Stephen stock good evening, im stephen stock. Thanks for joining us on nbc bay area, where we investigate. Were not far from a year into this pandemic that has put many parts of our lives on hold, but what happens if you cant wait for when we come out the other side of this tunnel . Terminally ill people are fighting for their day in court before its too late. Senior investigate reporter bigad shaban has the story. Bigad shaban how do you build a legacy . Alfonso rocciola spent his whole life building his. Alfonso rocciola if you drive through the city, you can say, wow, well, look what i did. You accomplished something. Bigad hes been in charge of some of the most iconic Construction Projects in San Francisco the cliff house, exploratorium, and his favorite, this chapel in north beach. Throughout his life, alfonso also built a marriage. Alfonso my wife is the number one bigad a family. Alfonso we have five grandchildren. Bigad and now hes building a court case. Alfonso is suing nearly
Commute, first the forecast for you. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking the conditions we can expect today throughout the bay area. Kari, what is it looking like for us . Well, we are starting out with two red flag warnings that will be in effect and watching conditions around both of those for this morning as we start out with this last day of heat for today. Were talking about highs reaching into the upper 80s. Well have two time frames were watching the potential of a high fire danger but it will be a much cooler weekend as we check out our temperatures and as well as the high wind gusts weve seen over the past 24 hours. Weve seen some of those gusts yesterday afternoon picking up to 28 miles an hour in the east bay. As we head out the door to work, mike, how is it looking for the commute . Kari, gusty wind, of course, especially as folks are traveling over bridges. No warnings from chp but well listen for karis update as well. No major problems but talking about a bridge, th
Bay down to the south county. Well talk more about our temperatures in the forecast in a few minute. Mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . The last half hour was busy as far as finding the slow spots but now as we look at the maps things have calmed down quite a bit, even san jose where we saw the slowing which sometimes sticks around until 6 30. I think 6 40, 6 45 well see more south bay slowing again. Little pockets through berkeley and oakland have cleared up for 24, 580 and i80. The bay bridge toll plaza and i80. We do see the middle lanes starting to stack up that has been the trend so a slow build for the last 15 minutes. No metering lights yet. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Right to that breaking news were following in San Francisco this morning. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson live with the cliff rescue wrapping up in the presidio. Reporter yes, good morning. The last fire official pulled out just a couple minutes before you came to me, but a really dramatic resc
Hour. Lower relative humidity and then the third off shore wind event will be the strongest. That arrives for this weekend. Ly have details on this and show you future cast wind gusts coming up in just a few minutes. As we take a look at the roadways right now we are starting to see traffic stacking up at the bay bridge toll plasa. Starting to get a little busy here. Just keep that in mind as you are working out of the east bay. We are also getting the reports of a trouble spot on the antioch bridge northbound near the toll plaza. Construction is about to start on 92. Your bay area bridges getting busy. Too breaking news. A cliff rescue. The effort to reach the person stranded spanning hours over night. Lets go live to emily turner who is at the scene talking to rescuers. Emily. Yeah. The first call for 911 came in about 1 30 in the morning it. Happened here at the end of this trail on whats called battery crosby but more marshalls beach is the more obvious landmark. What happened is t
Pg e confessed to killing 84 people in a wildfire that destroyed the Northern California town of paradise. Pg e said our equipment started the fire. We will never forget the camp fire around all it took away from the region. Even so they face no prospect of jail time in all of this. Good evening. Melanie starts us off this evening. These are the images most people have seen and remember of the 2018 camp fire. Today in a superior courtroom, the images displayed were of 84 victims. One by one the judge read each victim as pg and e entered a plea of guilty of manslaughter to each. I am still angry. Especially for those who lost their family. He lost his home and his pets. I didnt lose family members and this court is for them. Victims family members are expected to speak wednesday. The ceo said i wish there was some way to take it back, but i know there is not. It took us about 4 1 2 to 5 hours to get to safety. It was gridlock. The only thing moving was the fire. The fire killed 85 peopl