where i'm standing now, things look relatively back to normal at the martinez refining company, but mrc is warning people they may see smoke and intermittent flaring until further notice. fire and black smoke filling the air around martinez refining company on saturday, justin gomez, a member of a community refinery accountability group, was home when he got an air quality alert at 2:00 p.m., roughly 15 minutes after the fire started. >> i went out my front door and saw massive columns of black smoke. >> reporter: gomez could hear rumbling coming from mrc's direction and his kids were afraid. >> my daughter grabbed her stuffies and threw some family pictures in a play purse and said she wanted to leave. so that's what we did. >> reporter: they went to concord and got frozen yogurt as a distraction, but they were still stressed out. >> they were asking me if we were going to be able to come home. >> reporter: the fire was caused by a leak of hydrocarbon materials two workers found during planned maintenance. workers evacuated as the materials caught fire. hundreds of pounds of sulfur dio

npr energy releasing this statement to ktvu, saying, quote, mrc did not receive reports of odors prioro the incident when routine work was being done to prepare for planned maintenance. we have no reason to believe the odor complaints made before the fire occurred were related to the incident. all right, valentine's day at city hall, we go to san francisco, where ven the mayor was i guess what i' m looking for from you is, i mean, i know how the fire affected me, and there's always a constant fear that who's to say something like that won't happen again? that's fair. we committed to underground, 10,000 miles of electric line. you look back at where we were 10 years ago and we are in a completely different place today, and it's because of how we need to care for our communities and our customers. i hope that's true. [joe] that's my commitment. [ambient noise] attention. this all star weekend will be on the action on the court, well off the court. the nba is trying to make communities better. today, inside san francisco's bret hart elementary school, students broke in their newly renovat

i hear frustration and their upset and they as though that mrc is not transparent. and so they need to be transparent with the community supervisor shanelle skills. preston has been in office for a month. >> but as a longtime resident of the area, she says residents deserve far better and watch the is the community. >> and i'm worried about, you know, the health i about the health impacts far. montana's. >> but also from a neighboring communities. >> a shelter-in-place was issued for residents nearby. martinez pacheco and clyde following the fire. in addition to health concerns from the smoke, there are concerns about impacts to soil and water and the food that we we garten so. >> what are the impacts on the can we eat the that we garten? what are impacts on our water? >> the martinez refinery must release a 30 day report to the county, which is expected to share more details. the supervisor plans to have that town hall meeting between residents and refinery officials following the report. theresa kron, 4 news. >> to plummet. companies are facing a potential six-fig

the fire was reported at mrc just before 2 p.m, immediately triggering a health advisory for martinezcan feel it in my lungs a little bit, so it's not good to breathe. reporter a few hours later, the situation was upgraded to what contra costa county calls a level three alert, the highest level, and residents north of the refinery were told to shelter in place. six people are reported injured in this fire and four were hospitalized. on behalf of martinez refining company, we apologize for this incident. we know we disrupted many in the community tonight and we will be doing a thorough investigation on it. we don't want to hear we're sorry. we want answers. justin gomez says seeing the flames brought his young children to tears. gomez is part of a group of neighbors who've been speaking out against what they say are concerning incidents at the refinery since 2020, when it was bought by pbf energy until they bought the refinery. nothing ever happened that impacted our family, and i've been here 20 years and i've never seen that, so things have gotten pretty bad for that to happen. now,

i hear frustration and their upset and they as though that mrc is not transparent. and so they need to be transparent with the community supervisor shanelle skills. preston has been in office for a month. >> but as a longtime resident of the area, she says residents deserve far better the is. the community. >> and i'm worried about, you know, the health i about the health impacts far. montana's. >> but also from a neighboring communities. >> a shelter-in-place was issued for residents nearby. martinez pacheco and clyde following the fire. in addition to health concerns from the smoke, there are concerns about impacts to soil and water of the that we we garten so. >> what are the impacts on the can we eat the that we garten? what are impacts on our water? >> the martinez refinery must release a 30 day report to the county, which is expected to share more details. the supervisor plans to have that town hall meeting between residents and refinery officials following the report, theresa stasi kron, 4 news. >> chevron is planning to lay off 15 to 20% of its global workfo

i hear frustration and they're upset and they as though that >> mrc is not transparent. and so they need to be transparent with the community. >> the martinez refining company must release a 30 day report to the county, which is expected to share more details. there is a plan to town hall meeting between residents and refinery officials following that report. still ahead at 10 o'clock wet and windy weather hitting the bay area tonight. we are tracking the very latest. >> in your neighborhood. plus, east bay coffee company offering not your average cup of we'll have more on the brand where good trouble is a brewing. and after the break, another bay area safeway leaving because of concerns over safety. the grocery chain's next exit. coming up. for all those making it big out there... ...shouldn't your mobile service be able to keep up with you? get wifi speeds up to a gig at home and on the go. introducing powerboost, only from xfinity mobile. now that's big. xfinity internet customers, cut your mobile bill in half vs. t-mobile, verizon, and at&t for your first year. plus,

the fire was reported at mrc just before 2 p.m, immediately triggering a health advisory for martinez and pacheco. i can feel it in my lungs a little bit, so it's not good to breathe. a few hours later, the situation was upgraded to what contra costa county calls a level three alert, the highest level, and residents north of the refinery were told to shelter in place. six people are reported injured in this fire and four were hospitalized. on behalf of martinez refining company, we apologize for this incident. we know we disrupted many in the community tonight and we will be doing a thorough investigation on it. we don't want to hear we're sorry. we want answers. justin gomez says seeing the flames brought his young children to tears. gomez is part of a group of neighbors who've been speaking out against what they say are concerning incidents at the refinery since 2020, when it was bought by pbf energy until they bought the refinery. nothing ever happened that impacted our family, and i've been here 20 years and i've never seen that, so things have gotten pretty bad for that to happen

i hear frustration and their upset and they as though that >> mrc is not transparent. and so they need to be transparent with the community. >> and it is legislated that the martinez refinery has to release a report 30 days, many incident to the county. so we should see some more details in that. and there's a plan town hall meeting that happens between the residents of the refinery officials following the report. >> well, happening today, the east bay oakland council members are introducing an ordinance aimed at stopping multiple oakland fire stations. closing. so the new legislation will provide money that's needed to prevent additional station closures and also allow those temporary le close stations to reopen since the start of the year. councilmember ramachandran, rebecca kaplan and zac unger have been working to find all available money in the city accounts and they've been working with the open fire departments trying to dress concerns about public safety. they're going to be announcing this ordinance today at 12 30 and we'll let you know what they have to say.

i hear frustration and their upset and they as though that mrc is not transparent. and so they need to be transparent with the cocmunity supervisor shanelle skills. preston has been in office for a month. >> but as a longtime resident the area, she says residents deserve far better is. the community. >> and i'm worried about, you know, the health i about the health impacts for our martinez, but also from a neighboring communities. >> a shelter-in-place was issued for residents nearby. martinez pacheco and clyde following the fire. in addition to health concerns from the smoke, there are concerns about impacts to soil and water and the food that we we garten so. >> what are the impacts on the can we eat the that we garten? what are impacts on our water? >> the martinez refinery must release a 30 day report to the county, which is expected to share more details. the supervisor plans to have that town hall meeting between residents and refinery officials following the report, theresa kron, 4 news. >> new now at 3 o'clock. chevron plans to lay off 15 to 20% of its globa

i hear frustration and their upset and they as though that mrc is not transparent. and so they need to be transparent with the community supervisor shanelle skills. preston has been in office for a month. >> but as a longtime resident of the area, she says residents deserve far better what is. the community. >> and i'm worried about, you know, the health i about the health impacts far. montana's. >> but also from a neighboring communities. >> a shelter-in-place was issued for residents nearby. martinez pacheco and clyde following the fire. in addition to health concerns from the smoke, there are concerns about impacts to soil and water and the food that we we garten so. >> what are the impacts on the can we eat the that we garten? what are impacts on our water? >> the martinez refinery must release a 30 day report to the county, which is expected to share more details. the supervisor plans to have that town hall meeting between residents and refinery officials following the report. theresa kron, 4 news. >> chevron plans to lay off 15 to 20% of its global workforce.

i hear frustration and their upset and they as though that >> mrc is not transparent. and so they need to be transparent with the community. >> martinez refinery must release a report 30 days after the incident. that report will go to the county and it is expected to share more details. and then there's town hall meeting that's planned between residents and refinery officials to go over that report. >> happening today in the east bay, oakland council members introduced an ordinance that aims to stop multiple oakland fire stations from closing the new legislation will provide money needed to prevent additional station closures and also allow those that were temporarily close, all ready to reopen since the start of the year. various council members have been working to find available money and come up with a solution and addressed the public concerns about this. they're going to be announcing that ordinance at 12, 30 today. also in oakland restaurant launched by a well-known chef matt horn, his restaurant cal bird has closed. you opened west oakland just on the last coup

i hear frustration and they're upset and they as though that mrc is not transparent. and so they need to be transparent with the community supervisor shanelle skills. preston has been in office for a month. >> but as a longtime resident the area, she says residents deserve far better what is. the community. >> and i'm worried about, you know, the health i about the health impacts for our martinez, but also from a neighboring communities. >> a shelter-in-place was issued for residents nearby. martinez pacheco and clyde following the fire. in addition to health concerns from the smoke, there are concerns about impacts to soil and water and the food that we we garten so. >> what are the impacts on the can we eat the that we garten? what are impacts on our water? >> the martinez refinery must release a 30 day report to the county, which is expected to share more details. the supervisor plans to have that town hall meeting between residents and refinery officials following the report, theresa kron, 4 news. >> a group of moss landing residents impacted by last month's batte

i hear frustration and their upset and they as though that >> mrc is not transparent. and so they need to be transparent with the community. >> the martinez refinery must release of 30 day report to the county, which is expected to share more details. there's a plan town hall meeting between residents and a fiery officials following that report. san francisco mayor daniel lurie signed an ordinance officially declaring a fentanyl state of emergency in the city is designed to allow for faster funding hiring contracting to deal with problems like staffan in treatment and allows the mayor to get money from private donors. the mayor has promised to establish another 1500 emergency shelter beds. he says people will be offered the option of shelter treatment. but will not be able to live on the streets of san francisco. and today in the east bay student at oakland high, they're going to be hosting a walkout this morning. organizers say this is in protest of president trump's immigration policies. the walkouts going to be at 10 this morning. this is at oakland high school on m

i hear frustration and their upset and they feel as though that >> mrc is not transparent. and so they need to be transparent with the community. >> the martinez refinery has to release in 30 days. a report to the county that should have more details in it. there's also a planned town hall meeting and that will be happening after the report. >> i was extremely, extremely disappointed. we told her looked straight into her eyes we said don't fail us. this is personal for us. >> south san francisco city council last night voting to endorse measure a which is voters passed. it would give the mateo county board of supervisors the power to remove embattled sheriff christina corpus. there have been more and more calls for her to resign ever since an investigation into the sheriff's office found abuse of power that mateo county special election to consider this ballot is on march 4th, the redwood city and belmont city councils have already also voted in support of measure a >> well, the berkeley homeless. well, i should say up in sonoma county, there's going to be millions of dolla

i hear frustration and their upset and they as though that >> mrc is not transparent. and so they need to be transparent with the community. >> martinez refinery must release a 30 day report to the county, which is expected to share more details there is a plan town hall meeting between residents and refinery officials. once that report is issued. >> happening today in the east bay, oakland council members are introducing an ordinance that aims to stop multiple oakland fire stations from closing the new legislation would provide money needed to prevent the additional station closures and allow temporarily closed stations to reopen since the start of the year council member jim nani, roma cod ron and rebecca kaplan and zac unger have all been working to find all the available money they can. and city accounts working with the oakland fire department as well to try to address the public's concerns about this. this ordinance is going to be announced today at 12, 30. a restaurant in oakland launched by well-known chef matt horn has closed. the restaurant is in west oakland

i hear frustration and their upset and they as though that >> mrc is not transparent. and so they need to be transparent with the community. >> he knows refinery must release a report about what happened. 30 days after the incident. that will go to the county. but should be a lot more details in there. and then there's going to be a town hall meeting planned between residents and refinery officials to go over the report. >> happening today in the east bay, oakland city council members introduced an ordinance to try to stop multiple can fire stations from closing the new legislation would provide money needed to prevent additional closures as well at fire stations and allow those that have already temporary closed to reopen since the start of the year. their various council members who have been working to find available money and city accounts and working with the fire department to address their concerns. the ordinance is going to be ready at 12, 30 today. a restaurant launched by a well-known chef has closed in oakland chef matt horn has closed cow bird in west oakla

i hear frustration and their upset and they as though that >> mrc is not transparent. so they need to be transparent with the community. >> and the martinez refinery must now released a 30 day report to the county, which is expected to share more details there is a planned a town hall meeting between residents and refinery officials following that report. still ahead on kron 4 news at noon, the rain continues to fall across parts of the bay area. >> we're keeping an eye on how long this weather is sticking around for and flooding impacts our coverage continues after the break. plus, keeping residents and visitors safe. the new plant shared by local police to keep a public safety during nba all-star weekend. plus. i'm trevor shirley in washington. confirmation votes in the senate continue bringing president donald trump closer to filling out his entire cabinet. >> i've got that story coming up just ahead. hon', take airborne! it has 7 key nutrients to help fill those holes your immune system may have. what holes? [screams] new airborne. 7 immune supporting nutrients. ou

each member of the committee mrc -- and am hoping to find some common ground to meet real positive results for the american people. i'm glad we are starting this work of this congress on this issue of the importance of both national security and global competitiveness and that is spectrum. we may not realize spectrum directly impacts the ways in which millions of americans about their daily lives both at home and at work, from listening to the radio to watching television to using cell phones and browsing the internet spectrum determines how these devices carry data. that said is it limited resource , and i realize the united states must play a leading role in innovation relative to spectrum to maintain its position as a world leader in new technology. my first question is for mr. gillen. my district in southern indiana is largely rural minute by small towns and cities i'm certainly proud of the work i did in the state senate rural parts of the state, but the truth is we continue to lag behind the coast in urban areas and access to the internet and the tools spectrum can provide. how can y