Happening over the venetian bridge. Our pete suratos is standing by for a News Conference at the center there. What did you find out. Reporter they tell us theres going to be a News Conference at about 11 45 a. M. It could be a combination of police as well as other city officials speaking at that News Conference. I want to go and show you guys a live look right now. You can see it on the screen of the situation right now at the valero refinery. You can see the flames coming out of the stacks. When we were crossing the cartinas bridge earlier we could see the black smoke. The flares are a result of a power outage at the refinery just before 7 00 a. M. Were learning that pg e says it happened during what they call a routine switching but that power was restored shortly after. Now, as you mentioned, some places are still being asked to shelter in place such as Matthew Turner and Roberts Temple Elementary School and folks at the nearby Industrial Park were also notified to evacuate. Now, not too long ago we spoke with a resident who said it was around 7 00 a. M. When he heard the sirens coming from the refinery indicating he should stay inside. Sunrise, heard the whistle, and it triggered the shelter in place. I like looked outside the door and saw some black smoke. I didnt know until you told me that there was a power outage at the refinery. He actually did notify him about the situation. Valero released a full statement explaining this situation saying that the power outage sent the product to the flare which is used to monitor. Theity is not being asked to shelter in place but as i mentioned at the top of the report were waiting for a News Conference from fire and police and other city officials here at 11 45. Well send it back to you in the studio. An empty room and well get updates from pete. Thanks very much. Youll see the column of smoke moving in a particular direction. That will tells us the winds are playing a big part in the smoke hacking around the area. Lets turn to meteorologist kari hall. When can we expect improvement . Well have gusty winds as we go through the Early Morning and afternoon. The winds will be picking up. We see the direction of the wind speeds by these arrows here blowing onshore and also across the bay, so as we get a look closer at the smoke, its mostly flowing into sassoon bay and mostly over the marshlands so we wont see this moving over towards vallejo and as theres an approaching cold front we can see by the clouds spanning over the ocean and moving closer to the bay area. That will cause the winds to increase as we go into the rest of the afternoon. So the smoke is still coming in from the west and moving off towards the east, and we will still see that same wind direction, even as this cold front approaches, but it will be stronger which may carry it a little bit farther off towards the east, and well continue to monitor that. Sam and kris. Thank you very much. A live look at that flaring once again and as kari mentioned well continue to follow this breaking news. Well have updates throughout this newscast and you can also find some of the photos and videos that weve been posting online at nbcbayarea. Com. If you download the nbc bay area app youll also get the latest alert. And more breaking news right now. A major break in a 12yearold cold case in the north bay. The Sonoma County sheriff Just Announced in the last 15 minutes an arrest in the 2004 murder mers of a young engaged couple on a remote jenner beach. Sheriff steve operateos says this man 38yearold is now under arrest for the murders of the couple as well as the murder of his own brother in forestville. He allegedly new details about the beach killings that no one else would have known. He had information about the killings that no other person could have known and we have located evidence that corroborates his statement. Based on what detectives have been able to learn we feel confident that we have jason and lindseys killer in custody. A 26yearold jason allen and 23yearold Lindsey Cutshaw were camping on Horseshoe Beach in jenner when someone shot them as they were sleeping in their sleeping bags. Their bodies were not discovered until days later by a helicopter, and their murders have remained a mystery until today. The young couple were camp counselors and were enjoying time off before heading home to the mid wrest to get married. Were awaiting a verdict in the sierra lamar case. A developing story right now. Both sides wrapped up their closing arguments. That happened yesterday and now the fate of this trial is in the hands of the jury. Nbc bay areas bob redell is live. If they dont come to a verdict by lunchtime today, this is going into next week . Correct, samms. Jurors are only deliberating for half a day at the hall of justice until noon so unless they come up with a verdict within the next 55 minutes they will break for the weekend and some back monday to begin deliberations again. Remember, this trial lasted for three months. This panel of six men and six women potentially have a lot of information, a lot of evidence to consider in trying to decide whether or not to convict antolin garciatorres for the murder of sierra lamar after disappearing at the bus stop in 2012. Lamars suspect was found in the suspects car, will they side with that or will they question with the defense that maybe she ran away and is still out there. A Santa Clara University law professor says it could take the jury quite some time to come back with a verdict. It could take at a minimum several days, but it could even take longer for them to work through the evidence, and some of it depends on whether or not theres any disagreement in the jury room. Its been a long trial but its just a blink of an eye compared to how much time we havent had sierra with us. If this jury convicts garciatorres they will also have to decide whether or not he should be sentenced to death. If they find him not guilty, hell face life in prison here in the states. The balcony collapse that caused great pain to the berkeley community. Theres partial settlement thats now been reached between the injured victims and families of the dead and the Construction Company that built the apartment. In the summer of 2015 six College Students died and seven others were injured when the fifth floor balcony they were standing on tore away from the building. Of the six people killed, five were irish nationals visiting berkeley and one was a local woman from roner park. The settlement amount for the Construction Company is confidential and lawyers say the payments will not restore lives. The building manager and owner have not agreed to settle. The lawsuits against them continue. Happening now in San Francisco, crews are trying to fix a major sinkhole that nearly swallowed up an entire semitruck. This happened in the area of seventh and townsend streets blocks away from at t park, and you can see in the video the driver must have not known what was happening at the time. San francisco fire estimates that the sinkhole is about 5 feet by 14 feet in size. We talked to the truck driver who says he drove up to the location to deliver Construction Supplies around 5 00 this morning when his truck started sinking. It can happen slow motion and give me a chance to put my body in the holes. When the truck stopped i turned the engine off. I shake a little bit because now i cant believe that the hole is in there. You can see the driver wasnt hurt, but as we said what a sight. I would say. A story you were covering this morning, a vend e vandal devastating a Police School and on a day thats supposed to be celebratory. Nearly a dozen windows were broken and glass strewn on the carpet where babies and toddlers would typically be playing. The vandal did at least 10,000 worth of other classrooms, too, the kitchen and the offices there. This happened on may the 4th. That was supposed to be a star wars theme celebration of their yearlong effort to learn the alphabet. The vandal was actually still inside the building when the owner joyce bratt arrived. Though she managed to snap a picture of her, it was little consolation because she then had to call parents knowing they would be in the lurch. Children arrived in costume to have the biggest day of their year and they had to turn them away and that breaks my heart, making the phone calls yesterday morning to tell over 100 families that they couldnt come to care is one of the hardest things ive had to do. Obviously very emotion a. M. For her. Parents though have turned around to try to make this a positive. They started a gofundme page to raise 10,000 to get the preschool back an track as we have a check of the screen right now. Looks like they have raised 6,300. The owners are hoping the contractors will have everything fixed by tuesday morning. Now to the tragic double murder of a willow glen couple in their home. We now know the husband was Vice President of engineering at Juniper Network in sunnyvale. Police say the gunman who killed them Late Wednesday night was their daughters exboyfriend. Police say the 24yearold shot and killed the couple and took the 13yearold top hostage. Thats when officers shot suspect. He did not survive. There was a possible warning on his Instagram Page of a couple of weeks ago as he wrote no mercy on the ones you love the most. Chief eddie garcia says he was upset over the recent breakup. Dealing with someone who is mentally ill had choices, didnt give them a choice or my officer a choice. The couples older son was also at home at the time of the shooting but was able to get out for help. Others were not home at the time. The California Attorney general says he needs more cash for a big fight. The reason that javier baserra is asking for more funding to take on trump administration. Raising more money for road repairs but theres a fight over the tax hike. A bump in the road. Plus, phenomenal job numbers. The economy back on track. Well take a look come up in business and keck. Food. Water. Internet we need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. Theres a look at the nasdaq and signs that the economy is roaring to life. We will have more on that with scott mcgrew in just one second but right now the dow jones, s p, nasdaq are all up a little bit this morning. The economy was roaring ahead in april and the latest job numbers are very positive. Very positive. Scott mccrew, this is a real turnaround. Previous numbers from the last month terrible but that was the last report. Lets talk about this report, absolutely what we wanted to see. 211,000 jobs. The Unemployment Rate fell to 4. 4 , the lowest since may of 2007. Really tremendous numbers. Now ironically that bad report from the month previous actually got revised even further downward so its good to put march in the rear view mirror. Ubers misbehavior caught the attention of the feds. Uber misbehaves a lot. This is over software they use called gray ball. Its a way of making uber x cars invisible to city regulators where were cracking down on car shape. For example in portland, someone would fire up his uber app and wouldnt see any cars around him. The New York Times was the first to reveal the gray ball software and prosecutors in the bay area have launched an inquiry. Either way its attracting attention of the feds, not goo business. Thereto are a number of startups who operate in legal gray areas. For instance, anybody in the cannabis business. State law allows it, federal law does not. This week on our sunday morning show press here well talk with the show of ease. He runs a business delivering Legal Marijuana in San Francisco. Cannabis is a growing business but not without risk. We have a legal team, lobbying team. We definitely dont take the uber approach of just plowing into a city. You know, we work with local regulators and use our data and things and before we go in we always have the green light. Thats on press here after meet the press on sunday morning at 9 00. Back to you. Critics of governor browns tax gas bill are putting their foot on the brakes so to speak. A new repeal is now in the works. The Southern California republican assemblyman is now organizing a Voter Initiative to strike down that gas tax. Its an effort that comes weeks after brown got the legislature to agree with the tax which will provide more than 50 billion to improve bridges, tunnels and the roadways. Not all drivers are sold on repeal that plan. I would probably vote against it so that we could pay the tax. That said, lets hope they will take the money and actually fix these roads. They didnt ask their opinion, they just rammed it through. If 3665,000 registered voters sign that petition, the repeal would be on its way to the ballot. Gas tax collection, by the way, is set to begin in november. Californias new attorney general Javier Bacera wants more money to fight President Trump. The new budget cuts his departments funding by 6 million. Bacera did not say how many money he needs. You heard it right there. The Weather Department has a new tight. Now certified the most accurate weather station in the bay area. That title coming from weather aid, an independent Weather Research company. Major accomplishment coming off a very wet winter. Our microweather climate team is the most accurate when it comes to predicting rape, wind, thunderstorms, fog, even high and low temperatures so congratulations to the entire team. Yeah. Even though we have some fun gadgets like storm ranger, we know its really the people in a analyze all of that data coming in and we know you work really hard to did that. A huge accomplishment for the Microclimate Weather Team so really cool to see were getting honored for that. As we head into the weekend, were trying to pinpoint the temperatures all around the bay area and also an approaching cold front. A live look outside at the golden gate bridge. Can you see the flag really waving and the winds are picking up. Were seeing sustained winds in San Francisco at about 30 Miles Per Hour and as we take a live look outside at san jose. All bright sunshine getting a break from the clouds and the temperature trend shows well get more sun throughout the day and well be in the low 70s and 63 degrees right now in san jose and fairfield at 65 degrees. 67 degrees in napa and San Francisco and 61 and we are already cooler now than we were 24 hours ago. Look at the temperature drop. Its 15, 16 degrees cool ker in the trivalley than yesterday at this time and most of the bay area a couple degrees cooler as were continuing to see this cooling trend under way. Look where were headed. 71 degrees in liver more and pattia will be up to 69 degrees and 69 in oakland and napa will be up to 75 degrees. A very comfortable day and a nice evening if youre planning to head out to the coliseum at 7 05. The as will be having their first pitch and it will be at 59 degrees. More clouds moving in. It will be cool during the game and also windy so make sure youre wearing lots of layers and be prepared for that cold weather. Were looking at the clouds and farther to the north of here and even some light rain offshore. Were not expecting any rain. This will be dry as it moves in, but it will bring in a shift in the winds and cause the wind to pick up with a few more clouds and then as we go into the day tomorrow partly to mostly cloudy skies. Cooler temperatures and a slight chance that we could see light rain moving in. Were seeing with the disturbance moving in well see a slight chance of rain in the forecast for sunday but i wouldnt cancel any outdoor plans. The chance of seeing any rain is so slight that well only see it in a few spotty areas. As far as temperatures in San Francisco we stay in the 60s over the next few day disease. A little milder to dry out and see a little more sunshine. 73 degrees inland and at times the gusts might be at 30 Miles Per Hour and throughout the weekend were looking good and warming up as we head into tuesday. Well talk about weekend events going on coming up next in the microclimate forecast. Thanks, kari. Coming up, check the flight status before you head over to pick someone up at sfo because were expecting delays. The construction work that could keep many travelers on the ground. First, happening by. Standing live for a News Conference about the valero refinery flaring. Thats expected to happen in 20 minutes or so. Well bring it to you live. Meantime, pete suratos it is there and expects to find all the twists and turns and track him on our twitter bay at nbc bay area. Back in just a couple of minutes. Hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® its starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. Fo, and it could impact travelers this weekend. Hatching today. Runway repaving continues at sfo which could impact travelers all weekend long. They are repaving one of its two runways mainly used for arriving flights and getting out might not be a problem. Crews will install new longer lasting l. E. D. Lights and also ground markings and that work is expected to start just before midnight tonight and then last through the weekend slow flyers should be prepared for delay and cancellations all weekend long. And a traffic alert. West bay shore road in palo alto is headed for a longterm closure. Thats part of the creek bridge replacement project. The closure begins at 3 00 this afternoon. We have not been told when it will reopen. More bridge news. the causeway bridge in vallejo also closing today that. Closure is temporary. It begins at 10 00 and its about 90 minutes in and reopens at 2 00 this afternoon. The bridge is being inspect the. If youre head that had way use the highway bridge instead. The warriors won game two at utah. Heres more proof of that. Theres a live look at oracle arena. The home team did not disappoint fans thrilling them with a barrage of threes and not surprisingly many of them coming from a guy named seth. Second straight dominating victory over the utah jazz in the western conference kfls matchup. Steph curry draining one of five threes. Kevin durant led the way for the team with 25 boards, 11 boards and 7 assists. What does he not do in the game was never really in doubt but that was problematic. You saw Draymond Green hold up and hurt his knee briefly in the Fourth Quarter and he left. He did return a short time later in the game. I knew my knee was looking up a little bit. Had a little streak. I kind of knew exactly what it was. All is fine with dram. Moving on to game three in utah tomorrow night. Tomorrow is a huge sports day. Big fight happening and also the kentucky derby. Get your juleps ready. Coming up we going. Kentucky bourbon tritip. Come on, man. Raw meat for sale right there on the streets. Up next, our hidden investigation into the black market for stolen goods and how this meat could end up on your table. Im vicky nguyen. And i want to show you how to join the community on our waze application. Go to the waze app and in the bottom corner theres a magnifying glass. When you fire up that app, click on that and click at your name at the top. Scroll down to pick teams, nbc bay area wazers. Thats how you join the community and help each other out. We get back to you right after the break. Daytime lineup omni cover shot in kris 2 shot it s a black market in san fracisco that most people on september 9, 2010, pg e learned a tragic lesson we can never forget. This gas pipeline ruptured in san bruno. The explosion and fire killed eight people. Pg e was convicted of six felony charges including five violations of the u. S. Pipeline safety act and obstructing an ntsb investigation. Pg e was fined, placed under an outside monitor, given five years of probation, and required to perform 10,000 hours of community service. We are deeply sorry. We failed our customers in san bruno. While an apology alone will never be enough, actions can make pg e safer. And thats why weve replaced hundreds of miles of gas pipeline, adopted new Leak Detection technology that is onethousand times more sensitive, and built a stateoftheart gas operations center. We can never forget what happened in san bruno. Thats why were working every day to make pg e the safest Energy Company in the nation. Street meat. Meat that could end up on your table. Its a black market in San Francisco that a lot of people might not know about and might be consuming. Street meat. This is meat that could end up on your table. Sounds a little sketchy. We went undercover to expose the meat market operating right out in the pope. Senior Investigative Reporter vicky nguyen joining us with what she found on her hidden cameras. Reporter we were tipped off by retailers who say were all at risk in the rise of organized retail crime. Its becoming more violent as thieves fence clothes, medicine and even meat that you might end up meeting without knowing it. You eat tritips. Yeah. You get 10 to 15. If you head to market for a steak youll have no trouble finding it. Any more . This is not a supermarket. Burritos. Reporter its Market Street and seventh in San Francisco coming away from the theater showing hamilton. The 5 a can. 1 a can. Ive got spam, too. Over several weeks we went undercover and observed people gathering here all day every day with backpacks and sometimes suitcases and there tease more than meat for sale. Food stamps, clothes, a flatscreen tv and even something that appeared to be a gun. Where is it from . Safeway. Safeway. Plenty of household staples all deeply discounted. 25 for all of this. This stainless steal french press sells for 20. Trendy ugg boots, 160 retail and here 75 before bargaining. 70 worth of meat for 10 bucks. Stores blame shoplifters who is are growing more aggressive. Watch as this woman strides to slide by a Security Guard with food in and. When he blocks her from leaving, she decides if she cant have it no one can. She dumps the juice all over the floor. They will fight you for it because they feel its theirs now. Eric owns the grocery outlet. Half of the case is gone now. He says these crimes hit his store financially and his staff physically. One of my employees was stabbed in the and and the arm. He estimates losses to 200 to 1,000 a day. This guy caught on camera. Decides im going to grab a dote jent, too, and cause by staff moments after he took off. Your employees tracked him down. Over on 24th and mission. Where are police . We saw uniformed officers walking the block, cars cruising the sidewalk and even this connecticut fronting buyers and sellers. And threatening deportation. Wait until we get imf involved and ship everybody back to their own country. Five minutes later business is back. We wanted to ask police about the challenging of cracking down on this crime. Sfpd declined to talk and in an email the agency said the area is known as a place where stolen goods may be sold. The Department Says its conducting plain clothes operations here for several months. Weve seen an uptick in the number of violent incidents. Joe larocca is a Loss Prevention experience in battling retail theft. San francisco and oakland are not far behind. Customers are frequently caught in the middle. People are pushed at the door, run over. People hit by vehicles. We showed him our video of the meat on market. People have told us sometimes investigators have followed this meat to restaurants. What do you make of that . We see the product resold to retailers and restaurants and then its resold back to consumers who are really unsuspecting. You know if theres any restaurants around here . That sell what . Meat. Ellis. Youve got to know people would be surprised that its hamming right under their noses. An armed guard stands watch at this store. His message to buyers, sellers and Law Enforcement, decide what kind of community youre going to want because youre going to get it. Store owners say this type of shoplifting has become a security issue and even a Public Health issue so if you see something Say Something to store management. They say every theft that can be stopped makes a difference. Wow. Thank you very much. If you have a tip for our Investigative Unit call or send an email to themonth at nbcbayarea. Com. Bracing for more testimony in a Police Officer killing that rocked the heyward Police Department and Law Enforcement community in general two years ago. The preliminary hearing continues. Yesterday officer justin green testified he drove up to the scene as quickly as possible and heard a gunshot from the suspects pickup. Officer green said he shot several times into estradas car but that the suspect was able to drive away. Estrada was arrested the next day at an Oakland Hospital where he was being treated for a gunshot wound. A woman is sent to the hospital. This video of the scene into our newsroom just this morning. It happened in millbrae. No word on victims condition. Surely youll remember this protest last month in berkeley that got out of and at civic center park. Now police are asking for help identifying three people they say are wanted for assault stemming from that protest. There are the pictures that police are looking for as protesters from both sides were clashing. One video clip showed or protester being punched in the face. Take a good look. There were also 11 others who were injured. Some scary moment to tell you about at the north b. A. R. T. Station. This happened yesterday morning about 10 00. B. A. R. T. Says the rider was at the bus zone. Said he had a gun and started to make threatening comments. The man was arrested and turns out he was already banned by b. A. R. T. Stayed well learn more details on a salvage operation in the bay. The coast guard is trying to pick up this barge that sunk. Crews have been working on rotating the barge upright and today the coast guard will give us an update on the progress. I think you may have been mentioning this a bit ago, some sort of a horse race. The promere event taking place, none other than the kentucky derby. 1 be 4 the 143rd running of the derby and if only the track were that clean. Its muddy as heck. A full field of 20 horses will be taking part. Youre probably wondering can the horses sense the excitement . Jockeys say yes, they can. They are usually fired up and obviously they feel the energy. This years favorite is a horse called classic empire. Several hours of the coverage culminating in the greatest two minutes in sport. Coming up, were tracking cooler temperatures and breezy ones, too. It will be really windy as we go into this afternoon and evening. Cooler temperatures and looking live at berkeley and 62 degrees now. A lot more sun mixed with the clouds heading into the weekend. Well talk about it coming up next. And small restaurants very concerned that a big company is misleading hungry consumers like you. Nbc bay area responds coming up next. To local restaurants that say a San Francisco startup is using their business names and logos without nbc bay area simmonds to local restaurants that say a San Francisco startup is using their business names and their logos without permission. Doing that and taking their food and delivering it anyway. They think thats kind of misleading. Consumer investigator chris chmura is here about meal delivery. Good morning. Here we have a conflict between a new company thats on fire and an established Small Business thats feeling burned. Barbara rowe owns mulberry pizza in san rafael. A few months back she saw a Delivery Service pick pentagon up a to go order and thought it was unethical. We never authorized anything like in a later learned the Delivery Service posted its logo on her website and was taking orders and giving the company the impression the two companies are partners but they are not. She does not authorize any food delivery, afraid it might arrive cold and leave a bad taste in a customers mouth. Barbara isnt alone. Our teams Research Found dozens of local restaurants listed on middle mans website without their permission. Tonight at 11 00, a large restaurant case takes that case to court and a legal scholar weighses in that will give you food for thought the next time you want your dinner delivered. If you have a Consumer Complaint the number is 888996tips or nbcbayarea. Com responds. Ill see you tonight at 11 00. Thank you, chris. We can eat hot food again. Speaking of meal delivery. We did not have anything my one daughter wanted taco meat. Dont heat it up. Ate cold taco meat. You dont want to cook when its really hot in the house and im so tired of the hum of the air conditioner while youre trying to sleep. We can turn the air conditioners off now. Its cooled off down around the bay area and were getting sunshine as we look at mt. Hamilton. Kind of sad to see the hills turning brown again and were also still enjoying the green as well and parts of the bay area and were heading into the low 70s today so at least our temperatures will feel more comfortable. 72 degrees in the south bay and the peninsula at 69 degrees and 73 degrees in the trivalley and 22 in the north bay. We do have high clouds moving in but at least for now we have sunshine. We also have some really gusty winds and sustained winds now in San Francisco at 31 Miles Per Hour while many of the inland areas are much more of a calmer breeze and in liver more the wind speeds are coming in from the west at 15 Miles Per Hour. Us a make plans for weekend tomorrow the Cinco De Mayo festival in San Francisco and the Mission District and maybe youre planning to head out this evening for dinner. Looking really, really good and more cloud in the mix. Mostly cloudy skies, peeks of sun and high temperatures reaching about 60 degrees. Headed to the sierras, this is a live look at kirkwood right now. A lot of snow on the ground and there will be light snow showers in the forecast tomorrow. Cool temperatures after spending the week in the 70s. Nice to see the temperatures coming down there, too, as we bring it back home in foster city, the polynesian festival with temperatures in the mid50s and as we go through the day, bright and sunny and make sure to bring the sunglasses. The winds this evening will be picking up, too. This will be dipping into the bay area and also a disturbance that will bring us a chance of some showers for tomorrow afternoon as well as early on sunday. This will not be a significant system that cancels any plans. As we go into next week temperatures in the 50s for sfris comb the inland areas in the 70s and even some upper 60s for tomorrow. Some seasonable weather, but then it does get a little warm as we head into tuesday of next week and were still going to keep the mostly dry weather through this sevenday forecast. Kris and sam. Thanks very much, kari. This whole morning weve been watching a flaring situation and air quality certainly a concern for People Living nearby. They are about to begin a News Conference. Well listen n. Pete suratos is there, and well be right back. Yesterday the vote. Today, the victory lap. we go now to washington dc where President Trump and house yesterday was the vote and today the victory half. We go down to washington, d. C. Where President Trump announce and House Republicans are celebrating is Health Care Bill in the house. The bill passed without a democrat vote and no score as to how much it will cost. The legislation head to the senate where it faces a much tougher xhl edge. The senate will not get to the bill for weeks if not months. The bill will lower premiums but bringing more Insurance Companies back into the options. President trump says that hes fulfilling a campaign promise. This is a repeal and a replace of obamacare. Make no mistake about it. This vote will be tattooed to them. As i also said they will glow in the dark. That was House Minority leader nancy please who says that the first version of the bill that actually was scored by the Congressional Budget Office indicated that had about 24 million americans would lose their health care. The future or futuristic San Francisco skyline apierce powers to be being closer to reality. This is a live look and the artist renderings show what it looks like soon at the top of the sales forcer to. It projects digital images that you can see from most anywhere in the city. Bay area based artists in campbell created that project. No word yet on when the lights might turn on. Pete suratos has been standing by watching whats been going on as were waiting for officials to address the flaring and all the smoke out there this morning. An update for you right after this break. Food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. We just want fast internet for one, simple rate. For all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all. For the this. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. The Energy Conscious whopeople among usle . Say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. The press conference is now under way regarding the venting and the smoke situation that happened over venetia. This is the fire chief. And they were flaring at that time. I also received a subsequent phone call shortly thereafter from the Vice President and general manager of the refinery advising me of the same information and that they were working to determine the cause of the problem and to overcome the challenges in the refinery. At approximately 7 30 we received a phone call from the refinery indicating that fefelt based on the smoke plume and the direction of travel that we should consider an evacuation of the Industrial Park area. It was at that time that city staff was contacted. We initiated the process of an evacuation and put Ground Forces out madly to begin the evacuation in the Industrial Park and used our community alerting siren system and text messaging system to issue a notification to the community of the evacuation. We reached out to the Unified School District and advised them to conduct a shelter in place for the Robert Temple school and the Turner Matthew schools. The valero Emergency Response personnel were managing the issue within the refinery itself and the police and Fire Department personnel would responsible for the evacuation and Traffic Management in the Industrial Park. We reached out to the california iowa patrol and requested assistance from them in closing down all the offramps on 680 that entered the Industrial Park area to eliminate traffic into the park. We reached out to the office of Emergency Services and notify the hospital and the event and potential we could have medical injuries and people going to the local hospitals. We requested Emergency Medical Resources to come into the community for medic explains and we upstaffed the foyer and Police Department to help manage the incident. We are currently working in conjunction with the department of public he will, California Air resources board, the bay area Quality Management district and the federal Environmental Protection Agency Within the Industrial Park and areas around the city. They are currently at the school sites, evaluating the school sites to determine if we can lift the shelter in place in those areas. At this time would i like to have steve from the Environmental Protection agency come forward and talk about the late readings and what they are doing at this time. My name is see calanog. Im a federal onscene coordinator with the u. S. Environmental protection agency. Im out of the San Francisco office. Any other okay. The before 46 40ks this morning the uscpa through the Natural Response Center received notification by valero, the situation going on at the refinery. Within about half han hour epa personnel were arriving on scene to start assessing the situation and it continued to evolve in our discussions with city and county officials here and requested and brought in additional personnel and equipment to augment air monitoring and sampling activities that were going on. As the chief had already mentioned we had personnel and equipment out with city and county officials in various locations that he mentioned. Within the past hour and assessing them suggests that the levels at various teams peaked and what we were looking at primary insurgents is sulfur dioxide gases and sulfur primarily. In light of whats going on in the weather we expect the levels to diminish over time and well continue to monitor and determine that is in fact happening. Once we have a more complete picture well be able to update you all in the community about where we are. Were here to assist our state and county and making sure that the community is safe. So as far as that is concerned, how is that potential health risk for people who may be asthmatic, et cetera, ten times . The monitoring stations were at peak ten times with normal become gound that we expect to see for the various constituents here. And in our effort to collect data its to support the county Health Agency for our determination for what is safe and whats going on here. Weve been listening into information of information of what they have been getting and talking out of the city. The Fire Department and Police Department and, then, of course, the hazardous materials. What we dont know at this somers point when the School Shelters in place might lift. They are evaluating the situation right now and as soon as we get more information on that well push it out to you. Have a great day. Stand by, everyone. Were live in five, four, three, two, one. Oh, happy Cinco De Mayo, everybody. We are ready to party. Mint juleps coming up, too. But it is fill in the blank friday. We have nina parker and dax with us lets do these rapid fire rapid round. Yesterday, history made here in hollywood. Curt and goldie were honored. They are iconic. Good word. My favorite couple in hollywood. I love them
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