Christie smith spoke in light of the power shutoff. They remember that day like it was yesterday. They shared stories of loss and rebuilding. There was talk about updates on Community Preparedness and some pointed out challenges that are still ahead. In oakland, they remembered the disastrous and deadly fire that swept through the hills 28 years ago. I would ask that we give a moment of silence and the preparedness center. Her home burned in 1991 and many of her neighbors are new. Some of them dont know about trimming the trees or keeping the brush back on the house and all of that basic stuff that i was not aware of. She learned all about the Disaster Preparedness after the fire, but her planning was tested this month when pg e turned off power to help prevent wildfires. What i gained from this power outage was how what an island i was. I couldnt communicate. Council member believes the shutoff plan was not well sought out. The utility has said it will improve communications. The city
Community here on how to identify kids who are in isolation and who need help. It is one of the precursors to so many of these instances. She told me that thank goodness former San Francisco 49ers assistant keenan lowe was there to show compassion that young man needed before anyone was hurt. It was obvious in the way the teenager returned keenan lowes hug that he needed to connect with someone. What he needed was an embrace, love, being seen, and accepted. Whatever it was that was going on for him. Reporter officials said grenados diaz was in a Mental Health crisis before loading one shell in the shotgun and heading into the high school back in may. Beyond differences tries to create cultures of belonging in schools by making sure everyone feels included and accepted. In fact, some of the students that you saw being evacuated from park roads high school that day may have gone through the program. Theyve been in portland middle schools for four years, been in bay area schools for ten y
Announce the launch of the app called my shake during an event in oakland tomorrow. Good evening, im julie hane nor. And im frank somerville. Amber is in oakland. Reporter frank, the governor and others will gather here tomorrow morning the bay bridge as the back drop. They say the first of this kind Warning System could present vent peep from getting hurt. The earthquake from 1989 is an event few people in the bay area will forget, en now, 30 years later. I lived in San Francisco and it wouldve been helpful to know how to check in with other people. Reporter if you feel a quake reporter the nations first statewide quake Warning System will be officially launched by Governor Newsom and others on thursday. Itll be the same system that issues amber alerts and an app called my shake. Download the my shake app to get a warning when the earthquake shaking is headed your way. Reporter if a quake is at least a magnitude 47. 5, people in the area will get a warning. Drop, cover and hold on. Re
There. One is the regular commute at the bay bridge is getting busy if you are coming up on 6 00. We can go to the bay bridge and you can see that traffic is going to be busy which is very typical. I want to tell you about it anyway. Then we have to go to the far east bay to the byron area because there is a grass fire. Camino pablo. There is one way Traffic Control in the area. If you take bascom road you will see it and its going to add to your delays getting out of the byron area. If you are driving out of the tracy area you will see that traffic here is going to be okay if you are driving through. I want to mention on the Golden Gate Bridge approach, southbound 101, there is a crash just outside the Robin Williams tunnel. Southbound onetoone traffic is slow and if you are coming to the Golden Gate Bridge need to add an extra 10 or 15 minutes at least. Lets go back to the desk. Today marks 30 years since one of the most devastating earthquakes hit the bay area or in this country for
Oakland and out to fairfield. 40s and 50s on the temps with a blustery day on the peninsula and mid50s for everybody. Woodside 51 and 57 over to fremont with mostly sunny skies and breezy to windy at times with a cooler pattern the next couple of days and we will see temperatures holding where they are today into friday and then by the weekend we will see warmer patterns. 60s and low 70s. Sal is here and what do you focus on first . The east bay commute. We went on the air at 4 00 a. M. And it was wet in some areas but now it has dried off in some spots. As steve said, the wet weather has moved out and it may be damp but it did kind of miss the morning commute and that is good for us. If you are driving on the east bay commute, 580 at the tracy triangle is very, very slow because of earlier crashes and we also had slow traffic on vasco road because of an earlier grass fire near Camino Diablo with the fire out now but it did damage with traffic on 280 and san jose slow. Its better than