Late last night. And does not to bet saturday morning livermore 54 announced 56 living house in oakland. By the afternoon a lot of cloud cover dealing with will pull back and were talking about a significant warming trend inland. Hi 94 livermore. Expects many 70s along the east bay shoreline and upper 60s for downtown San Francisco. Temperatures will continue to warm as we head into sunday monday picking up a portion of the forecasts come up a sudden 15. top story this morning eight families without their homes this morning all happened after for alarm fire ripped through a neighborhood and slot accounting. Neighbors coming out and take a look at the damage this morning when a Fire District also out here on the scene you can hear the wind is whipping to the background in seasonless moldering areas there wind pushing some of those embers concern for fire officials and those numbers could ignite some of the surrounding drybrush there will remain here on the scene for most of the morning.
You can see step are keeping a close eye on the fire and not calling it under control, yet but we do not see any flames right now. It was going earlier. Firefighters did not rush in when they saw it, it was so big they took a defensive approach. They used their ladders to reach the residents and one resident who was stranded on a balcony. Seven people lived in the four units and much got out okay. It was bad. Everyone was on fire. But everyone is okay. We saw police making an arrest at the scene but police shielded him with a plan coat from our camera. He is in the back of a police car in handcuffs and residents say healyed in a unit and he threatened to bun burn the place down and often goes on rants. Officers say it is under investigation. Precipitation and no fog, and the air is clean from emeryville to San Francisco and we are looking good. Mostly cloudy, and warmerthanaverage with cleaner air than the last two days and midtoupper 60s inland and around the bay, upper 50s to mid60s
Shouting and banging on the walls and they are not surprised he is accused of setting the building on fire. Many of them now are learning from people who have been inside that their homes are completely destroyed. When firefighters arrived at 2 50 they had to fight it from the outside because it was so big. As they tried to put it out, one of the residents confessed on camera, that he used a lighter to set fire to the building. Im the one that started it. I take full responsibility. What happened . Crazy. They tryied to make people think i was crazy. He was rescued from the balcony and then police took him into custody shielding him from the public with a blanket and charged prado with arson. Im in shock realizing i probably lost everything. Seven people lived inside the building in alameda. Though all got out but twwyla had to jump. Grabbing her purse and cell phone. Waking up to this is devastating, really. Couldnt even take anything. I had to get out. Residents say prado was on a ra
Without pay. Furloughed until congress can get its act together to fund the government. Ironically, its also the 123rd anniversary of yellowstone becoming a national park. Just one of the many places forced to close until further notice. At 1 16 a. M. , after the shutdown had taken effect, Speaker John Boehner held a press conference offering to take the resolution to conference. Thats an offer rejected by Senate Majority leader harry reid but what did not shutdown, the sign of obama care. Sign up for the Affordable Care act. Health exchanges still kick off today. Boy, the headlines reflect it all. Heres the New York Times talking about mirroring the shutdown. The wall street journal talks about washingtons grim standoff. The usa today talks about the shutdown showdown. The boston globe not my favorite but close. Big font. Huge font. Its about as big as rock dyes. You can read that. The Washington Post has down to the wire. The Financial Times and they are accurate here. Republicans fe
Afternoon, light to moderate rain, ponding on the roads possible and small hail. That break you just mentioned thats what road crews are counting on to make repairs to areas flooded by the downpour. One of the hardest hit areas is where highway 12 meets highway 121 in sonoma county. Terry mcsweeney joins us live from there. It just reopened. Reporter it just reopened at 7 00, it was closed all night this is the epicenter of the flooding you can see the water and the cones out, everybody here knows this area is yet again, one high tide or one downpour away from more flooding. The water sits on the shoulder of highways 12 and 121 in sonoma, giving you a good idea what closed this road you couldnt get through the water covered all lanes last night. About 7 00 this morning, the waters receded and the road reopened. Down the road at jenelles cafe theyve seen this song and dance before, every time it storms at high tide. People thought they were fixing the flooding it was more about the safe