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Everything is wide open no delays there. There is roadwork though in san leandro. Its just in a southbound direction between davis and marina a couple of lanes shut down until 5 00. Ill have more in a minute. I went to happy hour. [ laughter ] okay. You win. Right now crews are wrapping up at the scene of a twoalarm fire in pittsburg. This is video from the contra costa fire department. The fire started just before 2 30 this morning at a business on industry road. It took about an hour and a half to put it out. It appears the fire began with the pallets before spreading inside the business. Caltrans knows what caused the two fires this week in the traffic lanes on the eastern span of the bay bridge. As kpix 5s mark kelly tells us, the investigation points to road flares. Reporter caltrans called it an unusual set of circumstances. Two fires just this week. One monday night, the other around noon talking distance both relatively close. One of our engineers the fire in the same spot as t
Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. The u. S. Military comes under attack here at home. A lone gunman pulls out an automatic rifle and starts shooting. Was he inspired by isis . Im ken bastida. And im veronica de la cruz. Liz has the night off. This is the man the fbi says shot four u. S. Marines in cold blood. In a pair of attacks in chattanooga, tennessee. Investigators still done have a motive. Kenneth . Reporter well, they sure dont veronica. This of course is where this tragedy began with the first shooting here at the strip mall this morning. You can see this is also now the site of a growing memorial and a huge outpouring of support from this community. Witnesses say a lone gunman in a silver mustang convertible drove up to this Chattanooga Armed forces recruiting office and opened fire. A navy sailer was injured. The shooter reappeared in a Training Facility seven miles away where he rammed his car through a great and killed four marines and injured two oth
They had to be rescued. The fire is burning on the south side of Lake Berryessa near the boat dock. I believe we have someone on the phone with us who can give us some more information . Yes. Hello. My name is Susie Blankenship with cal fire. Hi. This is the allen martin. What can you tell us . I have it at 700 acres. Yes. I can confirm that the wildland fire is currently at 700 acres with zero percent containment. And this got started about 2 00, it was a vehicle fire that started this . It was a vehicle fire. I dont have information on how the vehicle sparked the wildland fire. But it was a vehicle accident. What can you tell me about evacuations in the area . Evacuations are in the mix canyon area for homeowners. And as you spoke of the campers in the canyon screen campground, they have been evacuated. I would assume here we are in the middle of summer those campgrounds have to be pretty packed. Well, i dont have the number of evacuations but i do know that that campground has been
We stayed until the flames were out the back window. They were 30 feet tall at that point. Thats when i decided we need to go. Reporter this evacuee says thanks to Defensible Space the flames burned around his house leaving it untouched. His brother stayed behind and told him the good news. He is a fighter. He didnt want to give up nothing. He is going to stay to the last second. Reporter quite a few people ignored the Evacuation Order and stayed behind. At 6 00 hear from them and from a woman who showed up to work in a place that closed off to the public. Now, before i leave, i want to show you that house back there up on that hillside. It talks about the importance of defense i believe space because you can see everything on that hillside is basically charred leaving that house alone so its foreign have that Defensible Space its important to have that Defensible Space. Da lin, kpix 5. A strike team from San Francisco consisting of two dozen firefighters and five engines drove to the