Kpix 5 joins us live from the port of oakland where a strike could happen any day soon, or a walkout. Brian . Reporter things rup and running at the port of oakland but it is not busy. And we came here used to seeing long lines like we have been seeing during the bitter contract negotiations but the negotiations are at an impasse and it looks like a ghosttown around here and a longer lockout or strike could be days away. I dont know. Once we wake up out of this nightmare, i dont know where we are going to be. The nightmare has dragged on for six months for miguel and he told us 25 Truck Drivers were told to stay home, because he wasnt sure the port would be open. No loading or unloading happened this weekend because labor talks remain at an an impasse. Months of complaints port workers are deliberately working slower and he says the delays are taking a toll on the business. It is a 60 decrease in the business. It is business that we just cant do. Reporter it is not just a problem in oa
It is balmy, the numbers stacking up into the 50s and into the 60s. Meanwhile lets go ahead and take a look at this. Its our High Definition Doppler Radar and for the most part this storm is out of here. We still have some leftover lingering showers in through the Santa Cruz Mountains and streaming on into las gatos this morning. Otherwise this is what you can anticipate, the initial front is out of here, but behind it we have an unsettled air mass like right here. That will trigger a few showers thout the day today under a partly to mostly cloudy sky. It will remain on the mild side and its going to be breezy as well. The southerly winds kicking up 10 to 20 miles an hour. We have more rain on the way and i gotta tell you, anne, were going to talk about that the next time around. Thanks, roberta. People living in Higher Elevations arn the bay area are keeping an eye on the winds this morning. Mark kelly live in the Oakland Hills. Mark, hows it looking it . Reporter well, anne, weve rea
Future. People in new england meantime bracing for another big dump of snow. Thats on top of the 6 feet of snow thats been left by three major storms. Blizzard conditions are expected tonight and tomorrow with winds up to 70 miles to go with that extra foot of snow. President obama waking up in the bay area this morning. After wrapping up a busy day and evening that included dip were friends and staff dinner with friends and staff at spruce. Nothing as big as this. This is immense. So many cars, so many people. Among the friends at dinner was teslas elon musk. He had to park his red model s two blocks away. Before the dinner he attended a private fundraiser at randys home sandys home. It was his first fundraiser of the new year. The president isnt just here to be wined and tined. He attended a summit at stanford. They told me if i would come here you would talk nerdy to me. We was thinking about wearing some black rim glass. He was there for serious business. He signed an executive ord
And a lot of places in the south bay, especially south of and jose, experiencing some pop up showers right now. Want you can sigh the yellows here, that is show a little bit stronger than sprinkles, and all over the bay area, we are going to see them before the day is out. So your headlines this saturday, showers today, Cool Temperatures this afternoon, a little less windy than yesterday and drier weather ahead. Democrats and republicans in congressmannage today agree on something late last night. They vote today extend funding for the department of Homeland Security. It was going run out of money attained night in congress did not act. But as we report from the hill, the funding extension is just for one week. Reporter twothirds in the affirmative, the house overwhelmingly passed a Senate Measure funding the department of Homeland Security for another week. It came just two hours before the department of Homeland Security would have run out of money. Your vote tonight will assure that
Ever. This is the highest since it was started in 2010. The vast majority of schools with the highest rate of walkers have 75 or more on the reduced or Free Lunch Program and there is a connection to that. Biking is happening but more work to there. The walking drops dramatically when we get to sixth grade and 4 when we get to ninth grade. And then this is a survey thats done just of the schools that participate last year in the safe routes to School Program so we saw walk trips increase at nine of the 15 schools. That is 60 and bike trips increased at 40 of the schools and this is paused . And just to introduce our crossing Guard Program which has been very popular. This is application based. Any school can request it. Some of the criteria needs to be the k8. A corner must be designated as a crossing and have the yellow crosswalk and a minimum of 300 vehicles an hour and 10 pedestrians every 10 minutes. We offer free training for volunteers if schools want to add new help or locations