We brought in the allstars for this one. Varney and company is about to begin. Stuart look at that Dow Jones Industrial average. We are up 87 points as we speak this wednesday morning. Down she goes. That is a big loss. 5 down for fedex. Oil stay right there in the 55 56 per barrel range. Fiftysix on oil. Look at cass. The downward spiral continues. It dropped another 0. 02 overnight. 2. 50 is the National Average. Alan gross released today. Part of a deal that will release some cuban spies that have been held in american prisons. President obama will announce talks. This is a very big deal. Mary kissel, wall street journal, right here. You say this is a bad deal . It is great news for allen and his family, but bad news for everyone else. They see with this deal that they should get something when they take americans as prisoners. What kind of behavior are we rewarding it darkly . Why are we rewarding these people . Stuart we do have leverage. That gives us leverage over cuba. There is
Tolls and beyond the tolls, past treasure island, watch out on the skyways if San Francisco major flooding. Now trouble on the freeways, back to the scene of the big rig accident in fremont with our reporter on the 680. Amy hollyfield they have uprighted the truck . They have. What is miserable for the drivers northbound 680 all have been blocked for at least 30 minutes. People are just sitting. On the freeway. It is very frustrating to the commuters. The latest is they are trying to move it enough to reopen that one lane. When it first jackknifed it blocked all but one lane so some cars got through but when the tow truck operators arrived he took the final lane. Now it and blocking everyone. Not a good situation northbound 680. The driver is okay. No other cars were involved. That is the good news. They do not have a mess to clean up. Nothing was spilled. He was changing lanes and jackknifed. A couple of hours now into this and, still, for relief on northbound 680 at north mission in
San francisco. Right new we are seeing a more moderate self move offer the city of San Francisco, daly city and south San Francisco. The heavy rain is pond on the roads, 280 and 380 sees slow down of travel. Speaking of travel, how does it look . It is slowing down because of a sigalert and several accidents and flooding. On the bay bridge toll plaza we have a high wind advisory and remark is building. From oakland toward San Francisco it is building. 87 in san jose beyond julian street we have reports of a lost bonding on the roads so hydro plaining is a possibility and solo spinouts. Slow down. We have coverage in front fremont for the big rig accident at 680. Amy . Look behind me. The jackknifed big rig is still here. We or on northbound 680, one lane is open, the rest of them are blocked by the big rig. What happened is the driver told investigators he was changing lanes and this suddenly happened, too early to know if this is weather related and whether he slid on the slick roads.
Worried that another earthquake will come, another aftershock will come and they dont want to be trapped in their houses. Reporter sergio is following the work of a bear area nonprofit called motherland nepal. Theyre trying to bring medical supplies to the rural areas of nepal cut off by debris. The head of the organization said they will need more help than other. We gathered funds and donations and asked this team of medical technicians in they will come out here and be here for a while to provide that very basic service and they did. And theyre going to be here for a month. You need to know that pandy was injured while helping kids escape the orphanage when the quake hit. His wife is in the bay area. She told us today when the orphanage started shaking he rushed to get children out of the home. When he felt the building was about to collapse he jumped out and fractured his leg and hand. Bob and his two children were worried when they couldnt get a hold of him. We kept calling a coup
Forecast. Yes. Lets take a look at the visibility. There are some difficult visibility issues in some areas but elsewhere fine. 39 in oakland, 46 in san impose, 36 in concord, 40 in livermore and upper 30s in santa rosa. We are expecting lots of sunshine today. Slightly warmer. We will break down the temperatures coming up in my full forecast. And we begin this hour with breaking news from san jose this morning. Investigators believe the serial arsonist has struck again. Fire crews are investigating two suspicious fires downtown in the san jose area, the first on south 24th street that. Fire broke out about 2 00 this morning. The second fire is located at south 26th street and East San Antonio avenue. Fire crews have got both blazed under control, one believed to have started from behind a church. More updates shortly. These two fires are the latest in strings of fires intentionally sunset san jose over the past few days. Investigators concerned about the safety of residents and firefi