Surface. Good evening. Im heather holmes. The nations 5th largest Transit System into a state of shock tonight. Bart officials led by general manager grace expressed sadness of the loss calling what happened this afternoon near the walnut creek bart station a tragedy. The train struck the two victims near jones and walden roads as the two were inspecting the tracks. Live team coverage. Debra has reaction from union officials. We begin with noel walker. Reporter were now more than 8 hours after that deadly accident and bart police and investigators are still here at the scene. Earlier today, barts director of operations called it a tragedy of greatest proportions. With bart on strike, most trains werent running today. But one train that was running brought a system already at a standstill to its knees. Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of two workers who have just been killed on the bart tracks. The bart train was returning to concord after bringing graffiti cars to be fixed
On the deck westbound 80 from the incline to midspan but again, caltrans said everything should be cleared by the magic hour of 5 00. So right now, no delay approaching the bay bridge toll plaza. Quiet between oakland and San Francisco. There were various lanes blocked 880 between oak and jackson, but they should be picking up those cones now. South bay drive times still in the clear. That is your latest kcbs traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you. Someone in the bay area is a lot richer right now. And its not us. No, its not. [ laughter ] cate caugiran is in milpitas at the gas station where the powerball winner bought the ticket. Reporter definitely not us. We are here at work this morning. But the winner they came to this chevron gas station against all odds. Lottery Officials Say the winner is the only powerball winner meaning that their ticket is the only winning to match all five numbers and the powerball. At 425 million, this jackpot is the fourth biggest powerball in u. S. Histor
5 30 well have more from the president. And our political analyst michael yaki will give us his take on todays developments. Catherine theres rain on the way this holiday weekend. This is a live look from our camera on mount tam. And a look at downtown San Francisco. Im here in the Weather Center with Jacqueline Bennet where is the wet weather . Jacqueline we are still getting some return on the radar but it is still too dry for the rain to hit the ground. It will be moving and later. As we see this offshore and wider on the satellite radar toward the tail end of this system is approaching the coast. It is just to the west of eureka. We can see this right. It will take a dive towards the south. But we could get some of this rainfall overnight. Here is a lock on futurecast. The san mateo coastline, andlook on futurecast. With santa rosa, and san rafeal. It is going and coming back over the san mateo coast towards the coast. By ted oclock, still showers in the north bay. And towards the
male announcer live from the kron 4 news station, this is the kron 4 news. Tonight at eleven. Were starting off with weather. Its the last weekend of 2012 and if you have plans to head out. Bundle up this is a view of the San Francisco bay bridge. Im here with brian at the weather center. Brian will it stay this cold for new years eve. . I think so. For the next several nights, cold temperatures. In the 20s. 30s, and already it is cold these are the current temperatures. 40s along the bay and look at the temperatures and inland in livermore. 30s in fairfield, napa, and 39 degrees. We had a weather system our earlier that brought some of showers. These showers. However, have somewhat anticipated, for now. We will continue to see cold readings with 20s, 30s. And that is representing temperatures into the 20s. 20s already in the forecast for napa. Fairfield and mid upper 30s by the bay and low 40s for San Francisco. When we could have some slightly warmer weather on the way. An arrest has
Wrong coming up. We are so tracking the commute and see how the road are doing this morning. All roads that lead to the bay bridge are pretty jammed up this morning. We have been back to put the bay bridge for two hours now for the westbound commute. Allied drive to the bay bridge on the east shore freeway start here at howard 24 here and 4880 here you have to start in oakland. It is easy over 1 hour commute time on all of the approaches to the bay. Look at how the traffic is building up on highway 880 in the northbound direction. We continue sick to see traffic move more slowly as the drive times are now up to 15 to 18 minutes for how we 92, an alternate for the bay bridge. Now we have kron4 real trend mountain the situation at 20th and grant perry ac transit they are doing a hot lot of heavy lifting you can see about to ac transit buses on standby and along lines. As is 30 this morning it only took about four of five buses to make a dent in that about three minutes ago james there wa