Through the day, warmer compared to yesterday. 5 degrees above average for this time of year for many locations. With sunshine, 71 in San Francisco, 76 and in oakland. I will let you know when to see temperatures into the 90s this week, coming up. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. Lets go to the l. A. Area where there is a wildfire burning. Chopper kpix showing a lot of smoke coming off the fire. This is the east side of the five freeway. It is 20 acres. It started earlier this morning at 3 40 am and quickly took off. That is because they are dealing with the santa ana winds throughout the entire region. It is burning some medium brush on the east side of the freeway. It is not threatening any homes but it is threatening a jail in the area. The Los Angeles County Fire Department had more than four helicopters doing water drops, trying to get out of control because they say at this point it has the potential to grow to about 50 acres. The entire elliott area right now is under red
In exclusive interviews with the Star-Telegram, former employees for the developer of Fort Worth’s Sandman hotel and Musume restaurant describe what they believed to be problems with gas plumbing during the building’s renovation. Lower levels of the hotel were destroyed Jan. 8 by a powerful explosion that injured 21 people.