Talking about. The closure includes northbound 280 all the way into the city. Abc 7 News Reporter is live with more on the story. Reporter dan, we saw these crews out here shutting down this onramp at indiana and 25th ten minutes ago. Earlier than anticipated. This stretch will be closed until 5 00 am monday morning that will cause traffic problems on a potentially busy 4th of july weekend. This is the section that will be repaired. You can see pretty large portions of the joining hinge are crumbling away. Cal trans says thats the result of five decades of regular wear and tear by more than 100,000 cars and trucks driving over it. The stretch survived an earthquake in 198 9 and since been retro fitted. This work is needed to keep it up to code. The shut down will mean drivers have to squeeze on 101 to get north into the city or use other routes. If you have to drive, allow yourself a lot of extra time, take an alternate rude oute and expect delays. I was contemplating coming up to visi
Abandon their vehicle. Everybody was like get out, get out reporter you were running . Yes, everybody was running jumping out the car. It was serious. Reporter as a the smoke thickened inside the tunnel, people said it was tough to breathe. Imagine being stuck inside during a barbecue and the barbecue being inside ten times worse. It was pretty bad. You felt like you needed to get out of the tunnel. Reporter look what is left. This was a ford taurus. The ford hit this saturn before bursting into flames. The driver saw the fire and had to think fast. I panicked and i couldnt get out of the car because the doors were locked. I tried to kick the door out. I had to kick this door out to get out of the car. Reporter longtime bay area residents couldnt help but think about the deadly accident that happened in the tunnel in 1982 when seven people were killed. Scary. It brought flash backs of the tanker blowing up years ago. I know i was a kid but it had that feel to it, so everybody felt that
Now on a brbc 7 news, clean continues. The storm system on the move. Part of a construction site comes crashing down in San Francisco. What fire crews say went wrong, also. I wish he spoke now. A san jose state student talks about claims of a hate crime on campus. How the school is dealing with racial tensions there. Abc 7 news starts now. And that breaking news businesses and apartments up in flames in San Francisco. You can see the thick, black smoke from the tower camera. Good evening. Im ama daetz. We have more live from the scene of that fire, lisa . Reporter ama, were here on sacramento street and this fire is now out but as you can see behind me, a lot of firefighters are still here. More than 100 firefighters responded to this fire that broke out around 2 30 this afternoon. This video was taken from a woman who lives in the neighborhood. Smoke and flames billowing out of the building. They heard popping coming from between the two buildings before the fire started. Fire officia
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Thats an opinion. Things get heated before a critical vote to seize hundreds of under water mortgages. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Homeowners in richard are in dire straights. City leaders have a plan that calls for drastic action but some worry about the consequences. Wayne freedman explains why. Reporter in richmond, neighborhood signs tell an on going story of poor closures, nearly half the homes are worth less than the owners paid for them. By the time its like the last week of the month, were stretched. Reporter patty and her husband paid 425,000 for this home eight years ago. Its now lost more than half of its value. Tonight she has hope. If the banks on wall street got bailed out, how come we dont get bailed out . We call on the banks to really do the right thing. Reporter after months of discussion the Richmond City counsel voted last night with possibly using imminent domain to buy under water mortgages in mass with an Investment Group forced banks to renegotiate. The council