Reporter i want to give you first of all a look at what were now. Again, black, thick black smoke billowing up from this scene. This just about 15 minutes ago it wasnt smoking at all. This is why they cant tell us when they will be able to get control of this situation because it appears to die down and it flares up. All of this thick smoke is one of the things that emergency workers are really concerned about. There are folks here that caught up with a couple of them a short time ago. They have their canisters ou and their respirators and they were collecting air samples. They sid they would be taking the samplgs back to the lab in San Francisco and couldnt tell me when they would get the results of those samples. This fire, this situation has been under way for four hours now. We have been out here upnd die down. Smoke go up, die down. Its still going. I talked to and asked the Information Officer for contra costa fire a little while ago how long we can expect this to continue. L let
Back to our breaking News Coverage tonight an explosion at the area that says a storage tanks for refineries in the east bay prompts a shelter in place for parts of Contra Costa County and that video youre looking at was provided by a viewer kron 4 viewer tory newman and she happened to be at the location. As that live actually blow off the top of that storage tank. Some amazing video from tory newman into kron 4 today, heres what we know so far about this for rodeo. The fire is burning at the new star Storage Facility thats a Storage Facility for refinery products as of right now Officials Say 2 tanks are burning there was some confusion earlier that there were 3 tanks of ah, but there are 2 tanks burning, those tanks are holding ethanol and there are road closures on both interstate 80 and highway for interstate 80 is now close likely until midnight tonight. And heres the. That we can show you of the shelterinplace area. The areas shaded in red contra costa Hazardous Materials says a
Before 1 50 pm. I80 is shut down in both directions there. The chp is saying that the highway could potentially be shut down until midnight, depending on how long this fire burns. Contra Costa Health Services is calling this an emergency. A shelterinplace remains in effect for people in crockett and rodeo. Lets get you straight to our reporter, who has been live. What you tell us right now . Reporter we just wrapped up a press conference with the pio. Lets take a look. We are told that there is some fuel on the ground, from that collapse tinker. This is where we keep seeing those flareups through the foam on the ground here. We also found out that i80 highway 4, until at least ve lo chopper shots right now. You can see the steam coming off of the facility out here. Firefighters are still putting foam and water on this fire to try to knock it down and keep it from impinging on any of these tanks here. Some of those contain jet fuel. Here is steve hill, with more information about this v
Here is what we heard about the airquality issues a little while ago. The particulate matter that is originating from these fires is causing conditions that range from unhealthy conditions for people with sensitivities to respiratory problems to actual hazardous levels of particulate. It has been varying quite a bit. Reporter the smoke that comes out is still contributing to this problem and could contribute four hours to come. Obviously the more it is tamped down then the less ignition of smoke there is. The smell around here now is very much a petroleum smell as opposed to what we were smelling earlier which was a vegetation fire. Now you are starting to smell the petrochemicals themselves. Again the problem is we dont know how much damage has been done down there and we dont know what the Structural Integrity of the tanks are. Because of that we dont know if this is anywhere close to over. The fact that chp is going to keep 80 closed as long as it thinks they have to suggest to me t
Knocked and is a west, southwest. Above the caldecott at 14. Black diamond, north east and blackhawthe temperatures. 40s, 50s and 60s. A big difference in some of these. 61 in windsor. Look for sunshine and warm temperatures. Well above average today and most of the week. 70s, 80s, upper 80s and if you near 90. 4 09 am. Here is mr. Sal castaneda. Thank you. Good morning. Here we are bright and early. Talking about weather and traffic and right now traffic looks pretty good on 580 westbound from the altamont pass. 580 traffic is doing well. There is a little bit of slowing approaching the altamont pass. Not much. Once you get to livermore and dublin looks good. No problems and the word work we have here sometimes is not there this morning. Thats good news. At the bay bridge toll plaza it is light. We are starting with breaking news in San Franciscos tenderloin where the police are investigating a homicide overnight. We have no details yet about the victim or how the victim was killed bu