Fir withe on the four hour fire fight. Anne. This fire broke out at 6 20 this morning and theres still smoke coming off the brilding as building as you can see behind me. Half of it is destroyed. The walls of this building started collapsing after hours of firefighters spraying water from the outside. You can see in these shots from chopper 5 how this stubborn fire raged in the middle of the building so firefighters had to pull back early and go into defensive mode. Inside the building an artist collective known as moxie for 37 businesses worked with metal, wood, and bronzing materials. Some created with pieces for burning man. Part of this building, part of the warehouse orac i two sto. Laed in. He w vleor sngny 880 at the 23rd avenue ramp. Some nearby homes were evacuated because of smoke and firefighters say they were concerned about their water supply. We were tooeterring right at that point that we were going to get to a critical point and our concern was the fire spreading to add
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The president , who was all about getting the United States out of iraq, is sending more troops in. Late today, the white house announced that president obama has given the goahead for 1500 more troops to deal with the threat posed by the terrorist group known as isis. With this expansion, the number authorized has grown from 275 in june to 3100 tonight. David martin is at the pentagon for us this evening. David. Reporter scott, president obama is doubling down on his strategy to defeat isis, not only increasing the number of american troops in iraq, but also spreading them out to a half dozen locations across the country. Until now, u. S. Troops have been confined to baghdad and the city of erbil in the north. 630 will be sent as advisers to the headquarters of iraqi units fighting isis north and west of baghdad, including in anbar province, where some of the bloodiest battles of the iraq war took place. 830 of the a
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The president , who was all about getting the United States out of iraq, is sending more troops in. Late today the white house announced that president obama has given the goahead for 1500 more troops to deal with the threat posed by the terrorist group known as isis. With this expansion, the number authorized has grown from 275 in june to 3100 tonight. David martin is at the pentagon for us this evening. David. Reporter scott, president obama is doubling down on his strategy to defeat isis, not only increasing the number of american troops in iraq but also spreading them out to a half dozen locations across the country. Until now u. S. Troops have been confined to baghdad and the city of erbil in the north. 630 will be sent as advisers to the headquarters of iraqi units fighting isis north and west of baghdad, including in Anbar Province where some of the bloodiest battles of the iraq war
It will taper between 7 00 and 9 00. Mid 60s and mid 70s through 4 00 and mid 60s again at 7 00. Inland the clouds will hang around through noon up north. We have some drizzle this morning. Will be sunny at about 83 at 4 00 and 74 this evening. Clouds and drizzle at the coast with low to mid 60s this afternoon. Good morning mike. If youre just waking up with us at 6 01 right now. I want to let you know ace train number one is 25 minutes late. Its been having memberichanica problems to be exact. We still have that heavy delay there. Number three and five it looks like they are on time. Bart is also on time. I will have more information on that fire that we were telling you about in oakland. First a back up along bay bridge. Eastbound direction on our lower back, a car thats stalled right at the Treasure Island offramp. Here is where that fire is located. 98th avenue. Thats where we have do have traffic thats affected. Also bart tracks they run right through that area so they might slow
San francisco icon as painful as it was to have the niners leave us, were ready to fulfill the prom we want to fulfill that promise. 12,000 new homes and 5,000 jobs. I see shopping in everybodys future. [laughter] good quality shopping. And the real promise that i get to oversee, 50 local hiring of our people here beginning right here. It all sounds great, but are people really going to shop and live next door to one of the citys toughest neighborhoods . Its mixed incomes and people are going to live sideby side and you wont notice it from the exterior. Is it going to be safe . Its going to be safer than what it has been we promised jobs and parks and promised housing. Housing for who. 2 to 4 bedroom condos are selling from 500,000 to 900,000 and a third of that housing will be below market price to keep it affordable. When youre in the half million range, not beginning with a Million Dollar range, its going to be affordable to working families. This is the same promises the neighborho