reporter leslie brinkley live at the ghost ship tonight. leslie? >> reporter: dan, can i tell you a vij sill about to get under way here. there have been people coming by all day, just standing here close to the building behind me and the warehouse gazing at it trying to contemplate the enormity of this fire and warehouse and all the people who lost their lives here. atf finally comment on a refrigerator we've heard about all week, that refrigerator possibly causing this fire. they said, no, it did not. there are electrical engineering that texted it out looking at other possible alternate triggers. outlet, power cords, anything that could be a possible source of ignition that would be in that area. >> reporter: you can peer inside the garage door-size the opening and see the skeleton of a flight of stairs filled with a tangle of charred deboro and at the base there's a massive elaborate wood carving almost like a

masthead, damaged propane tanks and fire extinguishers and a cart filled with burned belongings. this father from utah came here to take pictures of where his son died. >> i wanted to come see where he died and where he came to i believe that he thought was going to have a good time. >> goon by every day, and it as i really you have to see people like this. >> they made a massive board expressing anger and sadness who have some to see where their loved ones parish and investigators talked to neighbors to get access to surveillance cameras on a house across the street from the warehouse. atf's forensic mapping team is setting up of the --

the ghost ship. it's likely to take a couple years. >> high school classmates of one of the deceases is shocked. up friend first met him about a year ago. had such sen raise and wufrm attributes and i -- i still can't believe that someone as god as him just passed on. >> friends also believe he owes a talented singer that belongs to a. >> in the wake of the fire oakland is teaming up public safety experts to help peep keep safe. >> >> i'll also tell you how the oakland museum ties in.

popular friday negotiate event featuring mousse and and tonight is different. they will also very much a moment of silence and along with that today there is that video put together by event planners, safety experts and producers here to show that parties, even underground parrots can be made safer. >> this video is intended to provide a few basics steps to make your party safer. >> this -- i woke up on saturday and i have media expiers and thought me shut makes a statement. he says we are all responsible for safety weather throwing. >> all the code compliance in

the world and all the other resources on site can't replace your own individual coexcite. that means getting outimmediately if it doesn't we will unsafe. these are chemical sensors and if one of them goes on the rest them do. one lay here is doing it right and he rucks. >> lights an exwit sign. a man mal amount of flammable material and exit doors that are quickly acceptable. so this is the exit path out of the front. if people had to come here they would reach the. try. a robust twinkler also chooses cheaper options and what they say is -- they will any back a

pell. in oakland rk, eric thomas, ach7 news. >> see the entire video on our website, abc 7 newsment. a large tree toppled on vanness avenue this morning and one witness said it sounded like a big crash. you can understand why when you see how big the tree s.blocked all northbound lanes for had a while. the stormy weather most likely played a well. >> and a live look outside right now, ta-da. we see some jay guys and yerl but more it to come. >> let's get to abc 7 meals and we've really tapered to a fin mist. walnut streak showing you do have a bit of a haze on that camera with a touch of miss. live doppler 7 along with satellite tracking our next storm system approaching the

coast and will sweep through the bay area over the next 24 hours. future weather as we go hour by hour, this evening just a fine miss. the light showers going to pick up in activity as we approach midnight hours and pre-dawn here comes that cold front. a moderate storm and two on the impact scale. let's see if we can find you dry times over the weekend in the accuweather forecast. >> thanks, drew, very much. a water main break that happened in the middle of the night is still causing big problems in san francisco. public works crews are doing what they can at fourth and howard streets and as you can see it's a big mess. the pipe dates back to the 1800s. abc 7 news reporter lyanne melendez is live from the very busy interaction with the story. lyanne? >> reporter: dan, i can tell you, it's a good thing there were no major conventions today at mosconi center. otherwise this could be much worse. the water main break did have an impact on several city streets

around here. crews are moving very quickly to try to get this intersection open again. this was the scene at 3:00 this morning when emergency cruise arrived. water from a broken water main quickly flooded nearby garages and loading docks. >> very little, if any, damage to some of the property and there was some flooding and spillage into a couple other garages. the new mosconi underground station is part of the central station project and it, too, good flooded and construction there is still going o.while there was a reduction in water pressure service to people who live and work there was never interrupted. the water from the 12-inch pipe was rerouted. still this restaurant decided to remain closed. a huge hole in the old pipe dating back to 1895 was discovered. crews worked quickly to replace that section. right above it is a much larger 30-inch distribution line. >> we do have aging infrastructure throughout the city and there's areas where

it's more significant because the city has been here longer. >> pg&e crews were also there to pump water out of free underground vaults. already the expansion project of the mosconi center is affecting traffic. today's event made things a lot worse for drivers. several city blocks were affected. drivers know to stay away from this area during a big event like the dream force conference, but today they were caught off sglard why is this all closed? >> they had a water main break. >> frustrating because i've been off work for a while and i'm stuck in traffic. >> the city has a program to replace the aging pipes. 15 miles every year. >> so they finished breaking up the street and what they are doing is basically gilg up the big hole with essentially dirt, and they will cover it then with large metal plates and, of course, that will all be temporary. if i were to guess maybe they will be finished by 6:00, probably a little later. they have done a very good job.

i'm live in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >> i guess so. usually pretty good. lyanne thank you. a bay area man on the ten most wanted list as a child predator has been captured in alaska after four years on the run. 40-year-old kevin traffic of san francisco. he was first indicted in 2012 for possession and trafficking of child pornography. he was captured on tuesday and was turned over to state enforcement and customs. this man was released in connection with a string of sexual batteries on campus. 19-year-old david cong was taken into custody yesterday on suspicion of committing sexual battery on a female student in the student union on monday. police believe he may be responsible for multiple unreported batteries. no further information on cong was released. restructuring what happened in oakland. coming up.

abc 1 talks with one of the experts on how using high-tech imaging can help pinpoint the fires. >> a huge fight last night's raid efforts game and bodies seen flying down the seats. >> and the gold standard for public opinion research is shutting down. it's a sad day for political junkies. >> i'm michael finney. >> i'm michael finney. coming up on stand back, ya hear! >> i'm michael finney. coming up on breakout the syrup because denny's new fluffier, tastier, better rudolph pancakes are here for the holidays.

june one of the tools atf used immediately after the oakland fire was a-termal imaging camera. as abc 7 news reporter vic lee reports the camera can help determine the origin of the fire and thus the cause. >> the ghost ship fire moved quickly, furiously. the flames so intense it wasn't long before the roof and second floor collapsed. dr. abid kamal is a expert in

the investigation of fires and explosions. >> there's a collapse of the roof. a lot of the three-dimensional objects because more or less two-dimension a. in the met afterwatt the investigation becomes more challenging. that's when atf and other investigators uses a tool like this up, a thermal imaging camera. >> it picks up signals of heat and can you use that to map out an area and see which areas are still warm as opposed to that gone comb. here's what regular imaction look like. the cup on the table is red because it's filled well hot

kevy. in a fire the -- you may know that you need to remove the sheetrock to look no that area with a camera like that. >> so anything that's warm or hot is emitting energy in the infrared spectrum? you can't see it with the naked eye, but you can with a thunderstormal imaging camera. vic lee, abc 7 news. well, the tragedy in oakland is prompting the fire departments across the country to look at similar buildings that could be dangerous n.baltimore, inspectors ender the bell foundry arts building this week to investigate a complaint about sub standard conditions there. in washville and -- and according to the "new york times" buildings are also being looked at in dubuque, iowa, dallas, texas, new haven, conneticut, philadelphia and indianapolis.

the cities are calling on neighbors they report buildings that might be giving one that ended so tragically. concert promoters are lacking down -- >> fans of both teams are going at it and throwing punches in the stands at arrowhead stadium in kansas city. this is one of the most heated rivalries in professional football and the fans definitely took too far. probably didn't help that it was a close game which the raiders unfortunately lost. you can see people following down the stairs and down the rows of seats. security finally broke it up. >> can't people just enjoy the game. city of oakland released the term sheet offered by a group headed by nfl half famer ronnie lott that aims to keep them from moving. it plus -- $500 yoil from

motders and 2 million in infrastructure projects funded by revenue bonds and set to site land for an a's issue. and supervisor says this is a good stuff top. the city council and the board of supervirusor will show the on the term sheet on two. the raiders had no comment tonight. >> senator barbara bow, spent 90 minutes today speaking out against a bill that would free up more fresh water for california farmers. if the bill is approved, less water would go to the delta, home to the delta smelt and other endangered fish. bow,'s fellow democrat dianne feinstein and republicans crafted the bill after farm efforts complained that green policies hurt them. analysts say democrats may be rethinking their environmental

priorities after donald trump was elected president. one. most respected names in public opinion research is closing up shop. the field poll is ending its operations. one of its last surveys shows lieutenant gavin, the non-partisan field goal has been the standard method of polling for 1e67b years and the founder died last year and the french advertising company that owns it has decided to shut it down bemid declining financial support. >> here's a stunning figure. there are more than 1,000 homeless families living in san francisco right now, but a famous bay area ceo and philanthropist all but wants to eliminate that problem in a few years. abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard explains how. >> reporter: how is your time to come forward and to get every child in.

>> this is mark with enoff challenging others to make his $10,000 donation to make family homelessness a thing of the past. >> you can see that there are sip soeds in san francisco that can be donations of success and can be destinations of failure. we want to make sure that every child in san francisco has the same equal opportunity. >> benioff was surprised to learn about 1,800 homeless children attend san francisco public schools. he's teaming up with the city for the heading home campaign. a $30 million partnership with hamilton families, an organization already providing housing assistance. the money could help an additional 800 families find homes. we find out the rent they can aboard in years and 95% of families don't return to homelessness. >> i was living home to home. >> this woman and her 5-year-old son just got housing through the

program. >> i just wanted to have a christmas with my son in his own home. >> and other parts of homelessness are more difficult, when you're dealing with adults, drug abuse and criminal histories, that's a lot more difficult, but this family homeless necessary, i think we'll have the degree of collaboration. >> the goal is to eliminate family homelessness by 2019. in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. abc 7 is joining 70 other media outlets and taking a closer look at the homeless crisis in san francisco. check out the stories that we've done with our abc 7 news app and you can download that for free. happy friday, everybody. we're in store for good sleeping weather overnight tonight as downpours move through in the early morning hours. live doppler 7 along with satellite showing you the cloud cover overhead and there's a few showers moving east at 40 miles per hour hand this weak line holds true by .7 and san jose likely seeing a light shower

moving through the south bay and around 7:50 p.m. and gilroy around 8:25 and this light shower along salinas and this is all well to the north and bringing soaking rain to eureka and it will bring us some downpours and heavy rain of what we saw and early tomorrow morning and ahead of that front it feels kind of mild out there. a nice south wind and we're in the 60s. 64 in san jose and 61 in oakland and 690 current number in san francisco and a bit cooler in the north bay and 59 napa and concord checking in at 59 degrees and overnight with that cloudy cover holding overhead temperatures not too far and we're in store for a mild night. at holt and 53 from santa rosa and 58 in san jose and another line of rain. storm impact scale to bring it back and this is a bit of a strong storm that we saw the previous day. a moderate storm on the storm impact scale and the reason why, we'll likely see some downpours very early tomorrow morning and tapering to lighter showers and urban areas, we could see as

much as three inches of rain out of this system. so hour by hour we go. let's go through tonight. 7:00 into the midnight hour. you notice the light showers do increase in coverage as we approach midnight early saturday morning. we're going to watch the front move through. first into the north bay and 4:00 in the morning and yellows and orange you see on the screen and those are the downpours and move probably closer to sunvice and 7:00 in the morning and likely heavier rain in san francisco and oakland and approaching livermore by that hour. 9:00, 10:00 when the downpours move into the south bay and then behind that initial line of downpours it's really going to taper to widely scattered showers and by the evening 6:00, 7:00 we'll likely see the activity really wind down and we'll dry out as we approach the midnight hour. we'll show you where you likely see the downpour setup and not out of the question for anyone across the bay area to be fair game for as much of an inch of rain. be tracking where the downpours

set up as the line moves through. highs on the saturday, pretty similar to today. a lot of 60sin a the board. 62 oakland and 63 san jose and 61 is the high in san rafael. a dramatically different day on the way for shouldn't. a much dryer and brighter second half and by 4:00 a lot of sunshine and it will be a brisk day. temperatures well above normal and the accuweather seven-day forecast. we'll tract morning downpours for you. it will taper to showers in the afternoon and a dry evening. completely different on sunday and we're tracking a rainy day tuesday and tuesday and wednesday. right now thursday is trending dryer and friday another storm on the dry and you track it as it moves north to south tomorrow afternoon. >> thanks, drew, sure. >> oh, yummy, yummy. >> nonni's famous biscotti, one of the goodies we have in today's friday eats free stuff. >> then on friday david murs and

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david muir is coming up next. >> tonight, the deadly storm system. the sheets of ice and the snow. the dangerous commute at this hour. and the deep freeze now sweeping in across much of this country. from seattle to chicago to the northeast tonight. the chilling moment in court today. images never seen before. dylann roof walking into that historic church, then walking out with the gun, after killing the churchgoers who invited him to pray with them. also breaking, the trump white house. who's out tonight. also, president-elect trump won't be giving up his producing role on the tv reality show "celebrity apprentice." his team tonight explaining why. the takedown. growing outrage after an officer is cleared tonight after a suspect is shot and paralyzed. the k9 unleashed, too. and, the warning.