Caltrans and several Fire Agencies are running through scenarios in the new fourth floor of the caldecott tunnel ranging from an animal loose in the tounl a major fire or explosion. In this mock scenario there is a smoky fire in the tunnel. Unlike the old boors, people can escape through doorways and there are signs to let everyone know what is going on. This is gruelling. A sfrz final exams we need to pass, and we need to be confident the systems are operational in tandem with other. Reporter as shown from this video this car fire in the 80yearold first floor this month produced frightening moments for drivers. If a similar incident happened in the new fourth floor it should play out differently. Cameras. Carbon monoxide detection. Heat detection. Ventilation and evacuations. There are safety tunnels in there which are very, very clean. There are tiny fans going in there that are noisy. Theyll do a fantastic job of evacuating the bad products in the air. Reporter cal trans opens to op
Storms coming through. These storms are very good news. The south bay missed out open the train during the last storm. And people at mart street came ready, umbrellas in hand, but this rain will get heavier and lawrence joins us now to talk about it. Yes guys, we have seen showers around the bay area. Brief downpours as well. But things will be changing as we head throughout the afternoon. We are likely to see heavy rainfall, maybe thunderstorms. High definition radar is tracking the thunderstorms. You see them moving on shore, just off the coastline, it has been very interesting. We have had very unstable air and lightning strikes. As we get closer to the core, the system is very unstable. That means we are going to see some pretty good rainfall and some winds, maybe a little hail, too. You see a pretty good cell making its way in through San Francisco up toward novato. And it could be heavy at times. We want to go to our mobile weather lab in mill valley where Roberta Gonzales is liv
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Now everything private about us is not in the house. We we have to find out ways to protect things that we care about and so forth. So we talking about . Well, the names of the organizations of the services that we are talking about, who are we talking about . We are talking about not only states, but think about it, private data affects 800 Million People. It will be the Third Largest nation in the world after china that has its own currency and economy. And yet, there is no revelation about what can be posted in the government can try to get information off of social networking sites. We are talking about companies that made a deal with Internet Service providers in california in order to put their hardware. They could copy and analyze every web search mitigation was just a settlement, but we have to think about the way it our private information has become public and potentially monetize them out there. Okay, so we are talking about the real beginning of this conversation. With 11 k
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