Friends. I thank you so much for your support and for all of your tireless work to this point. Its been quite the experience getting to talk before all of you commissions in the past several months, and we look forward to solving this. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you. Hi. I have stage fright. Im sharon archuleta. Im a tattoo artist. Ive been there since 1998, and ive been a tattoo artist since 1994. Ive worked at lots of shops, and active space allows me to have a safe quiet place for people who dont like going into a loud, scary street shop. I have a lot of customers who are Breast Cancer survivors, and its nice for them to have a safe place to come from. As for the 15 empty units, i think its a lot more than that. Theres five floors, and the second floor has ten empty units, so i cant imagine how many are above. Any ways, thank you, thank you so much. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is elizabeth chur, and i am a freelance writer whos been
Still removing debris bucket by bucket. During a News Conference authority announced the death toll had raise ton 33. We learned the death toll is now at 33. We are told the ages of the victims range from the teens to those in their 30s. The Alameda County Sheriffs Department said they still dont know how many bodies will be found. That is because search teams have still only gone about 3540 of that building. When we started this investigation if you would have told us we would have 33 victims, we wouldnt have believed you. I dont know how many more people are left in there. We have no idea. We have no idea. We have no idea how many people were in that building that night. We dont even know how many people got out of that building. We are expecting the worst and hoping for the best in regards to how many more victims we find. This evening the Coroners Office released the names of seven victims killed in the fire. They are 22 cash of oakland. 22 david of oakland. 25yearold gomezhal of c
Age from 17 to people in their mid 30s. Alameda county Sheriffs Office says its still not clear how many people were in the building when it caught fire, and search teams were only able to get through about 40 percent of the warehouse so investigators still dont know how much more bodies could be found. Well continue to follow the story throughout the morning. First we want to get a local check of weather and traffic with steve. Itll be cold tomorrow and rain on the way. When . Looks like an interesting week. Things are changing slowly today. Theres a lot of thick fog out there. Thick fog out there, sal. Yes, there is. Yes, sir. Not widespread but seems to be dancing around and based on experience here and probably picking up between the 67 00 a. M. Hour. Mix of sunshine and clouds and a lot of moisture streaming across the pacific. 30s, 40s, 50s on the temp so few 30s in the mix but a lot of 40s and 50s. It looks okay down in southern california. Everything continues to find of rotate
Scene. And, we have new information. And, having covered this all day, it is a completely different seeing and feeling. And, lets get to those new numbers. And, they are focusing on the confirmed death toll stands at 36. There are still many more questions lets talk about identifying those victims 11 of them have been identified and eight people have been identified. We are waiting on three people who have been identified but their names have not been released. the cause of the fire is still a question. The origin of the fire now investigators say that they do believe that they have it. And, the cause of this fire, there is no confirmation just yet. Im going to bring in my colleague. I used that word, and we certainly dont use hellacious lightly. And, lets focus on the investigation first from what you know. Yes, terrible news after that first incident. She said calmly absolutely expect the fatalities to rise. She had claimed that they had searched 70 of the warehouse that caught fi
Expected to last about 12 hours. The crane is being brought in to help with recovery process. We learned early this morning about 1258 the crane is being brought in to help with recovery process. We learned early this morning about 12 58 am, 12 58 pm, but it had to be halted because there were concerns about deputies. And, that the building was not quite secure. They had to pull everyone out, we did learn a few hours ago, that the process is back underway. Reporter thats what has changed. What has stayed the same as the number of people confirmed dead is at 26. They have been busy working to identify 11 of those victims have been identified. That is up from eight. We do not have those three new names to bring you. They say that they have identified the location where the fire is health started. But the cause is unknown. Again, there was a work stoppage but we learned minutes ago, that that had been lifted. And i want to introduce you to the sheriff alameda county. Thank you for taking