Building a better bay area, this is abc7 news. Firefighters had their hands full last night due to illegal fireworks, from fires to one crew even having Bottle Rockets shot at its truck as it responded to a call. Im j. R. Stone. Eric thomas has the night off. Im dion lim. Its been no Holiday Weekend for bay area firefighters. They have been racing to keep up with the hundreds of fires in our region, mostly started by illegal fireworks. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard joins us live in san pablo with more on this story. Cornell . Dion, very scary night for firefighters no, professional Fireworks Shows in the bay area last night, but lots of amateur ones, just ask any firefighter. Many started firesis o in san pablo. The firework debris is just feet away. Fireworks lit up the skies over San Francisco on july 4th, but its a show firefighters didnt want to see. Illegal fireworks caused large grass fires like this one near hunters point, and this fire less than a mile away. We were virtua
employees accused of crimes were allowed to stay on the job. right knew streaming at 7:00, the small brush fire in napa county. this is along the silverado trail, which is closed at the moment. vineyards on both sides. no word of any damage. thanks for joining us. i m ryan yamamoto. i m elizabeth cook. firefighters still on scene of a large brush fire. chopper 5 spotted the flames moving across open hillsides. the fire is in a remote area now with no homes nearby. cal fire said about 35 acres have burned so far. crews will be there through the evening watch for hot spots. let s bring in brian hackney. s it looking out there? could be worse. tomorrow, the next day, we ll show you. first let s get you caught up on the situation now, which is a pretty good onshore flow through much of the bay area. which is helping. chs a more moist flow. over to the east of st. helena, burning in the hill, not big, but the temperature, 89 degrees. humidity is low, could be lower. win
santa rosa, you are down to 36 degrees. and for the rest of the north bay, down to freezing at cloverdale. and hills park. that freeze warning still in effect for the north bay valley with locations down to freezing but not as cold as what we were expecting because of those winds. preventing the temperatures from really plummeting. as we head through the afternoon, many spots in the mid to upper 50s with that sunshine. gianna, it is definitely a windy start to the dave. we got wind advisories because of that on the bay bridge as well as the altamont pass. we will start with the bay bridge. it is pretty much a sticky commute into in san francisco. the metering lights were turned on early this morning. so lots of company. westbound, we are seeing delays out of berkeley, all the way towards emeryville, because of some late running roadwork on the upper deck of the bay bridge. lanes are clear now. it is going to take some time for traffic to recover. it sort of makes for a very
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A reactionary way. They provide a tremendous amount of jobs and revenue for the state of california. Reporter but he says american sovereignty must be defended and while politicians in washington, d. C. Are holding hearings, thats not good enough. California will hold its own hearing. Im not too sure what will happen in washington since its a bastion of dysfunction, but here in california were busy looking in to a series of hearings and interviews and making sure we get to the bottom of this. The bottom line is that when washington wont lead, well pick up the baton and well lead ourselves. Reporter senator scott wiener represents San Francisco where twitter is headquartered. He said hes fully onboard with the investigation. It should be investigated. Congress is investigating it. Its perfectly appropriate to investigate it at the state level as well. Reporter and he expects the social Media Companies to cooperate. And we need everyone to be transparent, to make sure this never happens