Explosions rocked china. Smoke is still smoldering from the blast site and were getting a look at the devastation. New drone footage shows the aftermath. And the smoke above the warehouse where the explosions took place. It happened an at an Industrial Area and triggered a blast that was felt miles away. And cell phone video captured seconds of the second one. Reporter a first blast had shaken the port city of tianjin, then this. A massive explosion, many times bigger than the first blast and a blinding white light. You see it and then they feel it. The shock waves shattering windows and turning shards of glass into projectiles. Images of the blast flooded chinese social media. A store froth disappearing. A living room covered in broken glass. Hospitals are filled with injured. Some burned, many cut by flying glass and debris. Tianjin is one of chinas biggest industrial centers. Home to 11 million people. And canadian in bejing got called from friends in tianjin. The first conversation
There are separate concerns tonight about the air quality across the bay area. Meteorologist rob mayeda is here. San jose, 97 degrees. Livermore, 104 degrees, not quite recordbreaking but plenty hot. That would be a record. 105 for livermore. 100 degrees temperatures around napa. So we have a heat advisory all the way through 9 00 tonight including San Francisco. That doesnt happen too often, but, yes, you had those mid90s in a few spots south of downtown today. Slow cooling after sundown tonight. The other component is the poor air quality for the north bay, east bey, and south bay tomorrow. Spare the air damond for ground level ozone and a little smoke pollution which continues to drop down out of the north as we look at the wind speeds. A little lower in elevation. You can see how the northerly winds are bringing in the smoke right across the bay area. Still 82 degrees in San Francisco right now but you have a tough time looking across the bay and thats the view right now in tiburon
Will mark an official heat wave. Good sunday evening. Im george spencer. Its going to feel even more sticky tomorrow as our region continues to heat up. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist Michelle Grossman is here with what we can expect when we wake up. You can expect warm mornings. Were going to warm up very, very quickly. Were seeing the temperatures drop slowly tonight. Temperatures still in the 80s. 89 in allenallentown. 72 in wild wood. After a high of 93 degrees today. Day two. Tomorrow will be an official heat wave. Well get into the 90s. Well top around 94 degrees, feeling more like 95, 96. More humid tomorrow, stuicky. As we wake up on monday morning, were waking to mild air. Lots of sunshine. By 6 00, 74. 8 00, mostly sunny, 77. 10 00, 84. Another heat wave thatll last a few days. Were tracking some storms and the heat wave. Well look at that in a few minutes. Baby, im preying on you tonight just like animals thousands packed the beach, fighting the heat and humidity to hear m
Americans who helped subdue a gunman on a parispound train. Spencer stone and Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler and two other men jumped into action to save passengers catching the suspect and beating him until he was unconscious and tieing him up until authorities arrived. Claudio lavangos is live in paris for us this morning. This is a remarkable story. Its heroism really. The three received frances highest honor because of that heroism. Reporter well, that certainly is the highest honor that could get here in france. The legion dhonneur is given to people. This is exceptional circumstances as the president of france holland during the ceremony said with their bravery, they have probably, almost surely, prevented a blood bath, a carnage. I saw he had an ak 47 and it looked like the jammer wasnt working and he was trying to discharge the weapon and we said lets go. Im glad they quickly took action. Belgium authorities identified the gunman as khazzani he was on the watch list but stil
Philadelphia Police Officer died in a crash here. Tonight, new calls for safety improvements. Good evening. Im denise nakano. Rafael should have been celebrating his daughters 10th birthday today. Instead, his family and fellow officers are in mourning. The accident happened before midnight at henry avenue and dupont street. Randy gyllenhaal is live on henry avenue. Some compared this area to a racetrack. Reporter denise, part of the problem is, especially at night, this road, henry avenue, can feel almost like a highway. The lanes are extremely wide. However, when you approach some of the curves, the speed limit is only about 30 miles per hour. Residents have been reporting a lot of accidents, including the tragic one that happened last night. The offduty officers truck crumbled when it slammed into a tree. He missed the curve. Police say he was speeding. Rafael, a 10year veteran of the police force, died shortly after impact. A beautiful guy. Thats all i can say. Reporter his friends