Talked about an attack involving assault rave goals and explosives. The ip address was traced back to frankfurt, germany. As superintendent i will not take the chance with the lives of the students. Unified School District superintendent Ramon Cortines got a call this morning from School Police about a credible terror threat. He shared with me that some of the details talked about backpacks, talked about other packages. It was not to one school, two will schools or three schools, it was many schools. Not specifically identified. This is the second large of the in the nation with more than 640,000 students. More than 900 schools. A few hours later new york city officials said they received similar threats to their schools but determined it was a hex. L. A. Unified is in the process of investigation. F. B. I. And l. A. P. D. Are assist asking a massive search at all campuses is underway. I want every school every Early Education center every adult school, i want them search ed and a repo
But, as you say, the Public Health advisory has been lifted. There w there was a lot of it. It wasnt normally kind of as narrow. But it was a pool of black smoke just going up. A basically, they lost power. The bay area air quality managemented district sent investigators to the scene. Its pretty windy out here. Its dissipated quite well. Will there be a fine . Perhaps, but the investigator wills get down to the bottom of it. Reporter no one was hurt, but the incident was enough to worry people who work near by. It makes you question whats safe and what is deemed safe . The flaring is over, but the refinery is working to fully restore operations. As you can see, a very windy day. And that helped the simpluation at the refinery. Breezes help and thats a good thing. Heres a look at live doppler 7 hd. First, sunny skies and generally breezy conditions. As you take a look at winds around the general area, that was the breeziest region throughout the bay area, the strongest gusts we have we
Reporter we first learned about Alameda County watered board member earlier this week while reporting on rate hikes in his district. You have taken more trips than anyone else in the district and ratepayers want and the explanation for that from you. As a board member, i have been involved in a number of Water Activities from the state representing the Alameda County Water District. Reporter but nine conferences in the last two years . Including one at a disney land rye sort . Ratepayers have seen their bills go up 30 over a number of months. They want concrete examples of what they are getting out of this, whats the value of you coming here. I have just attended a series of meetings. There are opportunities for building some additional water links. It is to be my hope that we could find a water source that does not rely on the tunnels. Part of that would be coming out of these discussions. Reporter will that mean a lower bill for me . It would be a less higher bill . Reporter then the
Yeah. Just one moment. Life and death right there. Reporter don used to build and drive race cars and credits his experience with keeping calm behind the wheel. He says he never closed his eyes, even when the beam hit his bmw so hard it cut the engine. I think i have a second life. Reporter hes convinced last friday god was his copilot. He lives in san jose, has a wife and two children. Hes home after this close call. Hes going to cherish this christmas like never before. Reporting live in san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Very nice. Thank you, marianne. New at 6 00, the housing fight five years in the making. Should wul nut creek allow new homes to replace an Old Jewish Community center. The neighbors say no way. But supporters say the city needs more homes. Nbc bay areas elise kir much ner is there. This is a heated battle. Whats the next step. Reporter raj, a City Council Meeting is going on behind me in city hall. The city is deciding whether to allow 50 new homes in a r
Children through the same . Reporter interesting to note that the l. A. Superintendent who made the call, ramon cortines, was a former superintendent here in San Francisco and also a former superintendent at the schools in san jose and one other big city, he ran the schools in new york city. Reporting from San Francisco, mark mathews, nbc bay area news. Schools in the east bay also took note of the threat in l. A. , but they say the scare did not reach a level that called for any extra safety measures. We get threats here in the school district, bomb threats and other threats, that we vet out over the course of the school year. We handle all the threats as if theyre a viable threat until we determine they are not. There wasnt anything that caused us a concern here. Still ahead on nightly news who may be responsible for all of this and how such threats have become the new normal for americans. Nightly news begins at 5 30. Only on nbc bay area the photo that made national headlines. Here