>>this construction site becomes >>an inferno. >>in a matter of minutes. >>flames were absolutely soaring up out of the construction site into the air >>force to get out at a moment's notice. >>evacuated the north american community or incorporate redwood city. >>afternoon. we're live >>on the >>scene as the bay area loses some badly >>needed that it is tragic. thank you so much for joining us. on this. monday. nearly a year's worth of work completely. wiped out in just a matter of minutes after a massive fire destroyed a

construction site on the outskirts of redwood city, the flames consuming the entire framework and reaching high into the sky now, this is all that's left. what was supposed to be a 117. unit. affordable housing complex for some of the people who need it, the most. right now, fire crews are mopping up the hot spots, but the damage is already done. as you can see, fire officials say it broke out around 1015 this morning on the 5th floor of the building. it wasn't long before the flames engulf the entire structure around 50 people living nearby had to be evacuated. police say some of that was precautionary. but others were forced out by 1 of the dozen or so spot fires sparked by embers from that main blaze. a temporary evacuation center is currently open at the veterans memorial senior center on madison avenue. in redwood city. good news to all of this. looks like nobody was hurt, though officials are warning everyone to stay away in case that

building collapses or was there. walker was 1 of the 1st people live on the scene after that fire 1st erupted. he joins us again live. wilson. what's the latest that you're hearing? liz. it was really quiet here. the fire as you are probably seen by now has really quieted down much different scene than we had earlier earlier this morning with just a spectacular fire burning here at this construction site now, but we we were watching it burn. looking at that construction site, and we were kind of sort of discussing on the air their lives that just the likelihood that they were not going to be able to put this fire out when we finally heard, uh from the fire department later in the morning. that was, in fact the case when they saw this fire they knew right away that this was a defensive situation. you just try to control this as best you can. not let anybody get hurt. don't let it get spreading to another part of the construction site or the homes nearby. pretty much just approached this thing to try to

contain it as best they could. given the wind and the situation with unfinished construction, which could be incredibly difficult, if not impossible to stop a fire once it gets going, here is the fire chief sort of describing what they were facing. during the height of that fire this morning. >>yeah. right now. the building the fire was involved in looks like it's going to be a total loss. our goals right now are to prevent fire spread to the adjacent occupancies. there's still 1 under construction. and then immediately to the south. the neighborhoods and homes over there. we have structure protection forces in place. >>they were they were grabbing spot fires. on the other side of this fence here in the neighborhood people over there trying to host things down as as debris and insulation came blowing out of the fire here as as the investigation earliest stages, to say the least. it was obvious that this this place was full, probably of

construction workers when this fire started the chief himself so that he saw at least 100 construction workers standing outside the building when he got here, so the hope is that someone maybe saw the origin of this fire once it got going just in the early moments there to give them a really good idea of maybe what started it so far. now we obviously do not know, but the fire has calmed down. the investigation looming and as you mentioned just a tremendous loss. what was going to be affordable housing units here and i guess that's the smoke clears. one last thought. but you know the construction area to the to this side of us. looks pretty untouched. which is maybe, you know, a silver lining, given the intensity of that fire earlier that it did not spread, to the adjacent construction that would have been hard to stop to as well. just a testament. to i think really great firefighting. we saw crews from all over the area kind of descend on this spot to try to put out this fire and wilson. i'm curious, you know, the fire chief compared it to earlier in that

press conference. he said. it was like a tinderbox because they were at that stage in construction where they just hadn't put any of those fire mitigation elements in obviously no sprinklers. but wilson you got there right as a fire sort of started, and then you were there as it just grew rapidly. can you walk us through kind of that moment and what it looked like at the height of the fire? why you know, we were here for why i don't know, maybe hour and a half, 2 hours watching watching that fire, and i think what we kept going back to was the just the link with the wind, which was sort of slightly steady but gusty. and when the when the wind gusted you can absolutely see the response. inside that building with the fire, but flames erupting out the top and until it looked like it. okay? just burned itself out there just eventually ran out of fuel and they got enough water on it when there was could fuel those big burst flames? they mentioned that for as much of the building that has fallen away, the scaffolding has

remained there, so there's still a lot of stuff to worry about as far as collapsing. materials. the rest of the building. but yeah, that fire really cooked for a while. and, you know, people mentioning sort of fires around the bay area that we've seen like this and construction sites i mentioned china based in several years ago, someone mentioned san jose fire that fit this. and remember concord had 1 as well. uh, you know you you just get a fire at a construction site. this is going to go pretty fast. he also referenced the fire out in the valley as well, you know, wind driven embers. here in an urban setting. so you know a lot of things to deal with. and as you heard, just sort of it was it was defensive. from the beginning, right? alright. wilson walker. thanks. so much for your great reporting this morning. i meanwhile, local helicopter pilot shared this video on x, formerly known as twitter. the building looks like it's glowing from the inside. look at that. you can see at this the roof was completely gone and the sighting was falling off at this, right now there is an air

quality alert in place in palo alto because of smoke from this fire. this site was a 155. 0 affordable housing project called middlefield junction. it was being built on county owned land behind and fair oaks health center. the plan was to build 179 apartments, a child care center and even community open space. and remember, we brought you this breaking news live on aaron streaming on cbs news app will continue to monitor this stay with us for the latest throughout the day and today's fire in redwood city comes a day before things really start to heat up here in the bay area, first alert meteorologist darren peck is tracking the temperatures. from our virtual view. studio, darren when we get a nice little break to start this week, plenty of marine layer in the morning daytime highs in the low to mid 70s for just about everybody. to start this forecast by showing you what tuesday's daytime highs are going to be, and this is a very dramatic difference from what we just had today. let's start

out here on the south bank numbers for monday for san jose. daytime highs are like mid to upper 70s. in 24 hours. those numbers are going to jump to the low 90s. it's a very fast change in a short period of time, and we can follow this trend bay area wide. livermore is going to 97 3 months going to 89 look at the number back there for antioch getting up to triple digits. concord, you're going to get into the upper 90s and san francisco is going to come close to 80 tomorrow. we take a look at the daytime here for the city that's already quite the jump. it will be well into the 90s for the north bay as well. a couple of things go along with this. the national weather service has issued a heat advisory for the inland valleys. that will be experiencing some of the most intense increases in heat and you'll see the pattern. how it shows up on the map. it's really those inland valleys whether it's inland north bay in the east bay or south bay, where you've got the color shaded another way to look at this is to put on the heat risk map, and this does show a slightly elevated degree. of

concern if you're on the east bay immediately, space sure, because you see the shades of orange on here. they cover the inland north bay inland, east bay and the south bay, but they also cover places like san leandro. hayward fremont. the daytime highs there will be getting close to 90. as we get to tomorrow and wednesday, and those numbers are 10 degrees above average there, and it's hot enough that you want to just have an extra layer of awareness. easy on yourself. you got to be outdoors over the next few days. we look at the 7 day forecast for our inland microclimate. and these 2 numbers really stand out for tuesday and wednesday. good news is it won't last terribly long and as we get towards the end of the week and into the middle of next week, the numbers will begin coming back down. will finish this out with a 70 forecast for the bay in general. and those numbers as we take a look at monday and tuesday. will be climbing well up into the mid 80s. so another quite warm day and then a slightly better transition with more on show onshore flow by wednesday. all right, darren.

thanks. now this upcoming heat wave comes on the heels of this fire that ripped through several homes in east san jose. it happened yesterday near quimby road south of lake cunningham park firefighters say strong winds blew embers from a garage fire and ended up sparking new fires at 5 more homes. they also destroyed several parked cars. the smoke covered whole city blocks heather turner was inside when she saw the fire start to spread. i was inside my house and i could hear crackling and glass breaking and as i was looking around, i could see that my bedroom window and the farthest side the window broke and there was fire in the side yard between our 2 houses. and by the time i made it out in the front yard to start calling 911 the fire was in the alleyway between the 2 houses, starting to catch thing, and by the time i got all the way up to the street, both of our garages were we're starting to go, and then it was windy and blew some flames over here and this conman fire for a little

bit the grassy side completely dry and this season and then there's all see. there's a right right there example just got caught on fire right now. yeah. the residents. we spoke to say they will be able to stay with friends and family as fire crews work to clean up the mess. luckily, no 1 was hurt in all 6 homes were damaged. and meantime, crews are getting the upper hand on the state's largest wildfire of the year. so far. this was a scene in tracy saturday night as a corral fire roared near 580. it broke out near a lawrence livermore lab site and burned about 22 square miles so far, that's nearly half the size of san francisco. now, this is what it looks like right now. see that black and area we still don't know what caused the fire, but we do know there was a controlled burn in the area on saturday, but alameda county fire officials say the 2 fires are not connected that fire forced emergency evacuations over the weekend, but families have started to return home. we spoke to 1

resident who says the roaring started to the fire season was a good reminder to stay prepared. i was hiding my parents that we had to go right away because i could be like the really big friends and stuff. fire is now 75%. contained 1 home so far has been destroyed in that fire. you can see that charred land going right up to the houses in that area. curran gil lives in that neighborhood. he ignored the evacuation orders and stayed behind to try to save his home. then i was saying we were getting amber's landing her property, so i was just hosing. that stuff down because the last thing we need is to get everyone's house on fire. and that worked until the power went out which killed his water. well, house. we're just tailing water on the fire. we took just anything we had that could pale water buckets. cans. whatever we could find. i feel like if i wasn't here, it would have just everything would have burned down. yeah. county's

ossoff emergency services says evacuation orders have been lowered to warnings. still ahead. oakland's new baseball team is getting ready to slide into home how the ballers transformed an entire neighborhood ahead of their 1st ever home

call >>it a reaper. call it a river.

all right. >>ballers. a new pro >>baseball >>team. >>bill >>pay >>oakland >>ballers. let's >>go >>4 oakland baseball begins. in oakland. tomorrow. when the ballers take the field at raymond e park for their 1st ever home game. it's a surprisingly quick turnaround since the ballpark was deemed unusable just over a month ago. and it's not just the ballpark that's changing. amanda harry spent time in west oakland learning about the neighborhoods transition. to come out and visualize him the change in oakland that you know, i'm just happy to be living long enough to be able to see this 67 year old richard griffin jr drove out to 18th street between campbell and would to check out raimondi park for opening day. construction crews worked to transform it. couldn't recognize it almost this isn't the 1st time he's been here, griffin grew up. away from this

park on wood street. apartments way back in the old days in the projects to minute he says he played empire. and coached baseball, right on this field. despite how intimately familiar with it when he looks around, he says he's blown away. and when i wrote out here and saw the new buildings in the apartment and condos. it's like a whole new town. i was saying, wow, this is a minor league town. >>just more than a year ago. this street wood street to his home to oakland's largest encampment it spans several blocks. and hundreds of people lived here since shutting it down the city is cleaned up. tons of trash. making for a much cleaner environment. >>griffin >>believes as games get underway, it will continue to improve the neighborhood. >>while itself this brings brings pride and joy into a neighborhood. in the safety concerns with just kind of

vanished because baseball will be here, you know. >>come on. this is great. this is so awesome. i'm so excited. for the area. carol fife believes the privately funded baseball field will continue to positively impact the community. >>this is a blessing that oakland really needed at this particular time. just a few years ago, some generations ago this was a place where it was redlined and only african american families were allowed to live here, and that led to urban renewal in a huge disinvestment from this part of the city, >>says west oakland flourishing in part because of the ballpark. >>this ballpark is bringing community members together, >>but she also credits other positive. activities like new farmers and night >>marks. >>griffin believes this is just the beginning of a massive transition for the area >>to continue to grow. it's going to. it's going to bring a spark to the west oakland community and bring more people wanted to come out here and

live you and visit west oakland and then see all the progress that west oakland has made. >>the final final touches are put on the park. the work continues to change the narrative for a neighborhood that struggled with the reputation. reputation for decades. >>home game right here on picks, plus 44 cable 12, beginning at 630. in fact, we're showing the ballers on friday nights all summer long through the end of august. coming up. next. we are kicking off pride month with the bay area man bringing his bollywood (♪♪) i'm getting vaccinated with pfizer's pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine. so am i. because i'm at risk for pneumococcal pneumonia. come on. i already got a pneumonia vaccine, but i'm asking about the added protection of prevnar 20®.

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what's officially, pride month and all. month long we're bringing you stories. celebrating. pride. today. we're taking a look at the intersection of drag and bollywood. are sean chitnis shows us how 1 can bring out a new appreciation. of the other. >>an evening run along 1 of his favorite trails. in the east bay is about much more than exercise. for drag artists and g. it's a chance to be around nature and prepare for his next performance. >>this is my favorite rehearsal space >>listening to music while enjoying the sound and feeling

of the wind he wants to be in sync with the movement of all that is around >>him. the space is very special to me because it is the foundation for all of the performances i bring to the world. >>follows on this day represent as the journey he has been on since childhood. >>hey, >>he's living out his dream as a dancer and choreographer. merging the styles of south asia with american pop >>the intersection of queer and culture. and identity have always been their >>family is from fiji and india and as a pacific islander who was born and raised in the bay area. it wasn't easy for a young boy to find his voice and identity when so many in his community wanted to hold children to traditional roles >>took a lot of trauma. took a lot of pain. it took a lot of suffering. >>his love indian pop stars. created a style unique his own >>started to learn how to sort of reject. bollywood's notions of how by binary should be expressed. his

>>work can give the image of a classic bollywood seen >>or >>american music video >>child of, you know, janet moderna. britney all these provocateurs that have taken with society has put on them and broken apart and says, i'm going to really show you what i can do. >>it from >>a >>bag helping to blend all of which he says tells a story with truth and fabulousness. using exaggeration. only for >>a fact. >>with each move he makes on stages. around the world. or on local runs >>reflect on my journey as a storyteller. not by the accolades or success or the stages, but the amount of peace and solitude. that i feel within >>a moment here alone to appreciate the opportunity. he has performing for a global audience. celebrating the chance just to keep going on

this path. one step at a time. >>we'll soon as you tell sean his message for this pride month is simply to be happy and that we should be mindful of the gift of life. this year's grand marshal for sf pride is billy porter star of the tv series pose. it's all about ballroom culture and underground phenomenon in the 70s and 80s, especially for queer black and trans communities. they found safe. spaces and chosen families and groups known as houses and competed in ... and category. like runway and vogue. today, the spirit of ballroom lives on and it's still going strong in oakland. barbara was a very much an escape from me when i step out all eyes on me, so i took it literal. coming up tonight at 5 or eat. i itay hod shows you the legacy of ballroom and the young people keeping their culture alive in the east bay as we celebrate hope, love and pride all month

long. coming up the potentially dangerous species that just arrived to the the oakland zoo. why they are hopin

>>coming up tonight on the cbs. evening news. part 2. of our see news investigation into for profit nursing homes were from 1 family that is suing a chain of nursing facilities alleging it put profits over patient care their personal story tonight on the cbs evening

news. >>and finally take a look at this. the oakland zoo shared this video of that's checking out 6 granular toads, which are viewed as a restrictive species here in california state, wildlife officials say they were rescued after being illegally shipped here. the zoo says, releasing them into the wild could actually harm other wildlife in the bay area there working with other zoos to find the toads a forever home. thank you so much for joining us for today's conversation. we love to hear what you think. post your thoughts online using the hashtag kpix. next. the cbs evening news is next right here on kpx and local news continues on our streaming service, cbs news bay area all see you at 5. ♪ ♪ >> that's him. >> norah: tonight the president's son on trial. a jury just seated. what we are learning about who they are. first lady jill biden appears in court sitting in the front row to