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
Good morning and welcome to mornings on 2. Its friday, october 17. Im claudine wong. Good morning. Im dave clark. Steve paulson is here. He knew the exact date. Im sure you got to bed very early last night in anticipation. I did. A couple hours sleep . Two. Plenty. We do have mostly clear skies. The weak system brushing us to the north will keep temperatures in check until sunday. Then they start to warm up a little bit. If youre in mendocino county, maybe a little this is pushing toward fort bragg. Temperatures will warm up but not until sunday. An even keel if you will for saturday and then it looks warmer. I would not go hot but it will be warmer with 80s showing up on monday and tuesday. Not much of a breeze yesterday. Really ramped up for some. 40s and 50s. At the airport at 42. Or valley at 40. Upper 40s and mid 40s for many. Rohnert park at 47. Kernville, 46. Mostly sunny. Partly cloudy around carla stone as the system brushes up. A little breeze picks up but not as bad as yeste
As you head towarirst he beze once again. On the way that front will allow for the winds to kick up today anywhere from 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour. Not as windy as yesterday, keeping it comfortably falllike out there. Good morning, sue. We have a wind advisory for the san mateo bridge that went into effect midnight last night and is still, as lisa has been saying, pretty windy out there. Emeryville, 80 westbound, those headlights headed towards the macarthur maze. Funnels in to the bay bridge toll plaza. A couple of cars in the left paying cash lanes. Otherwise were quiet thisit. We will look at our typical slow spot out of tracy. Westbound on 205 and 580, you are slowing, just a 30minute drive into dublin pleasanton. Developing news, cal fire says a wildfire in lake county has shut down highway 29 near spruce grove road. You can see in this cell phone video, the fire burned close to the road as people evacuated the area. The fire broke out around 8 00 last night. It has grown to ten acre
Video. A very cool perspective. This started 15 minutes ago as they walked out to establish their tethers and got to work. As you can see we see what they are seeing. This mission will take a while and is expected to last six hours. You will keep an eye on that. Love seeing this historic all female spacewalk. This is kind of amazing. We will keep an eye on that for you. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is friday, october 18. Im claudine wong. Im dave clark. Lets talk about your friday weather. It should get warmer. Steve paulson is here. By sunday. We dont have an out of this world forecast. I wish i had said that. Its friday. We need to keep it light we have a lot of cloud cover to the north. Some of that work its way over the weekend but by sunday temperatures are up and early next week it will be warm and dry in the mid80s. Today, 60s and 70s. Not too much change from yesterday. Temperatures are below average but they are ready to go above but it wont be until next week. San franci
Bay commute. A little lighter than usual on some of these drives which we expect on a friday. This is a look at the westbound Richmond Bridge and traffic is moderate. If you are driving on the east shore freeway heading down to the bay bridge you will see that traffic is doing well and when you get there those not much of a delay. Its 6 00 and not much of a delay at the bay bridge which is nice. This is a look at interstate 880 and traffic is busy on westbound 92. Traffic here is also doing okay. We have a little bit of a better star. Hopefully this will last throughout the morning commute but it the sour is starting well. Lets go back to the desk. A reportlays out the chaos that firefighters based on tuesday in crockett during the explosions and fires at the Nustar Petroleum storage facility. Elissa harrington is outside that plant now with more information. Good morning. Reporter good morning. A report in the San Francisco chronicle said that one First Responders arrived on tuesday t