response. >> normally the second arriving unit would have been quicker, but that station is closed. >>reporter: firefighters worked with what they had and made sure everyone made it out of the house safely. one challenge was that when the garage was exploded, the gas meter was knocked off and so we had a natural gas leak that ignited and we couldn't get near that. also power lines down, where the power droped from the pole, was also on to the garage, that was down and those wires were hot. there's a whole area that we couldn't work around. >>reporter: bring in this esca vat tor to dig up the street and cap the leek. the gas was off, and the fire was finally out. red cross stepped up to help some neighbors who are unable to return home. >> one exposure house that people weren't feeling comfortable with staying there tonight, and so they set them up in a hotel. >>reporter: one home is damaged, the other a total loss. firefighters are grateful everyone is physically okay. reporting in cotati, dan ruben, kron 4 news. one man is in the hospital tonight after a shooting near san francisco's -- neighborhood. it happened around 7:00 o'clock at the intersection of market and mace aen streets. officers responding found the man suffering from gunshot wounds. he was taken to san francisco general hospital, he is expected to survive. no word on whether that shooting is relating to the pride parade, and yes, pride weekend is in full swing and the celebration has the bay area buzzing. this is a look of downtown san francisco tonight. traffic backed up for blocks. along the avenue. hundreds of thousands of people are expected to participate in the t city's 44th annual pride event and that's bringing lots of cars and foot traffic here to san francisco. earliered to, people gathered at the civic center to kick off the party. the san francisco celebration considered to be if lashlgest gathering in the nation. jeff pierce has more. >>reporter: gay pride began saturday afternoon in san francisco and thousands of sell brants flooded the civic center. the festive atmosphere was boy yent, those who reflected on what has transpired since the first gay pride event that emerged from a police raid in new york city. >> pride started because of the riots in the 60s at the stone wall in new york which was the beginning of the modern day rights movement. pride over the years kind of changed into a celebration and and a festival, now there's over 200 prides across the country. >> we used to be invisible, now we're very visible. >> here in san francisco to up in wyoming to down in birmingham, alabama, there's pride everywhere. >> the recognition of gay rights has given cause for celebration, activists note there are still obstacles to overcome. >> still be fired in 29 states just for being gay, fired in 32 states just for being transgender. >> saturday was a day to celebrate just how much has been accomplished in 44 years. >> everyone at every age, every color, every ekt nisty, having a great time. jump up, have fun and nobody cares happy pride. >>reporter: in san francisco, jeff pierce, kron 4 news. the most iconic saens of the event is the pink triangle, 200 volunteers worked this morning to put up the pink tarp that makes the triangle. signifies the l g p t q community's on going fight for acceptance. >> just a matter of not so much just tolerance and acceptance and it's acceptance of everybody and just making sure that everybody knows that san francisco is a safe place. >> volunteers will also be needed to remove the triangle tomorrow between 4:30 and 7:00 o'clock. here's a look at the floats that are a part of the parade tomorrow morning. more than a million and a half people are expected to participate. most street closures along the route will start a few hours earlier on sunday. the corner of market and bale street. parade participants will make their west down market, market and 8th street. will be impacted, market street will be closed until about 5:00 p.m., when crews clear the road. spoke with tv talk show hosts ross matthew, who is one of the grand marshals of the event. >> a big deal of the grand marshal. a grew up in a little farm town and i always wish there was someone on tv that i could point out and say i could be like that. happy grown up, openly gay person, but that didn't exist. i've always tried to give that example and by being chosen for this, i feel like, hey, it's working, people are noticing what i'm trying to do. i feel really good. >> and the pride will begin at 10:30 tomorrow morning. continuing coverage on line, find out about all the events for pride weekend on kron 4.com. a woman and a baby girl are dead after being involved in a head-on collision in concord last night. on the kenny bridge overcrossing on willow price road near the concord naval weapons station. spotted the accident ask called for help. the two vehicles and suv and sedan were driving in opposite directions before the crash. the woman had who had been driving one of the vehicles was pronounced dead at the scene. she was pronounced dead a short while later. tonight, family and friends of a missing petaluma man are celebrating his safe return. on friday, jay roy martinez was reported missing by my wife on june 5th when he didn't show up to work. martinez wallet and clothes were found inside his car near the sonoma fairgrounds. last night, martinez called his wife from napa asking for a ride woem. the family has turned the vigil into a party. he walked away from his car back in june because he was feeling stressed out and wanted to get away from work. coming up, an upcoming interstate closure may affect your july 4th weekend. the details and the alternate routes you can take. the golden gate bridge is getting a suicide barrier, but not everybody is happy. we'll explain why. next, lucky to be alive. a man narrowly escapes from his car as a train is heading his way. oh chris, did you remember to pay the dog sitter? 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spilled fluids and debris hazards from the car. bay area is is getting ready to celebrate independence day, we'll tell you what cities are allowing you to fireworks. a bold thief caught on camera stealing may from an up scale bay area neighborhood. the san francisco traffic wasn't bad enough, a major artery into the city is slated to be shut down. we'll show you some al tern tifrs. >> temperatures by the day were -- going to be quite a bit warmer the next few days, i'll have your hot forecast coming up. heat shields are compromised. we have multiple failures. what's that alarm? fuel cell two is down. i'm going to have to guide her in manually. this is very exciting. but i'm at my stop. come again? i'm watching this on the train. it's so hard to leave. good luck with everything. watch tv virtually anywhere with the u-verse tv app. with at&t, the u-verse revolves around you. 0001 commuters traveling into san francisco over the 4th of july weekend could be in for a rude awakening. northbound 280 in san francisco to make repairss. dan kerman has more on the project. >>reporter: closing a portion of interstate 280 in san francisco. to replace a hinge on the stretch of roadway near the chavez exit. the hinge connects two sections of roadway. cal tran says structural depict sis in 2006 led to a repair with plans for a replacement down the road. that's what's happening over the july 4th weekend. >> these hinges have been here for probably 40 something years. and during that time, they've worn a lot. and the standards have changed. and what we want to do is make sure that this structure stays safe for the motoring public, the way to do that is by replacing those hinges. >>reporter: northbound 280 will be closed to king street. from wednesday night through monday morning, july 7th. related northbound onramps will also be closed and motorists are advised if they can use public transit, they should. southbound 280 will not be impacted. >> again the work gets underway and the closure begins wednesday night, through july 4th. ideally, this stretch of northbound 280 will reopen in time for the commute monday morning, july 7th. then, we get to do it all over again, another close shur is slated for labor day weekend. in san francisco, dan kerman, kron 4 news. clear skies on saturday night, in the middle of pride weekend and city hall in san francisco showing its colors, as we go into the day tomorrow. looks like we'll have lots of sunshine. there will be, i think, a few patches of fog early on by the bay. but most of it should clear out around 8:00 to 9:00 o'clock. going to be quickly clearing, that leaves lots of sunshine for midday and into the afternoon. look at the temperatures warming up, especially inland. have 70s for san francisco and oakland tomorrow. fremont going up into the 80s, san jose and 90s into the east bay valleys. temperatures going up about 5 to 10 dpeg degrees and another nice view of colors. tweeted this pick earlier in display of led lights on the internarcotic terminal for tonight -- international terminal tonight. a beautiful day, and warm temperatures into the afternoon, at least by san francisco standard, going up into the low 70s, and the sea breeze is not going to be as strong, so it's going to hold off the cool air coming into the bay for tomorrow evening. it will eventually show up, but it will be delayed. temperatures for the south. warming up, mid 8 #0s, most places. san jose -- into morgan hill. 90s in the east bay valleys. antioch closing in on 100 degree, 92, liver more, by the bay, the sea breeze is still making an impact. see 70s here bay shore. san francisco as i was talking about, low 70s, mid to upper 70s from berkeley to oakland. then it heats up more as we go into monday, that's the hottest day. mid 80s bayside and very likely going to see triple digits into the east bay valley, then temperatures will start to gradually cool down as we go through the rest of the week. by the time the fourth of july rolls around on friday, mostly sunny with 70s bayside, 80s inland. vickie. >> well, fireworks are prohibited in my bay area communities. some are selling legal fireworks, went on saleed to as a matter of fact. city of dublin allows community groups to sell legal firework s as a fundraiser. the fireworks aren't anything crazy. >> this is the low level stuff. this is stuff i play with you know, my personal leez shur, this one, they're not aerial, they're, i feel they're pretty cool to have. >> police and friefrs say they will -- firefighters say they will extra patrols out to crack down. dublin homeowners are allowed to fire out safe and sane fireworks. set them off on their own property between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. other buy area cities, which also allow the use of safe fireworks include gilroy, for a complete list of city, visit our website at kron 4.com. the bay area gearing up for independence day, kron 4 will help you celebrate the 4th of july. bring you the biggest and the best fireworks shows live from all around the bay. so catch the july 4th fireworks special right here on kron 4, next friday night at 9:00 p.m. . the golden gate bridge will be getting suicide barriers, unanimously voted to approve funding on this system on friday. cheers of joys and thank yous came from many of those in the audience as the vote was announced. dozens of family members of suicide victims brought photoed and shared stories of those who jumped to their death. years of discussion. >> i lost my 17 year old daughter casey to the bridge. >> this is my son, jacob's story. my son jumped from the bridge november 22nd, 2010. after standing on the bridge for fiver hours -- five hours. the brin is going to be fixed now. >> the barrier will take three years to build and will cost 76 million dollars, but not everyone shares the joy of those who have pushed for the barrier. kron 4's j. r. stone explains why. >> a suicide barrier like this will eventually be built on the golden gate bridge. heard some of the excitement over the approval to build it. >> much needed. >> i think it's something that's needed. >> i think it's a great idea. >> the suicide barrier comes at a 76 million dollar cost and if you think everyone is excited about the unanimous decision to spend the money on this, then, well, you're a bit off. our kron 4 facebook page has not one or two, but dozens of comments from people who feel like this. >> i think it's a waste of money. >>reporter: the bridge district, cal tran, the m t c and the state are all chipping in for the 76 million dollar brojt. >> that sounds awful. that's going to ruin our view. >>reporter: officials argue that there are minimal changes and the appearance of the span will not change. but for other, it's not about the look. it's about the money. >> yeah, that's -- that's -- it's a waste of money. it's a waste of taxpayer dollars. it could be better spent, there's a lot more that could be done for the city. it could be more programs for the youth and things like that i think that that idea is completely ridiculous. that means they're not going to jump off the bridge, it doesn't mean they're not going to kill themselves. >> used for something else. people that's homeless, people that's losing jobs like veteran, myself, i have to pick up two jobs just to make one job. >> i think we could spend that money on a lot of better things other than something in case people decide to jump off. >>reporter: certainly heated opinions there. it is important to note that last year 46 people jumped off of the golden gate bridge. in san francisco, j. r. stone, kron 4 news. caught on camera, a thief gets a way with a bunch of mail and packages. pacific heights neighborhood in san francisco, and using a bold -- showing a bold thief. in that apartment complex. this is on clay street near franklin. once the guy got it open, he used his hands to open the front casing of the mailboxings. he starts loading up taking mail from dozens of boxes. undeterred. he goes for packages before calmly locking it away. >> in 14 minute, he had a lot of time to get ready for that. i'm not sure if he was alone. looks like it. he was alone. and it's not the first time. things like that happen in this area. >> manager says it will cost more than a thousand to fix the mailboxes, the worth of the items is unknown. in on nor of pride week, offering free on demand weddings, not a wedding in a vehicle. uber will come to your location as long as you have all of your identification, paperwork and someone to officiate. people can request the wedding through the uber app from noon to 6:00 tomorrow. company officials say once the uber vehicle arrive, you'll get your marriage license. the ceremony will begin. >> action at at&t tonight goes on and on. baseball next. safeway understands you got to make every dollar count these days. that's why they have lots of ways for you to save. real big club card deals, the safeway app and gas 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sigh of relief. brazil has avoided elimination is advancing to the quarterfinals of the world cup. they are the host nation, after all. they moved on with a 3-2 shoot autowin over chili. up next for brazil will be columbia, which eliminated uruguay today 2-0. star strike e lewis, banned from the rest of the world cup for of all thing, biting an italian player. >> biting. >> that's against the rule, isn't it. >> it is, unless it's soccer with, you know, kids out in the field. >> what a dayed to, out at the coast. there wasn't a cloud in the sky. >> yeah, that's certainly a good thing. if you like the sunshine at the coast. we're going to get another day of that, another several days, we are going into a big time warm up, that starts for tomorrow, 70s by the bay, 70s and 890, south bay, 90s inland. continue to warm up, monday the warmest day. triple digits in the east bay valleys. 80s by the bay. nice weather for your bianchi activities. >> oh, boy. kron 4 news at 11:00. stay connected, 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