Bridges across the bay area, starting with the golden gate. That will take you 14 minutes between 580 and the golden gate toll plaza. And if youre heading to downtown San Francisco along if east shore freeway, thats 19 minutes. No delays at the toll plaza there, metering lights coming on around 5 30 a. M. Kenny . Thank you. A criminal investigation is underway at the site of a deadly warehouse fire in oakland. 36 people confirmed dead, and investigators do not believe they will find any additional bodies. Fridays fire is now the deadliest disaster since the fire in 1936 in San Francisco. Officials are still looking for the cause of the blaze. Reporter at least 1,000 mourners came to pay tribute to those who died in the fire. For days the local Arts Community has been in shock. We should get an update on the investigation and Recovery Efforts later this morning. A press conference is scheduled for 6 00 a. M. Well bring that to you live here and on cbssf. Com. Authorities have identified
Nightly news begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from oakland. Good evening. There are so many reasons why the tragedy that happened here in oakland friday night shouldnt have. From the illegal Living Spaces to a makeshift stairway, to the dangling electrical cords and stacks of flammable materials. Was a disaster waiting to happen. As we come on the air tonight, the number of bodies recovered as has reached 36. Authorities believe there will be more. The victims were here for a party in a warehouse known as the ghost ship. An Art Collective where the very things that made it avantgarde may have also made it a fiery death trap. Now tonight, the man who ran the place is talking to nbc news. Miguel almaguer is here to start our coverage. Miguel . Lester, good earlier today because the walls of the warehouse threatened to collapse on them. This is now a criminal investigation. Murder charges could be filed. Firefighters are trying to recover bodi
Forward. While police removed barriers from the street and the mobile command center leaves the area and the family. Reporter and prayer vigil taking place at a memorial site near the warehouse. I feel i lost a loved one, a sister or brother because i was raised here in oakland. Oakland city leaders trying to cope with the deadliest tragedy this city has seen in decades and move forward with changes that could prevent another deadly fire of this magnitude. We are developing ways to immediately clarify the responsibility of City Employees to properly report any observation of dangerous Living Conditions or illegal events. Reporter as questions continued to swirl and the citys responsibility for inspecting buildings, mayor schaaf says she does not blame city officials. We will not scapegoat City Employees in the wake of this disaster. Reporter as the city helps families with the enormous grief, oaklands interim director of building and planning tonight talked about two open complaints on
Rainfall throughout the course of the morning. Good morning. Im sam brock. Im kris sanchez. The roads and the highways are wet. The commute has been rough. Though weve got a little break. Well look at San Francisco right now. You can see the clouds and the haze and the droplets of water on the camera as well. We deployed our storm ranger Doppler Radar to San Bruno Mountain to give us a groundlevel look at the weather systems in the bay area. We have Team Coverage of the microclimate weather alert. Nbc bay areas rick boon is in the elements. Mike inouye watching the traffic partners. Patterns. We begin with kari hall. We are once again taking a little bit of a break. Were going to look at the storm ranger radar as we get a view of, once again, the San Bruno Mountain. We are tracking some of the rain. It gives us an hd view of what should be on the radar and that rain coming down out of the clouds. And most of that rain has moved east of San Francisco and into the inner bay. And the bigg
The White House Visitors Center and it is an amazing tool to understand the white house. Both from an architectural standpoint because you very rarely if ever can understand the whole totality of what the white house s you can see the main part of the house but also, too, its wings as well. You can do a 360 degree walk around the white house and see the construction of it and see really one of the most important historic objects in our nation, the white house, and understand its story much more, plus with the advent of technology we have touch screens where you can actually go inside the rooms and see them, see the objects in them, and then also explore them lieu the various centuries that the white house has been here. Im here today in the White House Visitors Center. Were going to take a look at some objects that have been lent from the Permanent Collection of the white house for exhibition here as part of the new and vastly improved White House Visitors Center that opened last fall.