live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. kpix5 first exposed a secretive plan to bring coal trains through oakland. only on 5 tonight we learned just how far they re willing to go to get their way. more than 100 people rallied at oakland city hall tonight. our christin ayers learned many of the coal supporters were paid to be there. [ singing ] until recently the plan to ship millions of tons of coal into oakland had been quietly moving along. i d been totally behind the scenes and the developer really homed that nobody would ever find out hoped that nobody would ever find out that coal was coming through here until it really did. reporter: once the sierra club and kpix5 exposed the deal the word got out and tonight the public got a chance to weigh in. we are adamantly opposed to coal coming to oakland, california. the commodity that we will have come through our terminal will be the highest quality coal available in the world. reporter: at issue
live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. kpix5 first exposed a secretive plan to bring coal trains through oakland. only on 5 tonight we learned just how far they re willing to go to get their way. more than 100 people rallied at oakland city hall tonight. our christin ayers learned many of the coal supporters were paid to be there. [ singing ] until recently the plan to ship millions of tons of coal into oakland had been quietly moving along. i d been totally behind the scenes and the developer really homed that nobody would ever find out hoped that nobody would ever find out that coal was coming through here until it really did. reporter: once the sierra club and kpix5 exposed the deal the word got out and tonight the public got a chance to weigh in. we are adamantly opposed to coal coming to oakland, california. the commodity that we will have come through our terminal will be the highest quality coal available in the world. reporter: at issu
but all lanes of the freeway remain open at this hour. we ll have more on this and information on roadwork at the dublin interchange still ahead. breaking news in the east base. a police pursuit ends in gunfire. right now there s an investigation under way that has shut down the 238 off-ramp to east 14th street in alameda county. it all started a little before 1 a.m. this morning when oakland police were checking on reports of a shooting. officers started pursuing a car but called off the pursuit near san leandro. and later alameda county sheriff deputies spotted the suspects car near the 238 off- ramp to east 14th street. there was an officer-involved shooting. the sheriff s office says their officers were not injured. but they don t have any information about whether or not any of the suspects were hit by gunfire. we have a reporter at the scene and we ll have the latest in a live report shortly. a hearing is set today regarding a lawsuit against a former sunnyvale fam
broken hearted. please don t drive, because you broke a family. good evening everyone, i m frank somerville. i m heather holmes in tonight for julie haener. an oakland family is grieving tonight after a mother and father is run over by a suspected drunk driver, doing his job, repaving roads for caltrain. we ve all heard the warnings to slow down. highway work can be dangerous. reporter: heather, that s right. his family tells me, he was concerned about the dangers of the job. his widow tells me, she s devastated, and her worst fears realized when he was killed this weekend. i can t believe it, because my brother-in-law called me and tells me. reporter: gabrielle said she wanted to go to the hospital to see her husband, only to learn that he died on the job. she said for the past 10 years, rodriguez had worked on many road projects and had several close calls with drivers nearly hitting him. yeah, he was afraid. were you always afraid when he went to work. re
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