homes and hundreds more threatened as triple digit temperatures and the ongoing drought making conditions tough for firefighters. they need a bigger pool. a neighborhood pool party gets out of hand thanks to facebook and the thousands of people who showed up. police not so happy it made such a big splash. we will have more early this wednesday morning, august 31st, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good wednesday morning to you. nice to have you with us here on the early show. i m erica hill. i m jan crawford. chris wragge is off this morning which means i m with you. we miss chris, but happy to have you here. nice to be than here. a new report every aerl passenger needs to know a lot of pilots are making mistakes in mid flight because they have gotten too dependent on technology and not their own flying skills. have that story and hear from one man who knows how critical the skills can be during an emergency, captain sully sullenberger. he is a guy you want
it s monday, for some of us, right? [ laughter ] yeah. that s right. i know, it feels like a monday. yeah. doesn t it? but she walked in with two cups of coffee. i moved the past couple of days so my coffeemaker is still not working. you did double fisted ? i did. lawrence? we have a little fog. looks like temperatures will be cooler again outside. in fact, numbers going to be down across the board. still, about 86, some sunshine in the valleys this afternoon. mostly sunny inside the bay. you will see about 69 degrees plus there. out at the coast cool, sunshine and clouds. more on the forecast coming up. right now let s check traffic. thank you, lawrence. we have a pretty major ramp closure now. it is in the commute direction in hercules. that ramp from westbound 4 to westbound 80 is completely shut down until about 6:00 this morning. so we ll tell you why, we ll tell you detours. it s all coming up in the next few minutes. back to you. thank you. 4:
water kind of churning around there. this powerful storm is slamming into the eastern seaboard starting tomorrow. irene has already caused widespread damage in the bahamas. winds around 115 miles an hour. in effect from the carolinas up to new jersey. new york city is preparing for the worst with subway stations and airports. the big apple not seeing the effects of a big hurricane for decades. drew levinson reports. reporter: up and down the east coast people are packing up and getting out of irene s way. i m taking this one more seriously than any one i have seen. reporter: the monster hurricane earl expected to roar ashore in north carolina tomorrow with 115-mile-per-hour winds before marching north. it s on track to hit major cities like washington, d.c., new york and boston. at least 7 states including north carolina have already declared states of emergency to free up resources. regardless of what happens, the best thing we in north carolina can do is to be prepa
we did. almost. almost? going to be a long weekend. for a long people weather- wise on the east coast but here not too bad. full of sunshine and warmer than the past couple of days but for today, conditions looking nice, as well. inland plenty of sunshine. full forecast in a bit. how s traffic? you know, we had a problem the last hour or so for a while all lanes the entire freeway northbound and southbound 101 before university avenue in east palo alto they were blocked by a bunch of downed wires. sounds like caltrans knocked down some kind of a pg&e power line. they just cleared it out of the northbound lanes so the entire freeway is back open. everything normal as of the last five minutes. so you are good to go along the peninsula. coming up we ll get a check of the bay bridge and mass transit on this friday morning. it could have been really bad so fortunate think happened when traffic was light. thank you. the big story all weekend will be hurricane ir
punishing companies for creating jobs in california. every time an out-of-state company moves a job out of california, then they get a tax break and every time they hire in california, they increase the taxes they pay. reporter: brown s plan is to change the tax code. it means rewarding high-tech companies like genentech for hiring new people in california. so this will help create a stronger business climate in california? absolutely, particularly for growing industries like the biotech industry. reporter: the governor was surrounded by nearly a dozen business leaders today. but republicans at the capital called the plan too little too late. brown says he has been meeting with republicans privately to get their support. wherever we talk to republicans, it s really in the dead of night so we don t like to tell you about it. [ laughter ] reporter: the governor s job plan has to move quickly because the legislature is out of session come september 9. in sacramento