To have two in one year that are like this is just its something i cant even fathom. A massive fire in the same spot not once but twice. And hours after this fireball in the east bay crews remain at the scene tonight as an unstable crane has residents on edge. Its scary. First of all, we dont know what to expect, what every day, you know, will bring. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Crews are working right now at the scene of that massive fire in emeryville. The fire starte around 5 00 this morning at a construction site that has now burned twice in one year. 18 hours later the fire is still smoldering in some spots, and theres also an unstable crane in the middle of the burn area. Abc 7 News Reporter lisa aminute galician joins us live from the scene at adeline street. Whats happening now, lisa . Reporter eric, this situation is still very unstable. The heavy equipment arrived a short time ago and we were forced to move back to this area in case that crane falls. The man is to dismantle
Great deal of concern. And i think the voters would, too. Reporter but gage says he wont condemn his competitors for something that happened in the distant past thats already been corrected. In gilroy, len ramirez, cbs 5. One more note tonight on a public official who has run into a little trouble. Port of oaklands maritime director james kwon is now on paid leave. Records show that kwon spent more than 4,500 in public money at a strip club in houston during a 2008 conference. This story broke as he was attending another conference in china. He has been ordered to come home. Get your rain gear ready because we are about to get soaked. It look the most rain we have seen here in the bay area in six months. Paul deanno has the weather forecast. April 25th the last time we have had widespread rainfall. This is typically when we first get our widespread rainfall in the fall. October 4 last year was the first big rain, october 23rd the year before. It was early in 2009, september 13. So we a
Is he doing . He is doing okay. As we roll through lunchtime we will have light rain just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The rest of us would just have cloudy skies. But by 3 00 p. M. Light rain will enter the heart of the bay. We will continue with often on the showers for rest of the afternoon. Scattered showers will remain out for tuesday morning. Here is a look pitcher afternoon high, plenty of 60s. Oakland will have a high of 64 and also for fairfield. Los 60s for downtown San Francisco. Here is a look picture 7 day around the bay. We may see isolated showers for tomorrow morning and another storm will arrive on wednesday. Thursday afternoon through saturday we have dry conditions and warmer weather for the weekend. More details coming up. For the traffic we have a few minor problems. There are areas of overnight construction. If you are going to the bay bridge, the left lane is blocked into the city was so far the metering lights are off. No problems at the san mateo bridge and
Filled out from restaurants themselves. I would say about 90 of the people ive talked to misreported the form. They just didnt know how to complete it. They didnt include costs associated with business that they should have included and i think there is going to be people who can show its just reporting error. We have the reports, well werk have the comp pillation of the reports. This is all 177 of the restaurants. There are big discrepancies on this list. One company charged half a million dollars. And there is no explanation of what happened here to remaining money. Sit in a bank account . Somewhere employees will be able to get to it . There is a lot we dont know. Well know more once the City Attorney completes his investigation. More questions than answers. Thank you. A year long battle over the fate of a north bay oyster farm moved to med federal court this, may be the farms final chance for survival. The u. S. Park service ordered et out by mid february. Abc 7 news joins us live
Than 7 inches of rain. That is 101 of normal. San francisco doing well, with four and a half inches of rain. San jose is lag ago bit behind at 1. 6 inches. Lets head outside to Laura Anthony to see how people in petaluma are getting ready. Its raining very lightly here at the moment. As the next cells move into the area, there are plenty of nervous people especially those who have seen high water here before. Carol patterson is looking through clippings from the big flood of 1982 the one that washed through the leisure lake mobile home park. They manage the park and they hope that history doesnt repeat itself. If we have a high tide, rains like ten inches or more and high tide and it goes over the berm and Pumpkin Patch and we have a problem. Thanks to some improvements over the years they are confident the park wont flood but it could become an island. That is why they have stocked up on blankets and backup pump and generateders if needed. Its laugh against the clock and weather in pe