Suffered the worst destruction. That quake triggered fuel melt downs at the Nuclear Plant. 60 people died and cars, boats and homes were swept away. Regarding this quake, Tokyo Electric Power says there are no problems at any o of the Nuclear Plants. Reporting live in the news room cate cauguiran cbs 5. How about our weather, got the weekend you said that earlier. That is just a great word. Weekend, dont you think. Ive been looking forward to this one. Last weekend was a rain out, so this weekend were going to try to get things right and bring you sunshine. We are starting out with chilly temperatures and valley fog. Watch out for that. Visibility down to a quarter o of a mile in napa valley. Overall we are going to see dryer weather moving in. More sunshine and warmer temperatures on the way, but stepping outside, grab your jacket, those temperatures down just a bit, especially inland, 37 degrees in santa row that. 44 santa a rosa. Enjoying sunshine, maybe passing clouds. Temperatures
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Will take a look at those numbers in just a few minutes. Were starting out the morning with a partly cloudy conditions. It will be a bit warmer today than what we saw yesterday. Will take a look at the visibility and give you this coming up. We are pushing closer to the peak of their morning commute and we are still seeing pretty light conditions. The bay bridge toll plaza is backed up once again. No accidents to report is to slow traffic. If you should have on an extra seven minutes. The rest of the bay area rose look good. It is still pretty smooth and easy and no incidents to report coming out of the north bay. Overnight a strong earthquake jolted the northeastern part of the country this morning. A 7. 3 magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean are around 518 local time. That is around midnight here in San Francisco. The usgs says the earthquake struck about 200 mi. Off the coast of japan. The epicenter was about 6 mi. Beneath the seabed. And here is video from youtube when
Homes were swept away. As of right now, Tokyo Electric Power says there are no problems at any of its nuclear plants. Frank michelle. And we understand that you have family in japan. Have you been able to talk to them at all and are they okay. Thats right. I have my parents and aunt and uncle are stationed in japan at military bases. I was able to talk to my mother. They didnt feel the quake. Theyre too far south but i have an aunt and uncle in tokyo. Thanks to social media i was able to see that they were okay and again, like i said its a dramatic difference from last year when i was working a newscast and wasnt able to get ahold of my family. Im happy this time around that everyone is okay. Okay, cate thankings. It is 6 02, a cold ask foggy start to the morning. Lets look at weather and traffic. Lawrence karnow with our weekend forecast. And the weekend is looking good. It is chilly out there. Fog developing, dense fog in some of the valleys down to a quarter mile. And down to a mile
Earthquake hits japan this morning we will have more coming out. The live look outside in san jose, still looking pretty but dark out there. In dealing with cloudy conditions as well as past patchy dense fog and the north bay. Were expecting plenty of sunshine in the afternoon, a bit warmer than yesterday. Mostly clear and Cool Conditions into the evening. The full forecast is coming up in just a bit but for now over to erika the content as back up to the bay bridge plaza continues. To my knowledge the meeting lights are not active and we do not have any problems around the bay area. The east a phrase look good and no problems in the south bay no accidents along the peninsula and easy drive time. 23 minutes out of the bottle into the city. Overnight we had a strong earthquake in the northeastern part of japan. It was a 7. 3 earthquake and the same area where we had a 9. 0 earthquake years ago that killed 2000 people with the following tsunami. This earthquake took place around 518 loca