the smoke and fire from spreading to the rest of the restaurant. the guys actually did a great job in knocking down the roof relatively quickly. reporter: now i spoke briefly to one of the managers of the grill, he said this restaurant has been here for seven years and they have no idea how the fire started. you can see somebody is still going through the back storage room and that s because of that fire that they are now under investigation, allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 morning news. also, this new play structure in antioch was destroyed. they found the structure fully engulfed in flames. firefighters are suspicious. it comes after a handful on friday and they say the fires were set by transients in the area. developing news in san francisco where a group of protesters remain campe
despite a tentative contract deal, chicago teachers are still on strike. so what is the holdup? we re going to go there live to find that out. good morning to you. welcome to early start. look who s back with me this morning, john berman. i m zoraida sambolin. it s been a long time since we ve been together. it has. a lot of the chicago parents will be surprised when they wake up this morning. i think they knew last night. they were hoping they would make the decision last night. sure enough, the kids are out of school again. we have a lot of news. happening right now in afghanistan, the crowd has turn. protests became angry and vial enoutside the u.s. and nato bases in kabul. an afghan police official says at least 15 officers were hurt against the offensive anti-islam film made by a relatively unknown movie producer. demonstrators fired guns and threw rocks and set at least two police cars on fire near the u.s. embassy. this comes one day after four american sol