Hazmat crews still in san paolo tonight. What investigators found. Hundreds of boxes with several Hazardous Materials inside that forced hundreds of residents to evacuate. Good evening. Thanks for joining us for kron. 4 news at 10. Im ken wayne and im catherine heenan. That Evacuation Order has been in effect since about. 4. 30, this afternoon. And still no word on when might be lifted. And just in the last 10 minutes Contra Costa County fire officials announced that investigators will be on the scene at least until midnight tonight. Kron fours dan thorn joins us live in the studio with more than what ken and catherine con fire crews calling the area, quote, a hot zone. Heres a look at the evacuation zone there. This is in a residential area, roughly 6 blocks near richmond parkway. The Contra Costa Community College Gymnasium on mission bell, drive is right now serving as an evacuation center. Heres a live look at the scene tonight. Very active. One out there with hazmat crews and othe
East bay trying to get back on his feet after these stole his work truck all of his tools inside. Open leaders they are reacting differently with a plan bring chp officers to the city to help with crime. Well talk more about from the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning far. Well, good friday morning. Thank you for what you know the kron. 4 morning news. It r is friday, august rain, rv and we seem to be stepping into august very nicely. It was a little little cold and chilly little windy. Where you are, john, even talk about that. Warm up on the here we go. Raining definitely getting hotter as we move into the weekend because the start of august has been kind of cool. First 3 days of the month, the past 3 days have been. Well below where we should be. Temperatures only peaking in the 60s and 70s out there today. Were going to start to see that warm up now this morning. We do have the fog just as much as we did yesterday. It is really settled in right along the c
With breaking news. That breaking news happening right now. Crews currently on the scene of a grass fire thats burning east of san jose. Were taking a live look at that right now. That fire has grown to 60 acres. You see the firefighters there. The good news here, were just getting word that those firefighters have managed to stop the fires forward progress. Thanks so much for watching. Kron. 4 news at 5, everybody. Im Vicki Liviakis and im dan thorn. That fire was first reported around 3 oclock this afternoon. And this is a what it looked like a little bit earlier, as you can tankers trying to put out the fire. This is it clayton road in via de la vista again, east of san jose. This is being called the clayton fire. About 70 fire crews are working at right now. All right. So as we take another live look out there, you know, crews been battling this blaze from the air. Some structures were threatened. But again, the latest is that forward progress has been stopped. We have a reporter h
Sir. I know that alarm went off. Its still cloudy and breezy outside of our studios. And thats what Steve Paulsons been talking about. That and a little bit on the cool side here. And temperatures will start to warm up tomorrow. 50s on the temps, low 50s for some a few upper 40s but mainly low 50s, low clouds and fog. Lets see if we can get to the visible satellite. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Okay well, well get there next time. The monsoon moisture was close yesterday just in reno, reno, carson city, tahoe, truckee. But it does not look like itll play into their weather either. 40s on the lows, theyll end up with sunshine, mostly sunny skies. So will we. 60 70s to near 80 degrees. All right, sal, this here, 580. Yeah, 580 is slow, steve and it is very slow this morning. I think that people who are just joining us probably dont know that. Wow. Its very slow on 580. Although its improving a little bit on the Altamont Pass its not improved enough for it to not be slow. 6 to 80 is now slo
When we come with 2 has its to oxidize ers point mobile liquids. Now at 8 evacuation continues. Crews are still working to contain more than 600 chemicals found in a neighborhood, a hazmat team and a bomb squad have been on site for more than 24 hours. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im ken wayne. And im Vicki Liviakis contra costa Fire Protection provided an update on the evacuation this afternoon and a timeline for when that could be lifted. Our current for dan thorn joins us now live from the newsroom with the latest on vicki, while the cleanup process is taking a lot longer than officials at hope for the original 24 hour prediction for the evacuation has passed and though they are hoping to get everyone home tonight, it may not be lifted until sometime tomorrow. Thats because of the sheer amount of work that has to be done. This massive response started yesterday with a call for a gas leak. But firefighters say that quickly changed when they got to the scene and found a stockpile of