On a commercial building. Well tell you if they have this under control and tell you what residents are saying they experienced when they first got here. In just a couple of hours, the man suspected of setting several arson fires in san jose is due in court. The hard work of one San Jose Police officer that led to the capture of the suspect. In just a few hours, in San Francisco, governor jerry brown is expected to declare a drought emergency. The other steps hes also considering to conserve water. Reporter a lot of excitement and anticipation here in the bay area as fans prepare for the 49ers nfc championship game in weekend. Coming up well tell you what fans are saying about the game and what sports analysts predict might be the outcome. Mornings on 2 starts right now. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. We have been following this breaking news in redwood city. A huge fire at a machine shop thats now gone to four alarms. Ktvus janine de la vega was the first reporter on the scene and shell have a live update for us in just a few minutes. Good morning. Im tori campbell. Good morning. Im dave clark. Lets check your weather and traffic. Steve is off today. But we have rosemary. Good morning to you. Well be sunny and mild, one again, giving you a live look here over the oakland estuary. Fairly full moon in place. 54 minutes until the moon will set. 23 minutes until the official sunrise. We have mostly clear skies around the region. Chilly temperatures this morning. 30 degrees, santa rosa, 33 in napa. 34 in fairfield. Upper 40s in livermore. Low 30s in concord. Around the bay, a cool start but not as bad. 38 around the airport and oakland. 52 San Francisco. Mid40s for downtown oakland. And mid40s in hayward. As we get into your afternoon, temperatures will warm. Well be unseasonably mild. We wont be as warm as we get into your weekend. Widespread 60s in the forecast with mostly sunny skies and then for the second half of the day, temperatures warming in the 60s. Along coast, we may cool a degree or two. We expect an afternoon sea breeze for the second half. 66 in pacifica. 69 in concord. 70 degrees napa. 72 san jose. Near record warmth. Well have a comparison and show you which areas might break records and i will have a look at the temperatures coming up. Good morning, sal. Good morning the fouralarm fire weve been telling is now become a traffic issue because its slight. People can actually see the smoke coming up from near the freeway even though obviously its not blocking any lanes. People kind of slow down because they tend to be curious. But a huge thick big black cloud of smoke. If you want to avoid the area use 280 as an alternative. It looks good and you will avoid the rubberneckers from the fire. Bay bridge, thats backed up for about a 15minute wait at the tone. Another 10 on the bridge. Your live drive time is 25 minutes into the city. Not too bad. Friday a little bit better than normal. Also this morning, were looking at 24 westbound between walnut creek and oakland. Thats about a 12minute drive time which is about normal getting over to the oakland side. Its 7 04. Lets go back to the desk. As sal mentioned, breaking news from the peninsula. Right now, crews are battling a huge fire at a machine shop in redwood city. Its burning out of control on baywood and Douglas Avenue. The flames can be seen for miles. Sal was saying its causing a traffic problem showing down traffic at 101. Janine de la vega was the first reporter on the scene and joins us with an update. Good morning, janine. Reporter good morning. Its incredible how quickly this fire has grown. I just got off the phone with the fire marshal who told me that this is now at six alarms. Take a look. A huge plume of dark smoke come from what told is a machine shop. I spoke with the family that owns it. They are very distraught. They dont know exactly how this happened. This fire is not under control. They are fighting it from the ground, spraying it. Dumping water on it and then they are also using their aerial ladders to put as much water on it as they can. Im assuming at this point, nobody has entered the building. Im told that on the top floor of the machine shop, there are several residential apartments. And weve learned that, you know, several people escaped. At least a family of four. Just to get a little more information about what residents experienced, im joined by todd woboggle. You called this in . I didnt call it in. I didnt have a phone. The gentleman behind me called it in. I happened to get home ten minutes before the fire, happened to see the smoke, knowing smoke wasnt supposed to be coming from that area. Got on my bike, rode from the area. Immediately, turned around around went to the apartment next store and started pounding on doors to get residents out there. The gentleman behind me called the Fire Department. Two, three minutes later, the Fire Department is there. Reporter its amazing how big its grown. Ive been here quite a few years. Two fires on woodside road and apartment fires and now this one, its just scary. Just scary. Reporter thank you so much for talking to us. Thank you. Okay. Reporter again, firefighters have been scrambling around here. Weve seen firefighters from redwood city, from belmont, San Mateo County, theres numerous firefighters here on the scene because, again, this has grown to six alarms. Dont know what exactly is inside the machine shop. When you see the black, heavy smoke, that means theres some sort of fuel inside there and theyve been so busy, theyve not been able to get me any sort of update where they are in this it. Well stay here on scene and monitor it. Reporting live from redwood city, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. Today at noon, the arson suspect accused of terrorizing a san jose neighborhood is due in court. Thats according to county officials. 48yearold Patrick William brennan has a long history of starting fires. 15 years ago, ktvu news interviewed brennan after he was arrested and accused of starting several fires on public trails in the south bay. Investigators say brennan is linked to 12 recent fires, including last thursdays big fire that destroyed a warehouse. Right now, brennan is charged with starting two fires. That number may go up. Police say he was identified through surveillance videos that show a man setting the fires and also through the very hard work of an overnight duty sergeant who searched through a database on arsonists. Detectives do this kind of work day in and day out. They are very good at what they do in terms of investigating, not so much arsons but just criminal activity and serial type crime. Police say Patrick Brennan is a registered sex and arson offender here in california. He was arrested in 2001 for Sexual Battery on a relative. 7 08. If brennan is convicted of starting the new fires, he could be sentenced to life in prison under californias three strikes law. In the case archives, we found robert handas interview with him in 199 the 9 at the Santa Clara County jail. Brennan pleaded guilty to several arsons. Im not out there trying to destroy properties or lives. What are you or who are you . Im a nice person. I guess im somebody with problems that needs help. When brennan was an employee working at the grand canyon, he was convicted of a misdemeanor for setting small fires at the national park. Brennan is currently in jail on 1 billion bail. It could take days before firefighters contain a wildfire near los angeles. The fire is only 30 contained and has burned 1700 acres. Evacuations are still in effect this morning for a couple of thousand people in the city of azusa in Los Angeles County. Coming up at 7 30, the home that was destroyed that was originally built by a famous family. 7 09. Ready for football. The 49ers will have one last practice in santa clara today before they hop on the private jet and head for seattle in their quest for a sixth super bowl. Allie rasmus is live in San Francisco now where the anticipation, the excitement is building for sundays big game. Allie . Reporter thats right, dave. The stakes are high. The vibe is intense. Fans cannot wait for this sundays game between the Seattle Seahawks and the 49ers. It will be the 49ers 15th nfc championship game. We stopped by the knbr radio studios to talk to the host of the show this morning. One of the things theyve and a lot of fans have been talking about is the intense rivalry thats developed between these two west coast teams. While murph and mac think there will be challenges for the 9ers, they think the pros sect is prospect is good. Its really loud. Its a problem. It will be a problem for colin kaepernick. I dont think the 49ers are intimidated. I think the 9er offense is really starting to roll the way weve been hoping it would all season long and the 9er defense is as good as any. I like the 9ers. I think this is their time. Fans are hoping thats the case. The 9ers have one more practice before they head off to seattle. This is the teams 15th nfc championship game. To give you perspective, the last time the 9ers face off against a west coast rival was back in 1989. Thats when the 9ers played the l. A. Rhames. The 9ers rams. The 9ers won that game 303. Fans are hoping for a repeat. The kickoff for this game is at 3 30 on sunday. The countdown for fans is on. Allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. All right, allie. Ktvus julie haner, mark ibanez and joe fonzi are in seattle. They will host road chip to a championship tonight at 6 30 and then an hourlong show tomorrow night at 9 00. And then the game is sunday right here on ktvu channel 2. Kickoff at 3 30 after the game stay tuned for our point after postgame show live from seattle. 7 11. Today people in oaklands Bicycle Community are planning a special ride honoring a woman who was hit and killed last month while riding her bike. 62yearold susan watson of el cerrito was hit by a big rig near fifth and market. The event is designed to raise awareness of bicycle safety. The people plan to take the 520 ferry that leaves from oyster point and arrives at Jack London Square around 6 00. Watson used to take that ferry home on her return trip from work in south San Francisco. 7 12. Politicians, duking it out. Find out where this rowdy clash happened and what prompted such an angry outburst. Good morning. Right now, were still looking at traffic thats moderately heavy. But theres a problem on the pill if you are peninsula if you are gonna take hip one, you might want to think that take highway 101, you might want to rethink that. Not as warm as weve been as we get into the weekend. Theres a cooling trend. I will have a look at your numbers coming up. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Yeah. Everybody knows that. Did you know there is an oldest trick in the book . What . Trick number one. Lookest over there. Ha ha. Madeest thou look. So endeth the trick. Hey. Yes. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you. Well, you know. Were still following breaking news on the peninsula this morning. A huge fire. Fire crews are battling a six alarm fire. This is at a machine shop in redwood city. Its big. Ktvu was first there just before 6 30 this morning. Janine de la vega has been there since then. Were gonna keep updating whats happening at this flaming machine shop, updating you and bringing you new information from redwood city. This is affecting traffic in the area. As soon as we get that information in, you will get it as well. In 45 minutes, president obama will announce the changes he wants to make to the nsas surveillance programs. Ktvus kyla campbell, live in washington, d. C. , where the experts say the president has two main goals. Kyla . Reporter dave, first is to better protect the privacy of americans. Second is to end the bulk phone Data Collection program as it currently exists. President obama is not expected to say who should hold the data. He wants input from intelligence agencies in congress. A president ial Commission Recommended moving that data to the Telephone Companies or a third party. The nsa will have to get permission from federal Surveillance Court before it can access the collection. The review and recommendations from sparked by Edward Snowden. He leaked spy program secret tlus the media through the media. Hes living in russia. At a time where technology is exploding where we figure out ways that the government does not know about all of your phone calls, your email, the websites. Reporter president obama will be speaking from the Justice Department next hour and well have live coverage right here on mornings on 2. Live in washington, kyla campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. 7 16. In the Eastern European country of ukraine, political debate turned into a physical fist fight. Tensions ran high during a budget vote in the parliament and while the budget was barely approved, the Opposition Party rejected it. Several lawmakers started to push and shove each other which led to punches being thrown. One politician hit in the face causing a bloody forehead. The opposition was also against a bill that limited public protests. Wow. Yeah. 7 17. Lets check back with sal. Youve had your hands full this morning. Yeah. You know, that fire that weve been covering is becoming a traffic issue, you can clearly see it from highway 101 in redwood city. This thick, black smoke is visible from one near woodside. People on 101 in fact, you can pretty much see it from all over the peninsula. You can see it from 280 as well. But i think the traffic will be less affected up on the hill on 280 rather than right there on 101 near woodside. Its pretty close there. You can see the ladders and people being who they are. Curiosity seekers are just gonna slow and look up at the sky, maybe a little bit of a dangerous drive on 101 near woodside. Not causing a huge traffic jam but its slowing traffic in the area. All right. Lets go and take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, westbound, the traffic here is backedded you for a 15minute backed up for a 15minute delay before you make it on the span. The total drive time, 25 minutes. Theres the fire. I want to do something here. I want to get rid of this and just move the maps over here. On the peninsula, southbound 101 is kind of heavy anyway. I couldnt use 101. I could use 280 as an alternate. I think 280 is the best call here. 7 18. Lets go to 280 in san jose. That looks pretty good. Good morning, rosemary orozc. Good morning, sal. We have a pretty start to the day. Were upon the sunrise. 7 23, the official sunrise. We have moderate air quality. The winds have died down. In most cases a few breezes left in the hills. Ridge of High Pressure left in place. Im giving you a snapshot of the satellite because i want to show you this system here. This storm gonna be pushing on this ridge a little bit. Its gonna weaken it and bring us a modest cooldown. Its not going to bring us any rain, unfortunately. For your weekend, were gonna be dry. Today were mild. Warm but not as warm as we have been as temperatures trend downward a little bit. Some of us may not notice along the coast where were looking at an afternoon sea breeze, maybe feeling it more than the rest of us inland. But the cooling trend continues with mostly sunny skies for your weekend and the dry weather will continue as well. We look bonedry through the weekend and several days beyond. 30 degrees right now in santa rosa, San Francisco, checking in at 48. One of the warmer spots at this hour. For the afternoon, widespread 60s in the forecast for the second half of the day. Topping ut right about 68 degrees early on. By 4 00, temperatures begin to dip a little bit. 67 and then into the evening hours. If you do have evening plans, 58 degrees expected at 7 00. Sun sets at about 5 17. 33 in concord. 41 san jose. For the afternoon today, going to shave off a degree or two in some areas. 70er for sonoma, 68 sausalito. San rafael, near a record. The old record at 69. We may actually tie that today. Upper 60s to near 70 degrees. Fairfield into vacaville. Inner east bay, 69 for walnut creek. Livermore, 70. If you hit that, you will tie an old record. 70 in oakland for the afternoon. 69 san leandro. Into the south bay, temperatures ranging in the low 70s. San jose, 72. Los gatos, santa cruz, 79 for the afternoon under mostly sunny skies. Along the coast from pacifica into half moon bay, upper 60s for you. 68 against San Francisco. 70 redwood city. And 72 for palo alto as well as Mountain View. We are looking forward to this game on sunday. It looks like mostly cloudy skies in seattle during game time for the 49ers and 40s. It will be cool. It will be cloudy. But theres only about 10 chance for the possibility of a few scattered showers. They will be mainly dry. Meanwhile here at home as we talked about a moment ago, were going to remain dry with only subtle changes in the forecast. Notice temperatures drop off a subtle drop from day to day. As we get into monday, perhaps have the day off monday. 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