Number of firefighters are here battling this fire. They had to get out of the building fast because the roof has collapsed. Their only job right now is to try and keep this fire from spreading. The fire started around 8 30 tonight at this furniture and upholstery store and it spread quickly. Its an older strip mall so the infrastructure is very old. Authorities say they dont believe anyone was inside the building at the time. Witnesses say the owners of the Furniture Store are out of town and the owners of sweet Fingers Restaurant are worried. What happened was there was a big boom and everybody started running from the back of the restaurant. Were just waiting for them to put it out. F about an hour or more. The challenges going into a furnishing shop, itsompl in na. They had a lot of obstacle as they went a lot of combustiblesn the building, a heavy fire load. So the fire rapidly expanded on them and they had to pull back. Now theyre in defensive mode. Reporter firefighters were rea
Firefighters initially started an interior fire attack. They were pushed back from the fire that they found in the building. Reporter firefighters tell me there is a home right behind thbuildi here. The residents in that home have been evacuated and also there are two apartments above the business nextdoor. Those residents in those homes have been evacuated as well and firefighters are telling me tonight that no injuries have been reported so far. Reporting live in san leandro, Andrea Nakano, kpix5. It is june in the bay area, conclude a windy place. Wind is often a problem when it comes to a big fire. Not a problem tonight. Im happy to report the wind in and around this fire only between 5 and 7 miles per hour. That is much calmer than normal. As a matter of fact, the wind is completely calm right now in napa and san rafael. The winds are turning more northerly, though. Thats why we were 5 to 7 degrees warmer today. We will continue that warming trend into tomorrow. San francisco goin
Conduct raids. The longest day of the year and the sun came up at 5 48. What its going to feel like outside you can already tell, were not dealing with the june gloom today. There is little in the way of low clouds whether in the bay or the coast its going to stick around for the weekend. Its going to be a lot of sunshine around. Were going to be warmer than you may remember. How much warmer coming up in a built well be 712 degrees above average for the weekend. That means in the city, 74 today, 67 would be an average for us. If you dont have plans for the weekend, ill talk about the festival. Sunny and warm. 95 inland and yes, that is now hot. Not as hot as we were with the heat wave but its as much as 12 degrees above average and its going to stay that way for the weekend. Here are your headlines. Sunny weekend for all. Warm in the bay and much cooler for next week. More on that coming up in a few minutes thank you. And bart trains are expected to be back on schedule today after a do
A number of businesses have been affected. We will have a live report coming up and there is a new area code coming to arts of western Alameda County and that means big changes for people with a 510 area code. Spoke to changes today and affects whether you can dial out and how you can do that. There are more changes coming. It will be a bit of getting used to. We will get to that in a moment. We want to talk about whether. It is cool outside right now. It will get kind of hot. Sorry. I love it, i do. I know you are not a big fan that it will be too bad right now. Golden gate bridge fog hanging a little bit. For the most part we will clear up pretty nicely today all across the region and we will see some warmer temperatures especially inland. It is summer officially as of yesterday and we will see those summerlike temperatures. Not as cloudy and foggy as it is over the Golden Gate Bridge. We can talk about some of the weather headlines and talk about how the day is shaping up and what w
Reached an agreement with the studios to end the nearly five month strike. More than 11,000 hollywood writers have been picketing the studios since may 2nd without getting out. But now, after several days of intense negotiations, the wga emailing members sunday night saying they have reached a tentative agreement with the studios. According to multiple media reports, the offer made saturday suggested the studios had taken steps to meet some of the unions demands. Minimum staffing, residuals and Artificial Intelligence and data transparency. Though the exact details of the deal have not been released. Hollywood productions have been at a standstill for months, with both the wga and sagaftra, which represents 160,000 actors on strike. Both unions with similar demands. I think its really, truly coming from a real need, a desperation for things to change. And also pointing out some of the unfairness that is out there. The two strikes have been drawn out and costly with the ripple effects b