Is far from over. The new head of google gets a raise. This has a lot of zeros involved. Home for the holiday. Making for good tidings at the airport. Well begin with a developing story. A big rig crash in san jose. As you can see traffic is still a huge mess after a crane crashed across the roadway at 237. Some lanes are starting to reopen. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. This mess started this morning the crane over turned at 6 00 a. M. When the driver lost control. By midday, 237 was closed in both directions and brought in a crane to lift the fallen crane. It happened on eastbound. Near north first street. We are live near the scene. Whats going on . The progress has been slow. But steady. This is the scene mind me. Crews continue to work on removing that crane. Take a good look. First they had to disassemble it. They hauled off the big chunk of it. The clean up is under way. Needless to say this is the last thing anybody wanted ahead of the Holiday Travel rush. Reporter tonig
On in your neighborhood right now will start tonight in the south bay and overturned big rig that spilled diesel is causing major traffic delays in san jose tonight has been all day the crash is shut down all lanes of highway to 37 in both directions. You see the scene here it happened. In the eastbound lanes of to 37 a tanker road hazmat crews are on scene working to clean up all the diesel, Authorities Say people should expect delays and use alternate routes. The reason for. The lost control still under investigation. Its not yet to be determined the officers on scene to get statements from the driver they will some of the effort down here. Unclear when that area will be back to normal but in the meantime of course. First responders and police urging people to avoid that area if you can. And heres a look at real time traffic you see all the red there on to 37 indicating how it is jammed up and obviously this is the friday commute a lot of people are getting around trying to leave for
Heres some e to get to texas. The line is easily 100 feet long. Your flight has been delayed how many times . 4 times. Reporter 4 times . Yeah. Reporter that sounds like bad sonya is traveling with a new baby boy. Its his first flight. I used to pack just for me. Now i e formula and diaper bag. Reporter has your family seen him before . No, theyre meeting him for the first time. Reporter meantime in baggage claim, folks are finally finding their families. Jamies son is coming home from new york. I havent seen him in a year. Im going to start crying. Reporter she has a plan. Im so excited. I made this sign for him and im going to totally embarrass him. When he finds out youre here with me, hes really going to be embarrassed reporter despite the crowds, long lines, and deep delays, a moms love wont be denied. Here he is reporter sfo says today is xerox copied to be the busiest travel day for the rest of the year. Today alone 183,000 people will pass through the airport. This mornings fog
Commute for drivers. 101, 92, 880, montague. It will be a hot mess. Thats all i can say reporter a crane traveling west on highway 237 near north 1st street swerved tipped over, landed in the eastbound lanes. Many were surprised that no one on that side got hurt. I have lived here 19 years. I have never seen anything like this. Never before. Reporter but the crash caused another collision moments later between a shuttle bus and pickup truck on the westbound side. The drivers suffered minor injuries. We were able to get traffic shutdown and stopped relatively quickly on the eastbound side and start moving the vehicles that became stuck in this area here. Reporter at least 100 gallons of fuel, oil and hydraulic fluid spilled because of the initial crash. The cleanup made even more challenges as crews worked to disassemble the crane throughout the day. Be patient. We are working as fast as we can. We have a large number of personnel. Reporter two of the westbound lanes are now back open t
Moments later, second accident. A driver of a tour bus traveling westbound rearended a teacup truck sending that vehicle to eastbound lanes as well. The dual accidents backed up traffic in this part of the south bay impacting motorists days before a major holiday. From there, we were just like bumpertobumper the whole time. Its been pretty crazy. Reporter drivers headed for alternate routes, team of engineers and other experts work to get the crane righted. With caltrans crews clearing debris. Repairing a section of the damaged median after several hours, the measurements were right to lift the crane back onto its wheels. We have some real expertise, being able to get this cleaned up as quickly as possible. Reporter two drivers were injured in the pair of accidents. The driver of the crane suffered minor injuries but did not go to the hospital. The driver of the pickup truck that was rearended, he did go to the hospital with minor injuries. On highway 237, here in our san jose, jesse g