University buildings, are all over the campus, the bell tower, and of course foothill dorms where students just moved in last week to start the fall semester. Many of these buildings are listed by the uc system as safe but under a new engineering assessment recently completed they are all classified as poor or very poor. When it comes to withstanding an earthquake. We have learned more about what earthquake ground motion close to faults can be like, and you know, were now incorporating that new knowledge into the assessment of these buildings, and as that new knowledge comes into play, many buildings that were deemed safe in the past now have some open questions. Is there concern by some faculty that enough hasnt been done yet here . There is some concern. I personally have concerns about that. Reporter now this is all part of a reassessment of all buildings on the university of california campuses statewide, some nine campuses and it does not mean the buildings have gotten worse as th
Already mentioned this, today and tomorrow, the two coolest days in this forecast. Some of us as much as 15 degrees cooler by the time we get to the afternoon and buy some of us i mean in my locations. Conger, livermore, i will go into more detail in a bit but for now if youre getting ready to step outside on expected to feel all that different than yesterday at this point. 55 in the city, 52 santa rosa, 63 officially for San Francisco. 66 yesterday. So just of three degree drop there. That the inlet numbers. 76 degrees today and that will be 10 degrees below average. But, below that from where we yesterday. Well be right back with this in a bit but will talk about the warmup on the way for the weekend. Were starting to potsget a l worse this morning here at six to one. Lets start with the Altamont Pass where you are now in the red. It just bumped up from 40 to 41 minutes in the last couple seconds actually. East shore freeway in the yellow. That drive time is about 20 minutes to get f
Wednesday. Im kris sanchez in for laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Back to those wildfires as we continue to push the firefighters continue to push those limits across the bay area this morning. As crews make progress on the north bay wildfires, another one pops up in Santa Cruz Mountains, forcing more evacuations. It is active. Here is where things stand. The socalled bear fire is burning near 5 containment. It is threatening 271 acres, actually, 271 acres are burned, but 150 homes are under threat, under mandatory evacuation orders this morning. That is the area of deer creek and bear creek canyon. This continues to be a very tough fire fight. Five firefighters were hurt while working in very treacherous and steep terrain. The weather could help firefighters with this. We have Team Coverage to get you up to speed. Me meteorologist kari hall kicks off our coverage. Likt winds and higher humidity. That is really going to help out as far as containing those wildfires. As we go throug
Cant be occupied. city officials said that the number of evacuations here in rock springs and in the other two flood zones, Williams Street and old oakland road have fallen from 14thousand to 3thousand800 and the number of units effected is down from 4thousand to about 11hundred and are expected to fall farther in the days ahead. District seven councilman tam nguyen says help is on the way. Sot tam nguyen San Jose City councilman . I will be putting up a board of action with a time table to keep track of our progress and i will be out here to meeet with the residents and see to it they are getting the help that they need. a few residents are spurning the still in place ban on re entry and are already trying to clean up but the city is discouraging that because the plumbing is down and the water is contaminated with sewage, garbage and other toxics. Once the water is pumped out city teams will begin what could be several days of inspections and finally, for some, reentry. Sot dave sykes
Badly flooded this week. But first we go to kron4s Lydia Pantazes is live in one of the hardest hit areas. The rock springs neighborhood. Where people were temporarily allowed to return home. If you take a look behind me you can see crews working. They are expected to be out here several more hours. Heres a look at the muddy mess left behind by the flooding. Heres what crews have been doing. Earlier today they pumped the remainder of the water from this neighborhood. Then they started to Pressure Washing the streets. One of the reasons its so important to wash down the street is because all the contamination. We talked to people allowed to go back in their homes. They told me theyre not getting enough info about when they can return. If thats even possible. Henry nguyen lives in flooded area im just trying to go inside and grab as much as i can right now because i dont know when theyre going to let us go back in and grab the rest of our belongings. Long nguyen lives in flooded area i w