Plaza, were seeing speeds back up and the backup is over the west grant overcrossing in the cash lanes that lanes that is a check of traffic. City of oakland bracing for a major shut down as thousands of city workers plan to strike. Important City Services that resident they may not be able to access today. Thousands of employees are getting ready to walk off the job. Workers from local 1021 and ifp local 21 represent a range of roles from Public Workers to head start instructors from engineers to building inspectors. Union workers say after seven months of negotiation, they had no choice but to strike. We give them every opportunity to keep us open and they chose not to take it. Main point of contract talks is cost of living increases. The city made a two year offer and the first year of their offer is virtually identical to our one year offer. We said why cant we agree on the year we agree on and come back and talk about the future, and they said no. If we agree to pay more than the
Risking their lives. The moments after the wildfires the race to evacuate. New video of Sheriff Deputies risk their lives. Good evening im ken bastita. And im elizabeth cook. And im alan martin live in santa rosa off of redwood highway east of 101. They believe this is one of those neighborhoods that was inundated in that fire. In 70mile an hour winds it blew growing burning embers all across this neighborhood before people even knew what hit them. Weve been watching that flag thats been put up by the homeowner who did get to come back and sift through the remains of what was their home. And let me tell you it looks like that block after block. Right now the number of dead is up to at least 35. More than 250 others are still unaccounted for. The fires in six counties have burned more than 212,000 acres. And that is more land than all of new york city. And at least 5,700 homes and businesses are destroyed. Now tonight, we are getting a dramatic look at what First Responders were facing
Sergeant brandon cuttings body camera is the wind. Driving the tubs fire along moss springs road in santa rosa on sunday night. As the Sonoma County firefighter goes door to door trying to save people from the unstoppable flames. Where are you at . Reporter even help ago woman who couldnt walk. Come on, shes disabled. Let me get her feet. Let me get her feet. Her husband is right behind you. Sheriff, were doing a carry out. Hold up, hold up, hold up. Hold up. Theres a house on fire. Come on, you have to get her out. You have to get her out. Okay hold on. There we go. Watch your leg, watch your leg, watch your leg. Watch your leg, watch your leg. Sir, you have to go. Reporter you can hear him coughing from the smoke, all as the orange glow of flames is just beyond his cruiser. Im off redwood hill. Reporter for hours, 15 Sonoma County deputies tried to get People Safety off of northwest crater. Dodging flying embers. And walls of flames in the process. Dont hit me. [ bleep ] we have to g
Single tracking through the walnut creek bart station now. We want to show you footage that was released by firefighters. The station was shut down for about two hour this is afternoon following a fire on the tracks. You can see whats left of the plastic that was burning at one point. No one was hurt but it caused a systemwide issue some major delays trains in both directions koult not get past the station. We also have some footage that we shot showing the station reopening. Bart passengers feeling happy and relieved that they were able to use it. There was no bus branch for the two hours. There was some frustration among bart passengers as well. A lot of smoke coming up from the platform area kw when we investigated further we found that the protective cover on the third rail along the westbound tracks was on fire. Ive been stuck on bart before. Its okay. Nothing new to you . Yeah im used to it. Delay was at almost every stop. Yeah. Theres some pretty frustrated folks but most of the
Two years ago. A spike in crimes on the cal campus has students and administrators alarmed. Da lin shows us how serious the problems become. He suddenly , like, grabbed at my shirt and then we, like, stumbled backwards and he was standing over us. He said he had a gun and we should give him our backpacks and wallets. Reporter ucberkeley junior nick describes the violent robbery that happened to him and his friend while walking home on ellsworth street. They handed over their backpacks money and nicks lap to the. Heart was beating fast andist just nervous and tense. Even afterwards once we started walkings of shaky. Reporter the south side of campus has always been a hot spot for robberies. On monday, Berkeley Police responded to five separate pedestrian robberies there in two hours. On thursday, police asked for help to catch this guy, suspected of groping a female student on campus. Its hard not to get out late and if i do i might call an uber to go home. I wouldnt walk. Reporter a St