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KTVU The Eleven OClock News On KTVU FOX 2 July 12, 2017

Those piles of medal to get to this deepseated fire, and im told that crews will be here all night. The whole street was black. It was really bad. Was it smoke, or just the smell . Both. Both. Because it was really, really dark. It wasnt even like this anymore. You couldnt see . Couldnt see at all, and your eyes would hurt. Reporter he showed us in the cellphone video he took soon after the fire started. The burning of the metals and other materials sent out a strong chemical order, which led to a shelter in place order. It smells pretty bad. Its pretty hard to believe right now. Reporter this man said he smelled the fire and followed the smoke, and found that the fire that was burning at alco iron and metal, a place he dropped off old Battery Force his employer. It will fake a while to fight that fire with all of the chemicals and everything in there markets one woman came to pick up hire son at a golf camp, but it made it difficult for her to reach him. There are a lot of kids in there stuck in the middle. Reporter people in the area, including a Police Officer directing traffic due to the road closures, wore a face mask. Fire Officials Say bay area air Quality Control is here to collect air samples. All of the employees were able to safely evacuate prior to firefighters arriving at the scene. Reporter neighbors tell me a worker with alco iron and metal said crews were moving things when someone dropped a battery sparking the fear when it struck a piece of metal. Now five Officials Say the cause is still under investigation. Julie . All right, amber lee reporting live tonight in san leandro. Thank you. Now to the south way where a fastmoving grass fire burned down a house before spreading through a Hundred Acres in east san jose. Debra joins us from the neighborhood. Deb, cal fire said its 40 contained, but they have stop ed it from spreading. Yeah, it came up this slope, hit the house at the top, jumped the street, and kept on going, but crews did get a stop on it in the open place. That one house, the swab total loss. We shot this video just moments ago. Fire hoses are bullpens thousands of thans through the charred sell of a three bedroom home in the path of the fire. A home worth about 1. 5 until is in ruins now, and we spoke to the man who reported the fire, and helped these homeowners out. Reporter crews were aware they could lose fires in this neighborhood. They lost one when the fire started. Small flames along slater way. He got out of his car. The flames started moving up hill toward the house, so thin i decided to go up to the house to make sure that the people that lived in it were able to evacuate. He helped a couple and their two dogs to their car, and they drove away at the time not realizing their house would be gutted on their return. We thought we were going to save it. A couple of us went and got the fire garden hoses, and were trying to wet down the back side of their house. Reporter fire had already taken hold of the trees and the roof. I was shocked to find that we had lost the house. Ive tried hard to save it. See where that pink stripe is at the top . Reporter cal fire cut lines to move the fire into open space and away from structures. And its not uncommon for us to see this kinds of condition in the bear in the afternoon where its been warm, where we start to get a little bit of a breeze. Thats the importance of making sure you have Defensible Space and a plan. Dont want to leave until we have to, but if we have to, we will. Residents stuck around to watch the firefight, aware their in addition had already suffered such a terrible loss. The fire happened really quickly. Yeah. We saw two truck goss by, and the flames were probably 20, 30 feet high. It suppress like crazy. This fire is under investigation, with attention focused on the road side where the first flames were spotted. Evacuation orders for almost 20 house holds have been lifted within the past hour, but in truth, probably about half of those people actually left. Many, of course, decide to stay and take their chances. Deb, there were some earlier reports that maybe two houses had burned . What do you were about that . Reporter yeah, we did hear that, and it did look like two. From the air, and also to the First Arriving crews. One of the homes across the street was so engulfed in smoke that the crew thought it was on fire. Turns out it was the vegetation around the house burning and making the house invisible. So that homeowner got lucky, and the one across the street, not so much. Thats the way it goes with fire sometimes. To our north, meantime, fire crews in butte county are getting a handle on the wall fire. Cal fire says its few 55 contained. Thats up from 35 this morning. About a hundred structures have burned since last friday. 41 of them were home. San Francisco Police are asking people avoid dolores park following a disturbance this evening. They are calling it a mob incident. They said hundreds of people had gathered to watch a group of skateboarders arrived down the hill, when the event somehow turned violent. One officer is in the hospital tonight after being attacked by a skateboarder. Vandals also damaged two patrol cars. There is no word of any arrests. The ktvu cameraman left the park in the past hour, and he said dozens of people were still gathered, but police were backing off and not confronting anyone. New at 11 00, operating in operations in San Francisco april were back to normal after an incident caused the clothe shore of a runway. A coast guard flight. One of the planes propellers made contact with the returnway. The crew aborted the flight, and the airport was shut down for about 25 minutes. No injuries were reported. Crews are work torque determine what allow that propeller to come if contact with the ground. President trump had no public appearances today, as his e oldest son reveal nod information about a meeting with a russian lawyer. Donald trump jr. Said nothing came of that meet emergency june of last year, but as lauren tells us, it is stirring up plenty of turbulence in washington tonight. Reporter this is a copy of the emails the president s son tweeted out this morning. He said but now critics say these documents are evidence of collusion. For me, this was opposition research, but, really, it went nowhere, and it was apparently that wasnt what the meeting was actually about. Reporter donald trump jr. In his First Television interview since releasing four pages of mails on his meetings last surge with a russian lawyer. In resttrospect, i probably would have done thinks a little differently. Again, this is before the russia mania, before they were building it up in the press. Reporter it seemed to reveal that don jr. Was told more than a year ago, the russian government supported his fathers president ial election and could provide dirt on democratic president ial candidate hillary clinton. The white house offering just a few words from the president on his son. I have a quick statement that ill read from the president. My son is a highquality person, and i applaud his transparency. Reporter yet the russian lawyer who methodist with don jr. Insisting she never had damaging information. You wake up one morning and find you are the focus of all of the high ranking media. Reporter the controversy becoming yet another dix traction, as Senate Leaders announce their august recess will be shortened to focus on an agenda that has been stalled. Rob earth muller, the man appointed to investigate whether the president clued with the russian government west, has only been on the job two months, but some say today he was handed a smoking gun. Today special agents with the atf got their first access to the burn evidence out ruins of the alta waverly apartment collection in oakland. Investigators are trying to determine if the four alarm fire at the building under construction was arson. The Housing Development was the fourth to go fun flames in just the past year in oakland and emeryville. There is Surveillance Video from the scene of one of the emeryville fires that shows a suspect dressed all in black. The atf is offering a 100,000 reward for tips leading to ant arrest. The east bay mudd board of directors approved a rate hike today. Customers can expect to pay 9 more on their watt bills starts this month, and another 9 starting next july. The money will be used to replace miles of aging part pipes. East bay mudd said revenue fell 30 short last year. Stores started by burglars, and theyre using some unusual tools. The series of burglars that have merchants on alert. And santa cruzs famous beach is off limits to swimmers. Well tell you about an encounter with a shark this morning that sparked the order. What should i watch . Show me sports. Its so fluffy look at that fluffy unicorn hes so fluffy im gonna die your voice is awesome. The x1 voice remote. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Beaches in santa rosa are off limits tonight after a man in a kayak santa cruz off limited tonight after a man in a kayak had an encounterer with a shark. The kayaker said he was knocked into the water by a great white shark about 11 00 this morning at steamers lane. He radioed for help and was picked up by a Harbor Patrol boat. Officials say he is okay. A couple from michigan wanted to rent some surfboards, but were denied because of the shark incident. So this morning, awful they really said was that there were some shark sightings. We didnt hear anything about an attack or anything, so thats news to us. Yeah. But, yeah, we didnt see any sign or anything. The beaches are scheduled to be closed all week, and they will reopen saturday morning. San Francisco Police are searching for a cereal burglar targeting stores in the citys castro neighborhood. Ktvus terra shows us new Surveillance Video showing the burglar in action. He came in through here. Reporter you could call it a smashandgrab with a twist said the owner of Cliffs Variety store. The crook was extraordinarily neat, no broken glass. Proceeded to spend an hour blow torching the side panel next to the front consider out. Reporter this Surveillance Video shows the suspect torching the frame, and lifting the glass panel out and walking into the store. Within six minutes, he steals 700 worth of merchandise. Today, ashton shows an investigator what was taken, including highend spray paints that graffiti artists are known to buy. Came over here, trying to gift this open. Reporter it happened at 3 00 in the morning on july 2nd. I definitely felt violated. That same morning san Francisco Police believe the thief struck a verizon store, and puff and tough, a nearby smoke shop. Just came in like he was shopping. Reporter he used the same methods to break in. They just slightly wedge it out, and help themselves. Reporter Police Believe the same manner may also be responsible for two breakins that happened this spring a pair of hardware norths in north beach. Its no longer safe around here. Reporter the police have zero evidence in on a suspect. Meanwhile, merchants around here say car and business brokens have increased, and they are hoping that the police can put more plains clothed officers out on the street during the overnight hours. Sfpd said the implementation of that program is already underway. The city of oakland is hoping that teenagers will get more from their surge jobs than just a paycheck. The mayor and the Oakland Youth Commission announce had to00 jobs are now available in a program called classroom to careers. The jobs are in various fields including research, construction, and working for nonprofits. They bring the total number of youth jobs this summer up to the mayors job of 2,000 jobs. I hear over and over again that our young people want jobs, and not just a paycheck. They want opportunities to explore what the world of work has to offer for them. The jobs are available to oakland residents between the ages of 16 and 24. Applicants can apply in person, or log on to the citys website. State agriculture officials have discovered an insect capable of spreading a disease that can be deadly to sit plus trees. They say they found a bug last month in roseville outside of sacramento. Its the third time the insect has been spotted in the region since last fall. This has prompted a quarantine in the region. Its brought up by the local resident that has one or two lemon trees, mandarin or orange trees in their backyard that dont under stand about the bug, they transport it by accident, and then from there, it goes to the commercial orchards. Experts warn the tiny insect can carry a disease known as citrus glean, which has devastated parts of floridas Citrus Industry in recent years. We have the fog reforming itself offshore right now. That fog will be there tomorrow morning. Not a lot, but enough that it will cool the coastal sections and keep us, well, kind of in a pattern just like we saw yesterday, or, pardon me, today at this point, almost yesterday. Its go ting to be about the same its going to be about the same temperatures. Right now, its pretty mild, 61 in fairfield. 64 in concord. Running a little cooler than last night. We did cool off these last couple of days, and now once we get past tomorrow, were going start to go back up in the temperatures, and that means temperatures back into the triple digits possibly. Winds are kind of light and variable right now, but the fog is reforming at the coast, and will be in around the bay tonight, as it was this morning. The fog well, the model does show, boom, theres the fog, but doesnt have a big push inland, just sits in the bay and then pulls baby out. The purples are gone. Its 90s in the hot spot. There it is. For us, 80s, and very, very low 90s in the edges of our valleys. Most of us tomorrow will be upper 70s, and and along the coast in the 60s. So just maybe a click warmer in some of those inland spots than today. 88 in pittsburgh. 88 in concord. Air quality is pretty good right now. Fire. Comer, would like to say its not high, but its summer, its high. Today was the atmospherics today were not incredibly conducive to fire production, and we had a lot of spot fires today, so just kind of shows you what were up against here in california in the southern months. Here is the fiveday forecast. There you go. Wednesday, thursday, and then it really starts to warm up friday and saturday. And kenny, you know what a quick is . No. A quick . A click. I said up a click, down a click. Ask that a kilometer . Yes, military, because youre a military guy. Military use, they would say a click. When youre dealing with miles, or a kilometer, you would say a click. Thats a thousand meters. Thats old, from the 50s, i think. And a click is a group of kids, too. Thats a different kind of click. A large bag of marijuana was discovered. The town council came across that bag on saturday while cleaning ape long side the freeway, the 210 freeway. It had a strong smell, so the Council Member opened it, and found 15 pounds of marin inside. The Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department now has taken thatback into custody. If no one claims the marijuana, it will be destroyed. If the owner does come forward, that person will likely be charged with illegal dumping. Well, its been the year of the home run in the major leagues. Up next, our sports protect direct her tell us how that played into the allstar game. But first, more of that video we show you at 10 from San Franciscos castro. Birds have been dive bombing passers by outside the safe way at church and market there. Take a look at that. We had no trouble finding unsuspecting victims this afternoon, over and over again. Those birds were active. We posted the story at ktvu. Com, where you can read all about it. The 11 00 news conditions in just two minutes. With some free bird. Is that correct here with what he says is the best all star game game hes ever seen. laughing . Not true. The one where reggie hit the light tower at tigers stadium. Back in 1971. Oh, i rib that perfectly. Yeah, ill bet you did. Ill bet you were one. When you have so much good pitching on display like tonight in miami, youre still not is going to get a lot of offense. It didnt happen. Kind of like that guy throwing there, juan marichel, looking pred good louisiana they get going with orlando sepeda, and seven other greats throwing out the first pitch. Hall of famers from latin america. This is miguel with a little pop down the right field line. It falls. Bryce harper cant get it. One run in. American league up 10. Then, you have your social media moment, as yadiir molina taking a selfie with the umpire, who is saying what is this world coming to in and there is molina. His home run ties things up. And then it is none other than robby cano in the 10th inning, getting it done. Solo home run, and then a great catch by justin upton if right field, in the bottom of the inning to keep the National Leaguers from getting carried away and coming back, and your mvp is none other than robby cano, and the National League has lost for the 5th consecutive time. But remember, theyre not doing that thing where it means you get home field advantage. Thats the car that cano gets for winning the mvp. Meanwhile, golden state warriors, can they are in the news enough . Summer league basketball. Take you to vegas, where steve kerr and tom thibodeau, who is the coach of the twolves, during the regular season. These are the two teams that square off. You look at jordan belle bell, kid out of oregon jordan bell, kid out of oregon. And here is Patrick Mccaw with the long threepointers. Didnt seem to impress the coach. Goes to sudden death overtime. C. J. Williams winning it, and the warriors are 03 in the las vegas summer league, but still having a pretty good time down there. We is what one of my producers said is just new millennial stuff. Doesnt necessarily mean anything, but blast the heck. It feels like a friday night, let it roll, and make your own assumptions as to what the meaning behind it is. It was a dream. Murray off the dribble, layup off the glass like i said, not sure what it means, but i think its kind of a dis in the direction of the cle

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