lawrence expressway. we want to check in with janine who is on the scene. it looks like they have a little bit of a handle on it. >> yes, i just spoke with the captain here on scene, he told me they are starting to get a handle on this fire, so it has not spread on any other buildings. he was feeling more positive in the last few minutes. you can see not as much fire is standing out there. even in a matter of 15 minutes the last time i hit the air, before you can see the signs on the strip mall, now they are gone. this fire started at 3:00 this morning, firefighters arrived on scene and this quickly grew, it seemed the fire was trapped behind what's called the mansur, where the signs were, it was acting as a fire tunnel. originally the firefighters were inside the building, but it got too dangerous, now they are attacking it from the outside. they have a ladder up, spraying water on one side of the building, it's an l shaped building. on the other side they have an engine, it seems firefighters are keepin

we're looking at el camino real at lawrence expressway. here's lawrence expressway. this is where the fire is at that l shaped building there. you can see, the fire equipment is tricking our road censors into thinking there's a lot of slow traffic. there's a lot of stopped vehicles between here and here and traffic is not getting through. avoid this area in the south bay, show it to you here. it's right here in the general south buy a -- south bay picture. you can see the rest of the south way are doing well. >> let's look at what we have, we have a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, that commute looks good, no major issues as you drive through. traffic is moving well. if you're coming on interstate 80 from the car queenis bridge that traffic looks good. at 5:19. let's go to steve. cloudy. just like that it's dark. partly sunny, partly sunny for the padres and giants today. 60 degrees, west at 20. at&t gets sun. we have shower activity that popped up yesterday that is more focused south. there's a westerly component for everybody here. 50s on the temps, low for novat

this is east of lawrence expressway. please avoid this area, if you need to come here, we'll stay on top of this and follow it. right now a relatively dangerous situation for firefighters because they can't get a handle on it at this moment. >> can you tell us, it's such a big fire, are their homes near by or schools or anything in danger? >> right now, it doesn't appear so, it's not a residential area. it's a main strip here. this is a lot of businesses. liquor store, mom and pop shops, on either side of it is businesses and other strip malls. >> what about the wind, hopefully wind isn't a factor. what's the weather hike? >> -- like. >> right now it feels calm. i'm looking at trees, nothing is moving and i don't feel a breeze. the palm trees next to it which hopefully don't catch fire, i don't know if you can see how chose they are, that's what's pushing the palm trees next to it. as we're watching this you can see the parts of the building we see things falling in the building. it looks like in the middle of theel can

this is a strip mall on el camino real east of the lawrence expressway. the area is closed. we will track it for you. >> now if you like to camp you will want to so what is happening. can you imagine, being in the tent and this is your view? do you see what it is? it is no little kitty, a couple of lions, licking water off of the tenth with a downpour and they decided in would be their water bowl. the lions completely ignored the camper who was video taping this and somehow remained calm and quiet during the moment. she said the experience was "a privilege," and i would say a riff to be alive. >> big cats to dogs today is the deadline for people to come up with a proposal to limit dog areas in the going going recreational area limiting off league dogs to seven spots include crissy field and ocean beach. the national park service said this is to protect wildlife and make the park more enjoyable foreign. a decision is expected later this year. >> two young bay area spelling wizards are could beating at the national spelling bee. a 14-year-old, varsha, is a student in san ramon

here's lawrence expressway. to the east over here some folks familiar with the area, chili's is over here. another restaurant, jack in the box is over here off pomeroy. it's a huge scene, use grenada as an alternate. it should affect folks riding the bus as well, in any case, we're looking at the live shot here. this is what's going on, look at that huge structure again, use grenada a little to the south, get through the local traffic. we will continue to follow that. that's the big deal in the south bay. we have your morning commute, just shy of 680, this stretch outside of our camera's view, i'll have more details coming up. >> mike, thank you very much. talking about travel as the summer travel season starts to heat up. tsa finds itself in the hot seat. today a top administrator will testify about long lines that are enrageing airline passengers. this week they announced the replacement and a centralized command team at tsa headquarters. airlines are still encouraging people to arrive three hours for travel.

>>robin winston: this is 3402 alchemy the riyal closed in both directions between lawrence expresswayeal. >>robin winston: stay away from the stretch altogether they have about three of four blocks you can use central expressway in homestead to get around it of you want to stick with the free wrapped between 11, and 280, you can use either to get into and out of the south of the--south bay. >>reporter: sondra's along the coast would it went to walk this dual cup of a wave through to the size as a mecca major progress and a large brush fire burning in monterey county will have an update. >>darya: a massive fire that is burning right now involved in several businesses and santa clara you can see we're live on the scene suggested from every angle the fire as a way bigger than they can handle the smoke coming from and huge claims come from the building. >>will tran: the fire was a good head start they were notified they don't know who called the ban but this started before 3:00 they saw smoke and the first instinct is to go and look for anyone to rescue in the process the rule that out no

if you usually take el camino real, this is a stretch of it east of lawrence expressway. keep in mind it is shut down right now in both directions between vista and pomeroy as firefighters are fighting a four-alarm fire at a shopping center in the area. it's just that stretch of the 34 00 belong of el camino real shut down to traffic. south bay freeways still okay all in the green no traffic delays as of yet for north 101, 280 is light approaching downtown san jose. and the guadalupe parkway in that northbound direction clocking in at a quick 88 minutes -- 8-minute drive between highway 85 and 101. if you plan to make the nimitz commute there is roadwork southbound approaching 29th. you can tell from these live pictures traffic is still flowing well in both directions. >>> new video of an officer- involved shooting in palo alto shows how tough it is to think quickly when a suspect has a knife. this footage from last christmas shows a man wielding a knife and rushing towards police officers. they shot and killed him on the street. sfpd lost its chief over officer-involved

it's east of lawrence expressway on the left side of your screen. i've circled the area where the fire is located on the 3400 block. that's between there is a jack in the box for local landmarks there. >> that stretch is likely closed off for all traffic because there are so many crews out there grenada should have you take you over the scene. we are tracking the specifics. look at the live scene. they're getting that fire out by the time you get there, the crews the cleanup all the water will cause that local jam. the rest of the bay is a smooth drive. back to you. >> firefighters will stay out there some time mopping up as well, you got breaking news alerts, download our nbc bay area app. >>> now to developing news, and yet another freeway shooting in contra kosta county to report. this happening at about 9:00 right by the exit in hercules. chp says one person was shot in the leg. we don't know the condition of the victim. the heater is was driving a car with tinted windows. there have been more than 20 shootings just since move. bob redell will j

it's already flowing on to el camino east of lawrence expressway between that expressway and pomeroy. no word what caused this fire. as you heard, about eight businesses damaged. they are trying to save the remaining four. so it's been pretty devastating for the business owners who have shown up and basically have seen their livlihoods destroyed. >> janine de la vega. thank you. we will keep checking back with you. >>> let's go to weather. we will talk more about what's happening not only there at the scene of the fire and around the bay. >> cloudy and the fog is in there. there is not a heck of a breeze here. san jose is not showing that much of a breeze. i looked around the area and i can hardly find anything over seven miles an hour. a lot of fog in place. there is a big fog bank. we will be slow to recover from this coast and bay today. west-southwest san jose. at the airport five. livermore, everybody is in on a westerly breeze. day baseball. at&t usually gets sun. in the worst case of a fog bank, that's what we have. upper 50s or low 60s. a westerly breeze in place. low clouds u

south of the lawrence expressway is blocked. that's an area to avoid. let's look at what we have with other commutes. the east bay commute is not too bad, there's congestion on 24 westbound past the lafayette bart station. things are getting more crowded. at the bay bridge toll plaza we have a crowd, it's a between to 20 minute delay. and in the east bay, westbound 580 traffic is busy at the altamonte pass. 580 is slow in the area. we have a couple incidents in san ramon, not major incidents, traffic is impacted a little bit. we're not seeing a lot of activity. >>> 6:20, let's go to steve. >>> a big fog bank in place, a fine mist from southern marin county into san francisco around oakland as well. some around berkeley, and the low cloud deck making a push here. temperature will stay on the cool side. day baseball today. padres, giants, 12:45. good morning, current conditions 56, clouds, no breeze. it will be warmer, it won't be hot, hot, but warmer, that includes the coast as well. we have some shower activity possible, souther

under control but is still pretty smoky traffic is slow to divert traffic away as i between lawrence expresswayf you can do central expressway our homestead road as the alternate route of the move and credit what you live or work in the area are used to bust the winds along a stretch expect minor delays for the 22 in the 522 to there being recalled on the street closures. >>robin winston: vote to side to bathtub enough about coming out in danville south of town if you that direction it will be slow in walnut creek way back in the 24 split as checks more drive times quickly to reform the is great to commit traffic is out of the with 14 minutes and talk to concord no problems in the livermore valley still of the moderate 14 minutes from moscow to the government and to change because of all the earlier accidents on 115 and one in san jose "another on the mountain view side that is what an uptown drive times still high 55 minutes from the 85 split, of south san jose up to 37 and some of them. >>reporter: men is potentially worth noting about the ball game has meant an at&t park into its market and

on el camino real near lawrence expressway.se are getting a better handle on it but several businesses are completely lost. >> it started three hours ago and you can see there are still big flames. el camino is closed between flora vista and nobilli and business owners are just showing up. we will have a report in a few minute. >> now, do you see what is on the scene? imagine being in a tent and a couple of lions approach. a woman camping in africa captured this video of two lions licking water east tent after a downpour. the lions completely ignored the catch are who somehow was videotaping the whole thing. she said the experience was "a riff," and i will say it is a privilege they were not hungry. >> two young bay area spelling wizards are competing at the scripps national spelling bee. one student from san ramon, and a grateful-year-old student from san jose. both students are going to be presented at the competition in maryland with the preliminaries starting today and finals are tomorrow and they are broadcast on espn. >>

this is on el camino real near lawrence expressway. it destroyed about 7 neighboring businesses. it's hard to tell which one since the signs are gone. this is a strip mall with a dozen collection of korean and indian businesses. the chief says one of the challenges is access to the building. it's had renovations over the years like facades and extra walls and rooms added making it harder to get inside. >> we have fires up to 7 alarms in my career here. four alarms on the scene now and one to help us cover the city. we have department of public safety and county fire department here in santa clara to help us out. >> reporter: the chief says they called aid in early so firefighters are rotating out. it's been an exhausting morning but they are getting help from neighboring cities. in the past couple of minutes we have seen this smoke plume just grow and darken so we are not sure what's going on there. but they are going to be here at least a couple more hours. if you are heading here this morning for work or school stay away. the el camino real is closed between nobili and flora vi

huge strip mall fire at el camino east of lawrence expressway. take a look at the photos on the right of the screen there. these flames were leaping out of this building. at least 12 businesses are in there. we don't know what has been spared so far, in any. firefighters are using drone technology. now to fly over the site of that fire to try to determine how it started. no injuries to report. a lot of outside agencies in the santa chara fire in this fight. chris sanchez will join us live. >>> another flyer, only on nbc. it's a miracle that nobody was injured in this one. an east san jose family alive because a stranger driving by saw the smoke coming out of the house and went banging on the door. >> as i got close to the hour, i could see under the eaves the whole attic blowing orange to the fire. so i started pounding on doors as loud as i could. >> he did the right thing. he happened to be driving home, late monday night. he saw the house was on fire. he brought this to you as breaking news yesterday. he was able get everyone out safely. >> th

he will camino east of lawrence expressway was closed for several hours. it is back open now and fire crews will be here for most of the days doing mop up and conducting their investigation. >> back to you. >> janine, did any of them talk about having insurance to get the financial help to rebuild. >> loft janine -- loss janine right there. >>> the santa clara county attorney will not be charging them in this case. the officer shot and killed 31-year-old william raff and the officers responded after he called 911 and falsely claimed that a man was threatening other patients. the police officers were threatened by him who charged at them with a knife. there was a dash cam video taken from one angle. it shows him charges at one officer. what is next is graphic and disturbing. so we stopped the video just before the police officers fired the fatal shots. >> this is a million broadway father -- milbray father, her boyfriend. and their friend oliver odella are accused of killing keith green. lee and green have two young daughters. he was last seep alive at the

early this morning near lawrence expressway, firefighters needed all the resources they could get. we were the first news crew on the scene and captured much of the destruction. firefighters initially went into the building just before 3:00 a.m. the fire had moved into the attic and was spreading. they got out just in time. >> we're risk our lives to save someone inside. we evaluate the risk. we determine it's time to back out and goes into defensive exterior fire fight here. >> reporter: they were destroyed. businesses are more than just buildings. they're people. >> it's devastating for all the business owners here. >> reporter: the fire started inside the indian restaurant. right now it's too hot for fire marshals to go in and start looking for the cause of this fire. >>> firefighters using a drone over the fire this morning to get a better view of the damage and possibly get a look at evidence they can't see from the ground. a volunteer firefighter launched that drone this morning. they can see it live on the display. officials try to figure out the cause of the origin of this

if you take el camino real, this is just east of lawrence expressway adjacent to the shopping center, closed between nobili and flora vista. we just checked in with vta. none of the lines or rude are affected as of this point but this could certainly changes. if it does we'll pass it on. the bay bridge toll plaza still looking good. so it's a light drive leaving oakland heading into san francisco. no delays there. before you get there, 80 through berkeley and emeryville, westbound traffic flowing well. no major delays there approaching university. that's a look at "kcbs traffic." now to roberta. >> so many people asking me what the heck is going on with our weather? it's so cool. it's so blustery. right now gray slate towards the city by the bay, the city of san francisco where the temperatures aren't really bad. 55 now in san francisco and santa rosa. otherwise 58 apiece in oakland and in redwood city. it's 57 in san jose where the winds are kicking up out of the southwest at 6 miles per hour there. otherwise, 10 in pleasanton. when you factor in the 10-mile- per-hour wind or that 15

. >> it happened on a gated drive on lawrence expressway in santa clara. it all started with a knife attack that plan about 7:00. police say a 57-year-old stabbed a neibor at his apartment building. other neighbors came rung out of near homes after hearing scream screams. >> i always make nice. i see well behind me. i didn't know what to do. i just make them go back, back, back. >> the suspect ended up barricadeing himself in his own apartment following that stabbing and after hours of negotiations, a s.w.a.t. team eventually moved in, using flash bangs and pepper gas to coax the suspect out. the stabbing victim was hospitalized and is expected to be okay. this morning there is shock and sadness after a football player died at a high school in alameda yesterday that player collapsed and later passed away. they are not telling us how he died. >>> protesters devended upon city hall city hall releasing the video by those who want the police chief fired. officials say demonstrators broke windows and broke decorative iron work. >> it had damage to this historic

it then erupted in the mall near lawrence expressway. it escalated to five alarms, destroyed 7 businesses, even though crews dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons on the flames for hours. the vegetarian indian restaurant is destroyed. the owner says he has no plan b. >> everything is gone. so that's it. >> reporter: firefighters soaked the edges of the fire to cool things down and to cope it from spreading to neighboring buildings and stayed on the roof of the round hill dance studio to hold the land. donna's business was one of the lucky ones. >> inches away. the firefighters worked hard to contain it. they are amazing. >> reporter: all righty. the santa clara fire department deployed a drone over the building as it was heavily smoking this morning. it's a phantom one of the most consumer grade drones on the market and this is one of the first times we have seen one used by a fire department. we are working to get that footage today. tune in at 5:00 and 6:00 to see it for yourself. back out here live, you can see the facade has crumbl

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. >> this is happening on el camino real close to the lawrence expressway. matt has been there all morning long. what is the latest? >> it has been more than three hours since the fire was called in. now you can see the progress firefighters are making. probably ten minutes ago i spoke with the fire chief. he said they moved the fire truck to this side of the building because they needed pore ladder support. the goal is to get the flames out in this corner. then they will consider the fire contained. hoping it will take place in the next 15 minutes. there are firefighters on the roof. they have a lot of water going on to the roof, and they trying to keep this fire from spreading to the strip mall and keeping the flames away from that section of strip mall. here is video, you can see how huge the flames were, a five alarm fire, they had help from sunnyvale and they had help from the county, as well, at the scene. fires say it was too dangerous to go inside. they pulled out. much 6 the facade came down. fires were concerned about people inside but they made th

gutted eight businesses of the dozen inside the rancho shopping center on el camino real near lawrence expressway. reporter wayne freedman has a look at the lives that changed as a result of this tragedy. >> reporter: in the rancho shopping center, the line dividing businesses that burned and those that survived is wet, charred, and smoky. >> all their hard work is up in smoke. devastating. >> reporter: the early morning five-alarm fire lit up the sky and burned well past dawn. it appears to have begun in the front. it burned through eight businesses. this person owned a jewelry store for 35 years. >> i'm taking my family, wherever it's going to be. >> reporter: the owners waited behind yellow tape most of the day. >> i'm dying to get? >> reporter: you can't go in because? >> it's not safe. >> done nan owns a dance studio. >> i have costumes in there sets, props, music. my first priority is to get all of that so we can still work and continue to have our show in a couple of weeks. >> reporter: late this afternoon, some students volunteered to help pull stuff out. they had only a few minutes. >> h

. >> it happened on el camino royale near lawrence expressway. wayne freedman is there live with the latest. wayne? >> reporter: well, it's the rancho shopping center and behind me what one business owner described as remnants of the american dream, all small businesses,ç businesses that people bought, built up, workeì% hard on,q eight small businesse all burned this morning. it was an early morning five-alarm fire that lit up the sky and burnedor for hours a blaze that appears to have begun in the front of the rancho shopping center and then worked its way back through one small business after another. vern na owned a jewelry store, had been here for 35 years. minute by minute, hour after hour, of rating. this is how it was for business owners through most of the day. yellow tape kept them back. >> i'm dying to get in. >> reporter: they tell you can't go in because? >> it's not safe. >> reporter: donna ma ruk ka owns a dance studio on the fringe of the damage. she's likely to have damage. >> i have costumes in there, sets, props, music. my firs

it appears the fire destroyed seven businesses in the complex of el camino real east of lawrence expressway> the sharks need one more win to reach the stanley cup finals for the first time and they can do it tonight in san jose as they host the st. louis blues at 6:00 at s.a.p. center. the pregame rally is at 3 p.m. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning" is the u.s. prepared for the zika virus?! >>> stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment. ,,,,,, >>> i'm liza battalones. very heavy traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza. we'll start off there. metering lights are on. 43-minute drive time between the carquinez bridge and the maze. the toll plaza backup extending beyond the foot of the maze this morning. the accident in san jose north 880 before the alameda, it's finally been cleared from lanes but northbound traffic still very heavy beyond the 280 interchange. in santa clara, remember, because of that major fire, el camino real still shut down between nobili and flora vista. it is affecting vta bus lines, 522 and 22. >>> good morning, everybody. from our kpix 5 studios in san francisco

top of your screen, mission boulevard all the way past auto mall. 237 a crash has cleared at lawrence expresswayplaza still sticked around. >> could be that way a while. see you again in a half hour. >>> taking a look at the headlines. the ntsb is holding a hearing today on last year's crash of an amtrak train outside philadelphia that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others. ntsb investigators say they believe the engineer was distracted by radio traffic from a regional train that had just reported being hit by some sort of object. they say the engineer forgot where he was and blew through the signs warning him to slow down into the curve. >>> and your sunscreen might not be giving you as much protection as the label says it will. consumer reports tested dozens of water-resistant sunscreens with spfs of 30 or higher. it found nearly half did not meet natheir spf claims. 3/4 of natural sunscreens fell short. consumer report says pick sunscreen with an spf of 40 or more, and you should get at least the minimum protection needed. >>> more evidence this morning on the benefits of exerc

lawrence expressway axis is okay from what we understand.est of the southboy, they are rerouted a few blocks. the area crashes are clearing up there. the bay bridge, in fact, there may be clearing in treasure island. >> we have clouds. we are looking at the view over mount hamilton, a nice start to the day. temperatures in the mid- to upper-50s, headed into the 60s and 70s today. we get a lot more sunshine later on this afternoon. a high of 66 degrees, to be expected in petaluma and dublin. 72 degrees, our temperatures warm over the next several days, heating up into the mid-80s for this weekend holiday weekend, laura. >> it should beifies, thanks so much. >>> another local news update in half an hour. see you then. ♪ >>> 7:30 now. 25th, 2016. now, you've heard about this post-it note war between rival office buildings here in manhattan. this morning, big news, the war has come here to 30 rock. we'll show you what these post-it geniuses are creating for us in just a minute. >> we'll find out what the creation is. >>> several large tornados r

expressway through this point at broad street. local vine is busy but might be the better option for you. >>> also have a crash in the fairhill section of the city involving a pedestrian at lawrence and lehigh there by the elementary school. crash on the schuylkill eastbound by girard has cleared out so that's good news. but the tacony palmyra bridge getting set for an opening in just about 10 minutes so i would head for the betsy ross instead. there's a crash on the turnpike eastbound past willow grove just pushed off to the side but slowing as you approach that accident scene. still have the vehicle into the creek along mill road. also the crash by famous auto sales at jacksonville road and the wet weather moving through the area into bucks county and mercer county as well. what wase we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> thank you. >>> much more still ahead on "action news at 5:00 the the clock is ticking for investigators. search for flight recorders days after flight 804 crashed. >> plus a big announcement on president obama on his trip to vietnam when "action news at 5:00 comes right back. >> ♪ >> it is the mystery that continues over the crash of egyptair flight 80