Challenges. Loss of home is one thing but loss of life is Something Else. Abc 7 news. Oakland firefighters tweeted out this picture of crews from across Alameda County working to contain the soberanes fire. You could clearly see how smokey the skies are. Just dramatic images. And the smoke is visible in fremont. This viewer shared this victim with us using the abc 7 now. We could also see the smoke in this picture from the mt. Tam camera. Really dramatic. Abc 7 News Reporter david louie has a look at air quality because of the flames. Reporter the particulate matter in the haze is a big concern to Asthma Specialists who warn those with lungrelated issues could get very sick if they breathe in the particles. A patient with mild asthma could have a worsening asthma attack. They could have shortness of breath, they could struggle to breathe. And very severe cases patients may have so much trouble breathing they could potentially stop breathing. Doctors are seeing an increasing number of p
Flames are affecting the morning commute . Thats right. We are looking at live pictures from sky fox on the left and this is video on the right of the fire earlier. The townhomes you see on the left were adjacent to the fire. This is macarthur boulevard near 580 as gasia mentioned. Earlier in the morning flames were clearly visable. Most of us who got to work early could see the fire from miles away. These are pictures showing the firefighters working on the townhomes that were exposed to the fire building. These townhomes had been evacuated and thats why firefighters report that no one was hurt. Nevertheless, extensive damage to these townhomes. They are still fighting that fire. The construction site across the street is a complete loss. Thats going to be a big mess. And sab pablo avenue into this area, which normally carries a lot of traffic, is shut down in the area. Its a good area to avoid this morning. So we want to let you know about that. These are pictures that came in on soc
Drove into work, i was on the freeway, on the opposite side of the fire and i could feel the heat in my car. I can only imagine ha it is what it is like right there. Reporter you can definitely feel it from where i am standing right now. Right now, it is really intense right now in terms of the heat. Lots of smoke and ashes coming from the building. It is under construction. We are working on gathering more details in terms of how this fire started. And you can see, a huge heavy response here. Several different agencies still making their way over here. We have heard that there are possible evacuations as well. Already damage to the building under construction here. You can see at least three or four cars caught on fire. We will bring you the latest on the story as it it comes in. It is not impacting traffic but you can see it on the freeway. I will go to sal right now and gather more information. But sal, if this fire continues on through the morning, we can see a lot of onlookers on
From almeda county, oakland fire, a mutual response to this fire. And you can see it from the freeway, earlier this morning. And still, we dont know the cause of how this fire started. We also understand there are some evacuations as well. There is an apartment complex on 35th and adeline that was evacuated as a result of this huge fire that many of you probably have seen on the freeway, if youre driving out earlier this morning. Either on 580. Highway 24 as well. But certainly a huge response to this fire. A huge fire. San pablo avenue. And 39th. Here in emeryville. And as we take it back out here live, crews continuing to pour water on to this building. That is roughly about an hour, hour and a half ago, a portion of it collapsed just a little bit. Because it wasnt fully constructed, we expect that some more of it may collapse here. The other concern here, guys, is that there is a crane that is nearby. And probably about a block from where we are standing here, and that is also in da
This you have the fbi director who came out himself, james comey, very unusual, he mentioned in his statement that he was going to provide more information than they usually give. I think you had that and also some of these other issues where there were definitely these points where Hillary Clinton had said at one point there were emails that were classified. When he came out today he said there were some emails in there that were classified at the time of transmission. So it really had a little bit both for her critics and for herself and she said, a spokesperson said that they were pleased there were not any charges recommended by the fbi director. And she also said she hopes in some ways they can put this behind them. It was interesting how he said he didnt think there was any criminal intent and thus did not recommend charges. On the other hand, was very critical saying she was not careless but his quote, exactly extremely careless. Extreme the careless. He suggested was characteri