From there. Oakland and San Francisco dry, partly cloudy and comfortably cool rob. All right. Thank you john were checking in on the bay bridge 80 wesson to San Francisco still stacked up at the toll plaza and a lot of these folks that you see here they were late getting to pay kates because they were stuck on the shore freeway we had a hot spot up enrichment and so that held back a lot of folks so they made it now its a jam from the bottom of the maze, but still under 15 minutes to make it an highway for me still have a motorcycle crash working in pittsburgh westbound at bailey we have 2 lanes closed 2 left lanes blocked so its crawling out of pittsburgh right now but keeping traffic light on the bay 0. 5 45 minutes because of that crash antioch over to concord will check more slow downs coming up. That was the announcement to passengers over the weekend and this morning we just found out moments ago that they will be docking at noon. At the port of oakland that infected ship with 21
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Look at all the heavy traffic things were fine and very quiet before this popped up so 6. 80 south is backed up to highway 4 and youre backed up on to 2. 42 from highway 4 so 22 to 25 minutes to make it south out to danville just be prepared for that heavy traffic on all of those freeways so the backup thats spilling over to highway 4 stretches through pittsburgh into. Right around railroad leverage, 25 minutes now from antioch over to concord so its all just connected because of that crash pick of the bay bridge thats not so bad. This is good for friday, it stacked up right at the bottom of the oakland maze started. Thanks a lot rob, an 8 oh one lets get to the top story which is the coronavirus outbreak in the bay area. Lets as show you the very latest developments overnight. There are a handful of new cases in San Francisco and Santa Clara County schools and workplaces. Have been closed and some have already been shattered others order to do so or advise too. 7 Sunnyvale Police offi
Its getting worse and daria false and im James Fletcher before we get to that coverage that its quickly update on weather and traffic with john and robin hopefully no hot spots, no hot spots here right we are hot spot free. But weve had problems out there theyre mostly out of the way well check in on the bridges and some east bay front lights, ok and we can finally see some changes in the forecast today, yeah got to get hot spot free and whether to because now were just all of the cool spots again. A few weeks left to windsor and mother natures like wow i better get some winter going for you guys looking out there at the golden gate bridge, definitely a stark difference from yesterday when it was Crystal Clear. This morning, a pretty grave you as low clouds hover across the bay area in general so it is a great start to the morning skies introduce some bits of brightness later on this morning that it will be some sunny skies later just wait a bit for it thats going help to keep temperat
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