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There may be some pine interspersed in there. But those are mostly eucalyptus. Reporter and the trees that blanket the area couldnt be more flammable. Thousands of nonnative oilladen eucalyptus trees could act like fire torches if ignited. Its a very dry conditions like we have now and wind. Those things together with just the a cigarette butt could cause this thing to go up like a tinderbox. Reporter sal genito with uc berkeley says the university owns about a thousand acres in the hills. They and others have been waiting for years for fema to release funds to remove the invasive trees. But the money hasnt materialized. Those who lost homes in the 91 firestorm know all too well how fire friendly the eucalyptus are. In the firestorm, the eucalyptus trees were sending their flaming seed pods over the top of my car as i was trying to evacuate the community. I dont want other people to have to go through what i went when i lost my house. And were back here live. Youre looking at how dry a ....
Time he sought treatment. Our veronica de la cruz is following developments. Reporter texas hospital officials admit they blew it and by not treating the man right away more people including some schoolchildren may have been exposed. Doctors at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital admit that when the ebola patient, thomas duncan, first came to the e. R. Last friday, he told medical staff he was visiting from liberia. Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team. And as a result, the full import of that information wasnt factored into the clinical decisionmaking. Reporter duncan was sent home. He returned two days later with worse symptoms. Rick perry says the patient had some contact with five School Aged Students who went to school this week. They are now being monitored at home. This is a disease that is not airborne and i ....
To 1 billion in its pickup debut. Kpix 5s Mike Sugerman on twitters revenue and the lessons it hopes to learn from facebook. Mike . Reporter see these people back here, kenny . They are going to be millionaires at least some of them. The people that work at twitter quite possibly. They want to raise 1 billion when they go public. This is a company that is still losing money but thats the calculus that is tech company these days. I have no doubt actually that the twitter ipo is going to be very successful. Reporter twitter announced today its going public with a tweet. Hour s1 will be filed publicly momentarily. This tweet does not constitute any offer of any securities for sale. Reporter still have 46 characters left on its 140 limit. But apparently didnt need them. This is the most highly anticipated stock debut since facebook which didnt go so well. It didnt. And there may be something as we comb through the filing papers lurking ....
Across a major thoroughfare in San Francisco. This is at masonic and fell street. On its side, the tree is about 50 feet long and 20 feet tall. And its still blocking a couple of lanes on masonic. This morning a fire is still burning at a recycling plant in stockton. More on that coming up. But first the weather. The problem is the fire danger. Offshore winds and low humidity and fire danger is elevated. You can smell smoke. The temperatures are staying very, very mild. In fact, not only the winds up above but down below blowing to 17 Miles Per Hour now in san jose. 15 at sfo. 18 in san ramon. 21 in vallejo. And 23 Miles Per Hour in fairfield. Gusts Even Stronger over the mountaintops with that offshore flow. So red flag warnings in effect over the bay area mountainto ....
Around the bay area. Cate caugiran following some small fires in the east bay. Anne makovec is up in the north bay. But we are going to kick it off with Lawrence Karnow and this windy weather. Lawrence. Just walking out the door you can feel the winds and smell the smoke. The temperatures are very mild. We have those offshore winds kicking in. In fact our mount vaca cam you can see those winds whipping around. This is about 3,000 feet. So blustery winds across the tops of the mountains. Youre looking at winds gusting to 54 Miles Per Hour right now in the Oakland Hills, 36 in fairfield, 30 in napa and 26 Miles Per Hour in livermore. Red flag warnings are up above 1,000 feet across the bay area. We are seeing some very dry northeasterly winds with strong gusty winds a ....