A peninsula. Smoke was about, id say 100, 100ft up. Its probably been the biggest fire ive seen. That firefighter, it was a long one, but it has come to an end tonight. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach. And im Heather Holmes. The fire is at sims metal in redwood city, and it broke out just before 3 00 this afternoon. The flames sent smoke into several nearby cities, prompting air quality concerns. Our joey huerta joins us now live from redwood city. And joey, firefighters have pinpointed where in the yard this fire first began. Thats right. Heather and mike all clear now. The fire is out. You can still smell a metallic odor in the air now. And as i step out of the way, you can see crews who work at this scrapyard are still at it, moving things around with their heavy equipment tonight. And were told by the fire department, this all came down to a pile of cars that caught fire. Thick black plumes of smoke billowing over the horizon. Skyfox shows the view from above. Sims metal, a s
Nice to open up the windows yesterday i agree. And it looks nice today. Theres very little fog though. Only a few patches of it. So were clear. Ready to go. Santa rosa airport. But i dont think downtown does. Has a slight northerly breeze, which is why there are 55 but upper 40s low 50s. And were all set for what looks to be a sunny day, but cool and cooler, i should say. And breezy with temperatures 60, 70, 80. Have that north wind holds in santa rosa. Will get to 80s of a dozen and turns southerly. Theyll probably be about 77. All right. Sals here. Anything are quiet . Its mostly quiet. However for steve, we have a yeah. However, we have a pretty serious crash out there right now on 580, heading over to harbor way, we do have a fatal accident involving a pedestrian, and we do have some video taken a little earlier of the scene. This happened at about 130 in the morning, and at one point they did block all the lanes. But then a little bit later, they did open some lanes. Now this happ
, and allow retailers to get restraining orders against convicted shoplifters. D. A. S would also be allowed to pool resources across jurisdictions to result in stiffer penalties. Today is a good day for retailers. We think these will provide a number of tools for Law Enforcement, for retailers and for District Attorneys that we think will change the narrative on how california will address retail thefts throughout the state. Republican Assembly Leader James Gallagher its a good start, but it does not solve the problem by any means. We need to reform proposition 47. There is a separate effort underway to repeal parts of prop 47, which in 2014 reclassified felony thefts under 950 as misdemeanors. Not to say everything about 47 is hunky dory and perfect. And we want to help fix some of the ambiguities there, but we can do it without reforming or going back to the voters 47 itself. The governor is living in a fantasy land, and he continues to say hes doing all these things. Meanwhile, ram
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How do you stop retail theft? For local and state elected officials, it’s a question of changing Proposition 47. Ask business owners and residents in Oakland and San Francisco, and the answer is much more nuanced. Story from @CalMatters.