huge container ship is a quarter mile long and as wide as a ten lane freeway. enormous. she now cock docks at the portf oakland. it is nearly the length of the empire state build. third larger than the container ships we are used to seeing in the bay. it took two pilots to navigate her into oakland. the second pilot bringing aboard what is called a precision piloting unit which is a carry aboard electronic gps navigational system to get information independently of the ships it system. they have been training for a year and a half on a simulator. she could only come in if the current in the bay was slack and the wind under 17 miles an hour. the width of the channel is narrow and the ship wide. the vessel interaction when it goes by vessels it has a lot more effect. the port of oakland prepared dredging channels. we are told she came in at about 75% of her capacity and the port says she will be going out the same way. when she goes out we primarily export agricultu
off south whistle road. lillian is there live for us tonight with the story. lillian? reporter: dan, police still have the street blocked off. the fire is out. firefighters say there is a lot of work to do. investigators are trying to figure out how the fire started. fire at the dana garden apartment in mountain view quickly turned no a raging inferno. within 30 minutes it became a 4 alarm fire. she lives 2 houses down from pt apartment complex and medley she ran over and started knocking door to door. get out get out get out then one couple come out with their little baby born 3 weeks and they looked very scared and i was very scared too, reporter: dozens of firefighters from neighboring city came to help mountain view firefighters. they don t know where the fire started but they say 10 units have been affecte affected. some destroyed. others have smoke and water damage. once the fire gets into an attic and wind blowing it it will push it that s what happened here. re
stretcher and taken to the hospital. alan wang is live with the latest on this. they worked on him for quite some time. reporter: wow, dan, the entire neighborhood came out here to watch tonight. if you look behind me that is the scene where all happened. for three hours crews worked to dig out a man buried up to his shoulders in dirt. all the while, monitoring vital signs closely because of the weight of the earth compressing his body. firefighters say the 50-year-old man was working on a friend s sewer line. he had dug a trench ten feet deep. it was 12 feet long and 30 inches wide but it doesn t appear that he had any shoring device to secure the trench walls. around 5:30 this evening the walls of that trench came crashing in around him and he was buried up to his shoulders. firefighters were worried about him because of the weight of the dirt and they had to monitor his body temperature, his core body temperature because they were worried that he was going to become hypo
at the beach. sharks were flying. the sharks rained on robin s home, one with minor damage. but the roof never caught on fire it came to your roof? it got hot. but it didn t ignite. from the third floor window you can see charred remains of the back of the home, that is how close flames came. she counts her blessings, putting in a fire resistant roof just nine months ago. they specialize in products that endure that. is why they call it ce-dure. we haven t had this many major alarms. fire official says they were fortunate winds were not as strong as those which fueled a five-alarm blaze in the western edition december 226789 a fire tore through two residential buildings displacing about 60 people. again, just to recap, we still don t know what caused this fire. but arson investigators are looking into it and just to clarify, every time there is a second or greater alarm, investigators are called in. this one was a three-alarmer. vic lee abc 7 news. thank you.
and international. you can see there are people there with signs and i can tell you that this is going to be the memorial taking place here. a rally. goitsing to be here about 10-15 minutes. and come back. they re going to be holding a forum at around 6:00 supposed to include the mayor. and basically these groups calling on leaders to try to make efforts to crack down on the continuing gun violence since it s including very young children, one reason they re at this spot is because this is where a little boy was shot earlier this summer. he was in his toy car, and there was people who were aiming at other people going into a little caesar s pizza, just around the corner. i talked with some organizers. they re trying to reach out to city leaders but also, trying to get the word out to the community to cooperate when crimes do happen. and we need confidence within the police department. they can call in, give tips and there are anonymous lines where they can give information.