Ethanol each area Officials Say that adds up to more than 250,000 gallons of fuel. That may sound like a lot but it is a fraction of what the tank hold. Authorities discussed the massive firefighting effort. Crews poured 15,000 gallons of Firefighting Foam on the fire yesterday which was diluted with water. Has been on the sce all day yesterday and he is back there again today. Tom, we are expecting a News Conference in about 25 minutes or so. Any indication of what they might say or whether there are new developments . Reporter i think there are not new developments or anything they can talk about at this moment. That is why they have backed it up for a little bit. Clearly they are trying to gather more information. You have to understand what is going on here is very slow and pains taking and will pretty dangerous. As a result what you have to do is go slowly carefully so yothat could cost them on an injury or their life. Having said all of that, here is how todays events went and th
5 am and he will focus on the tracy commute but i will also mention that interstate 80 is open right now. If you went to bed and did not know if it would be open for the morning commute, it is open. Lets start with 580. 580 at 205, slow traffic coming up on 205 from 11th and on 580 as you approach the Altamont Pass and then it looks all right to livermore and dublin. The problems on 680 from san ramon to pleasanton and into the snow grade. Looking at interstate 880 we have a good drive as well and getting out to the bay bridge toll plaza there is a small delay. Nothing major yet. Lets go back to the desk. An investigation is underway into what caused that massive fire at the Nustar Petroleum storage plant in crockett yesterday afternoon. The fire was contained but the effects are still being felt this morning. One example. All schools in the John Swett School district are closed for the day. Both directions of 80 are open to traffic in a shelter in place order was lifted last night. Sa
But there will be cooler conditions for the next few days. Anything you want to get to right away or just the usual . The usual and i want to remind people that interstate 80 is open and you may have gone to bed not knowing what will happen. It is open now. Lets go to the picture to show you the drive time between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze. It looks pretty decent. 20 minutes. Interstate 80 is open after yesterdays incident which closed for the evening commute. You can see traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza is backed up for a 1015 minute wait which is typical and you can see when we put the map up of the east making it, there is a little bit of slow traffic here and there. Highway 4 does have slow traffic and as you look at the izbicki mood we are off to a decent start. The latest on that massive fire at the Petroleum Storage facility in crockett yesterday. The fire is contained. Interstate 80 is open after it was shut down for hours. An Incident Management Team is l
Bullet. They say if those tanks had more ethanol in them this couldve been much worse. I was step out of the way so you can see we are. We are at the front gates of this facility and there are a lot of people out here assessing the scene. Right now they are in the cleanup process of this situation. Cal oshas is prohibiting use of the facility and nustar said last night all operations and shipments are stopped for now. We dont know when the facility will be up and running. An Assessment Team has been here for hours touring the facility but still no word on the cause. The contra costa Fire Protection district held another News Conference with an update from the scene. As we know, two tanks containing 252,000 gallons of ethanol in total were destroyed in the fire at Nustar Petroleum Storage Facility in crockett. The remainder of the ethanol is being held by berms around the tank sites but we are told the liquid is largely a mixer of water and foam at this point. The teams here plan to rem
Might have lost a wheel on takeoff. And oakland united 35. Yeah, were going to. Were talking with company and theyre trying to determine if the issue, if it was indeed our, tire. We dont have any indications here on board that it was, but for right now, were going to continue at 35. North just called me, said someone on the ground reported tiktok. They think they saw something come off the aircraft. They werent 100 sure if it was a tire or something else. They sound remarkably calm. In the middle of all this, the plane made an Emergency Landing about two hours later at Los Angeles International airport. It came in safely and no one on board was hurt. As we mentioned, abc seven News Reporter Tara Campbell joining us live now at San Francisco international airport. Tara, what are you hearing on the ground there . Yeah, larry, were live here. Just outside the hertz parking lot where that massive tire landed and bounced after falling off the plane again. Video shows the exact moment that t