i m frank mallicoat. i m michelle griego. time now is 6:00. a major fire in lafayette is snarling the east bay commute. highway 24 has been a mess. let s kick it over to gianna and find out how things are going. they have at least three lanes shut down because of this car carrier that caught fire. we have been monitoring this for almost an hour now. here s a live look from chopper 5. and you can see it s still smoldering there in the area. this is on the right side of highway 24 at central lafayette there. so they have opened two lanes but again traffic is still jammed all the way from 680 causing a bottleneck effect. so you definitely want to avoid the area if you can. now, we want to show you some video of what actually happened in that area. we have that for you right now. so you can see earlier the car carrier on the right shoulder completely caught fire. it was fully engulfed carrying at least 9 vehicles. it did ignite a grass fire there over to the right shoulder, a
0 watched and recorded. the storage capability increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude to where it is getting to the point where you don t have to have done anything wrong you have to eventually fall under suspicion. it is causing debate about the government s secret surveillance program. they defend the program as an effective tool in preventing terrorist attacks. we face a very real asem metric threat in international terrorism. our greatest line of defense against that is intelligence gathering capabilities. we have to maintain that and it is a very delicate balance. other lawmakers are deeply troubled by this. the other is government over reach. terrorism remains a real threat. we have to cue the bill of rights. the fourth amendment which prevents unlawful search and seizures it ought to be mornings still in effect. the ground is already saturated from the heavy rain we saw last week. another round of heavy rain expected. sections of mid atlantic and north
i m at 35th and geery where this neighborhood was woken up by smoke. they find a surprise. they got into the garage area and realized there was another room built in the back and trying to get to that was a challenge. it was like an obstacle course. we had some trouble getting lines to the back. what we discovered was quite a bit of pot plants and a lot of wiring and electrical hook ups and what not in the back of the garage that made it difficult for us to get our lines back. reporter: and moments ago a big truck filled with 8 bags of pot plants was driven away to evidence. arson, pd, task force cleared the scene. the fire was out by 1:30 and on the top floor of the house, police were in there quite a bit. tarps are over the windows at the moment. they do think someone was living here. when they went up there they saw a pot of hot tea and a bed. someone who may have smell or seen the fire may have left. police have no arrests and going to investigate who owns the house a
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$300,000 worth in salary, without even going into office. we will have details of that story coming up. we are experiencing light rain crossing the 880 corridor. we also have cloudy conditions in place. we have some of thunder also. because of an earlier are occurring stall that has been cleared the metering lights were activated early at the bay bridge. if this is for the westbound ride. we re already seeing a back up and the metering lights are not so slow the we are saying things stacked up on the 880 over crossing. it is a 16 to 18 minute drive time. since the skull was cleared we may not see this push into the macarthur mayes. we have been tracking delays on interstate 580 with a stalled at no. quinnett road. this is adding to an earlier occurring problem and we re still getting reports. new this morning. it started off as a fire and ends up with thousands of dollars worth of marijuana been seized by the san francisco police department. the fire happened at a hom