ktvu's heather holmes live with a look at the split. >> reporter: now they are asking a larger panel of 11 judges to review the ruling. the legal victory delivered to same-sex marriage supporters two weeks ago is now being challenged. lawyers for the groups who sponsored prop eight are requesting the ninth circuit take another look. >> we decided it was in the best interest of this key and the defense of prop eight and that this really is an important opportunity for the ninth circuit to correct what is an anomalous decision by the three judge panel. >> reporter: that panel approved that the law violated the law of california. >> it's not really surprising. tate -- they could have gone either way. >> reporter: they're taking their chances with 11 randomly selected judges. >> if you get the right draw you could say a lot of conservative judges they could actually win. >> reporter: if they don't, little says there are other potential benefits. >> another advantage they get is they get another stronghold. and slows down the process. >> reporter: all of the delays frustrate supporters of

ktvu's heather holmes live with a look at the split. >> reporter: now they are asking a larger panel of 11 judges to review the ruling. the legal victory delivered to same-sex marriage supporters two weeks ago is now being challenged. lawyers for the groups who sponsored prop eight are requesting the ninth circuit take another look. >> we decided it was in the best interest of this key and the defense of prop eight and that this really is an important opportunity for the ninth circuit to correct what is an anomalous decision by the three judge panel. >> reporter: that panel approved that the law violated the law of california. >> it's not really surprising. tate -- they could have gone either way. >> reporter: they're taking their chances with 11 randomly selected judges. >> if you get the right draw you could say a lot of conservative judges they could actually win. >> reporter: if they don't, little says there are other potential benefits. >> another advantage they get is they get another stronghold. and slows down the process. >> reporter: all of the delays frustrate supporters of

i'm heather holmes. ktvu channel 2news. >> the bay area is back on storm watch tonight after some unusually dry weather. >> bill martin is tracking a fast moving storm moving toward northern california. >> i'm getting reports san mat, o, redwood, you have rain coming down. very had reports of san mateo of rainfall. antioch cause doesn't have rain but you can see when you look at live storm tracker 2, moderate rain this is not the storm. this is prefrontal stuff in to the bay area. as the rain increases so does the wind. this is the beginning a strong storm is heading this way. the overnight hours into the morning. when i come back we will look at the radar and the forecast method schedule show you how it plays out. >> the federal appeals court is set to announce its ruling tomorrow on california's same sex marriage ban. we are live where it'll issue its decision. >> reporter: it's a big day tomorrow here at the court. not because of any appearances or hearings but because they will issue an electronic re

i'm heather holmes. ktvu channel 2news. >> the bay area is back on storm watch tonight after some unusually dry weather. >> bill martin is tracking a fast moving storm moving toward northern california. >> i'm getting reports san mat, o, redwood, you have rain coming down. very had reports of san mateo of rainfall. antioch cause doesn't have rain but you can see when you look at live storm tracker 2, moderate rain this is not the storm. this is prefrontal stuff in to the bay area. as the rain increases so does the wind. this is the beginning a strong storm is heading this way. the overnight hours into the morning. when i come back we will look at the radar and the forecast method schedule show you how it plays out. >> the federal appeals court is set to announce its ruling tomorrow on california's same sex marriage ban. we are live where it'll issue its decision. >> reporter: it's a big day tomorrow here at the court. not because of any appearances or hearings but because they will issue an electronic re

reporting live tonight here in san francisco, heather holmes, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> st. joseph health system has notified more than 6,000 patients in sonoma county that their personal information has been compromised. the data was made public through outside search engines. it operates santa rosa hospital, the information included patients names, and lab results. most of the patients were treated between february and august of last year. >>> the department of consumer affairs has shut down the oakland and san francisco campuses of the institute of medicine. the state says the school deceived students by telling them it was accredited. the dca also says the school is facing severe financial problems. school leaders say they may sue the state to try to keep the campuses open. >>> the mayor of san bruno and some residents are accusing pg and e of dragging its feet. they're in talks to have pg and e pay for community enhancements. >> the gas and electric company is stalling to settle millions of dollars in restitution to the community will. >> a pg and e vice president we sp

reporting live tonight here in san francisco, heather holmes, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> st. joseph health system has notified more than 6,000 patients in sonoma county that their personal information has been compromised. the data was made public through outside search engines. it operates santa rosa hospital, the information included patients names, and lab results. most of the patients were treated between february and august of last year. >>> the department of consumer affairs has shut down the oakland and san francisco campuses of the institute of medicine. the state says the school deceived students by telling them it was accredited. the dca also says the school is facing severe financial problems. school leaders say they may sue the state to try to keep the campuses open. >>> the mayor of san bruno and some residents are accusing pg and e of dragging its feet. they're in talks to have pg and e pay for community enhancements. >> the gas and electric company is stalling to settle millions of dollars in restitution to the community will. >> a pg and e vice president we sp

. >> i'm heather holmes. a power failure hit the tunnel at about 5:30 p.m. at 7:00 tonight, the highway patrol closed the center for about an hour, delaying traffic on highway 24 headed toward arinda. perhaps frustrated with the lineup, a pickup collided in the same area near the fish ranch off ramp. >> gas prices have now hit an average of $4.25 a gallon here in california. the prices are higher in the bay area. drivers aren't the only one getting squeezed. eric? >> ken, i talk ed to a gas station owner tonight who said he's losing 7 cents for every gallon of gas he sells. the workers here at this gas station came and took the numbers of of the markee rr -- marquee. gas price s jumped 4 cents overnight. one station in oakland closed in on $4.50 a gallon. >> it's ridiculous. we have refinerys here in the bay area. why are we paying so much? >> reporter: dur g ing -- during his visit to the bay area, presidential hopeful newt gingrich blamed the white house. >> you have $2.50 a gallon or less, you have $10 a gallon or more. you pick. >> do you think we'll eve

good evening everyone i'm heather holmes. >> and i'm ken wayne. tonight tapes of herzog who committed suicide. on the tapes herzog says his childhood friend shermantine is responsibility for more than two dozens killings. >> what kept you from going to the police at this point in time and saying look my friend is a psycho. here's what he just did. >> i was concerned for myself. >> to what? your safety? >> yeah. >> reporter: tonight ktvu's amber lee revealed more about more victims. she joins us with a story you will see only on 2. >> reporter: tonight i spoke with the father of a victim. in one exert, herzog puts the blame only on shermantine and details how the crime occurred. >> her hand went over to the right. it was more like that. >> he continued to do that. >> yeah, he continued to put her toward the ground. >> reporter: herzoz called shermantine a killer, and admitted to being at some of the murders. >> which side did he walk up to first? >> the right side. >> okay. then what aned? >> he started shooting. >> how many times do you think he s

good evening i'm heather holmes. >> and i'm ken wayne. the fun is all done, but for police the work is just starting. >> reporter: you can see it just over my shoulder just up the block here. already in the last hour we've seen driving trying to avoid it. we want to show you video from within the last hour that we're showing police as they started checking the cars going through. it's just one way that officers tonight are cracking down. >> all to educate the public that drunk driving is hazardous. we're trying to bring our drunk arrest numbers down by doing so we bring fatalities down and hopefully make the community safer. >> reporter: in downtown danville, some watched the game at bars. shaking shots. >> i'm just out hanging with friends. i don't care. >> reporter: friends who plan driving home today. this super bowl isn't as lucrative as the niners were playing but safety concern is the safe. >> we're always happy to call cops here in danville. we get a lot of cabs that line up to take people home. >> we'll be taking a cab or walking,

good evening i'm heather holmes. >> and i'm ken wayne. it is music's biggest night as musicians pay tribute to the late whitney houston there was somber. >> ♪ >>> singer jennifer hudson sang the dolly parton song that houston made into a hit. we'll have a live report from the grammy reports in los angeles in about 15 minutes. >>> in other news tonight, a convicted killer on death row told investigators there might be as many as 10 slims in a century old well. and that just may prove to be true. for a second day now investigators were back digging at the site and today they unearthed more human remains. maureen naylor live now near the town of lindon to tell us what was found today. >> reporter: after the rain moved in, crews moved out. but we met with the investigator who revealed that many items were found. this after a day of gruesome discovery around a 45 feet hole. >> small piles of dirt and you can see bones sticking out of them. it's a horrendous scene. >> reporter: today crews sifted through the dirt looking for any evidence that m

. >> i'm heather holmes. >> today's chilling discovery was made in the same remote area of san joaquin county, where detectives unearthed human remains in recent days of a convicted serial killer led authorities to this spot where he says a dozen bodies were dumped. ktvu's eric rasmussen now with information about where the remains were found today. >> reporter: eer we are hearing that they are just wrapping up for the night you can still see the lights where they have been working here down the road a little weighs. that is where they have been searching all day and around 5:30 authorities confirmed they found pay porshe of a skull and bones buried about 35' keep in the same well where they found a woman's remains yesterday. digging continued well after dark in this remote part of san joaquin county with new urgency for the second day in a row investigators found remains believed to be human in an old well on this property. in all that is three victims in three days, turned up since authorities followed directions given by convicted serial killer wesley shermantine, who is still on de

. >> i am heather holmes. >> we begin with a new clue as search teams discover more human remains. they were looking for bones near a well. a small town east overstockten after bones were found yesterday. a live look at the operation. here you can see crews at it again. authorities were guided to this location by information from contradicted killer wesley shermantine. ktvu's ken pritchett has been that search location all day and joins us now with the very latest. ken? >> reporter: we are a mile away from the search location. we can zoom in and show you where it is taking place. underneath that tree. that is where they are digging. we have close up video of the search effort. more bones have been found today and a woman's ring. >> reporter: a traffic cone blocks the road that leads to the search sight. one camera was allowed in. you can see the dig site. a 30-foot deep hole and where investigators were shifting through the dirt. >> so far we have found several bones today, different sizes. >> reporter: investigators believe remains of twenty victims could be found here and at two

. >> i'm heather holmes and so far, so good, a little more than 24 hours into the holiday weekend closure of the upper deck of the bay bridge and the work is going according to plan. ktvu's consumer editor tom vacar has been he hadetting this phase of the construction and received an update from officials who told him things are going smoothly. in a worked the word is go, for an time or early bridge open. >> reporter: thanks to good weather one of the most critical important jobs paving new lanes and repaving the old ones was mostly down before sunset. >> we still have striping to do, which is patienting on the paving and that is still several hours away, if not a day away.. removal of the part of inclined section that will clear the way for the new bridge to touch down in oakland is also going well. >> we'll continue to get as mvp of that piece that is in conflict where we want to put the new bridge out of there as possible all the way to the point we can open the structure. >> reporter: though most of the intended work is already done, the bridge will remain closed because of other jobs

. >> i'm heather holmes. >> protesters with occupy oakland are marching through the city right now and so far there appears to be, nor repeat of that vandalism that led to mass arrests one week ago. kutv's eric rasmussen is live in oakland with what he has seen so far tonight. eric. >> reporter: this is of course where they gathered earlier tonight. we want to show you a live look we have from a mobile camera that is following this crowd right now. we understand that this crowd may be about 100 pel or so west on mcarthur past webster. they have been marching for some time, but there is a live look at this march that is happen of. we can tell you it all started around 9:00. protesters appear to be make this way to oakland police headquarters bub they were blocked by a line of officers around 8th street and suddenly turned arund. the march has remained peaceful and i can tell you there have been chants of nonviolence. however, i should say it did not start that way tonight when three or four people with their faces covered threw a bottle of urine and a piece of wood at another news tract

. >> i am heather holmes. >> new details, ktvu channel 2 news obtained with loren herzog. the video sheds new light on the crimes committed by loren herzog and wesley shermantine. loren herzog committed suicide last month, they were dubbed the "speed freak killers." and are believed to be responsible for 20 killings. investigators unearthed remains based on maps drawn by wesley shermantine. only on 2, amer lee joins us now with the tapes she has been sorting through. >> reporter: since friday i have been going through the videotapes that were given to us. they chronicle interviews that started on the day wesley shermantine was arrested -- loren herzog was arrested. they document interrogations that take place over five days and he reveals more details. she showed detectives how wesley shermantine attacked a womb loren herzog was friends with. [ inaudible interview ] >> reporter: loren herzog paints wayne wesley shermantine as a cold blood killer. he said he killed as many as 24 people and admits he was with him for some of the crimes. he revealed the location of a abandon

reporting live tonight, i'm heather holmes. >>> that 23-year-old suspect now behind bars is tony duwith. his son was 18-year-olds old when he identified as a schizophrenic. >> our system is such that you go in, they shove them with anti psychotics and put them out again. >>> in nine minutes, a bay area neighborhood targeted by vandals. the clues police have in their search for whoever is launching rocks into people's homes. >>> a third marine is said to face court marshal tomorrow for haying a marine who killed himself. lance corporate harry lew committed suicide. just hours before that he was assaulted and humiliated by three marines because lew fell asleep on duty. one of those marines pleaded guilty. the other was demoted. harry lew's family is angry. >> don't think justice has been served. what's hard is to see what's the best outcome from this and that is that the military changes its attitude toward hazing. >> reporter: another asian american soldier private danny chin also committed suicide allegedly after ongoing hazing also in afghanistan. the court marshal is set for tomorrow

ktvu's heather holmes is live now in brentwood where one of the victim social -- where one of the victimsacing eviction. >> reporter: the family that was planing to make this house his home for the next year has been ordered to leave. investigators say this is the con man, 62-year-old alfonso salazar behind the major rental scheme. >> i have no words for him. >> reporter: roberto leon moved his family into this house on altesa drive back in december after signing a rental agreement drafted by salazar. turns out salazar isn't the property owner or authorized realtor. something a family realized the day after they moved in. >> a real estate agent comes and he brings two cops over saying that he was getting ready to sell the house. what was i doing here. i told him well i had just rented the house. >> reporter: leon connected a d.a. who connected the dots. soon they began an investigation. >> reporter: salazar who's real estate license expired last year illegally claimed ownership of foreclosed and vacant houses such as this 70 -- house. >> he knew how to communicate. how to talk the languag

we begin with heather holmes who has the arguments for and against. >> reporter: julie, it was nearly eight years ago to the day when thousands of couples rushed here to city hall. ever since, san francisco has fought for marriage equality, and tonight, there is joy at today's decision. >> reporter: this berkeley couple sued to overturn california's ban on same-sex marriage. >> for so long, gay and lesbian couples, families, and kids have endured discrimination. brick by brick, these walls of discrimination are being dismantled. >> reporter: proposition 8, the voter approved ban, is unconstitutional. >> in this country, we do not put basic civil rights to a vote of the people. and the court of appeals came through as the district court before it had done and said is this not america. >> reporter: but the decision immediately drew the ire 've those opposed to gay marriage who said it was un-american to deny the rights of voters. >> there's always disappointment when you have the judges overruling the will of the people. >> reporter: another appeal is expected. >> marriage equality is t

reporting live tonight here in oakland, heather holmes, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> in oakland's chinatown today, a call to occupy protesters. no more violence. seniors in chinatown have lost a sense of security since the occupy protests began. community leaders say the demonstrations are especially hard on the elderly. some of whom moved here after leaving situations of war and chaos. >> they hit a helicopter. the sirens, and all the activities that they saw. just reminding them, many, many bad experiences. many expressing, they have deep issues physically and mentally. >> the protests have greatly hurt business right in the middle of the chinese new year's celebrations. >>> now to the race for the president. a fresh start for rick santorum after he won two republican cusses last night. he -- caucuses last night. he raised more than a million dollars today. in texas today, santorum stressed his conservative credentials, but criticizing yesterday's prop 8 ruling, around attacking supporters of same sex marriage. >> they want their world view to be imposed without question. if you question

ktvu's heather holmes is live now in brentwood where one of the victim social -- where one of the victimsfacing eviction. >> reporter: the family that was planing to make this house his home for the next year has been ordered to leave. investigators say this is the con man, 62-year-old alfonso salazar behind the major rental scheme. >> i have no words for him. >> reporter: roberto leon moved his family into this house on altesa drive back in december after signing a rental agreement drafted by salazar. turns out salazar isn't the property owner or authorized realtor. something a family realized the day after they moved in. >> a real estate agent comes and he brings two cops over saying that he was getting ready to sell the house. what was i doing here. i told him well i had just rented the house. >> reporter: leon connected a d.a. who connected the dots. soon they began an investigation. >> reporter: salazar who's real estate license expired last year illegally claimed ownership of foreclosed and vacant houses such as this 70 -- house. >> he knew how to communicate. how to talk the langua

we begin with heather holmes who has the arguments for and against. >> reporter: julie, it was nearly eight years ago to the day when thousands of couples rushed here to city hall. ever since, san francisco has fought for marriage equality, and tonight, there is joy at today's decision. >> reporter: this berkeley couple sued to overturn california's ban on same-sex marriage. >> for so long, gay and lesbian couples, families, and kids have endured discrimination. brick by brick, these walls of discrimination are being dismantled. >> reporter: proposition 8, the voter approved ban, is unconstitutional. >> in this country, we do not put basic civil rights to a vote of the people. and the court of appeals came through as the district court before it had done and said is this not america. >> reporter: but the decision immediately drew the ire 've those opposed to gay marriage who said it was un-american to deny the rights of voters. >> there's always disappointment when you have the judges overruling the will of the people. >> reporter: another appeal is expected. >> marriage equality is t

reporting live tonight, i'm heather holmes. >>> that 23-year-old suspect now behind bars is tony duwith. his son was 18-year-olds old when he identified as a schizophrenic. >> our system is such that you go in, they shove them with anti psychotics and put them out again. >>> in nine minutes, a bay area neighborhood targeted by vandals. the clues police have in their search for whoever is launching rocks into people's homes. >>> a third marine is said to face court marshal tomorrow for haying a marine who killed himself. lance corporate harry lew committed suicide. just hours before that he was assaulted and humiliated by three marines because lew fell asleep on duty. one of those marines pleaded guilty. the other was demoted. harry lew's family is angry. >> don't think justice has been served. what's hard is to see what's the best outcome from this and that is that the military changes its attitude toward hazing. >> reporter: another asian american soldier private danny chin also committed suicide allegedly after ongoing hazing also in afghanistan. the court marshal is set for tomorrow

reporting live tonight in oakland, heather holmes, ktvu, channel 2 news. ♪ [ music ] >>> it was warmay. not like february at all, we had record warmth throughout parts of the bay area. a warm spot was santa rosa, 79 degrees. livermore broke a record as well. the santa rosa airport actually reached 80 degrees today. 10 to 15 degrees warmer than they were yesterday. some areas almost 20 degrees warmer. as we head forward into tomorrow, we've got a wind advisory that goes into effect. i'll show you the places that that will affect the most, and when the winds will begin to die down. see you back here. >>> a bay area newspaper says it has determined the identity of the police officer who caused the injury to an iraq war veteran. they reviewed ktvu video of the october 25 clash and oakland police records. the war veteran was injured when he was hit in the head by a projectile, apparently fired by police. the express says it's determined that officer is robert roche. roche has previously been involved in three deadly shootings. oakland police declined comment, saying the investigation is o

reporting live tonight here in oakland, heather holmes, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> in oakland's chinatown today, a call to occupy protesters. no more violence. seniors in chinatown have lost a sense of security since the occupy protests began. community leaders say the demonstrations are especially hard on the elderly. some of whom moved here after leaving situations of war and chaos. >> they hit a helicopter. the sirens, and all the activities that they saw. just reminding them, many, many bad experiences. many expressing, they have deep issues physically and mentally. >> the protests have greatly hurt business right in the middle of the chinese new year's celebrations. >>> now to the race for the president. a fresh start for rick santorum after he won two republican cusses last night. he -- caucuses last night. he raised more than a million dollars today. in texas today, santorum stressed his conservative credentials, but criticizing yesterday's prop 8 ruling, around attacking supporters of same sex marriage. >> they want their world view to be imposed without question. if you question

. >>> fed up with big banks, berkeley is looking to put its money where its mouth is: heather holmes tonight's meeting where the city council took a bold $300 million step, heather. >> reporter: julie, the city's multi million dollars account could soon be coming to a small community bank like mechanics bank. the city council voted not to automatically renew the city's contract with its current bid bank which expires at the end of the year. wells fargo has been targeted by protesters. seeing individuals including this woman pulled their personal account. >> i did a few months ago because i felt like it was the right thing to do. >> reporter: even berkeley's major left the big bank. >> i removed my money from wells fargo recently. >> reporter: now the financial institution is at risk of losing the city of berkeley as a customer. >> edson. >> yes. >> reporter: the council tonight voting to explore other options to take over its $300 million account. >> when you look at moving our money to a bank that represents our community's values. >> reporter: jesse arreguin says wells fargo was at

. >>> fed up with big banks, berkeley is looking to put its money where its mouth is: heather holmes tonight's meeting where the city council took a bold $300 million step, heather. >> reporter: julie, the city's multi million dollars account could soon be coming to a small community bank like mechanics bank. the city council voted not to automatically renew the city's contract with its current bid bank which expires at the end of the year. wells fargo has been targeted by protesters. seeing individuals including this woman pulled their personal account. >> i did a few months ago because i felt like it was the right thing to do. >> reporter: even berkeley's major left the big bank. >> i removed my money from wells fargo recently. >> reporter: now the financial institution is at risk of losing the city of berkeley as a customer. >> edson. >> yes. >> reporter: the council tonight voting to explore other options to take over its $300 million account. >> when you look at moving our money to a bank that represents our community's values. >> reporter: jesse arreguin says wells fargo was at

reporting live tonight in oakland, heather holmes, ktvu, channel 2 news. ♪ [ music ] >>> it was warmay. not like february at all, we had record warmth throughout parts of the bay area. a warm spot was santa rosa, 79 degrees. livermore broke a record as well. the santa rosa airport actually reached 80 degrees today. 10 to 15 degrees warmer than they were yesterday. some areas almost 20 degrees warmer. as we head forward into tomorrow, we've got a wind advisory that goes into effect. i'll show you the places that that will affect the most, and when the winds will begin to die down. see you back here. >>> a bay area newspaper says it has determined the identity of the police officer who caused the injury to an iraq war veteran. they reviewed ktvu video of the october 25 clash and oakland police records. the war veteran was injured when he was hit in the head by a projectile, apparently fired by police. the express says it's determined that officer is robert roche. roche has previously been involved in three deadly shootings. oakland police declined comment, saying the investigation is o

i'm heather holmes. >> i'm ken wayne. we're on early today because of our coverage of the chinese new year parade. they come from far and wide to see the largest chinese new year's parade outside asia. anticipation is building for the year of the dragon. jade. >> reporter: the parade is expected to start officially at 5:15. you can see people have already lined the sidewalks. this is at second and mark. this is where the parade is expected to start. look at all the smiling faces. it's a beautiful day out here. if any of you remember last year there were some sprinkles and rain but everyone is enjoying the wonderful weather here. this parade kicks off the new lunar year. >> is it important for you guys to see the china town parade? >> yes. >> and why? >> because we like -- because it's the year of the dragon. >> reporter: now, we watched as audrey and her sons took pictures near one of the dragons making its debut. we spoke to the group in charge of this dragon. more than 80 kids, many of them immigrants, volunteered to wa

heather holmes. >> reporter: there were big plans for the piers here at the foot of brian street but organizers backed away from this site saying that it's because of the tight time frame. opposition didn't help either. there will be no dramatic over hall of this part of the waterfront now that the development plans have been thrown out. >> we have agreed that the pier's 30 and 32 will no longer be leased for this event, immediate discussions for development fort. >> reporter: the mayor said this major part of the deal was abandoned after weeks of contention house negotiations. america's cup officials had planned to spend $55 million on improvements in exchange for long term development rights. today both sides said time has run out to address all the issues that have come up. >> when we looked at where we were at, where the city was at, ourselves were at, we came to the decision that maybe this is the best way. >> reporter: the decaying pirs were going to be renovated. instead the challengers will be based further south. >> there are many of us asking questions about this. >> report

heather holmes. >> reporter: there were big plans for the piers here at the foot of brian street butfrom this site saying that it's because of the tight time frame. opposition didn't help either. there will be no dramatic over hall of this part of the waterfront now that the development plans have been thrown out. >> we have agreed that the pier's 30 and 32 will no longer be leased for this event, immediate discussions for development fort. >> reporter: the mayor said this major part of the deal was abandoned after weeks of contention house negotiations. america's cup officials had planned to spend $55 million on improvements in exchange for long term development rights. today both sides said time has run out to address all the issues that have come up. >> when we looked at where we were at, where the city was at, ourselves were at, we came to the decision that maybe this is the best way. >> reporter: the decaying pirs were going to be renovated. instead the challengers will be based further south. >> there are many of us asking questions about this. >> reporter: board of supervisor'

. >> i'm heather holmes. firefighters vallejo and beyond battled a massive fire at an abandoned warehouse. deborah talked to officials who say that homeless people may be responsible. >> reporter: smoke is still rising. these ruins are still burning. almost eight hours later as you can see all that's left are the support beams from the huge building. firefighters watched as this old warehouse melted away. four stories, 150,000 square feet. it was empty and away from other structures so. >> it's not worth risking firefighters lives to go in and try to make an attack. >> reporter: instead they doused it from a distance and posted crews to watch for spot fires. the warehouse built in the 40s was condemned and due for demolition but fire did it first and more dramaticly. >> this thing was built they built things good then. there is a lot of wood in there. all that -- real dry boost. >> they used it for just storage of just about anything. >> reporter: those who have been inside the warehouse recall wood beams coa

. >> i'm heather holmes. construction work is going well on the bay bridge. two days into the holiday weekend closure of the upper deck and caltrans said there is a possibility it could reopen ahead of schedule. officials are giving updates on that work that's taking place. let's go head now and listen to caltrans spokesman. >> we want to thank our partners including bart, ac transit, muni, alameda, golden gate and vallejo ferry, west cat, amtrak, greyhound, oakland, the city and county of san francisco, and the entire bay area for working with us on that. i read that long list to give you an idea of how many agencies and groups had to get together to do this. we also want to thank mcm for putting together a great team and finishing their work early. we want to ask greg allen to come up and say a couple words. greg, allen, allen. i. >> i just want to thank my team that organized this group and i want to thank hour subcontractors, danny's crackers, bay cities, cleveland wrecking, acc, crisp company, far west, and bleco electric who all preformed their work dil