So all right lets go. Today is perfect. Good to go. So a lot of people out on the golf is your. Its a little its a little cold out there for some. There are some 30s out there. Santa rosa is in there. Palo alto y enjoy today. Why whats going on . Oh, there you go. Theres your weekendn itll start to cloud up and well get some rain out of that. Highs today in the 60s. All right. 4 00 in the morning i guess the thursday Morning Social Club was outuyesterday because it was smooth sailing this morning. It is a smooth sailing on a friday. Steve you know that. And right now we have nothing but hitting the roads. This is a look toll plaza. It looksuvery nice. And on friday sometimes people take a break. Maybe they have the hit the road. But right nowthey theres as steve mentioned, theres not a lot going on. This is a look at interstate eight. 80 people are on their bicycles, though. Those stationary bicycles watching us. I hear from people all the time. Im on my bike watching you. And this is
Reporter kirkpatrick has been a Police Officer for 34 years. She butted heads with the police union while serving as chief in spokane, but pledged to hold opd officers accountable for their conduct. But as an outsider she also said she knows its up to her to earn the trust and respect of her officers. For the men and women of the Oakland Police department i want you to know i have the courage to stand by you and i will. And you have a community that wants to love you and i am going to do everything i can to earn that for you reporter oaklands new police chief has her work cut out for her. Building trust amoung the command staff, Building Trust within the community. And implimenting federal mandated reforms within the department. Reporter dan kerman, kron4news reporter thank you, dan. Reporter with that in mind kron4s Haaziq Madyun talked with some oakland stakeholders who have some advice for the new chief. I am so excited to be here in oakland and to be your chief of Police Reporter t
Even handle the extra passengers . Could you handle the traffic . Bart is already maxed out. Tomorrow, no, but bart, as you know, has a lot of plans to expand the system. What you are seeing is little pieces starting to come together, but the bigger whole is to connect the bay area to the Central Valley to the rest of california. Reporter towards that end, scott haggard andal meada county people got 2. 5 million to get the ball rolling. Well, it happened will it happen . Remains to be seen. Nobody thought it would get this far a couple of months ago. If it doesnt, is there some sort of plan b here . Just in case . Reporter as a matter of fact, there is, they are talking about if they cant connect, five miles down the way with ace, if the billion dollars is too much they might use the dublin station and extend bart or electronic rail to tracy. Either way, the plan is to hook up the Central Valley to the bay area in the coming years. Speaking of that, in dublin, phil matier, kpix 5, back
Years in the making. State and local leaders celebrated the start of construction on highway 4. Traffic will be backed up for miles and im in it. Reporter its where you will see a string of brake lights as car after car comes to a halt. The plans will replace the signal with a bridge crossing, loop onramp, and diagonal off ramp. People can continue to move instead of shopping at signal lights intersections. Reporter its all about of the 1. 3 billion highway 4 widen project. Where the population has boomed and over loaded highway 4. East county has been facing a headache for many, many years. And this is one of the final legs to totally alleviate that issue. Reporter the highway 4 corridor has been named one of the worst commutes in the nation. As you take surface streets sometimes. I do. And a lot of people do. Freeways is backed up, what do you do . Jump off and go to some boulevard. Reporter the primary funding for the 42 million interchange comes from measure j. It is heavily paid f
Right now, a killie start, in the 40s, clear skies outside, a beautiful shot of bay bridge this morning. Futurecast taking you through the day in the south bay starting off in the 40s today. As you can see, mostly clear skies through the day and plenty of sunshine for you. Temperatures warming up to near 70 degrees later on today. Really nice and dry and relatively warm weather but tomorrow things start to change. Were off to a clear start this morning, dry and mild for saturday, but showers on Easter Sunday and you can see that here with a futurecast skyline. Well time it out coming up in a bit. Over to you, devon. Bart is back up and running after a mystery glitch. The first train to San Francisco left an hour ago. Last night east bay riders had trouble getting around. The electrical issue blew out service on 24 cars. Over a year ago bart had a similar problem near North Concord and also between west oakland and the transbay 2. Power spikes hit trains knocking rail cars out of servic