Temperature is dropping out gear down. Pam stay uptodate on the weather your area and we have continued strong coverage on air at on our website at kron 4 dot com. Pam there were more polite protest today on this and ferguson missouri grand jury decision in the Michael Brown case protesters shut down the west oakland bart station for a while causing major delays. Reporter this was the real issue the station was shut down for more than two hours today no service to San Francisco as didnt demonstrators chained themselves to a bar train. They linked arms. This aerial video courtesy of our helicopter partnership with abc seven news. This image shows how it works 25 people lot to the train each other or this bench were talking about heavy duty by clocks. Reporter outside the station other supporters gathered in rally aside was seen reading black lives matter. From 10 30 a. M. Until almost 1 00 p. M. This afternoon the west oakland station was shut down. Reporter eventually firefighters were
Bay bridge westbound this morning brought seeing any major problems because we managed to avoid a big back up with an accident that occurred in the westbound direction. The decrease your back up to right where macarthur maes 580 approach starting as low know as well for the westbound ride. We have seller terrace bridge commune where things really got bogged down for the right on highway 92 westbound out for the high rise section of pockets and and it then stop and go stopping the traffic. Your commute to and the right to concord westbound traffic here still sluggish although the accident because the backup has been completely cleared from the roadway that is good news digging will could slow traffic for 580 westbound. Stereotypical here south freeways have brought check in a hot spots where one arrive in the 280 right are actually a little lighter than usual so its a slow to see the big back ups already forming through a self bay and joined while it lasts. y. Fisher from our camera sho
Good evening. We begin with developing news. A are church in the heart of downtown san jose. It was severely damaged after a massive fire. Part of the Historic Church collapse. The fire is out. The crews remain on the scene tonight. We will tell you more about this fire. It started this afternoon wind San Jose Fire Department received several calls of smoke coming from the church attic. When firefighters arrived, they saw heavy smoke and flames coming from the second floor. The fire was quickly elevated to a four alarm blaze. Meaning the majority of san jose fire resources more than 100 firefighters at one point, were called to the scene. The church is a large wooden building with several rooms upstairs and downstairs. Firefighters had to fight the fire in defensive mode, fighting from the outside. They initially tried to attack it from the inside. But it proved to be too difficult. The crews took quite a beating training trying to get up to the fire. They were unable to estimate wish
May have started. Reporter the church was empty. A mass in italian for about 50 people had entered about half an hour before. But behind the windows is a choir balcony and a possible electrical problem with a pipe organ. It took almost no time for fire to destroy a church that was open since 1919. Some watched thinking of their many memories. Weve been coming to this church our entire life and you know, its like a second home to us. We come very often. At least almost every weekend. To see it go down like this. Its sad for the community. The community church. So its very heart wrenching to see a church go down in flames and they couldnt stop it from burning. Its very sad. Reporter it couldnt be stopped because fire was already running the lenght of the attic when crews arrived. They ran hose lines inside but the fire was raging over their head, the structure old wood. Stairs and hallway narrow. Crewed retreated to fight the fire from outside, listen as firefighters shout a warning mome
Of injuries. He says opd needs to step up its game. I hope there is more creative thinking within the Police Department to help us to deal with it. Reporter they did provide this Public Service announcement it made. Did you know participating in side shows or street races can result in your car being towed and you going to jail . Reporter mayor jean quan was not available for comment. The solution i am committed to is restoring the numbers in the Police Department and restoring the deployment to every neighborhood. Reporter like it or not side shows get a lot of attention. This video that was posted had almost 400,000 views in 24 hours. Ken wayne, ktvu channel 2 news. Police sent ktvu a statement. It says we take side show activity very seriously. As we grow the department and increase our staffing we will be able to direct resources that could more effectively respond to and deter side show activity. Oakland police are reviewing video of this weekends side show. Officers did respond a