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
James waking up at 08 00am with a live look here at sfo behind us will get out there in a few minutes with kron fours michael one of the big stories, which is the maui fires and evacuations, right . First, we want to take a look at the weather. Were inching near the weekend. And it seems like weve weve. Were told when to routine these gray mornings and sunny afternoons. Yet been definitely a routine the past few days cooler than what we had seen this past weekend, too, which is at least made your afternoons a bit more enjoyable to step outside that sunshine where were at this morning. Yeah, theres the gray above the embarcadero right now. And were right back to some of those foggy conditions at the coastline. I turned windshield wipers a time or 2 this morning. Expect the chance of that as well as youre heading out there. Current temps are familiar yesterday. We were right here 50s and 60s. But after today and tomorrow, there are some changes that it involves getting a whole lot hotter
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
To rise following those devastating wildfires. Maui. And it could take years to recover from them. But first, an official air quality warning for the bay area as we go live near the port of oakland after a fire tearing through a recycling yard. From the bay station. Youre watching kron. And news. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waldman, heavy smoke visible in oakland after a large pile of scrap metal caused a fire near the citys port. That smoke could be smelled all across the east bay. Well go live now to kron fours Charles Clifford. Hes on the scene or near the scene for us. As theres now an official air quality warning for the bay area. Charles. Right now im in alameda. If you look behind me here across the oakland estuary across the water that big black crane over there, this fire was burning just beneath that. It looks we cant see any smoke at the moment. Were just a little it looks like they may have a mostly under control is going to take a look
Decision today that lead to more Driverless Cars on road to talk more about that in just a moment. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news well, good morning and thank you for waking with us bright and early for the kron. 4 morning news. Im reyna harvey. Today is august the 10th another great thursday, john, you actually get this rolling preparedness for the he then for the cooldown. I know hes at this week is going to be another hot one or if were still just all over the map. Good morning to that little we are definitely all over the map. It just depends on what day youre talking today. Tomorrow, the last of our cooler seasonable days before we do get to those hotter conditions this weekend. Temperatures next week will be especially hot. So once we start in climbing, were just going to keep going up hills far as temps go this morning, pier 15, nice and calm. Got the bay bridge out there in the distance. There are some spots of mist drizzle near the c