Oaeland Police Station was damaged in a fire was set at the end of the county courthouse, lets go to kron fours reyna harvey she has the latest on that from oakland reyna. Dorian james a lot happening last night and like you mentioned all these protests that we saw were all in solidarity with Portland Oregon but were going to show you oaklands protest from yesterday now you can see things started peaceful. Police say about 700 people came out to this protest you could see people walking down the streets here a pretty Diverse Group of people chanting things like black lives matter and briana taylors see they have signs as well as the protests progressed into the night you can see some things started to escalate were going to show you that. You can see some people within that crowd started vandalizing several locations is street sign the hour toppling over here. Now before they knocked over this i said this is an online full assembly and chemicals will be deployed, so they not this over
Talk more about what happened reyna. And its right it was hard to miss it 30 foot tall statue here right behind me and now its replaced with a sign from the city the city letting people know this morning why they decided to remove that statue again were going to show you what it looks like here before it was removed. You can see this sir Francis Drake statue it had been here for many years i talked to residents in the area this morning. We were confused as to why was in here this morning. They are so used to seeing on their morning jog. Now people have been calling for the removal of the metal statue for weeks protesters said they wanted the statue gone because sir Francis Drake was a slave trader. Now theres a sign left by the city like i mention that says they temporarily remove the statue in response to demonstrators saying they were going to remove the statue them sales and so the city wanted to make sure they removed it before that happened now a petition on change dot org had rec
Despithuge flames smoke now seems to be the Biggest Issue because breathing is hard you might have noticed when you came out to me and i had my mask on because the Fire Department when around passing these masks to anybody near this area, particularly the media because the wind sometimes carries the smoke in our particular direction. But it looks like most of the smoke for now blowing away from us, but every now and then a gust picks up and sends it our way it does not appear anybody was injured are killed. Fire exploded really quickly because he was called in at 6. 20 and the morning and according to the Fire Department within 15 minutes. They knew they had their hands full they call back up and it was declared a 3 alarm i are just 10 or 15 minutes into the battle thats how much they knew particularly because they know this location is used by artists and that is important because of the chemicals that they use to weld to do paintings to stained glass and thats why it seems to be more
Back into a range of 70s all this under some clearing skies. Im talking more about not just your forecast for the forecast still to come rebecca. Im Rebecca Storm filling in for Robin Winston on this Tuesday Morning. And so far a problem free out there were looking really good here the bay bridge toll plaza, yes, its getting busier into San Francisco but not too bad look at the drive time only 11 minutes right now, youre gonna have to wait if you are paying with cash for just a bit as you make your way to the toll plaza but to getting on to the upper deck. Its going to be easy into San Francisco, not tracking any problems on the west than 80 so far and this is going to be a nice quick from the east bay over to the peninsula 12 minutes right now for your westbound 92 commute across the san mateo bridge. Well check the Richmond Sandra fell bridge and the golden gate coming up in just a bit james and darya. Breaking news from hazmat situation at facebook in menlo park, a scary time yester
System approaching from the northwest is expected to bring light precipitation to the north bay this morning, and may generate scattered showers farther south this afternoon and evening. Periodic rain chances will continue in the north bay through wednesday, with dry and seasonably cool weather expected elsewhere. Dry weather along with a warming trend is forecast across the region from thursday through the weekend as High Pressure builds in. Locally breezy conditions are likely from thursday through friday. rebecca looking at the bay area traffic maps and updating drive times. Happy monday morning traffic is light and bay area roadways look so far so good at this early hour. The bay bridge is problem free and will be easy coming out of the maze to cross it and get into San Francisco. Expect under a 10 minute trip time. Moving over to the san mateo bridge westbound 92 is smooth getting to the peninsula and making the connection with 101. It should take you under 15 minutes. The Richmon