About outside of the courthouse rightfter the hearing today. You could imagine she was quite emotional considering the amount of time he has been locked up. He and codefendant max harris each face 36 counts of Involuntary Manslaughter for the lives lost in the december 2016 ghostship warehouse fire here in oakland. With court dates set attorneys asked the judge to lower his bail to join his family while he awaits his court date. Almena has been in jail since june of 2017 and his wife said it has been extremely hard on their family, especially their three children. I dont take them to the jail any more. Because it is really hard. They dont understand. Theyre kids. There is just glass there. They cant touch their father, they cant have any contact. Theyve had a lot of separation and theyre in pain over it. Reporter a lawyer representing some of the victims families in a civil lawsuit told us she believes the judge made the right decision to deny bail reduction considering the evidence th
Mateo jail on the rape charge. Also false imprisonment. We tried to talk to the suspect at the jail, but he denied our request for an interview. Police arrested 46yearold tonye kolokolo in san bruno yesterday. A 25yearold Woman Told Police she called lyft for a ride early saturday after becoming intoxicated and that colocolopicolocol colocolopicked her up, but instead of taking her home he drove her to him home over an hour away in tracy and raped her. Nbc bay area found a possible address for kolokolo in this tracy neighborhood and neighbors recognized him right away. He does right over there. Yeah, ive seen him before, and i see the lyft there all the time, yeah. Reporter neighbors say theyve never seen any Police Activity at the home and arent close to kolokolo who they say has lived next door at least since 2017. We probably spoke two, three times in the past two years. Reporter the accusations unnerving to say the least. Its pretty terrifying, yeah. I have a 15yearold daughter, ye
As we look outside in the trivalley, one of the spots heating up and dealing with air quality. It is a spare the air alert day with the inland east bay and high levels of ozone as well as Carbon Emissions and that as we are going to see an excessive heat warning in effect for solano and lake county. Were seeing a heat advisory for much of the north bay and the inland east bay and were going to have this last day of tripledigit temperatures. Look at where we are right now. We havent even made it to noon yet and it is 96 degrees in fairfield. That is the current temperature. It is 91 in livermore. And santa rosa at 80 degrees. While San Francisco is at 74. Our temperatures heat up, continuing to go up for the rest of the day. As we see some spots in the upper 90s. Briefly hitting the 100 degrees and then coming back down as we go into the evening. I do think well see much more of a stronger breeze later on tonight that will help cool us off and a cooler weekend ahead. So well talk more a
He will be back in court on 2nd for a plea hearing and well continue to bring you updates as they come in. Our other top story, working to improve safety today, transit officials in the north bay will discuss ways to deal with transitrelated deaths following a string of incidents in the past month. Pete suratos joins us live from san rafael with details. Reporter good morning to you. And the board of directors will discuss this issue during a Board Meeting this afternoon. In fact were standing in front of the san rafael station as one of the smart trains pulls up behind us. None of the recent incidents took place at this station. They happened at other stations. But there was a string of deadly incidents in this past month. Now since the end of june there have been five trainrelated deaths involving individuals hit by a smart train. Three incidents are believed to be suicide. All of the incidents happening along train tracks further north in santa rosa and rohnert park and that is why
At the Community Theater with things going well on stage, one mom decided to step out with her crying baby just as the temblor hit. The parking lot started to move and cars going up and down. I had to brace myself to stand upright holding the baby. Today Holly Goodman got a chance to see the damage the quake caused. Marshals was having its building stability checked. Big lots found a lot of merchandise on the floor. All signs of the fear and chaos that comes with a quake. In terms of human reaction, nothing compared to the sudden end to that holiday musical. Hollys children were in the play and audience. Like the sort of thing that you hear about happening everywhere else and then it finally happens to you and its just crazy. Little bits of the ceiling were falling down. I found some in my hair. Reporter todays after shocks. Theyre worse because now weve experienced an earthquake and we just keep whats going to happen next. Well, thats what many are asking including at the theater and