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KGO ABC7 News 500AM March 12, 2014

Steady. We will have 70 at the coast and lowtomid 70s under sunshine and calmer conditions. Leyla gulen . Because of the fire muni experienced a disruption in kt service. 36 bart trains on time and no delays onize. All is running smoothly. If you are using your car watch out for the gusts. It is windy in fairfield. We have a slow down eastbound 80 at highway 1235 Miles Per Hour and westbound traffic is moving fine into American Canyon and highway 37 top speeds at 101 and accident free. This morning crews are working to put out the last embers of a massive fire that gutted an Apartment Building in San Francisco. Dozens of firefighters spent the night dousing water on the 172unit building. The biggest concern was two falls that could collapse. Investigators have a handle on damage at day break. At one point 150 firefighters attacked the wall of smoke and flames. Streets in the area around 4th and china basin closed and could be for the day. We have coverage continuing with abc7 News Reporter Katie Marzullo in mission bay. Katie . I have just beyond the Police Barricade and was able to walk back there. You can feel the spray coming off the hoses dousing the building. I talked with the fire official. She is trying to get the bearing right now. As far as she understands there are hotspots and you can see at least three ladder trucks hosing down the building. The video show as terrifying sight. This is a sixstory building 80 tall Apartment Building under construction with flames 50 into the air. The main fear is not only that it could spread but collapse. Many portions of it collapse ed but they have collapsed inward. We have a significant area away from that with suppression efforts. You can see flames in the video but a lot of smoke and workers left at 4 00 with construction workers and they were out an hour before the fire broke out. No one was hurt but for one firefighter who suffered minor burns. The Fire Department called the Water Department to divert more water pressure and there was a gas truck circulating in the area refueling the engines with diesel because they are parked in tight spots and they have not moved for several hours. There is a News Conference scheduled for 7 00 a. M. The embers posed a serious threat to billings and hundreds were evacuated. Matt . The wind is the big story, firefighters are going through the shift change and few stopped here at the Salvation Army czar truck. They are packing up and will leave shortly after a busy night and morning. The expire east side of 4th Street Mission rock and china basin was evacuated. Many were forced to the streets after evacuating animals. Others had to wait to get their pets until the firefighters let them back in. The sprinklers went off. The doors were opened because they went in to rescue the animals. It is a mess in there. Many evacuees are staying with friends. The red cross opened a shelter but no one showed up. The Salvation Army seven more than 800 moles and you can see a few firefighters stopping for coffee. People still need help, they can call the red cross. Viewers is been sending videos and photos of the fire from here from adam, huge funnels of smoke. You can email the photos to ureport kgotv. Com. We follow the story on air and online and back to the scene at 5 30 with reporting on twit ter. 1,22 customs have in now we are in martinez. Not sure of the cause of the outage but the winds could be a factor and 65 customers in el cerrito customer will have in power until 10 30 this morning. New details in the seven if a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner, the copilot is being investigateed for violations. Yes, kristen, Malaysia Airlines has dozens of car gaves with caregivers. 12 countries have joined the search for missing Malaysia Airlines jet, 42 ships and 39 aircraft are scouring 27,000 nautical miles and searching listened. We will never give up hope. We owe this to the families. The jet is believed to have veered off course after turning off the transponder tracking signal and banked lard to the left and blue for an hour over hundreds of mile of land and never sounding an alarm and cruising into the straits at a shipping lane near a small rocky island. No one reports a downed plane. Authorities are searching a new stretch of ocean but no sign of the missing plane. Criticism of the investigation is mount. It is haphazard, and worse. New questions of the crew. The airlines said they are investigating the copilot, 27yearold, for possible violations of safety standards. According to an Australian News report, these two young women were invited by the k pilot to ride in the cockpit during a flight. They were talking to us and engaged in conversation. The homes of both the copilot and the captain were searched, 53yearold seen if this video but so far this is nothing of the background of the two that suggests foul play. The ahead of the c. I. A. Says the agency has not heard any chatter suggesting terrorism but the United States is not ruling it out. 29yearold oakland man is facing charges after a c. H. P. Officer found 128 pounds of marijuana if his van. This is a picture on the c. H. P. Twitter account of the pot seized. An officer stopped the van after seeing the man tailgating another car on i580. When he was pulled over at Martin Luther king jr. He smelled marijuana and searched the van. Two face charges for operating a marijuana grow in san leandro. They found 1,400 plants with a value of 2 million. Police arrested the men. Police say the threat that forced the evacuation of the facebook campus was determined not credible and San Francisco police informed police of the threat at 7 00 last night and they notified facebook security whoever evacuated the building and employees were kept this to officers cleared the scene at 8 30 and police have not disclosed any details of the possible threat but they are not sure facebook was the target. We were talking Power Outages and possible relationship to the wind. We need to be concerned about the fire, too. The satellite that takes pictures with the temperature to show where the clouds are, you can see the hotspot over San Francisco and it was picking up so much heat it did not translate into cloud cover whatever. That is impressive how much heat it put out. Winds from the Ferry Building are glowing to the southwest so we have another one of the dry northeast winds today. You may notice when you step outside how dry the air has become 54 to 61 is the temperature through 7 00 and next 12 hours we are in the mid60 and warmer this afternoon, upper 60s to mid70s and pulling back into the low 70s by 4 00. The three day forecast shows high cloud or two tomorrow. Temperatures are the same as today maybe a degree or two cooler and same on friday and it will be warm on saturday 80s away from the coast. Because of the wind, where a downed tree in vallejo. That could be an issue moving through the commute with the debris from the freeways and downed trees. Eastbound 80 at skyway involving one vehicle blocking a lane with a delay approaching the cartinez bridge. 580 westbound tracy to Castro Valley, 40 minutes. 280 northbound from San Francisco through daly city is under ten minutes. 101 southbound the headlights from san rafael to San Francisco right now 19 minutes. G. M. Is underscrutiny over the recall of some of the vehicles. Americas money report is next. President obama extending benefits to some salaried employees. A warning for residents in south San Francisco phone calls get your taste of the season, at raleys, bel air, and nob hill. Covering novato, oakland, and all the bay area this is abc7 news. Firefighters still on the scene in mission bay with a human highrise building fire under construction. They are still dousing it with water to keep the hotspots at bay. We have coverage for you with more coming up in a few minutes. If you have video or pictures of the fire san them to us at ureport kgotv. Com. This is from craig b and we thank you for sharing that video. The federal government says 870,000 in california have signed up for insurance through the health care exchange. California leads the country in enrollment accounting for 20 percent of all sign ups. 4. 2 million have enrolled in individual plans. California is working to boost participation and target young people ahead of the march 31 enrollment deadline. The prosecution is look at how General Motors handled a massive recall and the house used in an abc sitcom is on the market. More trouble for General Motors, the Justice Department will investigate the handling of a then ignition defect. They knew about the problem but only issued a recall last month 13 deaths are blamed. Cvs is the target of a fell investigation over missing pain pills. The pharmacists at four california ranches have lost track of 37,000 tab lets and p. C. Could be fined 29 million. Everything you have for breakfast is up in price milk, coffee, bacon, eggs and more. The market with four bedrooms and at 2. 53 million with five bathrooms. President obama is expected to issue a directive tomorrow to require employers to pay overtime to salaried workers. Many businesses are not required to pay overtime to salaried workers who earn more than 455 week. The white house is expected to order the Labor Department to raise that salary threshold in the coming days and it will help workers like fast food shift supervisors who are expected to work more than 40 without getting overtime. The i. R. S. Is warning people about an i. R. S. Phone scam with scammers claiming to be i. R. S. Agents threatened with arrest if they do not pay back traces using untraceable preloaded debit car. Several kisses have been reported in south San Francisco. The scam is pervasive during tax season. The complete check and winds in the weather forecast. Our fastest wind in Berkeley Hills at 59 Miles Per Hour and second fastest is 49 Miles Per Hour at Half Moon Bay at airport. And live doppler 7 hd shows it blew the clouds away and the humidity and there is nothing but bone dry air this morning. The winds, of course, and immediate temperatures at 47 in guerneville which is as cool as it gets and 54 in calistoga and the rest of us in upper 50s to near 60 at American Canyon and petaluma and bodega bay and napa at 61 degrees. We have low 60s around alameda and newark and San Francisco and san jose and lafayette and 52 with the winds not affecting you and san ramon and redwood city, Half Moon Bay, all in the upper 50s and brentwood is 54. From the east bay hills we are at 59milesperhour gusts with camera shaking and we will have sunny and windy conditions early and dry humidity and sunshine all throughout the day. It will be clear, calmer, and significantly cooler in the not bay valleys and east bay valleys and up to 15 to 20 degrees if the winds calm down. From Mount Tamalpais we are eight to ten degrees above average in the home 70s. We should be in the mid60. We will even be in the 70s at the coast. Tonight, we could have upper 30s in the north bay valley and lowtomid 50s in the east bay valley. The sevenday forecast shows temperatures close to today, thursday and friday with the warmth on saturday and sunday and 80s away from the coast just a delightful day, still, on monday for st. Patricks day. We want to tie down the bonnets, right, mike . How did you know i was wearing one . We have issues regarding downed trees and downed power lines in livermore. In livermore, the cross street is showing lanes blocked because of downed power lines. We have slow traffic in the westbound direction from tracy to livermore. Over to the peninsula, this area shaded in yellow is an indication of where we have gusty conditions with high wind advisory so keep both hands on the wheel. Seven things to know as you start your day. The musical perk that could be delivered to amazon prime. It could cost. The largest since i had had Health Insurance icy i needed. Of since i had hwhat policy i needed. 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Here are seven things to know first fighters are pouring water on hotspots after the massive blaze that engulfed an Apartment Building unconstruction in San Franciscos mission bay main. Some evacuees are not allowed back in the apartments. Coverage from the scene is ahead at 5 30. Menlo park police say a threat that forced evacuation of facebook campus was determined fought to be credible. Employees were held until officers cleared the scene at 8 30. Police have not disclosed the details. The suspect arrested in connection with the shooting of a San Francisco Police Officer will be arraigned. Jeffrey ruano was arrested in san jose on saturday. Investigators are trying to determine if he shot the officer or if he was shot by his partner. The officer is expected to recover. Police and crimestoppers are offering a reward if information on two suspects wanted for the Armed Robbery of a metro store. It happened at park boulevard if january and the suspects held employees at gunpoint and get away with money and phones. The mystery of the Malaysia Airlines flight is continuing with in sign of the plane, passengers are crew. Vietnam says they are scaling back their efforts until authorities in may malaysian officers have better information on where to look. We are at 30 Miles Per Hour at sfo with gust and a big warming trend for the weekend. Here is the bay bridge toll plaza where a couple of the cashpaying lanes are load up and the rest of traffic is move fine with c. H. P. Issued high wind advisory so keep both hands on the wheel. The problem is if San Francisco with street closing because of the fire yesterday. A huge new player could enter the music streaming business, amazon plans to start up a Music Service if members of the Amazon Prime Program that now pay 79 a year foreign limited twoday shipping and access to Video Service similar to netflix. Record companies but financial terms are not worked out and amazon is not commenting on the reports. Seoul is ready to unveil the largest asymmetrical building to the public. The wall street journal obtained this photo a sevenstory plaza that closed exhibition space and boutiques at 931,000 square feet equal to four soccer fields. Project. It looks like a space ship. The construction fire in mission bay continues and the fire threat weres buildings blocks away from the scene and the effort to make sure there were no more flames today. A critical vote today that could end with a strike by live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. We continue to follow our developing news in San Francisco where streets in the Mission Bay Area are still closed and firefighters are still putting water on a highrise that went up in flames yesterday. More in a moment. First, the winds with meteorologist mike nicco, something the firefighters are watching. They are still gusty if that area. Now the latest conditions we have temperature of 57 degrees which is good and humidity is up at 73 percent the highest humidity around and winds are from the north at 19 Miles Per Hour and gusting up to 23 so that means they are blowing from north to south if anything flares up the embers would flight south. We have high wind advisory everywhere but for the north bay coast with gusts up to 60 Miles Per Hour in the Berkeley Hills and still around 45 to 50 right now with sustained i woulds at 25 to 35 so 8 00 this morning, we could have issues. Breezes will taper, sunshine and dry air and lowtomid 70s in the bay and inland. Enjoy. And as you look to the maze it is bouncing upanddown, and windy out there to say the least. We do have an issue in

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