Of smoke hanging over a lot of the bay area today. You saw if you were out driving and walkin and if you were close enough to smell the smoke you need to sta inside. A fire burning at a recycling center has been going on for hours. Tonight the bay area is under a air quality advisory because of it. This is in oaklands inner harbor. A scrap metal facility. It starte about 5 30 this evening. Our chopper spotted a grapple lifting chunks of debris out of recycle that is on fire. Tonight, oakland firefighters tweeted out this video showing what they are up against in an up close view of it at that. A pile of debris no telling when the smoke and fire will be out. San francisco and the city of alameda sent their fireboats to battle the flames from the water the smoke has been drifting through Alameda County for hours now. There is what it looked like over time. It has reported as far away to the south and to pittsburg to the east. One people pulled out their masks. You can notice a smell righ
Some folks are stranded and some folks dont have water. Paradise lost to an enferno we speak inferno. The fire feeding off a literal mountain of fuel. From kpix this is the late new with sara donchey on cbs ba area news. There is a huge dark plume of smoke hanging over a lot of the bay area today. You saw if you were out driving and walkin and if you were close enough to smell the smoke you need to sta inside. A fire burning at a recycling center has been going on for hours. Tonight the bay area is under a air quality advisory because of it. This is in oaklands inner harbor. A scrap metal facility. It starte about 5 30 this evening. Our chopper spotted a grapple lifting chunks of debris out of recycle that is on fire. Tonight, oakland firefighters tweeted out this video showing what they are up against in an up close view of it at that. A pile of debris no telling when the smoke and fire will be out. San francisco and the city of alameda sent their fireboats to battle the flames from t
To stay permanently. But in the 1980s, that door was slammed shut. If we dont do something, no one will do it for us. If we need to walk three days for these had Congress People to wake up, thats what were going to do. Reporter the march will begin on saturday and it wont end until they reach downtown San Francisco. About 100 people will take part in the 40mile long hike, and if the protest doesnt wake people up, the music might. Is it difficult walking this much . With the music following us . No. I like it. Our legs are kind of tired, but its all right. It feels like youre a part of the movement in which you are and yeah it is super fun. Reporter but the cause couldnt be more serious. The protesters Want Congress to pass hr1511 known as the registry bill. The registry bill, all it says is if undocumented person has lived in the u. S. For at least seven years continuously, they may apply for legal permanent residency. Reporter it is basically the same deal offered to europeans with an
Burning beneath some of that debris in that very large pile. We have been watching that excovator go and taking piles of burning debris and moving them. They have a plan here. They are going to be on the scene much of the evening. The real concern right now is what is in the smoke that we are seeing . People are reporting smelling that, of course, all over the east bay as well as on the bay and just across the bay in San Francisco. It is really nasty. We have not heard from bay Area Management district what it might be and what concerns there might be. We talked with the fire captain half an hour ago. He said hazmat teams have not been on the scene. So, he was not sure exactly what we were talking about either. Here is the clip from that conversation. Anybody within, i would say, half a mile should take appropriate precautions. Staying away from the area if you can. You know, dont venture down to sacramento square where the smoke will be the most intense and, and, you know, anybody aga
Chemicals found in a backyard shed. Heres the very latest. Contra costa fire says they belong to a chemist who is cooperating with fire officials, but until hazmat teams know what theyre dealing with exactly, they are taking extra precautions. Evacuations have been ordered for people in that area between giant road, miner avenue, 11th street, and palmer avenue. Authorities have brought in special equipment to examine containers. Theyve also set up an Evacuation Center at a nearby gym. Well bring you more updates on this hazmat situation as they come into our newsroom. The jury deciding the fate of scott shaw, the former san jose athletic trainer accused of sexual assault, have told the judge they are deadlocked. The Bay Area News Group first reported one of the jurors sent a note to the judge saying there are at least one unmovable jurors on each side and asked what they should do next. The judge responding to, continue your deliberations. Shaw pleaded not guilty to the six federal cha