View. It sounds like lanes are open but well double check when chp gets on scene. Heres crockett, rodeo, i know youre going to talk about the fire that had it closed for hours yesterday. No closures today. Lets get back to the breaking news, the aftermath of the inferno yesterday. Investigators plan to be on site all day to learn what sparked the fire which burned close to seven hours. Two storage tanks blew up sending huge plumes of tanks skyward for hours. It closed 80 in both directions for hours, all lanes are reopened this morning. But it strictered a shelter in place yesterday. But now the authorities have lifted the shelter in place. And at one point firefighters tweeted out schools would be open today. This morning nbc bay area is confirming all schools in the john sweat juunified School District will be closed. Whats the latest, thom . Reporter i can tell you when we first arrived on the scene this morning, the heavy smell of burning oil was still in the air. It has cleared ou
This morning John Swett Unified School district and four campuses are closed this morning. We want to first get a check of the forecast for you this morning. Definitely a fall start. Fall start, Cool Temperatures. As we look at this, when that refinery fire first broke out, it was visible on satellite imagery, thats a look at the arrow pointing towards that. Now as we wake up this morning, air quality is improving, we are seeing clouds still around the area but we have to watch out for that with light winds picking up from the northwest at about 7 Miles Per Hour in the area of crockett. And we are going to see some improvement today in the air quality as well as our temperatures coming down a few degrees. Well talk about some rain moving in, and mike seeing a lighting change in palo alto . Thats right because up until a few minutes ago, this section was well lit by crews, they have cleared, still a couple lights, thats moving north as far as the clearing goes up. So you may see a littl
Place for crockett and the surrounding community. Late last night the air quality has rebounded enough to allow that shelter in place to be lifted all schools in the john sweat Unified School District were closed. Were awaiting a News Conference to start any minute now. So we could get an update on the investigation so far. We know that just one firefighter was injured. This is a live look at the site now. First we want to turn to nbc bay areas thom jensen live in crockett with an update on the latest. Thom . Reporter good morning. Being this close to the site, you get your first look at how big these tanks are, these storage tanks. The two that burns are on the other side of this group that were standing in front of right now, the two that had about 3,000 gallons of an ethanol mix and this morning we got a good look from a perch above the damaged area at the two tanks that exploded into flames and burned for seven hours. It looks like they completely collapsed under the heat. Cal osha
Department. They tell me they now believe that this fire started on the second levl above the sleeping quarters. Also today, families have been giving dna samples to help identify the victims. And we have been watching, norah, as the fbi has been carting away evidence gathered at the scene. Norah . So tough to hear those details. Jonathan vigliatti, thank you. Chaos and confusion at the airport in new jersey. A flight attend apt at Alaska Airlines became suspicious of two men last night, and sounded an alarm telling everyone to evacuate. The men were later questioned by police and released without charges. No one was hurt in the race for the exits. Alaska airlines is investigating this false alarm. Federal Law Enforcement sources confirm that the gunman in last weekends mass shooting in west texas purchased his ar15style rifle in a private sale. Now, the search for the seller is underway. Sources say 36yearold seth ator had previously failed a federal background check because ileopl de
Where is the going going . Somewhere behind all of that fog. Well see a lot more cloud cover today. Were going to be running a few degrees cooler. The reason for that, we have a system, a trough off in the Pacific Northwest that is keeping our temperatures slightly below seasonable for today but its still warm through the inland areas. You can see here on satellite radar the system just off to the north, im going to zoom in a little bit closer, you can see how its bringing that cloud cover and thats whats going to keep our temperatures slightly more comfortable today but still pretty hot. As we head into the start of the work week, were going to start to notice those winds kicking up, and as those winds kick up, High Pressure is going to roll back in and then the concern for fire danger is really going to play a part in your monday through wednesday forecast, and as kira said, into next weekend, were tracking rain chances so ill go over all of that info that i just threw your way comin