Mind blowing. Reporter grind bartfelt said when he first heard about the fire this morning, he had no idea how bath it would be until 4th arrived on scene. High heart sunk add i saw our building up in flames when i turned the corner. Reporter he building where his family started the business more than 70 years ago appears to be a complete loss. While he hopes insurance will allow them to carry on, right now he says its simply too early to say. When the dust clears, the smoke clears, so to speak, you know, what the obviously big time damage, you know, well cross that bridge when we get to it. Reporter and lieutenant Jonathan Baxter from San Francisco fire is on scene briefing us with the latest developments. Well go to that live right now. That firefighter has recent by released from the Trauma Center and is going to be okay. We have the three displaced residents, as well as an unaccounted number of employees from the established businesses that are affected from this fire. Our Fire Dep
Alarm fire started at the rear of that mans building. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Tonight, new information about what may have happened. Ktvu has learned fryer crews were called out to extinguish a mattress fire at the rear of the big building on 14th street between south bend as an fulsome. The mattress fire was out 11 30 last night. The big fire broke out around 6 30 this morning. Live coverage now from ktvus amber lee. Our cruise still pouring water onto that fire . Reporter this is a very active seen behind me. We can see firefighters using huge trucks to put out hot spots. The fire did apartment tells me 160 firefighters were here at the peak in 20 remain here tonight. At this point, the fire is still not contained. Ive never seen a city fire spread this fast before. It was amazing. Reporter huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky as flames burned six buildings in San Francisco zenner mission district. One who had to evacuate said it
Pattern. A friend of mine brought this point up yesterday. If this were in November December january, we would have about 10 days of rain. That is true. These are little areas of low pressure that are coming in and we hope this holds as we get to the winter months, but right now it is just giving us a really stuck pattern and theres not much changing here. Cold coast, if you are in ukiah, vacaville, it is really hot. Other locations are really nice. Absolutely blocked in here with lowes about 55 and highs of 78. I cant complain about that. A little bit of northwest breeze. Fog heads back to the coast keeping them in the 60s around the bay. Inland it is 80s to near 90. These are all a little bit below average. Santa rosa, san jose, San Francisco, oakland and livermore is one above. Over to sal and we will say good morning. Thats right. Wednesday morning, steve, and the traffic is nice and boring, just the way we like it. We dont want a lot of excitement. I was told that there is some gu
They would normally get on a summer day. But that is okay because a lot of people have been waiting. You have to buy tickets in advance. The zoos funds have been drained during the shut down and Officials Say the reduced ticket revenue still will not be enough to cover costs. Our own frank mal coat has a live report for us. We will be out there by the way on august 7th for our next zip trip and good morning mike i know you have talked about the zoo many times and you have a love for it. Must make you happy to see it opening once again. I cant wait to go back. Were going online later today and pick the perfect afternoon. I mentioned the family membership. I actually had a minute to talk with the director dr. Joel parrot yesterday about the reopening and he said they have seen a dramatic increase in the number of people buying memberships. A family membership for two adults and four children is well under 200. If you have the money now, its a great way to entertain your family and to sup
At noon 66 to 67 with the fog quickly receding and this afternoon 71 to 74 degrees. If youre heading out this evening, still pretty comfortable away from the coast. Heres jobina. Good morning, everyone. Well check in here. Live picture coming up right now of the bay bridge toll plaza. From the toll plaza into San Francisco. It will be about a nineminute ride for everyone. No metering lights on yet. Well keep track of that because all week long theyve been turning on the metering lights later and later and due to less people coming into work. A lot of people working from home right now. 87 nice and clear in the south bay right now and pull up our drive times. Albany to the maze, slight slow down with six minutes. And highway 101 to cupertino 10 minutes. Developing news this morning, we are learning more about the u. S. Suspending more travel from europe. The president made that announcement from the white house yesterday. The ban starts at midnight. The Vice President just revealed more