Reporter carolyn and orville sanford say their entire house shook yesterday when two tanks burst into flames and smoke at the Nustar Energy facility down the street from their home. Turning a quiet afternoon into a terrifying one. I thought oh, gosh, i hope they dont explode our whole town out. I thought oh, hell. Weve had it now. My dads 81. Hes had three strokes, and he is on oxygen. And it was just a terrible, scary night. Reporter tonight fire crews still have a foam blanket over the explosion site. They want to make sure there is no threat of anything reigniting before they begin removing it. But theyre wasting no time trying to get to the bottom of what went wrong. 11 30 this morning, we served a search warrant on nustar. Reporter contra costa fire says their investigators are working with the atf, the sheriffs department, cal osha, and the d. A. s office to interview witnesses and examine documents and digital data like surveillance. They are all working as one team to investiga
It can give you some pretty valuable seconds to get to safety. Earthquake. Drop cover, hold on. Shaking expected. Reporter this is what the app, that will be released tomorrow will look and sound like in the event of a quake. Familiarize users with the my shake app. This is best described as a rapid detection system and rapid dissemination of earthquake information. Reporter the way this Early Detection system should work was illustrated in real time earlier this summer during a News Conference following a series of quakes in southern california. Oh oh 5. 7. Okay. So we have an earthquake thats already begun. Reporter dr. Lucy jones was at caltech describing tremors from the ridgecrest quake when instruments detected an aftershock. Early warning sys waiting to roll out the network of seismic detectors like this one that was recently installed in the bay area. More centers means better chances at detecting and sending out reliable warnings. In earthquake country every second counts. If
She didnt return home to Salt Lake City where she was said to be honored with a women in tech award. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. Im julie haener. Her family said she was found dead in her rental car in san jose yesterday. Ktvus andre senior joins us outside San Jose Police headquarters with the latest on the investigation. Andre. Reporter tonight San Jose Police will not confirm the body found in that vehicle in that quiet neighborhood is that of erin valenta, but her family and friends say it is her body, in fact, and theyre now looking for answers in this case and theyre mourning her passing. There are flowers, a note with three hearts and the name erin written on it sitting on a sidewalk on the 6500 block of lane in san jose. Her body was found in a car here saturday night. When we came out to walk our dog, we noticed all the activity. Reporter this resident told us he had an inkling of what might be happening here because he had been following a Facebook Page creat
Every day, ikea is designing sleep sanctuaries to save our sleep. Im luz pena in San Francisco. Tourists who came to coin tower had more than a nice view to see. The Christopher Columbus statue was vandalized. After wrapping up a beautiful weekend, lots of sunshine. We are tracking a cooler week ahead. Well have the numbers coming up in the accuweather forecast. Governor newsom reviews the toll system. Im kate lawson in San Francisco. What the russian hill neighbors want to do next. Abc7 news starts right now. Now news to build a better bay area from newsom. Good evening, im eric thomas. Dion is off tonight. The christ fur columbus statue was vandalized over thease. Abc7 News Reporter luz pena with why the explorer is seen as a polarizing figure. Reporte this vie telegraph h. We came here for the tower, the view. Reporter but many got more than just a view Christopher Columbus statue standing feet away from the tower was vandalized. Red paint covered the face of the controversial colon
Prisoners escaping. All of this after President Trump withdrew a group of American Forces meant to deter such an invasion from occurring and today u. S. Secretary of defense mark esper confirmed that a fullest withdrawal from multiple times this morning about the situation saying he is dealing with congress about imposing sanctions on turkey. Turkish president erdogan claims more than 20 kurdish villages have been taken over by his forces. He added turkey will advance around 20 miles into syria to help maintain the countrys territorial integrity. We will divide the territory of 480 kilometers down the middle. We will advance 30 to 35 kilometers into territory suitable for the safe zone map as we declared before. Reporter as turkish airstrikes continue to bombard kurdish towns over the past few days, u. S. Forces came under turkish fire. No american soldiers were as these bombings take place, the Syrian Democratic forces say isis fighters and family sy at least 40 civilian casualties ar