breaking nous at 6:00, fire chase chasing a dozen people out of their homes overnight in san francisco. we are live with what first responders are vealing about their firefight. happening now, a fierce southern california wildfire flares up again overnight. where evacuation stand this morning. happening today, san francisco mayor ed lee will hold his state of the city address. the proposals and the changes he is expecting to make. morning, 6 a.m. on this friday i thanks for joining us, i'm eric thomas. >> i'm kristen sze. not a good morning on the roadways, what a me, 680 as a result of the gravel truck spill. >> here is leyla with more. >> not only 680 but westbound 580, we have got sky 7 hd flying overhead, live pictures right now, those taillights are pushing along with the westbound direction. that's where we have an earlier gravel truck that was losing its

load. so debris kept spilling out of this truck and it was enough to cause damage to vehicles, also some spinouts, so accidents took place because of this. right now, it is going to take some time to get a caltrans sweeper train coming in from fremont the north bound direction along 680 to get to this area in order to clean this mess up, but for miles, you can just see all that tremendous backup. now, you're also going to be seeing plenty of trucks and vehicles pulled over to the side of the roadway because all that gravel is getting kicked up into other vehicles. more updates coming up and how long that commute will take you in a bit. first, hear from mike and see what is happening in our weather department. >> thank you very much, leyla. good luck, everybody, with the commute. talk about weather, as a result with the day planner, next 12 hours for the bay irk starting off calmer no fire threat, 44. be 20 warmer by into. hang out in the upper 60s, low 70s through 4:00, very delig delightful evening, temperatures mid-50s, don't need a heavy coat. inland, frozen spots the north

bay and east bay valleys, 61 at noon. record high temperatures near 70 during the afternoon. cooler for you this evening, 51. speaking of cooler, check out the coast, 20 cooler, a lot of mid to upper 40s, still in the upper 60s, low 70s after nap hours, winds will be blowing out into the water. mild this evening, enjoy mid-50s. here's kristen and eric with the top news stories. >> thank you. breaking news overnight in san francisco, firefighters are popping up after battling a fire in the bay view. one home has burned and there are injuries. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield is live at the scene. amy? >> reporter: yeah, three people were taken to the hospital, crisp, at one point, neighbors and firefighters thought they were trapped inside, didn't know if they were gonna be able to get out okay. the fire started on apollo at williams here in san francisco's bay view district about 3:30 this morning. it is a two-unit home, a family in one unit that got out okay. firefighters were told there were three people trapped inside

the home that was on fire and the neighbors say they didn't see any of the people inside. they were also nervous. they wouldn't be able to get out. >> they were living in the house that got burned down. didn't see the two guys, we were concerned they were trapped in there all had to go in there i told them not to luckily they sneaked out the back window, everybody is safe. >> reporter: here is a close up shot of the damage, firefighters just walked us up to the home so we could see that fire do did destroy it. the home that had the three adults in it, the three people did get out safely through the windows, they were take tonight hospital to treat their scrapes they suffered during the escape and smoke inhalation. the home that had the big family inside of it, that home is okay, doesn't have any gas or electricity, they are going to have to stay somewhere else for now. firefighters have no idea what caused this fire that will be part of their investigation. live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc7 news.

>> thanks. 6:03 now. developing news from southern california, the firefight tops to protect homes from l.a. from a 1700-acre wildfire while the men accused of sparking it could be in even deeper trouble this morning. abc7 news reporter katie mar zblool low is live in the newsroom. katie? >> reporter: right now august live look at the flames for you, flare ups in the azblooz za area overnight. officials say 870 homes remain evacuated there meantime a judge has upped the bail of the three men arrested for sparking the fire. listen to this, from $20,000 each to $500,000 each. half a million dollars. glendora police say the higher bail is because of the seriousness of the crime, the extensive property damage and the high cost of fighting the fire. the men, all in their early 20s, will make their first court appearance on tuesday. they told authorities their camp fire got out of control, that was just before 6:00 yesterday morning. since then, the fire has burned more than 1700 acres and destroyed five homes, thousands of homes had to be initially

evacuated. people who were not forced to leave had to just wait and worry. >> i have my car, my sister's car, packed and ready to go, waiting to make the final decision. so close to home, really hits home. >> more than 550 firefighters, three helicopters and two super scoop verse been battling this fire. authorities say one firefighter and one other person did suffer minor burn injuries much the fire this morning 30% contained and firefighters say it's no longer growing. so good news there. live in the newsroom, katie mar zplul low, abc7 news. >> thank you. this afternoon, the san jose man believed to be behind almost a dozen arson fires is scheduled to be in court. police say 48-year-old patrick brennan was arrested wednesday night aft detectives watched him for three days a young sergeant is credited with cracking the case. he says brennan kept topping each search list for convicted arsonists in the area and brennan was already in the santa clara county arson's database

for setting 16 fires back in 1999. abc7 news reporter matt keller will have more on that sergeant live from san jose in our next half hour. just about 6:06 now. happening today, governor jerry brown is expected to make a major announcement this morning and sources say he will declare a statewide drought emergency that would allow him to seek federal help as the state faces its third dry winter in a row. local water managers, central california growers, have been urging the governor to make the call. a drought emergency would also allow him to call for conservation measures and have flexibility in deciding the state's water priorities. san francisco mayor ed lee is set to deliver his state of the city address at 10:00 this morning. mayor lee is expected to focus on housing and maps to make his speech at the hunter's point naval shipyard. that's where 272 housing units are currently under construction. the san francisco examiner reports the mayor is promising to add 30,000 more housing units to the market within the next half-dozen years with at least

half of them accessible to residents making middle income or lower. 49er fans are counting down to sunday's nfc championship game between the niners and seahawks. this afternoon, the 49ers will wrap up their final practice in santa clara before heading to seattle. nine hearse the hottest team in football, having won the last eight games, the last three on the road but face the seahawks on their home field where they have won 15-17 games. the 49ers are changing up their normal schedule for west coast road games by traveling a day earlier than usual. the niners are scheduled to leave for seattle at 4:45 this afternoon. abc7 sports anchor, mike shumann, will be with the 49ers in seattle for complete postvictory coverage, i will say postgame, you know will be a victory, another edition of vernon's views sunday night with tight end, vernon davis. shue is a former 49er. follow him on twitter at mike shuman for inside look at the game. stay with us here on the abc 7 morning news. coming up at about 6:22, we are gonna go live to seattle to talk

to our morning news counterparts the our abc sister station, c county. omo to see what the fan frenzy is like ahead of sunday's game. >> i'm practicing my bragging now, my trash talking. >> are you? >> we're ready. >> remember, keep your head up when you deliver the hit. 6:08 now. check in with leyla, traffic problems in the livermore area. >> a little bit of trash talking myself to do. here is a look at your headlights coming in the westbound direction. that would be from sky 7 hd, live picture now through livermore. west bound side of 580, pretty slowed down in this area due to a gravel truck carrying two trailers' worth of gravel. it was being dumped along the roadway as it was traveling west bound on 580 down to 680, also south on 680 through the sunol grade. plenty of cars now have pulled over, trucks have pulled over to the side so it cannot kick up the debris and hit more vehicles. we have already had reports of accidents because of this, but as you can see, itself veerly

backed up right now, it should be friday light, complete opposite. go to our travel time right now so i can just show you what it's going to take to head from tracy into duplin. right now, 33 minutes along 580. 101, nation and clear there need to head out, be cabeful, give yourself extra time. more in a little bit. now, let's talk to make and see how warm it's gonna be. >> thank you very much, leyla. information there, sure appreciate it. let's talk about visibility, how it is so dry outside, we don't have fog we don't have clouds, don't have any radar returns. so good news if you're traveling around this morning, at least there's none of that to be concerned with, nor sfo no flight arrival delays because of the lack of moisture. all right, heading to b.a.r.t., duplin, cop cord, 33 now, you will be standing out, 34 degrees, temperatures, walnut creek, 40, fremont, 44, hayward, 51 san leann direct examination 58, the warm spot, oakland, 38, san francisco, 526789 temperatures running from 11 to 20 cooler in oakland and half

moon bay, two degrees cooler in san francisco. moving forward, temperatures will pull back a little bit, low 70s tomorrow, mid-60s to 70s sunday and monday. >> thank you. 6:10. cupertino's apple makes a big launch for an existing product, older product. we will explain. coming up first, new details on the nsa's surveillance program. the admission the agency is now making about what it's collecting from millions of people around the world. and new this morning, the data breach that affected niemann marcus is now much wider than we first thought. how far back hackers tapped into the departme

ewelcome to covered california. now, you can no longer be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. enroll today at coveredca.com. welcome back at 6:13. new details on how widespread the nsa government surveillance program is. this comes as the president is expected to announce a major overhaul. a british newspaper reports the nsa collected and stored almost 200 million text messages a day. that guard kpran report is based on leaks provided by ex-nsa contractor, edward snowden.

the nsa was able to extract people's travel plans, contacts, financial plans and more. the nsa responded saying the messages were lawfully collected. this morning at 8 a.m., the lieutenant discuss the nsa program and strip the agency's ability to store phone data from millions of americans. new this morning, we are now learning the high-end neiman marcus chain was targeted by hackers long before the holidays and it looks like the data breach goes back to last july, at least. today's "new york times" reports neiman marcus told credit card companies earlier this week that the time stamp on the first data breach was mid-july. neiman has not revealed how widespread the attack was but says it has been fully contained. similarly, the "wall street journal" is reporting the malicious software used by hackers in the target data breach was on the black market last spring and part of that computer code was written in russian. apple chairman tim cook is in china today where the i phone 5 s and iphone 5 c went on sale today. he helped announce the phones at

a china mobile store in beijing. the cupertino company has been in negotiate information importants with the state-owned cell phone carrier. china has a potential customer base of 700 million. the 5 s sells for the equivalent of $874 u.s., the 5 c, $742. don't forget, the average chinese income is a lot lower than the average income here. so that's big chunk of change for a phone. >> a lot of money. 6:15 now, a check on the traffic situation in livermore. a nightmare. here is leyla. >> a sweeper truck just gotten on scene, not exactly clear where exactly they are located, but they do need to start at 580 and travel down 680, an ongoing problem all morning, just tuning in now, 580 was affected by a truck that was carrying gravel, headed westbound along 580 through livermore, into pleasanton, dumb lip and southbound along 680 up to highway 84, the sunol grade.

chp still looking for them they don't know where they are, they have been pulling over every single gravel truck they see, just in case they might be the culprit. but it appears that many cars have been dammed. we have also seen some accidents because of this and when you head out, you just want to be very careful. matt? excuse me, mike. >> thank you vercry much, liv. matt is a nice guy. i'm jealous. he is taller. looking at the game forecast for the nfc championship. have you heard about it? do you know it? yeah, trending drier. mid to upper 40s. talk about what's going on back here at home and farther to the south, traveling down near monterey, big sur and the pinnacle national for rest, high fire danger until about noon today, wait it looks from sutro tower, clean air over top of us, nailing these record highs without having to would beery about spare the air days, been a change since december's record warmth. we will have more today, almost as warm moving forward through

the accuweather seven-day forecast and rain unlikely the rest of the month. this is going to go down probably as our driest january ever in many areas. record high, 72, san jose, 76, gilroy, moving up the peninsula, mountain view, 73, look at half moon bay, 74 today. headed down ocean beach, sunset district, 70, 71, downtown, record high, 73 for today. san rafael, record high 70, you would have to get to 72 in napa, be close, 71, the warm spot, bodega bay, 73. record high again in oakland today, 71. we head into the east bay valleys, 71, livermore, record highs, brent wood and sausalito, only areas like yesterday not making it into the 70s. 30s in our valleys, everywhere else you wake up tomorrow morning, here is your accuweather seven-day forecast, even though it is not as warm, temperatures well above average, nearing 70 eye way from the coast tuesday, wednesday, thursday, looking at some 60s.

now, if you're headed up the sierra, tell us what kind of conditions we are going to have for skiing, leyla? >> time for your toyota tahoe report, everyone. looks like mother nature might not be dump anything snow out there, but they certainly are making it via machine. if you're headed up to squaw valley i 18 to 21-inch base up there, base of 18 to 21 inches at alpine meadows, 31 to 39 inches in heaven tloichlt get up to squaw valley, alpine meadows and heavenly, take you 3 hours and 30 minutes other. resorts, 30 to 34-inch base, sugar bowl, 16 to 30, home wood, 15 to 20 inches now and these travel times, 2 hours 15 minutes, sugar bowl, i-80 eastbound, home wood, take you three and a half hours, no chains are required because it is not snowing. kristen, eric? >> leyla, thank you. 6:18.

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welcome back. 6:22. breaking news out of redwood city this is a large structure fire burning at bay road at douglas eve. this is an apartment apparently, according to the chp, soon apartment fire. >> yikes. >> yep. and this is just south of woodside road, for those of you familiar with that area near 101, you can see it is really going. we will keep our eye on this in redwood city. but right now, onto matters of football. as we know, the niners are take on the seahawks sunday for the nfc title, the rivalry between these two team is he is one of the biggest in the nfl >> this morning, we are going to go live to seattle to talk to our morning news counter part there is about the frenzy leading up to the big game, expecting a little bit of satellite delay, so you know. >> brad and kelly from komo, our sister station in seattle. good morning, guys. it's going to be a great game,

great matchup. >> good morning, hey. happy blue friday to you guys. you sure you're ready back at it? >> red right back at you. >> give me a 4. 4. we got your 4. give me a 9. >> i want to tell you -- >> hawks, hawks. >> we are number one. >> oh. super excited. >> number one, i don't know about that. >> hey, tell me -- >> see some trash talk coming from you guys, on the facebook page, a little competition going, kristen, i think you popsed a photo of a cooked chicken? >> no, it's a roasted seahawk. yeah. >> little roasted seahawk. >> a tail. >> i think you may have a burnt loaf of sourdough headed your way. you may want to check that page coming up in a little bit. i'm just saying. >> what? >> here's your chance, guys, tell us how the 12th man's gonna make a difference and all that good stuff. then i will tell you why we're gonna win. >> okay. the first shot? >> listen no doubt about the

12th man, going gonna be out in force, i think we are getting in colin kaepernick's head at this point here, they will have to deal with all that sound and all the fans. >> i don't think the head flown do much good. that's gonna give us the edge, to be sure. >> all right, guys. >> i think our reporter did a piece about how you might be amplifying the soundsome there a little cheating going on there? i don't know. >> no. no. >> we are the biggest fans here. no one's bigger than us. >> you look beautiful. >> you guys are good fans. no document >> you look good in the helmet. >> i'm holding up a piece of paper right now, it is from "wall street journal" and cbs market watch and it says, if you're a stockholder, you should be bullish and cheer for the 49ers because in the five years they won the super bowl, four of them were the best years for stocks since the super bowl began in 1967. >> yeah. so if you want to get rich, root for the 49ers. >> all right. that was 19 years ago.

so, the last time you guys won. >> the number one song back the last time you guys won the super bowl was "creep" by tlc. >> number one song back when you guys won the super bowl? >> oh, they haven't. that's right. >> hey, could be coming. it could be coming. i think it could be headed our way. >> all right, guys, thanks so much. >> all right, bye, guys. >> friendly rivalry. go, hawks. >> go niners. right now, got to take you back to our breaking news story we are following for you, keeping an eye on this apartment fire burning, really flooring redwood city, flames shooting through the roof at douglas and bay. not too far away from 101, just south of woodside road. >> you can see the flames burst through the roof and they are really going there. firefighters putting a little bit of water on the fire and they have probably taken on a defensive stance at this point, trying to keep the fire from

spreading. this building where the fire engulfed everything is gutted on the inside, you can just tell from the way it looks there. and so, there's no saving that building, the point now is to keep it from spreading to other structures. >> this is really tough, especially if you remember, wasn't that long ago, another huge fire, apartment fire in redwood city, a half mile away from this particular location. and that displaced so many people, redwood city firefighters have been holding a lot of fund-raisers to help those folks out and now, they are look ac the another situation where this apartment building in redwood city clearly, clearly is again golden gate to be a lost cause. >> all right. it is 6:26. we will have more on this and the other news of the morning when

6:29, here is the breaking news we are talking about. you're looking at live from sky 7 hd, this fire, multialarm fire in redwood city, bay road, douglas avenue, initially, we heard this might be apartment building, now, we are hearing could be a machine shop or tool shop. the point here, as you look at

this, the fire has burst through the roof, it has gutted the inside of this building. and saving it is probably not an option at this point. it looks as though the firefighters are in a defensive mode and the point is to try to keep this fire from spreading to other buildings. >> yeah. and we are just getting word too now that this fire spread to three alarm, a three-alarm fire at a machine shop. definitely stay on top of the story four, this close to 101, could be a traffic impact, people see the smoke. >> absolutely. the left side of your screen there you see firefighters are putting water on an unburned section of the building, as we said, an effort to keep it cool and hopefully keep the fire sprom spreading too quickly into another segment. as you look in the main building here it looks like the fire may be dying down a bit you can not because of heroic measures but because it is running out of fool there. thick, black smoke is being spewed into the air. >> it will be the growinger

specialty tool machine shop this is industrial, as you said you can not an apartment complex fire as earlier reports indicated. it is really roaring in redwood city, whenever you have a fire like this with smoke, rising as such, want to wonder about the wind situation and that's why we are going to bring you meteorologist mike nicco. >> what is going on with the wind there is? >> calm right now. the heat of the fire will carry the smoke straight up until it reaches a temperature that's the same as the atmosphere, then it will start to flame out. winds are coming out of the north, live south of redwood city, you may smell some of that smoke over in the next couple of hours or so. you can see right here, we are calm all the way from sfo down to san jose. at least at the surface, everybody else pretty much light and variable, indicative of high pressure. temperature about 38 now in redwood city. here is your day planner, not quite as mild this morning, the coast, up to 20 degrees cooler,

mid-40s there in the bay, upper 30s to mid-40s inland, frosty temperatures developing there, low to middle 60s, tons of son, with he head through another delightful lunch hour. records will fall again this afternoon, top out in the low 70s, by 4:00, back in the mid to upper 60s, enjoy the evening, you will need a light colt, low to middle 50s. that's it from here. take a look at traffic with leyla. >> official, it is now a sigalert in dumb lip, the interchange, east and westbound 580 to 680 completely shut down now so caltrans can come out and clean up this debris, it was deb spree spilled all over the roadway from a gravel truck chp has been unable to locate with the lanes shut down, detours will be in place. already though, we have been seeing heavy cop jests building up. because of the debris that was spilled onto the roads, it was getting kicked up and back into other vehicles. wind is shields were cracked, damage to hoods and so forth, also, some accidents reported because of this, so, a real mess

as you tray to make that commute out of livermore, out of the altamonte pass to the duplin interchange. we know that the trucks continued south bound along 680, more debris there heading out onto the roads, be very, very careful. eric, kristen? >> thank you. breaking overnight knight had hayward, six people are displaced by a fire at answer parent building on cypress avenue. officials think someone living in a carport storage unit may have started the fire that quickly raced to the building, damaging two units, no one was injured acre mazingly no cars burned in the fire. we are learning more about the suspected serial arsonist finally call the in san jose after a dozen fires. abc 7 news reporter matt kelser live in san jose with that and more information on how authorities tracked him down, specifically the input from one police sergeant. matt? >> reporter: well, another peaceful night for people living you in the downtown area here in san jose. the arson suspect, patrick brennan, is staying here at the santa clara county jail, the

main jail in the county. he is being held on $1 million bail. investigators give all the credit to cracking this case to long-time san jose police sergeant, jason kid well. kid well says he entered specifics about the man into ten database and found patrick brennan fit the description. he says this case was personal, spent hours of his own time lacking for the serial arsonist who set at least 12 fires, including ones at a massive warehouse architecture much and several homes. >> i think definitely a relief. i know when i got up this morning, aid text message from a friend who lives downtown and says, you know, that i was scared and, you know, i was really worried about this. so you know, what a relief it is. >> reporter: brennan was in the santa clara county arson database for setting 16 fires back in 1999. detectives started watching him on sunday and arrested him at his mobile home park on wednesday night. the county jail website says that benson scheduled to make his first court appearance here

in santa clara county at noon today. reporting live in san jose i matt keller, abc7 news. >> matt, thank you. developing news, fire officials say a 1700-acre wildfire burn you can in the foothills northeast of los angeles has flared up and continues to threaten homes in azblooz sa. here is a live look. some of the 3700 people evacuated were allowed to return home in glendora night night, despite the fact it continues to burn. five homes were destroyed, 17 structures damaged. this morning, the fire is 30% contained. it's no longer growing. three campers being held for starting the fire had their bail raised last night from $20,000 to half a million dollars each. 6:35. back to our breaking news in redwood city. you are looking at live pictures from sky 7 hd of this multialarm fire going on what we believe is a machine shop it is located at bay road and douglas avenue. it looks, as firefighters probably feared, spread to an

adjacent wing of the building, where the fire started, the main portion of the building as the fire is dying down, because it burned its way through almost everything in there as you can see, if you look very closely, they are putting fire on this wing of the building, but fire's already showing through the roof there >> yeah business records show that two businesses may be located there, fmw machine shop or groger specialty tool there is a three-alarmer first called in at 5:52 this morning, going for less than 40 minutes, or a little more than that. this is all happening very close to 101 people on the freeway may certainly see the smoke, just south of woodside road and this is a busy area, although an industrial area, thankfully not a apartment complex fire as first thought, because redwood city just had a huge apartment complex fire not too long ago. >> and that fire is really going, spreading to that adjacent wing. firefighters trying to keep it from spreading to nearby

buildings. we are, of course, following this. sky 7 hd will stay on top of it as w

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the latest live look at this fire, three-alarm fire going right now in redwood city. excuse me, gone to four alarms now, despite what you saw there on your screen. that's not azusa, this is redwood city, bay road, douglas avenue, a four-alarm fire in what we believe to be a machine shop or tool shop and it is just blazing away. >> redwood city fire department confirmed the address is 894 douglas avenue and that is the fmw machine shop, business records show. this is burning just near 101, south of woodside road, so you know, people on the freeways may certainly see the smoke and smell the smoke this morning. red old wood city has tweeted that it has gone to four alarms. >> look at the top right of your screen, where the fire began. it is largely gutted there, not much fire going on it has spread to this adjacent wing and now the task for firefighters is to keep it from spreading to adjacent buildings. we are staying on top of this and bring you the very latest information on it. right now, what about the smoke?

>> meteorologist mike sneak toe cohn the roof to talk about t. >> calm conditions, the smoke will go straight up until it reaches the same temperature as the environment. it will start pulling out, the horizontal plane pushing down to the south more than any were you key the sky is on fire from mount tamalpais, oranges and the reds showing up, 13 to 14 above average, look at those potential record highs, livermore, 71, same thing, oakland, redwood city, san jose, 72, ever seen a high fire danger in the sierra in the winter no supposed to be covered by snow, high fire danger in so cal, red flag warnings you saw, upper 70s, mid-80s down south, low to middle 70s, monterey, central valleys, near record nice tahoe all seven days of the forecast, mid to upper 50s, no new snow. here's leyla. >> we have some more updates regarding your commute coming through livermore, pleasanton, duplin. this sigalert has canceled. it was the ramps east and west

bound 580 to southbound 680 connecter. those are now reopened, however, there is what chp is calling a rollinging alert. caltrans is coming out and sweeping up the gravel spilled onto the roadway southbound 680, at least to about isabel avenue. they are going to shut down at least one lane at a time to clean things up this is causing major backups on your commute a quick look out to the peninsula, redwood city where that fire is burning, highway 101, woodside, doesn't apaeb to be affected that could change. on monday, hundreds of people will commemorate the martin luther king jr. holiday by take the freedom train from san hose sty san francisco but the san francisco chronicle reports organizers have sold only 300 tickets so far for the 30th annual ride. they say unless the train is packed, there won't be another ride next year. there's been a sharp decrease in recent years sip the san jose chapter of the naacp withdrew its support in protest of the train's route, taking donations

from san jose police. they alleged misconduct toward minorities by san jose police. and we are following breaking news this morning from redwood city. sky 7 hd showing you this four-alarm fire blazing away at douglas avenue and bay road, what's believed to be a machine shop. we are following this in the fight against it and bring you more, coming up.

6:46 now. this is our breaking news city from redwood city, a massive fire going on at this machine shop on douglas avenue and bay road. if you see -- wonder how firefighters earn their money, you are look being right at it. this firefighter is on a ladder truck above the fire. of course, the perspective makes it look like he is closer to it than it is, but for most of us laymen, he is pretty darn close any watch continue to spray water on this fire to keep it sprom spreading to other buildings but it has largely gutted this machine shop, the fmw machine shop at doug laws and show you where this is in redwood city on the map. you can see is blazing away right there, douglas avenue and bay road it is within that site distance of 101. >> south of woodside road, you can see it is completely out of control, the fire, the flames just blazing away with that

thick snow rising, surely, people driving past on the freeway this morning would be able to see that and again, we are finding out that this is a machine shop called fmw. they do some welding there. this is in a very busy part of redwood city, industrial but also residences in that vicinity. so, this is gonna create a lot of havoc for folks just trying to get around that area this morning as well. they fight this amazing fire. >> they do welding there, they may have acetylene tanks in there, that may be one were firefighters want to keep their distance a little bit in the blaze, they could easily explode. you see them pouring water on this fire from this firefighter on a ladder truck here, others on the other side of the structure, trying to keep the fire contained to this area, putting it out doesn't seem at this point to be much of an option, letting it burp itself out is probably closer to what's going on, thick plumes of smoke

in the air, you can see there looks more white than black because it was thick and black a few minutes ago. all right, we will continue to monitor that and bring you back to it. in the meantime, talk about developing news from southern california, where firefighters there also continue to battle to protect homes from a 1700-acre wildfire. >> comes as the men accused of sparking the blaze could be in even deeper trouble. katie marzullo live with details. >> reporter: there have been flare ups in ate zbluz za area overnight, into the news ram the last few minutes, 870 homes remain evacuated but glendora residents have been allowed to return home. as you said, the fires burped more than 1700 acres, destroyed five homes, 30% contained this morning, new information a judge has upped the bail of the three men arrested for spark, the fire, listen to this from $20,000 each to $500 each. glendora police say that's because of the seriousness of

the crime, the expensive property damage and the high cost of fighting the fire so far. the men, all in their early 20s make their first court appearance on tuesday. they told authorities their camp fire got out of control, that was just before 6:00 yesterday morning, when 24 hours ago. at this time, it's unclear if the men will face fed or state charges. live in the newsroom, katie marzullo, abc7 news. >> thank you very much. 6:49. that rage redwood city fire, we want to talk about the smoke and other conditions that may be affecting things. mike? >> temperatures about 35 degrees, 38 degrees around there, in the mid to upper 30s, winds are calm right now, the smoke is going to stay pretty much where it is. may drift a little bit as it gets higher you were in the atmosphere, mid to upper 40s what we are going to have for the nfc championship game up in seattle. red flag warning, highest fire danger down to the south, big sur, pinnacle national forest, where we will keep it until noon. back here at home, freezing cold, san ramon, danville, close at concord, bless san top, 33,

we have got upper 30s around livermore, also pleasant hill, lafayette, brides wood, 42 antioch, temperatures not quite as widespread as they were yesterday, santa rosa, 29, half moon bay, 29, 68 degrees yesterday. take it to oakland, 38, san francisco, 52678 you can see the orange sky developing from suit toe tower, look back toward mount diablo, warm with record high temperatures, warm with the seven-day forecast, rain not looking likely through the end of the month. record high, san jose, 72, gilroy, 76, record high 73, mountain view, redwood, 72, 73, the record high, downtown san francisco, we will be around 71. record high, 70, san rafael, 72, santa rosa, record high, 72, napa today, close at 71. look at the warm spot, bow degas bay, 73, low 70s, east bayshore, record high, 71, oakland that same temperature, record high in livermore, everybody else right around 70 to 72, except for

brent wood at 68. accuweather seven-day forecast, temperatures a couple degrees cooler tomorrow, upper 60s, low 70s, mid-60s to 70 most of the holiday weekend, low to middle 60s by thursday next week. no rain. >> hi there, mike. redwood city, 101 woodside road, see how traffic is being affected because of the four-alarm fire that is burning. it is not affected at this time. looks quite right, 101, plenty of green out there, stale clear commute, the smoke could cause some problems as spectators flowing as well. south bound 101, third street, right as you head into the bay view district, we have another crash blocking one lane, the east bay we go, rolling sigg alert on 580 and 680 for caltrans to sweep up some gravel spilled onto the roads and caused a real tough commute out there. eric, kristen? >> leyla, thank you very much. 6:51. taking you back to our breaking news, redwood city. >> yeah, this is burning at what we believe is the fmw machine shop there.

a. you can see it is a four-alarmer, huge, completely out of control, blazing, at 894 douglas avenue at bay road. this was first reported just before 6:00 this morning, at this point, they are putting fire on it, but you can see, it looks to be completely burning, the entire roof and people can see it from 101, located not too far away, just south of woodside road. >> this might be unincorps rated redwood city, we are getting information that it could be from the sheriff's department there as you can see, this is a human structure machine shop on fire, a lot of the fuel take answer way already, because the fire was blazing so hot the main part of the building, but we have seep white smoke, more white smoke than black now, so, maybe firefighters making progress here, we have seen from the beginning of this, the priority keep it from spreading to other building

as we get ready to hand things off to "good morning, america," here are seven things need to know. number one, redwood city this huge industrial fire is burning on douglas avenue, believed to be a machine shop there. you can see this, the smoke and the flames from 101 not too far awake the fire has grown to four alarms. we are streaming this live on our website, abc7.com. number two, also breaking overnight, three people injured after jumping from a burning single-story home in san francisco's bay view district. the fire on apollo street and williams avenue in the bay view also displaced ten people. number three, a convicted arsonist suspected in a recent string of fires is scheduled to make his first appearance in santa clara county court this afternoon. 48-year-old patrick brennan was arrested wednesday night after detectives watched him for three days. number four, developing overnight, just over an hour, president obama will call for an end to the nsa's ability to store phone data from millions

of americans. he will ask congress, the justice department and the intelligence community to decide who should hold these records. number five, the 49ers will hold their final practice in santa clara before flying to seattle immediately afterward for sunday's nfc championship game. the nine letters changing up their normal schedule for west coast road trips by traveling a day earlier than usual. number six, check out the winds near the fire, they are calm in the boundary layer, then light and variable as they get above that, 1,000 feet, the smoke could be spreading all over the place down near redwood city. the way it looks from the east bay hills, see all the sunshine, near record highs from upper 60s to mid-70s. enjoy. number seven, bay bridge toll lights turned on later but we have got a sunol sigalert and problems on the peninsula, get to that take you into red wood city, that four-alarm blaze is burning off of 101 at woodside road, closing slowing in the southbound direction, but got this rolling sigalert due to that continued gravel cleanup, southbound along 680, head past

isabel avenue and into fremont. >> thank you. thank you for joining us. abc7 news continues now online, on twitter, facebook and all your mobile devices. >> yeah, who's number one, right? we're number one. >> seahawks are just fowl. >> a good one. stay on top of the 49ers' experience this weekend. meantime, we will stay on top of our breaking news in redwood city the four-alarm fire at a machine shop there on douglas avenue. driving on 101 nearby, you might want to close your car vents to keep that outside air, smoky air out, we will continue to follow firefighters' progress in this area as they fight this massive blaze. >> have a great day have a great weekend, and enjoy the 49er victory -- i mean, the 49ers' contest on sunday against the seahawks.

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