Well first of all i dont have a phonesmoke was getting so much reporter as he looks upon what is left of his burned vehicle he talks about how thankful he is that he wasnt injured yeah, i am especially thankful for this guy, he was great reporter if anybody out there knows how to get in touch with the guy the good samaratin who helped george orbantell him kron4 would love to talk himhe can contact us by sending a message to kron4listens kron4. Com mailto kron4listens kron4. Co m. Reporter Haaziq Madyun kron4news catherine heres a map heading into the caldecott tunnel. This is the oakland side. The fire happened in the right most bore. Again headed eastbound. The car caught fire about 3 quarters of the way through. Reporter kron4s mike pelton talked to a man who was in the tunnel when it happened. And recorded it all. Reporter i was telling people we need to start moving. I was concerned reporter captured all on his cell phone, Kevin Watkins recounts the nerve racking moments, escaping a dimlylit, smokefilled caldecott tunnel caused by a car fire cheers applause you could smell something burning tie i then grabbed myself and started following the crowd out reporter kevin tells me he was about 15 cars behind the one that caught fire. Ditching his newly purchased nissan after smoke. Lots of it. Filled the tunnel i was putting my shirt over my face and i didnt have a scarf, other people had a scarf reporter kevin estimates he literally walked toward the light. About a mile. Out of the tunnel. And away from the smoke different walking through it then driving through it he tells me hes uninjured, his car, not damaged. Although it no longer has that newcar reporter smell. Kevin is just thankful he escaped unharmed. But he is re thinking his morning routine. Had i not stopped for coffee this morning i would have been home free reporter at the caldecott tunnel, mike pelton, kron 4 news catherine and another look this was traffic earlier on the 24 leading to the caldecott tunnel. As for how its doing now. Heres a look at the traffic map for that area. Things are definitely better and its since completely reopened. Catherine the tunnel fire today. Brings back memories of another horrific incident in the caldecott. This one was deadly. Well take a look back at that accident tonight on kron4 news at six. Catherine now to a developings story out of southern california. A deadly shooting inside the los angeles airport. And three others have been hurt. The suspected gunman is in custody. Catherine tonight we have new video from inside. But first. Stephanie elam is live in la tonight. With the latest. Stephanie . Reporter catherine it began with passengers running for their lives seeking any kind of rough rich. Seeking any kind of refuge. Reporter the loss Angeles Airport Police chief is a man with an Assault Rifle checked and at out of a back and began to open fire in the terminal, terminal 3. Reporter sources say another team as agent was shot in the late m1 shot and killed. Multiple fired shot quickly. Seven people were injured. One guy fell down after being shot reporter the suspect went through the checkpoint point where a police fired and hitting the subject. People were getting knocked down there was luggage and mayhem everywhere reporter people were hiding impact on stalls and others being evacuated. Police were dropped police with guns drawn i heard a couple of popping noises. This sound like someone was keeping me on something that there was a stampede of people coming my way. I realize something was very wrong. Reporter at this point, here and the airport is we opening patrick the crowd stopped in place since this happened. Only a lolling planes from further destinations to land. However, all of those flights are coming in and out of the terminals. They still asking if you are thinking about coming to l. A. Or l 8 fax or anything in this area you may want to rework your plans and go a different route. No cars coming into lax at this point. Reporter we hear over all seven people injured and three people shot. One man that they do believe it is acted that has acted alone is wanted and police. Acted alone and injured. Catherine new video tonight. It shows the chaos inside l catherine ax when the shooting started. Police begin to get word of what happened. And start running. The person catching all this on camera stayed in place and didnt seem to panic. Take a look. Catherine tonight. At sfo. Where there was definitely an impact on air travel there. Dan how does it look reporter well and if this continues to be cancellations as well as delays. About 50 flights a day and and day out. The biggest problem is that burgeoned American Airlines at terminal 2 was role some videos and vacancy. They are having more trouble at s f all such as united or southwest. Uc buried long lines at the check and counter. The first chance until they could be tomorrow. They are waiting for an in they are waiting in line for all about and hour and a half. I am now going to tell a tomorrow. And may get a full refund and go to a different carrier and acts as they put me on a standby list. Ask reporter now we can tell you that police has also stepped up enforcement here at s f o due to results of this even if they believe that it is a random act. Reporter version american has the longest line and covering flight delays. And never seen the type of service that birds of america and is giving to their customers. From on issues in coffee or three or four people running through the line and answering questions. Reporter people fly on United Airlines are not nearly halving as big as of the delay as birgit american because birgit american is in the terminal 3. Reporter so, it just appears that by the look of the draw people who were flying version america are still in that stain and San Francisco for an extra day. Staying in a catherine and we have a live look at sfo. Well continue monitor the delays there. But right now lets check catherine im here with in the kron4 Weather Center with brian van aken. Its been a little chilly this week what can we expect next . Reporter concede the temperature is right now was that francisco in the low seventies with 72 degrees and low 70s for san jose. Things will change, of course as we go into the weekend. Today being the warmest day. Would that be clear skies. We will begin to see low cloud coverage but not until later tonight , around midnight. With patchy fog. Then we will see high clout as we get into the afternoon. That is a weather system passing to the bay area. We will see some strong glance and it is a sunday. There is a possibility for down trees and power lines i will tell you more about it coming up. Catherine . Catherine two of barts unions are voting today on a new contract deal that ended a rancorous strike earlier this month. Employees represented by s eie 1021. Are voting at the Oakland Marriott until 10 tonight. The atu 1555 members are voting today at a different location. Both unions expect to have the ballots counted by late tonight. Barts third union will vote in december. Catherine coming up at five. Catherine dozens of stanford students are sick from a virus. How the school is trying to stop it from spreading. Catherine then the reports tonight dumped from the ticket in the last election. Catherine but first. Catherine francisco. How a cement truck ended up in this very unusual position. I love watching tv outside. And why can you move the tv out here . The wireless receiver. I got that when i switched to uverse. But why . Because its so much better than cable. Its got more hd channels, more dvr space. Yeah, but i mean, how did you know . I researched. No, ii told you. No. Yeah no. The important part is that youre happy now. And i got you this visor. You made a visor yes that ill never wear. Ohh. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv for just 19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Female narrator its posturepedic versus beautyrest its posturepedic versus beautyrest with up to 400 off. Serta icomfort and tempurpedic go headtohead with three years interestfree financing. Mattress price wars are ending soon at sleep train. Your ticket to a better nights sleep [chris]still smoking up a storm . [tom]yeah. Pathetic,isnt it . [chris] ever try to. [tom] quit . Of course my best time was six days. The worst was. Uh. 23. 4 seconds. [chris] so can i ask you. [chris tom] why are you still smoking . [tom] [sarcastic] its so much fun. [chris]why not call the smokers helpline . The programs free,and. [tom]and theyll tell me. You oughta quit. [chris] not so. Just tell them youre ready to quit. Then,theyll tell you how. [tom] really . You wouldnt have that number on you,would you . You got to love the weekend. Its like everyone came to, if its good, lets save it for the weekend. So heres to the kfc ten buck weekend bucket. Ten pieces, ten bucks. Any recipe. Just ten bucks every saturday and sunday. Today tastes so good. Catherine this morning. Drivers saw the unusual sight of a bigrig was hanging over a guard rail off 101 in San Francisco. It happened after a crash involving two other cars. Catherine this is video from our helicopter partnership with abc7. The crash happened a little before eight am. On northbound 101 near the third street offramp, all lanes have since reopened. Catherine a 20 year old gilroy man has been arrested on suspicion of dui after hitting two construction workers in milpitas this morning, killing one and injuring the other. Catherine it happened alongside 680 south of the scott creek road offramp. The man was on a motorcycle and hit a worker who was standing on the right side of the highway. He then hit the back of a pickup truck and hit the second worker. Catherine a hayward woman who was shot on halloween night is in critical condition. It happened just after 11pm at the lord tennyson apartments in hayward. The woman was shot several times. Catherine it is just sad with kids are geared to treating and Something Like this happens. It is just dangerous. Very concerned we have children here and we want them to be safe and come home every day. Catherine its not clear yet if the woman will survive. Catherine millions of americans and as many as one in nine california families receive some form of foodstamps or Food Assistance benefits. But as of today, most are seeing cuts in those benefits because the foodstamp boost included in the 2009 stimulus package has expired. Catherine from san jose, kron fours rob fladeboe has the story of how these cuts are affecting one needy family. Catherine single mother sofia gallego cant afford a car so she rides her bike to the store. In her pocket is a foodstamp voucher. She is one of a 4 million californians, a quarter million here in the bay area, whose foodstamp benefits are being cut back. I wish they would stop doing this. Because everyone is kitty hurt. We continue like this it will just get worse, and worse. Everyone getting hurt. Reporter gallego, who is out of work and has two sons, one of whom is disabled, showed this letter she got from uncle sam informing her that her benefits are being reduced from 249 to 192 dollars a month. Gallego found some bargains at the dollar store but she cant use foodstamps for toothpaste, toilet paper, laundry soap and other necessities. She estimates the cuts will mean fewer, smaller meals from now on. Groceries unloaded, gallego got back on her bike and headed out in search of recyclables to try and make up the difference. In san i am really trying to stretch it. When i saw how much they were decreasing i said no why . Reporter jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Reporter satellite picture you will see here the weather system is headed towards northern california. It will affect the weather for the weekend with the gusty winds. 694 san jose and 70 is the warmest in england spot inland. Catherine just before a bus driver was attacked it was caught on video. I love watching tv outside. And why can you move the tv out here . The wireless receiver. I got that when i switched to uverse. But why . Because its so much better than cable. Its got more hd channels, more dvr space. Yeah, but i mean, how did you know . I researched. No, ii told you. No. Yeah no. The important part is that youre happy now. And i got you this visor. 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Find yr clest ot mpingcent at o ia beever find yr clest ot mpingcent at o catherine no damage to the tunnel itself. Apparently it has since opened it is not clear yet why the car burst into flames. Catherine a man shot and killed 80 as a agent in custody and has been identified as 23 yearold paul ceansea catherine theres a possible outbreak of norovirus at stanford. Health officials are trying as kron fours terisa dozen students have been sickened so far catherine still ahead. What happened just before reporter 52 students have been affected with one official believe is nora by risk. Nora up by rest. Treated for dehydration. Strikes fast and furious at University Health official says they will begin making a complete sweep of the dorm sanitizing the dining hall. R University Officials say that although a student has been covered the remain contagious. 72 hours after being of that affected by the virus. University officials will be here at the dorm throughout the day trying to figure out how this all happened. There are 453 students that live in seven different the dorms out here so they are extremely worried that this could spread throughout other president s all separate residence halls. Catherine joe biden almost lost his job as Vice President in the last election. Thats one of the claims made in a new book on the 2012 campaign. Shannon travis has the details reporter in the last president ial election could we have seen this team. Instead of this team . A question Cnns Wolf Blitzer even posed to the secretary of state months before the election. Wolf if the president of the us says, madam secretary, i need you on the ticket this year to beat romney, are you ready to run as his Vice President ial running mate . Hrc that is not going to happen. Thats like saying, if the olympic committe called you up and said are you ready to run the marathon, would you accept . Its not going to happen. Reporter the stuff of speculation, then. Now, reportedly, the stuff of an explosive new book reporter suggesting that a small, exclusive group of obama advisers secretly considered dumping joe biden from the ticket reporter for Hillary Clinton. Reporter that secret blown by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann in their new book, double down, the New York Times first reported. They were looking at what having Hillary Clinton on the ticket would mean politically. Reporter the book says then white house chief of staff bill daley spearheaded the effort, the times reports. Daley reacted this morning. One of the jobs of chief of staff is to take a look at things outside the box but not for a moment was there a serious discussion or belief that joe biden should be replaced, period. Reporter the white house said. I know for a fact that president obama never considered this. Reporter meanwhile the times says the book also mentions mitt romneys potential running mates. Saying he eliminated new Jersey Governor Chris Christie from his vp short list because of Unanswered Questions about christies background and health. Reporter in washington, im shannon travis. Catherine caught on video a Bus Passenger peppersprays the driver. It happened after he was being rowdy and the driver had told him to get off. Joe little has the story. Steps back and take out a can of pepper spray and blast the bus driver in the face directly reporter metropolitan Spokesman Says security cameras on all bosses should help catch the man. He is wearing a Jacqueline Tran t shirt and sunglasses. He started causing troubles and mouthing off to passengers. Reporter says passengers can help prevent people like this from acting up. Text are our security and let us know what is happening and where. The last thing they want people to do is to step into situations. They do training and retraining twice a year so they know how to handle these things. Catherine police say the man ran off. They still havent caught him. The driver was treated at a hospital. San diego police are now offering a 1thousand dollar reward for information leading to the attackers arrest. A Texas Police Officer went catherine on a high speed chase after a car full of suspects even after being shot. And it was all caught on camera. Pamela brown reports. Shot fired, shot fired i am hit reporter she approaches the car and passenger pulls out his gun and shoot her twice according to police. One hit heard police best and the other pierced her face. Wounded and in serious pain she returned fire before getting back into her car in pursuing the suspect and i highspeed chase. Despite her injuries a formal maureen, that chases the suspect for several minutes ending when the three men in the car ran into eight Apartment Building permit Sergio Rodriguez the alleged shooter was taken into Police Custody friday rodriguez a suspected gang leader acclaim claim to be ar