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Fence. Far from the red carpet this week Actress Felicity Huffman walked the grounds of this federal low security prison in dublin. Wearing a green jumpsuit and a white baseball cap she walked out to a parking lot to meet her eldest daughter sophia grace and husband actor william h. Gracie with no guards escorting her. A former desperate house wives star. I would do everything for you. You are my daughter. Reporter now has a less glamorous identity. Prison inmate 777806112. Many people we talked to tonight felt she should serve more. I think its a rather short sentence. Why even give her a sentence at all, because yeah 13 days is nothing. Reporter Jennifer Myers served 14 months in prison for drug charges and advises people who serve time. Its going to take her time to get over this experience. Reporter huffmans 13 day sentence comes after she shelled out 15,000 to have her daughters sat corrected. More than 30 parents all tied to an alleged fixer. So far ten of those parents have been
Reporter carolyn and orville sanford say their entire house shook yesterday when two tanks burst into flames and smoke at the Nustar Energy facility down the street from their home. Turning a quiet afternoon into a terrifying one. I thought oh, gosh, i hope they dont explode our whole town out. I thought oh, hell. Weve had it now. My dads 81. Hes had three strokes, and he is on oxygen. And it was just a terrible, scary night. Reporter tonight fire crews still have a foam blanket over the explosion site. They want to make sure there is no threat of anything reigniting before they begin removing it. But theyre wasting no time trying to get to the bottom of what went wrong. 11 30 this morning, we served a search warrant on nustar. Reporter contra costa fire says their investigators are working with the atf, the sheriffs department, cal osha, and the d. A. s office to interview witnesses and examine documents and digital data like surveillance. They are all working as one team to investiga
The entire bay area in mere seconds. As the bay area reflects on the past we are looking forward toward being prepared for future earthquakes. Just a few moments at uc berkeley a launch of the my shake app gets under way. Heres what people will hear on their phones when that app goes off. Earthquake, drop, cover, hold on, shaking expected. It wont predict an earthquake but it can provide people with critical seconds to get to safety. The system was years in the making and feeds off a statewide network of seismic detectors designed to trigger the warnings. When the loma prieta earthquake on everyones minds events are taking place across the bay area to get folks prepared for the next big one. Pete suratos is live in San Francisco with some of the details there. Good morning, pete. Good morning to you. A number of events taking place right here in San Francisco including the great california shakeout. I want to show you video within the past half hour happening here in San Francisco. You