A Community Meeting right now for those those effected by the fire. More than 100 have been evacuated. The evacuation watch is in effect for more homes in the area. The fire is now at 550acrest. It is just 5 contained. At least 15 homes have been destroyed. No injuries have been reported. That fire and another one on the peninsula are causing concern about the air quality in the south bay. Youre looking life at the conditions in downtown san jose. It is much the same story farther south in gilroy. Thats where our robert honda is. How is it where you are . Reporter we can still smell smoke. Many people here didnt realize all the smoke coming from so far away and from Different Directions would hit them so hard. We gilroy is more than 60 miles from the fire. The smoke still made the owner smell sick, then combined with smoke from the fire and a spare the air day t it was a bad day for business. The chemical smell in the air just turned my 12078 accused. I just p did gist did not feel like having lunch. I knew it was not going to be a good day for us. 50 miles away, a school joined numerous other south bay schools and moved pe classes, recess and lunch indoors. The principal didnt wait to take action. The smell dominated by the recycling fire told her all she needed to know. It was a chemical smell, burning tires perhaps. And it just didnt smell good. Lots of icks from the kids. Later, the Public Health officer issued a letters to schools, hospitals and Skilled Nursing facilities as the smoke is spread south. I live in north county. The air up there smelled fine. Then i came down to san jose this morning and noticed a real difference. So i can feel it in my eyes and in my throat. And that meant a day of coping. I smell the smoke and its really bad. It bothers me. I have had a cold for the last two weeks so i want to make sure my lungs dont get irritated. Reporter the air has started to clear up. Coming up at 6 00, some Lessons Learned inincluding safety steps you need to take. Robert honda ktvu channel 2 news. Investigators are looking into what started that fire at the recycling plant. At 5 30 we will get our first look inside. Plus past problems there, and the Violations Company p feciales could face. Our chief meteorologist officials couldation. Our chief meteorologist is here. He joins us now with the weather conditions in the south bay. Reporter we had the spare of the air day today. We have another one tomorrow. So there is an inversion over the south bay. And then you have this fire burning. With the winds that have shifted south, what that means is those winds will starting to blow in this direction, of course from big sur north up into the san jose area. So it is at a Higher Elevation than the haze thats right down at the ground. But that smoke is infiltrating that area. As it settles in, it is making things worse. So a spare of the air day again tomorrow. Visibility up to about 4 miles now, but people are smelling smoke down there. It is definitely from san jose, gilroy, morgan hill is where you notice it the most. You have the redwood fire, the big sur fire and the spare the air day. It is a lot of haze. When i come back, we will talk more about the spare the air alert for tomorrow. We will talk more about this temperature trend. Its starting to cool off. There is a chance for a little bit of wet weather, perhaps. We will see you back here. A reminder. You can follow bill and the rest of our weather team online posting updates to facebook and twitter, even when we are not on the air. As bill mentioned, there will be another winter spare the air tomorrow. That means for the 11th straight day there will be a boone burning wood in the bay area. Air pollution is still at unhealthy levels. The those conditions were likely made worse by the fire in redwood city. Also, the fire in big sur. On shore winds could kick up later this week and that could help reduce the air pollution. The spare the air next makes any kind overburning illegal, unless it is a source of heat. We 62 violations of federal environmental law at the chevron. A fire last year was caused by a corroded pipe that failed. The epa says chevron failed to maintain equipment and didnt respond adequately to air bourn chemical releases. The epa could pursue criminal charges or fines if the Company Fails to address the violations. Cheiron says it is working with the epa and other agencies to remedy the issues. New development in the case of a young girl on life support just days after a routine surgery at oakland churchs hospital. Tonight, her family says they have won a victory. The 13yearold girl at oakland Childrens Hospital has been declared brain dead. Her family says the hospital will not remove her from life support. Ktvus john fowler live at the hospital with medical and legal issues that are intertwined here. John. Reporter this is an unfolding tragedy tonight. Made worse in some ways by medical technology. Please, god. It is not her time to go. Her family refuses to give up. I just dont think i will be able to sit here and let them take her like that. Im her mother so i will fight for her until tend. But the end came five days ago. Doctors told the family declaring the 13yearold brain dead. No one is saying why, but she died after a routine tonsillectomy. The surgery was supposed to help her sleep apnea. The hospital has nowback backed off the efforts to remove life support. I want her on as long as she can because i really believe god will wake her up. Experts say brain death means dead, legally and actually. That no one is required to keep a dead body on a ventilator. Guidelines require only one bedside exam. Childrens hospital has apparently done several. Experts tell me the hospital is extending her life support only out of compassion for her surviving family who almost cruelly now see the appearance of life. If her heart is still beating, why are you trying to take her off life support. Obviously, there is still a chance that she can survive. Reporter coming up at 6 00, i will have the surprising next steps both medically and legally. Reporting live in oakland, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. Police announce the arrest of a suspected credit card chief. Shortly after releasing two surveillance today, they say the man tried to make a stolen purchase with a stolen card. The victim realized his wallet had been stolen and called police. Two people have now been charged with obstructing Santa Rosa Police officers. The deputy mistook the teenagers bee bee gun for a real ak 47. Police say last month, a 24 yearold David Douglas refused to get off the street during a protest march. He pleaded not guilty today. And, 30yearold ramon cairo was charged yesterday with assaulting a Police Officer during another protest december 10th. A third man will be in court lacer later this month to face possible charges stemming from that zymodemation. The crime rate in san jose is now higher than the average crime rate for the entire country according to a new report. The citys independent auditor said last year there were slightly more than 3,000 major crimes per 100,000 residentses. That is 3 above the state average and 1 above the countrys average. The auditor also says that arrests are down while response times are up. Just days away from christmas, one east bay charity is having trouble keeping up with demand. I have never in 28 years had to say i am sorry. We are out of presents. What could keep some families have having a happy holiday. It may not have been the prettiest house on the street, but those are your memories. That house hes talking about, candle stick. Coming up, we get ready to say goodbye to candle stick. A house in San Franciscos twin peaks slips and falls. Why neighbors say they are not surprised even though the owner is a former building inspector. Crews have capped a gas leak that prompted a shelter placement order for nearby relatives and businesses. Happened after a contractor hit a gas main. Fire and Police Departments responded. It took p ge about two hours to control the leak. Bart service between San Francisco and the east bay were shut down while crews dealt with a despondent man on the tracks. Ktvus ally rasmussen reported. They shut down the highway about an hour until police could take the man into custody. Continuing coverage into the investigation of the collapse of a house in San Francisco. Tonight, were learning about past concerns from neighbors. Workers are trying to stabilize the house which was under construction at the time. Zits rob roth is in San Francisco tonight with more on what happened. Rob. Reporter frank, right now, workers and engineers are here at the crumbled and collapsed house. They are trying to prevent more sliding while many neighbors are saying i told you so. The small twostory house began falling last night from. No one was living there and no one was injured. Neighbors say the house just didnt look right. I thought that is about ready to fall. This is what that same house looked like yesterday. The house is being remodeled i. Had been lifted up and was sitting on a temporary support and slipped off. It didnt move from the support of the cradle. The owner is a former City Building inspections commissioner and current member of the port commission. Neighbors un shows the current home superimposed inside. Going to build a 5,000 square foot house in a neighborhood of 2,000 square foot houses. We thought this constantly went through appeals. We lost at every point. Neighbors learned murphy is well known at city hall. I got limitations from here for one of mayor lees fund raisers and im not connected politically at all. Reporter murphy did not return our calls. The project is expected to be completed this evening after that, the owner must show the city how he plans to safely continue the home renovations. Reporting live in San Francisco, rob roth ktvu channel 2 news. The san jose airport is back in business in terminal a after a water pipe burst yesterday. It burst and flooded baggage claim and security areas in term crystal a yesterday. Sent hundreds of passengers on a long walk to terminal b. One flight was canceled. Several others delayed. Drive sober or get pulled over. Thats the message this Holiday Season from u. S. Transportation secretary anthony fox. He is also urging states to require ignition interlocks for all first time drunk driving offenders. Requires the driver to give a breath sample before the engine will start. Right now, just 20 states along with four california counties use ignition interlocks as part of a pilot program. The national Highway Transportation Safety Administration has found that drivers with interlocks in their cars are 75 less likely to drive drunk. With the Christmas Holiday a week away, travel rush is about to begin. Industry analysts are expecting an increase compared to last year. Aaa is predicting that almost 12 million californians will go somewhere over the holidays and almost 10 and a half million of them will be driving. That represents a 1 increase in the number of car are also on the road compared to the 2012 season. The Mega Millions jackpot for tonights drawing is now the second largest in u. S. History. The jackpot sored to an estimated 636 million today. Earlier estimates peg the jackpot at 586 million but strong ticket sells and enthusiasm over the size pushed that higher. The odds of winning are now one in 259 million. Lottery Officials Say if a winner isnt picked tonight or friday, jackpot could hit 1 billion for the Christmas Eve drawing. Ski resort reducing the size of expansion plans after hearing from people in the tahoe region. A new proposal reduces the number of condominiums from 1100 down to 750. The number of hotel rooms from 2200 to 1500. The size of a new rexuation center. 11th straight spare the air day. That is a remarkable streak. Reporter youre on a hill a bit. Down in the low land, hayward and freemont and san mateo and san jose you have less air quality because of the inversions. That will be with us again tomorrow. That is why there is another spare the air night, if you will. Clouds streaming in. Thats beginning a change when you see the clouds moving in that direction. Thats one of the ways the smoke is getting up here, right . Thats where you see the kind of haze in santa clara valley. Blossom hill road. That activity, that smoke, the haze that the youre seeing will be around tomorrow, too. Because whatever is coming down or coming up from the big sur fire is going to get trapped back in that atmosphere. It doesnt really have any way to get out of there. The winds will shift tomorrow. It should clean the atmosphere out quite a bit as we go into the next 24 hours. Between now and then we will see a lot of smoke particular lat kind of lingering in the valleys. 37 in napa. 37 in antioch. Those are the forecast overnight lows. High clouds out there now. There should be patchy fog showing up as we get into late tonight early tomorrow morning. Here is the sunset. The winds in the bay area are northeast. So this is the haze and pollutants mainly from the morning commute and afternoon. The winds are lowing them out to sea out towards San Francisco. That layer makes for a pretty sunset. Just not good air quality right now. It will get better as we go through time. But right now the inversion is setting up. After that, winds kick up as we get into thursday and friday. If youre being bothered by smoke and asthma and what have you because of this, it will get better. Wednesday morning, there are clouds. A wind shift wednesday afternoon. Is there rain in here . No. There is a little bit of snow for the mountains. We might see a little bit of drizzle as we go into wednesday we evening. Lake tahoe gets a shot of snow. Maybe 6 inches. Now youre into thursday night. Things just kind of start to stay the same, start to clear up and dry up. So as we go into thursday and friday we will start to see more sunshine. Forecast highs tomorrow 60 in napa. Numbers have come. Do they were up to 70 degrees yesterday. Today, in the mid60s. Tomorrow, just the low 60s and upper 50s. Freemont, 69. 59 in morgan hill. Cooler tomorrow. Breezy as you get into thursday. That cleans out the air, right . Friday, we get degrees breezy and pretty windy in the hills. That cleans out the atmosphere and the winds go northeast again. We get a warmer set up for the bay area weekend. There is no rain in this one. This is not a wet weather pattern at all. It looks like its going to persist as we go into the bay area weekend. It would be president 10 of an inch. Would be. 10 of an inch, maybe. 1. Maybe snow then. Reporter well see. Thank you, bill. Stockings full of coal for some bay area leaders. Since its the Holiday Season we just wanted to come deliver this to council member. The hot button issue that is putting residents in the south bay against city leaders. Now to julie haener in the newsroom with what weve been working on at 6 00. Coming up at 6 00, what one school did not do that experts call a smart move for everyone. Plus, mcdonalds employers held up at gun point, forced to strip and then locked in a room. The window of opportunity police say the gunman used to commit the crime. These stories and much more coming up new at 6 00. Oh, a green [ female announcer ] cheerios. With flavors your heart will love. Stockings full of coal. Thats what the south Bay Labor Council gave to three city leaders in san jose today who they say are trying to weaken the citys living wake law. We dont think it should be applied to anyone, especially retailers while these hard workers are providing for their families. So, since it is the Holiday Season we just wanted to come and deliver this to council member. We hate he is here. The group, including a costume grinch also delivered coal to other leaders. The Group Accuses them of seeking to create a loophole in the citys living wage requirements. The city council is considering changing san joses living wake policy for some vendors and contracted workers. The plan was spurred by a deal to build out retail space at the city hall complex and at the convention center. The city says the projects developers and potential retailers, including start bucks are concerned about having to pay a living wage. We know the city has always said it needs to be a shining example, to lift up the people that it has power to do so. So when we say the city has a living wage policy and they are trying to exempt it, they are going to wrong direction. The city council was set to discuss tissue today but has put it off until late next month. Right now, san joses living wage is 15. 78 an hour. President obama meted to at the white house with some high tech ceos from the bay area. The executives included apple ceo tim cook, yahoo, google executive the chairman and facebook coo sandberg. It was a closed door session. Topics included the launch of the Affordable Care act website and the Economic Impact unauthorized intelligence disclosures. Facebook is beginning to test video ads. They begin showing up in news feeds on thursday. Facebook says the ads will automatically Start Playing without sound and users can either click for audio or keep scrolling if they are interested. The move if uninterest. And dont want to see or hear the video. The move could boost faze books advertising rev view, but it is still unknown how much facebook will be charging. The ceo of the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Susan has been chancellor since 2009. She is an oncologist who left an executive position to become chancellor. In a letter to her colleagues, she said she looks forward to leading the gates foundation. Its mission is to help ease poverty and improve health in developing the kris. She will leave next march. A fire at a recycling plant on the peninsula, and this isnt the first time. The changes the company made after last months fire and why they didnt seem to help t