The pandemic. Resources are clearly not social distancing and the suit claims the de facto policy using the tender city as a ton trainment zone in a dramatic decline in livability and savety for those with and without homes and the plaintiffs want the city taking actions leaving tents in front of door ways and giving the homeless access to hotels and immediate enforcement of drug dealing laws that Many Police Officers just let happen out in the open. They want action not in month but days or weeks. Back to you. New at noon, mayor london breed announced all essential workers in San Francisco are eligible for covid19 testing effective today. The expanded testing criteria was another step toward the goal of universal access of testing and anyone that must work during the stay at home order is eligible for free testing with or without symptoms and more for the mayor at 1 this afternoon and watch that live here on kpix5 and streams on cbsn bay area. Senate bay area is coming back to life to
Northwest winds in santa rosa at 6 Miles Per Hour. Fog in the valley through the bay a little bit and petaluma again visibility dropping. Down from 1. 7 to. 3 miles. Well continue to track the fog for you this morning and see if it affects your commute. And if it is affecting your commute just a reminder to give yourself a little extra space between you and that car in front of you and avoid using high beams. Lets take it to the maps where were tracking an accident westbound 4 in Discovery Bay past south tracy boulevard. That car may have been gone into the river. So emergency crews are heading out to the scene. Do expect some slowouts once they arrive out there. Over in antioch things are okay. We are starting to see brake lights. You have 13 minutes eastshore freeway still moving at the limit. 14 minutes from the maze into bay bridge toll plaza. Another 10 minutes from the plaza into San Francisco. A Scheduling Software glitch at American Airlines may ruin holiday plans. They are try
Lanes. Chp was on the way to clear that out. The slick roadways are cause ziing issues. Picking up rain in the south bay. That means the crash along northbound 101 at capitol expressway is showing that slow lane is blocked. No updates as far as that goes. Im not picking up major delays on my speed sensor. Traffic is building, but hopefully as soon as the rain moves out, it makes for better driving conditions. Back to you. Thanks. 5 01. The other top story, a live look at washington after a very busy night for senators. The senate voted along party lines to pass a sweeping tax reform bill. Its a bill win for republicans and the president. Today in the bays ed lawrence is live in washington with whats next for the bill. Good morning, edward. Reporter good morning, marcus. This is supposed to be easy to get through the house of representatives. Now, the republicans have to make another vote in the house today. The tax plan did pass the senate. On this vote, the yes reporter the Vice Presi
The first major tax bill over haul in 30 years. The president beaming with a double fist pump. Its always a lot of fun when win. Lawmakers leaped on the praise one after the next after the next. Something this profound couldnt have been done without exquisite president ial 4r leadership. You listened to voices no one else was listening to. You are one heck of a leader were all going to benefit from it. President said it is designed to benefit all American Families but Corporate America get a much bigger tax cut. We are making America Great again. And earlier the president flaunted those for big business. The plan lowers the tax for big business from 35 to 21 its biggest factor in the plan. That cut for Corporate America is permanent but income tax cuts for individuals expire in eight years and lower income plenaries making 75,000 or less will see their taxes go up and ultra rich will see their taxes go down. The bill also repeals the Obamacare Mandate that every american buy Health Ins
Turning from grass to also some oaks that could be burning and, of course, the likelihood of some of the embers going from oak tree to oak tree is definitely with us and you can see how much smoke is putting out at the current hour with how dry the fuels are right now. Its already, again, up to nearly 500 acres. We likely could see this grow to 1,000, maybe even 2,000 acres just because of our drought thats in place. Winds right now out of west southwest at 15 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Temperature of 79 and humidity at 45 , and we want to focus on the winds again because the fire heres downtown livermore just to put it into perspective. Fire is well, well over in this location. I dont see anything that would be changing the direction of the wind that were dealing with right now. It still looks to come out of the west tonight. That would keep the smoke away from livermore, but if youre doing any traveling on interstate 580, maybe even the 205 tonight, thats where you could be impacted by th