The excavation equipment is here, be a they are in the process of beginning the demolition. The Fire Department says residents cannot move back into their apartment until theres no longer a danger of that building collapsing. At the strata building the exterior sprinklers went off because of the fire. Well see when residents will be allowed back. No official time line for that, but some residents believe it will be a matter of days. Live in San Francisco. Monty francis, nbc bay area news. A big headache for the resident there and, of course, people who work in the area, going g back to our nbc chopper. Still remarkably no major injuries throughout all of this. Really the key piece of news here. Our nbc chopper here with live pictures, crews have been working through the night and throughout the day. The game plan is pretty straightforward, to have this Building Collapse literally inwards as opposed to outwards as it threatens other apartment and offices. Lets go down to nbc bay area cheryl herd out there last night and once again for us. Cheryl . Reporter good evening, raj. Preliminary reports say that a welding machine may have been the cause of that fire. Now, as you can see behind me, there is a huge crane there. It stopped working right now, but what it did is pushed part of the building in, and then theres another machine going on the other side, and they are going to do the same on the other side. The water is not here right now. They stopped pouring it on there because they need to know just where the fire is burning. At 3 45 this afternoon, construction crews started dismantling the burned out building as smoke started spewing into the air. Its now been 24 hours and the fire is still burning. Its such a hazard right now because, you know, the building is leaning in several places so this is a collapse zone. Reporter result of a fivealarm fire that burned down this 172unit Apartment Building that was under construction. At height of the fire flames started shooting hundreds of feet into the air. The rating was pretty bad. Kind of retreated back to that occupied building, the strata, which was fully constructed and occupied, and the radiant heat started to pop the windows. Reporter fire investigators say the massive blaze had the potential to burn down the entire block and was likely started by an accident. Its our understanding that there was some welding taking place yesterday in the area that the fire originated. Reporter investigators believe the fire started on the eighth or ninth floor of the building. Fire chief Joanne Hayes White and mayor ed lee got a closer look at the gutted building this morning. As you can see, theres lots of other properties around. Were very fortunate that it wasnt as windy last night as were experiencing this morning. That might have made a huge difference. The mayor also credits another thing for keeping the flames from spreading. But for that High Pressure water system, this fire would have been perhaps very hard to conta contain. Reporter now two Fire Fighters were injured in this blaze. Up sprained her ainge. The other had seconddegree burns to his face and hands. You can still see this excavation machine here. It took several hours for it to get here. It will be here overnight and possibly into the week. Reporting live in San Francisco, im cheryl herd, nbc bay area news. That scene could last for several weeks in terms of the ultimate cleanup and thats right next to the ballpark. The giants, of course, come home in just a couple of weeks to begin their season at at t park. Now our continuing coverage you can find it on our website. Our helicopter coverage, which is what youre seeing now, live picture, you can also see that on the website at nbcbayarea. Com. Other headlines, scary moments for a woman who answered an ad on craigslist. She says she ended up with a gun pointed at her head. Damien tarullo has the exclusive interview. Reporter raj, not even a network of security cameras here and warning signs warning people of that network of security cameras were enough to stop criminals from using a craigslist ad to commit a kidnapping and robbery right here in this parking lot. Police are still checking the surveillance videos to see if they caught anything. Victim is still so traumatized she asked us not to identify her at all. How scary was it . Really scary. What do you feel when somebody points a gun in your head . Reporter on monday the woman says she agreed to meet a man who was selling iphones on craigslist. She took no money with her to prevent a possible robbery but still found herself staring down the barrel of a gun. Police say two men kidnapped her and took her to a local bank to withdraw cash. When that failed, they brought her back to target. They told her to get on the phone and call somebody and provide some money. The robbers ultimately got their money and let the victim go. You know, they have guns. What can i do . They still try to do something. Like many crimes, robberies are on the rise in san jose. Robberies jumped to 1,907 in 2013, compared to 1,208 the year before. Police say they are doing all they can but admit they are swamped. Im on this Police Scanner a lot only to find out that a lot of these robberies involve guns. This victim has advice for people shopping on craigslist. Never show up alone to a rendezvous location. Always show up with somebody. Lock your door if you dont really know the person who is coming to meet you at that time and never go when its dark. Not sure if she will be shopping on craigslist anymore. Shes also afraid for her safety because she says the criminals took her drivers license and also her registration for her car, so she says they know where she lives. Were live in san jose, damien trujillo, nbc bay area news. The fight against one of the toughest gun laws in the country takes another hit. Today Supreme Court Justice Anthony kennedy denied an emergency request from the nra to block sunnyvales new ordinance t. Bans all largecapacity magazines. This made national headlines. It went no effect last thursday after 66 of voters in sunnyvale approved it back in november. The ordinance also requires gun shops to register and track ammunition sales. Lawyers for the nra filed a request to block the ordinance. The Group Considers appealing a court ruling that supports it. I want to take you outside. Beautiful sunshine combined with gusty winds causing lots of problem. This is a live look outside the embarcadero. You can see alcatraz in the background. Significant because the rock was actually shut down today. High winds and rough seas mean no tour boats were allowed on the island. The National Park service said the rough water was making it difficult to land the ferries at the rock so around 11 00 they made the call to cancel the rest of the days trip and evacuate the island. Visitors who made it to the island before the closure said it was a rough and bumpy ride. Well, getting out there was incredible. Ive never seen the waves like that. I said the white caps were unbelievable are and it was just incredibly windy. Now the tour Company Offered refunds for anyone with a tifngt the company says its only the third time since 2006 that alcatraz has been closed due to weather. Want to show you this, the wreckage of a boat youre looking at near oyster point in San Francisco. The coast guard says the strong winds rip the boat from its mooring and that smashed it on to the rocks. The owners called the Salvage Company to collect the pieces. The coast guard says the boat did not pollute the water but it was rough going out there today. Lets turn things over to chief meteorologist jeff ranieri with more on the high winds and how long will we expect the gusts. For a few more hours. Gusts will gust up. Oakland hills with the top wind gusts at 58 Miles Per Hour and Golden Gate Bridge at 45 and san jose at 34. Can you see overall the strongest sustained winds right up into the north bay, 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour. Santa rosa coming out of the northeast at 16 and 13 to 14 Miles Per Hour. In the next sixhour period some of the worst wind likely in the north and east bay hills. Gusts will begin to lower. May still see it pop up to about 25 Miles Per Hour, but, again, diminishing for tonight. Highest concerns fire threats and windwhipped waves and dangerous rip currents. Details on 80degree heat coming back in that full forecast in just a few minutes. Happening now. A terrifying scene in new york city. Fire fighters are digging through the rubble of two buildings that clps after a deadly gas explosion. They are searching for more than a dod people who remain missing. So far three people are dead. A smouldering pile of brig and metal is all thats left of two apartment build National East harlem. They flew out when the blast hit, and it knocked everybody into the debris. People say they felt the blast from a mile away. I heard boom, and high windows rattled. I ran out the apartment because it sounded much closer than it was. Never seen anything like that or heard or felt anything like that before. The explosion happened around 9 30 this morning east coast time. It scattered debris into the street and on to nearby buildings. The only warning anyone had was from someone in the building next door. That person called the Utility Company before the blast. From what we know now, the only indication of danger came about 15 minutes earlier when a gas leak was reported to con edison. It was too late. Crews didnt arrive until moments after the buildings exploded. One tentant said neighbors complained repeatedly in recent weeks about, quote, unbearable smells of gas. The most recent complaint was made just yesterday but the gas company in manhattan says they didnt get any reports of problem until today. New developments on that missing malaysian airliner. A Chinese Television station is now reporting that one of its government satellites may, and we want to emphasize here, may have spotted a possible crash site. That report says these images were taken the day after the jet disappeared. The location is along the planes flight path between Southern Vietnam and eastern malaysia. Thats where searchers were initially combing for wreckage because thats where air Traffic Control lost contact with the aircraft. The report says the images show three large floating objects. The biggest piece measured 78 by 72 roughly. U. S. Military and intel Officials Say they have no information about the satellite images, but you will know they will be checking those out. Coming up at 6 00, our Investigative Team has uncovered federal documents that may provide clues to what happened to that missing malaysian plane. Well hear when the experts think. Just ahead, a new illegal drug popping up. Already one student has been rushed to the hospital. The Warning Police have for parent on the peninsula. Plus im scut budman in the south bay at a giant field where soon you may be able to see the fourth of July Fireworks return to the city of san jose. And about those winds again, high winds that forced pilots to make changes before they lefthand and take off. We ear going to show you some very unusual flight patterns. And then at 6 00, the water pressure saved homes in San Francisco. I think were very lucky that the fire didnt jump any more. 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For decades they have been labeled the cancer station so we checked it out. Our investigation revealed more than 16 Fire Fighters had different types of cancer all with long assignment at this specific station in san jose. Chief Investigative Reporter Tony Kovaleski has new information for us. What is san jose doing . Several changes in the works to the way the Fire Department manages risk and monitors its Fire Fighters at station 5 and throughout the city. Our investigation not only uncovered a long trail of Fire Fighters and cancers in the san jose Fire Department. We also discovered san jose was not tracking with cancers with current and retired Fire Fighters. Experts believe connecting cancer to specific fire station is difficult and that cancer clusters are very rare, but san joses acting fire chief has responded to testimonials from retired Fire Fighters highlighted in the investigation. There is no cure for my canser. My lifes changed. Its altered. It will never be the same. Ive committed to making sure that our department we start making sure that were tracking and understanding what the causes of cancer are. Tonight we investigate cancer in san joses Fire Fighters. Youll see specifically how the acting chief wants to make changes to improve fire fighter safety, including state of the art testing that can detect cancers early, testing that can save lichts we invite everyone back here at 11 00 where we investigate. Raj, jess . Thank you very much, tony. South bay police and school traitors are warning parents about a very new and dangerous drug. Someone found a High School Student knocked out along the steven creek trail. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital. He was unresponsive at the time. Officers believe he overdosed on something called d. Off. This c. The Mountain High School District sent out a letter warning them about the fairly new psychedelic street drug. Its similar to lsd and very dangerous. At this point we dont know the condition of that teenager. One of the mirs most popular Fireworks Show is back in business, sort of. It was cancelled five years ago but now the rotary club is reviving the fourth of july show in san jose. Our business and tech reporter scott budman joins us from downtown. Is this a done deal at this point . Not entirely a done deal, raj, but youre right. This is a big business. Discovery meadow, where many families over the south bay gathered to watch the fourth of July Fireworks. They may soon do it again. I want to take you to a rotary club meeting earlier today where the new Fireworks Show was announced this july 4th, got political backing and now the goal is to raise the 200,000 that it will take to launch the fireworks display here. In years past the show has been a magnet for families and has given a boost to downtown san jose businesses. Weve been missing this for a long time and theres been an inertia of rest and now there will be an inertia of motion. Wed like to see how it starts going. It will be spectacular and i think it might have inearthia in motion after this july fourth. In other words, theres hopes that this year, which will be sponsored by the rotary club, will be a springboard for more Fireworks Shows in the future. Coming up tonight at 6 00 youll hear from south bay politicians and Business Leaders about what the Fireworks Show returning to san jose could mean for the south bay. Reporting live in discovery meadow, im scott budman, nbc bay area news. Talking about the strong winds that impacted as well today. Unusual winds forced the planes to detour and fly over milbury. One runway was open for takeoff and landings which meant delays of up to an hour and a half. Everything was back to normal by noon. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri and with your forecasts ive been taking my claritin. Pollen levels will get high and with the strong and gusty wind the key component is they have been slightly offshore. Warming wind across the bay area. A surge of early summer air across the bay area. 78 in santa rosa. One of the warmest so far. Still heating up a little bit over the next hours. 76 in oakland and 75 in san jose. You know were under a heating trend when you have 74 in downtown San Francisco. Now in oakland that is 76, good enough to tie the old record set back in 2007. Let take you outside on the sky camera network, no surprise that from the south bay right on over to the north bay weve got sunny skies this afternoon. Very mild temperatures in the north bay. Averaging 75, so we do have heightened fire concern there. Mild in the east bay. Averaging 77 degrees, and also averaging 77 right now throughout parts of the south bay. Wind out of the north at eight Miles Per Hour. Its not overly gusty, but the direction of that wind coming out of the north, at least throughout parts of tomorrow, will continue this warmer trend for us. Rain is going to stay away. We definitely need it. We have a drought in place. One of the driest years on record in 2013 and all that have storm activity is heading towards alaska. As weve been talking about, all about High Pressure offshore. Anchored at the surface, and in short it will help to bring in some of the hotter air and also some dry compressional heating and slightly offshore winds across the bay area. Lets go ahead and get a look at the temperature trend saturday and sunday. Potentially mid to upper 80s across the bay area. For the interior valley, close to 90 degrees expected by sunday. 20plus degrees above our averages. Yes, recordsetting heat by the weekend, at least if we cant get the rainfall it will be pretty enjoyable for us. You can see as we head throughout sunday, overall the temperatures will be surging up here. The most we think throughout parts of the north bay, can you see in the microclimate trend here, 88 by sunday throughout the north bay. Possibly upper 80s for the trivalley, and that goes for the south bay as well. All right. Lets take you to the micro climate forecast as we head throughout thursday. It will stay sunny. Temperatures going a degree or two warmer. 78 in san jose. 77 in morgan hill and check out the peninsula. Low 80s for palo alto and also belmont. Even San Francisco getting in on 73 along the embarcadero and 74 across hayes valley. Well see this trend of low 80s continuing throughout the north bay. Napa likely getting to 81 and 80 in santa rosa and trivalley. And 79 expected in livermore. So by this weekend with the heat in place, check it out. There will be awesome weather raj and jess by the beaches. Well definitely have widespread 70s and possibly low 80s and also monterrey. Looks pretty perfect maybe for some surfing out there. This guy behind me is way too good. Out of my league. Jeff, you take a lot of your videos, something you took there . No. I would like to say yes but no. A little go pro. Thanks, jeff. Coming up, an unexpected turn in the search for a terror suspect where the feds are searching for this man. And an apple executive is breaking down the glass ceiling. Hear how she is leveling the Playing Field for women. The hunt for a bay area terror suspect is leading the fbi to hawaii. Federal ages say they received credible intelligence that he is on the big island. Hes allegedly wanted tore setting off three bombs in emeriville and pleasanton back in 2003. Luckily no one was hurt. San diego was the first person on the nbcs most wanted list. Theres a 250,000 reward for his arrest and conviction. She continues to break the glass ceiling. A Silicon Valley executive is now the first woman on the board of directors at godaddy. Com. Betsy rafael is a former apple executive. Today she started her newest role on the board of go daddy, a company with a large presence in the Silicon Valley. In an exclusive interview she tells our own scott budman about the lack of women on tech company boards. Less than 10 of Board Members of Tech Companies are women. How do we fix that and whats the reason for that . Well, i certainly know that for me personally im an advocate for trying to help make that make that change over time. I dont think it gets fixed overnight. In addition to go daddy, rafael also serves on the board of directors of echelon and autodesk. Coming up, new superfood youll start to see on Grocery Store shelves soon. Have you tried it yet . Its becoming the new superfood so you might. Its a staple in ethiopia, and now its becoming popular around the world. The crop looks like wheat but has a sour taste and is gluten free. Once harvested its ground into flour and sold by traders. Researchers say it can boost the bodys energy and boost fat production. It has a lot of Minerals Like iron and magnesium. At 6 00 well take inside a new state of the art Water Treatment plant that will serve the south bay. The special and unique way that it recycles water that will help our drought. Thats tonight at 6 00. And before we go, just beautiful outside but still gusty. Winds will be with us for at leave the next three to six hours. 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour. Hoping to clear it out, but take a look at this. The offshore wind tomorrow and our forecast will have more sunny skies returning. 78 in san jose and how does 74 sound to you guys . Sounds great. Ill take it, lets go through the weekend. Going to stay. Thanks for joining us here at ac. Ann curry jounce us next for nightly news. Well see you at 6 00. Is it the plain . New satellite images from china, do they really show wreckage from flight 370 . Tonight, late developments on the missing airliner as the search expands once again. Deadly explosion, a massive blast in new york city, at least two are dead, Dozens Injured as the firefighters search for the missing in the still smoldering rubble. And a crisis, a stolen car with a young child trapped inside, a dramatic chase, three different vehicles carjacked along the way. All of it playing out on live television. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news
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