Morning before a brace for the conditions with the raincoats and umbrellas. A downpour soaked parts of oakland this morning making it messy for drivers, even flooding some streets. All right, take a look outside at the eastern span of the bay bridge that it looks dry, it looks like the roadway is try and the surface of the bridge is moving quite well. Lets head over to mark tamayo and see how things are looking out there. Its a very productive week weather wise. Multiple storms and the storm sequence over the past few days with those numbers adding up with todays system and the heaviest rains for most areas, that was this morning. But santa rosa with a surge of moisture earlier this evening. Look at that, they are up to one inches over the past 24 hours in oakland and close to. 75 inches. Redwood city about. 52 with those amounts tapering off. Were not just talking about a few here in the bay area and we still have another system thats coming on board for tomorrow. For halloween. But a
My first concern as we came up here was those embers would land on top of some of the nearby homes. I know that was a concern for the Fire Department, protecting people that live nearby. This building itself is a condo complex, about 41 units. It was still under construction. So nobody living inside of here. The big concern was to evacuate people who lived nearby because of the size of this fire. A short time ago i had to chance to catch up with a gentleman who tells me he is the manager of this particular condo building, this Apartment Building thats under construction. Heres what he told me. They say its burning down, besides all the great efforts made to prevent anything, anything near as tragic as this, its frustrating. Reporter we have no word yet on exactly how this fire may have started. Again, there will obviously be an extensive investigation, given the fact this fire is so large in terms of its size and the fact it started early this morning, in the overnight hours, in the mi
Hollyfield is joining us live from the scene. Good morning, amy. Good morning, carolyn. Its 6 00 a. M. On sunday but crews are quietly putting up their work. They have put up tents and tarps to keep their workout of view. You get the feeling its for out of contribute for the victims and families. Every once in a while we see a backhoe working back there and the beeping warning its going to reverse. Still a lot of activity here on the scene. People have left flowers here at the spot to remember those who lost their lives. This building was known as the ghost ship, an artist colony. There are several reports from people were living a here even though it was not permitted for that. It was permitted as a warehouse. People complained about the place and all the debris around it. There was a concert going on when the fire started. One said he couldnt believe what he didnt see. I didnt see many come out at all. Just the people that were already outside. So that was what really, really bothere
The warehouse known as the go ship on international boulevard a couple blocks from the fruitvale our station. Sheriff deputies say in a Electronic Music Party was going on in the second floor of the warehouse. Anywhere from 50 to 100 people were there. A fires started at some point, we dont know how long but it caused the roof to cause a fire on the second floor and then it collapsed on the first floor. Nine people have died two dozen additional people still missing tonight. The bodies of the nine victims have been transported to the Coroners Office. The process of identifying those nine victims has just wrapped up. Families tonight are being notified. The people who died last night, mostly in their 20s, young adults no minors, deputies say they will be working or over the next 40 hours to recover the other bodies that are trapped in the debris. You can see some of the smoke coming out of the building, the fire took several hours to extinguish. The building was full of what which provi
Inside. They called off the search for now. They need to stabilize the building. There is hope they will get inside for part of the building later this morning. We are look at getting in with a. T. F. And then if we get the all clear we will look at that section at the back. The front of the building. Probably later today. They have searched 70 of building and found 33 victims. They do think they will find more victims. They are hoping to wrap up the search before the rain hits which would hamper their efforts so there is a sense of urgency. Reporting live in oakland for abc7 news. I can see why it is so tough for the crews with want to get it over with and get the information to the families. That is hard to hear. City and county leaders are holding a News Conference at 6 a. M. So that is less than an hour. We will cover that when it is happening. We will bring it to you when it happened and bring it on our news app this is what we know so far, eight ims have been publicly identified.