In the commute direction. The accident in the eastbound lane sounds serious. We have been watching this multicar accident in emeryville eastbound 80 at powell street again going against the commute. The middle lanes remain blocked. Westbound if you are coming through berkeley, so far that appears to be okay through the macarthur maze. Southbound traffic looks okay right now coming into San Francisco over the golden gate bridge. Back to you. Investigators have a break in the search for sandra coke who vanished in oakland on sunday night. Several agencies rushed to vallejo on a tip that she could be there. They spent the night trying to find any sign of coke. The search is focused on the Solano County fairgrounds near interstate 80 and highway 37. The area includes a large lake there. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec is there as well as the search for miss coke went on all night. Reporter there is a command post set up at the Solano County fairgrounds. The search is going to ramp up later th
Will be a long, tough fight. Firefighters are really doing all they can to keep up. Take a look at just the last 24 hours. There have been more than 4,000 lightning strikes sparking 45 new fires here in northern california. Liz, allen . Teresa, were coming up on a labor day holiday. I know its very busy this time of year up there. But the park itself, its still open, right . Reporter well, amazingly at this point, allen, it is. Youve got a lot of smoke thats been shifting toward that park even into it. Youve West Entrance, thats a main vein getting into the park. The West Entrance is closed. But there are plenty of other ways to get into Yosemite National park. At this point it remains open and indeed with labor day upon us, its a really busy season. We know of several hotels already in the area campsites, too, that have had to shut down. Thank you, teresa garcia. Well, San Francisco also declared a state of emergency because of the rim fire. Flames are threatening parts of the cityown
Notes. So where do two people begin talking about trafficking . I think we begin by saying its really a global issue. It takes place in every country in the world, in the United States, in all of our cities and probably in our neighborhood. Could be within blocks of us here today. It could be. It is estimated as many as 27 million people, men, women and children. Its estimated there are more women and children because of gender and equality in our world, but men, women and children. It has many faces around the world. Who are they . It can be children that end up being forced to become child soldiers, women forced into prostitution, men on fishing boats, children in factories, men and women in factories, family on charcoal farms, children in cocoa fields. What about in countries like ours where, you know, top level organized country how can it go on here . Where does it go on here in the United States . Human trafficking has kind of two elements. It can be sex trafficking or labor, for
210 miles and it 7 contained. We have the latest from near the fire lines. Reporter and good to be with you. The firefight here is 24 7. The latest push for the crews it is to try to protect some of the worlds oldest treasure. The wildfire raging out of control around Yosemite National park. Covering an area the size of chicago. It is visible from space. Right now we near this area. That is the hot spot right now. The fire engineer oversees the safety of 250 firefighters from the frontlines of the blaze. The interior is a concern for a long time. You can not get to some of the areas,. What is the difficulty in getting to those sections. They are straight 45 degree down. You can not walk on it. Reporter it is loaded with dry brush and trees. Including the giant sequoias. If you takeaway the ground litter it keeps it from going to the trees. But if it is running on top of the trees it is difficult to get that out. Reporter the blaze destroyed 20 structures including 11 homes and outbuild
What were seeing now. Huge flames roaring outside of yosemite tonight. Firefighters have been unable to tame them. This is a terrifying fire. The governor declared a local state of emergency because of the rim fire. So did the city which operates a camp and gets water and power from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir there. The fire is sprou shaeding up and down the canyon. And toured the community of Pine Mountain lake. Highway 120 into yosemite is still closed. The winds have picked up had afternoon. But today, the day began with a red flag warning lifted enabling firefighters to makeup ground lost after the fire tripled in acreage. This fire exploded out of control when just the wind banned the flames. This is a very complex fire. Just unique fire behavior. But at tack continues to play a key role pounding the fire with retardant and water one of the main ways to fight the fire because much is not accessible. Folks the camp which serves special needs kids thought the facility was a fire wit