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Here. Clouds are increasing. The rain is a ways off. It wont be moving in soon. Here is david downer. Thank you, marty. Stunning morning. Awesome, if you will, from lacksberg. 52 degrees. The rain gear is ready. Bring it. I will bring it late tonight and tomorrow. Lake oroville has some good news. They need to open the gates up a little more. Down 23 feet. I think if they get to 30, theyre going to be happy with that. I dont think they will make it to 50. I dont know how the heck that would happ...

Again in is on the 30th floor of this high rise Apartment Building thats clearly, as you can see, under construction. Police are ordering the people in the neighboring buildings to stay inside because theyre trying to keep people off the street below as well. As you said, that slab is said to be about 30 to 40 feet in size, as we take a live look from sky 7. These are just some photos of the building. This is the website for the building under construction. Its the one on the right with the vert...

Im going to pause to show you why this is so dangerous. Such a busy area in the south and market. It is 30 stories up. Also howard street, which you see right here, very busy, closed now from 1st to 2nd, shut down along with tehama. Lots of businesses in the area including the nasdaq building right there and you can also see the fremont street off ramp there. So just a tense situation there. And abc 7 News Reporter lillian kim is live at the scene. Reporter were at 2nd and howard street. Behind ...

Nearby buildings. Most buildings in this area are businesses that have been evacuated. We just received an update from the Fire Department and they believe there is no imminent danger. The crane and concrete slabs are secure. Building inspectors took a look at it and do not believe they are at risk of falling. Lets hear what the fire captain had to say. At this time, again, our job as the Fire Department is to ensure the safety of our public. We have shared the statement thats come out from the ...

Scott is on the ground level. Youre seeing the view from our sky ranger on the top floor there. You can see that it is tilting there. We want to bring in mason walters. Right off the bat we see what went wrong here. This wall collapsed. Can you tell us how dangerous is this situation . Well, it looks like the penalty house structure that is affected is not consuming the whole foot print of the building. There is still a setback. Even if the penalty house moves further, it looks to me like it wou...

A construction crisis forcing thousands to evacuate. The danger zone is in San Francisco south of market as we said around an Apartment Building under construction at 41 tehama street. All those streets are closed with the fremont street exit ramp from westbound interstate 80. In total 16 buildings have been evacuated. We have Live Team Coverage to get details what is at risk and how many people its impacting. We begin with lillian kim. Dan and ama, were at second and Howard Street and behind me...

Problems. Here is the San Francisco Fire Department while they were putting it in position for it to continue its operation, a strut that holds up one of the portions of the crane, a 30ton crane, failed and leaned the crane towards the northeast direction. Everybody is looking up. Reporter now, they are finding a Structural Engineer flying in a Structural Engineer from Washington State. We got some information from the Building Company behind the project at 41 tehama. They say it happened betwee...

City of San Francisco that pocket of moderate to heavy rainfall around mission to silver avenue ingleside and also the bayview district. Flash flood watch is in effect for the auxilliary spillway of the oroville dam. Between now and next wednesday, im anticipating up to about 7 to 8 inches of rain there. That is not a good thing especially when you have snow melt. Locally we have a High Surf Advisory in place looking athe 12 to 15 feet. Breakers to 20 feet. Now, currently, there are three things...

Communications hill boulevard. Santa cruz mountains have been getting hammered this morning. Now light rain tapering off. Mostly cloudy skies in San Francisco. Visibility not hampered but the roads are wet. A lot of ponding on the roads and standing water. The system rolled through very rapidly leaving in its wake up to half inch of rain in some locations. We are in the 50s and 60s. Other side of the story the gusty winds. We were at 48mileperhour wind gusts throughout the tri valley. Now beginn...

Danger of falling 30 stories. Youre looking at live pictures from downtown San Francisco. This is happening at 33 tehema south of market. The concrete slab weighs 30,000 pounds and it has come loose on the 30th floor of that building. As a precaution, several nearby buildings are being evacuated and a fall zone has been set below the site. Heres a live News Conference underway. The engineering specialist that is currently being flown in to assist us with this issue will be here soon. [ indiscern...