Investigators rose high above 239 Chestnut Street to get an aerial view of the damage as they work to figure out what caused the four alarm fire that burned through several buildings along this historic olde city block yesterday morning. Chris young owns the little lion restaurant on the attorney. He got a look inside at the damage from the flames, smoke and especially water. All that went into the basement, as far back as halfway down the street here on the right, basements had water. Took a lot to get this fire out. Reporter the fire broke out around 3 oclock sunday morning. Its believed the flames started in 239 chestnut. Dozens were forced to evacuate from homes and hotel rooms. At like 3 45 in the morning, i all of a sudden wonk, wonk, wonk you just hear this glaring noise. You wake up all scared and the guys on our floor were banging. Its not a joke, you have to get up. Reporter this afternoon hotel guests were allowed to access some rooms to retrieve belongings. They snapped pho
The north bay those beautiful colors in the sky. I did see gorgeous sun sets last night. If you have any for tonight make sure to send them my way via twitter, facebook, instagram, snapchat, all the same handle. San francisco 47, north bay 37, but take a look at that 24 hour temperature change. We have that ridge of High Pressure its going to warm us up. Livermore, sunnyvale, halfmoon bay all 11 degrees warmer at this hour than we were yesterday. We are only expected to get warmer as we head in towards the week week. I will talk about what we can expect for the last week of january and first weekend of february. I love that, though. My twitter, snapchat, instagram, facebook. All the same. Landline, cellphone, pager shes everywhere, just find her. Vianey, thanks. Now to some more serious news. New this morning, firefighters are still on the scene of a fire that killed one person in the south bay. It happened just before 2 00 this morning at a fourunit town home on clyde avenue near mont
Killed. Authorities are going through the home of Mohammod Youssuf abdulazeez. As they investigate this crime as an act of terrorism. Were hearing from people who knew the gunman. This year the volunteer state a proud tradition of linking our military and for us to see this happen and this city and 10 million is truly a nightmare line, hard worker, seemed to enjoy the training and got along with everybody. Is he was firing shots and right next door and then theyre forced many the Marines Office at an even know how may shots he firebird was lotthis is a High School Photo of , manager of several laws to marin center who fired i the marines kron 4 of them. Rush to the scene and shot the gunman. Service members serve the country with pride and they have been the victims of these shootings. Ivies questions about the motive were conducting this as an act of domestic terrorism is a robot grief brief by Security Experts we will be thorough and prompt the area are exactly what happened a former
The seriousness of the advisory. We say ready set, go. We want you ready and so we want everybody to be clear of the structures in case fire is coming by. We want to make sure everybody is safe then, property. Folks have been coming out here to watch the fire line. People that live nearby, weve talked to some of the people. Theyre rather nervous and say conditions have been incredibly warm. Here is what they have had to say. Its been 1061 day today, winds changed and blew smoke into town. Its getting hard to breathe. A lot harder to see. I feel scared because we live on the avenue. If you see heat coming our way in less than 30 minutes. Reporter that has been the unpredicability of the fire. I want to show you our map here if my photographer can zoom in on it. This is the fire map. At this point, this area is outdated. Firefighters told me this afternoon that this has filled in. There was one additional structure lost, here. Areas south have been on mandatory evacuation. Were on dam ro
The government just declared a state of emergency. The rocky fire is just 5 contained. And today, evacuations are underway for residents near the fire zone. We are live with the latest. Katie . Reporter weve been out here several hours. The winds are just changing. Five minutes ago, there is a bit of a breeze that died down at this point. We can see flames picking up on the ridge line behind me. Im along the road and and am joined by cal fire Public Information officer. Give me perspective at this point. Right. Here we are on the north side of the fire. Like you said, winds have been changing all day. The south side has been active most of the day. Now, here we are on the north side. Were seeing extreme fire activity going on. Youre going to see aircraft in, laying retardant down and firefighters can get up close to the fire and put fire out. That is probably reassuring for folks that live where there is an advisory at this point. Do you think crews are able owe get a handle on the rid