This morning the evacuations have been lifted but that part of highway 29 is still closed while crews are battling the flames. Contra costa county supervise say that gate to the Nustar Petroleum Storage Facility was locked with the first firefighters arrived to fight the fire. Workers also left the scene without activating the Fire Suppression system. Investigators are looking into what sparked the explosion and the fire. Whitehouse acting chief of staff of Mick Mulvaney is backing off claim that prompt blocked almost 400 million in aid to ukraine for political reasons. Yesterday he first said President Trumps withheld the aid before releasing a statement saying otherwise later in the afternoon. President trumps has repeatedly denied any such quid pro quo deal. Now to the Syrian Border were fighting started again despite a ceasefire record less than 24 hours ago by Vice President pence and secretary of state mike pompeo. Doug luzader reports from washington, d. C. On another challenge
Video. A very cool perspective. This started 15 minutes ago as they walked out to establish their tethers and got to work. As you can see we see what they are seeing. This mission will take a while and is expected to last six hours. You will keep an eye on that. Love seeing this historic all female spacewalk. This is kind of amazing. We will keep an eye on that for you. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is friday, october 18. Im claudine wong. Im dave clark. Lets talk about your friday weather. It should get warmer. Steve paulson is here. By sunday. We dont have an out of this world forecast. I wish i had said that. Its friday. We need to keep it light we have a lot of cloud cover to the north. Some of that work its way over the weekend but by sunday temperatures are up and early next week it will be warm and dry in the mid80s. Today, 60s and 70s. Not too much change from yesterday. Temperatures are below average but they are ready to go above but it wont be until next week. San franci
Bay commute. A little lighter than usual on some of these drives which we expect on a friday. This is a look at the westbound Richmond Bridge and traffic is moderate. If you are driving on the east shore freeway heading down to the bay bridge you will see that traffic is doing well and when you get there those not much of a delay. Its 6 00 and not much of a delay at the bay bridge which is nice. This is a look at interstate 880 and traffic is busy on westbound 92. Traffic here is also doing okay. We have a little bit of a better star. Hopefully this will last throughout the morning commute but it the sour is starting well. Lets go back to the desk. A reportlays out the chaos that firefighters based on tuesday in crockett during the explosions and fires at the Nustar Petroleum storage facility. Elissa harrington is outside that plant now with more information. Good morning. Reporter good morning. A report in the San Francisco chronicle said that one First Responders arrived on tuesday t
Back and was taken into custody by oakland police. We dont have identification yet on the suspect. We dont have identification yet on the victim. We were told, though, she was taken to the hospital and, again, as the police said, in Critical Condition. So the injuries were major. As we learn more about exactly what happened here, well bring it to you live at 5 00 and at 6 00. For right now, live in oakland, eric thomas, abc 7 news. All right. Eric, thank you. The stories of heroism and narrow escapes continue to pour in from the devastating north bay fires. This time from the north shore of clear lake where more than 150 homes were destroyed by the fastmoving fires. The sulfur fire is out. But the traumatic memories will live on. Abc 7 News Reporter, Laura Anthony live in Clear Lake Park with a story only on abc 7 news. Reporter hi, larry. This is a mobile home park. Its called Holiday Island. This has just one narrow drive in and out at the height of the fire. Racing down the hill beh
With even some fog. 60s for temperatures. Airquality is vastly improved. The system is producing rain in the valley with a lot of cloud coverage and isolated showers. Things look to be winding down but they will pick up later on with the colder air coming to the north. There is a little bit left around fremont maybe union city and fremont. Near the dumbarton bridge as well and toward this cloud coverage but it is not doing too much as the system has moved out with the unstable air coming in. Glen ellen. 4 inches. San francisco 1 3. San jose almost. 25 inches there have been heavier amounts in Higher Elevations. 40s and 50s getting cooler with the marine advisory and High Surf Advisory to the northwest. 15 to 20 feet swells and the monterey showing 19 feet every 17 seconds. 19 feet at the San Francisco buoy. Ortega bay at 15 feet. Things are almost done in the sierra. Truckee had light snow and we have unstable air to the north but for us partly cloudy with cloud coverage coming from th