For the rest of our lives. Good morning. A frosty morning in central london, outside st pauls cathedral. Over the next couple of hours, 1500 invited guests will make their way inside for the National Memorial service and we will be talking to some of them over the next couple of hours. Let us bring you the bbc news so far today. A Memorial Service is being held at st pauls cathedral this morning for the victims and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire in west london. 71 people were killed when the fire tore through the tower block, six months ago today. Prince charles, Prince William and theresa may will be among the 2,000 people who are expected to attend. My my thoughts and the thoughts of eve ryo ne my thoughts and the thoughts of everyone in the met with people who lost their lives and their loved ones. Also those people who lived in g re nfell tower ones. Also those people who lived in Grenfell Tower and those who escaped, those who have lost their homes and the local community. I
The san mateo coast. There is cloud cover zipping down from the northwest. A little bit of fog out to the valley. Mostly sunny today. A very dry pattern for us. There are hints of an off shore or northerly breeze. Maybe not that strong. Higher elevations stronger. 30s, 40s 50s. Gilroy at 37. 30s in the santa cruz mountains. Acampbell says 38. If you want rain, go north. There are some up in portland and seattle. Theres none here. There wont be for a while. 60s and 70s, above normal temps. Around pinole you had an issue. Is that taken care of or still causing problems. Well, the accident is cleared but the slow traffic remains on 80 westbound coming away from the carquinez bridge and heading west at richmond. There was a crash at pinole road. You can see the traffic will be slow westbound as you drive through hercules. It is getting a little better. Now there is more slow traffic appearing downstream, if you will. At one point we had a 62minute backup. Now down to 40 minutes. Things are
Now, from abc 7, live breaking news. And that is thousands in richmond warned to take in doors. The urgency to get out can bb seen at the toll plaza. Right now, its especially. No one is there to take tolls. That fire started at 5 00 tonight and still going strong. Right now, its burning at south Fourth Street and cutting boulevard. Shelter in place has expanded through the night and now covers most of the city. Kate is where the fire started, kate . Reporter well, i can tell you that this fire is still burning here tonight, very strong and they are really trying their hardest putting a ton of water on the flames. You can see behind me, that the fire trucks are back by those piles of debris and smoke is still just coming off, filling the air, a strong chemical taste and smell in the air right now. Just spoke to the deputy fire chief that said, they will be out here at the scrap yard for a long time tonight because the flames are beating back when the retardent slows down. Heavy equipme
Now, from abc 7, live breaking news. And that is thousands in richmond warned to take in doors. The urgency to get out can bb seen at the toll plaza. Right now, its especially. No one is there to take tolls. That fire started at 5 00 tonight and still going strong. Right now, its burning at south Fourth Street and cutting boulevard. Shelter in place has expanded through the night and now covers most of the city. Kate is where the fire started, kate . Reporter well, i can tell you that this fire is still burning here tonight, very strong and they are really trying their hardest putting a ton of water on the flames. You can see behind me, that the fire trucks are back by those piles of debris and smoke is still just coming off, filling the air, a strong chemical taste and smell in the air right now. Just spoke to the deputy fire chief that said, they will be out here at the scrap yard for a long time tonight because the flames are beating back when the retardent slows down. Heavy equipme
Ton of water on the flames. You can see behind me, that the fire trucks are back by those piles of debris and smoke is still just coming off, filling the air, a strong chemical taste and smell in the air right now. Just spoke to the deputy fire chief that said, they will be out here at the scrap yard for a long time tonight because the flames are beating back when the retardent slows down. Heavy equipment pulling piles of debris away from a toxic fire. This business takes in cars. They dismantle them, they sell the metal. So we have a heap of metal out there that is burning. Reporter Richmond Deputy fire chief said that theres more than 40 firefighters on scene who have been trying to put out of the 25 foot high pile of flaming metal since 5 00. But the firefighters can only get some close. We would be able to remove the piles of debris, at the air quality nearest the fire, was better. But because it was so bad, and it was below 20, 20 in oxygen, theres no way anyone can survive. Repor