A two alarm fire reduced two homes to rubble in the East San Jose foothills today and came close to a third. And fire crews add. It didnt help their efforts, that the fire caused gas barbeque grill propane tanks on the property. To exxplode. Kron fours jeff bush shows you the damage and explains what happened. Cal fire crews and the San Jose Fire Department were busy fighting the massive fire on clayton road. The call went out around 4 30 and by the time firefighters arrived, the two homes were already fully engulfed with fire. You can see just how bad the damage. The frames of the homes are all that remain after the quick moving fire came through and destroyed everything in the way. These images from our helicopter partners at abc 7 tell the story of destruction and the firefighting effort that kept the flames from spreading any further than they did. In addition to the destroyed homes, several cars were consumed by the fire. Look you can see just how hot this fire was. The Aluminum W
Pam now at 8 a deep freeze crushing much pam of the country tonight. And this is not your average winter storm. From the midwest to the east and beyond. The record breaking temperatures are stranding thousands of travelers. And putting people at risk. Pam kron 4s grant lodes joins us now with some of the incredible video. Out of the hardest hit areas. Grant . Reporter this tells the story. Negative 12 in chicago. One degree in saint loius. And 24 in atlanta. All these places. Significantly colder than anchorage alaska. Which was 34 degrees today. The feep freeze. Being called the polar vortex. Is being blamed for 15 deaths most of those in traffic accidents. Reporter chicago actually made it down to 16degrees below zero at one point a record low for january sixth. Reporter schools and museums closed for the day. And many flights out of chicago were cancelled or delayed. Illinois officials are asking residents to stay off the roads until the weather improves. All Public Schools in minne
Putting an extra off hours they must work overtime to help to solve crime in the city so starting june 29th san jose will be required 1000 officers to work overtime this is that is a bad idea, but the union said that as force overtime could put more fatigue and officers and especially at the time officers are leaving for other jobs. There will be monitoring this closely and making sure their forces to go get burned out there believe that over time is necessary to keep the public safe. a Business Owner reflects of is terrified as net when the car crashed into the store over the weekend. The city feels hes lucky to be alive. , live thats the big thing. Despite the big 30,000 damage done to the store kron then this is being alive is also the most important thing. Plus a terrifying crash. Right through the front of a store. We talk with the man who says that car almost took his life. And were looking ahead to a warm and sunny weekend. With bay area. Good morning. It is day, date im james f
To have 90s in the future appeared the search for missing oakland woman, sandra cook, Authorities Say a womans body has been found in vacaville but officials still have not identified it as the missing woman. This comes after Oakland Police identified cokes exboyfriend of twenty years ago as a person of interest in the case. 56yearold randy alana and coke were seen together sunday evening. Alana is a registered sex offender and was arrested on an unspecified parole violation earlier this week. He was then questioned by police. Kron 4 spoke with cokes neighbors who are coming to grips with the fact that this story may not have a happy ending. Cokes sister, tanya coke, along with a childhood friend, announced a 100 thousand dollar reward for anyone who can provide information that will directly lead to finding coke. For bart and its unions to new contract. Contracts expire at midnight a commuting mess come monday morning. Kron fours mike pelton joins is live from the lafayette bart stati