A nominee friday or saturday. Senator majority leader mitch mccolonel elhas already vowed to hold a vote. Elections have consequences. Its called you pick people for the Supreme Court. Reporter the president previously said hell pick a woman. The choice has become a central focus of the election and could give the president a boost, especially with conservatives. I think that there is a potential advantage this gives the president , maybe even those running for senate. It is going to be, you know, buckle up. Speaking to those republicans out there, senate republicans, who know deep down what is right for the country and consistent with the constitution. Reporter democratic president ial nominee joe biden spoke directly to those gop senators, pleading with them not to follow mcconnell. Biden centered his argument arout round the issue of healthcare and the Affordable Care act. When a vacancy occurs if the last year of the first term, you can see Lindsey Graham said lets let the next pre
Its going to be a Beautiful Day across the bay area. Here islookwith our Treasure Island camera. You can see the temperatures in the low 40s. Low 40s in concord and mid 40s in livermore. 50 in San Francisco and san jose. We are dealing with dense fog down to a quartermile for you in livermore. Please prepare if you are hitting the roadways in that area. 59 for highs in San Francisco. 60 in oakland, 62 in san jose and 64 in santa rosa. We will talk about our next weather system and when we could see a few showers in the extended forecast coming up. We have a couple of Things Limited visibility. As careful you lotohi t the roadways. If you are headed into oakland, the 580 connector look out for that. Definitely give yourself a few extra minutes as you had through. Good news for the commute. Southbound six 880. A report of an accident blocking a lane. No delaysas things clear out of walnut creek. 24 westbound is an easy drive. Possibly one of the same. Closer toward greenville. It looks l
Good evening everyone. The test comes on the 30th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake. Live coverage from. She is in San Francisco with how people reacted to the test. Reporter it definitely took some people by surprise. Imagine being out and every waddy cell phone started ringing. A part of the test work. The city said they were in the room with ever bridge the vendor trying to work out unexpected problems just to get the message out tonight. Throughout San Francisco this evening about a quarter after 6 pm phone started buzzing. They were in a meeting on market street. All the attendees and us. At the notification at the same time. It freaked me out. It freaked olivas out. It abruptly stops the whole room came to attention. It was pretty alarming. Reporter San Francisco sent the message as part of a scheduled test of the new alert system. Instead of using an area code it sends a message to all mobile devices connected to a cell phone tower within San Francisco. On thursday there
Watch. They released a statement reading their weather forecasters are monitoring a possibly strong and dry offshore wind event wednesday and thursday. Pg e ao said its considering proactively shutting off power to prevent its equipment from sparking a fire. At this point they have not called for a power safety power shutoff yet, but the company says if one is issued, it will likely affect the north bay and sierra foothills. Pg e also said if they implement a power safety power shutoff, it could be smaller in scope from the one that took place between october 9th through the 12th. For more on the dry, windy weather expected later this week chief meteorologist bill martin joins us now. Its also expected to heat up. Its going to heat up, but i said earlier in the newscast if you watched the 5 00 newscast after the football game, i was talking about this pattern not unusual. This is what happens every fall. The pattern coming up, the wind event coming up as we go into the middle of the we
A lot of 60s, 70s. A warm up. 7 01 am. Did we find out the year that came out . I will get back to you and get you that. Good morning some carpool lanes are backed up. Not a huge one. We are looking at interstate looking at interstate 880. It has recovered. There is a crash. Traffic will be busy. If you look at the bridge. 7 01 am. Let us start with breaking news. There is smoke near the i80 and the bridge. We will give you an update. Reposee airplanes on the hillside. There is a fire. Firefighters responded quickly. Many of the firefighters are the ones that responded to the fire a couple of days ago. It has been a busy week. This is happening on the hillside near the dead fish restaurant. This gives you a better idea of where we are. Firefighters have to climb the hill. They are pulling the hoses, dragging them up the hill. We see them with equipment. They want to put it out before it spreads. There are trees and dry brush. There is a large plume of dark smoke over this section. Ther