and pier 45 is where we find today's in the bay sergio cantana. od morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. i can tell you that this is a continuing fire fight. you can see as i move out of the shot here, you can see they still have several of those ladders set up. they are still pouring lots of water on this fire, and they expect to be out here for a good part of the day. we just had another briefing from lieutenant jonathan baxter from the fire department. he tells us that the initial attack of this fire was very intense. they actually thought that the fire was going to jump from pier 45 to one of the next door buildings. the fire, in fact, was so intense that as they were trying to mobilize one of their trucks, one of those trucks did in fact get a little damaged by the fire. no injuries so far. intensity o the fire itself, portions of this buildi of pier 45 did collapse, and that actually triggered a bit of a may day call from the firefighters who were around and trying to get into the building at the moment. some very difficult moments on th

we have damian trujillo with us and sergio cantana. and some of protestors, what seems to be, a sending it right back towards the police line. so it's the back and forth the small group of bad actors here. let's go back to nbc bay area -- we believe you have your audio issues resolved. tell us where you are and what you're seeing? >> take it away. you're live on the news cast. tell us what you are seeing, scott? >> reporter: raj, we are at santa clara and 4th street. right outside city hall. we are hearing the flash bangs and the protesting. a lot of what you are talking about is people coming down is what we are hearing now. and people are coming down from 5th street to 4th street and down to 3rd street. a lot of the streets around here are actually closed out by protestors. can you hear me? >> yeah, we can hear you. make sure you're in a safe spot. keep going. we might have lost scott. we will try to get back to him. >> so, yeah, we lost scott. >> you see where he is. he is just -- >> reporter: sorry about that. sorry about that, raj