Thursday Morning What's Up: Antioch Swimmer Goes Missing

A search is ongoing for a woman in Antioch who reportedly went for a swim Wednesday evening with another woman in the San Joaquin River and both ended up in distress. The other woman was rescued from the water behind Smith's Landing Seafood Grill Restaurant, at the Antioch City Marina, and 46-year-old Edgielyn Torrente remains missing. [KTVU]
There was a geyser of water spouting over King Street near Oracle Park on Wednesday after a car crashed into a fire hydrant. [KRON4]
The San Francisco Bay Ferry system may have to raise fares to address the rising cost of diesel fuel. [KTVU]
There won't be any more prescribed burns on Angel Island this week, like the one that made the city smoky Wednesday, but there likely will be more in the coming weeks. [KRON4]
A crazy apartment fire in the Bronx, in New York City, on Wednesday led to one death and 10 injuries, including firefighters and one man who jumped from the burning building. [WABC]
Journalists from CNN, Politico, and MS NOW have been permitted back into the White House this morning, after an early morning decision by a federal judge. [KRON4]
Mega-popular SF bakery Butter & Crumble had plans to open a dedicated cake shop this fall at 301 Union Street, but it's back to the drawing board due to an insurmountable and potentially structurally dangerous problem with the space, where a wall was improperly removed sometime in the last decade. [Chronicle]

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