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KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 5pm December 10, 2016

We know that the refrigerator was not the cause of the fire but we still do not know what was and that is why the atf work goes on and on. Reporter of firenzes mapping team creates lasting digital evidence from rapidly deteriorating physical evidence and in this case they say it will takereporter days to make these diagrams available to investigators. There are several different camera systems that allow them to thoroughly document the scene and they will also prepare a diagram utilizing forensic mapping equipment. He on this the atf agent knew nothing of what was being done by the team and they did not produce a team member to explain or provide such an example of the image, on a more concrete note the electrical engineers concluded that though the refrigerator was close to the source of the fire, the refrigerator itself was not the source. Earlier the fire marshal came to the site. Every time they happen we need to know what happened so we can either change code or reinforce the codes that we already have to make sure this does not happen again. Reporter in this case it did happen regardless. A lot of the codes that exist could cover things that couldve prevented this time dust type of situation. Reporter we learn that holding code and not fire inspection is likely the key is you issue. A warehouse like this do not have mandated inspections, no one requires it no one checks that we do them. They are available for us to do if we want to but other than that that is not a mandated inspection. Reporter another important thing is they say as of yet there is absolutely no proof of our sin and theres not likely to be, reporting live, ktvu fox 2 news. Are they giving a timeline as to how long they think it could take to potentially figure out what started the fire and also there were thoughts earlier that they would never be able to figure out what started it, what are you hearing about that . Thats what they said in the news conference, they said they can find the most probable cause or the area where it actually started, it may well be that there is not one specific piece of evidence that they can point to and say this was it. In fact, in many cases these fires turn out to be the result of several things going wrong at the same time or about the same time and it is almost impossible to pinpoint, they are very good at what they do the National Transportation safety board, that they are not perfect because much of the evidence that would have told them exactly what happened was burned to ashes. Reporter live for us in oakland, thank you. Preliminary autopsy results are complete and the Alameda County sheriff says that most victims died of smoke inhalation. Ktvu has frank joining us from the newsrooms as families prepare for funerals. It will be a difficult and emotional week for those families and a celebration of life or 36 people, all gone far too soon. Now we begin to learn about the victims, not just 36 victims , but 36 human beings. Reporter with autopsies complete all but a few of the bodies have been given to families, the bodies remaining are at the alameda he Alameda County coroner and some come from as far away from finland and the state department hope to get emergency visas. Most of the victims bodies were remarkably Good Condition considering the fire reach temperatures of 3000 degrees. The collapse of the second warehouse floor played a big role in that. A lot of debris fell on top of the victims that insulated them. And then when fire got on scene and really started pumping water into the site it helped to dampen the debris that was protecting almost like a fire blanket over the top of a lot of the victims. The outreach and support has been overwhelming, chaplain of the chimes in oakland is one of the handful of mortuaries offering Free Funeral Services and they have received a number of calls and much more. We have had all sorts of experts from around the world call to provide their expertise whether it be in engineering or crime scene reconstruction or forensics. We have had an amazing amount of people say i can help. One of the first funerals is for the youngest victim the 17 yearold that will be laid to rest on sunday he is the son of an Alameda County deputy. That has really affected our agency, it really brought it close. Reporter i am told the entire Alameda County Sheriffs Department will undergo counseling after debriefing next week. The officers that spent any time whatsoever at the fire getting new uniforms and new boots, as they to try to recover from one of the states most tragic fires. In the newsroom, ktvu, fox 2 news. Thanks. A benefit concert is scheduled for wednesday to raise money for those affected by the fire and the bay area band primus will head up the event and the benefit is being held at the oakland fox theater and features a host of popular indie acts and proceeds will go to the Oakland Fire Relief Fund that has already raised more than a half 1 million on a funding the site. Other fundraisers for the victims families are starting tonight and they will run through the weekend and the concerts are held throughout the bay area, you can find more information on our website just go to ktvu. Com and click on web links. The rain swept through most of the bay area today creating wet roads and dramatic skies, clouds ruled today in the east bay while the view from the emeryville area provided some really cool shots and scenic relief. In the south bay by midafternoon the blue skies were peeking through the clouds. Martin, we have gotten a bit of a break from the rain but more to come. More coming and more significant. Today we got brakes to start off and it was drizzly most of the day. Then the skies clear and we had some sunshine out there today which was nice for the first time in a little while. As we had to the overnight hours we will see more rain and these are the 2 day accumulations and it has been 2 days of what look at how little rain has come out in palo alto, 16th of the hundred inch. It is not really accumulating unless you are north of oakland and you have almost 3 4 of an inch there and then been loman in the Santa Cruz Mountains coming up on 3 inches as well. The next system is a little different texture and it will have some dynamics with it and it will rain and it will rain at a specific reporter where comes in and gets heavy and then moves out. This is what you like to see, this is the current radar and you can see the system where it lies now to the north of us in the system will slide down to the south and it will have a big impact on tomorrow mornings activities. Late tonight and tomorrow morning. It will rain pretty good and we will most likely see a winter storm warning by tomorrow afternoon and we will get back to winter. The weekend is here and part of the we can will not be so bad, we will talk more about sunday when i see you and we will talk saturday with the latest computer model when i come back right after the break. It thank you still. It has been a rough day trying to get around sams test San Francisco today is a water main break created big traffic problems in the area at fourth and howard at 3 am, Tara Moriarty joins us now and are street still closed around the intersection . Reporter at 2 pm this afternoon the cruise opened up Fourth Street which is a one way so that you can come down and take a right onto howard street. Everything else with a one block radius of here is still shut down the traffic is pretty messy. Behind me you can see that crews are working at a redneck pace and the project could take well into the night. Over here with this pile of chunky pavement this is where the actual water main break occurs. If we pan over to the left you can see the area where they are digging right now and that is where crews discovered some erosion and something that they did not expect to find so that is why these repairs take hours longer than expect did. Reporter water seeping through cracks at fourth and howard street. At 3 am a report was called in about a water main break. Reporter they described water gushing like a geyser but crews got it under control within 15 minutes. The cordon off the street with sf pd. Reporter water poured in and flowed into the central subway project currently under construction as well as in the basement of the metreon. There was no damage in the culprit was a 121yearold pipe. This is a cast iron pipe, opens diameter and it was installed in about 95. Reporter we could see the craft four feet to the ground and chris and stuff water access and work to shore up weak spots in the road as they repaired the line. The city has 1000 miles of water pipe in various sizes and ages. We are underway now with a rather Aggressive Program to repair and replace some of these pipes up to about 15 miles per year. Reporter fixing 15 miles for your does not seem like much but its more than they tackled years ago when crews would just undertake 3 to 4 miles of pipe. Its like the gate you are never finished because there is ongoing repair and maintenance of the water. Reporter once again if you are in the area, or street is a this is a oneway and are taking a right onto howard Everything Else in the area is still shut down and we did receive an update a while ago that this could take several more hours and we could look at the project lasting well into the night, live in San Francisco, i am Tara Moriarty, ktvu fox 2. This did its job for a long time, thank you. New at 5 pm, the city of oakland and Alameda County say they will release details next week on the much talked about plan to keep the Oakland Raiders in oakland. 2 public hearings and votes are expected on proposals and they are scheduled for tuesday first by Alameda County supervisors in the morning and then by the Oakland City Council in the evening. The city and county have been reviewing a plan that features nfl great ronnie lott and they want to build a new stadium and mixeduse development on the current policy insight without using taxpayer money and to create the Grand Central station Like Development around the coliseum. Raiders owner, mark davis has said that he is committed to moving the team to las vegas. A seventh grader gained worldwide attention because of her Lemonade Stand and how that helped her make some history of the vatican. A south Bay High School teacher is arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a student, coming up next how another student played a worrell role in the arrest. Charges dropped out of sight, they say he is now in custody awaiting extradition. Police in san jose arrested the High School Teachers dutch a teacher in charges of sexually assaulting a student, another student is the one that tipped off authorities. Reporter San Jose Police say 32yearold trudy hill used her position as an english teacher at Santa Teresa High School to course and exploit a 17year old male student into a sexual relationship. Her arrest on thursday did not come as a surprise. I actually called this happening last year because i had her as a teacher and how she was i knew it was going to happen. Reporter they said they knew her to use the social media snapchat to send photos to her students, no one recall seeing any inappropriate photos of the teacher. The High School District says it was another student that turned hill into authority. We instigated this investigation with the San Jose Police and it came through 10 days ago through Facebook Post and then we immediately informed the Police Department and they began their investigation. Reporter the San Jose Police unit that investigates internet crimes against children started investigating hill for sending harmful material and possibly obscene images to the teen. During that Investigation Detectives say they uncovered a sexual relationship between hill and her underage student that went on from august to november. We reached out to the student and the family to make sure that they had supports and we have fulltime social workers and counselors that he will have access to. Reporter parents say they are concerned that she had personal cell phone numbers and social media accounts. I would be concerned, very concerned, teachers are supposed to communicate through the school loop and if its on a cell phone that is too personal. Reporter she was arrested thursday but posted bail and was placed on administrative leave. Reporter the School District says they have a policy against teachers communicating through personal cell phones or social media and if the teacher does need to relay information to students they can do this with the school Gmail Account or through the website known as school loop, in san jose, lee martinez, ktvu fox 2 news. In inmate that escaped from jail had time added to his sentence, Loren Campbell pleaded no contest to the escape charges in Santa Clara County court, an additional 16 to 18 months was added to his sentence, last month he and three other inmates broke out using cutters to remove bars on the window and then they rappelled down with a rope made of light gets. Two inmates were caught but campbell and Rogelio Chavez remained on the run for a week. Santa clara settled a lawsuit filed by a mentally ill inmate that was found beaten to death in his jail cell last year, the family of Michael Tyree was avoided three point tache awarded 3. 6 million this will be given to his sevenyearold daughter and his two sisters will be given a smaller portion, the three guards are charged with murder and they are out on bail at a trial is set for early next year. The nations flags are at half staff in tribute to american astronaut and senator john glenn, he passed yesterday afternoon at the james Cancer Hospital in columbus, ohio, today president obama ordered the nations flags lowered and he became a National Hero in 1962 when he was the First American to orbit the earth, he spent 24 years as a senator and briefly made a run for president in 1984, his colleagues describe him as honorable and humble. There is no subject matter that john glenn studied or he was not the most informed person in the room. Reporter glenn was the original survivor of the mercury 7 astronauts. A true american hero. Will go back to bill and check the weather and a bit warmer and dryer but is more rain heading our way . Today we talked about the rain being much lighter than yesterday and yesterday we got up to an inch or two inches and today it has been relatively light all day but it does pick up again late tonight or early tomorrow morning. As we head into your saturday night, friday Night Saturday morning it keeps going and we will see significant rain. This is a nice passage of of sorts and it will set us up with significant rain and it will clear out by tomorrow. I want to point out the moisture coming up from the island this is about 3000 miles worth of moisture and the dynamics have been week so rainfall accumulation has been low but as we go into the next few hours and theres upper air support it will pick up and set up some rain. Right now we have no rain falling in the area just a few light sprinkles and fog is certainly something we can think about here and valley fog just because the ground is wet the dewpoint is running high so be prepared for that. It does look like its going to rain, doesnt it looks like that is a beautiful shot. The sun is setting but this level of clouds in the lower level moisture is feeding and and there is more moisture coming in the loft and it will be a wet evening and certainly as we go after 11 pm. The saturday system maybe an inch and a half of rain and some wind as well, gus of 40 along the coast and you will have snow in the Sierra Nevada probably at 6800 feet or so. More snow in the model does this, there we are tonight at midnight when it starts raining in earnest and then it flips down. There is saturday morning and there is saturday lunchtime and you get a bit of clearing. I think there will be some drizzle lingering behind but that is nice when you get the progression that moves through instead of what we had yesterday and today which was just clouds coming onshore and streaming a not really clearing. 16 santa rosa and 62 in vallejo so warmer than it has been in the five day forecast has morning showers. Pretty heavy in the Early Morning hours and then it should break off in the afternoon. Saturday afternoon is bearable and you can go outside and take a dog for a walk and then sunday looks like an okay day. Then we get into the wet weather and unsettled pattered into the middle of next week and beyond. It is winter, or not yet and it is acting like winter and it is almost winter. Is it officially december 21 . 20th. The winter solstice, the longest and shortest day of the year. It makes a big difference to the change in temperature and the rain is awful. It is basically seattle weather in the bay area for the last 72 hours. It felt better today. Thank you. A young girl with big dreams. I love soccer but i think the only way to have an amazing life is to do something that is not completely ordinary. Reporter the extraordinary thing that this 12yearold has already done in her short life and how she wants to help others make changes. This is my park. Im like the mayor here. I know every benc

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