Three left lanes blocked with roadwork until 11 00. Westbound moving nicely. Today uc berkeley will announce a dream come true for hundreds of undocuments students, hundreds will get help paying tuition. Terry mcsweeney was live at cal with a preview. Reporter uc berkeley pushing the envelope again setting up not just a Scholarship Fund but the largest Scholarship Fund for undocumented students in the united states. Look at pictures of students about 200 estimated are going to be helped by what is called the Dreamers Fund which will begin with a Million Dollar gift from a Foundation Students from 20 countries will benefit not eligible for federal grants, loans or work study positions. The chancellor pushed to have this program in place. I thought this isnt fair. Furthermore, these are extraordinarily talented people. In the current era with an of the challenges we have in california, we cannot afford to waste this kind of talent. Reporter the scholarships kick in next fall. Another gif
Road. Southbound 101 roadwork poplar 92 until 6 00. This morning, more agencies will join the search for a 77yearold man believed to have fallen into the mare island strait. Today equipment will be brought in to intensify the search. Amy hollyfield is live on mare island. Reporter the coast guard is hoping to get answers for the family. Officials fear the worst. 77yearold Philip Mattingly disappeared saturday night he had been working on a world war ii vessel, which was docked at vallejos mare island. Police dont suspect foul play. They say his truck was still in the parking lot. This case belongs to police, today they will be getting help from the coast guard and sheriffs office. Vallejo police department, we dont have a dive team and we dont have the equipment or expertise to be able to conduct dives. Sheriffs department has the personnel and equipment to do so. Reporter dive teams searched sunday but they had to stop the current was too strong. They are hoping they will be able to d
Not what we want to do. Not what any of us signed up to do as a member of the board or directives of the fire districts but we have to live within our means. If closures are arrived there is a chance they can be temporary or maybe come back in several years as the Public Employee pension reform act begins to reduce the districts expenses. They started talking at 2 00 this afternoon, so they should be wrapping up fairly soon. Live in martinez, abc 7 news. Thank you, heather. An unusually high tide is causing some street flooding in marin city. Its only expected to get worse. The water furnler. Lets check in now with Spencer Christian for the latest. Rain is on the way. Its notwujhj here yet. Were precipitationfree but not far to the north up around eureka, weve got a large mass of moisture and some cases of heavy down pours moving into our direction. Well start at 7 00 this evening. Well see clouds thickening and perhaps the first wave of rain will have arrived by that time in the north
Today is at 12th 12th 12th. We are live in pacifica with a live look at how the water is rising. We are following the wet weather here is a live picture of the golden gate bridge. Storms tracker 4 shows there is light rain for the north bay to the east bay. It really just depends on where you are located. I want to zoom in here and show you neighborhood by neighborhood. It is currently rain for portions of highway 24. The rain is certainly tapering off and it is right now in mid span. You will need to use your windshield wipers and drive with extra caution. And the yellow on your screen does indicate some heavy rain. This could impact highway 17 shortly. We do have new instability in the atmosphere. There may be a powerful thunderstorm that may produce hail. The temperatures wont climb into the middle fifties. We should be dry as we head into tonight. I will have full details for tomorrow and beyond coming up. There is still no hot spots or major spots. Here is a live look at traffic a
Gagged on the streets of San Francisco, we will have details. We are and pacifica moderate monetary extremely high tides. We will speak with Jackie Sissel and find out where you may be expecting some flooding coming up. Heres a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge, scattered showers right now lets find out where it is falling. Good morning erica good morning scattered pop up showers around bay area. Not so much on the coastline anymore and has pushed its way east. I was a man as it is raining in your neighborhood. It is starting to dry out for san rafael however the reds in san revell bridge is picking up some light showers. You will need to use your windshield wipers. In the east shore freeway it is reading richmond on the berkeley but all is good at the bay bridge toll plaza. The peninsula has light rain for the bayshore freeway palo alto redwood city currently dry for a sunnyvale and cupertino. The zooming in on the south bay, light rain on highway 1 01. Right around 87 dry with extr