Early 20s. With dark curly hair or dreads. Pulled back. They warn people in the community to travel in groups and in well lit areas. Police say he has been targeting asian, college aged women. Help is on the way for drivers who spend several hours a day. Stuck in traffic along the tri valley corridor. Starting tomorrow morning, from dublin through pleasanton. Express lanes will open up, allowing drivers to pay a little extra, to skip the line. Kron fours Philippe Djegal talked with drivers. Who hope this will improve the commute. Phillipe hopefully a sign to a smoother commute. Signage on i580 overpasses warning the express lanes are coming up. cant wait for it. Yeah . Yeah. Whats the ride like without them . Rough, brutal, its always been rough. As a matter phillipe a 14mile stretch from dublin through pleasanton. Drivers who choose to use these lanes will be billed through fastrak. Two express lanes on the eastbound side. On the westbound side only one. And, the westbound lane wont o
Delays of over 2 hours. And so far today, 15 flights have been canceled because of the weather. Its all happening because finally low pressure offshore perfectly positioned for Stormy Weather which will continue for the next few hours. Doppler radar shows heavy cells now pouring toward the San Mateo County coastline but well all pick up lots of rain between now and midnight. Already more than 1. 5 of rain at mount tam, berkeley more than half inch, in the steve. 47. Flood watches are posted through tonight with heavy rain, fast runoff and flowedded roads and as for whats next . Another blast is due in tomorrow. Well have that when we cover the forecast in a few minutes. Also, weatherrelated, a body was found today in the heavy surf off a beach in marin county. The Bolinas Fire Department responded at about 2 30 this afternoon to the beach off brighton avenue. The only information we have is that it is the body of a man. Investigators are looking for a cause of death. New temporary barr
Bay area freeways now and windshield wipers going fast and strong wind toppling trees and bringing down power lines. Good evening, im juliette goodrich. Im brian hackney. Flood watches, wind advisories, posted through midnight in the bay area. Right here, we have debris flows, fast runoff, flooded roads, traveling with care a necessity tonight. Out in the mountains, winter storm warnings are posted as a powerful storm sets its sights on the bay area. The kpix 5 hidef doppler shows heavy cells pounding the north and central bay. More coming in off the San Mateo County coastline. And look at the heavy rain on 17 over the santa cruz mountains. So far more than 2 inches of rain have fallen on mount tam. Oakland. 86. Concord. 64. The same in san jose. And there is more on the way tomorrow night. Kpix 5s maria medina joins us live now from a soggy campbell. Maria. Reporter its heavy rain for the last several hours. You can see the roads are slick. The ground is soaking wet. You hear this all
Was an act of terrorism. Live in santa clara, kiet do, kpix 5. We got some breaking news out of belmont. Firefighters are battling a two alarm blaze on carmount drive at 4 a. M. The fire is burning in a residential building possibly an apartment complex. No injuries have been reported. And we do have a crew on the way to the fire. We are going to have more in our next halfhour. Newly elected San Francisco sheriff Vicki Hennesy says one of her first orders of business will be to communicate with immigrations Customs Enforcement official. It comes after an illegal immigrant shot and killed a woman near the Ferry Building in july. This replace a policy from current sheriff Ross Mirkarimi who prohibited sheriffs deputies from directly contacting i. C. E. A former pass rusher for the raiders was found guilty for killing three men. Anthony smith played defensive end from 1990 to 1998. He was convicted yesterday in los angeles of three counts of murder. He shot two brothers to death in 1999,
On the Golden Gate Bridge. Good evening, im brian hackney. Im ann notarangelo. Chopper 5 is live over the span right now. Workers are still doing some adjustments on the new barrier. It took 20 minutes for them to fit just that last piece and it will still be a while before the bridge is back in business. Our Christian Hartnett is at the span tonight. Christian. Reporter its a big step but theres still work to be done. But there is a possibility that the bridge will open back up before the slated 4 a. M. Time on monday morning. Crews began installing barrier units in the earlymorning hours as people watched from the eastern side of the bridge. It will be 11,5500 feet. The bridge district says the barrier will still need to be adjusted and properly aleaned once all the units are down as well as striping that needs to be done at both ends of the bridge. The chief engineer says at this point there havent been any issues for construction crews. We did not encounter any issues that we have