Alyssa hearington out there talking to chp. You are on the scene. What can you tell us . Well, behind me is that big rig that was halling the chickens. Most of those animals did die. There are roughly 50 or so live chickens walking through the lanes of traffic on i westbound 80. They have called animal control and are awaiting for them to take care of these animals. Tell us what happened. We received the call of a vehicle fire. That traumatic are tractor. Swerved to the right, corrected. He hit part of overcrossing to the right and swerved over to the left. He lost his load of unknown amount of live chickens and. They had chickens run ago cross the freeway, and the driver hit another vehicle . The driver did strike another vehicle. There was no injuries involved with that. The driver of the Truck Tractor was transported for minor injuries. What should drivers snow where is this closure . In place. We put an issue very early. We issued an alert. Anybody is trying to get to the maze is g
Lanes of traffic as well. With me, i have johnson with the hercules fire district. What are you all doing to deal with all of these chickens. You said there were probably a thousand on this truck. Hundreds of them survived and were just roaming around. We had and had 100 chickens or so roaming around. Some deceased and some alive. We worked probably for an hour with chp and the fire crews surrounding the chickens and getting to the animal control vehicle. What did that entail . A lot of work. Just trying to get the freeway cleared up and trying to help out animal control. They had one officer here and said it was an oncall officer. Shes limited to what she can do. What do you know about the crash . What caused this to happen . From what chp was saying, the driver was going westbound here on 80. Locking to make a listen change and hit an embankment on the overpast. What should people know in terms of traffic . This scene is probably going to be here until probably at least 10 00 or 11 0
Chickens on the roadway and a nearby hillside. We will go live to the scene to hear what is happening now. Reporter good morning. Officers are continuing to round up the chickens. You can see them behind me. They are actually climbing up the hillside where they found a group of 20 of them huddled together. Some of the chickens that were still in the cages when this crash happened are also alive. Were talking about 1000 chickens total involved in this crash. A few hundred to provide. They were walking all around lanes of traffic in their working to get all of them secure with animal control. There is still a lot to do. All remain lanes remain closed. When do you think lanes will reopen . We are making efforts. We are trying to get some of the cages with larger chickens out of here. We are trying to get the chicken still alive out of your away from the scene so we can begin to pick up the debris. We have a Structural Engineer that will check out part of the they should be here moalong sh
It is our favorite time of year, we are getting into fall. I was saying a little earlier that the weather around here is going to start feeling a little bit fall like. That doesnt mean that is how its going to be in late september. I think on the 22nd it is official. We want to get to breaking news weve been following all morning long on interstate 80 where a big rig of live chickens crashed and caught fire. We are live in San Pablo Dam road where the westbound lanes are shut down. Melissa alyssa, any word on when crews will clear the scene . Reporter they said it could still be a couple of hours. There is a tow truck getting ready to remove the truck that was caring 1000 live chickens. They were in cages when the driver lost control, crashed in the truck on fire. Hundreds of chickens were managed managed to escape. Firefighters put on gloves and had to help roundabout. I asked him what that was like and one firefighter told me that out of the top five of the calls he is been on, this
You cant see close tore south carolina. Right now, you can see the winds gusting 40 to 48 miles an hour. These numbers can be going up quite a bit over the next couple of hours as it slowly moves up to the north northeast. Right now moving at about eight Miles Per Hour. It is a category two storm. 1210 miles an hour. Here is the forecast track we see closer to North Carolina. And at least to the weekend. At least over the next 24 hours we can see impacts from the carolinas. Rainfall could be on the order of six to 12 inches and storm surge four to seven feet. It could cause quite a bit of damage on the property near the coastline of the carolinas. That is a lot of water being pushed physically being pushed by the wind on the properties there, and that could have a big impact, at least on the damage. Some of the properties in the shoreline. Once again, this is a category two hurricane with winds at 110 miles an hour. We will continue to keep an eye on dorian and have more updates throug