benicia that is because of the direction of that wind good evening and thank you for joining us. on limb flames are sweeping through part of the port of benicia and crews from across the bay area are at the scene. so is abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard who just spoke with firefighters and it is remarkable. how much smoke is still behind you? yet dion, you can see it behind me. just an incredible sight this fire continues to burn here at the port of benicia. it's been burning for hours now officials say this fire is burning wooden timbers underneath the dock and it's spreading rapidly. in fact, it's burned several hundred yards of dock from where it started around noon today and firefighters say this fire could really be burning for quite a while. 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 carquine is straight including this oil tanker sky 7 showing us the scope of the fire as it slowly burned the length of 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 the guest or wedding over here for my friend. the venue was ordered evacuated the wedding party 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 just just a couple of last couple of minutes. we've seen several fire boats new fire boats actually relieving the other ones which have been here for most of the day good news here today. no one was heard of the fire, but officials are really concerned about hazardous materials on the pier which could possibly harm the environment and it's also making putting out this fire all the more difficult no shelter in place order has been issued for homeowners in this area due to the wind direction, but that could change due to red flag fire condition. but health officials in contra costa county to the south are advising the public to limit outdoor activities today. now a cause to the fire is not known tonight. but the department believes this fire could be burning for at least 24 hours or more relive in

benicia tonight. i'm cornell bernard abc 7 news. well, it's situation. we will continue to follow cornell. thanks to you now. benicia's fire. chief says the wood that is burning burning is soaked in creosote a common. used flammable chemical used to keep the pure from rotting the primary firefight is now happening on the water really the only access to the underneath of the peers through fireboats on the water side. we can't access it by 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. as mentioned in cornell's story six-fire boats from several bay area agencies have been dispatched to fight this fire really appropriate time to bring in abc 7 news weather anchor spencer christian and we have solano county under that red flag warning. i mean the conditions don't seem favorable. they're not favorable because winds are so strong fortunately. it's not hot but the air is very dry. so that adds to the fire danger

fire concerns. you can see right now. it's windy all around the bay area, especially in the higher elevations that leg warnings in effect for all of solano county until 5 pm tomorrow will be generally out of the north at 15 to 30 miles per hour with gusts up to 50 miles per hour humidity is very low dangerously low only about five to 15 miles per hour and all of the barrier hills and mountains. i should say virtually all of them are under a wind advisory until 3 pm. tomorrow again winds will be out of the north generally. money to 30 miles per hour with guts in those hills 50 to 60 miles per hour. that's mainly the north bay hills and the east bay hills, but all the higher elegant elevations in the bay area of course will experience these strong winds. so i'll updated on that and hopefully the winds will diminish a bit by this time tomorrow. yeah, keep your fingers crossed for that spencer. thanks. well fire crews in solano county under that red flag alert already battle the grass fire this morning. the morning went into effect at five o'clock and goes through 5 pm or it went through 5 pm on

seasonably warm temperatures have firefighters on high alert this morning fire crews battled a three alarm fire near the carquinas 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 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. the chp shut down the right lane of i-80 work to contain the fire which burned about 10 acres the cause of the fire is still under. investigation meantime high wind gusts have postponed overnight caltrans work on the peninsula caltrans tweeted today that it'll reschedule work on the 101 express lanes project in a tweet. caltrans says the southbound freeway closure on 101 between airport boulevard and san bruno avenue will be delayed that stretch of the interstate was scheduled to be closed from 1 am

to 6 am tomorrow morning. all right, you can check temperatures get. casts and learn more about bay area weather anytime you can find it in the weather on demand section of the abc 7 bay area streaming tv app just download it for roku apple tv, amazon fire and android tv. moving on to developing news on the war in ukraine where 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 ukraine a missile hitting a train station in eastern ukraine were 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 their 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 on is adamant. this was their doing friday the president of the european commission visited. future with top ukrainian officials ukraine says russian troops killed hundreds of civilians there. she appeared visibly move. they saw a nice grave later the eu's president gave ukrainian president baladamir zalenski some paperwork, which marks the first step toward membership. eu she promised the lensky a speedier process than usual the european union is by your side we stand by your side 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 the information. she learned back to the biden administration to help bay area communities in need of more government funding. a deadline is quickly

approaching in the effort to reshape san francisco's political landscape. it has been controversial and contentious. rolling districts the process kicked into full gear today the complex social issue that has coming to play and the blossoms are back. we'll check out the return of

back to that breaking news video from a just a few moments ago shows that smoke still pouring out of a burning. wooden pier at the port of benicia now in the last hour or so part of the are collapsed wins the good news are blowing the smoke away from populated areas. people are prepared to issue shelter in place warnings if the winds shift contra costa county has issued a bad air advisory because of the smoke blowing across the cartoon is straight. the city is expecting that fire to burn for another day or two. right now a nine-member task force is trying to be an end-of-day goal of redrawing san francisco's districts that process has been controversial chock full of drama controversy and accusations some residents and community leaders have

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 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. and adding another bit of drama to the whole process the elections commission sought to recall its three appointed representatives to the task force earlier this week after an eight-hour meeting on friday. they decided against that removal. there is an april 15th deadline for new boundaries to be set much news coming ahead.

large out-of-state corporations have set their sights on california. they've written a ballot proposal to allow online sports betting. they tell us it will fund programs for the homeless,

but read the fine print. 90% of the profits go to out-of-state corporations, leaving almost nothing for the homeless. no real jobs are created here. but the promise between our state and our sovereign tribes would be broken forever. these out-of-state corporations don't care about california. but we do. stand with us.

focus on the economy is part of abc means commitment to helping build a better bay area this weekend san francisco's japan town is once again hosting a favorite annual tradition that businesses. hope will bring them a boost. sounds of the taiko drummers thundered through the

neighborhood to kick off the cherry blossom festival. it's the largest one on the west coast. the in-person event was sidelined the last two years because of covid mayor london breed welcomed the thousands of people who doubt today this year's theme is springing forward. i got a chance to check it out myself and boy a lot of short sleeves out there beautiful weather beautiful. and beautiful weather where it is turning cooler now, so you might want to get the long sleeves out for tomorrow and monday. it was a look at what's going on with our winds that you know, it's very gusty all across the bay area right now as a result. we have a red flag war. back for high fire danger in solano county until 5 pm tomorrow gusts will reach miles per hour humidity is dangerously low, of course, these are conditions under which fires can spread rapidly. in fact all across the bay area. we have these windy conditions right now at a wind advisory is in effect for the hills and mountains of the north the east bay until 3 pm tomorrow and these areas the guts could reach 60 miles per hour at times possibility of downed tree limbs, maybe a few power outages. here's a look at our current surface wind speeds and you can

see we have gusts over 30 miles per hour at many locations right now, and there will be even more places experiencing winds like that as we get into tomorrow and the 24-hour temperature change shows that it's several degrees cooler across most of the bay area than it was at this time yesterday. so let's check out a few current temperature readings as we look from the floor arturium camera towards san francisco 61 degrees here in the city 65 across the bay in. mountain view 72 78 santa clara, san jose 68 and 54 at half moon bay. we have blue skies over the golden gate with a few finite whiskey high clouds 72 degrees right now at santa rosa 65 at petaluma napa 70 degrees 770 fairfield conquered in livermore are in the mid 70s and here's a view from mount tam looking down onto the bay and these are our forecast features. gusty winds will be with us through the hills through the hills over the hills and along the coast through tomorrow cooling trend that we have beginning right now will continue into the upcoming week and will be rainy and chilly on monday with more rain. likely later. week overnight low temperatures will be mainly the mid-top for

40, so not much of a change there except in the far northern part of our viewing area where lowe's will drop into the upper 30s in lakeport and ukiah then tomorrow under mainly sunny, but windy conditions once again high temperatures will range from upper 50s at the coast to upper 60s right around the bay shore line to low and mid 70s inland now as we look ahead a bit with the maximum temperature can see a sharp drop in tempera omoayity into t0sn in mtnlanareas that oa slight increase of low 60s inlet, but only fifties elsewhere. they're by wednesday. we'll see temperatures moderating just a little bit but not a lot now, let's talk about the rain coming our way on monday starting at four five in the morning. we'll see rain advancing down into the bay. midday spreading to other parts of the bay area starting from the north bay sweeping southward. it should be all over by mid to late afternoon. we expect most locations to receive anywhere from about a tenth of an inch to maybe a quarter of an inch in the wettest. patients that storm by the way ranks only one on the abc 7

storm impact scale so bright and breezy conditions on tuesday a mix of sun and clouds on wednesday with only gradual warming not much warmer at all by mid-week thursday showers are likely finally on friday and next saturday. we get some drier and milder conditions coming our way. now abc 7 sports with chris alvarez. well, the giants know how to throw a party. the most memorable moment on opening day. how about self-proclaimed captain brandon belt entering on a boat and saluting the crowd and the fan give away for this afternoon. amy, it's miami. how about 20,000 captains? that's captain sats with a new d cr tve awa and checut on the crawford kids gold for everybody. carlos rodan making his giant debut. 12 strikeouts in five innings. that's the most strikeouts by a giant in their debut since one marichelle struck out 12 in 1960. san francisco was no hilt hit excuse me until the bottom of the fifth consecutive two out knox steven duggar to left tyros stratus scores game tied rod on likes that bottom nine giants

down 2-1 captains hats now rally hats brandon crawford with a chance to win it, but it's a rally killing double play in the giants lose 2-1 spoiling a great outing. from rhode island it was incredible his loud. you know, i got amped up in the fifth there that last out with guys in second first and grab the crown has a lot to do with it when they're making noise like that. it's it's nice. it's nice to have that especially during regular season big leagues. you know, this is is different. different. so especially it's a big league and know there's rodan rhodons different different animal. a's in philadelphia the young fanatics rocking that mascot hat cole irvin on the mount into the six for oakland rhys hoskins exit stage left three nothing phillies there in the six, but two pitches later jean segura makes it back to back home runs near the same spot in left field philly goes up for nothing urban five and a third allowed three home runs top of the night. he's down four two sean murphy tying run at the plate oakland has a chance but it's a double

play as well oakland falls 4-2. they're now owen chewed up for the season to go for the first win tomorrow win whipping again at the third round of the masters temperatures in the 40s early on tiger woods struggle with a six-over including two double bogeys. nice birdie though on 12. that'll get a roar from the crowd, but he is well off the pace about world number one scotty sheffler led by five after round two by as many as seven today and the tea shot on 18 that's probably how i would do it way into the trees. no bigfoot sided, but that is an unplayable shot. so he took a drop outside the tree somehow managed to bogey and scheffler enters championship sunday with a three-shot lead over cameron smith golden state playing san know right now the dubs are a half game ahead of dallas for the third place in the west. two games left in the regular season jordan pool scored 19 with a career high 11 assists thursday in salakers. jp's having a breakout season near three and i asked him how he anticipates his first posting experience will feel sure.

it's my first time. i mean, it'll be exciting. and hopefully the energy is electric and we can just find ways to take care of a home quick advantage. david sean stanford wrapping up the spring season with their annual cardinal and white spring game star of the day. how about emmitt? smith's kid returning quarterback tanner mckee finds ej smith on the slant for the touchdown smith had two touchdowns on the first team offense took on the first team defense. got football spring game is at the end of the month and the nfl draft is also in the month right here on abc 7. we'll be right ba ok, floor and decor, show me what you've got. this tile says "spa day, all day."

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after the ten commandments a young ice skating star from the bay area has announced her retirement at the of 16 why alyssa lou is hanging up her skates, and how do you honor one of the most important labor activists of our time san francisco goes all out as cesar chavez parade makes its return after a hiatus due to the pand. thick all that and more coming up tonight after the ten commandments. all right right away. i want to get to some new breaking news coming out. san jose you can see here from sky 7. they have just arrived at a major fire at a home depot store. this is in the area of santa

teresa boulevard and blossom hill road in the almaden valley area of the city. you can see there that smoke just visible pluming into the air can be seen for miles through the south bay. we understand this fire started just about 30 minutes ago. the fire department has dispatched a fifth alarm response to the incident now to give you an idea of what this means. that means there are a hundred potentially even more firefighting personnel on the scene now a witness who was in the outdoor garden center shared this video of the fire just minutes as it started you can see they're all those red flames inside the building just consuming whatever is inside other people have shared videos of what they saw outside like this towering gray plume of smoke now back out to sky 7 live where you can see there, san jose firefighters have ladders up. you can see a little bit of water being poured onto the store. ultimately as things zoom out

you can see a major response to the blaze firefighters do there are no injuries reported. that is the good news and once again back to the other fire that topped the newscast this pictures from sky 7 over. what is now an hour's long firefight at the port of benicia a wooden pier. there has been on fire since at about noontime the good news in this as well. no injuries firefighters closely monitoring conditions and this blaze could burn for

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