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Looks like an official july 4th celebration over San Francisco bay. But its not. Illegal commercial grade fireworks display in wendy Young Oakland neighborhood. Lots of opportunities for injury and of course all the fireworks going off landing on peoples roofs and with the dry dry dry weather we could have some serious fire problems. Reporter she describes past fourth of July Celebration near San Antonio Park as a freeforall. Crowds so hostile the police finally had to back away finally. Reporte...

Is sort of marking just how large this fire is. Authorities are telling us again that there were about 200 evacuations as this fire continues to spread. We are expecting the possibility that we could see more evacuations tonight. Well keep an ear on it and keep you updated. Back to you. Thank you. We want to go to Elizabeth Cook in the newsroom. She is watching the live pictures come in from chopper 5. Liz . Reporter veronica, we have literally had a birdseye view of how crews have been attackin...

Name, and the n word. And i should die. And this bart worker says this is the latest example of a pattern of racism at bart. Two employees are talking about what they call an ugly problem at bart. Bart says its taking this incident seriously, investigating it as a hate crime. Those employees claim their managers response was just as offensive as the graffiti itself. Vic . With three black bart workers say offensive acts are an ongoing pattern of racism. They say every time they work alone at nig...

Hills. You can see the damage from homes by a torpid that was whipped up by arthur. The hurricane reach add category 2 status. Winds of 100 Miles Per Hour last night and 22 thousand ,000 people right now are still without power. The storm is moving northeast after turning slightly west yesterday. Were going to have a live report in North Carolina in 15 minutes. Erica kato tracking the storms path. Lets look at it on radar imagery. You see it has made its way through North Carolina. The eye shran...

Were the left lane is blocked you concede traffic is backed up in the console area and into hercules. Also were tracking a motorcycle accident i think this thing had been cleared by were looking at a backed up for also read no heading into this city. Theres a quick look at the bay bridge read is the traffic is backed up for those of you folks getting on to the bridge. The drive time is not too bad and the berkeley area takes about 10 minutes to get across the bridge. james we do have some change...

Weve been asking viewers to send in photos and again so sure use some of those given sending good ones. From the early stages of fire some from this was about midway through the fire. These photos are coming from own backyard again rollmop county. From lot vineyard if you can call a pretty. From early on in the fire. This is a dry area of hot windy day. Really a tough area for firefighters to reach. This photo taken from the height of the fire all that smoke which people can see for miles. When ...

Had about eight minutes to scatter. After the first set of explosions the fireworks explosions went off you could hear a sigh of relief then explosions and cheers. Reporter fog could not block the brilliance of these pyrotechnics. Which wowed an appreciative crowd of about 200,000 people. The crew working on a barge off pier 39 started the show around 9 30. But spectators started staking out their spots much earlier. Janetta barber and her children claimed a bench about 6 30 this evening so they...

Overnight and the weekend. Cal fire preparing for the possibility of more evacuations. Everyone knows that were in an extreme drought. Just get ready for the season to be very extreme. Reporter but cal fire also needs help and the bay area is responding. A strike team in Santa Clara County was deployed to assist joining teams from san mateo, contra costa and alameda counties as well as redwood city all as governor jerry brown declares a state of emergency. And this morning were also learning mou...

These homes are gone. Some looking like they were just wiped completely off the foundations. You can see also see cars there scorched. The fire is still smoldering. Well go back to cate with developments. Another fire to tell you about burning near vacaville. Chopper 5 was above the area at highway 113 and hay road. Large plumes of smoke are visible across the area. The fire started around 3 30. It isnt clear how many acres have burned or when crews expect to have this one contained. New at 6 00...

Percent. And some 2hundred homes have been evacuated. Kron4s jr stone explains why this fire has been so challenging for crews on the front line. Flames shooting into the air in northern napa county and parts of lake county. Firefighters have now been fighting these flames for more than 24 hours and they are still dealing with challenges. The heat, the low humidity, the fuel bed is so dry. Temperatures wednesday reached into the upper 90s. As i drove along butts canyon road in napa county it was...