Kudos to Technical Service division who successfully completed the code update. This was a huge undertaking involving coordination and tight deadlines. Thanks to all the dbi staff. And finally, id like to recognize a great employee of our city for many years and who is just retired from the department of dbi, like to recognize bill strong. Is bill here . I owe him a big lunch because i was away when he retired. During his time, he impressed us very much with his knowledge and professionalism and attention to detail. I know i speak for my colleagues as well when i say we will miss him. He was a great anchor for the department and his history goes back to senator feinstein and i was talking to john about it earlier, he took a little time off in the middle and then back to dbi for, i believe, 13 years was the time . I dont know how many times i tried to upset bill and i could not. [laughter] and i made genuine efforts to do it. He was always a professional and managed to make things clear
Alexandertut here. Clinch here. Jacobo here. Lee here. Moss here. Tam here. We have a quorum. And our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy good morning and welcome to the bic meeting of january, 2020, first of the year. And welcome, everybody. Kudos to Technical Service division who successfully completed the code update. This was a huge undertaking involving coordination and tight deadlines. Thanks to all the dbi staff. And finally, id like to recognize a great employee of our city for many years and who is just retired from the department of dbi, like to recognize bill strong. Is bill here . I owe him a big lunch because i was away when he retired. During his time, he impressed us very much with his knowledge and professionalism and attention to detail. I know i speak for my colleagues as well when i say we will miss him. He was a great anchor for the department and his history goes back to senator feinstein and i was talking to john about it earlier, he
From the atf that the cause of the fire might have been something as simple as a refrigerator. While crews used a backhoe to dismantle an unsteady wall at the front of the ghost ship warehouse. People calling and knowing they are going to die, making that last reach out towards your family. Reporter stories are emerging about the final words, mostly text messages, sent out by the victims of the ghost ship in the moments before they died. Anyone can relate that not only are you thinking about your fate, but youre thinking about your family and how they are going to be hurting when youre gone and knowing that thats going to happen. Reporter in the meantime atf investigators have told Alameda County sheriffs they believe they have isolated the cause of the deadly fire to a refrigerator at the rear of the building as the search for human remains is coming to an end, the death toll is Holding Steady at 36 with just 10 of the building throat search. In my studio. Here with my dogs. And when
They have now identified 35 of the 36 victims and have notified 30 families. Katie is at the scene with more. Katie . Reporter that state of emergency the city declaration is an effort to get federal funding and state funding to help in the aftermath of this disaster. Meanwhile investigators are turning their focus to causes that may be electrical in nature and tonight we heard a promise from the fire chief. We will be out here until we can definitely say that we have searched that entire structure and there are no more victims within it. Reporter Oakland Fire Department appears to be getting closer to completing its search of the ghost ship warehouse. Alameda county Sheriffs Office says 35 of the 36 bodies recovered have been identified and they are in the process of notifying victims families. By the time i got the doors open it was just flames were starting to engulf my space. Reporter residents tell us navigating the warehouse was difficult as smoke and flames engulfed it. I only s
Warm everywhere. We do have a spare the air alert, and heres a live look outside his we look at that heat advisory for sunday and monday, the entire bay area and temperatures in the 80s and 90s, triple digits inland. Stay hydrated and keep your pants indoor and make sure they have plane pets indoor and make sure they have plenty of water. We have a five high fire danger, so keep that in mind. Low 60s in some areas, 62 already in San Francisco, your full forecast is straight ahead. A 20yearold man is behind bars accused of killing five people in the mall shooting, and he was arrested while walking down the street in oak harbor, and they spotted him from the patrol car and recognized him as the suspect. I pulled my gun, and Eric Rumbaugh took the individual into custody, and he said nothing. The motive in this shooting happened and still under investigation with four women and one man killed at the Macys Department store. The Baltimore Police are looking for three gunmen that opened fire