Broken hearted. Please dont drive, because you broke a family. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. Im Heather Holmes in tonight for julie haener. An oakland family is grieving tonight after a mother and father is run over by a suspected drunk driver, doing his job, repaving roads for caltrain. Weve all heard the warnings to slow down. Highway work can be dangerous. Reporter heather, thats right. His family tells me, he was concerned about the dangers of the job. His widow tells me, shes devastated, and her worst fears realized when he was killed this weekend. I cant believe it, because my brotherinlaw called me and tells me. Reporter gabrielle said she wanted to go to the hospital to see her husband, only to learn that he died on the job. She said for the past 10 years, rodriguez had worked on many road projects and had several close calls with drivers nearly hitting him. Yeah, he was afraid. Were you always afraid when he went to work. Reporter yeah, i was worried. Reporter a
Moving along to interstate 880 in oakland. Southbound traffic looks good all the way to san jose. Speaking of san jose 101, 280 and 85 are off to a good start. Its 5 00 lets go back to the desk. Now to the latest on the valley fire. Its the fourth worst wild fire in california history. 162 more homes burned down over the weekend. Now more than 1,000 homes have been destroyed. More than 75,000acres have burned. At least three peel have died. Four firefighters have been hurt. This fire is 69 contained. More than 4,000 firefighters are still battling those flames. Now some of the fire evacuees were allowed to go home overred weekend. At this check point at lower lake high school, sheriffs deputies told people their neighborhood was safe to go back to. Some of the people were frustrated when they could not go home. One thing that we have learned from this no matter what, we are not leaving home next time. I dont care if the fire is all around us. They are not letting us get back in our hou
For Southern California into arizona. Not for us though. System to the north will sweep in starting tomorrow. That will start a cool down. Today is more about sunshine and warm to hot. There might be a late breeze over by the coast. 90s and 100s for some. 80s and 90s for others. All right sal still something going on in the city . Yes. And also in the east bay so we have a couple of spots, steve, where the traffic is not doing well. First spot we will start with is in san ramon. Southbound 680 a couple of different crashes. 680 which is normally doing pretty well at this time in the morning heading down to pleasanton is just not. Its backed up into danville because of these crashes southbound 680. San francisco they finally cleared southbound 101 near 280 its off to the shoulder but traffic will be a little slow there as you drive through. Its much better than it was. It cleared up rather quickly. This will will help the bay bridge. You dont have any surprises waiting for you. Lets go
Unexpiries itable gunned down in san jose. They are heartbroken, in asking why. Debora villalon is in the it the plan was to go to the upscale santana row, not where the group is saying where michael died. Probably the smallest guy in the world, but its hard. Reporter mike and crowd friends than more season system they are very outgoing, both relationships, very fast as he was that kind of person that was infers. Infectious. Saturday night they ended up here at blues moons clean up. With the butterflies many it is possible that they would have been closing. She was hanging out there. They heard gunshots and thats it. Reporter investigators dug bullets out of the side of the building. He wasnt robbed as police have no moe vive. I dont know anything about the incident. Reporter but after neighbors who say they heard the shots said that gunfire erupted three weeks ago, early in the, that it looks like they didnt even do anything. Just to know that they would have that setting right now. B
Bay area tuesday. When i come back we will talk about that and what this means down the road, towards the bay area middle of the week. Updates on the valley fire this afternoon. Acres, to the missing and how things are developing for the people. Ktvus tom vacar has new information at 6 15 p. M. Neurat 6 00 p. M new at 6 00 p. M. A mystery surrounding the disappearance of a family and a possible linked to two burned body found 100 miles away. The only way the family is going to have complete resolution is to know what happened. The coroner hasnt been able to identify the remains but questions are asked about the couple. Ktvus rob roth is in the news room now. Reporter they be not yet identified the renines two people found inside the cabin the remains of the two people found inside the cabin. Reporter for neighbors it is a mystery that is leaning towards a sad outcome. I think everybody is horrified. Really saddened by the possibility of a tragedy here. Reporter no one is able to say su