Package to see what the white house wants to lead on. Paid sick leave is something the white house floated here as well as temporarily targeting tax relief for Certain Industries. That is another thing. Senator Chuck Grassley that is a big thing for him. Representative matt gaetz was actually told later today, that he has to quarantine himself. You see the president there going up air force one in florida. Line him is representative matt gaetz. He was told on air force one that he had to isolate himself because he came in contact with that person at cpac. That is exactly what happened. Matt gaetz sat in a different portion of the plane. No one else was with him, isolating himself. Others, representative doug collins, senator ted cruz as well as representative azar or gosar, im sorry, have all quarantined themselves because of the person they came in contact with at cpac there. States, ohio, new york, latest to declare emergencies related to this. The Port Authority director of new york
But not everyone is so sure thats a good idea. The best thing to do would be to wait until the retrofit is complete, then open the bridge. Reporter but experts and transportation officials have repeatedly insisted that the real threat to Public Safety is keeping drivers on the old eastern span, which remains vulnerable to an earthquake. The existing bridge is the one folks ought to be worried about and thats the one they shouldnt be trusting. Reporter the Oversight Committee agreed that the bridge will open the morning of september 3rd with little fanfare, a simple chain cutting ceremony and potentially a larger scale celebration next year. The temporary fix will be going in this weekend. It should take only about a day to install it. Just to give you an idea of how quickly this whole process is moving along, within about an hour of that unanimous vote happening, we saw that caltrans had already put signs up along the approach to the bay bridge, announcing the bridge closure from augus
The use of deadly force against protestors. The connectedder ramp from southbound the connector ramp from southbound 680 to northbound 101 in san jose is back open. It was closed for five hours after a man crashed and jumped 20 feet off the overpass trying to escape police. He was hospitalized with major injuries. Liza is monitoring a Traffic Alert now causing big problems in the east bay. Michelle, northbound lanes of 680 remain shut down because of a big rig accident which was carrying 66,000 pounds of mail overturning and blocking lanes at andrade. Some cars are able to pass in the center divider. But still very long delays reported for both northbound and southbound 680. The real headache is southbound 680 direction with traffic bumpertobumper beyond highway 84. They are waiting for a tow truck to clear it. It will be at least until 7 30 before some lanes are opened on northbound 680 at the sunol grade. The rest of the commute, an accident in the clearing stages in martinez not in
Pretty good about that. Very mild start as the temperatures moving into the mid60s into san jose. 65 livermore. Clouds giving way to sunshine but you get the idea a few high clouds with a southerly component ramping up the humidity this morning. A muggy day outside. These temperatures around seasonal maybe slightly above in some spots inland. 88 in concord, San Francisco 68 spot on average. Well have more on the weekend forecast in a moment. Heres liza with the traffic report. We have light traffic all around with no delays at the bay bridge toll plaza where westbound traffic is light across the upper deck into San Francisco. The dublin interchange leaving the Altamont Pass no brake lights so far approaching grant line road you can see a lot of folks in the commute direction but theres still room on the freeway. So westbound 580 still moving at the speed limit leaving the dublin interchange heading counsel the grade there. Highway 92, san mateo bridge is troublefree. In fact, all of th