Abc7 news starts right now with live breaking news. The breaking news is in the east bay. Right now a brushfire in vallejo is threatening four homes. Firefighters say it is burning near ascot parkway and hawsbury. It is about five acres and burning up a steep hill. Earlier today sky 7hd was near a 45acre fire near ascot and georgia street. Firefighters kept it from reaching nearby houses. We will bring you developments in the newscast and updates on twitter at abc7 news bay area. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. Our other top story, police say there is a fake officer complete with an official looking suv stalking people in the east bay. Scary. An employee at Lawrence Livermore laboratory says she was followed all the way to tracy by what appeared to be a Livermore Police suv. Sergio is live with more. Sergio . Well, right now investigators are trying to rule out the possibility that this suspicious suv did not belong to a Different Police agency and someone was simply driving home along th
Along the coast. Leyla, thank you. To developing news out of vallejo. Firefighters are at the scene of a vegetation fire that burned fences and got near homes. Crews will stay at the scene of the five acre fire until there are no more hotspots. Sky 7hd was above a 45acre fire about a mile away. The firefighters he want it from reaping homes nearby. A scary story out of the east bay this morning. Police say theres a fake officer, complete with an official s. U. V. , stalking people. An employee at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said she was followed all the way to tracey by what appeared to be a Livermore Police s. U. V. Abc7 News Reporter Sergio Quintana has the story. Reporter the reason they know it wasnt an officer, the Police Officers only use Ford Explorer s. U. V. S and all have specific painting on the side and thats not the type of vehicle that was following the lab employee. You notice the white s. U. V. Followed her. It was a chevy suburban she thought. The white
Now upon didding news out of vallejo. A vegetation fire burned fences and portions of homes. The fire broke out at about 10 30 and was under control a half hour later. Crews will stay at the scene until there no more hot spots. Sky 7 was above a 45acre fire a mile away at georgia street. Firefighters it from reaching nearby homes. A scary story out of the east bay. There is a fake officer complete with an official looking suv stalking people. An employee at Lawrence Livermore laboratory was followed all the way to tracy by what appears to be a Livermore Police suv. We have the story. The yean why they know it wasnt one of their officers is because the Livermore Police department only uses fort explorer suvs. They have black and white paint with police decals on the side and thats not the vehicle that was following the employee. The white has to be what she described as a tahoe or chevy suburban. They had a police like bar on top and unlike real patrol cars with police lettering, the le
You can see traffic moving really fast this friday night. Nbc bay areas jean ellie is live. Jean, how does it go . Reporter well were here on doyle drive. You can see crews are rebuilding that new roadway. On the first day of the closure, traffic was the worst during the evening commute. But bridge Officials Say thousands of drivers avoided this span. Theyre making burgers in the marina. Were always packed. Reporter but not tonight. With word out about the closure and traffic Warnings Issued some rest rabbit eaurant workers say its pretty quiet for a friday night. We usually have a line around the block. Were barely breaking the door. Reporter traffic on both sides backed up but the anticipated twohour delays never materialized. Nancy lemon took the ferry. Well take the ferry, avoid the traffic, avoid the mess. The dris trikt says ferry ridership jumped by about a thousand people. The district tripled ferry service, even adding Late Night Service out of San Francisco. Will people conti
Livermore police suv. Sergio is live with more. Sergio . Well, right now investigators are trying to rule out the possibility that this suspicious suv did not belong to a Different Police agency and someone was simply driving home along the same route. One thing is for sure, Livermore Police know that it was not one of their vehicles. The reason why they know it wasnt one of their officers is because the Livermore Police department only uses Ford Explorer suvs. And all patrol vehicles have distinctive black and white paint schemes and thats not the kind of vehicle that was following the lab employee. That white tahoe and suburban had a Police Light Bar on top and unlike the real patrol cars with the simple lettering, the suspicious vehicle had the words capitalized and uncapitalized. The caller says the suv followed her for miles along greenville and tesla roads all the way to tracy. Because she was unnerved she never went home and pulled off on a private driveway and the suspicious su