The golden gate bridge, not looking at that wet pavement now, temperatures are mild into the east bay, upper 50s in concord. Good morning, sue. Good morning. Were headed to the bay bridge toll plaza, we have another issue, we had earlier with a big rig accident toll lane 15, now were talking about toll lane 13 with bmw that got into an accident. Metering lights are on. Theyll try to move that accident over to toll lane 14 which is closed. Just give yourself plenty of time. Youre looking at a solid backup into the macarthur maze. Back to the grinolden gate brid we have this road rage incident its coming out of the span neither Robin Williams tunnel. Two left lanes blocked with as many as six vehicles. Theyre trying to push that off to the shoulder and off to alexander avenue. Hopefully that will beraffic ba Robin Williams tunnel. The two left lanes coming out of the tunnel near alexander. Well be back in a couple of minutes with another update. Ilis h today in san quak francisco. An int
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Threatened tanks by pouring water on them. In the meantime on the other tanks, two tanks that are burning, theyve been putting they have brought foam material as well and also cooling them down with water. Crews are down there. I know you cant see them from here, but they are down there really attacking this fire very aggressively. Let me just also tell you what theyre also bringing here, firefighters. We are told that the refineries nearby are bringing also experts to monitor this situation and also bring in special equipment. I mean, you know, chemical fires are different and require the expertise of people who know how to deal with them. They are bringing special equipment to help these firefighters here. They have about 200 people on scene from different agencies, but 200 people right now trying to combat that fire. They are combatting it again attacking it with foam and water. Now we had vegetation fires, about 15 acres were burning. That is no longer an issue. They, again, aggres
Back to our breaking News Coverage tonight an explosion at the area that says a storage tanks for refineries in the east bay prompts a shelter in place for parts of Contra Costa County and that video youre looking at was provided by a viewer kron 4 viewer tory newman and she happened to be at the location. As that live actually blow off the top of that storage tank. Some amazing video from tory newman into kron 4 today, heres what we know so far about this for rodeo. The fire is burning at the new star Storage Facility thats a Storage Facility for refinery products as of right now Officials Say 2 tanks are burning there was some confusion earlier that there were 3 tanks of ah, but there are 2 tanks burning, those tanks are holding ethanol and there are road closures on both interstate 80 and highway for interstate 80 is now close likely until midnight tonight. And heres the. That we can show you of the shelterinplace area. The areas shaded in red contra costa Hazardous Materials says a
Neighborhood where there is a shelter in place. Sal castaneda is here tracking the i80 closure and the best way to get around. We begin with tom vacar. How are the efforts going . Reporter lets take a look at what is going on. This is the third time we have seen this. You think the fire is out. It is hardly smoking at all and suddenly it flares back up and it suggests there is a lot of unburned product down there that may be leaking from another tank or leaking from pipes that were cooked in this conflagration that has gone on for hours now. They still have a big fire on their hands. It is sending a large plume of smoke into the air and that has caused a shelter in place in the city of crockett and suggested one for the city of rodeo which is very close by. Looking at this what we are seeing in effect is unburned product hydrocarbons going up in the air. Very toxic and bad for you. You can see hoses all around there. Those hoses are spreading foam out there and the phone is very good b