breaking news. right away getting to that breaking news billowing smoke scene across the bay area streaming from a fierce fire right now crews from across the bay area are battling those flames now the fire broke out this afternoon at the port of benicia where port workers were there when it started and they were evacuated taking a live look now from sky 7 now despite all of the smoke there is still no shelter in place in benicia due to the direction. of the wind we do have coverage for you tonight. good evening, and thank you for

joining us. i'm dion limb notice flames swept through parts of the port of benicia this afternoon spewing massive dark smoke clouds into the sky crews right now still at the scene. so is abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard who just spoke with crews there and cornell. give us the very latest. it's just incredible side here. this is something we have been watching all day long this fire continues to burn here at the port of benicia the fire burning timbers underneath the dock and still spreading burning several hundred yards from where it started just before noon today the fire department believes. this fire could be burning for a long time. a massive fire burning at the port of benicia a dock fully engulfed thick black smoke filling the air fire engines and fire boats attacking the inferno from all sides fire crews from

across solano county race to the scene the fire began just before noon for hours later. it was still burning watch as part of the dock. collapses into the water ships anchored at the port were moved away for safety sake into the carquinas straits including this oil tanker smoke from the fire could be seen for miles. but i think of this fire, this is crazy. it's scary because they offload a lot of the gas and oil there longshoreman working at the port. we're told to leave. how are you feeling right now? the fire was burning adjacent to a historic park, i guess so what innovator for my friend the venue was ordered evacuated the wedding? already looking for a backup plan. so what's the plan? what's the plan right now at this point? we're just sending all the guests to another location. we'll regroup see if we can hold the wedding at apart a house

anywhere we can now this port is used primarily for. loading cars and petroleum products the fire department just told us that there are hazardous materials on top of this. year, that could be being released into the environment so far no shelter in place happening for residents who live near here, but that could change because the winds have been fairly fierce all day long. there is a red flag warning which is a huge concern for firefighters here and this fire continues to burn the fire department believes believe it or not. it could burn for the next two days. we're live in benicia cornell bernard abc 7 news. what an unbelievable glad you are a distance from all of that smoke cornell many thanks to you now. the city of benicia has wrapped up a news conference. they tell us the firefight has moved to the bay crews are

trying to extinguish the creosote soaked wood burning on the pier really the only access to the underneath of the peers through fireboats on the water side. we can't can't access it by foot or by. engines from the shoreline and depending on tide fire boats can get up underneath there. they've got nozzles that shoot down low. now a total of six fire boats from several bay area agencies have been dispatched to fight the fire despite that billowing smoke the winds have actually been favorable to firefighters because it is blowing from the west towards the east that is in the direction away from homes. well happening now solano county is an area currently under a red flag warning because of those strong wind gusts. i guess the direction plays a really big role in this so that is the good news. that is the good news. the wind direction is helpful, but the wind does not helpful because the wind speed is quite strong. thus the red flag warning for high fire danger. you can see all around the bay area right now down the winds are quite brisk a gusty and some spots especially near the coast

and in the higher elevations, let's be more specific it take a look at solano county where we have the fire burning right now in red flag warning is in effect for the entire county until 5 pm. tomorrow wind gusts will be around 50 miles per hour at peak relative humidity is very low and the steady wins are 15 to 30 miles per hour. so this will certainly hamper the fire containment effort to some extent and we have a wind advisory in effect for all the hills of the north bay and the east bay until 3 pm. tomorrow winds will be out of the north that out of the yes out of the north at 20 to 30 miles per hour gusting 50 to 60 miles per hour over the higher elevations. there's a possibility of down trees and power lines. so we'll keep watching this for you. and of course i'll have the full accuweather forecast a little bit. yeah watching it very closely. yeah sponsor. thanks. winds and dry vegetation prompted a red flag warning solano county and parts of the sacramento valley the warning went into effect at five this morning through 5 pm on seasonably warm temperatures have firefighters on high alert

this morning fire crews battled a three alarm fire near the cartinas bridge in vallejo a homeowner opened her yard to fire crews giving them access to the fire. only april it gets so hairy here. i'm telling you've got a bag by the door all the time waiting for the the fire to come makes us on pretty high alert for the rest of the summer coming up all the way into the fall. yeah, no kidding. only april the chp shut down the right lane of i-80 worked to contain the fire which burned about 10 acres the cause of that blaze is under investigation. we'll check temperatures and get forecasts and learn more about bay area weather anytime in the weather on demand section. you can find it at the abc 7 bay area streaming tv app just download it for roku. apple tv android tv and amazon fire tv. moving on to other news in the east bay oakland police are putting additional officers on the streets this weekend after a

series of deadly shootings earlier this week. the police department says officers will focus on violent crimes and illegal side show enforcement our media partner the mercury news reports across oakland five men were wounded in unrelated shootings friday night into early saturday. everyone is expected to survive. there will also be more officers on the streets this weekend in sacramento the police department there says it has doubled the number of police in the downtown area. they've also increased the number of gang enforcement officers investigators say rival gangs were involved in the shootout last weekend that left six people dead and 12 others injured so far to men have been arrested in connection with that shooting and a third was arrested near the scene for a weapons charge. developing news now on the war in ukraine british prime minister boris johnson met with ukrainian president vladimir. zelensky abc news reporter corina. mitchell tells us the meeting ended with a new pledge of support.

at least 50 people are dead and more than 100 hurt after the single deadliest attack on civilians since russia invaded in ukraine a missile hitting a train station in eastern ukraine where thousands had gathered trying to flee, ukrainian. officials say russia was behind the attack. the region's governor said quote the enemy clearly knew it is a rail station and did it to prevent people from leaving the region during individuals that had burned alive in these cars. these were innocent women and children and grandmothers trying to evacuate on trains and they were the target of this attack russia denies. it was behind the bloodshed but the pentagon is adamant. this was their doing friday the president of the european a mission visited butcher with top ukrainian officials ukraine says russian troops killed hundreds of civilians there. she appeared visibly moved when they saw a mass grave later the eu's president gave ukrainian

president baladamir zelenski some paperwork, which marks the first step toward membership in the eu. she promised the lensky a speedier process than usual. the european union is by your side. we stand by your site. this is the message that you have a lot of me. i want to bring to you but also to the ukrainian people meantime, it looks like russian forces are wearing thin military experts estimate over 10,000. russian soldiers have been killed as the war enters its seventh week karina mitchell abc news, new york. building a better bay area includes a focus on race and social justice deputy assistant and aapi senior liaison to president. biden is meeting with community leaders across the bay area to discuss asian hate erica mortsugu is seen here with leaders of san francisco's chinese hospital. they discussed the hospital's need for more support and resources from the biden administration. i think it's a very important to

keep the communication going so they understand our communities needs work together and come up with solutions to have a better future. mortsugu will also meet with leaders at the asian cultural center in oakland and with the mayor of fremont mortsugu plans to report all of the information. she learned back to the biden administration to help bay area communities in need of more government funding. i'll just ahead a deadline as quickly approaching in the effort to reshape san francisco's political landscape. it has been controversial and contentious redrawing supervisor early supervisor districts. the process kicked into full gear today the complex social issue that's come into play. oh, it's a good sound to hear. the blossoms are back. we will check out the return of japant

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want to get back to that breaking news coming out of benicia. you can see there on your screen from the vantage point of sky. smoke still billowing out of a burning wooden dock. this is at the port of benicia now a press conference wrapped just moments ago where we did learn from the fire chief that the firefight is happening mostly on the water there. now the good news is there are no injuries now despite the smoke winds are actually favorable to firefighters that is because the wind is blowing away from homes in the area. we will get you back to this breaking news and follow it very closely throughout the next evening. moving on an iconic family restaurant in san francisco is permanently closing its doors

after 97 years in the business alioto's restaurant known for their sicilian seafood on fisherman's wharf was one of the city's oldest family owned restaurants representatives for the alioto family ended their 66 year long lease early. that's what they tell us. the restaurant has not reopened its doors after the shutdown of the pandemic that restaurant started as a stand back in 1925 by nunzio aliotto senior his children have since expanded to its location in 1938. right now a nine-member task force is trying to beat an end-of-day goal of redrawing san francisco's districts that process has been controversial and chock-full of drama controversy and accusations some residents and community leaders have even likened the proposals to gerrymandering others. say new district lines. do not keep san francisco neighborhoods together many of the complex social issues.

san francisco faces have come into play here. some people move into your community to live with you. and recognize that you're there and that you always been there. and they recognize and believe in your history. so some people move your community to live with you and some moving your community to replace you. now adding another bit of drama to the whole process the elections commissioned such a recall. it's three appointed representatives to the task force earlier this week after an eight-hour meeting on friday. may decided against removal. there is an april 15th deadline for new boundaries to be set more news coming up

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weekend san francisco's japan town is once again hosting a favorite annual tradition that businesses. hope will bring them a boost. the sounds of the taigo drummers thundered through the neighborhood to kick off the cherry blossom festival. it is the largest one on the west coast. the in-person event was sidelined the last two years because of covid mayor london breed. welcome the thousands of people who turned out today and this message so support the merchants support the vendors, enjoy great food. enjoy some amazing performances on this stage. the festival continues tomorrow and next weekend. it is free. this year's theme is springing forward and spencer. it feels like we sprung all the way to summer in some regards a really high temperatures that were more autumn like more august like but right now it's cooling down a little bit and it's getting really windy out there as a matter of fact because of the strong gusty winds. we have a red flag warning for

high fire danger in effect until 5:00 pm tomorrow for solano county. we're going to be generally out of the north at 15 to 30 miles per hour with gusts. 50 miles per hour very low relative humidity fires, of course get spread rapidly under those conditions on a wind advisory is in effect for the hills and mountains of the north bay and the east bay until 3 pm tomorrow once again gusts up to 50 60 miles per hour with the possibility of downed tree limbs and maybe some power outages possibly. wins right now or gusting up to about 26 miles per hour and some coastal areas 31 mile per hour gusts right now down at san jose and those winds are increasing over the hills as well. so we'll see even windier conditions perhaps tomorrow and it's cooler than it was yesterday this time by about 40 degrees at novato in san francisco eight degrees cooler in concord. so all around the bay area. it's been cooling down along with that increasing winds. here's a view from social tower looking out over san francisco 61 degrees in the city right now 65 at oakland mountain view. 472 and both san jose and santa clara 55 at half moon bay. mainly blue sky over the golden

gate right now, but you see a few wispy high clouds around temperatures and other locations 76 in santa rosa petaluma. 67 napa stan. 380 at fairfield that's our warmest location right now in 77 at both concord and livermore and from the emeryville camera looking across the bay. this is the view and these are our forecast features gusty winds along the coast and over the hills through tomorrow cooling trend begins to continues rather into the upcoming week and it'll be rainy and chilly on monday with more rain likely later in the week for tonight. mainly clear skies with just a few passing high clouds, so we'll start the day tomorrow with sunny skies windy over the chosen through the coquina straight in the delta along the coast overnight lows mainly mid to upper 40s and highs tomorrow will range from mid and upper 50s at the coast to mainly upper 60s right around the bay shoreline oakland, san mateo were down in fremont about 69 degrees inland highs will be in the mid 70s and our forecast highs forecast. temperature patterns where i'm

trying to say shows who have highs only in the 50s on monday maybe up to about 62 inland onsy and we have some rain coming our way on monday starting monday morning looking at the forecast animation. you can see the rain spreading by midday to all parts of the bay area said to leave us with some decent wet weather rainfall total will range from about a tenth of an inch to a quarter. here's the accuweather seven day forecast we get a little bit drying on tuesday and wednesday, but more showers come in on thursday temperatures. to bounce back to normal by the end of next week and we'll have more in ju everyone's a multitasker these days. and with supersonic wifi from xfinity, your internet can multitask too. it's got gig speeds to the most homes... advanced security that blocks billions of cyber threats and enough power for a house full of devices.

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once again, let's get you back to that breaking news coming out of the port of benicia where you can see sky seven still overhead where the blaze has been burning since about noon time today as it zooms in you can see there it appears to be some kind of doc which is soaked with creosote the winds fortunately though are blowing the smoke and the flames in the right direction earlier. we heard from abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard who reported that workers at the port along with others were

evacuated much more coming up on abc 7 news at six later on tonight. i'm dionne lim stay with us. we'll see you tonight, as we come on the air, the urgent warning for civilians to leave eastern ukraine. multiple humanitarian corridors are open ahead of an expected russian onslaught. tonight, new outrage over the missile attack on a train station, where at least 52 people were killed. piles of abandoned luggage at the station and a desperate search for victims. in bucha, bodies exhumed from a mass grave as we see evidence of new atrocities in other towns. boris johnson, his surprise meeting in kyiv with ukrainian president zelenskyy, promising to send more weapons and armored vehicles and anti-ship missiles. zelenskyy predicting a hard battle in the east as russia announced the former commander of their forces in syria will now take command of the next phase in ukraine. our terry moran in lviv to