we want to check in again with christine conley who is on the fire live for the latest. she's been there all day she was there last night one of our many reporters in the field were going to get turned just a moment. we want to give the this aerial view to give you a sense of how quickly and how vc2much this devastation is estimated. the fact that the gas was going through the distribution lines which led directly into the homes. the fire was intense and the homes burned quickly. we now have christine standing by. >> we just got into a vantage point and we moved here so we can actually show you one of the burned out homes. were going to go ahead and hand in on it here this is really the closest that we've been able to see any of the damage. basically this home that we see here we can just see the frame of the house and that said. there's a lot of crime tape around the home this entire neighborhood that surrounding it about two blocks away from the center of the fire, that neighborhood people are still not allowed inside. it looks like a ghost town in the neighborhood rig

right now the chicken with kron 4 christine conley was in the fires on area. >> were rate above plymouth and clement st.. are going to pan over here so you can get a good idea of what looks like in this neighborhood. you can see just cars sitting there on the street, no one walking around on the street to. this is a few blocks away from the fire zone but still this neighborhood has been evacuated and once allowed been carried i do see a police officer walking down the street. acacia they brought a couple residence in for a short second to get medication for going to pan and ensure you from our vantage 0.1 of the homes that was destroyed in this place. i can barely make out the foundation and that will trade it's tapered rounded and all day long as the fire truck stations nearby. we don't see any smoke no smell of smoke from this area were still several blocks away. he definitely can see the damage here. we have seen a lot of pg&e crews going up and down this area trotted check the power lines in this area and maybe make sure it's safe at some point for residents to come back. talking to

christine conley shows us how they are preparing. >> here you see the heavy equipment that crews moved in as a get ready to remove debris here on thursday but watching through the process the health department said the begin by taking away some of the burned out cars like you see here. crews will focus on one property at a time and as i pan over here you can see it's hard to tell exactly where these properties are which is why crews have put up signs like this one here that shows the addresses of where these homes once stood. the take away all the ash and all of the debris of like you're looking at here on the ground. once all that is called the way they will tear down the chimneys and the walls. the thick with the foundations and go about 2 to 3 in. deep in the soil. here's what the health department had to say how to protect the neighborhood will there doing this work. >> while were working will be monitoring the perimeter but will also be monitoring each individual worksite going on. the minute that we find any information that shows their particular is going on here that could be h

christine conley as live in san bruno tonight with the latest. the son tells kron 4 they sell gas in the backyard this is the investigation continues as we go ahead and zoom in to the fires on here. you can see there's still crews continuing to look for close and this is pg&e to sponsor their records to see if they got calls about gas wells. let's roll some video feed and show you that part of the story. the son of elizabeth torres we see here said she called pg&e about a gas called the one-year-old was confirmed on tuesday as the fourth victim from this blaze. her son says the entire family knew there is a problem with the gas line in her home. take a listen to what he says his and told him. they had been selling gas for like three weeks, they called pg any of there and they just kind of looked around and said okay and they go back without doing anything. pg&e said there investigating these reports they have already reviewed calls from september 1st thru september 9th and say they found no records of the ghastly calls from the blast zone. the lo

in san bruno christine conley kron 4 news. >> >> cool and breezy out there today and live look from our mount tam cam. this some lingering cloud cover of the most part were seeing sunny skies. it our current conditions are much cooler than yesterday's close to the coastline not a whole lot of change but inland spots only in the upper 60s and low '70's in livermore in concord and warmer in antioch. 75 napa, 75 santa rosa, 71 in san jose. temperatures are down 5 to 12 degrees right now over what we saw 24 hours ago. the biggest change in land 10 degrees cooler in concord, 12 degrees cooler in livermore, 9 degrees cooler now that an novato and redwood city. tonight into tomorrow lingering clouds you will see on our satellite picture will get the fog back in the forecast it will be widespread tonight into tomorrow so will have fog and a similar debt out there tomorrow. big warmup slated for thursday into the weekend it's going to get really hot. all have that forecast coming up for you in a bed. >> the mayor of bell california is in jail tonight along with seven of his present and former co

christine conley explains how these will mean to parents. >> the boundaries didn't play a big role in the past about the new assignment system slated to begin next year they will. parents will get to choose what school their kid goes to but for high demand elementary schools where there are more students applying the spots available, though be placed using certain tiebreakers. here's the order first they have a sibling enrolled in this school, if they live in the attendance area and would appreciate, if they live in the area in the city with the lowest score averages, forth if they live in the attendance area, 50 live in the attendance area that doesn't have enough space for all its students. but how many attendance area is mentioned it's a big factor. some parents may find their blocks away from school but not the attendance area boundary just depends on where the district drew the line. parents will get a choice of where to send their skids but there's a high demand elementary school if you're not in the attendance area he may not get been carried out christine conley kron 4 news. >

. >> christine conley is a couple of blocks away from the blast and she joins us now she was there today when the first responders talked about their experiences. christine. >> more than 200 responders rushed to the scene let's give you a live look at what's happening now as emergency crews are still here. does pg&e crews they're working to restore power and as we zoom in to the fires so here you can see those investigators and white suits they arrived about an hour ago as they continue to sift through the rubble and look for close and search for those were still missing. if we come out here we can show you some police officers that are standing by here. but there are a lot of police officers from south temperance his goal of that was one of the first they bring these departments to ride. we spoke to detective about what it was like when he first came here. here's his story. i was on >> called off duty at the time. i looked out i saw the smoke and flames and i knew i had to go. i was thinking to myself, i had known a lot of people that live in the neighborhood i grabbed the first for law

christine conley has details of what that will include. >>>>here you see the heavy equipment that crews moved in to get ready to remove debris here on thursday but watching through the process the health department said as they begin by taking away some of the burned out cars like you see here. crews will focus on one property at a time and as i pan over here you can see it's hard to tell exactly where these properties are , which is why crews have put up signs like this one here that shows the addresses of where these homes once stood. they will take away all the ash and all of the debris like what you're looking at here on the ground. once all that is hauled away they will tear down the chimneys and the walls. they will take out the foundations and go about 2 to 3 in. deep in the soil. here's what the health department had to say how they'll protect the neighborhood while their doing this work. >>while were working we'll be monitoring the perimeter but we'll also be monitoring each individual worksite going on. the minute that we find an

in san bruno christine conley kron 4 news. three people remain missing before the explosion friends of the family has since admitted that the family is most likely dead. authorities have yet to confirm and remains were recovered near the home investigators are waiting a medical examiner's findings and it will tell them if dna can be used to identify those remains. state regulators are reviewing a list provided to them by pg&e. it lists the top 100 pipeline concerns throw california in the last year. today's list is the most recent list created by pg&e they also requested list from the last few years. the agency will review the information and that it will decide if changes need to be made to have pg&e monitors its pipelines. if you want to take a look at the list which does not include sampras pipeline, check our web site had to www.kron4.com. eight current and former city leaders in the southern california city of bell have all been arrested. bell is a working-class city that we told you about several months ago in which the

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at 430 back toward developing story on the san bruno gas on explosion on christine conley has been covering this story she joins us live with what's happening in that area now. christine. >> right here in the bom

kron 4 christine conley is live in pittsburgh how they found in the close yet? no for five days a been searching and the only thing they found was a piece of paper with hercules address on it showing they are indeed looking in the right spot. they're searching this massive landfill in the hills behind me are going for 1 a. worth of trash. five days volunteers with hard hats and release thick gloves have been carefully going through a 3,000 t of trash. hercules police said they will goes to give up until the dough for each piece of trash. >> mr. salas still has siblings that still need to know his whereabouts. once we're done here if nothing evolves from the search we will continue to work with the family and talked to friends and solicit to close from the community. >> crews are specifically looking for this trash collected from the north shore business park. last week they found his white cadillac escalate in the park that was driven by pi, all the marrow. he also used to work of the business park and the bay area well. a surge of the park last week provided no

today for the first time were hearing from the crews who first responded to the explosion christine conley joins us live with more on their experience as they rushed to the scene last thursday. christine. >> more than 201st responders rush to the scene on thursday and emergency personnel have been here ever since. live you can see pg&e crews still trying to restore power, he sees several crews running on lines. as we as a man were going to show you the crater that was created by the explosion in the meantime emergency personnel continuing to go through the rubble and also surged and continue their investigation. the rest of the street, you can see this church that's been set up as a place for emergency personnel to get food and take a rest. for the rover in this parking lot you can see the trend center that's been set up for emergency personnel as well. for the first time were starting to hear from some of the first responders. we talked to the captain with the san bruno fire department here's his story. >> this fireball's the sound, the noise of it was deafening and very loud. it sounded

christine conley as a couple blocks away from the initial explosion she joins us live with more on their stories. >> can you can see so emergency crews behind me just to give you a scope of how many people are here at any time carried more than 23 police agencies are here and can over here will show you the fire zone as we take a look here we noticed about an hour ago some crews and white has not suits that have been digging through the rubble as investigation continues. we're learning more from the first emergency personnel to respond to the scene. one firefighter fighter we talked to this is his hometown. take a listen to a story. i saw on the news there was a fire in the city and was the back door at of my fire station our response from home and when i arrived. at this time we didn't have any radios or any communication so what we did was ask citizens to drive people with second-degree burns on their arms and face to the hospital. at this time we try to get one of far reserves into operation. it we started our attack on fairmont and concord and held their grounds. we stayed there till

christine conley is looking into that issue as well she joins us live from san bruno. >> that is what the in the investigation were a few blocks away from the fires of one we zoom in and show you you can see those people walking around through the destruction as they continue to search for clues here in the fires of one of the other things are looking into his some reports that residents may have smelled gas in the days before the explosion. let's roll video and walking down the part of the case. 81 year-old elizabeth torres who tuesday was confirmed as the fourth victim in this blast her son says in the weeks before the explosion his mother had smelled gas in the backyard. coming up on kron 4 news @ 5:30 p.m. you will hear more from her and what pg&e has to say about theseorts. reporting live in san bruno kron 4 news. >> meanwhile deal, administration is taking tighter oversight of the nation's and stronger penalties a violation of pipeline safety rules after last week's deadly explosion. a congressional committee met today totototototototototototote legislation will let creek congre

christine conley was there and she joins us live with the latest. >> bill tell you it's just their job but when you hear their amazing stories you know the first responders are truly heroes. more than to enter people came your help in a fireball exploded in they've been here since thursday. a live look here you could see the work that's going on now. those are pg&e crews trying to restore power to people in the neighborhood. are going to pan over now show you what's going on as we speak we just noticed these people arrive at has not suits that are sifting through the rubble as the investigation continues. a lot of crews to load here we are now just beginning to hear some of the first responders stories. let's take a listen to what one of the police officers had to say. i was on call but off-duty at the time i looked out i saw the smoke, the flames and i knew i had to go. i was thinking to myself i knew what i don't a lot of people that lived in that particular neighborhood i basically grabbed the first for law enforcement personnel people wearing anything that had anything to do with l

let's check in with christine conley was near the fires on. >> were out one of the areas where there blocking off residents telling them they can't come 3. you see this pg&e truck that has come to the area and also chp officers are here letting residents know the very latest information. joining us now is officer taylor with the chp. he's been out here all day long tell us what you're able to tell residents rate now. >> rate now were dealing with traffic control in the scene. the the majority. our residents are concerned about getting access to their homes of a majority questions when they have access to the home, when will we allow them in? some of the concerns are that they want access to close set anything that they can use to stay overnight. >> what you tell them at this point. >> were letting them know that to the majority of them were sitting over to sam for no recreation center or disposed of some of the resources and maybe answer those questions to help get their prescriptions to them and also so they can get access to their homes. another location within performing to some f

christine conley joins us live from the command post with the latest on the investigation. >> there is a flurry of activity going on now the governor speaking moments ago as you see here. a lot of the officers walking up the hill after listening to the governor speak. we just saw his limo it was in the press more neighborhood in just moved out to the neighborhood a few minutes ago. this is the governors for stop to this neighborhood since the blast occurred on thursday. but to listen to what he had to >> say> i think the important thing now is to investigate we have the investigators here to find out exactly what happened we know so far on hundred foot pipe blew up we don't know exactly why it if something was missing or was weak or something. i think that's why what we have to hold the area often secured so investigators can go through because some important thing is sets of the lead this does never happen again. >> so the governor is getting an update on the latest on the investigation meanwhile the ntsb said they're constructing a time line of how pg&e crews reacted determining why

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kron 4 christine conley get a closer look at how some owners i started to clean up. >> this is to know her for a window looks right out into the glass all of the homes across the street no longer exist. amazingly our role is still standing with no major fire or water damage but smoke well that's another story. >> service procaine into sponges when the wake of the sponge to conceal line with the said its stuck on the wall. i couldn't see it until he showed me so there washing down all the walls, power washed villa outside to avoid a repeat. >> these giant fans with air filters are sucking the smoke ever home in his bedroom has been sealed off because crews are worried about fire debris that's fallen in from the roof. they are sure if it has asbestos and what to test it despite all of this harassment have been staying here. >> as tonights we stayed with the air purifiers to put to of them in the living room forecast and working from the back of the house and out. >> you can see crews clean this said and-off for furniture all of this clean up could take more than a week. >> while all this

christine conley as live in pittsburgh christine how they found any clothes? >> no close down today but no more searching today. let's go ahead and roll some video and walking through what they're doing. >> right now this landfill is the biggest lead hercules please have in the search for 35 year- old record sales. it's been almost two weeks since sales was last seen alive in this hercules home. just days before his father was killed. for the five days search and rescue crews most of them volunteers have been carefully and meticulously sifting through the trash here at the keller canyon landfill. >> are determined in all in good spirits they want to help the family, they want to provide answers. >> to the police and at the landfill because it's where the trash from the north shore of this is part in hercules is brought. that's the police found his white cadillac to escalate at the park that was driven by efren valdemoro. he also used to work out of business in the park and knew the area while. a thorough search of the this is park last week provided no clues a

christine conley talks to a shark expert to show you how you can be saved at the beach. experts say this summer there has been an unusually large number of great white shark sightings like the one you see videotape here by a southern california surfer last month. it is video shot pacifica last monday. look where the arrow is pointing you can see the door full thin of the shark it could be as long as 25 ft.. for several days there warning signs put up to inform people about the sighting. we spoke shark expert patrick douglas the sky about the increase in sightings. were definitely on an uptick three years ago not a lot of settings. he says one reason settings from the rise because the ban on it in short kill many along the california coast. these to get tangled in the netting now that's not happening. now's the time of season for sharks to bulk up before they start the big migration in the next few months. iyl7you find your bigget population of white sharks from around august all the way through november. jason in pacifica say they know the rest when the goal in the ocean

reporting live i'm christine conley for kron4 news. >> christine take you very much. >> go for more information on the gas line. the update in next hour-and-a-half. >> you this morning around way driver is also a fun side of caused a seven car accident and was also into debt. it happened about 3 this morning and investigators are on the scene. exactly how the accident happened is not known but traffic is being affected in the area. our continuing coverage of the san bruno gas pipe explosion. the crews continue to route they're trying to figure old buildings and roads were some the area were still in the attack and pg&e has of $1 billion to cover instances like this explosion. however of the daily times reports that may not be enough money especially for an investigation if they find they're negligent. residents have said they smelled gas in the area in the days leading up to the explosion. pg&e spokespersons as she will review any contact the company received about the decimal. >> you'll receive contact numbers. (inaudible) >> document swearing obtained that pg&e submitted the work to regulator