Your voice is awesome. The x1 voice remote. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Now to our top stories, a vegetation fire broke out in the south east hills of san jose, the flames spread to the grass, no structures were burned and cal fire evacuated some homes in the area as a precaution, right now the fire is 40 contained. The damage from a large construction fire in oakland is having a Ripple Effect on a second building next door. The windows next door had gotten so hot that when they cooled, they broke, the atf offering a 1,000 reward for information on three fires in oakland in the past year. The mayor of oakland was in federal court this afternoon to respond to allegations that the city mishandled a sex scandal. The judge took officials to task about ang vation that treated an investigation that treated a victim like a suspect. There is a new six figure reward being offered to find the killer of a College Student from san mateo, he was killed while playing pokemon go. The Police Relea
Examine calfiand calfire, they plan to have about 70 men and women here and also nearby at alum rock. This is one home that was lost in yesterdays fire, and within the past hour, the family who lives here removed papers from their site and theyre still onsite sifting through the debris with shovels to see if anything else can be salvaged. This fire started about 4 30 yesterday afternoon and quickly traveled up the hills here in East San Jose. It burned 150 acres. The fire is out but firefighters only have a fire alarm out about 50 of the burn area. There are still things in it smoldering so today they wanted to extend that containment line to 100 . Given all the smoke here, they only lost one house. The man across the street was stunned the fire didnt spread to his home, too, given he was only 150 feet from this home. Im amazed that nobody was hurt, and two, that it skipped our house. Reporter how do you wrap your mind around that . I just want to say thank you very much to all the men
Jan rail the f hospital in kloakland. Tod it is free to download and ry will keep you up on what is happening. Family with of an american killed. Reporter robert groot was five months into his sixmonth deployment. Is mom said he traveled around the country and the world as a volunteer and activist. In this Youtube Video posted. Explains and syria. My reasons for joining was to help the Kurdish People in their struggle for autonomy. Iem sorry that his energy i not here. Reporter his energy is described as noble. How proud we are of him. How selfless he was. How much he stood for and how much he fought for something, anything that he believed in. You dont have to agree with his politics. But he did this for everybody. Reporter he describes his friend as an inspired man devoted to helping others. To my family, know that i love you all and there is a lot onat goes unsaid. Groot leaves behind a younyearold daughter and fiance. Thank you. Our thoughts go out to that family. New at 6 00 an in
Power and crashed a thousand feet from takeoff. He was an assistant profit professor of International Studies at the university of San Francisco. Also onboard the plane a woman and two children. All three badly injured. Nbc bay area cheryl hurd joins us at ucsf what do we know about the children and the woman . Reporter we know that they are recovering tonight. And we also know that bill goldmans office is right here behind me. He was a professor of International Studies and a valued member of this community. And we also know that he died in that plane crash. Three other people survived. Tonight pilot william goldmans two children are being treated here at the hospital in oakland. They were air lifted here in two separate helicopters. Medium following the crash in a nearby field near the sonoma sky park airport. The plane came into. Robert castle o helped pry the children out of the plane. Whoa i got there there was a little handout of the back window i thought my gosh somebody alive i
Min thes. We are continue to following the search for the missing 5yearold berkeley girl, Police Believe she is with her mother. K9s have been out there, we are going to talk about what they have been able to track, what direction they might be going in. And we are going to talk about this weekends investigation into that scary situation at sfo, critical interviewings being conducted, we are talking about the air flight. It was a scary couple of moments at sfo with a very very close call between that flight and a busy taxi way that had four full planes on it, who investigators are planning to talk to and it is going to be hot hot hot hot a heat advisory expanded. How hot . Where is it going to get hot, rosemary on that screen behind you. Magenta. Yes, especially for the inner east bay going over hundreds. Heat advisory starts at 8 00, runs through the weekend for our hills as well as the inner east bay, a look over San Francisco where we have a little bit of fog this morning, not expec