Near the intersection of shadick and university. You have the fire personnel and trucks out here as well and a very active fire fight. I touched base with the firefighters. Theyre busy trying to get the fire under control. But im told they got here a half hour, 45 minutes ago. This building obviously was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived here. Its a twostory building. This restaurant is. And what im told by a firefighter that i spoke with is that the real goal here is that this building appears to be a total loss. Theyre trying to keep the flames from spreading to the two adjacent buildings on either side. You can see over here you have another building here next door. You have crews in there. Theyre hoping that they can keep the fire from spreading to these two other buildings. Neighboring buildings. Thats the goal here this morning. I asked about injuries, there are no injuries that these firefighters know of at this point. They showed up here and this restaurant was fully engulfed in flames. As far as how the fire started, obviously, thats going to be part of a longterm investigation. They dont have any indication why this Chinese Restaurant here in Downtown Berkeley caught fire early this morning. But crews right now, you can see putting quite a bit of water on this fire from the ground. And then obviously from up above with the ladder trucks. So well stay here. Well monitor the situation. But obviously, shaddick avenue and this area in Downtown Berkeley all shut down as firefighters battle this large restaurant fire. Alex, i know its hard for you to hear, i means this a very busy street. Those stores and businesses are very densely close to each other. And this is a major fire. This is a tough situation. It really is. Right here in the heart of Downtown Berkeley. All the buildings, theyre just jammed right together obviously. Theres very little separation. Thats the major concern for these firefighters. They obviously are considering the restaurant here. The manures talk where the fire broke out to be a total loss. But you have to be concerned about these huge flames spreading to neighboring buildings and then of course that would be a bigger problem. You have other buildingings that could catch fire and then it makes it even tougher to try to get this fire out. Again, as far as injuries, we dont know about any injuries. In all likelihood you have to think there was nobody here at this restaurant at this hour. But you never know. If someone could have been here or not. You dont know what the situation exactly was. But no injuries to report so far. Thats certainly good news. And again, just to reiterate here. Shaddick avenue is shut down in this area next to university. If youre planning to make your way through this area, a lot of people up and about this morning because its black friday. Keep in mind, many streets are shut down in Downtown Berkeley. Is there any residential mixed in to those businesses . Is anyone being evacuated . You know, we showed up here and obviously got our shot to get on the air. That was what i was scanning around to see. The honest answer is im not quite sure. Its possible there could be Apartment Units a few doors down from where this fire is. Well go right now and check on the evacuation situation if any people have been moved out of those units. I was looking over here to my right, this looks like this is an Office Building over here. With several stories to it. But i dont think theres anybody living in that building and the two buildings thankfully the two adjacent buildings to this fire are one of them here looks like another restaurant and on the other side you have another business as well. Well check on whether any people are living close by here and whether theyve been evacuated because of the fire. Well see you in a few, thank you. Lets bring you rosemary, monitoring winds in the area. I see theres a big tree out front and the buildings are right on top of each other. Power lines and everything else. When we talk about fire the wind is one element were concerned about. But as you look at alexs live shot. And were going back out there. Notice the trees. Very still. Theres not a lot of wind out there. Im seeing the breeze pick up any where from 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour or so. But definitely some good news. Because as we know, wind helps to fan the flames but it can also start new spot fires. Not the case this morning. Even looking in and around areas, we have a reading from oakland where you can see its calm out there. And i looked a little closer at a few other models and it looks like the winds are generally light. Where were seeing the winds over portions of the north bay, before i let you go, a check on Current Conditions. 47 degrees in santa rosa. 46 in napa. Upper 30s in oakland. Where its very calm. Where we have wind this morning. Temperatures in the 40s. If youre in the 30s. Redwood city at 33. Livermore at 35. Youre looking at calm conditions outside your door. As we go through the morning hours, temperatures will gradually begin to rebound once we get passed sunrise at 7 00. And another cool afternoon in store for you. Ill have details on the forecast coming up in a bit. Lets check on traffic and see if theres any traffic trouble out there. Maybe in areas where the fire is burning. Good morning. Were going to go to sky fox and look at this fire from above. You can see that the restaurant, this is from sky fox looking down. The fire has definitely broken through the roof. Sky fox is over shaddick avenue. Shaddick avenue is split up in this area. Going north is the block were talking about. South is one block away. Its kind of an unusual situation there. But this is north shaddick avenue approaching university. This is the picture from the ground. You can see the flames are still coming up. The buses do run through there. Today were not expecting a big crowd. Its black friday. And we dont have just a lot of people out there. Weve been listening to radio reports of firefighters doing what they call primary searches in buildings around the area. We also know that this is about two or three blocks away from the bart station but its not effecting any bart service because its far enough away. Shaddick avenue heading north where it makes a t with university. A lot of restaurants on this block. This is one block away from the uc berkeley campus. But its not a campus building obviously. Stay with us. Well be following this for you. Lets take a look at other pictures toward the commute. Restaurant fire in berkeley, well stay on this. Okay. Because this is breaking. Ive been listening to the fire reports. I havent heard any additional alarms being called in. But i do hear firefighters on the radios talking about them doing their searches in not only this building but the adjacent buildings. So well send it back to you at the desk but well keep a close eye on whats going on here. Obviously this fire is not under control. You can see the flames are burning through the building. You know that area well. You went to cal. You know how densely populated the area is. And the picture were looking at at the flames you have to assume its a restaurant. There maybe grease inside further igniting these flames. Theyre having a hard time putting this out. Dave, i went to school a long time ago. This restaurant block has been there since then. These are older buildings with older restaurants. As you might imagine there might be a lot of build ups. This block is packed with restaurants. It capitalizes on the students that come down a block away from campus to come eat. Theres a coffee shop. Its a densely populated block. And right now theres really not a big traffic issue because its so early but this block is closed. We know its a College Campus area. People could be living it could be a residence, all kinds of places as people try to find an affordable place to live. They could be living any where. But you would agree, right . Absolutely right. It does look like this building is a restaurant. But you dont know. Thats why we heard the firefighters going through. They forced entry to other buildings nearby. They got permission to to that. They went in and they made sure. The first thing they do is a primary search to see if anyones inside. Once thats done they can start fighting the fire. But thats the first thing they do. They figure out if anyones inside. As were talking about berkeley and this is very close to the cal campus, it is important to note that students are not in session right now. Cal is out for the winter break. School isnt happening. Im sorry for the thanksgiving break. So perhaps more students are home than they would be on or close to campus right now. As i think about an area close to Downtown Berkeley, am i misguided in worried about possible homeless residents to tuck into a door way or somewhere nearby that may not be an obvious place. Its not a door to knock on but there could be people inside or nearby. Its a concern. You know. Lets be honest. There are Homeless People in the Downtown Berkeley area. And we dont know where they would be. You would imagine they wouldnt be inside a building at least thats not my hope that no ones inside. But firefighters arent taking chances. Ive been listening to them talk to each other on their radios. They seem to think theyve done their searches and they havent found anyone. But they continue to be vigilant about that. It looks it sounds to me as if now this is just a Straight Fire fight and they want to limit exposure from the fire building to the other buildings so they dont catch fire. Thats what theyre doing right now. Before we go to rosemary, a quick thing, whats the name of that restaurant . Just i dont know if you have it in front of you i was trying to read it on the building. I couldnt get it. But well get it. I have it here. I put it in a note here. I just have to read it. Its the mandarin garden restaurant. And the address is 2025 shaddick avenue. How many alarms has it gone to so far . That i dont know. I turned on the radios after they dispatched. It doesnt sound as if theyre calling more firefighters to the scene. It sounds like perhaps they dispatched it all ready with plenty of crews because we havent had any more firefighters coming to the scene. I do know this though, since berkeley has stretched their resources for this fire, neighboring communities will handle the regular runs that you get on a morning like this. So some of the runs that berkeley would get maybe being handled by oakland and albany. These are live pictures, a major fire at a restaurant near the cal campus. Saleh abdeslam is covering it. Rosemary is looking at the fact that the wind may or may not effect the fire fight here. The winds are definitely up. Stronger than expected. But in this particular area, winds are light. Im seeing winds 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour. Weve been watching this live shot for sometime. Im keeping an eye on the wind in the trees. You can see just really not moving. Very still. Thats great news as we know the wind can definitely fan the flames, could start new fires if it picks up embers and implants them in different areas. But not seeing that this morning. Also when we get very, very cold air like we have in place right now, we see an inversion set up in the atmosphere. Typically, it gets colder as we go higher up. When you have an inversion in place, that cold air sinking along the floor, you know, where we reside and we actually have warmer air that is aloft. And that sort of creates a cap. That can actually prevent some of that smoke from drifting away. So we do have an inversion in place this morning. Some of that smoke there lingering. But back to the winds, generally light. And that is good news. All right rosemary. Thank you. Were staying on top of breaking news in berkeley and well have the rest of the days news in minutes. Announcer if youd give thanks for a better nights sleep. [barks] sleep train has just the ticket. [train horn blares] through thanksgiving weekend at sleep train get three free gifts with selected mattress sets save up to 300 on beautyrest, posturepedic, serta, even tempurpedic plus, get up to four years interestfree financing but sleep trains thanksgifting sale ends sunday sleep train [train horn] your ticket to a better nights sleep good morning. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Today is black friday. Retailers are hoping, fingers crossed for a strong start to the Holiday Shopping season. Ktvu is live from a san jose target store. It was quiet when we last checked in with you. It looks like that might still be the case. It is. I mean take a look. I mean theres some carts in the aisles. And you know, some more shoppers are showing up. But still. Not busy at all. A good time to come. You can still take advantage of some of the door buster deals. Look at this. These are beats headsets. Theyre normally 200. Theyre 103 off. And this fit bit here. This one normally what is it . 130. And now you can get it for 90. There are sale signs here everywhere. We want to let people in at a controlled pace. Reporter this was the scene outside toys r us the chain opened yesterday evening and there was a line of people waiting to stock up on toys that were on sale. They wanted to take advantage of those deals. So did shoppers at best buy which also opened up early on thanksgiving night. Tvs and tablets are the hot sellers. So much so that a lot of the items with the best discounts are all ready sold out. Even though there were crowds yesterday, its expected to be a lot busier today, later in the morning, a lot of people like shopping normal hours rather than it cutting into their thanksgiving. We caught up with one shopper at target this morning. Heres what she had to say. The big ticket items i went to first at like 6 00 p. M. And as the night went through i trickled on and bought little presents. Youve been up all night. Yes. And i came from great mall. We went to santana row. We went to union square. We went everywhere. And now youre in san jose. Worth it . Worth it. And back out here live, youre taking a live look at the Electronics Section here in target. Near the san jose airport. Normally this would be filled with people. Because its such a popular area. You know, one of the best deals here was there was a tv that was 600. It was being sold for 250. Theyre sold out at this location. Same thing with popular tablets that are low on price. So again, good time to come if you have nothing to do and youre planning oncoming later. Because the crowds are really expected in a couple hours from now. Back to you guys. All right. Thank you. 6 18. Well go back to sal. A big fire happening on berkeley in shattuck. This fire on shattuck avenue Near University. If you know berkeley, shattuck avenue is split here, northbound shattuck is where this restaurant is. A mandarin restaurant here. And you will see that the firefighters are still battling this fire. Look at all the water coming out of the building. It looks like also foam. But thats just probably water foaming up. Firefighters are on the scene. This is a two alarm fire called in about an hour ago. Firefighters arrived and did their primary search to make sure no one was in the building. And they searched it. They also searched nearby buildings. It looks like theres a hole in the roof and firefighters have their Truck Company up there putting water on the fire. A couple Truck Companies here putting water on this fire. And again, its a two alarm fire on shattuck avenue Near University. Stay with us. Well follow it for you. But obviously, theres a lot more work to do and it looks like shattuck avenue, just knowing how this goes, shattuck avenue will be closed for hours more here Near University northbound. Southbound which is a block away will not be effected. Quickly lets go and take a look at the bay bridge, thats light. And also the traffic in the south bay is light if youre going shopping. Now, lets go to rosemary. If youre going shopping, bring along the thick jacket. Its a cold one out there. Even for those of us in the 40s. Its going to feel a lot colder than that. Because chances are if youre in the 40s this morning, you have wind to deal with. Santa rosa, nevado napa, fairfields, wind gusts at 20 Miles Per Hour or so. It feels like 37 degrees in santa rosa. It feels more like 35 than 45 a as the temperature reads in fairfield. Just a heads up on that one. Upper 30s in areas like concord, walnut creek and livermore. This is where the winds are calm. 33 in redwood city. And san jose, 36 degrees and falling with a freeze warning in place for the santa clara mountains. In areas around danville, lafayette, all reporting mid 30s. A tad cooler in alamo. Afternoon highs, a lot like yesterday under mostly clear skies, 57 for areas around nevado 59 in santa rosa. 56 nor kent field. Low 50s in livermore. 54 walnut creek for outdoor shopping. 57 in san leandro. San jose, 54 for the afternoon. 54 in cupertino along the penninsula. 55 wood side. 54 san mateo. 55 for San Francisco. What this means, expect it to feel like yesterday. Breezy at times. Cool at times if you needed the jacket yesterday, you need it today. The extend forecast, advisories and warnings pretty widespread to start the day. National Weather Service decided to cancel those because of the wind. Once the wind dies down the cold air sinks in. Tomorrow morning could be colder than this morning. All in all, temperatures not going to change a lot as we get to the bay area weekend. Cold start to the day. Cool afternoons, dry conditions another chance for rain on monday. All right rosemary. Thank you. Time is 6 21, were still following breaking news from berkeley. Weve been showing pictures. This restaurant. These are live pictures. The mandarin garden restaurant on shattuck fully engulfed in flames now. We have the latest on whats happening out there in this fire fight. Novato me the have a dough nevada dough who patiently teaches how ta feast comes to life. The family. Who spends their holiday dinner with thankful strangers. The neighbor. Who shares the season with another. You inspire us to do everything we do. For goodness sake. Staying on top of breaking news this morning. Weve been showing you live pictures. We continue to do that. Of a fire. A restaurant in berkeley. Specifically the mandarin garden restaurant at 2025 shattuck is on fire. Its been burning now for more than an hour. And you