About 4 30. Evacuations are in progress. Cal fire says the flames are moving at a dangerous rate of speed. At least 150 acres have already burned. Were also tracking another fire, this one near concord. Nbc areas Sergio Quintana live on the ground there. Sergio, what can you tell us . Reporter i can tell you this is a fire that started a couple of hours ago. As you mentioned a little bit earlier, the winds out here are really the challenge to firefighters on this and on the other fire that you mentioned. This is a fire that happened in some pretty wide open space at the former Naval Weapons Station here in concord. At the moment, it does look like it has been knocked down pretty much. Lets go ahead and go to some video a little earlier. The wind out here was really fanning these flames. This fire quickly grew to about 75 acres. There were multiple fire crews out here, including a couple of helicopters that helped to try to control the lines here. But we have noticed that in the last fi
Department of Motor Vehicles has suspended crews from operating its driverless taxis in San Francisco. And a man is facing dozens of charges for allegedly tried to stop a planes engine while it was in the we will go live as we continue to learn more about the suspect. From the bay station. Youre watching kron. And news. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waldman. We start with a bombshell announcement from the dmv. Cruz is losing its permit to deploy and test Driverless Cars on public roads, at least for now. This is coming while labor leaders and allies are demanding more regulations for all robot taxis. Kron fours Michael Thomas reports now what led to the suspension. Well, crews Must Immediately stop using their driverless vehicles. The dmv says ultimately its because of safety issues for taking this action. Take a look at your screen. Theres details now specifically. There are 4 criteria for the suspension. The department has determined that the compa
Engines on a flight to San Francisco. Surprised . I would not expect that from him. With everything going on in the world. Its a little scary. Neighbors in shock after learning the pilot is from right here in the bay area. Good evening. Im julie julie haener. And im mike mibach. Officials say 44 year old Joseph Emerson tried to turn off those engines on that flight headed from everett, washington, to San Francisco international. The pilots, though, were able to safely land that plane in portland, oregon. Ktvu zac sos is live tonight at sfo with more on how this whole situation unfolded. Zach and for those passengers on that flight who wanted to continue on to bay area to the bay area, were being told by the airline that they were able to do so. Passengers who are now crediting the quick thinking of their flight crew with keeping them safe. Weve got the guy that tried to shut the engines down out of the cockpit. The captain of Alaska Airlines flight 2059 bound for sfo broadcasting that
From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news good morning and thanks for waking up with us on the tuesday. Weve got some clouds to get out of this hearing. Im daria and im james. Yeah, john been tracking it for us this morning. It doesnt look to foggy here in shot that there are few sfo, john, where there is fog. I just yeah. Yeah. They do have delays. Theres about a 38 minute delay on arriving flights. Yeah, you know, and that fog look at we were worried about this. I know it. It is very dense out there. Its kind of hanging out just above the surface. Can see the tarmac. But doesnt matter. You got a flight to that foggy layer regardless. And that just means those delays. Well, james, thanks for checking on that because we are seeing a lot of fog elsewhere, too. Take a look at this view from mount tam looking down into the bay. And you can see that blanket. That is just rounding a whole lot of us this morning. As of right now at bridge level at the bay bri
Station. This is. 11. Good evening, everybody. Thanks being with us tonight on kron. 4 news at 11, im grant lotus and im noelle bellow. We start tonight with investigators. Trying to figure out why an offduty pilot from the east bay when intentionally try to disable a plane midair while heading to San Francisco. And that man is now facing 167 charges, including attempted murder. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson is at the pilots home in Pleasant Hill with more. This Pleasant Hill home is where Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson lives with his wife and 2 kids. We saw some family members and a friend going back and forth from a truck to the home gathering items for the family. We asked if they would chat with us about this, but they said theyve been advised by attorneys not to speak with news outlets. Date. They give a ride trying track down the end their verdict. The landing foreman Alaska Airlines pilot 44 yearold Joseph Emerson was arrested sunday after allegedly causing a disturbance in the coc