Think its suspicious. Americas first lady will be in San Francisco later today. Well run down her very busy schedule. Mornings on 2 starts now. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. I want to show you some live pictures from interstate 680 in walnut creek where the bay area is seeing the first significant rain in more than a month, rein really several weeks. Weve got complete coverage coming up on all of the rain and traffic and its thursday, january 30th. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Were not out of the woods but the recordbreaking dry spell, is somewhat over. We have live coverage for you. The roads are slick in some areas. Lets go to Steve Paulson. How much rain did we get. Not much. A couple of 1 100ths. Embetter in the Sierra Nevada. You see how the system is sliding through. Well take you through the area. A little bit, dylan beach, santa rosa, petaluma, 101, also starting to expand to parts of marin county. Also towards san mateo coast on skyline, back to san mateo itself.
New statistics painting an unflattering picture against the fight in san jose. The surprising details about the number of arrests made and how quickly police are responding to crimes. And six americans killed in a Helicopter Crash in afghanistan. What were learning about the moments right before the aircraft went down. Mornings on 2 starts now. Welcome to mornings on 2. A new, Significant Development to our top story weve been following all morning. We just learned a huge fire at a recycling plant in redwood city sparked a spot fire. Ktvus janine de la vega is there on the ground and will give us an update on the progress firefighters are making and also the Health Implications for people in the neighborhood. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Lets check your weather and traffic. Steve is right there. I am. Cold for some. Theres lot of 50s in San Francisco. A lot of high clouds. Partly cloudy today. High clouds, kind of cool. High clouds, very hazy skies. Hazy a
The bay area air quality has given an alert for tomorrow. People is sanna anna county have suffered from the smoke. The chemical smell in the air, it was horrible. I came down to san jose and noticed a difference in the air. I can feel it in my eyes and throat. Alerts have been spread to the schools, hospitals. Smoke in the air did bring a beautiful sun set. Dust and debris in the atmosphere scatters the sunlight. Rosemary joins us now with more on the poor air quality. Our conditions are slowly improving, but for tomorrow another spared air day. Visibility down to about two miles around the airport. It had to do with the big fire, the redwood city fire burning early this morning. A southernly breeze helped to push that smoke into the south bay and thats where we saw it eight worst. We will have a slight improvement tomorrow from today. Most of us will be in the moderate conditions. In the santa clara area, there will be smoke still. Smoke came from the Sims Recycling center. Machining
Good evening. Animal control officers try to fend off about a dozen pit bulls believed to be part of a dog fighting ring. Dogs were discovered by sheer happenstance in the middle of an open neighborhood. Police happened to be serving a search warrant. In our top story, heres what authorities found that was far from what they expected. Reporter save for the police out front, this house looks ordinary. But go into the backyard and it is a sad scene. Pit bulls barking, pit bulls scared, pit bulls this one will bite. Reporter a true statement as you will soon see. Inside of a wreck of a home, more dogs. The instruments of their cruel training. Three treadmills that are set up for dogs, not human beings. Modified for dogs. Reporter and weight vests used to build muscle for what he says are clearly for fighting dogs. How much do you think that weighs . Reporter 30 pounds. Heres another weighted vest. Reporter there were eleven dogs here altogether. One dog was particularly aggressive. The st
Crews lifted bart cars off the track in an operation that actually took hours. We have the latest timeline on what service is expected to be restored following that derailment. This was the scene as news chopper 2 flew above the derailed bart train. Several cars are zigzagged and off the tracks. The train which was not carrying passengers was near the concord station when the derailment happened. Derail concord, concord 2. 331 how do you know you derailed . Im looking over the edge. Take a listen. We are hearing the initial emergency call from the train operator moments after that train went off the track. He was the only person on board and was not injured in last nights accident. We have new developments tonight on the derailment. Kiro 7s debora villone is live at concord bart where they are awaiting a replacement track there. Reporter they are working up there. You can see a truck behind the tree. They are prepping the rails for a special delivery, a flatbed with two new sections of