Golden state are not being fair to us. Now he says he has plan to do something about it, potentially setting up a new battle between state legislators and Oil Companies. Scott budman heard from both sides. Well, this gas station and others here in the bay area up some 60 and 70 cents a gallon just in the last few days. Throughout california the average price of gas up 14 cents a gallon just overnight. These prices enough to get both drivers and politicians on both sides of the aisle angry. Angry drivers seems like the rest of the country has a way to figure out how to keep gas prices at a normal level, so that frustrates me. Reporter a angry politicians like governor gavin newsom. People are pissed off as am i about being ripoff by oil company. Reporter today talking about his recently created oversight body with power subpoena Oil Companies. The question he wants answered why the gap between gas prices in california and the National Average is now more than 2 a gallon. Asking about in
Of dirt in a trench collapse. The investigation now under way. Good afternoon. Welcome to nbc bay area news at 4 30. Our Sergio Quintana is in the city tracking the latest with Recovery Efforts this afternoon. Hes going to be joining us in just a little bit. Some other stories were watching today. A cold case possibly coming closer to being solved. Today was the First Court Appearance for the man accused in the 1987 killing of a 6yearold vallejo boy. Were going to hear from the boys mother who was at court today and also why investigators are looking into this same suspect for a another murder less than a month before. Also crazy video of a smash and grab robbery. This is in san jose. You see right here this truck just drives straight through the storefront. What the thieves got away with. Were also looking into the numbers and trends for these brazen breakins. And heads up sfo is warning people to leave early for the airport this weekend. Highway 101 is going to be fully closed starti
Bay area skyranger. This is a scene where a person is reportedly trapped under eight feet of dirt. You can understand just how severe that rescue is and how timely this is. This is happening at oak and divisdero streets. We just got word of this less than 30 minutes ago. You can see right there that large Response Team right there and there are crews out there trying to get that person from eight feet of dirt underneath. We are keeping tabs on this effort and we will bring you this on the newscast as well as on nbc bay area. Com. And a good morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im marcus washington. Im laura garcia. Our other top story is san jose burglary illustrating just how brazen thieves can be. Overnight, Police Say Someone Stole a pickup truck and then rammed it into a bakery leaving a wake of loss and destruction. Nbc bay areas kris sanchez is live with what the owner says this will cost him. Kris . Laura, there stuff that was stolen and thats just one cost, but you see the re
In concord, expect it to reach 85. Also 85 in santa rosa, and 70s in San Francisco. More clouds coming in tomorrow and will be a little cooler. We are watching out for weekend rain chances, and i will have more on that in a few minutes. Mike, youre tracking a crash. Yeah, maybe there was a crash around the dumbarton bridge, and we see no slowing on the sensors. This is east 84 right around the toll plaza, and reports of debris, a crash and possibly big injuries. Were waiting on the details because we dont know for sure about the injuries, and clearly the sensors are still okay. I am hoping some of the details are wrong and we will just update you coming up with regard to the impact on the dumbarton bridge. Meanwhile, southbound 680, theres a crash here. No major injuries, but theres a backup on southbound 280 and the interchange. Back to you. Thank you, mike. The u. S. Soldier that suddenly raced across the border into north korea from south korea during a public tour of the Demilitari
Crime and their message to improve Public Safety includes a state of Emergency Declaration and today target blamed retail theft for a decision to close three bay area stores, including one in oakland. Ktvu is Christina Doan live now in oakland with more on all of this. Christina well, julie, more than 200 businesses took part in this one day strike. Merchants saying that they really feel that city officials arent doing anything to address the crime as these criminals repeatedly target their businesses. Dozens of Business Owners gathered tuesday to strike against crime in oakland and the citys response to Public Safety. Their stories all similar from car breakins to robberies and assaults for about 4 or 5 years. We call them. Nobody showed up for 15 minutes for 911 calls and if we could do the regular calls, its good luck to you. They say just make a police report. I had a group from a group from miami get robbed at gunpoint on a saturday afternoon. All their jewelry taken. Me being bor