Mediation today. Members walked off of the job today they are overworked and underpaid. The walkout is disrupting many businesses. They will be back onto the picket line again tomorrow. Reporter both sides say that they are frustrated and that the strike could have been avoided. It appears that it is up to the city council. They have scheduled a closed session meeting tomorrow afternoon that could put in end to the strike. The signs are up at city hall letting the public know that services are disrupted indefinitely. Some people including this woman tried to use the library a few blocks away. It has shut down every city service in oakland except police and fire. The striking workers picketed outside the building where the mayor was holding a reelection campaign. The Union Representing the wide range of workers says that they only want a oneYear Contract with a 4 increase. We want to get back to work and provide the services that we do tokeland. Reporter the mayor says that there offeri
Were up to 40. Overnight were going to gust 45 to 50 miles per hour. That will continue through the morning hours. Then it will pull back to about 40 miles per hour. So winds will be worse tomorrow. Here is a look at our accuweather 12hour planner. You can see 35 to 46 this morning. Well be in the upper 50s at noon with clean sunshine. Not a spare the air day. Low 60s at 4 00. About 47 to 52 at 7 00. Heres sue. All right. If you are planning on traveling to the Southern California area we are monitoring i5 over the grapevine because the fires are very close to that so keep it right here and well be checking on that in a few. Across the san mateo bridge, no highwind advisory today. You are in better shape than yesterday. Traffic is flowing nicely, a 15 to 16 minute drive from 880 over to 101. Some road work just cleared out of lanes. This is good because eastbound 380 to southbound 101 is a major route to get to sfo. Fully shut down overnight. Thats been picked up 30 minutes now. Sue, t
Well look at 12hour planners to show you how much warmer this afternoon and when it gets to your neighborhoods. Sue . Were down one toll booth, 14, thats until further notice. Swiped out after a fatal accident last weekend. Cash payers are delayed. The two lanes on the right and lefthand side. Obviously no metering lights. Carpool, too, is a great way to go if you can. Mass transit issues this morning. Ace train number one is on time if you want to avoid the slowdown. A full shutdown of the sausalito ferry docked today due to maintenance. Theyll have a half day service. The first ferry leaving for sausalito will be at 12 5 a half day shutdown tomorrow. Harbor bay ferry added a new ferry at 7 00 a. M. For some maintenance that will be taking another. We continue to follow the wildfires that are growing in Southern California. Heres a map that shows five active fires burning right now in ventura, los angeles, and San Bernardino counties. This morning firefighters are most concerned about
Wednesday morning as a flames engulfed an area near the getty center in the brentwood area of los angeles. The fire broke out near the 405 freeway and mulholland drive just before 5 a. M. , Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart said. The fire had burned about 6 acres, stewart said. A sigalert was issued for the closure of all northbound lanes on the 405 freeway just after 5 a. M. , according to the california highway patrols traffic incident log. Officials were considering closing the southbound lanes as well. The fire began as crews are spread across Southern California fighting several brush fires, including the thomas fire, the creek fire and the rye fire. Forecasters are calling for another afternoon of gusty winds, which will help fuel the fires on wednesday. Check back for updates on this developing story. darya good morning im darya folsom. james and im james fletcher. Lets start the morning with a check of weather and traffic. Major hot spot wb 4 at loveridge
Valley. The camera is moving around quite a bit. Take our word for it. In the area on the 405 in san fernando valley, you can see how traffic is. These are aerial shots, live. The smokes, the flames, if you know the area near the getty center, right in the heart of the san fernando valley, extremely densely populated sherman oaks, brentwood, mullholland drive, it is in the area of the wildfire that is spreading. I was talking i dont know if you can see. They have a Fire Fighting helicopter up. That is good to see. They need that. And Steve Paulson has been talking about the air quality, the winds in the area as well. It is a very, very fluid situation down there in los angeles. And certainly with this situation, steve can chime in here, winds are the story. Very, very low humidity is a factor. 8 for some. 8 by the getty. The winds are not as bad but im seeing 54 Miles Per Hour east of ventura. Really . It is not as bad for some. But there will still be off and on wind gusts around 50 i