you re watching cbs5 eyewitness news. we view them as vermin. women charged with pretending to be victims of hasan brown oh disaster, the message to anyone who might try the same thing. watch out. we believe it will be very close to we need to fight for every vote. turf war, meg whitman ramps up her campaign deep in the heart of jerry brown territory. and a giant symbol of peace and harmony arrives in the bay area, it s being kept under wraps, we ll show you anyway. good evening, i m ken bastida. i m dana king. it appears the death toll from the san brown oh explosion has climbed from 4 to 7. just a few hours ago the family of three missing people released a statement saying that their loved ones are dead. 50-year-old greg bullis. his 16-year-old son william and his elderly mother ivan were in a home next the blast site. the remains of two men and one woman have been discovered at the house. they are now performing dna testing on the remains. final confirmation
and their high temperatures ies later today. for the first time we are getting a sense of what it was like as emergency crews responded to the san bruno pipeline explosion. third alarm. multiple houses, we re trying to get hose. we have possibly several blocks on fire at this time. call for fourth alarm to this. it appears that we have a plane down in a neighborhood. multiple structures on fire and we have a fireball still coming out. we re going to need to do a law enforcement alert. we re going to need every pd officer we can to assist with evacuations. hours later everyone learned it was a pipeline explosion. those first responders on the scene had no idea what they were up against. anne makovec is in san bruno where some of them talked about the ordeal and where the governor will take a tour. anne, good morning. reporter: the governor is slade to be here at 2:45 this afternoon. lieutenant governor abel maldonado had been filling in for him since he was on a trip t
in june. in fact, investigators are going to leave the site of the pipeline explosion today. now neighbors have to wait for the city to take action before they can return home. anne makovec with what still needs to be done for them. reporter: a lot of people wondering what is next for this neighborhood here behind me. we do know the governor is going to come and take a tour this afternoon. but the neighborhood is still blocked off right now even though the majority of the investigation has been moved off site. reporter: as the section of the pipeline blown out of the ground by the blast is set to arrive in washington, d.c. tomorrow, the ntsb is wrapping up its work at the blast site, marked by a crater on crestmoor and glenview drive. we have already released the pit itself back to the authorities so they can resume the return to normalcy of the infrastructure in there. reporter: the city won t say how long the neighborhood will be closed after repeated calls and a vi
we learned a key area of focus is a weld on a curved section of pipe at the point that exploded. more on that in a moment. also today came word from pg&e that it will spend up to $100 million to help victims of the fire with some money made available by the end of the week. we have team coverage tone, lloyd lacuesta was at the briefing. amber lee talked with residents about pg&e s offer to help but we begin with ken wayne. he was at the town hall meeting that just wrapped up within the hour. reporter: this town hall was supposed to end at 9:30. people are now just beginning to trickle out. a lot of questions here from very worried san bruno residents, including what is going to happen to that pg&e gas pipeline that exploded last week. we need to really understand what happens. we know our line rocky mount youred. we don t know hye. we need to make sure before that line anding fromly all of the rest of the lines in our service territory are safe. reporter: about 300 peop
exploded. more on that in a moment. also today came word from pg&e that it will spend up to $100 million to help victims of the fire with some money made available by the end of the week. we have team coverage tone, lloyd lacuesta was at the briefing. amber lee talked with residents about pg&e s offer to help but we begin with ken wayne. he was at the town hall meeting that just wrapped up within the hour. reporter: this town hall was supposed to end at 9:30. people are now just beginning to trickle out. a lot of questions here from very worried san bruno residents, including what is going to happen to that pg&e gas pipeline that exploded last week. we need to really understand what happens. we know our line rocky mount youred. we don t know hye. we need to make sure before that line anding fromly all of the rest of the lines in our service territory are safe. reporter: about 300 people filled the pews at the church of the highlands to submit written questions to state