different country. that is right the liberal to help keep classrooms close to talk about keeping the kids in the classroom. welcome back as america reports rolls into our two. sandra smith and i m happy to report it is friday. trace: and we have a big second hour, sandra, trace gallagher in four john roberts. the irony in the visit to ukraine, a new report shows the very serious price of covid on kids education as a key testing measure for college hits rock bottom. sandra: we will tell you ahead all new at 2:00, but first, we start with this fox news alert. california dreaming or california nightmare? americans outlets feeling the squeeze of inflation and biden s energy crisis with the highest gas prices nearing $7 a gallon again. trace: i saul $6.99 driving in this morning. president biden in the golden state right now just one stop of a west coast swing to tout his massive spending plan and out just 25 days before the midterms. sandra: prices are still right t
Israel declares war on hamas following surprise attacks by the militant group over the weekend. How the u. S. Responding as the death toll on both sides continues to rise. Also back here in the bay area, Half Moon Bay kicking off its fall festival with the annual pumpkin weigh off. Well take a look at this years largest contenders. And the summer weather made a quick exit out of the bay area as rain is moving into the forecast, the areas that will most likely get on monday afternoon. From the bay station. Youre watching kron. Noon. Thank you for joining us m justine waltman and we on. Will start with the war against israel. Israel as one of americas closest allies and his officially at war right now with the Palestinian Militant Group hamas following the group surprise attack on civilians over the weekend. At least 1100 people on both sides of this conflict have been killed. This does include 9 americans today. The u. S. Military is now moving an Aircraft Carrier strike group and a mil
No one was hurt during this firefight. At this point, they dont know the cause of the fire. Thats still under investigation. Live in richmond, amy hollyfield, abc news. A crazy amount of toxic smoke. Thank you. Abc 7 news app is sending out updates on the shelter in place emergency in richmond. You can download the abc 7 news app for free. Enable those push alerts. Lets switch gears. Something has not happened in more than 150 years. Its occurring overhead as we speak. You dont even have to stick your head outside the window. We have this live look from the abc 7 roof camera of the super blue blood moon. A partial eclipse began at 3 48 this morning. It will be a total eclipse in a few minutes at 4 52. The reason its a super is because its very close to us right now. The blue part is because its the second full moon of the month, which doesnt happen very often. The moon is taking on a reddish tint during the eclipse. Thats where you get the blood part of the title. A watch party is bein
Most of the mornings. Weve got calm conditions out there. A little bit of an onshore breeze. Heres your super blue blood moon planner. Dress for temperatures in the upper 30s to low 40s by the time we get to the coldest time at 6 00. Ill take a look at your planner coming up. Its hard to say fast. Super blue blood moon. With san rafael, southbound, the taillights past freitas parkway, and you are light and moving well. No fog here. The fogfree commute along the golden gate as well. The san mateo bridge, youve got about a 14 to 15minute drive across the flat section and towards the highrise. Overall, green is good. We have reports of an accident to the righthand shoulder near grant line over the Altamont Pass. May be reason for extra slowing this morning. Give yourself plenty of time. A big update out of richmond. A shelter in place order has finally been lifted following a large scrap metal fire. I want to show you a live picture of the scene. This is at south 4th street and cutting bo
Its an 8minute ride to the marin side of things. A little backup. Starting to build. Most folks are behaving earlier accident off to the right shoulder on the altamont pass. Otherwise, we have these boxes still in lanes on 680 near scott creek and an accident blocking the left lane near alum rock. Big update from richmond this morning. A shelter in place order has been lifted there following a large scrap metal fire. I want to show you a live picture of the scene here. This is south 4th street and cutting boulevard at sims metal management. You can see no flames. A lot of debris left over and firefighters monitoring things, making sure nothing flares up again. We dont want to see another scene like this one. This is what it looked like overnight. The fire ignited around 5 00 p. M. Yesterday. Then those huge flames came out from there. One fire truck is on scene right now to make sure no hotspots flare up this morning. The other firefighters are back home because this was such an intens