Per hour gusts in cupertino. The strong winds and dry conditions also have a fire crews on alert. Jackie ward is in brooklyn where they are dealing with downed trees. Jackie . That is for sure. We started here worked our way down to antioch and then traveled west. Where this tree fell on a car, crash through a window and really the whole east bay was windswept today. Here we are just over a week until Christmas Day and we are still in fire season. Cal fire chief says that the season is unprecedented. All of our fire stations are open and staffed. Something you never see in the beer bay area. Ive never seen a december like this before. The normally staff 15 trucks during its peak season. And only for during winter. But now they are back up to 15 units. At one. 11 of them were in Southern California battling the thomas fire there. Our forces are getting tired. With that is our job. It started for us in march, and nine months later we are still going strong. The wind was so powerful here
Amtrak 501, emergency, we are on the ground. Thats a first tonight. Lets get started. We are all over the three parts of this big breaking story tonight. Heres whats ahead. Transportation reporter pete muntean talks about the trains speed. Weve got a reporter on scene, too. But first lets set the scene for you. It is a jumbled mess. There were 14 cars on this train. Most of them jumped the tracks. There were about 80 passengers on board and a crew of five when the train rounded a curb over interstate 5 and derailed. Listen to the conversation between the trains conductor and dispatchers. Amtrak 501, emergency. We are on the ground. Hey, guys, what happened . We were coming around the corner to take the bridge over i5 there right north of nisqually and we went on the ground. Is everybody okay . Im st weve got cars everywhere and down onto the highway. The drivers whose cars were hit by the falling train were injured. None of them, though, are among the dead tonight. That crash scene you
Heavily crowded area and that according to jameson, no reconnaissance or site survey would be necessary. On monday he allegedly sent the undercover fbi employee maps and photos of pier 39. Isis and some of the homegrown terrorists decided that soft targets are better, mass casualties, a popular site, pier 39 very popular, a popular period of time to identify masses of people in one place and the bottom line is, they can they can kill and maim more people. Reporter Court Documents say he asked the same employee for amount mow, timers, remote detonators and an Assault Rifle and wouldnt need an escape plan because he was ready to die. In a statement, acting San Francisco mayor london breed said we will not allow the thwarted attempts of one dangerous individual to disrupt our way of life. We will remain vigilant and continue to protect our city from any threat. Tourists were relieved. Its so sad to hear someone wants to ruin the holiday thats basically about giving love to one another. Yo
Fbi. The suspect is Everett Jamison from modesto. He is a former marine sharpshooter. He appeared in court in fresno and was charged with attempting to provide support to a designated foreign terrorist. Janet is in the city with how the fbi said jamison revealed his plan to an undercover agent. Reporter according to the Court Documents jamison said he had been to pier 39 before and he was not concerned about an escape plan because he was prepared to die. He thought he was telling and isis operative this plan. It was an undercover fbi employee. Reporter pier 39 draws thousands of people for the holidays. According to documents that is why 26yearold Everett Jamison a former marine named pier 39 as a target location for a possible terror attack on Christmas Day. He had been there before and no recognizance will be necessary. A source alerted the fbi in september about a facebook account under his name that was liking post pro isis and supporting the october terror attack in new york city.
Through the next few hours. North of the airport, visibility is at a quarter mile and a half mile. We are in the 30s this morning in the north bay. 37, napa. Mid to upper 30s for the inner east bay. Closer to the water its not quite as cold. 41, oakland. 47 degrees in San Francisco. On the peninsula, 41 in san mateo. 39 in woodside. Afternoon highs today are on the cool side but not too bad. Upper 50s and low 60s with dry conditions and partly cloudy skies. We do have another spare the air day. I will check on the air quality and look at the extended forecast. Thats coming up. A pedestrian hit by a car and killed on interstate 80 east of ashby avenue in berkeley. Chp reports it happened around 1 40 am and involved a white dodge that hit a person walking in the right lane. Its unclear why that person was there. The driver called authorities to report the collision. We will have more information when it comes in. As for traffic, sal is off but we went to check in. There is oracle arena w