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KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 5pm July 14, 2024

You. Yes, one person has been detained for questioning but have not been arrested. Just questioning in connection with the fire. Over the past hour, Santa Clara County Fire Department has repositioned some of their equipment, they have moved one high angle aerial hose closer to our location. You can see the hoses spring water down directly into the burn area. Looks like it is moving out. Im told in the water sprayed on this area the construction work for worker leaping from the scaffolding to get to safety sprained his ankle. No loss of life. The property though, a complete loss. A massive flyer fire at the sound home apartment complexes. W to the workers is running like nervous and scared, and then it wishes like a little fire, and in the whole building just went up in flames. In the blink of an eye it grew into a goliath. Reporter sky fox circled overhead with flames billowing into the air from the fire. Firefighters form a defensive line along el camino, between lincoln street and stop boulevard to prevent embers from spreading to other structures. The fire was in a framed building, which causes rapid flames to spread. Reporter construction crews working both below and above ground ran for their lives while trying to save their comrades. We can see people in the windows, we started yelling fire, and before they could even go back and like they were going to leave the roof caught fire and it happened so fast. It was a moment of 36 luxury town homes priced from the high six figures to over 1 million. Officials say its location made a viable site for redevelopment. Not far from the Santa Clara Town Center mall. Up ski when i saw the big plume of black smoke in the air my heart just fell into my stomach. Reporter the santa clara mail mayor says that while she is thing for there were no deaths and only one minor injury, the loss of what wouldve been new housing is felt across the south bay. That is a shame because that was a wonderful project that would provide muchneeded housing and even Affordable Housing for santa clara. To see it go up in smoke like that is just, it is really heartbreaking. Reporter santa clara complete Police Confirm one person is detained and questioning with the fire. The official cause is still under investigation. In we reached out to the property developer. Legends usa, a representative sent a response that regent park will work with local authorities and related companies to conduct a thorough review of what has happened and how to effectively prevent any such instances from happening in the future. In santa clara, please say they are not arrested. Will end with this, El Camino Royale has been closed ever since the fire started. I am told they hope to get the westbound lanes open in the near future. And the eastbound lanes, the ones for this for me, those will be close throughout the night as they continue have engines there pouring water onto the hotspot to make sure they will not reignite. Will update you coming up in the next hour. For now, jesse gary, ktvu fox 2 news. Live near santa clara, will head back to you. Ann rubin picks up the coverage that with how the efforts made a big impact. Reporter neighbors and they are looking out for each other, they were knocking on doors and wetting down roofs in hopes of keeping everyone safe. , months of work gone in an instant in 20 seconds it doubled and tripled in size. Came out and saw the flames are twice as high as the structure. Reporter neighbors in the fire at the construction site grew exponentially we could feel the heat to the house. Right when you come through the front door, theres because heat, the thing i can do, with the big long hose, to spray the roof a little bit. Just in case. Reporter firefighters from multiple jurisdictions were to contain the flame to keep them from spreading to the row of houses next door. They evacuated residents along clay street as a precaution. You think the worst, you think the house is on fire, they done a great job keeping water on the house and everything, no damage here. Not that house. Reporter neighbors a the project had been unpopular at first, with plans to build right up to their property line. But they say the builders had made modifications to appease them. Nobody wanted it in their backyards but they did a good job accommodating everybody. They staggered it up, and looked really good what was going on. I dont know what happened. Now they call it a big loss in an area that desperately needed the housing. Now we are told that the evacuated residents here have all been allowed back in their homes. However, some of these neighborhood streets, like clay and pierce to remain partially closed for the time being. I can see the wind picking up there with the way it is moving. That mustve very scary for neighbors, knowing the fire dangers that were there. That is true, the neighbors were all getting out there with the garden hoses but firefighters actually said in a news release of the winds were relatively calm today while they were fighting the fire, and that actually helped them get it under control quickly. So the winds picking up seem to be a development that we are glad it happened later in the day. Definitely. Ann rubin live in santa clara, thank you so much. Stay with ktvu for any developing news on this large fire, well have more at six and will be updating our social media pages, as well as our website ktvu. Com. Elizabeth holmes appeared in federal court in san jose today, where her fraud trial was delayed until july. Of next year. Her codefendant faces fraud and conspiracy charges in connection with their now defunct blood testing company. Holmes accused of lying to investors about the Companys Technology and ultimately cheating them out of hundreds of millions of dollars. They said the trial would begin on july 28 of 2020, and would last about three months. The delay has allowed both sides and therefore promises to be a complicated case. Holmes faces 20 years in prison if convicted. 823 of man is under arrest after suspicion of dui after allegedly crashing his pickup truck into a restaurant in pleasant hill. Police were called to sweet tomatoes at about 2 00 this morning. We learned that the driver was parked in front of the business for about an hour. Security guard saw him as he made his rounds, and then we came back around the pickup was halfway inside the restaurant. Police say they believed the driver may have put the car in drive instead of reverse. When officers arrived they said the man still had his foot pressed down on the accelerator. Unfortunately for the business, the support beams in the front of the business or fortunately, they were not damaged. Took out two very large windows. Glass windows and shut up about 23yearold alejandro was taken into custody, as you saw there. Police say nobody was hurt, including the driver. The restaurant was able to reopen today. President trump and russian president Vladimir Putin met facetoface today and during the meeting they joked about getting rid of journalists. He also shared a joke about election meddling during the meeting at the g20 summit in japan as you might have imagined, the remarks do not go over well with some people. Don roberts is with the president. Reporter the first meeting between President Trump and the russian president Vladimir Putin was in last years helsinki summit overshadowed by this exchange. Critics say he may have been making light of the situation but Chuck Schumer tweeted the joke is on us and putin is the only one laughing. President trump is light to interfere in 2020. It is a question the president gets often, and he maintains he is able to work with his russian counterpart while still being tough on moscow. According to the white house, the two ultimately did discuss issues like iran and ukraine. They also do arms control agreements, with the president saying they need to include limits on china. They will be meeting with chinese president saturday as the two countries remain locked in a trade battle. The u. S. Implementing tariffs on 250 billion in chinese imports, and is threatening to hit another 3 billion in chinese products with penalties. The minimum it will be productive. Reporter another high profile meeting will start off the president s meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince last week. The United Nations incurs an investigation into whether Mohammed Bin Salman was involved in the killing last year of journalist jamal khashoggi. In osaka, john roberts, fox news. About an hour and half ago the president tweeted he is headed to south korea. If north Korean Leader kim jong un was to meet, he would join him to shake hands. Workers abuse of accused of abusing patients. Coming up at 5 30 why the mayor says these allegations hit close to home. Took them over three weeks but not quite the hall in the pacific. Coming up see how many fishnets this group pulled out of the ocean. In San Francisco pride week, people here gearing up for the trans mart. March. Coming up will talk to you about a weekend celebration and diversity. Beautiful day out there. Temperatures are coming up this afternoon and continuing to climb as we get into the bay area weekend. Checking in under Current Conditions and you can see what is in the extended forecast, coming up. Right now, earn 60,000 bonus miles after qualifying purchases when you apply and are approved for the Hawaiian Airlines world elite mastercard. Plus, you earn miles on everyday purchases. Get closer to the travels and moments youll remember forever with this special offer. Need another reason . Enjoy an introductory no annual fee. To apply, visit hawaiianairlines. Com pride week and has arrived as ever cisco and the party has begun. The kickoff as the trans march starts at 6 00 and we are live at dolores park where the march begins, weve been talking to people about the meeting of the pride celebration. Reporter in 45 minutes of the trans march will be taking place and people been out there for hours. There enjoying the weather, the entertainment and are also enjoying because it is all about pride, itll be a long weekend of celebrating. There be a lot more remote in celebration there be a lot more remote and safer cisco than usual this weekend. This time of the year when the Lgbtq Community and its allies embrace diversity. We are excited to just do all of the things, go to dolores park, hang out, be as gay as possible. I came here today to be around other people who are nine binary, transgender. At dolores park at the Trans Community is being celebrated as flags fly high. People here, and over in the castro are taking time to reflect on what pride means to them. Just being out and proud and loud and being who you are, wearing what you want to wear and loving who you want to love. Pride for me is about saying no, i am here. And i do exist and please do not take that away from me. I the first time being it out gay person with pride. Reporter sarah came out just a few months ago. She and her partner are now in the castro to separate what it is like to be free. In a community where it is okay to be open, accepting and loving. I think its nice to be able to share it. I wouldnt ever post on social media or anything like that so its nice to just feel very free. I think a lot of us come here to escape the homophobia we grew up with. A group in california and that being so conservative. If you came out as gay youre probably going to get beat. So, i came out when i was 15 and i immediately came here, for pride. That was three years ago. Reporter now he works at hamburger marys as a female impersonator. On this day he was decorating the Restaurant Bar or its pride celebration. Hoping to continue the true spirit of the weekend, to be accepting and inclusive. Especially for those who feel left out. You want to go somewhere that screams gay . You come here. There are drag queens walking around, rainbows everywhere, i love it. Reporter another place you will see tons of rainbows will be the pride parade. For the past couple of months, they have repaired the floats for the big and veal. Which this year will have a very special meeting. This year is the anniversary of stonewall so theres a lot of floats paying homage to the original stonewall riots. Reporter those rights 50 years ago made people spark the Gay Rights Movement allowing people to be exactly who they truly are. The parade will start off here at 6 00. The weekend of acceptance. Thank you so much for the update. We put together an entire special on the history of pride here in the bay area. Our encore performance will air this sunday at 6 30 p. M. The fourth of july holiday is nearing and, already, you can your illegal fireworks being set off around the bay area. Oakland police say they confiscated nearly 2 tons of illegal fireworks on wednesday worth 50,000. In another, separate case, the city of oakland made an arrest involving 3400 pounds of illegal fireworks. Oakland police chief was here at ktvu at noon and says they plan to continue the crackdown through the fourth of july holiday. It is not worth it, it is not worth the fines, not worth hurting the community in any way, not worth someones home getting caught on fire. So please, no fireworks, go enjoy your community event. Off fireworks are illegal, even the socalled safe and sane ones. People even any possession of firecrackers can have to pay fines. If you see anyone selling or setting off fireworks they have set up a template the number is 5107778814. They are nice, but they are everywhere and can cause a fire. A bay area environment the group say they have pulled 40 tons of abandoned fishnets and consumer plastic from the Great Pacific garbage patch. The expedition left honolulu on may 25th. Volunteers with a Ocean Voyage Institute say they collected at the huge amount of debris and just 25 days. Organizers say the floating ghost that is particularly or a kills as many as 380,000 Marine Mammals a year. We have saved some whales and dolphins in fish from being tangled. And we have shown our goal is to reach or excel the area by 500 tons next year. Get this, they say Ocean Plastic was almost unknown 40 years ago. And now, as much as 12 million tons of plastic enter the worlds oceans every year. This afternoon temperatures are up by several degrees in most areas. Along the coastline for the weekend, temperatures are going to range from the 60s today low 70s. Not a big warmup coming to the coast if you plan on hanging out there but around the bay and inland, it will be mild to warm. Look at that beautifulof fog and cloud cover stretching across the top of the screen. Over the golden gate bridge. The onshore breeze it will reduce, it will scale back some, not going to be quite as robust as it has been over the last couple of days. Though it is a little breezy, typical as we begin to transition to a warmer, drier pattern. 81 degrees in santa rosa right now, 63 in San Francisco, 69 in oakland. Upper 70s in livermore, san jose checking in at 74. So, again, most areas, especially inland notably warmer. Up by 80 degrees over concorde. Nine in santa rosa. Around the bay a few degrees for san carlos, san jose, a little cooler at Half Moon Bay. Now with this warmer, sort of stable air mass that will move and, likely to see that fog holding tough to the coast. We have that system over the Pacific Northwest that moved through and helped us to steer things out and the cool air aloft help to mix up the marine layer. As a result we have mostly clear skies at time over areas of the coastline. But we are going to begin the transition back to more stable pattern. And with that, comes what we call the inversion layer that kind puts a lid on the cloud cover and keeps a close to the coast. That is what we do expect as we get into the coming days, the morning clouds, the evening clouds and a little bit of sunshine with the coast mixed in for the afternoon. Heres a look at the winds. Nevada an onshore breeze f15, oakland 17, fairfield scaling back to eight. We know when it turns off inland communities, temperature start to warm up. A little bit warmer expected as we get into your weekend. 70s around the bay, its going to be more of a micro climate pattern, earlier this week we are in the 60s and 70s. Heres a look at the futurecast, there is a fog cover were talking but along the coastline. Although our south facing beaches likely have some sunshine. Santa cruz, and said the bay with a little bit of cloud cover, it does pull back, there is your lunch hour and into the afternoon it does pull away a little bit more. Probably county skies for the coast though Half Moon Bay could be a little bit tricky, you may get some sunshine but the clouds may come right back into the afternoon. My morning upper 40s in santa rosa, 52 fremont. Have a look at the afternoon highs, and the rest of the week as we approach the fourth of july. Coming up in just a little bit. It happened a back to back days, someone is struck and killed by a smart train on the same stretch of track and the north bay. Up next, the dangerous behavior our crew found they were reporting on the story. Coming up on ktvu news at 6, a review of the california disabled care system. Will tell you about the changes being implemented. The housing crisis hit a new level with the possibility of lawsuit against the citys that do not produce enough new housing. We will tell you about it. To at Crystal Geyser we put our mountain source on our bottle. Thats cool. Because we bottle at our mountain source. Crystal geyser Alpine Spring water. 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