Warning system. Reporter this is what it looked like just after 5 00 p. M. Tuesday as thick black smoke sailed to the sky over sims metal management. Some nearby residents say they did not receive any official notification. At least not right away. People did not know what was going on. When you see a big black cloud like that its quite a fantastic thing to see. This whole Warning System ning is an absolute total joke. Its been its been around now for about 25 years. Its never worked. Reporter a sims spokesperson told us they called 911 within minutes of the fire starting in the debris pile behind me. Here is what it looks like from drone view 7. But mayor tom butt told us he did not get official word and alert from the county for nearly an hour after black smoke was billows in the skies above. Rich mooned fire captain rico says its his responsibility to notify Contra Costa County when its time to activate the Emergency Alert system. The way the community Warning System is designed is
Last week on lundy avenue have been shot and killed by police. The third person still at large. Police are asking for him to surrender. Relatives of the second suspect shot here last night are very angry. They are cooperating with a Community Group thats going to hold a vigil here seeking justice. Undercover officers caught up with him on this normally quiet culdesac. It was quiet by the time an officer explained why an officer shot the suspect. The officer was chasing the suspect and the suspect reaches for the waistband area. The officer fires his weapon, shoots the suspect and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Reporter a video still shows the suspect still alive with a wound to the right shoulder and an officer standing over him with his gun deployed on the steps of a relatives home. A cousin told me off camera the police targeted the wrong person. A witness says this woman was in the car with the suspect. They believed she was going to be killed because she had information about
We will have a reaction from the white house today. Today is another spare the air day. We will check in with people at most risk and we will check in at a cooling center. A triumphant story of a blind Football Player at usc overcoming great odds for a moment he says he will never forget. It is jake olson. He is definitely someone you want to year for. We will explain this coming up. There is relief and store in the weather. Were excited to hear about that. The red flag warning has expired. We have advisories in place. We could feel a little muggy out there today and ill explain why. This is a live look at the son up in shining already. We had clouds overhead this morning. Mostly cloudy skies. We could have high humidity today. On the positive side, temperatures are coming down. On the flipside we may have cloud cover to deal with. Very calm this morning at the airport. The winds are light and the advisories are in place. The heat watch for areas along the coast and inside the bay will
This holiday holding a Neighborhood Watch party. All the neighbors came out and weve been checking in on each other the whole weekend now. Reporter theyre collective gaze isnt for criminals but rather the menacing smoky cloud rising above the ridge. The fire started burning between 6 30 and 7 00 saturday night. Many here packed up and prepared to leave. Just in case increasing winds started blowing trouble toward their home. You hate to see the house go up. But its just a house. And were okay. So you know, you keep thinking of houston and the other fires that are going on and you say, okay we can do this lord. Reporter 200 firefighters are waging an unrelenting assault on the flames from the air and from the ground. Steep rocky terrain is making it difficult for bulldozers to dig containment lines around the fire. So firefighters from calfire and local departments from surrounding counties have gone back to basics. Were basically building containment lines. Right now were hitting it ve
Announcer live where you live, this is abc singing Amazing Grace in san jose, huge vigil its now been five days since Stephen Paddock shot hundreds of bullets down on a crowd of unspecting concert goers in las vegas killing 58 people, including san jose native michelle voe. Authorities still dont know what drove this killer to do it. Abc News Reporter brian clark has the story. Reporter investigators are baffled. We have rundown over 1,000 leads in this investigation. While some of it has helped create a better profile into the madness of this suspect, we do not still have a clear motive or reason why. Reporter why 64yearold Stephen Paddock would hole up on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel, break through the window and fire down onto thousands of people enjoying a concert even the note offering few clues. The high stakes gambler planned his attack meticulously, requesting an upper floor, stockpiling guns, setting up cameras inside and outside his room. Tonight fbi agents and po