Called in around 5 45 p. M. , and was well underway with flames shooting out of the multistory Apartment Building under construction in the 2000 block of University Avenue near shattuck. A nearby restaurant worker watch build inning get swallowed up in flames shortly after the fire broke out. The fire flames, too much fire flames, middle part of the building. Its, like, going higher and higher. The entire middle of the building was up in flames. Reporter mutual aid from at least half a dozen departments were called in to help wrest the flames down. We saw a bunch of firefighters coming down the street, blearing away, and we looked out, and it looked like just the top of the billing was on fire for a minute. Reporter firefighters garden evacuating businesses. We had fire threatening the buildings around it, multiple apartments and businesses, all of which have been evacuated. Reporter unable to again access inside, firefighters were forced to play defense, attacking the flames from outs
That woman in oakland tonight, one of many who feels the decision to clear those officers is unjust. Good evening, im julie haener. And im frank somerville. Here in the bay area we saw protesters making a statement tonight with their cars. Take a look, traffic on the bay bridge slowed to a crawl around 6 30 tonight as caravans of protesters collectively slowed the evening commute this video from scott fox shows the unusually heavy traffic on the upper deck headed into the city. Because of the backup some transit agencies, including muni , temporarily suspended their trans bay service. We also saw slow traffic on the dunbar bridge in another display of civil disobedience. This was shortly before 6 00 as a small caravan of slow moving cars made their way west across the bridge. In oakland protesters gathered outside city hall tonight to display their displeasure with the term events and also to recognize lives lost in california at the hands of police. Tran wants amber lee joins us now a
Get with especially some difference is noticeable in marine county where first sign of yellow is now showing up indicating moderate air quality the further inland you get and eventually closer to the sierra you go. Well thats the worst of it we still do have multiple fires burning in the Sierra Nevada certainly putting up a lot of smoke out that direction. 50s and 60s for our current temperatures, a cool start get outside with that light jacket ready to go and then maybe not spend too much time out there despite our increases in sunshine and less hayes we still do have poor air. So definitely stay inside more so the knot on this tuesday. 70s and 80s for todays daytime highs more in your forecast is still ahead. Robin. Thank you john were checking in on the bay bridge commute which actually looks a little bit better was never a bad drive into San Francisco. We just have a crowd at the toll plaza and its been off and on its still slow that be on west grand but thinning out a little bit a
Bay area. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus but the man we really need to know is our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow because if this weather is going to stick around lawrence tells us going to get that yeah i think its going to get better just going to be slow going this is going to be just slowly. Stay. I think we saw some improvement up above we had some mix in the atmosphere bit. Little more sunshine pop up in spots still some very poor air quality no getting around it that sits there tonight you can see up toward sfo you see the light you see all the smoke down below and as we look toward the Golden Gate Bridge weve got some fog rolling on shore thats good. Unfortunately. It just kind of a thin marine layer so there again nice pressure off the ocean but that is just mixing with some of the smoke out there as well and theyre just so small so much smoke around right now back weve got some very poor air quality in quite rapidly in fact last hour it was all across the bay into
This morning. Because of that, a spare the air alert that remains in effect. Going a record 23 days in a row with a spare the air alert for the thats never been done before. Also tracking dry and gusty offshore winds. Looking at winds gusting up to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour this morning up in the Higher Elevations is why red flag warning is in effect until 8 00 a. M. Today for the north bay mountains and east bay hills but because of those dry northerly to winds, and low relative humidity values. Temperatures upper 60s in San Francisco and mid 70s in oakland. Upper 80s in san jose. And low to mid90s for concord down as we heads through the next few days. Now lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and its a foggy start this morning. Yeah, it sure is mary. In fact, at the Golden Gate Bridge, that is where chp has issued a fog advisory. So limited visibility asu for the most part right now your drive times south 101, 14 minutes from the richmondsan rafael bridge into San Francisco.