Reporter carolyn and orville sanford say their entire house shook yesterday when two tanks burst into flames and smoke at the Nustar Energy facility down the street from their home. Turning a quiet afternoon into a terrifying one. I thought oh, gosh, i hope they dont explode our whole town out. I thought oh, hell. Weve had it now. My dads 81. Hes had three strokes, and he is on oxygen. And it was just a terrible, scary night. Reporter tonight fire crews still have a foam blanket over the explosion site. They want to make sure there is no threat of anything reigniting before they begin removing it. But theyre wasting no time trying to get to the bottom of what went wrong. 11 30 this morning, we served a search warrant on nustar. Reporter contra costa fire says their investigators are working with the atf, the sheriffs department, cal osha, and the d. A. s office to interview witnesses and examine documents and digital data like surveillance. They are all working as one team to investiga
From our exclusive Sales Force Tower camera and look at that the fog is out on this thursday morning. Good morning everyone. It is august 22nd. Im michelle griego. Good morning im kenny choi. Its 4 31 right now lets get a check of that foggy forecast and that warm up later today. Thats right. Once you step outside youre going to feel that difference. It is a warm and muggy start to the day. Check out our Treasure Island camera this morning and you can see just how low the clouds are. Hard to make out the top of the tower there at bay bridge. 67 in livermore. San francisco at 63. San jose 68. As we head for the afternoon and the coast in the mid 60s. Heating up inland into the low to mid 90s once again with that sunshine. Well talk about the rest of the week and the weekend ahead coming up. Here at 4 31 i am tracking your main travel times. You are all in the green. Drive times are pretty easy at this hour even through the altamonte pass. Thats a Pretty Simple drive at 27 minutes. Still
Ive got some Important News for you commuting over the bay bridge. There is a stalled tractor trailer on the bridge and thats really going to start to cause some problems here this morning you can see a live look this morning. In the meantime you are not clear on those roadways. Thanks to that issue that is on the bridge itself and that westbound direction youre not clear either starting to get a little bit busier as far as the volume is concerned. However, we do have a visibility issue on the Golden Gate Bridge. They do have a fog advisory in effect. You can clearly see why because you cant see the bridge at all. Im anne makovec live at the news desk. Were live in downtown san jose where a man was hit by a vehicle and left for dead in the middle of this street this is on east san fernando street as we mentioned we believe its near the library. Its also just a few blocks from horris man. Police are going to have those roads closed for the next several hours and we do have our jackie wo
Activists gathering to talk Climate Change and chanting to let more peoplein the Party Debates whether they should hold an entire debate dedicated to Climate Change that les. The te could come today. President ial candidates make their way to the meeting and senator Bernie Sanders just tour the town of paradise and is hosting a rally in downtown sacramento this evening Bernard Sanders and a dozen other candidates will attend the threeday event. Former Vice President joe biden will not be making an appearance. The event wraps up saturday. Im emily turner at the news desk and we have the fbi investigating with what they call the largest scam, online scam, and u. S. History. Tragic in sonyses. A 145 page i charges for 80 people participating in the conspiracy to steal millions through a range of fraud schemes, as well as wandering the funds through a los angeles network. Most of the defendants are nigerian suspects and they hacked email accounts and businesses and romance scams targeted t
I want to show why were getting the humidity and the cloud cover across the bay area. We have remnant moisture from Tropical Storm dahlia. That storm is moving ay systems the clouds, also humidity. Well take a look at the radar at the current moment and all the center storms right now over the sierra. Thats going to be the best bet of lightning as we pass through the next 24 hours for the bay area. Were watching a little moisture out here offshore. So through tonight best chance of rain over the sierra, but a small piece of this could break off and move close to the bay area. More details on this and the heat warning for the weekend coming up in 15 minutes. Well see you then. Thanks, jeff. For a closer look at the incoming heat, follow jeff on twitter. He tweeted where the hottest spots will be this weekend. Aloangeles. Police say killed four people throughout the day. It started early this morning when investigators say he killed his father and brother in canoga park, then allegedly d