cornell barnard? >> the heat coming off the fire is very, very intense, and you are looking at what is last of the restaurant on shattuck here in downtown berkeley. firefighters have just protect were the property door down. a flood of water has come out as you can see. it is just cascading out. on top of the building, flames continue to jump from the top of the structure we are told the restaurant has been here for several years and it has been fully engulfed for the last 30 minutes. in fact, just in the last couple of minutes firefighters seem to have grained the upper hand but it has been burned out of control for at least 30 minutes this morning. we have several engine companies here on the scene here in downtown berkeley and firefighters are giving it all they can spraying water in front of this building on to the building on top of it, and from the hook-and-ladder trucks, as well, and who are sold that there are apartments on the back side of this restaurant with several evacuations and the red

in oakland, cornell barnard, abc 7 news. >>> in our immediate future, rain.a second. and while we are talking about heavier rain and flooding, free sandbags can come in handy. abc 7 news was in san francisco today at one of the city's five sandbag distribution spots. residents can pick up as many as ten of these. there will be another on saturday happening next week. >>>. >> pick them up before el nino. >> looks like pre-el nino rain coming in. >> just a little bit. >> pretty heavy downpours overnight. >> it could wake you up overnight. this is from the northwest. colder source. that's going to help many the sierra, nevada and we will be looking at moisture coming in through the overnight hours. live doppler 7 hd shows how far the rain is off shore. about 100 miles from ft. bragg. we are looking at this continuing to sink to the southeast. a little wave is developing. that will help with the brief heavy rain overnight. right over the bay area. it could wake you up. a live look outside, 57 san francisco. 50 mountain view. 47 in morgan hill, half moon bay 55. b

cornell barnard joins us live from the staging area on treasure island. good morning, good morning. all systems are still go for this morning's demolition of the largest remaining pier of the old bay bridge that. implosion is set to go at 7:00 this morning. the pier is in between the two barges you see beyond the new span of the bay bridge. and i have to tell you there are a lot of chp marine units on the bay this morning keeping boaters at least 1500 feet away from that demolition site. now the six-second implosion will look something like this animation. all of it taking place underwater at 20 million pounds of concrete is imploded. caltran said a wooden and steel matt placed on top of the pier will keep debris flying on to the new span of the bay bridge. 600 charges of dine night will make it happen. other debris will be contained by a boom around the pier. this morning's demolition could be called off at anytime if wildlife is spotted in the area. wildlife monitors will be on hand this morning. >> we just want to be sure as environmental stewards that prior to the blast, the poi

our reporter, cornell barnard, has the story. >> i saw the barricades i thought, okay, he finally does it. >> neighbors feared for the 34-year-old who lived in this house on south "b" street. here boyfriend 2-year-old, was bad news. this neighbor spoke us off camera. >> each day there would be two or three bouts of screaming, usually her voice telling him to get out. >> he stabbed her at the whom on saturday afternoon and then took off. she later died. a tip led police to a parking garage in san carlos where they found his car and evacuated the urgent care clinic. police found no sign of the suspect. sadly police have responded to the victim's house before. >> at that address we are working the homicide investigation we have been this a number of times for domestic violence related cases. >> really sweet person. we are all devastated. >> a maybe said that she had a restraining order against him but he kept coming an empty. >> i saw him two days ago come back standing out front on the street staring at front door. i walk over and said what are you doing and he walked away. >> the direct

cornell barnard has more. >> reporter: the cinches are bone dry. the fast v past 24 hours, bottle water. >> i couldn't wash my hands. i had to use hand sanitizer and bottle water and soup. >> reporter: they are replacing a very large 16-inch cast iron pipe which ruptured saturday afternoon sending a raging river pouring down. >> i heard the roor from up above. >> reporter: he shot in the video as a water fall fell off the family hill heading straight for the house. the water, ankle deep. >> we were shoveling it away from the house so it wouldn't come in. >> reporter: the instant flood brought mud, rocks and debris cascading down. >> it was terrifying. icouldn't believe it was happening. >> reporter: they were lucky water stayed out of their house thanks to firefighters who brought sandbags. >> it was a scary time but it was a nice time. we had people here to support us. >> reporter: the 60 year old water pipe will be replaced this with one made of pvc pipe. they don't know if a cold snap caused it to fail. >> we can't say that it was temperature re

someone chained baseball bats to street poles all over the city the back to cornell barnard in san franciscowere not just regular baseball bats? >> good morning, katie, police call this discovery "very bizarre." trying to figure out why someone chained a baseball bat to light poles like this around san francisco. in fact, more than a dozen bats have been found around the city. in some cases they had nails protruding from them. officers found a bad on 19th avenue on thanksgiving day, and they thought it looks like a pipe bomb. they closed the intersection. a bomb squad technician x-rayed it. there was nothing inside but police are taking the bats as evidence. >> we thought it was possibly an explosive device. as you can see, we evacuated the area. >> they put drill holes in it, they knew what they were doing. this is not put together in an hour. police want to find the person responsible and they could face charges. as to why someone is chaining the bats all around san francisco? thanks a mystery. >>> very strange. thank you, cornell. >> we learned about this story through a viewer e-mail and