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Kron fours rob nesbitt is in our newsroom with reaction from people from the bay area who are stuck in hawaii tonight. And our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow standing by now in the Weather Center with the latest on hurricane dora. But well start with sarah and how are things looking there at the airport . People are coming back and theyre sharing their stories about what they experienced in maui. Well, its like a vacation that turns into a nightmare for some of these tourists, thousands of them trying to get home from maui after that vacation ended with flames everywhere in that line area. Weve got this is the board over there with him on during the flight. A not a lot of flights until tonight, but theres going to be some people flying in from different airports such louis, which is the main airport in maui. And then some of them are being diverted to take other flights from other islands are going any other island that will take them to make sure people can get home. And im sure
Theyve been attacking it from all angles, getting help from across the bay getting help from alameda. And yeah, just a difficult situation have to go through. But thankfully, crews have been able to have it contained and theyre expecting to work here throughout the night. Theyre hoping to be able to have it all under control by the end of the night. But they will be hanging out probably through the morning just to make sure that this fire is completely out. The fire chief right now says that they dont have a cause at this time, but they do not believe that it is suspicious. A fire investigators on tia is on scene here. The Hazardous Materials person is on scene here. Essentially what caused this fire . This is the explanation were getting right now is that it was a larger pile of scrap metal. That was laying there because of one of smiths larger shredder machines has not really been operational. So this large pile of combustible material has just been hanging out there for a while and
Station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. Good morning and thanks for joining us on a thursday. Im daria and im james. And this thursday morning as a nice gray start, weve got some cool air around even some mist, possibly even some drizzle, depending on where youre driving. Was a good start considering it was pretty toasty. Yesterday. I was up in nevada and it was pretty warm, john. Yeah, yeah. For a lot of us is definitely warm. And if its 2 or 3 and now its going to be scorching here this weekend and into next week. So time to get ready for that. Warm up today. Tomorrow, the last of peak temperatures being in the 80s this morning. We have had some missed. I turned by windshield wipers on a time or 2 this morning as a result of some of that fog, especially closer to the coastline. North bay and upper elevations of the east bay. Thats where youre running into low visibility and a few spots of drizzle. Current temperatures 50s 60s oaklander at 62. Hey, were at 63. Well as s
Scene seeing the amount of smoke just. Looming through the air here. Of course, we were able to get pretty close to the scene here, but it is private property. So weve been getting booted quite a few by security, but we try to get the best visual that what were looking at nets, what was that were looking at is a large pile of scrap metal that was on fire. Im sort of the smell that you could get from just being in. This immediate area, though, was mostly sort of like a plastic e sort of smell. That was what was able to be we know that air district inspectors are going to be looking into just how bad the air quality is here in this area. Of cours , people are being advised to close their windows and try to avoid being consuming any of this zeroed in on some specific communities, including alameda southern parts of oakland, san leandro, hayward and also possibly fremont has the evening here progresses. We caught up with a couple of people that were out here because it definitely drew peop