Relationship. Reporter the commissioner mike florio and the former chief of staff have also been implicated in the scandal. Three pg e executives have been fired. In san bruno, laura anthony, abc 7 news. The Fire Commission is meeting right now, considering the fate of the chief joanne hays white. Only two out of hundreds supported her. There is a similar action last week, and leaders of the employee groups before that. Rank and file members say it shows that hayeswhite has no support and needs to go. Its not a personal attack. Its a business decision that was arrived at about the direction of the department that we all work for. Firefighters point to low morale and say reports of slow ambulance response times sealed the chiefs fate. Mayor ed lee has been standing by the chief, but today he called the confidence a challenge. Well have a live update on the meeting on abc 7 news at 6 00. 1,000 houses are threatened and many others out of their homes because of wildfires burning in placer
Big way. Today kicks off the event. Good afternoon, im Juliette Goodrich in for frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Kpix 5s anne makovec joins us live at pier 30 in San Francisco where the excitement is brewing. Anne. Reporter yeah. Check out this behemoth here behind me. Its the uss america, the navys newest ship. It is going to be officially commissioned here on the bay at pier 30 on saturday one of many highlights of fleet week 2014. The roar of the blue angels will rip through the sky as they perform in practice runs today and tomorrow afternoon. Full shows will go on saturday and sunday for the first time in two years. I hate the word sequestration because thats stopped us from doing something i think is invaluable for the city. Reporter the Government Shutdown grounded the show last year. And while the pomp and circumstance of fleet week brings in hundreds of thousands of excited spectators, this is Serious Business including disaster drills. Where you land, where you situate, s
Camera pre much softer than even drizzle out their visibility dropped about under a mile and santa rosa down to zero and a bottle. Synge and onehalf miles in and out of Half Moon Bay along highway 11 this morning. So clearings today that fog is going to be pretty stubborn hang with us as we head into the afternoon at noon. I shall see the sun shine along with that much cooler temperatures. Beckel don continues into tomorrow before we want things right back up to a weekend full extended forecast talking awesome rain on the horizon coming up at 715. we are still tracking some hot spots here but the 680 ride south on and walnut creek and unconquered at 242 Pleasant Hill on 680. With two separate accidents north main street in the southbound direction three it is a slow ride getting into the corridor coming on oakland this morning. Early morning crash southbound is 92ยข on the shoulder for a long time and again next and westbound on 92 leading up to a toll plaza of sematech a bridge that j
Take advantage of victims of the quake. Alex savidge live with details on the undercover operation, a crackdown on unlicensed contractors. Good afternoon. The warning went out to homeowners in the napa area to watch for unlicensed contractors who may tripe tri to rip them off try to rip them off. A sting operation was done using this earthquakedamaged home and busted workers trying to operate under the table. Do you have a contractors license . Huh . No. Ok. This is a sting operation. Reporter this is hidden camera individual row from the home as video from the home as unlicensed contractors were taken into custody. It was carried out by the state license board and napa County District attorneys office. Investigators found ads for unlicensed contractors and invited them to come to the quakedamaged home to give an estimate. The undercover investigator who posed as the homeowner in this operation is unable to show his face but says some of the people busted this week were trying to charg
Impressive. Just be prepared for some sunshine. Partly, disguised early on. Mostly clear tonight. Slightly cooler we will be a few degrees cooler than we were yesterday. We had almost four tenths of an inch of rain at ohare. Much more in other areas. That started september in a very rainy fashion. It is 71 the the lakefront. 67 and juliet. Union greeting at 65. Satellite composite shows cloud cover breaking away from the northwest to the south east. Were going to watch the storm in northcentral iowa but it doesnt seem like it will keep itself together. It could be just a brief shower. By 9 00 p. M. We make 75 degrees. Decreasing clouds means increasing sunshine. 84 degrees on wednesday pyrrhic more sunshine wednesday. A big warmup. 90 on thursday. Remembers the day is the first day of school theres the first day free rides on the buses and trains from 530830 tonight. One person was killed when a house exploded in streator last night. Witnesses say the explosion shook homes more than a