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KGO ABC7 News 600AM July 6, 2016

Was under construction so no one living here in this building. There are adjacent town home that is we are hearing are burning right now. I that you canned to the fire chief about those. He says they arent sure whether they are occupied. But he said theyre part of this apartment come instruction and a lot of details trying to work out and saying its so huge, so many people working it, trying to coordinate the information coming in. This fire so huge one point you could see it from the bay bridge which was startling to people in the area. Im scared for the firefighters. Its a very hard job and to pull up and see how much, you know, water that they were having to do. I never seen it to this level. It was pretty shocking. Hope the people got out safe. Reporter this building that is burning is 3900 san pablo. This is in emeryville and right on the oakland border. You will see oakland firefighters out here, hay ward firefighters, berkeley. Six alarm sounded, everyone comes that can get here. They have evacuated people on apgar, evacuated units, Apartment Buildings or units on adeline, just in case. They want to keep people safe and just in case this does spread they want people away from this area. Butali at this point, we haven heard of injuries. Stay with us because this story is far from over. Firefighters say theyll be here for hours. Im reporting live from oakland, that buildings right there is emeryville, Amy Hollyfield, abc news. Right on the border. Thank you so much, amy. Sue hall is looking at your morning commute. Looks like the traffic on the highway is still okay and obviously the surface streets really affected. Correct, reggie. San pablo, adeline, 39th avenue, 40th, apgar, surface streets. This is a live look at the mccar author maze and 580. The fire viz frbl 24 and 580 making the turn westbound on 580 and seeing smoke in the area and traffic slowing nicely through the area. We have reports of another brush fire just down by ashby avenue and probably just from embers in the eastbound direction and visible from there and probably from embers blowing from the big, big, massive fire and heads up and avoid the area if you can. Red on the screen is the bay bridge backup metering lights are on. Mike . Makes sense, sue. Taking a live look what you will see winds coming out of the southwest and blowing towards the northeast so theyre putting berkeley, al bahny, kensington and richmond in the bath of the embers and the smoke. Unfortunately, bay area air Quality Management has a threehour lag time. But, you know, cant be all that great right now over there. 12hour day planner, 50 to 58, cool start. 50s at the coast. 70s around the bay. Just barely 80s inland. Another day below average temperatures. Developing news in the south bay, four drivers hit by gun fire along the same stretch of road in san jose. Matt keller is live for us along blossom hill road. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning. Since the last time we saw you in the past hour or so i have seen several patrol cars in the area of south san jose. Theyre obviously making their presence felt as try to catch the person or people responsible for the shootings in this area. First one happened on may 4th here. The next one was about a month later. That time the driver was grazed by a bullet and then june 30th, another car was shot and the most recent one july 2nd, the driver hit with shrapnel or glass. Between midnight and 1 00 a. M. On the stretch of blossom hill road leading to or from highway 1. Makes me think twice before coming down and especially with the new shopping center. Little bit nicer. I like to go there with my family and scary coming down now. Reporter San Jose Police say theyre committing Additional Resources from throughout the department to the case and looking to the public for help. If you turn this person in, and youre responsible for a conviction, you could get a cash reward. Live in san jose, matt keller, abc 7 news. Thank you so much, matt. Developing news this morning, controversy is swirling at the decision by the fbi to not hand down any criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server. Abc 7s Jessica Castro explains whats happening today. Jessica . Republicans not letting Hillary Clinton go but they plan to go after the fbi. Republicans want the fbi director james comey to testify on capitol hill about his recommendation to not prosecute clinton for the private email server use. House Speaker Paul Ryan and president ial hopef fuful donald trump fired up and trump accused attorney general Loretta Lynch of taking a bribe from clinton who said she may keep lynch on in her administration. We expect debate on the decision today. Donald trump rallying in ohio tonight. As for clinton, she will reportedly take aim at trumps Business Practices in her rally in Atlantic City in new jersey later today. So she may be commenting on this, as well. Well be watching for developments here in the newsroom and reaction throughout the morning. Back the you. Thank you. Up next, an earthquake landmark used as a learning tool landmark used as a learning tool now landmark used as a learning tool now hey, theyd be lucky to have you. Dont be nervous mommy. Youre so smart. Good job. Just like bunny ears. You got this. Do i . Really . Come on nature valley. With you every day. Everywhere. With the energy you need. Did you know people can save over 500 when they switch to progressive . Did you brush your hair today . Yes, mom. Why . Hmm. No reason. 6 09. Live coverage of sky 7 hd of the sixalarm fire at emeryville and oakland this morning. Firefighters hard at work on top of the roofs of the town homes adjacent from the original fire. That original fire at an unoccupied construction site of an Apartment Building. All started just before 3 00 a. M. Absolutely. We have been monitoring it. Many of you watching the live stream on our website right now. And we have also been seeing a Fire Fighting drone up there and assessing the situation. Sort of a similar view of what we are seeing and it paints a clearer picture and see several streams of water on that large construction site that is largely in ruins. This right here adeline avenue. And now one by one the tone how manies adjacent seem to be catching fire. We are seeing smoke coming out of three of them now. Of course well keep monitoring this and a crew on the ground and live update in a few minutes. Okay. Some other news now. This is what the curb used to look like on the rose and prospect streets in hayward and this is how it looks now. The city repaired it. Whats the problem . Some say they ruined it. It showed the Dramatic Movement of the hayward fault, a section of it underneath the street there. The city tore it out and upgraded it to make it wheelchair accessible. Yes, you have to fix the streets and, yes, potholes. But that was there to measure, you know, the fault line. You know . The city should have known that. We unfortunately werent aware of the site prior to doing the work. Theres a lot of sites within the city that people are monitoring either informally or formally, seismic activity. That was the asis about the city manager encouraging people to let them know of any other such landmarks to keep a record of it. Sue, many people could cl r clearly see the fire of 580. Thats true. Oaklandemeryville border. You mentioned just sort of behind the ikea and condominium projects seeing right there to the north or the northeast of the ikea. Heres the mcarthur maze. The smoke is very visible and also a reports of another fire in the emeryville area and berkeley as well. Right now, the macarthur maze is fine but the west macarthur onramp is shut down and shutting down the ashby avenue offramp because of an ember that caught the grass on fire to the east of the freeway there. So those embers are blowing and starting little surface fires around the grassy area right by the 80 freeway and it is a visible hazard there. Mike . Yeah. That time of the year, that strong sea breeze and pushes the embers north and east of that fire. Be careful there. South bay, a little bit of love this morning. Low to mid50s. Keeler than yesterday. Our coolest spot up around call stow ga. Heres the temperatures. Green in the 60s. Yellow 70s. Orange 80s. Notice a little bit cooler tomorrow. A slight uptick friday and then cooler again saturday as the sea breeze and the drizzle heavier that morning. Well take a look at the warming trend in the sevenday forecast next week. Thank you. Still ahead, the final moments before egyptairs plane crashed into the mediterranean killing all 66 people on board. Big changes are coming for verizon wireless. What may be in the works this week. We continue to monitor from sky 7 hd and the ground this massive fire in the emeryvilleoakland area. You can see firefighters still trying to get control i should say of the fire thats now burning in the adjacent neighborhood. Does your makeup remover take it all off . Every kissproof, cryproof, stayproof look . Neutrogena® makeup remover does. It erases 99 of your most stubborn makeup with one towelette. Need any more proof than that . Neutrogena. There has been a quest for sout of this world refreshment. , now the search is over. Cool aquafina. For happy bodies. And see ice age collision course in theaters july 22. My man friend that ive been syour man friend. Like, as i was leaving i was like, goodbye, i love you, and like. laughs whatd he say . 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You can see that on the right hand of the screen and this is the original construction site that caught fire, massive flames all but destroyed and learning that the businesses across the street suffering heat and thermal damage. Glass that is blown out at this point. So its not just a smoke and flames. It is actually the heat we are seeing in the area, as well. A sixalarm fire very rare and multiple agencies fighting this with alameda county, the lead, because they serve emeryville with a contract with the city there. We continue to watch that. This is the only good news of this this morning no reports of any injuries and of course we hope that that continues to be the case as firefighters working on this since before 3 00 a. M. More on this as the morning continues. Were also learning this morning about that egyptair crash in may. Officials say the pilots attempted to put out an onboard fire. The recordings are consistent with data recovered from the planes wreckage showing heat, fire and smoke around the bathroom and avionics area. The flight crashed into the Mediterranean Sea killing all 66 people on board. Well, some residents in San Franciscos Mission district say that the Homeless People in the neighborhood are becoming a problem. One resident said that crime increased since the homeless pitched tents in the area a year ago. The District Attorney said that neighbors, police and d. A. Need to Work Together to target any troublemakers. We need people to come forward. We need people to really report crime and really report incidents in order to build a case. They harass the families. They threaten us. We are here because of the fact theres no housing. Mission District Supervisor say that is hes been working with the community for weeks on this issue. Six Navigation Centers offer services and a path to permanent housing and opening within the next two years. Over to sue hall again for a look at the traffic this morning. Everybody talking about the fire in emeryville and oakland. Thats right. A bit further down, eastbound and westbound direction of 80. See the ashby onramp shut down. Fire crews are here also because of the embers have blown into the grassy area. They shut down the offramp and smoke wafting on to the freeway, too. The macarthur maze and 580 moving nicely. Surface streets through emeryville and oakland side of things by 40th and adeline and theyre all advising you to avoid the area so then again ashby is now closed. Offramp here and the macarthur onramp to 580 shut down. Bart is a great way to go. No issue with bart as far as the trains. The station half a mile away. No tracks in the area. Were not seeing problems with bart this morning. Mike . Just looking here from the roof over my right shoulder to emeryville and albuquerque ri and albany and the thick smoke right now. Clouds linger below average highs. Clouds and drizzle and good sleeping weather. The summer will return and temperatures back to average late in that week. Thats the Golden Gate Bridge and drier than yesterday and breezy west wind at 19 miles per hour. Over the next three hours, drizzle will be the Biggest Issue especially up in the hills and the coast. Temperatures well below average again today. Mid to upper 70s in the south bay and cracking 80s. Up on the peninsula, low to mid70s until san mateo and the neighbors in the mid to upper 60s. Upper 50s along the coast there. Downtown, south San Francisco, low to mid60s. We could get to 67ali at wind shift bringing slightly warmer weather to the north bay. Low to mid70s. And as you head inland, temperatures in the upper 70s to low 80s in most neighborhoods. Going to the game tonight, about the same as last night. Its a 7 15. I know its wednesday. In the evening game. Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. Thickest drizzle friday and saturday afternoon. Two of the cooler afternoons. Trying to get temperatures back to average. All right. Thank you so much, mike. Up next, ask vinny, the advice on gift cards. Is snapchat less popular with teens. The age group seen with the huge increase of users. Up over the huge fire burning on the border of oakland and emeryville. Six alarms. At least three town homes that were occupied evacuated. Were occupied evacuated. But a mile away from the were occupied evacuated. But a mile away from the were occupied evacuated. But a mile away from the so far, no injuries but a lot of damage. You are looking at live pictures of sky 7 hd over emeryville and oakland this morning. This fire continues to burn, six alarms. It all started just before 3 00 a. M. And we know that now its spread not just to the apartment complex that was under construction and also to this neighborhood on the righthand side of the screen. These are town homes occupied. As far as we know, everyone has been able to get out. Again, no reports of any injuries and there is just a massive effort to get this under control. This continues to affect traffic. Sue just told us about a new offramp closed down as a result of this. Well continue to check in throughout the morning. Time now for ask vinny. Shirley m. Emails, my son purchases a 110 Gift Certificate from mango garden. All three restaurants have closed. How can he get his money back . Shirley, unfortunately, theres very little to get your money back. When a place goes out of business, all of the creditors and now youre a creditor stand in line and get a couple of pennies for every dollar theyre owed. Thats if you both tore go to bankruptcy court. Youre not going to bother with that. Just consider it a loss. And by the way, this is why i always say the cards should be used right away. As soon as youre given a gift card, use it. Shirley, thanks for the question. Oh, nigh ed to follow that advice. I have a walletful of old gift cards. If you have a question, record it and go online or share it on social with guess what, natasha. We are making snapchat not cool. Just got into it. New survey shows more adults are now using the app. 38 of phone users between 25 and 34 use snapchat at least once in may. Thats double the percentage from less than two years ago. Youre saying im making it not cool . Thats the perception by some young people and the percentage of old people using the app, those over the age of 35, wait. Now im an old person . They have risen 5 . Experts say the increase in adult users not made it less popular with the core user base but you have to watch with the teens because sometimes perception is reality. All right. Very nice. Much more ahead on this breaking news tracking all morning long. This massive fire thats destroyed an apartment complex on the left of the screen and sky 7 hd and now burning at least three of the town homes that people are living in. They have been evacuated. Our Live Team Coverage is next at 6 30. Also following breaking news out of the south africa. How long a judge just sentenced Oscar Pistorius for murdering his girlfriend. Next phase in dismand ling the old bay bridge. The work thats about to begin in a matter of about three minutes. Winds blowing through the northeast through the fire and up into the richmond area so watch out for smoke there. Watch out for smoke there. A quick look at this afternoon. Lois pricese. [ifrom Grocery Outlet. Hi, its. The rest of us hey there. Hi hey. Loifor over 60 years now, Grocery Outlet has been selling the brands you know and love, for up to 60 less than what youd pay at Traditional Grocery stores. And check this out. Lois weve got meats and produce, naturals and organics, at prices thatll make you wanna sing. Good thing weve got a really catchy theme song. Hit it Grocery Outlet bargain market bargain market. Now its stuck in my head. [announcer] is it a force of nature . Or a sales event .

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