Reporter just around the corner from me, eric, on 23rd here at harrison, every five minutes or so you hear this crackling sound as glass comes off the side of this office building. Were barricade out here. Theyve got us blocked off. People are wanting to get back to their cars so they can drive home or get away. They cant. Weve seen a few other folks appear to be evacuated. From the ninth story up to the 15th story in this office tower at 180 grand avenue, glass panels spontaneously popped all afternoon, raining glass onto the sidewalk and cars below on 23rd street. Exposing insulation and wiring. The building is diagonally across from the apartment construction site that roared into an inferno early friday. As many evacuated residents were allowed back into their nearby units last night. Today, even more people appear to be forced out because of the shattering glass. I dont know whos going to pay for everything. Sad thing is reporter this man showed us around his destroyed apartment.
80s with low 90s instead of 100s. What do we have . It is a nice early start if you are getting on the road in solano county, and so far looking pretty good with a little bit of roadwork, but off to a nice start if youre driving from fairfield in vallejo and continuing to the carquinez bridge. If youre driving on the east shore freeway down to the maccarthur maze this commute will take you 17 minutes and traffic is moving along okay with no major issues driving through. Looking at the bay bridge toll plaza traffic is moving along nicely. We have a couple of people in the cash lane lining up but for the most part a nicelooking drive. It is 4 31 am. Firefighters battling the wildfires, hot temperatures and dry conditions across the state and the alamo fire has burned almost 24,000 acres and one structure was destroyed with 100 others being threatened. The fire began thursday afternoon and is 15 contained. Mandatory evacuations have an issue and the red cross has set up a release shelter.
Morning . Still pretty quiet which is nice, just the way we like it. Looking at the tracy commute the traffic just a little bit better than normal on 580 through tracy. Getting a little bit suspicious with no real slow traffic which is good. Maybe we are beginning to get some vacations in july because the traffic is slow but not as slow as generally is. From livermore to pleasanton it continues to look good out to hayward. 880 oakland in both directions traffic moving well. Here is a cool shot. Lets move along to the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic moving well in both directions. Looking good from San Francisco to oakland as well. It is 5 01 am. Breaking news out of San Francisco this morning, the police are at the scene of a deadly shooting and the officers are investigating what was happening and while doing so a police car was attacked and we talk about the shooting in vandalism that occurred afterward. Reporter good morning. We are at 24th street and mission, a San Francisco me bitt
Making a little bit of a surge with temperatures coming down a little bit and santa rosa at 84, gilroy 85, concord down from 99 to 90. The monsoon staying in Southern California and the southern cherry but not making it up here yet. Low clouds and fog moving in with this system bumping up that ridge for the couple of days but very strong. 50s for most with a few low 60s. Most locations in the 50s, pacifica 51, woodside 52, stanford 53 and 54 in atherton. You can see the circulation around this high at the four corners in this thing coming in week. Wind gusting at 29, the strongest weve seen for travis helping that delta breeze kick in and the monsoons staying to the south for now. The fog coming in rapidly meaning cooler weather for many, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. The traffic on this monday . Moderate but not terrible. We start off with the good looking i24 commute through lafayette. It does not look bad right now driving on i24 toward lafayette and through into oakland, a decent drive. 6
Three days later it is still smoldering and some spots. Federal agents with the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms returned to help with the investigation on the cause of the fire. They brought the mobile command unit and they have set up here with the open Fire Department in the slot lot across the street. Atf investigators are meeting with the oakland firefighters and police. I spoke briefly with one of these agents offcamera said the National Response team comes to help investigate when there is a big fire like this. They have not determined the cause of the fire and they have not had chance to into the building to investigate because they are not sure whether it is safe enough to do so. The challenge for those that live and work in the area, yesterday more than a dozen glass panels from the Office Building near the fire started shattering and falling to the ground below. It was due to the radiant heat from the fire, sending the windows and two days later when the windows began