Deliveries on his doorstep in a matter of weeks, and now neighbors are standing together. The new partnership meant to stop crime. And did you see it . Its all anyones talking about. And the stunning sight usually reserved for the top of the world could be coming back to the bay area once again tonight. Our Northern Lights chances on abc7 news at 430. Always live abc seven news starts right now. I didnt have a graduation, so right now my graduation is being stopped again. Pomp and protest at uc berkeley today as propalestinian demonstrators shouted through commencement, even putting the ceremony on pause. Good afternoon and thanks for joining us. Im dionne lim. The protests at todays campus wide commencement got loud, with speakers shouting over the chanting and asking protesters to take their message somewhere else. Abc7 News Reporter cornell bernard spoke to some graduates and parents upset by the interruption. Cals commencement, honoring nearly 7000 undergraduates began peacefully i
Expelled student opened fire on wednesday. Its the latest in a string of similar tragedies in the last few months alone. While congresss been hesitant the c tighten guntrol measures, we turn to what schools are doing to k students safe. Nd joining me now is jill tucker. Jill, good to see you. Good to see you, too. I know that this morning you attended an active Shooter Training session put on by the Oakland School district. Tell us what y heard and saw. Oakland had been plan thing training f months. As they said unfortunate and yet important timing coming two days aft what happened in florida. It was sittii there schoolteachers and principals,n custodians other school staff, and the knowing that what they were learning had just happened somewhere eiee two days ea the trainer really went through what could happen, what they should do, you know, what are some of the best practices. A trainer even showed video on florida. Exactly. He really wanted to reinforce these ideas and one of the t
Up out of a sound sleep. Crews from emeryville, oakland, and Alameda County got the fire under acontrol by eight am, but the blackened crane reaching toward the sky is whats keeping them from getting the flames completely out. Those tens of thousands of pounds of metalcould potentially collapse. Thats the last thing we want to do is put firefighters at risk to extinguish fires inside of a building thats still under construction, so were not going to allow any firefighters to go in until that crane is secured. And that means road closures on san pablo, adeline, and other streets wont go away until that point either. Crews evacuated about 35 people from a separate, nearby complexbecause theyre in the potential collapse zone of the crane. They also cant go home until the crane is taken care of. My landlord called me at about 9 30 this morning, asked me do i know the building caught fire again . Someone set it on fire again . I couldnt believe it. I almost broke out in tears. He says again
Emeryville it was burning an unfinished building, and it didnt hurt anybody. This morning this lady was running down the street and she was saying, fire fire and it woke us up out of a sound sleep. And we went outside and the same building that was caught on fire in july was the same building that was on fire. Darlis manning saw almost the same thing last year. And the dejavu continues with a crane used in the constructionstill perched high above the site. Fire officials worry tens of thousands of pounds of steel acould come tumbling downthe crane has to be dismantled before we can get any crews in to extinguish any fires that are still remaining inside. Some people on the opposite side of the burning building were evacuatedbecause they live within the potential collapse zone of the crane. But manning took action long before that. We just evacuated, actually before they said evacuate because we knew what happened last time. So we just got out. Neighbors two blocks away say wind carried
Drones as part of their investigation into the cause of the fire. They dont know what it started it, but they have not ruled out arson. Fire officials themselves dont know exactly how long it will take to get the crane removed, but they do say the Building Developer and contractors are the ones overseeing that. Theyre trying to find a vendor who can come and support the crane on both sides and get it taken down safely. In emeryville, spencer blake, kron four news. jr stone a serial arson suspect is behind bars tonight in the east bay. Police say he set more than 40 vehicle fires. More than seven of those happened just this week. Now the man accused of lighting the fires is being held on three point one Million Dollars bail. Kron4s jeff pierce tells us how Police Stopped the suspected serial arsonist in his tracks. The most recent incident Early Saturday Morning resulted in an arrest in neighboring solano counter. We have made an arrest in a series of vehicle fires that have occurred in