were told it's coming from the three story park hotel at 1040 folsom st..us a lot of smoke blowing down. people are feeling this in the area. we now know that four people have been injured, two firefighters, to residents no details on the extent. there are medics on the scene and again we are hearing for injured. firefighters working on the building next door at 181 of ross street. if you are in this area, it will be a traffic problem. >>kimberlee: find out how people all round the bay area are be hitting by checking out stanley roberts page. check out his video reports including one showing people caught smoking near bus stops. another high letting drivers running red lights in san francisco and watched him catch people violating the carpool lane. it if you of the story idea for stanley we have information on how you can e-mail him a on www.kron4.com. >>now, at 6:30 p.m. tonight's big stories in one big block of news. more crews, more stories. right now, today's top story. >>catherine: this is a crown view of a fire south of market area in san francisco be

this is located on folsom st. between sixth and seventh avenue. this is a very delicious ethiopian restaurant and was supported by the economic revitalization program. this is -- is the mother of three daughters and is an immigrant ethiopia. she wanted to share a distinctly ethiopian approach to food, one that emphasizes the communal sharing of meals that eating with your hands is the way for people to come together. our office after the f first board meeting went to -- to celebrate. she spent over a year working on the space to open in 2010. her daughter how i met a year prior, i believe, at a public service award. she is a lincoln high school senior and will be graduating in two weeks. [applause] we are honoring her for her public service leadership at lincoln high school and her older sister is a graduate. she said that all the hard work has been worth it. work has been worth it. i want to show my three girls that they believe in it, anything is possible. this is what i have learned for myself and have taught my children. a couple of weeks ago,

folsom st., however, is blocked. people are trying to get around this part of san francisco and pacing somewhat of an obstacle. >>> nurses are preparing to walk off the job. new at 7:00, jana katsuyama is live outside the hospital with the labor dispute is already impacting patients. >> reporter: nurses are expected to start picketing at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow. patients could find that this quietness tomorrow is not so quiet. joshua is just two years old, too young to understand the impact that his mother does. she drove more than 100 miles so she could make three dr. appointments today. >> he had an appointment tomorrow and they had to reschedule it today because they are going on strike. >> reporter: negotiations are breaking down and two-day nurses prepare their picket signs. >> we had been negotiating since last may and our contract expired last july. >> reporter: they say that the hospital lags behind other hospital and they say $4000 a year in health insurance premiums is too much. >> the hospital currently pays $2

we will have a folsom st. closure and do that. the overall time line is we are still on track to finish of the major demolition activities by june 6. and clean everything up by early july. that is the schedule. i know it is hard to read, but that is the schedule of getting to the bus ramps by the beginning of june, beginning of may. so the picture on the left is from the end of february, and the one on the right is from the end of march. you can see how the contract were demobilized from the eastern end of the project, and the buttress shoring and excavation contractor mobilized and started getting ready to pull pile, which they did at the very end of the month. that is the center and western end. again, two comparison voters. you can see how the backfill progress. -- two comparison photographs. they are moving in to start staging their shoring wall operation. some progress on the ramps going up to the freeway. the picture on the left was the work completed through the end of february with just crossing howard st., and now, we are

why i bring up the idea of possible manipulation is yesterday afternoon, i was at a gathering on folsom st., and i was very impressed by the discussion of transparency, especially by a certain labor speaker. i am just trying to translate that feeling of transparency because i would in a certain sense think that we should explain what non structural seismic retrofit is and compare it to what an actual retrofit is. the reason why i bring that up is because since the bond issue is such a large amount of the house bill, one would think that it will be covered by the bond issue, so we are going to go for $999,999, that seems to me that that is money that maybe deliberately deleted from the bond issue and somehow put into this item so as to avoid public scrutiny. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. any other member of the public who would like to comment? seeing none, we will close public comment. this item we can move forward with recommendation. okay, without objection. if you could please call our next item. >> item 6, resolution approving the community needs assessment develop

it's at the 1000 block of folsom st..amage to three other buildings. >> mark: we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. mourner traffic troubles as the kron 4 morning news continues. other plum spot seem to be clearing out. will the creek is getting better as far as the traffic is concerned. all the programming notes,a programming note to tell you about, this saturday we will airing "chase" right here on kron4. and then the kron4 news will be on after that, because the giant's game will be airing on nbc. >> mark: them back, several hot spots. but the traffic center. >> erica: california highway patrol has managed open to the lanes although it's still an s i g l laird and no estimated time on monday will open the other lanes it is beginning to clear up. it's no longer pass to buy weed-1. speeds are still slow. speeds are about-6-miles n hour in some of this low was spots. if this is your commute, be aware. other hot spots include 880. westbound-highway 4. bay bridge, wha

you're looking at the place, it happened on the 1000 block of folsom st. its severely burned the park hotel damaging three other buildings. yoli is live to show us the damage. >> reporter: it is pretty bad. you can see damage in the direction notes back. they have an idea of possibly where it started. still no cost to the fire. across the lot of damage. you can see her with melted. there's a tear the building that was involved on breast street. that is the one that has a lot of damage. you cannot really tell from a friend. this whole street and this intersection, still pretty busy with fire trucks. the watch it overnight. there were no flareups overnight. they are expecting investigators to come in here this morning and try to figure out what caused the fire. we do know at least 75 people at these two buildings and another 34 people on the other building. those people are shot to right now. >> justine: thank you, they give so much for the report. >> james: other news, to date 800 nurses at children's hospital oakland will launch a five day walkout in prote