Its a very high powered vacuum thats able to facilitate removing debris quicker than if we had to do it by hand. They also used plywood to disperse weight and ensure the sides of the area within a confined space. Rescuers were working by noon with the help of paramedic and cassie, a human search and rescue detection canine. It became clear it would be a recovery mission. This person was trapped under a lot of weight with no oxygen for over two hours. Public works spokesperson Rachel Gordon says the project was a San Francisco Public Utilities commission sewer upgrade project being managed by San Francisco public works. The individual trapped was a private contractor. She did not know the name of the contracting company. Well be here as long as we have to be here. We want to make sure that we know exactly what happened. We want to make sure that Something Like this doesnt happen again. We never want a construct, an accident. Safety is our number one priority. The medical examiner arrive
Chopper in ventura county. This is a live look now in santa paula. The flash point of the thomas fire. Heres the information we just learned in the past hour, neighborhoods in Santa Barbara county have been given voluntary evacuation hours. Winds could be reaching more than 80 Miles Per Hour. Also tonight evacuations in the exclusive bell air community, including homes owned by celebrities. Jody hernandez is in the midst of the fire. I know youre in ojai, whats the situation tonight and the biggest concern . Reporter jessica,re standing in a neighborhood in ojai that is underthreat tonight. You can see the hillside are under threat. If the wind kicks up as expected, folks could be in for a lot of trouble. We hiked clear up to the fire line tonight, quickly deciding to turn around when we realized we may be too close. Waves of flames roared over the hillside, making their way toward the town of ojai in ventura county. The warm glow of orange lighting up the sky, but sending chillstothro
Minutes. Mike, youre tracking a closure near sfo. Those cold temperatures remember we have road crews that work overnight so they go do your work so it has let impact to our drive. Our drive is very light right now, folks over to the peninsula they did close down north downed 101 to 380. That should be just about cleared to the roadway. A little slowing heading away to the airport. 280 over towards sfo moves smoothly. Over towards the bay bridge the travel time basically at the minimum, although we sometimes see a little bit lighter on the east shore freeway, i will scan the reports to make sure theres nothing going on to slow you down. Back to you. There is something going on, were covering as breaking news out of the west bank this morning where there have been clashes between israel troops and palestinians, these are live pictures from bethlehem. Just moments ago Security Forces were shooting tear gas and smoke grenades into the crowd. It comes just a day after President Trump says
In the trivalley. Thats right. We had some slowing as a result of something there, we were talking about how it was counter to what the report of the crash was. We will take you with mostly green sensors over to where we find a little bit of a change. No problem for Castro Valley coming off of 680, either, it is west to 84, we talked about the slowing over towards isabelle. The crash that was in the opposite direction has not showed any slowing. This looks like this is simply because of that volume of traffic coming off of 580. 84 starts to see the early slowing. No problems out of the altamonte. No problems coming down the east shore freeway or out of the maze. A smooth approach to the backup that we do see at the bay bridge toll plaza. Our live camera shows us the lanes over off to that right approach, including lanes coming off of lane 14 but it will stay closed indefinitely. We are going to get back to those Southern California wildfires in just a moment but first we want to talk a
Grows worse each day. It grows worse each minute. One lane of this street is an ever growing junkyard. The trucks and crews that would clean it up lay idle. Libraries and Senior Centers are closed. Abandoned cars will remain abandoned. No Maintenance Work is going on. No building inspections, no crime or traffic reports. Pretty much, no nothing. What i can say is that the ball is in the unions court. And the city just says no. They dont explain y they dont tell us what they can do or how they could meet us halfway. They dont explain why. They just say no. Reporter now, the mayor insists that even with all that new cannabis tax money coming in, in 2018, there still wont be enough money to meet the workers demands. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. Tom, you said they are still meeting now. If so, how long will they go tonight . Be. Reporter the mayor said they will go as long as they have to even if its all night long. That doesnt mean it will settled. Thank you. Heres the comparison between P