Studios. This is kpix five news. A crash that sent an officer to the hop. What investigators are saying about that officers injuries. A look at the bridge where a celebration is scheduled today. Police are sounding the arm about a scam. We will hear from a victim it is just about 6 00 a. M. On saturday. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Im emily turner. We begin with draking news in San Francisco. Video from the app showing a fire this morning. The is happening around 18th and castro street. No word on exactly which build asking involved but that area is parked with bars and restaurants. So far no injuries. A stretch of 680 in san jose is open. A driver was treated at the scene. Heres eyelike live look at the synura testify bridge wherely bonn cutting event is set for this evening that will allow bicyclist and loren counties. We are having issues along the coast. Zero visibility which is better than it was. Oakland not great. 3 tenths of a mile. All the way up to the delta, three
Breaking news out of San Francisco. Crews are on the scene of a large fire in the castro. The fire is on castro street. We are live at the scene where two people have been hurt and there are a lot of others forced from their homes. Reporter good morning. I do have some good news. The fire is not contained but so a very heavy San Francisco Fire Department here on castro street. I will step out of the way so you can see whats going on. There are firefighters inside of these buildings who have been damaged by the fire. They are going through and investigating they tell us the Fire Department says anytime there is a fire of this size they have investigators out here to look at everything. We dont know up anything criminal went on and we dont know what started it but we know they are investigating heres once it fighters up there are a lot of firefighters standing by for the word to be let back inside. Two people are injured, one person was taken to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhal
One that was loaded with an extended magazine. Maureen naylor attended this afternoons News Conference and has more from the chief. Reporter the breathing just wrapped up in the last half hour. Eddie garcia identified the man who was killed as a 29yearold resident saying he has a history of convictions for illegally being in possessions of gun. That man was armed with a loaded weapon and did not comply with officers request to leave the vehicle during a stop. We want to show you video of the scene on saturday. This was after 3 pm on saturday and forced the partial closure of southbound highway 85 in an area where san jose and saratoga converge. The chief said the 29yearold suspect had been under surveillance since an incident in october and they say he backed his car into a police car and let them on a chase. This happened on saturday on highway 85 in the middle of a traffic stop. The suspect was driving the lexus suv when he turned his car over. The wanted felon did not exit the suv a
Sudden oak death returning in the north bay. This is standing dead. Kpix 5 news 7pm starts now. Colin kaepernick said hes ready to be scouted by nfl teams and just days. Good evening. With the lead shocking move. Reporter its been three years since Colin Kaepernick played in the nfl. He said sees ready but are the teams ready to give them a chance . The nfl will hold a private workout for Colin Kaepernick saturday in atlanta all 32 teams are invited to attend. Hes not played since 2016 and settled his collusion case against the league this year. 95. 7 the longterm Sports Writer is not getting his hopes up for return. This is not the nfl warming to the idea of signing a guy they essentially kept out of football for four years its saying i could still play for someone and i want to show you. I dont know what nfl teams will ignore what theyve done for four years with this guy. Reporter Colin Kaepernick tweeted ive been in shape and ready for this for three years. I cant wait to see the he
Good evening everyone. The test comes on the 30th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake. Live coverage from. She is in San Francisco with how people reacted to the test. Reporter it definitely took some people by surprise. Imagine being out and every waddy cell phone started ringing. A part of the test work. The city said they were in the room with ever bridge the vendor trying to work out unexpected problems just to get the message out tonight. Throughout San Francisco this evening about a quarter after 6 pm phone started buzzing. They were in a meeting on market street. All the attendees and us. At the notification at the same time. It freaked me out. It freaked olivas out. It abruptly stops the whole room came to attention. It was pretty alarming. Reporter San Francisco sent the message as part of a scheduled test of the new alert system. Instead of using an area code it sends a message to all mobile devices connected to a cell phone tower within San Francisco. On thursday there