Ethanol each area Officials Say that adds up to more than 250,000 gallons of fuel. That may sound like a lot but it is a fraction of what the tank hold. Authorities discussed the massive firefighting effort. Crews poured 15,000 gallons of Firefighting Foam on the fire yesterday which was diluted with water. Has been on the sce all day yesterday and he is back there again today. Tom, we are expecting a News Conference in about 25 minutes or so. Any indication of what they might say or whether there are new developments . Reporter i think there are not new developments or anything they can talk about at this moment. That is why they have backed it up for a little bit. Clearly they are trying to gather more information. You have to understand what is going on here is very slow and pains taking and will pretty dangerous. As a result what you have to do is go slowly carefully so yothat could cost them on an injury or their life. Having said all of that, here is how todays events went and th
Federal atf investigators are on scene along with cal osha, county, and other local agencies. The plant is shut down until such time osha determines it is no longer hazardous. A quarter million gallons of flammable ethanol materials were consumed, the equivalent of 28 big greg gasoline tanker trucks. So far firefighters have used one and a half million gallons of Firefighting Foam and water mixture to suppress the mixture. The usually dry containment areas that surround the tanks to prevent toxic runoff are holding a lot of materials from the tanks as well as the water and Firefighting Foam. We believe there is no risk of fire but out of an abundance of caution we are keeping foam blankets on both of those containment pods to mitigate any risk of further ignition. The tanks that sit next to the burned ones are being vented into the atmosphere to let off pressure. The tank anti leaking valves were damaged in the fire. That system has been compromised because of the fire so they are vent
Oakland where the governor and other state leaders unveiled that new program. Reporter they had a public unveiling and a News Conference where they talked about the new earthquake Early Warning system via that my shake app. The media still here, about to leave the pier where we are. The app called, my shake, is free to download and was developed by uc berkeleys seismologists and also from around the west coast. University of washington and oregon as well. It will not be able to predict . But the app can alert users to take cover and prepare seconds before shaking, the shaking of a major quake reaches them. The system uses sensors buried in the ground across the state and it detects the start of earthquake, calculates the location and intensity and send a warning to your phone if youre in an area where shaking is likely to happen. It works similar to the amber alert system using the same wireless notification system to send out those warnings. At the unveiling and this News Conference,
The gallery worker tells us it was sitting on an easel by the door when it was taken. New at 10 00, ktvu , amber lee is outside union square where it happened. Amber . Reporter frank, the artwork was stolen from the gallery around 4 30 yesterday afternoon. There is Surveillance Video of the thief. The fine art gallery at union square is now missing a valuable piece of artwork by Salvador Dali after a theft sunday afternoon. I turned my back for a minute or two to do something, or to talk to somebody, i dont know what , in the back of the gallery, when i turned around it was gone, just like that. Reporter the video from the henry square Hotel Next Door shows the thief walking along gary street. It was a tall guy, wearing a typical hat and colorful short and he was heading down the street with it under his arm, i had never seen him before. Reporter the gallery was small and the hopkins says he was only about 20 feet from the artwork went it was stolen. I was upset. I cannot sleep last ni
For hundreds of bay area families in need this christmas. One of the things that we want to do, we dont want to just get a handout. We want to give a hand up. A Humble Church in richmond serving up much more than Just Christmas dinner. Good evening. Im julie julie haener and im Lamonica Peters. Before we get to that story, we begin in San Francisco with an annual tradition at glide Memorial Church. Ktvu jose huerta shows us holiday tradition for six decades now, the glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, serving up 2500 hot meals on christmas food is delicious. Its from the soul, 67 year old Michael Thomas couldnt make ends meet at lost, his home in september, but he always has a seat at the table here. It is like family because everybody treats me respect here, james was a selfdcribed drug addict living in the streets today hes an employee of glide, helping others who are struggling like he once did. This place accepted me for who i was and didnt want nothing from me other than for m