. >> you railly need to cut down that many trees. >> in order to achieve the fire safety, we do. >> and to avoid a repeat of the fire storm of 1991 that burned more than 1500 acres in the east bay hills and killed 25 people. >> there's no correlation between native and fire or nonnative and fire. all trees will burn. >> dan, president of health conservation network, says three of their five board members lost their homes in the 1991 fire storm, but they oppose the elimination of these trees. >> we see this as disingeneral effort. we think different methods would be used. >> like thinning the trees and controlling foliage. hcn is threatening to sue to stop the plan that if it gets funding will resume some time next year. so 47,000 trees. that's a big number. you're probably wondering what happens to all of that wood. well, it's put into a woodchiper and then stays here on site. it's used to suppress regrowth of new plants and also used for erosion control. reporting live in berkeley, kpix 5. >> all right. thank you. >>> well, wealthy community is getting a little tired of dealing with al

meteorologists will be on the ground tomorrow but paul says they're still not really sure how powerful it railly was. >> they do what's called a storm survey. they'll see the extent of damage. it looks like an ef-5 to me but they will have trained meteorologists out there and storm prediction center based in oklahoma city. at least an ef-4 but could be one of the strongest tore nay dees we've seen in years, ef-5 tornado that will clash along a front with very cold air coming down from canada and often this time of year, may is the month strong tornados can form along that boundary. here's the thing, the boundary has moved, but the boundary is still there and now it's portions of texas, louisiana and arkansas that may be under the gun for similar size tornados tomorrow. details on our forecast tomorrow coming up in a few minutes. >> all right. paul, thank you. >>> traffic on the bay bridge was a mess earlier tonight because of a crash. we don't usually do traffic reports on the 11:00 news but wait till you hear what happened in the backup. sue quan tells us a family of three left oakland, and whe

it doesn't happen railly like that anywhere. europe had a couple strong tornadoes. we are pretty much alone in getting the amount of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms there. and a lot of people in the southeast, alabama, mississippi, tennessee, they call themselves the new tornado alley. over the last two or three decades, he showed that video from a cook, i believe, took that video. h showed earlier of the close-up view of the tornado coming towards him. the tornado literally is just -- it's almost like a vacuum hose. it's just sucking everything around it. that's the thunderstorm in the tornado sucking all the warm, humid air into the ground into that tornado. and then it goes up into the thunderstorm. that's the energy. that's the engine. the helicopter pilot, at one point, said that the storm would you describe 60 knot winds into the storm. literally, he had to take the helicopter in the other direction at 60 just to stay still. that was very strong. just an indication of how intention that this storm itself was. this guy is a little krads si. just amazing, and

you don't think a spontaneous railly , they just happened to have a rocket propelled grenade in their back pocket back then? >> they knew from minute one it was a terrorist attack. i do not understand how they didn't supply more security for a place that already had been bombed. i would like to know when that -- when that mission was bombed and a hole was drilled right through the wall, was she notified? was the president notified? if they were notified, we still don't know if they were or weren't, what did they do about it. and if they weren't notified, what are we paying them for? what are the dog if they don't find a critical country, the mission, there's a hole drilled through the wall t this is three months after the attack. here's the thing that bothers me about the so-called rescue efforts, that they didn't have enough time to get assets there. you tell me how they knew how long the hostage situation was going to take? how do you know? i've dealt with hostage situations. you ask me to put assets there, how do i know if it's going to be one hour, ten hours, or ten days? the last

could save you fifteen percent or more. [ inaudible [ inaudible ] >> syrian officials say the iz raillihind the attacks calling it a declaration of war. >> this is a declaration of war. this is not something that is strange but we dealt with this on several occasions and we retaliated the way we want and the retaliation was always painful to israel. and they will suffer again. >>> sara sidner is live where the government deployed antimissile batteries to guard against retaliation. first of all, is israel confirming it's behind these air strikes. >> reporter: it is not confirming, not publicly or officially saying it cannot confirm or deny it had anything to do with air strikes. we're talking about two air striex over the last three days. we can tell you we are hearing into cnn from u.s. officials that are confirming they believe it was israel that struck inside of syria, twice, one thursday night into friday and sunday. the u.s. officials saying they believe the first place that was hit was actually the airport where there was a weapon's storage site. the second place hit was the resear