interchange. and tomorrow it will reopen at 5:00. and sunday morning it will reand at 7:00 reopen at 7:00 a.m. so the same section will be closed at midnight till saturday morning and then on sunday morning between midnight and then 7:00 on sunday morning, the big advisory that you need to know about. firefighters this morning are battling a grass fire near livermore. it is burning along interstate 580 near patterson pass and lynn road. so far it has burned 600 acres. no structure have been burned. we now have developing news this morning. firefighters in oakley are on the scene of a house fire. and more on the one person that was forced to go to the hospital. reporter: the person that was sent to the hospital has serious injuries this morning. i can show you this. this is the house that caught fire early this morning. around 2:30, you can see the east fire investigator work right now. they re trying to determine what caused this fire. and a neighbor tells us that a p
[ no audio ] at the shopper s food in tacoma county. an 84-year-old grandmother was violently beaten and her purse stolen as she was getting ready to do her christmas shopping. i witnessed the lady laying on the ground and it was pitiful. it was really sad. could have been my grandmother or mother. reporter: she was found bruised, beaten and bleeding in the parking lot on the ground between two cars. she wasn t saying anything. at this point she was probably frozen. she had been laying there so long of she was crying. reporter: the victim s family is shocked and outraged. they are repairing the fractures to her hip and shoal. we are not sure about her spine and her neck. lots of breaks for someone her age and we are still not sure about her mental state. we are looking for a male subject who took a tote bag from the victim. i m surae chinn at dulles international airport where reunions happen every day but knowing your loved one is home in time for christmas mak
the world is reading the intimate details today. thursday, october 7th, 2010. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and meredith vieira. i m meredith vieirvieira. people waking up in parts of colorado and utah are bracing for the severe weather system that spawned tornadoes on wednesday in arizona. dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed. the twisters so powerful they derailed a parked freight train and blew 18 wheelers off the road. we ll have the latest in a live report straight ahead. they call himselves previvers. at risk of breast cancer. they don t have the disease yet but choose to have their breasts removed. why, when some consider that to be a radical course of action? we re going to talk to two women about that. they have opted to do that route. the survivor of a vicious bear attack speaks out for the first time describing their horrendous fight. here s a question for you. what was marilyn monroe like? we re going to take a look at never bee
getting started. good thursday morning. it is december 17th. there is a live look right now at the washington monument and you can see the camera is not shaking like it was yesterday. the winds are definitely down a little bit but certainly a cold start to the day. good morning. i m fwripdz. i m steve chenevey. welcome to fox 5 morning news. y perkins with us as well. i m gurvir dhindsa. another cold day setting us up for a cold weekend. 29degrees is the current temperature at reagan national airport. try out there. relative humidity, 39%. winds are out of the northwest at nineiles per hour. your barometric pressure, 30.41. we ve got mostly clear skies across the region. some clouds up to the north, well to the north, not here and well to the south across central and southern portions of virginia. that is about it. i think we ll see a good a sunshine today. mostly sunny skies and clouds will start to build in later on tonight. today will be another cold one with bel
is elfy is watching him too? i think we have. reporter: the one drawback? he goes home when he hear s santa s bell. it makes me sad. i wish we had an easter elf and a summertime elf because we re that much better when santa is watching. reporter: disbl we need one of those elves here at the news station. the news keeps coming. brian bolter now with the news edge at 11:00. a d.c. cop charged with murder and labeled a danger to the community. investigators say officer rental gentlemen jones played a role reggie jones played a role in a robbery that left one man dead. he faced a judge for the first time today. standing next to him was the man accused of pulling the trigger, the victim s own son. wisdom martin live in the newsroom with details on what happened. reporter: disturbing details as officer reggie jones appeared in court for the first time since being arrested yesterday. he was there alongside the dead man s son. prosecutors call him a unique danger to t