The Environmental Protection agency. I want to welcome also the epa chief Financial Officer who is joining the administrator. Administrator is here. We are seeing the impacts everywhere. Longer fire seasons and more intensity of those fires decreased snow packs and the impact of that on our rivers and irrigation waters. The more Severe Weather events of the Atmospheric River as weve heard so much about on the west coast this year to warmer algae infested leaks across the country to droughts and record a shattering heat waives. Every part of the world was is experiencing these impacts and the damage is staggering and is going to increase exponentially unless we act decisively. I believe that to me ats this moment we have to accelerate our transition from fossil fuel energy to renewable energy. And we have to tackle that crisis both from supplyside of fossil fuels as wells as the demand side. This is why i adamantly opposed the biden administrations approval of the fossil fuel projects o
Lets find out how things are going to be looking with Steve Paulson. Hes been tracking all the latest for us. Still a little cloudy behind you, steve. A lot of low clouds, but once that burns back, then, more sunshine today than what we had over the weekend here. And temperatures starting off 50s and 60s havent changed really. And if youre far enough inland, youll start to bump out of those 70s get into the 80s. Our system with the thunderstorm activity is now moved out. So much calmer here, especially up in the mountains. 6070s and 80s on your highs and your average to a little bit below. All right, back to ali. An update on the traffic. Ali we are keeping an eye on the Road Conditions out there. Its very, very empty at the bay bridge toll plaza. No problems getting into the city. And im checking the chp log and theres really not much to tell folks about this morning. So overall, light traffic just about everywhere, including highway 24 and lafayette, you can see traffic moving smooth
Hes on. The temps are upper low which kicked his with us for the weekend is kicking out and left behind is a pretty big fog bank so low clouds but there it goes after lots of activity in the mountains, Northern California. So temperatures kind of settling into where close to where they should be, 6070s and 80s. Back to james, i believe. Yeah. Lets talk a little traffic, steve. See if we cant get you out the door this morning and thats probably not going to be too much of an issue for you today. We see a little crash entering the bay bridge there, but certainly thats not going to cause any delays as of now as we are still very early in the morning, although triple a does say expect to see a good bit of traffic later this afternoon. And of course, we still have that closure here along westbound 80. Well give you more details about that coming up a little later this morning. Time now, 401. A nevada Sheriffs Office continues to investigate the death that occurred at the burning man festiva
Story. The case of Scott Peterson. He is the man convicted in the 2004 of killing his wife, laci, and their unborn child. After endless theories and multiple trial requests. Tonight, his defense team is giving new details about how dna testing could give him a chance at freedom. Good evening. Im ama daetz. You may remember, petersons death row conviction was previously overturned as he is now doing life without the possibility of parole. Abc7 News Reporter j. R. Stone has been looking through these Court Documents all night and has all new details. J. R. Umma, i know what youre thinking. What . I thought weve been through this, and youre partially right. Right there. There was further testing done in this case in 2013 and 2019, and peterson was denied a new murder trial in 2022. Now, though, a group that helps exonerate the wrongfully convicted is involved in this case. This 89 page motion has been filed on behalf of convicted murderer Scott Peterson by the los angeles Innocence Projec
San Francisco Unified School District facing a financial pitfall. The proposals being made by the superintendent and floating docks that were packed with sea lions just last week, now sitting practically empty this morning. The reason some of the bay areas most famous residents had to be temporarily evicted. Everybodys getting evicted out here. I mean, when they come for the sea lions. Its really something. Welcome to wednesday, may 8th. The warm up is here. Yes. So were going to feel a lot warmer this afternoon. And then it turns hot around here tomorrow. Heres a live look from sutro tower. The cameras bouncing around just a little bit this morning. We do have a wind advisory that is in effect for all of Solano County this morning. Parts of napa county and sonoma county, basically the hills of the north bay, because we do have an offshore wind right now that will continue through tonight into early tomorrow morning. The winds currently, you can see theyre gusting anywhere from about 1