Agencies are there on the scene 2 buildings to the east and the west of this fire have been evacuated. Berkeley fire now saying this building was under construction, no one inside at the time we will keep you updated on this breaking news story right here on kron 4 news tonight, we have crews headed to the scene and well have a live report. As soon as we can get that up for you. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 8 im justine waltman im Jonathan Mccall our other big story this saturday night less than 2 hours to go until the start of a new state wide curfew as part of the latest attempt to try and slow down the rapid spread of covid19 the stay at home order only applies to counties in the most restrictive purple tier, but that really covers most of the states population so here in the bay area that means every county except for moran, San Francisco and san mateo counties or this curfew applies. But well tell you more about how San Francisco could be affected by thi
At just west of the cal Berkeley Campus police say that this fire started at about 5. 30 this Evening University still shut down firefighters actively still working to control the fire right now. Lets go right now to kron fours dan thorn has been live on the scene all night long bringing us the very latest details. Dan any new information you want. Jonathan and just seen i can tell you that its a huge response as you can see out here happening right over my shoulder crews just continue to trench this construction site theyre really trying to make sure that there isnt any potential for any more flames to break out we do know that earlier today the report first came in at 5. 46 alarm blaze several crews having to show up here this burning in 2016 University Avenue in right now crews remain on scene on university between milby a street and shattuck avenue pg and e crews were out here earlier they have shut power down to the street there are several shops and restaurants that are in this a
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Now this is about a half hour ago, but it gives an idea some of those city lights going on just as the sun starts to join us upstream we do have some scattered clouds to make note of they will come to pass throughout the Late Afternoon early evening member the sun setting early so to actually be probably close to sunset might have some nice sunsets out there. 30s right now across a good piece of real estate not just up in the north bay, but in the far east bay livermore 33 conquer jumbo checking in at 38 as well as san jose and 32 from a bottle in santa rosa, this is cooler for us across a good portion of the bay up north there were also chilly like this. Yesterday morning if you recall as well look toward a ahead 58 by 11 00am by 2 were talking 6 to 3 against them. Afternoon clouds and well see that again for tonight, but another chilly night a forecast in just a bit marty. All right dave thanks a lot. Lets get back to our top story this morning. People who live 6 bay area counties in